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Robert J. Niewiadomski
2nd July 2013, 07:50
Thanx Ilie for your support :) I will work harder on it :)
Wade Frazier
2nd July 2013, 15:03
Hi Robert:
I am on a roll with writing my essay, so I will try to be brief. Yes, as Ilie stated, when people have done their homework, sought experiences, and the like, their perspective won’t be my story, but their story. On me, books have been written about my journey with Dennis. I became Brian O’s biographer because I was the only person that he truly trusted outside of his family:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm
I cannot overemphasize that the most painful part of my journey was Mr. Professor’s wrecked and prematurely ended life:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey
I never want to be responsible again, however slightly, for somebody’s wrecked life. The gung-hoers, who want to rush out and go “do something,” will not be part of the choir, as they will not be aligned with its intent. There are plenty of would-be heroes out there (and all are fools, to one degree or another - being a fool is a prerequisite, as I know well :) ), trying to scale the ramparts, which provide many suicidal opportunities for gung-hoers.
The lessons that I hope to help people learn are about how the world works, particularly how energy runs the world and always has, and what the potential of abundant, environmentally harmless energy can be. That really is about it, and if enough people can do the work to learn the lessons, then the technical project of making FE happen would be easy, but there will be other benefits derived from building that choir. The choir that I have in mind has never been heard on Earth before, and it can have many positive effects besides just helping FE manifest for public use.
As I have been writing, I have had many long conversations with people recently, including Dennis. I am ever more convinced that my approach will bear some fruit, but we will see just what it is. Keeping the lambs from undue risk will be my highest priority.
I don’t plan to ever ask for money or ask the choir to do anything other than sing (after first learning the song), and if the day comes to “do something,” it will be totally transparent, totally voluntary, and almost entirely painless on a personal level. A big reason for the choir is to develop a group of people with a clue, and I hope that it helps obviate the need for heroes to save humanity from itself. I want Dennis to retire, because his heroics would no longer be needed.
On a different subject, a new study on the extinction of the Australian megafauna was just published.
http://www.livescience.com/37884-ancient-australia-landscape-change.html
I have seen a similar study on South American megafauna, where changing climate and the resulting change in vegetation was blamed instead of people. While the devil is in the details, and I have a lot of respect for scientific research, there is going to be bias, however unconscious, to exonerate humanity from responsibility for the megafaunal extinctions. Researchers have a high hurdle to overcome for exonerating humans regarding the Australian megafaunal extinctions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna
as well as the many other megafaunal extinctions that just happened to occur right after humans appeared:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#_edn5
On all the big islands, from Tasmania to New Zealand to Madagascar, humans clearly drove all the megafauna to extinction. Of that, there is no doubt. The only “doubt” is if humans could do it to continents, but the evidence is very rich for it. That mammoths survived on remote islands, for thousands of years after their continental brethren went extinct:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolly_mammoth#Extinction
is highly impressive evidence that humans drove the continental elephants to extinction. The climate change, disease, and bolide impact theories are all found to be wanting. What do over-hunting "skeptics" think that those early humans ate? The plant species would have been different in all of those new biomes, and dangerous to eat, but humans had already been Earth’s most carnivorous ape for millions of years, and the toolkit that allowed humans to spread across the planet in the second epochal event:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=693557&viewfull=1#post693557
was first and foremost about better hunting technology and tactics, and in those areas that had not seen humans before, the animals would have had no fear of humans, just like Antarctic penguins of today, or animals on the Galapagos Islands. Recent history is full of Europeans quickly driving island species to extinction, such as the Dodo and the Great Auk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Auk
There is a huge myth, promoted in many corners, that some groups of people, particularly indigenous ones, lived in harmony with nature. Humans have not lived in harmony with nature since our ancestors learned to control fire, which was the first epochal event. Each epochal event wreaked greater havoc on nature than the previous one, but a partial exception can be made for the Industrial Revolution, but only partial. With tapping the energy of fossil fuels, people were no longer dependent on wresting their energy directly from the photosynthetic stores of living plants and animals (or the organic matter in the soils). Deforestation actually has slowed down and even been reversed in many industrialized nations. As anybody familiar with my work knows, it has been a very mixed bag, but the benefits of industrialization have been dramatic and unprecedented. The FE Revolution, which would be the fifth and greatest epochal event, has the potential to reverse all of the environmental damage that people have been inflicting on the planet, and it would also raise the human standard of living by orders of magnitude, where we would live a Star Trek existence, where poverty, the scarcity-based “isms”:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
and other relics of scarcity would go into the dustbin of history, as slavery and the subjugation of women disappeared in industrial civilizations. And today, almost nobody can even imagine it! That is the mind-boggling part, for me. Even here at Avalon, I am aware of only two people who obtained Dennis’s The Alternative and began to really check out my story. Even The Alternative is only scratching the surface, but it is a start. What would become evident early on is that I have sacrificed my life for my path. That is a strange and stupid way for a conman to act.
Anybody who wants to be part of the choir and has doubts about me, and who has not done the homework that is easily done by a little research, will not be part of the choir. Also, people who still put FE in the Buck Rogers category as some kind of fantasy will likely not be part of the choir. There is a great deal of investigation and study that people can do, to get past the idea that FE is “impossible” and that its organized suppression is just another wacky conspiracy theory. My upcoming essay is intended to help my readers understand the role of energy in our world, the potential of FE, and how it all fits together. I will do very little speculating, but only relying on my experiences and those close to me, and what the state of the art is in many areas of investigation, both scientific and otherwise. FE is real, and suppressed, and when people begin to understand the role of energy in our world, and what the potential of abundant, environmentally harmless energy is, and they begin to understand how nearly everybody is addicted to scarcity and is egocentric in the extreme, then the situation becomes very clear, if overwhelming and more than a little frightening, but this is not a realm for cowards, but the brave. But the only bravery that I am asking of the choir is to examine their scarcity-based beliefs and let them go for long enough so that they can imagine abundance, and learn to sing. :)
But it will be the very rare person who can take that journey of discovery before somebody delivers an FE device to his or her home. But those are the people I seek, and I know that they are needles in haystacks, but I plan to take advantage of this new technology, the Internet, to find them.
We will see how it goes.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
2nd July 2013, 23:54
Hi:
Briefly, I was reading this today:
http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2013/07/our-energy-slaves-are-in-recession.html
I have referred to his work on this thread before, and he is a Peak Oiler, with FE being unimaginable to people like him (although I will contact him after I write my essay :) )
The Peak Oil perspective is important in that it is about the only camp that I have seen of significance that openly acknowledges the huge debt that the industrialized world has to the energy released by burning fossil fuels. It is way too bad that they are blind to FE, as far as I have seen.
A brief return to the Global Warming issue… With the American Southwest in the midst of an epic heat wave, global warming is again a hot topic, particularly the changes that are already happening to the biomes there:
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2013/06/30/environment/california-sierra-a-living-lab-for-climate-change?refid=0
There is not a professional scientist to be found who will deny that carbon dioxide traps radiation that leaves Earth’s surface, which will warm the atmosphere. Earth’s climate systems are some of the most complex phenomena that scientists have studied, with the state-of-the-art computer systems used to model climate behavior. In the past generation, the impact of ENSO:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o-Southern_Oscillation
has become acknowledged by atmospheric scientists as the biggest variable in the world’s weather outside of the seasons. Earth has been in an ice age for the past 2.5 million years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation
and we are enjoying a brief summer between ice sheets which have been growing and receding at 100K intervals like clockwork for the past several hundred thousand years, which is related to the eccentricity in Earth’s orbit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_glaciation#Astronomical_cycles
Several general trends have brought on the current ice age, which include:
1. Declining carbon dioxide content in the atmosphere, which has been declining for the past 150 million years, as Earth is becoming carbon starved. Carbon starvation may be the main reason why for Earth will only be able to host complex life for the next few hundred million years (see Ward and Brownlee’s The Life and Death of Planet Earth).
2. The shifting continents. The continental plates are on a 500-million-year cycle that begins with a supercontinent which breaks up (and mass extinction episodes accompany that supercontinent, as we get Canfield Oceans http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=528765&highlight=canfield#post528765), and then come back together after bouncing around the planet’s surface. We are around the midpoint of that cycle today. The Arctic Ocean is nearly landlocked, and land near the poles is a prerequisite for ice ages. The Antarctic ice cap began forming 40 million years ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarctica#Gondwanaland_breakup_.28160.E2.80.9323_Ma.29 ). The collision of North and South America about three million years ago (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=533612&highlight=interchange#post533612) may be the proximal cause of this ice age, but the debate still rages.
3. When those dynamics above have their “ideal” confluence, then an ice age begins. Because advancing ice sheets tend to wipe out anything in their way, evidence of advancing and retreating ice sheets tends to get destroyed, but the 100K Milankovitch cycle is thought to be responsible for the advancing and retreating ice sheets over the past several hundred thousand years.
Carbon dioxide content is definitely a big factor in atmospheric temperature. The sun’s output does not seem to fluctuate much (although the sun has been getting brighter over the eons, as stars of its type do, so ice ages were more prevalent in the distant past, with even "snowball Earth" episodes), but even minor fluctuations, such as the Maunder Minimum of sunspot activity:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
can still have profound influence on Earth’s inhabitability. As humanity always rode the ragged edge of survival before industrialization, relatively small changes in Earth’s temperature and distribution of precipitation often had catastrophic outcomes, with great droughts, flood, famines, wars, etc.
Global Warming deniers have long been led by scientists who sold their souls to the hydrocarbon lobby. There are virtually no serious climate and environmental scientists who are not alarmed by today’s artificial increase in the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere. But the hydrocarbon lobby’s “scientists” have been clouding the issue for a generation, and our interest-conflicted media gives them an equal hearing with the public. Brian O was particularly disgusted with a colleague who became one the Global Warming deniers:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sold
I am currently reading a book on global environmental history, and history is replete with instances where human-created environmental catastrophes were in the making and evident, and there were attempts to make changes to avoid the catastrophe, but the “the data is not all in” people often carried the day, because their primary message was “go about your business as usual,” which everybody wanted to hear, at least until it was too late. The Hydrocarbon Era that has powered the Industrial Revolution is a big chemistry and physics experiment, and the signs are very ominous. The Peak Oilers and others have said that we will run out of hydrocarbons before any catastrophic climate change occurs, but others are far from sure:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=553228&highlight=canfield#post553228
We could have humanity-threating environmental issues arise in the near future due to our hydrocarbon burning. The arguments that we just aren’t sure what the impact of increasing carbon dioxide means to Earth’s climate I consider to be largely fraudulent. We are not talking about some natural variation that might have a slightly higher or lower impact on the situation, but a human-induced one which is overwhelming all other dynamics. Phil Ruddiman’s Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum is a good introduction to these issues.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
3rd July 2013, 14:53
Hi:
Before I go hiking this morning, I’ll make a brief comment on the Snowden circus:
http://www.zerohedge.com/contributed/2013-07-03/us-vs-edward-snowden-does-world-not-have-courage-or-decency-protect-mr-snowde
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/watch-flightpath-bolivia-air-force-one-it-gets-trapped-over-austria
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-02/airplane-bolivian-president-denied-passage-over-french-portuguese-airspace-due-snowd
I have known whistleblowers:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#whistleblower
and I have been called one, but I am not some kind of insider who tells what dark things happen on the inside, with some minor exceptions:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#getting
Whistleblowers have always had a hard time in any nation, and laws were passed in the USA to assist them, with us supposedly being The Land of the Free, but the Bush the Second administration actively skewered whistleblowers:
http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=143&Itemid=153
http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=154
http://www.truth-out.org/archive/item/65278:bush-declares-ecowhistleblower-law-void-for-epa-employees
As I recall, during the Bush years, there were several hundred cases of whistleblowers being skewered, and the Bush administration did not defend even one of them. The Plame outing imbroglio only happened because The Bush Gang stepped too far over the line and outed an ambassador's wife. Obama is only continuing the policy:
http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=927&Itemid=177
http://www.whistleblowers.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1442&Itemid=71
That all of the world’s governments are standing by like cowards, not assisting the whistleblower, is SOP. The greatest threat to all the world’s governments is those they govern. They are all playing the same game of managing the herd for elite benefit, so it is no surprise that they are all united in skewering the whistleblower in this case. Pretty much only pariah nations such as Venezuela (a pariah simply because it has chosen to defy the imperial overlord) are considering taking in Snowden. The entire global power structure is fraudulent, and at levels far below where Godzilla plays, and the Snowden Saga is merely more evidence of it. The system is evil, and it is plainly evident for those with eyes to see.
That bug in the Ecuadoran embassy is also par for the course.
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/global/2013/07/who-bugged-ecuadors-london-embassy/66823/
When I was trading notes with a long-time associate of Dennis's recently, he told me that one day a bug fell off of his chair at one of Dennis's facilities. He gave it to Dennis. I have assumed that I had no privacy since 1987, and people interacting with me, at Avalon or anywhere else, who think that they can be anonymous and operate below the radar, are fooling themselves. Once in a while, we had events that showed the level of surveillance. Every American administration since Reagan knew who Dennis was, usually quite well:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#squeaky
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#yull
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&viewfull=1#post694872
but the sitting American president is small fry on the global scale:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#presidents
Not long ago, one of the CIA’s eavesdropping-proof rooms (soundproof, electromagnetically-shielded, etc.) was used to interrogate one of Dennis’s close associates, and the interrogator was one of the leading global targets of conspiratorial talk, as they tried to find an angle on Dennis, just as Bearden has talked about:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bearden
My data points regarding this situation tightly align. This is likely not far off from how they do it:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#risk
Dennis said that they probably have ten guys assigned to him, and probably only one or two on me. That is about what I figured. Again, it just comes with the territory.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
4th July 2013, 16:40
Hi:
As may be obvious, I read a pretty wide spectrum of material. I have been reading plenty of mystical stuff lately, including life on the other side of the veil, particularly Marks’s The Afterlife Interviews:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Afterlife-Interviews-Volume-I/dp/1936492075/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372949275&sr=8-1&keywords=The+Afterlife+Interviews%3A
and Chris Carter’s excellent trilogy:
http://www.amazon.com/Chris-Carter/e/B003M3FR5K/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1372951015&sr=1-2-ent
One of the best afterlife books I ever read was Testimony of Light:
http://www.amazon.com/Testimony-Light-Extraordinary-Message-After/dp/1585427047/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1372949330&sr=1-1&keywords=Testimony+of+Light
As somebody living in physical reality, the beef that I have with the entire setup is that the love of God is nowhere evident here, but it is apparently in the air we breathe. We lose all memory of the other side as the price of admission, put here like mushrooms in an incredibly harsh place, to one day die. Who thought up a hell like that? Again, if this is some kind of halfway house for fallen souls or a test for us aspiring creators, then it makes sense:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#tale
But whatever the case may be for who set this up and why (any my conscious mind definitely did not, nor did yours, so no blaming our conscious minds for this setup, which is all that any of us knows), I think that the only way out of our predicament is through love, to find inside ourselves what is not evident in the world we see. That is no easy task, not by any means. So, I need to stop whining and start loving. :) In the world I live in, it is one unending nightmare that comes about by the lack of love and sentience that my fellow humans display, and if the mystical stuff is to be believed, we are all one, and reflect back to each other who we really are. Again, why play such a game at all? Was it a boring day in Creation when this game was invented? Maybe one “day,” on the other side, I will be let in on the joke. But for now, it is onward to make this the best possible world that I can imagine. At least, that is my game.
I rarely do it, and I thought about putting this part in the FE physics or an FE inventor’s thread, but I will do it here, briefly, as I am constantly queried about it, but invariably by people who are naïve about how the world really works. Adam Trombly began his journey of FE awakening by tapping the ZPF via rotating magnets. Twenty-five years ago, as we were being eviscerated in Ventura, Adam spoke about his path of discovery:
http://projectearth.com/founder-essays/view/9-twenty-years-ago-transcipt-of-adam-trombly-at-the-1988-tesla-conference-colorado-springs
which resulted in his first FE prototype, the homopolar generator:
http://projectearth.com/closed-path-homopolar-machine
The effect is created by a very precisely-made device that spins magnets at high speed. If you have a million dollars or so and live in the West, you can build one. As with many devices like that, the USA’s government seized it under the national securities laws. The “skeptics” cannot seem to comprehend that if it was some kind of scam or moonshine, why would the government seize it and make it secret? The seizure of disruptive energy technology has happened thousands of times in the USA:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=514878&viewfull=1#post514878
That cannot even be rationally denied, but the “skeptics” and various other establishment defenders cannot seem to admit or even imagine it, yet it happens all the time. A person such as Mr. Skeptic just denies what his eyes tell him:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&viewfull=1#post694872
and makes up new lies as his old lies are exposed::
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=410817&viewfull=1#post410817
One of Brian O’s pals in India reproduced Trombly’s machine, but in India, they could not get machine tolerances precise enough to get RPMs high enough to get the spectacular effects, but it still was good enough to demonstrate the effect:
http://projectearth.com/conducting-magnetic-cylinder
I had my hands on one of those devices not so very long ago. At about 2,000 RPM, with a properly constructed device, the ZPF effect becomes noticeable. The most common way to tap the ZPF that I am aware of is by rotating magnets. All the other ways, from Mills’s hydrino concept, cold fusion, and so on, are likely tapping the ZPF in the end. Some, such as Tesla’s original tower idea, take advantage of solar energy, often indirectly, but ZPE is the big one.
What Sparky Sweet had, with conditioned magnets in a solid-state arrangement, is highly superior to moving part technology:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky
Adam had something similar built, too, and demonstrated it in Manhattan before he went to speak at the United Nations:
http://projectearth.com/about/adam-trombly
“Skeptics” and others who decry, “Where are the demonstrations?”, or “Where is the technology that I can put my hands on?” are either highly naïve, willfully ignorant, or simply being dishonest, either as they defend their paradigm or draw their paychecks.
As Adam later said, his life became a “bad spy novel” after such demonstrations, with him surviving around forty murder attempts since then:
http://projectearth.com/the-truth-about-zero-point
Of course, the reality of those technologies and situations is universally denied and derided by the “skeptics” and other establishment defenders. It is tempting to think that they are all mindless, but that is too easy. They are all, to one degree or another, being dishonest, but that is normal in our world:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
Probably most of the dishonesty is of the “unconscious” variety, where such defenders of rationality and science become the most irrational people on Earth as they mindlessly defend the paradigm that puts food in their bellies. Some are on the payrolls of the various interests. I think it is likely that Mr. Skeptic is on the payroll:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#skeptic
but it is more psychologically interesting if he is not, as he consciously lies to attack people, performing criminal libel time and again, and becoming a media darling in the process. The human ego may explain Mr. Skeptic’s antics more than being handsomely paid to perform his “skeptical” duties.
People with no experience in developing technologies, particularly for the marketplace, think that magic happens between having a working prototype and getting it to market. Brian O was constantly trying to educate the public that the difference between having a working prototype and putting something on the market was at least $100 million, and is more like $200 million today. No FE inventor has ever had that kind of money, and it is the height of naïveté to think that if somehow an FE inventor obtained that kind of money that it would be a downhill racer to FE. If anybody ever got their hands on that kind of money and was sincerely trying to make FE happen, then Godzilla would take the gloves off. None of the incredible heroism of people such as Dennis, Adam, and the few others like them has ever gotten them remotely close to the FE finish line. At best, they were like blind and deaf mice surrounded by cats who argued over who would get the tasty morsel that time. If any effort really got going, it would be no more subtle sabotage, dangling carrots and sticks, no raids, but Godzilla would start digging deeply into his bag of tricks, tricks that he has not had to use yet, kind of in the “break glass in case of emergency” category. I can imagine what some of those tricks might be, and I certainly do not want to be on the receiving end of them.
So, when I see the Rossis and Keshes, with their patents, with their money-raising, big talk, and so on, I know that they have not even graduated from FE kindergarten yet, and I have no interest whatsoever in what they are up to, and actively try to avoid hearing more about it. But as you can see on this thread and the related ones, FE newbies continually stumble in with their inventor-of-the-hour enthusiasm. Again, I lost interest in the inventor/businessman’s path to FE about twenty years ago. It simply does not have a prayer in the current environment. I am doing something different, but I am continually besieged by people who try to either interest me in that game or get me to play it again. I received some such entreaties just last month. People need to shed such newbie delusions once and for all if they have any hopes of being in the choir or any other effort that might make a dent. This is a conundrum like no other that I ever heard of, and any effort with a prayer needs to get far past the newbie stuff, and it takes hard work to do that. There are no easy answers to this issue. The problem has nothing whatsoever to do with technology, money, and the like. The problem lies in the human heart, which directs the human head. Love is the only answer that I know of (which leads to enlightenment), and we will see how it goes.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
6th July 2013, 15:17
Hi:
I have put many caveats in my posts, and here is another cautionary tale, but it goes the other way. When the rocket began to take off in Ventura:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=608413&viewfull=1#post608413
one of our early hires was an assistant for Dennis named Cab, who helped run the sales team. Cab and I began to hit it off early on. Cab was a former sheriff’s deputy. Cab is the person who called Mr. Deputy when we heard that inquiries about our company were being forwarded to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#deputy
On the day of the raid, footage was taken of Cab and I standing in front of our offices as the raid commenced, engaging in a lively conversation (I was in shock at the time). Cab later said that the raid and its aftermath removed any remaining desire that he had to work in law enforcement again. In Seattle, so many people betrayed the cause that it was easy to become paranoid. Even after Dennis's company was stolen:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#salient1
the few remaining “loyalists” all dropped out, one after one, and I was the only one left two months after the raid, and several “loyalists” later tried to extort money out of us in Ventura:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#extortion
In the wake of such events, people could be forgiven for being paranoid about the people around them, wondering who was in on the conspiracy. I have kept stating that when the sleepers show up, they try to look like Dennis Leahy, with a halo over their heads:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=678778&viewfull=1#post678778
What they have not looked like, that I have seen, are former members of the same organization that is attacking us. I had already seen many betrayals, and was about to watch Mr. Texas dupe many people with his act:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=585787&highlight=hodgell#post585787
but I never really suspected Cab of being a plant from the sheriff’s department. And Cab never abandoned or attacked Dennis like so many others did. Cab was one of the good guys. But Mr. Professor was new to the game and naïve, and he always suspected that Cab was working for the sheriff’s department. I tried to dissuade such suspicions when I could, and in retrospect I should have been more forceful, but I have seen, over and over again, and often directed at me, that when somebody gets it in their mind that somebody is a bad guy, they almost never waver in their opinion, and I think that the human ego is usually behind such unwavering “certainty,” no matter what contrary evidence is adduced.
When Dennis was in jail, I don’t recall that Cab was helpful, but he also never joined in on the attack that almost everybody else did. After Dennis got out, Cab came back into the picture somewhat and even helped out, and I was told that when he met my wife during one of the hearings when we had Mr. Deputy on the run with the misconduct hearings, Cab was happy for me. I always had fond memories of Cab. He smoked and drank, and at our office, he would sometimes retire to his van and take a nip, but I also understood that behavior, particularly in those days.
Dennis never seriously suspected Cab of being a plant, either, as he knew what the plants looked like when they appeared. But Mr. Professor could never get over his unfounded suspicions. Dennis and I never told Cab about Mr. Professor’s delusions about him. How could we? It was one of the many kinds of depressing situations that arise when you sail in those waters. Cab standing up for us in Ventura, or at least not betraying us, surely ended whatever law enforcement career that he might have resumed in Ventura County. About the time that I was leaving Ventura in the summer of 1990, a position opened up in the security department of Ventura College. Cab lived nearby, and it would have been easy duty for him. He applied for the job and used Mr. Professor as a reference, thinking that he was “in.” Mr. Professor shot him down, even gleefully, and when he told Dennis about it, there was a smile on his face. When I heard that, I was very saddened. I actually called Mr. Professor on it several years later, and he did not shirk from what he did, and knew that it was not one of the high points of his life.
Dennis tried to make it up to Cab whenever he could. When Dennis was flying high in 1996, he gave Cab a dealership. That situation was just one of the many like it, when you sail in those waters.
This Avalon experience has had me dig into my memory banks pretty deeply at times, and some days what I dig up I wish could remain buried, but all-in-all, it has been a good experience. I recently found myself thinking of Cab, and about a year ago I began to seek him out, to see what he was up to and apologize for what Mr. Professor did. It was a bittersweet experience. I discovered that he died in the late 1990s, in his mid-40s, and I figured that his smoking and drinking caught up with him. His daughter became a famous opera singer, and I reached out to her, with no reply.
When I spoke with Dennis recently, I heard the story. When Mr. Professor shot Cab down at the college, Cab ended up doing what so many of us professionals “stuck” in Ventura did: we got jobs in LA:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=328220&highlight=reseda#post328220
Cab got a private security job, in South-Central LA, which, as I know:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406934&highlight=guard#post406934
is a war zone. In the late 1990s, Cab came to a bloody end in the line of duty. When Dennis found out, he tried to help Cab’s family, but his wife basically gave Dennis the finger. That is the saddest story that I have heard in a while.
Mr. Professor died a few years later, and I own a piece of his fate:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey
as does that damned voice in my head. Even though Mr. Professor probably achieved sainthood during his journey:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406935&viewfull=1#post406935
he owns a piece of Cab’s fate, and I can only pray that they healed it on the other side.
Again, let that be a cautionary tale. I became the target of attacks from friends, family, and colleagues, always out of some crazed paranoia, greed, or other delusionary state, and watching that saga between Mr. Professor, Cab and his family, and Dennis really broke my heart.
But as I have kept stressing, I have no intention of leading the lambs anywhere close to those kinds of situations, where they are putting their livelihoods and lives on the line for the choir’s sake. I plan to be the only person who shoulders much risk, and I do not plan to make it onto Godzilla’s hit list. I know that almost nobody can pass the tests of playing on the high road, and the situation with Cab is a blot on Mr. Professor’s résumé, and if even Mr. Professor can stumble (and to be fair, Mr. Professor was in situations that he never suspected that he would encounter, so his naïveté and paranoia can be excused somewhat, where he saw a threat where none existed), almost nobody can nimbly dance across the minefield toward FE. You can find many FE aspirants, but I have yet to see any of them walk ten feet on the path that Dennis has walked miles on. I know how rough that road is, and do not plan to ask anybody to walk it, and when enthusiastic newbies tell me what they are going to do to make FE happen, I shake my head.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
9th July 2013, 07:00
FYI, science takes on singing in the choir and it's potential benefit for singers' hearts. A positive, serious feedback :)
Short article from NewScientists: Singing in a choir is good for the heart
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23830-singing-in-a-choir-is-good-for-the-heart.html
Enjoy :)
EDIT:
And another article on quantum vacuum properties from WiReD magazine:
‘Holographic Duality’ Hints at Hidden Subatomic World
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/07/hidden-particle-world/all/
Have once read that ultimate goal of Earth's Science (masterfully orchestrated with "Aha!" moments from High Above) is to scientifically prove the existence of Human Soul and the multidimensional nature of the Universe... It ultimately started for real with explosion of internet and smashing atoms in particle accelerators (The Manhattan Project (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project) :( and Vannevar Bush (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush) and his memex (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex))...
Science might seem not so much enlightened to come with The Proof now, judging from the state of affairs, but let us remember that "every cloud has a silver lining (http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/every-cloud-has-a-silver-lining.html)" :)
Wade Frazier
9th July 2013, 12:16
Hi Robert:
In the Black Science world, phenomena that White Science considers “impossible” is the daily reality, and my understanding is that instead of consciousness being chalked up to a phantom of chemistry as materialist science does, the nature of consciousness and the “soul” is part and parcel of the Black Science world. However, the Black Science world abuses the process, often to an evil degree, by attacking minds and other niceties.
Indeed, high-temperature superconductors more than hint that the current body of theory is incomplete, to put it mildly.
As I have kept stating, the physics that the Black Science world is familiar with renders today’s physics texts something that looks like cave drawings. The public is oblivious to such a world, other than some Hollywood movies that hint at it.
If FE can make if past humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression, then the Black Science world may become the White Science world, and today’s science will leap forward by a century or three, as all the secret stuff comes out. But in a world of scarcity and spiritual degeneration, keeping the lid on it keeps the dark pathers at the top of the food chain.
There are many alternative physics models out there, and as Adam T. and others have stated plenty, the Standard Model is woefully deficient. When the physics behind FE and other “impossible” stuff comes out, we will likely have the unified field theory. But the unified field theory is bad for Godzilla’s business, so it stays under wraps for now.
Yes, being in a choir can’t hurt. :)
To all:
I am writing the essay these days, and doing some thankless legacy work regarding Brian O, but it needs to be done, for his memory if nothing else.
Plunking along,
Wade
Ilie Pandia
9th July 2013, 12:24
Well Wade.... Thank you for handling Brian's O legacy :).
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No amount of thanks would be sufficient... but if you manage to see us turn the corner, I think you may see that as thanks enough!
Speaking of legacies...
I'm wondering how Meredith O has adjusted to widowhood. Wishing her well...from afar.
Wade Frazier
9th July 2013, 12:54
Hi:
Just a little on physics here…
The von Neumann interpretation of quantum physics is that consciousness itself is required to collapse the wave function into a measureable “particle”:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Mathematical_formulation_of_quantum_mechanics
He was certainly no mystic, but when one of the greatest scientific minds of the 20th century postulated that consciousness was a required ingredient for manifesting the world that we see, Seth was smiling.
As I have covered a bit, Einstein’s special theory of relativity did away with a need for the ether, but his general theory brought back the need for it (something is bent by gravity, so space can’t be empty).
In Einstein’s “Sidelights on Relativity,” a speech delivered on May 5th, 1920, at the University of Leyden, he finished with: “Recapitulating, we may say that according to the general theory of relativity space is endowed with physical properties; in this sense, therefore, there exists an ether.”
One of Einstein’s protégés, David Bohm, postulated that a cubic centimeter of the vacuum contained more energy than is contained in all the mass of the known universe:
http://www.groupsrv.com/science/ptopic11973.html
and that understanding has long been accepted at the fringes:
http://www.spectrumradionetwork.com/News/nuclear-catastrophe.html
although Einstein and his protégé were anything but the fringe.
I won’t be so foolish as to think that I am going to help flesh out the unified field theory, but my point is more that scientists who decry ZPE as “impossible” are the professional descendants of scientists who declared man-powered flight “impossible,” even as the Wright brothers were flying through the air:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#wright
Establishment science has always been plagued by that kind of dogmatism, and today’s “skeptics” are the epitome of that mentality.
The problem with ZPE and science is that unlike the Wright brothers, who flew in a field in full view of anybody who wanted to watch, the lid is very tight on ZPE, with the equivalent of spooks capturing and sequestering any planes that get in the air for an instant, so the “skeptics” can keep crowing that ZPE is “impossible.”
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
9th July 2013, 12:57
Hi Ulli:
Brian is keenly missed by many, and by Meredith in particular. She seems to be doing OK, from what I have heard. Their place is still open for visitors.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
11th July 2013, 16:47
Hi:
In my legacy work on Brian O, writing my energy essay and other recent work, the issue of arguments, evidence, and experience has been coming up repeatedly.
I often find myself kind of trapped between denialists, naïve positivists, conspiracists, governmental and private interests that intentionally obscure the truth, a totally unaware public, and other groups grinding their particular axes. Occasionally, I come upon an actual investigator who seems interested in the truth, but they are few and far between. In the midst of all that, the question of who is interested in the truth becomes important, and what we do with the truth when we find it is the overriding issue.
The issue of evidence and its reliability, how to interpret it, what conclusions can be drawn from it, and so on, is a big one, and much of my work hinges on it. While everybody has their own approach to the subject as they live their lives, I will likely write an essay on the subject, and not just an academic essay on epistemology, but my approach and what I will be expecting of those I ask to be in the choir. This might take a few posts.
I’ll start with a recent issue, which is Brian O’s encounter with the military, his health event, and his shortened life. Several astronauts have been very outspoken on the UFO issue, Mitchell and Cooper in particular:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell#Views_on_UFOs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper#UFO_sightings
Brian O became involved in the UFO issue long ago, and Brian believed that it nearly cost him his life, and those who knew him know that the incident also shortened his life:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack
Brian refused to say much publicly about the incident, but there is plenty of evidence for what happened. When Brian worked at SAIC:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#saic
he refused to work on Star Wars, and continued his space colony and asteroid mining work from his Princeton days:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#oneill
Brian’s peaceful application of space technology was at variance with the Star Wars culture at SAIC, but he was rubbing shoulders with all manner of military rank, and briefing McNamara and future neocons was part of the milieu. Brian did a lot of Capitol Hill work:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#after
and I am not sure exactly where the military connection come from with Brian and his UFO incident, but it came from somewhere in those establishment days, probably post-NASA.
In this video, you can see Brian say that he had run-ins with the covert ops people, and he would not talk publicly about them for fears of retribution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLp_0V127eU
The closest that Brian came to publicly admitting his run-in with the military was in the prologue to his last book:
http://www.brianoleary.info/Synopsis.html
titled: “Prologue. Confessions of a Naïve Scientific Heretic: A Story about the Carrot and the Stick”.
That colleague may sound suspiciously like Brian, but I think that it was one of his pals who also received an “offer” that he could not refuse. That is not unusual in this milieu. When Eugene Mallove was murdered:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland
Brian was spooked, and I did not blame him for moving to South America.
When the FDA kidnapped the person who cured Brian of cancer:
http://drbrianoleary.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/greg-caton-testimonial-letter/
it was just one more incident like it:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#keller
The medical racketeers can play hard ball when they need to, and one of their recent threats came a little too close to me for comfort. I am doing what I can to avoid such fates, and keep those in the choir from getting into trouble.
The events that tightly framed Brian’s health incident are in the public record, and there is nothing controversial about those events, as far as their reality. What is not in the public domain is that the military approached Brian during one event, and the health incident happened immediately afterward. Several details of the incident are suspicious on their face, and point to it being an induced event, and the military branch that made the “offer” had the means to inflict that health event on Brian. Brian had no doubt that the incident was the military’s response to his “I am not interested” reply to their overture.
Can that be proven in a court of law? Not at all, even if a fair court could be convened, which is likely impossible. If you do a little Internet surfing, you can see various reactions to Brian’s event. One lawyer wannabee played naïve positivist, taking the position that since Brian’s allegations could not be proven in a court of law and Brian is now dead, that Brian's allegations do not deserve to be taken seriously. Brian was even accused of making up the event to garner attention to himself. If it cannot be proven in a court of law, does that mean it did not happen? I recall Dennis’s attorney, who almost lost his license because he took Dennis’s case:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bigtime
say during the prosecutorial misconduct hearings, “If you are looking for the truth, the courtroom is not the place to find it.” When I talked with Dennis recently, he discussed how Mr. Big Time Attorney was chastened by his experiences with Dennis, in a life-changing way. He thought that he had made the Big Time, beating the IRS in the U.S. Supreme Court, but it was made clear to him that he was nobody in the game that he was playing with Dennis. The IRS was the minor leagues compared to who was behind Dennis’s persecution.
That health event, and others like it, was partly behind Brian’s suspicion about the moon landings:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#apollo
Brian always admitted that the possibility that NASA faked the moon landings was remote, but he would not have put it past them if they thought it was necessary. But none of the people in the moon landings camp, pro or con, that I have contacted so far, are willing to put Brian’s final word:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianbio.htm#statement
on the moon landings someplace where Wikipedia’s “editors” won’t erase the reference. I was never able to get Brian over the hump on the moon landings, but his “final word” was truly his final word, although the various camps do not want to acknowledge it, because he shows that he was not in any camp.
The reticence of people such as Buzz Aldrin, when Brian asked him about the moon landings, may have been because of what Buzz saw that he could not talk about, such as an ET encounter. Greer is adamant that the Apollo 11 astronauts had an ET encounter on the moon:
http://drgreersblog.disclosureproject.org/?p=202
Not long ago, I heard of a spectacular ET encounter on a relatively recent NASA mission from inside sources. As I have stated repeatedly, the ET and FE cover-ups are joined at the hip. My understanding is that the ET cover-up is not about a feared War of the Worlds reaction, but that FE and antigravity would come with it, and it then would be game over for Godzilla, and he knows it.
Godzilla is playing chicken with Earth and humanity, and cooler heads may prevail:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal
although I am certainly not waiting for them to do something. Our destiny is in our hands, in more ways than one.
I’ll cover more situations on the issue of evidence soon, including its reliability and utility.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
13th July 2013, 14:36
Hi:
During my sabbatical, I have talked with many people, and most of them know my background, some quite well. Several times now, I have been subjected to Level 6 and Level 7 delusions:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
by people who I thought knew better. Every time, the delusions have been spouted by people who either have no experience whatsoever in technology development, grade-school teachers and the like, or people who worked in White Science labs. The FE situation is nothing at all like White Science. There is no place to run and hide, and we can’t sneak past them. Those are all adolescent fantasies.
As I have stated plenty, the only prayer for the inventor route is for the inventor with the goods to give it to a worthy group. I have never met or heard of the inventor with the goods willing to give it away, and I have never heard of that worthy group, and my efforts can be seen as an early attempt to begin to form that group. But newbies have many delusions about today’s situation.
One delusion is that The People are just waiting to get behind something that puts us over the top, brings FE into the public’s hands, and so on. The so-called People are waiting for nothing of the kind. They all live lives of quiet desperation in their misery, and live to temporarily sate their addictions, above all else. They are not looking to help anything along like FE, not from a desire to help. If they see a chance to get rich and famous, they might “help,” but it is the kind of help that is like a two-edged sword that will betray the effort when the opportunity presents itself. I have seen that happen literally hundreds of times. The People comprise the Great Herd that is easily manipulated in a world of scarcity, to stampede wherever the social managers want them to go. Anybody who thinks that The People are going to be allies in an FE effort simply has no experience in doing anything like this, or are like Dennis, with a faith that is hard to believe, as he gets slammed time after time. The People are only going to wake up when an FE device that can power their home is delivered to them, or they can go see one in action, and by “in action,” I mean one that is powering something all on its own, for days and weeks at a time. Anything less is not going to do the trick.
Another major delusion is that operating data is going to convince the masses, or some proof of concept demonstration. FE prototypes have been demonstrated many times, from Gray to Moray to Trombly. Adam did it in downtown Manhattan. More often, people such as Sparky Sweet demonstrate it in “proprietary” settings where they are trying to protect their inventor’s rights:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky
or people like Mark stumble into making an FE prototype:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread392968/pg7
Without exception, they are taken care of, and the gawking masses have never helped.
Newbies labor under many potentially-fatal delusions, and the only saving grace to this situation is that they are virtually all Walter Mitty fantasists who will never do anything:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Mitty
so they won’t ever really get into trouble, the life-threatening kind, but it sure tries my patience to hear for the five-thousandth time all of those “bright ideas” that newbies send my way, to “help.” That is all the human ego talking, thinking that it can solve the biggest problem on Earth on a lunch hour. There is nothing easy about any of this, and being in the choir will not be easy. Heck, at this time, I only have a relative handful of people who I will ask to be in it, and they are all people who have been doing their homework, demonstrated keen insight, and who have refrained from trying to foist all of their bright ideas on me, or how we can somehow avoid all the hard work that we have ahead of us, to get The Muppet Movie ending after a few days of work.
I have helped the best of the best try to crack this nut, and have watched many others try. Nobody has ever come remotely close to the finish line. Again, FE will be the fifth epochal event in human history:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
and Godzilla and the many other predators in the jungle have done their best to prevent it from happening, as they would no longer be able to exploit the human herd. And the herd is its own worst enemy, as it only sees its immediate self-interest, and is stampeded in any direction that the predators want them to go. I am not interested in Galt’s Gulch fantasies, either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Galt
which is another adolescent notion. I am shooting for a very adult conversation, and we will see how it goes.
Best,
Wade
ulli
18th July 2013, 13:21
http://i.imgur.com/ecm2zk8.jpg
The reason I put this here is not to make light of things, but to show the power of Wade's focus...
how it has manifested a parallel in the real world, albeit only a movie poster at this time.
And the poster does show a larger Godzilla than the earlier ones. Nevertheless,
we'll probably discover that there is a vulnerability.
If enough movie goers can then make the connection between the meme in their minds becoming the reality of their outer world then the next step is to take the Free Energy meme and create a utopian movie, about a world where the battles are in the past and largely forgotten.
Wade Frazier
18th July 2013, 14:46
Hi Ulli:
That gave me my laugh of the morning. :) Thanks.
This has been a very busy sabbatical, with quite a few surprises thrown my way. I am plunking along on the essay, and have been re-visioning parts of it. One thing that has been happening repeatedly on this sabbatical, as I have mentioned earlier, is encountering people who just don’t understand, and some of whom I thought did. When I see those responses to my work, I have it reinforced to me that I have my work cut out for me.
Somebody like Ilie may get tired of reading it, but it is also training for him. :) Right now, the least valuable members of the FE effort are scientists, inventors, and businesspeople. They are a dime a dozen, going zero-for-50,000 in their attempts to make FE happen. With a batting average like that, it is time for a different approach, but I am besieged with would-be FE inventors and the like, and people who want to “do something.” There is literally no support from the public, and the public is usually FE’s greatest enemy if it gets involved, because its involvement is due to self-interest. The public is easily manipulated, and if people don’t wreck the efforts on their own initiative, due to their greed and other deficiencies, they are easily stampeded over the cliff by the carrots and sticks that Godzilla and other predators use:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#risk
The scientist/inventor/business route to FE is a dead-end for several reasons, but almost nobody can think past it, thinking that Godzilla does not exist, can be snuck past, defeated in battle, etc., as in those early-stage mentalities that I call Levels 6, 7, 9, 10 and 11:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
among others. In ways, it is like telling those 18-year-old men what a battlefield is like:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business
They not only don’t want to hear about reality, but they actively deny it, as they have to go find out the hard way, if they survive the experience.
All the dogged reactions that I get on the FE issue, from the “laws of physics” objections, to the “we can sneak past them” bright ideas, to the “maybe Godzilla is sleeping today” delusions, and so on, remind me of the joke of looking for a lost item where the light is good, even though you know that you did not lose it there:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WhereTheLightIsBetter
Not only are scientists, inventors, and businesspeople the least important members of the FE effort today because of the nature of the problem, I have virtually never encountered one of them with the right stuff. Personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity, which was the primary lesson of my journey that almost nobody wants to admit (and that denial dooms the efforts of the aspirants, as they are not grounded in reality, but naïve fantasy):
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
and it applies richly to the FE field. Dennis should be the patron saint of the FE movement, but instead, he is vilified and lied about, nearly universally, so the lessons of his preposterous journey are not even acknowledged to be learned from. Even Dennis himself took many years longer than I did to finally understand key aspects of the conundrum. I realized back in the 1990s that the inventor/scientist/business route to FE was a dead-end, especially in the USA. Dennis has only recently begun to admit it. That universal lack of personal integrity dooms FE efforts. When I saw Dennis recently, he admitted what I have long stated: his allies have hurt him far more than his enemies have. The enemy is truly us, not Godzilla. Godzilla is only an opportunist, taking advantage of our semi-sentient and low-integrity state, reinforcing it when he can, and we oblige him. He won’t be defeated in battle or snuck past, and the last I knew, he did not die in his sleep. There is dissention in his ranks:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal
and some members have shown off their wares:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground
and if I was a betting man, I would wager that the near-term fate of the human species will be determined by the struggle at that level, but I have not been invited to that party and I am not waiting for them to save us from ourselves. It is time for love, sentience, and abundance to rule, not fear and mindlessness allegiance to scarcity-based ideologies:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
The sooner that potential choir members can digest and get past those early-level understandings, the better off they will be, and they will then be in a position to learn and help, instead of getting mired in conventional thinking and adolescent dreams.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
TargeT
18th July 2013, 15:25
I think you are giving too much credit to what you have labeled "Godzilla", you infer that the control structure has far more ability than reality is showing us (if you look around at what is happening in 2013).
There is room for both science based forward movement, and zeitgeist reform.
I was not aware that this thread was just for you to write in and others to read. (I guess it makes more sense now that I view your 1,500 posts to 65 "thanks" ratio.)
Ilie Pandia
18th July 2013, 18:02
TargetT,
Speaking about Free Energy is hardly worth Godzilla's effort. Dennis Lee did actually brought it to the market big time. He was not talking about it, he was doing it in fast, powerful, "working-device" ways.
Also what Wade is trying to say (and just said in the post above you), is NOT that his way is the only way, but it is the ONLY way that he cares about at this time and he would really not want to deal with "the other ways" the he does not care about. For some reason that is not clear...
Please continue tracking the ECat technology on a different thread. This thread really is not about the tech :). I am trying to be as gentle as I can in pointing out that your post is rather "off-topic" here.
ulli
18th July 2013, 18:09
TargetT,
Speaking about Free Energy is hardly worth Godzilla's effort. Dennis Lee did actually brought it to the market big time. He was not talking about it, he was doing it in fast, powerful, "working-device" ways.
Also what Wade is trying to say (and just said in the post above you), is NOT that his way is the only way, but it is the ONLY way that he cares about at this time and he would really not want to deal with "the other ways" the he does not care about. For some reason that is not clear...
Please continue tracking the ECat technology on a different thread. This thread really is not about the tech :). I am trying to be as gentle as I can in pointing out that your post is rather "off-topic" here.
Also it might be worth pointing out that from the beginning when Bill Ryan invited Wade
to come here and write about his work, this thread was never designed to be a discussion thread like others.
Rather it was meant to be a haven for Wade; a place where he could explore his personal ideas on the FE agenda
unhindered by the challenges that presented themselves on other forums.
The posts where this was laid out are somewhere lost now in the beginnings of the thread,
and Target probably never saw them, having come in much later.
Wade Frazier
18th July 2013, 18:30
Hi:
Thanks all for trying to keep this thread on track (whatever “on track” means :) ).
The closest that anybody has ever come to putting FE on the market is what Dennis did with his “Systems for Savings” program:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs
although the product in that instance was not really FE technology. Nobody has ever put true FE technology on the market, but Dennis was putting disruptive energy technology on the market in a radical way that I have not seen attempted before or since. What happened in Seattle is what happens when the energy industry’s immune system begins to kick in:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run
And after Seattle, we definitely attracted Godzilla’s active interest, and he was assuredly watching us in Seattle and at least one of his assets was used on us. If the entire story was ever told, almost nobody would believe any of it. Dennis, like Adam, should have died many times by now, but he is still trying, and that is mind-boggling to me. Dennis is truly one-of-a-kind, who has played the game at a level that nobody else has ever played at that I know of:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
If anybody deserves to bring FE to the world, it is Dennis and the very few others like him. But, I saw, up close and personally, what that journey was like. I decided that it was too hard for me, and I know that there are likely not a hundred on the planet like me, either. When you realize how lonely the path is:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#lonely
you then have to rethink such a “hero’s” journey, and I have been rethinking it since 1988, and I am trying something different. I am not looking for ten like Dennis, or a hundred like Brian and me, but five thousand or so like Ilie, who have no desire to be heroes (smart! :) ), but want to contribute their awareness to the issue, which was the big missing ingredient that I repeatedly saw. Does that strategy have a chance to make a dent? Maybe not, but as people I respect have responded when I have floated my idea, it could not hurt. And, perhaps most importantly to me, that path will not ask anybody to risk their lives.
We will see how that quixotic approach works.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
20th July 2013, 13:51
Hi:
I have been very busy on my “time off.” This morning, I was reading about a new movie that is making waves:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_act_of_killing/
As another test of our propaganda systems, I am going to see if any reviewer mentions that the USA was largely responsible for the slaughter of those people:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#suharto
So far, the only review that I have seen that mentions Chomsky is a student news site:
http://www.leedsstudent.org/2013-07-18/ls2/arts/film-first-look-the-act-of-killing
and even it does not mention how the USA was largely responsible for Suharto’s coup and its aftermath. Suharto was responsible for three genocides during his reign. That purge was only his first, with the genocides in East Timor and Papua New Guinea the other two, and Suharto was our staunch ally the whole time, with the USA giving him arms and assistance, including “diplomatic,” so that the West never heard of the crimes while they were happening. So far, I have not seen any of the reviews that even mention the USA’s complicity in that holocaust. It is kind of surreal.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
20th July 2013, 16:15
Hi:
I was just talking with somebody about this issue: that situation in my previous post of the movie reviews failing to mention the USA’s complicity in that holocaust has everything to do with the FE conundrum. It is a piece of the puzzle, and helps explain why my mother created a scrapbook of the lying articles about us, and took it on tour to my friends and family:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=400492&viewfull=1#post400492
Understanding how the media really works helps gain an understanding of how the world really works. Understanding how the world really works is vitally important in getting an FE effort going that may have a chance of success, but the obvious delusions need to be set aside. Otherwise, newbies think that the inventor of the hour has a chance, that Godzilla can be snuck past, or that if we all tell our friends and family about FE, then we will get The Muppet Movie ending in short order.
It has taken me a lifetime to arrive at my state of awareness, and nothing about it was easy. Manifesting the fifth epochal event in the human journey:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=696307&viewfull=1#post696307
is not going to be easy, but it also may be the only thing that will prevent our self-extermination as a species, while taking most of complex life with us.
I was also recently discussing those other epochal events. None of them was initiated with some kind of mass action. Learning to maintain a fire probably happened one time, and other proto-humans eventually learned to do it. The advances in stone tool technology probably happened once, and were later copied. The same probably goes for sewing, the invention of the bow and arrow, and so on. While the domestication of plants and animals happened in several places across the planet, apparently independently, in each instance, the domestication events probably happened once, and then were copied.
In each case, it took one or a few people to make the breakthrough, and then it spread. FE will be the same way, but the problem is far larger and more complex than inventing the bow and arrow.
Also, in each instance, it was a cognitive breakthrough that initiated the change, but the energy regime change that it initiated allowed for cognitive leaps in the people who enjoyed that energy regime. I think that it will be the same way for manifesting FE, and that is the approach that I am taking – the enlightenment approach. A few will become enlightened enough, first, to make the breakthrough, and the new energy regime will enable the rest to make the cognitive leaps.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
25th July 2013, 15:26
Hi:
Not much to say these days, other than that I am working on the essay and doing other chores. One thing that I would like to touch on today is something that I have been noticing lately more than usual. It is not easy to understand how the world really works. Part of the reason is that the people running the world do not want people to understand, so that we can be controlled and exploited. That part is kind of like a constant, and there is really not much that can be done about it these days, other than to stop listening to the indoctrination machine.
The other part is within our control, and is by far the most important part. It is how we approach the issue of how the world works. I know that I am like a broken record on this issue, but I have seen that it needs to be reinforced, because we are all trained from the cradle to think like victims. If we put aside Black Science, covert action, and other “conspiratorial” topics for a moment, let’s just concentrate on the “whiter” areas. The ideal of White Science is a worthy one, or the ideal that a courtroom is where the truth is determined and where justice is dispensed. I think that we all know that White Science and courtrooms fall short of their ideal, but what about them gets it right, or at least points in the right direction?
Ideally, anything that White Science accepts into its framework is something that produces tangible evidence that can be independently reproduced. Courts have chain-of-evidence procedures to ensure that evidence is not tainted before being presented. White Science has a necessary skeptical component to it, where any evidence or theory is subject to scrutiny. Subjecting new evidence or theory to rigorous investigation, debate, and deep thought is a vital component to any science.
Karl Popper is a leading figure regarding the philosophy and process of science, and he got his start by listening to Albert Einstein talk about his own theories, and agreed with Einstein that scientific theories could never really be confirmed, but only falsified:
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/popper/#Lif
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Popper#Other_criticism
As Einstein said, all theories are false, in that they do not totally depict reality. One of Einstein’s famous statements is that every theory is eventually killed by a fact. A scientist’s discrimination and innate skepticism toward any theory is a necessary component of the scientific process. That is the ideal, but far too often, scientists, as with any humans, can fall prey to their point of view, and as Planck said, science progresses funeral by funeral:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#real
But that skepticism and critical awareness is vital in sorting out the chaff from the wheat, and the fringes are almost all chaff. I readily see, over and over, how non-scientists seize on something that appeals to their framework and they erect their awareness around it, but the object of their obsession is not valid, but is that chaff that is constantly purveyed from all corners.
A recent example is all of that conspiracist garbage that was sprayed across the fringes within days of the Boston Marathon bombings. Whether the Boston Marathon bombings were some kind of false flag operation is an open question to me (but I lean toward the Young Warrior’s Disease explaining it, and if they were “inspired” by the genocidal activities of the USA in Iraq and Afghanistan, their ire is certainly understandable), but all of the allegations that happened immediately after the bombing, such as nobody was really hurt in the bombings, but they were all actors, is conspiracism at its worst, and leading conspiracist figures were guilty of promoting such disinformation. If we approach an event like the Boston Marathon bombings as a scientist would, we would gather evidence, test theories, be skeptical of all explanations, and see where the evidence leads us. That is not what happened, but all kinds of wild allegations, allegations that quickly became seen as false, ricocheted around the Internet and in conspiracist forums within days of the bombings. Those who jumped on the “they were all actors” and similar bandwagons lost all credibility with me.
I looked at the evidence for the JFK assassination for more than a decade before I had anything to say publicly about it:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wean
and I am sure that my writings about what Gary Wean saw helped lead to his testimony being in recent serious JFK books. If I had to write that essay again, I am not sure what I would change all that much about it.
The trick is to lay aside preconceived notions, both the orthodox theories and the fringe ones, and see where the evidence takes us. That is far easier said than done, but it is the ideal. And when a piece of fringe evidence falls apart on further inspection, it is prudent to heavily discount it and even reject it outright, and the burden of proof should fall back on the claimant. The moon landings issue is one area where I did a deep dive, and none of the fringe evidence held up to scrutiny:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#apollo
But I still see the moon landings being kicked around like there is some merit to the arguments that they were faked. I never got Brian over the hump:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#apollo
but that was because he did not take the time to really get familiar with the evidence and arguments. If he had, he would have not had much “skepticism” whether the moon landings happened or not.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
26th July 2013, 22:02
Hi:
I need to reiterate my approach and what I am interested in, and not interested in. I keep seeing, over and over and over, newbies to this stuff (people can be aware of this milieu for twenty years and still be a newbie, because they have no experience in the field) who think that they have some new approach that has never been tried before and that they have the magic answer, or they think that they have solved the problems of why other approaches have failed. Virtually every time that I have seen that phenomenon, it has been the person’s ego talking, a person with absolutely no experience in the field or anything close to it. There is nothing else like the FE milieu on Earth, and newbies constantly project their conventional awareness on the issue, and think that the standard stuff will work. That is one of the most fatal delusions in the field.
The primary reason why we do not have FE and heaven on Earth is that personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity, which was the primary lesson of my journey. It was the lesson that I resisted the longest, until I had it pounded into my head in no uncertain terms:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
Every other reason is a distant second place, but almost nobody wants to acknowledge that grim state of affairs. Joe Average is not a dark pather:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving
Joe is living a life of quiet desperation, eking out a living and temporarily sating his addictions. Joe does not want to hurt anybody if he can help it, and he really does not want to help anybody too much, either. He is just shuffling along. There is divinity in Joe somewhere deep down, but in a world of scarcity, Joe is ruled by his fears. Joe’s only participation in making FE happen is being willing to use an FE machine if somebody delivers one to his door. Dennis actually made an awesome strategy around that understanding:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs
although he did not think of it in those terms when he came up with it. The strategy was so brilliant that he was wiped out with extreme prejudice, and nobody has even tried it since. I have helped the best of the best try to crack this nut, and what learning experiences those were.
But newbies refuse to acknowledge those lessons, largely because they are so at variance with their experiences. But none of them have ever been in a field where contenders are offered a billion dollars to go away:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer
before they get the boom lowered on them. FE is not a business opportunity, another New Age flavor of the day, or something for The Occupy Movement to get behind. FE represents the fifth epochal event in the human journey, and would be by far the largest:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=693557&viewfull=1#post693557
and Joe Average will be no help at all in initiating it. In fact, no group currently existing on Earth is going to be much help. Virtually all have been trapped by the scarcity-based teddy bear(s) of their choice:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
and Godzilla and friends are vigilant in making sure that all attempts toward FE and abundance are taken out, and so far, they are batting one thousand.
After surviving various approaches, I decided to try something different. But I know that there is no audience on Earth that is ready for it, not in that they will really understand and help. For those whom my message reaches in something approaching fullness, it is guaranteed that there will be virtually nobody in their lives who will also understand. I am looking for needles in haystacks.
It is natural for newbies to think that they have something new and exciting to bring to the table, but I have yet to see it. I constantly see the same naïve and inexperienced suggestions, with the proposers thinking that they have got it figured out. To reiterate for the hundredth time:
1. Godzilla is alive and well, if currently fragmented (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal);
2. Godzilla is not asleep, nor can he be snuck past (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7);
3. Today’s inventor of the hour is like a lamb to the slaughter, totally oblivious to the fate that awaits him; many have appeared and disappeared over the generations, and I no longer have any interest in them, as far as thinking that their approaches offer any hope;
4. Any mass movement effort toward FE has always played to some kind of self-serving lowest-common-denominator, as with all politics, and in the FE field, those are fatal flaws, readily exploited by the predators;
5. There is not a group on Earth that has shed the scarcity-based ideology of its choice, which is why none of them are fit to pursue FE and abundance;
6. Joe Average will not begin to wake up via talk, but by having FE delivered to his home.
7. The members of choir that I envision are not going to be talking up their friends, families, and associates – we will be reaching higher and wider than that.
One of the most common observations, when people begin to glimpse the issue, is that Joe Average is not ready for FE and abundance. Well, is he ready for self-extermination? That is the trajectory that Joe Average is on these days, with Godzilla stampeding the herd toward the cliff:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=646907&viewfull=1#post646907
As with the other epochal transitions, it was up to a relative few to get the ball rolling (invent and develop the new energy regime), and then Joe eventually jumped on the bandwagon. Anything short of delivering an FE machine to Joe’s house is not enough, because it does not achieve the new energy regime. The new energy regime can transform Joe’s mentality from scarcity to abundance. I highly doubt that Joe is going to wake up via any other way, and I am looking for those few who can wake up before FE is delivered to their homes. They are only a relative handful on the planet today, but those are whom I will be looking for. They will thirst for the truth and go chasing after it, not waiting for somebody to deliver it into their laps.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
27th July 2013, 19:29
Hi:
A few odds and ends as I plunk along on the essay…
One of the odd things about energy, be it conventionally-recognized energy, free energy, new energy, or what have you, is that scientists don’t really know what energy is. Science can only describe its effects.
Richard Feynman made that statement long ago:
“It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge what energy is.”
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_.281964.29
Werner Heisenberg made a similar observation:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#heisenberg
On a note related to my previous post, a major delusion that newbies need to shed is the idea that if people see a working FE prototype, then it is a downhill racer to FE. Working FE prototypes have been demonstrated many times, from Sparky Sweet and Adam T. to Moray, Gray, and Reed. Demonstrating an FE prototype at best gets gawkers from the masses (and “allies” who want to steal it), and it also gets Godzilla’s keen attention. Then the ride for the inventor can become rather rough, let us say.
There is a mountain of data on Dennis’s heat pump:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new
and there are many installations that still operate, many more than thirty years after they were installed. Anybody with any gumption can go see them in the field, and meet customers who would defend their heat pumps with their lives, as they saved them so much money over the years. But other than Dennis taking salesmen and others on tours of installations, and the stray investigator (often looking to invalidate the technology), there is big, collective yawn from the masses and establishment. The Wright brothers were ignored and derided for five years after they first flew:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#wright
and anybody who wanted to could go watch them fly in broad daylight. There is a big delusion that the scientific and technical establishments are waiting with bated breath for the breakthrough technologies to make their appearance, so that they can develop them and make them for public use. Nothing could be further from the truth. They all have their collective heads in the sand, and they will never pull them out, short of somebody doing the equivalent of landing a plane in their front yards. FE, delivered to somebody’s home, that stops the electric meter, would be one of those events, and the biggest one of all time. But anything short of that is not going to generate much interest among the masses, be it either Joe Average or scientists sitting in their soft berths in academia and corporate slots. Those kinds of delusions need to be set aside if somebody is going to begin to understand the FE conundrum.
Best,
Wade
Melinda
28th July 2013, 15:22
I return with another long post. For what it’s worth, not because I feel I’m bringing new or needed information, but largely because writing helps me process my thoughts around the FE subject. Thank you all - for understanding.
Wade Frazier, Post 3023 : “As Einstein said, all theories are false, in that they do not totally depict reality. One of Einstein’s famous statements is that every theory is eventually killed by a fact… [portion missing] …The trick is to lay aside preconceived notions, both the orthodox theories and the fringe ones, and see where the evidence takes us.”
That reiteration of the importance of evidence reminded me of the work of Dr Judy Wood, who quotes this statement from someone who she says taught her well…
“Empirical evidence is the truth that theory must mimic.”
I understand this to mean that, whilst imagination (something she values) has its significant role, we can theorise based on what actual evidence is telling us, as a grounded place from which to begin our exploration of what is possible and not yet proven.
She writes:
“If you listen to the evidence carefully enough, it will speak to you and tell you exactly what happened. If you don’t know what happened, keep listening to the evidence until you do. The evidence always tells the truth. The key is not to allow yourself to be distracted away from seeing what the evidence is telling you.”
(Page between Foreword and Introduction, Where Did the Towers Go – Evidence of Directed Free Energy Technology on 9/11, by Dr Judy Wood - Published 2010, The New Investigation.)
A great deal of info on numerous subjects that could fall into Wade’s category of “conspiracist garbage…” (Post 3023) seems to come in the form of incomplete or refutable evidence; often delivered by people who appear to have drawn their conclusions prior to collating their evidence, based on their emotional response to events. When we do this, it can naturally determine what ‘evidence’ we will consider powerful or ‘truthful’ (I think Limor talked earlier in the thread about how people gravitate towards sources that resonate with their beliefs.) I understand this response, and I see it as a natural reaction we sometimes have in the face of traumatic events. It may be serving an emotional purpose as part of a collective voice that says “I feel I am repeatedly not told the whole truth about various events from mainstream or official channels.” But processing that frustration by emotionally reacting to worst case scenarios is one rung on the ladder of seeking truth, not a place to set up camp. How well do we honour truth when we cling to something that merely seems truthful because it is a story that paints oppressive forces in a conveniently bad light? Whilst oppressive forces may deserve accusations of ill-intent – those accusations clearly, repeatedly hinder our progress if they are littered with inaccuracy.
Dr Wood also touches on the significance of how we receive the evidence we consider; how the medium affects our perceptions:
“After spending weeks and months researching 9/11, I found a common pattern in people’s responses. It seems that the strongest influence on whether or not someone questioned the events came from how they first learned of them… [portion missing] …When I was growing up my family did not have a TV. I think this made an enormous difference in the reason I was able to see what I saw…”
(Page 2, Introduction, Where Did the Towers Go – Evidence of Directed Free Energy Technology on 9/11, by Dr Judy Wood - Published 2010, The New Investigation.)
In other words, what the news programmes’ interpretation was telling her was happening didn’t chime with what her experience and deductive abilities were telling her was probable. It conflicted with her intuition and reason as both an engineer and free-thinking individual.
It is easy for people to be persuaded by the limited perspectives prevalent in mainstream media if that is the world they find sanctuary in trusting. But equally, it is easy for us truth-seekers to consider ourselves immune to that brand of programming, and to welcome shaky evidence of conspiracy because we resonate with the source based on a shared feeling of being oppressed; a shared belief that our common oppressor would (satisfyingly) be threatened by the ‘findings.’ That’s clearly fodder for our emotional venting, but rarely sound enough to lay solid ground for more significant progress.
In relation to the questioning of conspiracies, I found Dr Wood’s approach reassuring. She advocates the method that rather than emotionally attaching to theories about WHO was responsible for what happened to the WTC buildings and why, we first need to establish exactly WHAT happened. That underpinning perspective was what drew me back to studying the events, through her work; like a light in the darkness that helped clear the emotional fog and some resultant hesitation around the subject. The tragedy of September 11th was so horrific, with so much contradiction and confusion between the official story and evidence / witness testimony, that her attitude towards focusing on the evidence was a navigation tool I could respect, enabling me to breathe more easily around it.
In Part 2 of her AMMACH interview she also raises the subject about advanced technology, unacknowledged in the public domain, and how we may be able to use evidence of its existence to move forward…
http://youtu.be/flw2rCjAkC4?t=18m46s 18mins45secs in:
“What I mean by Free Energy is it’s free, free for the taking, but you’re not stealing… Nikola Tesla… wanted to give free energy to the world but he was afraid it would be used for evil purposes. Been there, done that. We don’t have that risk anymore, it’s already been done. Until now, those who developed free energy technology in the secrecy of their basement have wound up suicided. The beauty of – if there’s any silver lining in this cloud from 9/11, is it was a demonstration to the entire planet that free energy technology exists… But think about it, now people can develop it in the light of day, as long as people are aware of that. [my underlining] Until now folks have had to take some blind faith leap that “Oh yeah, I think that person does whatever,” or go to someone’s lab and witness this. But with 9/11 the entire planet can know that free energy technology exists.”
I’m personally not qualified to say definitively if FE was used in the destruction of the World Trade Centre buildings (including building 7.) But I am deeply curious about what happened. I found those comments interesting because I don’t interpret them as public encouragement of a reckless, naively optimistic, attitude in FE inventors. I think Dr Wood is saying the potential is there for that disclosure to assist us in the FE field if enough people are aware of and fully understand the evidence in front of them (the same as if enough people cared enough to learn about Adam Trombly’s demonstration of his device to the United Nations… and I haven’t met any, except on this forum.)
The comment spoke to me not so much about attempting to awaken the masses (the pitfalls of which have been covered here), but more of how, if some of the worst fears of FE abuse have been realised already, all the more reason to conquer our fearful energy and explore the benefits of using FE creatively for harmonious, life-supporting purposes. And whether those of us already aware of FE consider the World Trade Centre events to be of use or not in even our private, personal processing of the energy situation, it seems to me that we’ve lived with the threat of virtually instant global annihilation since the open use of nuclear / atomic weaponry. The fact that, even after Chernobyl and Fukushima, the current, publicly acknowledged nuclear technologies are still presented by establishment voices as dependable energy sources would seem to contradict any establishment voices that would deplore FE because of its destructive potential.
I remember Brian O’Leary speaking of how certain individuals were afraid that a public FE culture would free the worst in our midst to use it for weaponry. But when considering that, the question for me keeps returning : what are we really doing if we keep letting the victims of an oppressive consciousness (who dwell in corridors of material power) bully us out of imagining the wonders they are incapable of visioning? At some point the creators within us have to relearn our higher potential – to reclaim our powers of positive manifestation. We have to sing a new range of healing frequencies onto our beloved planet to free her of her wounds. FE seems to me the technology that could potentially allow us to continue expanding our external creativity whilst demanding the least of our extraordinary mother earth.
In her book, Dr Wood speaks about the importance of open-mindedness with regards to the world around us, and how our breadth of imagination today can affect the world of tomorrow we invite into being. She remembers how she was ridiculed at school for suggesting people could live on the moon, only to be proved quite sound of mind a few years later when Armstrong and Aldrin walked on its surface. After recalling this she writes…
“Ironically, our “educational system” teaches us to limit our thinking as much as (or more than) it teaches us to open and expand it. I know that there are plenty of things that we’ve simply got to learn – but why it is that intellectual circumscription and imagination-denial have to go along with that learning is not only anathema to me but socially and culturally most, most counterproductive. Let us return to seeing the world as a child sees it, with wonder and with hope.”
(Page 477, Conclusions and Summary, Where Did the Towers Go – Evidence of Directed Free Energy Technology on 9/11, by Dr Judy Wood - Published 2010, The New Investigation.)
That last comment reminds me of the root cause of certain kinds of FE denial, and also of why ‘conspiracism’ is perceived the way it is on this thread and your website Wade. History is littered with conspiracies. But looking for the truth and coming across evidence of conspiracy in the process is not the same as succumbing to a mind-set of conspiracism. The difference as I see it being that if we are not careful it can drive us down rabbit holes, chasing our tails. It can lead to being stuck in a place of fear and permanent conflict with a perceived, often invisible enemy. That fear may not take the obvious form of a cold sweat and shivering set of hands – but rather have a more stealth-like influence, seeping under our skin so that our creative imagination is hindered, our courage paralysed, whist our appearance, even to ourselves, remains unchanged.
Far better to protect and to nourish our state of wonder. A feat that to my mind requires not timid denial and wistful naivety, but a steady strength of will - a disciplined awareness.
And above all, love.
Ilie Pandia
28th July 2013, 19:21
There is a big delusion that the scientific and technical establishments are waiting with bated breath for the breakthrough technologies to make their appearance, so that they can develop them and make them for public use. Nothing could be further from the truth. They all have their collective heads in the sand, and they will never pull them out, short of somebody doing the equivalent of landing a plane in their front yards.
Wade
You can't be serious!!
I saw Obama giving a speech, and he clearly said: "If you have an alternative to the oil energy let me know and we will look into it as soon as possible!" (quote from memory...) He couldn't be lying on national TV, could he?
Wade Frazier
29th July 2013, 00:55
Hi Melinda:
In anthropology, there is a concept that it takes a long time, handling and examining the bones and artifacts of digs, as in years, sometimes many years, for the anthropologist to finally begin to understand what the evidence has to say. I think that it is a common issue in realms of scientific and other investigation, and it richly applies to the FE situation.
On conspiracism, there are great hindrances that come in many forms. One of the greatest is a product of our legal and media systems that have evolved, which are rooted in the long millennia of scarcity, violence, and victim-ness that has shaped the human journey. That pitfall is the predilection for finding out who the perpetrator of the “crime” was, to unmask them and punish them in the name of “justice.” For instance, the people who pulled off the JFK hit will likely never be identified, much less brought to “justice.” But most who get into the JFK evidence seem to be trying to solve the crime. Gary did:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wean
but he was a professional detective, so he can be forgiven. But when conspiracists focus their efforts on unmasking the perpetrators (and if 9/11 was an inside job, for instance, the perpetrators are behind deep, deep cover, and I will agree with Chomsky that Bush, Cheney, Rummy, and the like would be suicidal idiots if they were directly involved), they tend to fall into the victim paradigm. IMO, the productive responses to JFK, or 9/11, for instance, is for those affected to ask themselves what their contribution to the situation was. That is what creators do. Victims try to finger the “culpable.” One response points the finger at us, and the other one at others. Very few of us ever really exercise “responsibility,” which has been a human theme from the beginning:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#responsibility
On FE and its misuse, I have long advocated a global peacekeeping force of grandmothers to prevent the weaponization of FE technology (the means to prevent it exists today, in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard), until abundance begins to sink in, and people see how silly weaponizing it is, not to mention insane, etc. One of my favorite Greer quotes is when the weaponization and misuse objections arise, in knee-jerk fashion (Level 5 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5), Greer responds with, “The worst elements of humanity already have this technology.”
The crazy denial of FE, from virtually all corners, is mind-boggling at first. Brian had to have it shoved in his face for five years, as he played the Paul Revere of FE:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#revere
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions
before he began to openly wonder if humanity was a sentient species:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience
It was not until after I encountered Fuller’s work the next year:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller
that I began seeing that all of those reactions were an addiction to scarcity.
I am personally unsold on the FE angle on 9/11, and the academic who has most promoted that theory also promoted the “actor” angle on the Boston Marathon Bombings. Could FE technology have been used to bring the towers down? I imagine so, but did it need to? That is a big subject that I don’t have the time or energy to pursue, but to me, the most productive reaction to 9/11 is that when Godzilla says “Jump!” that the American people don’t ask “How high?” 9/11 was used as the excuse to invade nations that did us no harm, and kill off several million people (mostly children), as we put our greedy paws on Earth's last easy oil and gas, and probably less than one percent of Americans even know or care.
To your coda, as I have stated repeatedly, the greatest triumph of Godzilla is making FE and abundance unimaginable, and to great swaths of the “educated,” and those who say that they seek solutions (such as environmentalists), it is actually worse than that, in that they see FE and abundance as the enemy. You really have to see it to believe it. The goal of my work is to simply make FE and abundance imaginable,
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm
and to keep newbies from running into the meat grinder's maw.
On a related note, I regularly hear from pupils who go try to talk up friends, family, colleagues, and the public on FE, and if they are at it long enough, they always come back with, “Boy, that sure did not work!” :)
As I have stated, my goal at Avalon and in my future work is to help pupils get past those early levels (6, 7, 9, 10, 11):
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
I think that newbies need to explore those levels, if for no other reason than to eventually realize that I know what I am talking about. I did not just make up that list from my imagination, but from half a lifetime of engaging people on the subject, and trading notes with people such as Brian and Dennis.
Also, taking my word for anything tends to short-circuit the learning process. Direct personal experience is the best teacher, maybe the only teacher, but learning the lessons of the FE field can be life-risking behavior, and I have seen too many wrecked and prematurely terminated lives. I also have blood on my hands:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey
and don’t want any more. So, in areas where the pupils are in danger of risking their lives/careers/relationships, I do my best to get them to take my word for it, for the danger that they face. It rarely sinks in, with newbies scoffing at the peril, very similar to those eighteen-year-old men who are eager for the battlefield:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business
Those who do that, however, do not stay my pupil for long. I know too well what the risk is to human civilization and the ecosphere unless we embrace FE, and ASAP, but rushing out and “doing something,” when the standard approaches have been tried literally tens of thousands of times, and failed every single time, is that situation of fools rushing in where angels fear to tread. I don’t want any more shattered lives on my conscience, and am trying something that I never saw tried before, and some at Avalon understand, which is the most pleasant surprise that I have had in years.
Hi Ilie:
That proposal that I wrote with Brian:
http://www.brianoleary.info/Impacts.html
was Brian’s response to Obama’s entreaty. I had interacted with the DOE before:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#yull
and I really wondered what Brian thought that we would accomplish, but when Brian asked, I gave. :) I am a professional spear carrier, and carrying Brian’s spears, even today, is part of what I do. In fact, I have turned down recent opportunities to meet with some of FE’s biggest names, because they usually will want to hand me a spear, and I won’t be able to help myself from carrying it. I am like a breed of dog, like a retriever, who has it baked into my DNA. :)
When Brian asked me to help him write that proposal, one friend cited an Old Testament story where the potentate hosted a gathering of his rivals, and instead of a feast, he killed them all when he had them under one roof. He saw the Obama/DOE entreaty in the same way. The host murdering his guests has a long, august past. :)
The Yanomamö had a trick they called “Nomohori,” which was either inviting a neighboring village for a feast, or being the one invited, and at the appropriate moment, when everybody’s guard was down, to slaughter the “allies,” rape their women, and make them their “wives.” The invading Spaniards made the “host attack” a science as they conquered the New World:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#exaggerate
I don’t know if the DOE and Obama had something like that in mind, but they had no shortage of people responding to their entreaty. I told Brian that even if our proposal was accepted, I did not plan on going to Washington D.C. I have no desire to end up like Mallove:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland
Casolaro:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#casolaro
Wilcher:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wilcher
etc.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
29th July 2013, 14:58
Hi:
Briefly, a few points. One of the most common obstacles that I see with understanding not only the FE conundrum, but also life on Earth, is people seizing on a facet of the issue, exalting it above the other issues, suffering from the tunnel vision that such a perspective brings about. Conversely, another problem is lumping all factors together, seeing them as all having equal importance. People with such perspectives tend to hack at branches and ignore the root.
There are at least three key categories of factors that determine human development:
1. Our genetic makeup;
2. Our conditioning;
3. Our extra-physical inputs (our “souls,” “God,” etc.)
All three have their impacts on how we turn out. I constantly see people whipsaw between those factors, seemingly unable to integrate them. Some see our issues as all genetic, while others see them as all conditioning, while others see them in strictly “mystical” terms. Those are all lopsided perspectives.
Our souls live on the astral plane, while sending out “fragments” of themselves to live on the physical plane. But the physical plane is where sh*t happens, and the best laid plans on the astral plane often go awry when the denseness of physical reality is encountered. Again, for those in physical reality, it is easy to question the wisdom of such a system, and wonder what, if anything, the Creator had in mind when physical reality was created. But here we are, and I think that we are here to make the best of the situation.
The nature/nurture argument of life form development goes way back, and no scientist worth his or her salt today denies that it is both. But scientists usually neglect that third input, which are the extra-physical factors. We are anything but blank slates. Organized religion has tried to stake out the extra-physical territory as its province, but in a world of scarcity, it has failed spectacularly, becoming just one more “ism” that is primarily concerned with amassing and guarding its temporal wealth and power.
Conversely, there is a tendency to throw it all in a big bucket, saying that they are all just factors, without ranking them. That is another delusion, and a good way to say it is that there are no hungry philosophers. Similar to Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
if you don’t take care of the basics, the rest does not matter. I constantly see nearly everybody just assume the current energy regime and resulting economic pie that it supports, and all of their “economic” interest is in money, taxes, exchange and the like, which have literally no meaning at all in a world of abundance. The primary reason for that tunnel vision, as I see it, seems to be the egocentric blinders that people wear, which can be seen as their allegiance to the scarcity-based ideology(ies) of their choice:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
When people develop comprehensive perspectives, which necessarily have a scientific aspect to them, they can distinguish the forest from the trees, and will refrain from hacking at branches. At this time, the only way out of our mess that I can see is for humanity to manifest the fifth epochal event of the human journey:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=696307&viewfull=1#post696307
Anything less is likely not going to cut it. As with the other epochal events, it was up to a small group of people to reach a new level of cognitive awareness, and they were responsible for initiating the event. Then others copied it, and in turn were transformed by the process. It is going to be up to a relatively small group of people to initiate the transition to the fifth epochal event. If there were ten like Dennis on the planet:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
and they combined their efforts, or a hundred like Brian and me, or five thousand like Ilie, I think it would be enough to overcome humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression. The fifth epochal event will dwarf everything that came before it. We will become a Star-Trek-like civilization, in ways far beyond what Star Trek’s writers ever envisioned. But it will take the best that that small group can muster. That is my game, and we will see how it goes.
Best,
Wade
Ilie Pandia
29th July 2013, 16:57
Hi Wade,
Your previous post may some good points with me. I do struggle to integrate the factors you have mentioned into something that makes sense.
Most mystical material basically asserts that we are here on an individual quest and it's not necessarily our job to save anybody. We can do that, if we want to, and then we enter into the "messiah and his victims to be saved" game. I recall you even wrote some time back that perhaps is not your job to ruin this reality game that people are currently playing here, for whatever reasons.
I do struggle to understand this better, because it seems to me like I do want to save everybody and stuff free energy into their houses and make all better.
Another thing is the saying that: "outer reality is a reflection of inner reality". It is unclear for me to what extent that is true, but if it is, then trying to "fix" things in the world would be like trying to wash your face by scrubbing the mirror.
In other days I am almost convinced that the vast majority of humans (including myself) act a lot like automatons. With specific behavior patterns and emotional triggers that have been conditioned into me from an early age. My only good news about this is that an automaton asking itself "am I just an automaton?" may be on it's way to realizing he is not.
Ranking those factors an integrating them properly in a framework that makes sense still eludes me, but it is pretty clear to me that indeed there are no hungry philosophers.
Hi:
Briefly, a few points. One of the most common obstacles that I see with understanding not only the FE conundrum, but also life on Earth, is people seizing on a facet of the issue, exalting it above the other issues, suffering from the tunnel vision that such a perspective brings about. Conversely, another problem is lumping all factors together, seeing them as all having equal importance. People with such perspectives tend to hack at branches and ignore the root.
There are at least three key categories of factors that determine human development:
1. Our genetic makeup;
2. Our conditioning;
3. Our extra-physical inputs (our “souls,” “God,” etc.)
All three have their impacts on how we turn out. I constantly see people whipsaw between those factors, seemingly unable to integrate them. Some see our issues as all genetic, while others see them as all conditioning, while others see them in strictly “mystical” terms. Those are all lopsided perspectives.
Our souls live on the astral plane, while sending out “fragments” of themselves to live on the physical plane. But the physical plane is where sh*t happens, and the best laid plans on the astral plane often go awry when the denseness of physical reality is encountered. Again, for those in physical reality, it is easy to question the wisdom of such a system, and wonder what, if anything, the Creator had in mind when physical reality was created. But here we are, and I think that we are here to make the best of the situation.
The nature/nurture argument of life form development goes way back, and no scientist worth his or her salt today denies that it is both. But scientists usually neglect that third input, which are the extra-physical factors. We are anything but blank slates. Organized religion has tried to stake out the extra-physical territory as its province, but in a world of scarcity, it has failed spectacularly, becoming just one more “ism” that is primarily concerned with amassing and guarding its temporal wealth and power.
Conversely, there is a tendency to throw it all in a big bucket, saying that they are all just factors, without ranking them. That is another delusion, and a good way to say it is that there are no hungry philosophers. Similar to Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs
if you don’t take care of the basics, the rest does not matter. I constantly see nearly everybody just assume the current energy regime and resulting economic pie that it supports, and all of their “economic” interest is in money, taxes, exchange and the like, which have literally no meaning at all in a world of abundance. The primary reason for that tunnel vision, as I see it, seems to be the egocentric blinders that people wear, which can be seen as their allegiance to the scarcity-based ideology(ies) of their choice:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
When people develop comprehensive perspectives, which necessarily have a scientific aspect to them, they can distinguish the forest from the trees, and will refrain from hacking at branches. At this time, the only way out of our mess that I can see is for humanity to manifest the fifth epochal event of the human journey:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=696307&viewfull=1#post696307
Anything less is likely not going to cut it. As with the other epochal events, it was up to a small group of people to reach a new level of cognitive awareness, and they were responsible for initiating the event. Then others copied it, and in turn were transformed by the process. It is going to be up to a relatively small group of people to initiate the transition to the fifth epochal event. If there were ten like Dennis on the planet:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
and they combined their efforts, or a hundred like Brian and me, or five thousand like Ilie, I think it would be enough to overcome humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression. The fifth epochal event will dwarf everything that came before it. We will become a Star-Trek-like civilization, in ways far beyond what Star Trek’s writers ever envisioned. But it will take the best that that small group can muster. That is my game, and we will see how it goes.
Best,
Wade
Just a little insertion, poorly referenced at this time, that can be ignored in this awesome thread ...
Academic authors of textbooks always (often, at least) reference and justify Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Firstly, they are always ignorant of copyright implications (yes, we have to get permission to reproduce this diagram ...!). Secondly, they always ignore all the other research and work done by Maslow. Thirdly, they never question how 'great' people emerge from utmost poverty (basic needs not met but they still become educated and great transformational thinkers and agents of change) whereas many who have all basic needs met do no good, make no significant change, and sometimes do great harm to many, including themselves and their families.
Methinks that Maslow and his hierarchy of needs have been misinterpreted and misunderstood and he is cringing in his grave!
sandy
30th July 2013, 00:50
Hi Ilie,
The way I integrate and understand the 3 factors Wade mentions is through personal integrity. I try to remain self aware at all times and thus be conscious of my thoughts, feelings, and resulting actions, consistently and oh I wish, constantly. When I catch myself on autopilot again I reawaken and once again assess whether my behavior comes from fear or love. When I do this I can choose consciously the right action to take, as in the end it always does the magic, in not only taking care of others but me too!! :)
By the way Wade, I believe there are lots of hungry philosophers, but I would label them mostly, armchair philosophers. :)
Wade Frazier
30th July 2013, 03:36
Hi Ilie and sdv:
Big subjects you bring up, and I will do my best give some sort of reply. On us all having individual quests, Ilie, most mystical material that I am aware of also stresses that we are also all part of something bigger than ourselves. The message of the Infinite Spirit is that we are all one:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age1
In teachings such as Michael’s, Seth’s, Ra’s, and others, you will find ideas of entities comprised of more than a thousand souls, entities that give birth to universes, great tasks that certain groups of beings embark on (such as Wanderers), and so on. While you are responsible, in ways that can seem both obvious and subtle, for managing your body’s journey through your human lifetime, and growing your consciousness is the primary reason you are here, when you review your life when it is over, you will experience the impact of your earthly life by the impact that it had on every other consciousness that you ever interacted with, and you will experience their end of the exchange. Even people reacting to reading your words here are within your sphere of impact. So, how much of our journey is really an individual journey? :)
I believe that what I wrote earlier is that people may not want FE and what comes with it, and beamed down to the wrong planet. :) However, as my encounters with dolphins:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=511613&viewfull=1#post511613
and UFOs:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm
demonstrated to me, they seem to like the idea of FE on Earth. :)
My understanding is that each person has karma, as do towns, nations, species, and planets. What is your role in your nation’s karma? Your species? Humanity has already driven countless species to extinction, and is in danger of really wrecking the apple cart. We can make this planet uninhabitable, and are well on our way to doing so. In the sometimes eerily dispassionate view of Michael, he observed that if we make Earth uninhabitable, those most responsible will incarnate onto the dying planet, to experience some of the karma, and those of us who still want to incarnate will likely find another life form that cannot manipulate its environment, in a different star system.
I am doing what I can so that there is a different outcome. And because I am here on the planet, I can make my choice and pursue it, although I had some “help”:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2
and after being touched like that, I have not found it easy to turn my back on all of it and just get fat and rich and hopefully die before it really hits the fan. :)
I think that it is obvious that our physical actions affect our physical world. Mystics far too often get ungrounded, and hunger and privation is a great way to bring us back to this reality.
I could write a lot more on this, of course, but am a little tired from a day of hiking.
Sdv, it is good thing that I don’t reproduce Maslow’s chart anywhere! :)
Maslow was one of many people who have seen how humans are wired, and if the basics are not taken care of, the rest does not matter. Humanity has still not mastered the basics. Fuller was not as hierarchical as Maslow was, but saw the issue as scarcity or abundance:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller
The Michael teachings have been compared to Maslow’s hierarchy:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age
and there are certainly other frameworks, but in human development, if a child is not held when it cries, and is neglected or abused, by age two the child will be “ruined” as far as ever trusting anybody. While there are “superkids” who overcome amazing obstacles (Dennis is about the best example that I know of http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#dennis), of children that are subject to abuse and neglect, very, very few of them become transformational thinkers. Is it even one in ten million? Most become total messes. The path to FE and heaven on Earth I doubt will come from people who are starving, suffering severe privation, etc. These kids did not grow up that way:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
I can only count my blessings of living the Ozzie and Harriet childhood, but I will certainly agree that it took my radicalizing experiences to see beyond the veil of our system. A person can get radicalized while starving, but radicalized in a loving way?
Those kids working in the cow pie factory in India:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=668457&viewfull=1#post668457
likely do not have a prayer, as far as changing the world much. I could be wrong, but that is how I see it.
Sandy, what a beautiful little post. Thanks.
Time for bed,
Wade
Melinda
30th July 2013, 18:44
Ilie, Post 3030 : “...Another thing is the saying that: "outer reality is a reflection of inner reality". It is unclear for me to what extent that is true, but if it is, then trying to "fix" things in the world would be like trying to wash your face by scrubbing the mirror...”
Nicely put Ilie.
Feels to me like a continuous exchange... The inner world creates the outer world, and then what’s created in the outer world effects the inner once again... for example – my imagination thinks of building a nicer house, I effect the outer world by building it, living in it effects how I feel within, how I feel affects how I behave toward and in the outer world once again, etc. Once we access the extraordinary realms of our psychic ability, the denseness of the outer world compounds less separation anyway, and the distinction between inner and outer worlds becomes less clear. We can move objects with our minds, levitate and bi-locate. But it’s far easier to do these things in a world where we aren’t stifled by thoughts of survival, and, more significantly, in a world whose resources we haven’t guiltily sapped and destroyed – one we’ve spectacularly restored to a pristine and abundant condition because we created the technologies to facilitate it.
I love the world of books and of internet that enables us to share our lives and our dreams; the world of holistic, tech-assisted healing and space travel that enable us to rejuvenate and explore. And we can all of us have those outer-world things if we can create the technology to enjoy them sustainably. A healed outer world where we cleanse the karma of the damage we’ve done can affect our inner world immeasurably, and wisely-applied FE technology can not only open that door for us to heal ourselves and our planet, but expand our creativity in extraordinary and benign ways. It is both a huge responsibility and also a tremendous, world-reconfiguring opportunity. It brings me joy, time and again, to imagine its great potential for all, at its broadest and brightest.
SDV, Post 3031 : "...Thirdly, they never question how 'great' people emerge from utmost poverty (basic needs not met but they still become educated and great transformational thinkers and agents of change) whereas many who have all basic needs met do no good, make no significant change, and sometimes do great harm to many, including themselves and their families..."
I often wonder about the points SDV touched upon (hello SDV), because I find it a deeply significant aspect of the energy abundance discussion. Wade observed in response that those transformational thinkers and agents of change who excel in spite of their poverty are in a minority. Their existence gives me a deep gladness – because they are a reminder to any scarcity-based thinkers that those of us born into poverty are not inherently inferior; that God is not blessing the rich with more talent and superior skill – abundance is simply making it easier for them to attain those rewards. I knew a private school art teacher many years ago who said she was reluctant to teach in the private sector because she thought the children would be arrogant and uninspired (I think “spoiled” was the term she used.) What she found instead though was that it was easier to teach them because they had more support for their endeavours at home. In other words, they had not been led to believe that studying art was a waste of time, and their parents were not so pressured by poverty and the need to survive day to day that they had no time or energy to support creativity for healing’s sake. Abundance had given them that nourishment.
It’s true that a lot of the people who materially have the most in this world are also responsible for selfishly doing a lot of damage to others. But I don’t see them as a flawless example of what can happen with abundance because they are still reacting to their abundance within a scarcity-riddled framework. I think if you acquire abundance within a scarcity-riddled framework the chances are you had to exploit people and/or the environment to do it. With that burden can come a great deal of guilt, even if it is unconscious. People may not give the appearance of that guilt, they may be in denial of it, but it can manifest as an insatiable greed, a fear of never having enough, or a fear of having it taken away by those who might seek revenge. That is a fear-ridden existence, not a truly and wholly abundant one. The more they are aware of how the world could resent them, the deeper into self-hate or denial they can go – merely exacerbating their ill-behaviour.
However... take those uncommonly wealthy people and the adults whose poverty they exploit back to infancy and place them all in a world of universal abundance and then you might know how their values and characters would grow quite differently with an entirely different and shared perspective of what equal wonders were possible. But I’m not aware of us ever having had, in recorded history, that universal abundance which made all people economically equal – so what frame of reference do we truly have for how people react to that abundance? Again it seems to come back to the core of Wade’s intention, which is to make that abundance imaginable. If we’re of the mind-set that it has been known on some level before, in past lives or other dimensions, then perhaps it is a matter of imagining it again, or remembering it. Either way – the canvas is glistening, ready to be filled with a vision of equality unlike the last few thousand years on earth.
Wade Frazier, Post 3033 : “...My understanding is that each person has karma, as do towns, nations, species, and planets...”
This reminded me of something said by Anastasia in book 3 of the Ringing Cedar series, The Space of Love. She said that she has more admiration for people born and raised in cities who stay in their cities and clean them up, than she does for people who abandon them to go live in isolation in the beauty and nourishment of nature. (She also acknowledges how they have had it much harder than her, because they were not born into the untarnished cradle of God she calls home, but a far less nourishing place – and that cradle to which she is referring may have personal-spiritual aspects, not solely environmental-material ones.) I’m not making this reference to personally criticise those of us who make the choice to leave the crime-riddled, smog-filled worlds of oppression behind (I am tempted virtually every day of my life and possibly remain where I live for selfish reasons.) Sometimes removing ourselves from those grey environments is the only thing that enables us to survive and restore ourselves to a loving state of use to both ourselves and others. How it pans out spiritually is likely connected to the purity of our intention. But what Anastasia is described as saying in the book made me think of our responsibility to our world, to our nation, to our town, to our neighbourhood. How, in certain cases, we mend ourselves by mending the world around us – some by living a more removed and natural way of life (like the Darrens of the world), and effecting things remotely - and others by remaining in the thick of things, for their own karmic or dharmic reasons. Either way, an awareness of our responsibility to the whole brings us one step closer to creating the world where we can all live well.
Ever glad to be here, where people care enough to explore these things.
Wishing blessings for you all
Wade Frazier
31st July 2013, 14:42
Hi:
Melinda, that was a nice post. Yes, pockets of relative abundance in a world of scarcity are not the same thing as a world of abundance. Carl Sauer remarked how false the current “abundant” ideologies, born of Europe’s conquest of the world, are:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#carl2
When the USA really began going into full genocide mode as it stole North America from the Indians, it concocted Manifest Destiny ideology:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#steal2
It was a classic case of cognitive dissonance, where positive cognitions were fabricated to cover-up the negative cognitions that were so abundantly obvious. That ain’t abundance.
The criticisms made by the the Peak Oilers, calling various attitudes “cornucopianism,” “exuberance,” and the like:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#exuberance
are not so far off, but they cannot conceive of abundance, either. To see how false abundance in a world of scarcity works, see today’s NBA stars or lottery winners. They piss it away as fast as they can, with most around them only too happy to piss it away with them. In a world of abundance, you don’t get the world dancing to your tune while the money lasts. Money does not mean anything in a world of abundance. In a world of abundance, everything changes, and in ways that almost nobody on Earth today can even imagine. That is why I keep saying that I am only trying to make abundance imaginable at this time:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm
However, people born into wealth have many advantages over those born into poverty. On a global and historical scale, I am immensely wealthy, even though I am nobody compared to Bill Gates. Today’s average American lives a vastly richer life than the world’s richest man of two hundred years ago lived.
On something rather mundane, the USA has usually dominated the Olympics, and their athletes are not state-sponsored, as they were in the Soviet Union or in China today. History’s richest and most powerful nation had many who had “spare” time to hone their skills and compete at a global level. I was a track athlete who competed alongside athletes who held world records and were Olympians, and their dedication to their sport was awesome to behold, and only in a rich nation like the USA could somebody devote most of their waking hours to it and not be supported by the state. Back when I was doing it, they did not really have much in the way of corporate sponsorship, either. Often, their support just came from their families and friends.
In rich pockets in the USA, the opportunities for the children are like night and day compared to the poor ones, and the rich kids are not just a bunch of trust-funders. Trust-fund kids rarely grow up, and the smart rich people do not just give their children everything. Often, in a faux abundant environment, the parents give their children “stuff” to fill the void that the children don’t get of love and attention, as the parents are out being rich and playing, or chasing more wealth. Dennis lived with the Eastern Oligarchy for a while, and it could get pretty sick, with the help calling their employers “master.” The West Coast does not work that way.
There is a great deal of dysfunction around wealth in a world of scarcity, and the so-called “vow of poverty” has been seen for a long time as some kind of enlightenment. Austerity is no way to live. How about a vow of abundance? And as becomes obvious when you are at it a while, global abundance is really the only kind of abundance that could ever be sustainable. All of humanity needs to be uplifted, not just pockets of people. Now, if people want to live in loincloths in the rainforest, that would also be their right, but in a world of abundance, nobody is going to want to do it. Again, in this world:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
some chose to live in the wilderness, at least for a while. I am sure that I would spend time there. But when the entire world is readily available, who is going to choose to just stay in the forest their entire lives? I’ll bet that nobody in the world does.
Again, it is pretty easy to see how humanity’s ideas of justice, wealth, and the like have changed over the human journey. Hunter-gatherers are the most violent people in the human journey, with around a third of all men dying violently (the second epoch). When civilization began (the third epoch), slaves and professional soldiers appeared, and in the greatest empire of ancient times, people were forced to murder each other, for entertainment:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#gladiator
Some might say that we have not advanced much since then, but chattel slavery and murder as entertainment are not institutions any longer. The rising standard of living made lives less cheap. Life is still very cheap in India, for instance, cow pies aside. A few years ago, a friend visited Southern India, and he flew home from Mumbai. He took a cab to the airport. He was not time-pressured, but the cabbie apparently thought that getting my friend to the airport quickly would earn him a big tip, so as he raced through the streets of Mumbai, he was literally running over people. My friend sat in the back seat, horrified. When they arrived at the airport, the cabbie just hoped for a big tip. The people that he ran over meant nothing to him. That kind of behavior would boggle the mind of a Westerner, but in a world of poverty, life is cheap.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
31st July 2013, 17:08
Hi:
A very challenging aspect of what I do is that time is short, and things are getting worse all around. I totally get it, but as impatience is my Achilles heel:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading
and I have been on the FE battlefield, I am all-too-familiar with wanting to rush out and “do something.” I am finishing Radkau’s Nature and Power, one of many books that I read at the same time, and it is the first time that I have seen somebody else use my number: we are burning up fossil fuels a million times as fast as they were created:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm#_edn6
Lately, I have been surveying the latest on fracking, Peak Oil, and the like, and it is all insane. Again, if there is any “good news,” it is that we will run out of fossil fuels before we get to 1,000 PPM carbon dioxide in the atmosphere:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=553228&viewfull=1#post553228
and threatening a mass extinction that could also take out humanity. Already, the methane coming out of the permafrost in the Arctic is terrifying climate scientists, and is stirring up plenty of controversy:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/a-response-to-methane-mischief-misleading-commentary-published-in-nature
But anybody with a clue realizes that humanity is using Earth as a big chemistry experiment, and the outcome could easily be catastrophic. The rate of rise in carbon dioxide right now is likely unprecedented in Earth’s history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_in_Earth%27s_atmosphere#Past_variation
The oceans are undergoing unprecedented acidification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification#Rate
This 2007 graph and projection is already out of date, as we have already reached 400 PPM (the slope continues to get steeper):
http://www.planetforlife.com/co2history/index.html
There really is no telling how it might play out, and that is what has scientists terrified. We are in a “race of the catastrophes” scenario:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=646907&viewfull=1#post646907
and the surreal part is that FE can make it all go away almost overnight, and Heaven on Earth can be around the corner. But it is completely off the table of possibilities in virtually every energy conversation on Earth, and if people get past denial, which is extremely rare, they invariably think in terms of all the strategies that have ended in spectacular failure (6, 7, 9, 10, and 11):
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
As you can see on this thread, I am continually besieged by people stuck in those levels. It happens far more often than is evident on this thread, too. I am bombarded with people thinking that Godzilla can be snuck past, that he is asleep or dead, etc. It is like a broken record that I have had played at me for the past twenty-five years. Nobody has ever given the old college try for those strategies better than Dennis has, and if he can’t make them work, I do not know of anybody else on Earth with a prayer.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
1st August 2013, 20:11
Hi:
As I do my study and writing, and as I interact with Avalonians and people in my daily life, my perspective continues to evolve. I clearly recall my thinking when I was sixteen, and first dreamed of changing the energy industry:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#marry
and little did I know what I was in for. I saw some of how energy ran things back then, but nearly forty years later, my perspective has evolved in many ways. But in significant ways, my core perspective is the same. Energy runs our world in ways that I scarcely realized forty years ago. But as I became radicalized, I shed many false assumptions that I had about how the world worked. They were primarily assumptions that I was indoctrinated into. As I have looked back, I have seen how I had an opinion about something, such as energy running the world, and I eventually came to a new level of appreciation.
More than ten years ago, as I digested some of Fuller’s work:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller
the paradigm that I had been groping toward finally crystallized for me. And what was behind the seemingly crazy resistance to even the idea of FE became clear to me. What I was seeing, and what Brian was seeing:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions
were all reactions, in one way or another, to the idea of abundance, where people were projecting their assumptions of scarcity on it, unable to see it. Several years later, I wrote about that in paradigmatic fashion:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
I was just listening to an interview that I did with Scott a couple of years ago:
http://nexusnow.info/forum/showthread.php?3558-Nexus-Interviews-Wade-Frazier-Free-Energy-in-3-Stages&p=24879#post24879
It was the oral version of this part of my site for making FE happen:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#stage1
and it reinforces what I came to realize just the other day: the choir can only happen when enough people have the paradigm shift from scarcity to abundance. I am constantly engaged by people who are stuck in scarcity, and when they give their objections to the idea of FE, or how they can make FE happen, they are always operating from scarcity-based assumptions. I have recently been encountering people who have been watching this milieu for many years, and when I would hear their ideas and reactions, I came to understand that they were all scarcity-based. When people are in scarcity-mode, their reactions are predictable on the FE issue, and none of them are productive. I either hear Level 5 fears:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5
or the Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 bright ideas for how to make FE happen. I have come to conclude that only people who have made the shift are fit to be in the choir, as it will be an abundance chorus. If I let the song be one of scarcity, then it will be just like all the other singing that we hear out there. This really is something different.
I did not quite see it in such paradigmatic terms until just the other day, choir-wise. The choir cannot be comprised of people who think in terms of scarcity, as they will only sing the scarcity song. So, my work at Avalon, on my site, and elsewhere is to help people shed their scarcity-based conditioning. If they can do that, and can sing, then I will be seeking them out for the choir. Achieving an abundance-based perspective in a world of scarcity is no easy trick. It is another reason why I say that I am looking for needles in haystacks.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
3rd August 2013, 12:43
Hi:
I am replying to Limor’s post here:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29372-What-technologies-activities-or-concepts-will-be-made-obsolete-by-Free-Energy&p=710767&viewfull=1#post710767
as it is off-topic for that thread.
Hi Limor:
The “programming” analogy is a good one, as is our ability to rewrite the programs. That issue, and how humans are trapped by their programming, is what led people such as Brian O to openly wonder if we are a sentient species:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience
I call us a semi-sentient species, where we all have the potential for it, but few really choose it. The mindless allegiance to scarcity-based ideologies:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
was the primary evidence that I saw, but I also saw that fear short-circuited their sentience. Fear/scarcity/victim and love/abundance/creator are two sides of the same coin. When we flip over to choosing love, then all the paradigms will shift:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming
but that is the hard part. I recently gave full examples of a future humanity that chose love:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
and one that did not:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115
Love is the way out and always has been, but it ain’t easy in a world of scarcity and fear.
Here is my mystical mumbo jumbo of the day. I have written about my name, and how “wanderer” is one of the meanings, and I was called a wanderer when young:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=535283&highlight=wanderer#post535283
I was just reading yesterday that the word “planet” comes from “wanderer” in Greek:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/planet
So, ahealedplanet.net takes on new meaning for me. :)
I have been in conversations lately about my life’s work and why I do it. When you have a voice in your head, guiding your most fateful decisions:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2
it is hard to leave the path it set you on, even if you no longer want to hear the voice:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3
and there are other reasons to do what I do:
1. It has a chance to help manifest Heaven on Earth;
2. It can help humanity avoid the abyss, while dragging complex life with us, and we have our toes over the edge today;
3. It beats watching TV.
When you have a voice in your head guide you into a situation where, a couple of years later, the people who run the world offer you a billion dollars to go away:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer
you get the idea that you are on some kind of special assignment. I was reading Inside the Other Side last night:
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Other-Side-Contracts-Lessons/dp/0062087401/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1375532494&sr=8-1&keywords=Inside+the+Other+Side
which is the second book by that author that I have read (and I am now buying the third). Good stuff. In her latest book, she writes a chapter on fragments/souls on special assignment, and she calls them Mission Entities and Mystical Travelers. I have written plenty that I came in this way, and was groomed to be what I became from a young age (and my parents disowned me when I began to do what I came here to do), so I will not belabor it, but back to the choir idea: those in the choir will probably be primarily Mission Entities, Mystical Travelers, and the like. Again, different bodies of mystical material have different names for them, but the general idea is that they are on special assignment. They resisted the herd conditioning, or rejected it when they realized what a crock it was, such as those overgrown Boy Scouts:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts
while the masses hold on to their conditioning for dear life, as the paradigm that they were indoctrinated into defines them. As I have seen over and over, being willing to leave aside the scarcity-based conditioning really has little to do with “intelligence,” but just the willingness to let go of the lies that feed us.
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
4th August 2013, 23:02
Wade,
First, I apologize if the following is out of This Place. If you think it is, then please, just ignore this post. I don't mind and I will understand :) No answer is the answer too :) I had to take this "bulge" outside of me... It should not dilute this thread further then...
OK, here it is:
Would whole (or part) of The Choir encompass (or result in side-project for) creating a computer aided Virtual Universe? A kind of place for setting up hands-on Planet-Labs simulations for people from around the world to interact. The energy issue would be the underlying aspect of all the activities and interactions between players and the environment in the game and through making/using inventions (including FE devices) people could play, learn and see how it is all about The Love/Free Energy Game (The Song)? With "sandbox" planet-labs at different levels of society development. Including those at Heaven on Earth level? A place accessed by computer interface in a shape of computer game. Wade, could it be possible to use your Energy Essay as a rule set for this "learning by play" open source group project (The Choir)?. I remember your remarks of sad encounters with open-source community :( That's really sad. But good thing is every body can go open-source :) We have many skilled people here at PA and in this thread...
It would all require using computer software at some or all levels. That's for sure. But software engineering is a small part of such projects. Compared to artwork, sound, music, in-game items, game-rules design, pure ideas of how this game could work, look sound and feel and quality assurance. Submitting and discussing ideas are most important parts. Computer engineers are like construction workers. First somebody wakes up at the morning with an urge to create something big. Then an architect takes that and put his pencil to the drawing board, then there are interior design specialists, next there are artists, the project managers plan the construction and in the end construction workers set up construction yard and put everything in place. It can be done by one person. On a small scale or it would take ages.
I want to be honest. I have experience of software engineering. 15 years professional, 20 total. But I have not participated in such big, distributed open-source projects. Especially network, simulation, computer games. But i want to and I have begun to observe, study and learn the inside workings of one particular OS project (http://worldforge.org/). With no deep diving or serious commitments yet... I am also working (slowly) with Betty Edwards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Edwards), drawing course, book (http://www.drawright.com/).:o
I realize it sounds BIG. About the size of The Choir :)
Wade Frazier
5th August 2013, 04:15
Hi Robert:
Yes, you are thinking big. :)
Another friend is trying to make a movie based on a world of abundance. People are trying different things, and I can’t say, “Don’t do them!” :)
But, I also am trying to get my message across as well as I can, and I know that I can make it better, hence the upcoming essay.
I can see down the road, something like that, but the way that I see it, the choir may “infect” ten times their number to “do something,” but I am not sure that I see either of those groups needing a VR playground. If the effort that went into making a VR playground went into making FE happen (nuts and bolts), that could be enough.
The way that I am currently envisioning my effort is:
1. Get hymnal made;
2. Build and train choir (5-10K people);
3. Sing;
4. Infect ten-to-twenty times their number;
5. Do something to make FE happen, on a technical end.
Maybe there is a place for VR in there, but not sure where. The VR may be something for the masses after FE is delivered to their homes, to help open their eyes.
Going to bed now.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
6th August 2013, 02:50
Hi:
I will be out of pocket for a few days. I have been interacting with people non-publicly quite a bit during my sabbatical, and need to reiterate what my intent is. I think that I have made my goal pretty clear: Heaven on Earth, or at least have fun trying to get there.
My choir idea may help, and it can’t hurt, although it seems that I need to continually reinforce the Level 12 idea, because newbies invariably want to play the Level 10 game:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10
These days, people are constantly trying to entice or drag me into Levels 7 or 10, with a little 9 and 11 thrown in there sometimes. I am continually contacted by people who want to tell their friends and family about FE and abundance, or speak publicly about it, and so on. Part of me is amazed that almost nobody gets it, but in my quiet moments I see that they are all trapped in their paradigm. The Fifth Epochal Event will dwarf everything that came before it, and only a radical approach has a prayer.
Those Level 10 methods won’t work, and are very risky. If I can’t do it, then newbies definitely can’t. Dennis’s own in-laws saw him as a shiftless bum who never got a real job. Brian O’s colleagues ostracized him, and the more radical he got (and the closer to the truth), the greater the isolation. One of Brian’s closest family members was a Rush Limbaugh fan, which is as unreachable as they come. My parents disowned me when I was at my most heroic, when the night was the darkest. The usual approaches have been tried countless times, by the best of the best. FE has to come via something other than the same old, same old. The old skins will not hold the new wine.
When I return, I will be getting more specific on what it will take to be in the choir. As I have stated many times, Ilie is doing exactly what I am looking for, but even Ilie tries to talk up those around him, and is beginning to realize its futility. It is OK that he has done that, but the sooner people get past those early-stage pitfalls:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls
the sooner that they may become productive enough so that I try to recruit them into the choir.
While the scientifically-trained will be able to readily understand most of my upcoming essay, they also are not my target audience, as they are the most stuck Level 3s:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3
and won’t be able to relinquish their ideologies before somebody delivers FE to their homes. That is just how it is. If Brian could not make any headway with them:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions
there is nobody else that I know of who can. Again, those whom I am looking for will not be found in any one organization, movement, religion, nation, etc., etc. Their primary qualification will be that they care, which by definition will make them a needle in a haystack:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
and if they really care, they are going to be willing to relinquish what they think they know. Then we will be getting somewhere.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
6th August 2013, 15:56
Hi:
I am not quite out of pocket yet, and have a little time. Here is what the choir will be singing about:
1. How the world works, centered on the energy issue. It will have a historical and scientific/technical thrust to it. This will cover the entire journey of life on Earth and the human journey, which is the thrust of the essay that I am working on. It will cover humanity’s epochal events in particular (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=693557&viewfull=1#post693557). The outline of it can be seen in the several months that I wrote about it (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=518761&viewfull=1#post518761).
2. As I have written plenty about, there were cognitive, social, and political changes that came with each epochal event. In fact, some kind of cognitive and social change initiated the event (which was technical in nature, and each event was more technically sophisticated than the previous one, and tapped another order of magnitude(s) of energy consumption), but it was by a small group of people. The event was economic at its root, because it was about energy at its root. The event in turn spread to humanity, or at least some fraction of it, and humanity in turn had tremendous economic, cognitive, social, and political changes. The choir will explore those dynamics.
3. The choir will explore what the FE epoch can look like, that Heaven on Earth stuff (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced).
4. The choir will enter into a technical discussion. Newbies nearly always want to cut to the chase about here and get blueprints to build an FE machine in their garages. That is a huge delusion that must be set aside, and people in the choir will have gotten past that delusion. There will be discussions of FE physics, devices that worked, what it takes to get something market-ready, and the like.
5. The fate of FE inventors, how the national security state works, how Godzilla operates when taking out FE inventors, promoters, and businessmen. As you can see, this is a critical yet minor aspect of the situation. Members of the choir will acknowledge those dynamics, but they also won’t obsess about them.
6. The choir will explore what kind of FE effort might have a chance. Indeed, the choir is intended to catalyze such an effort.
That is what the choir will be focusing on. Obviously, there is a lot there. There are many people, at Avalon and elsewhere, who want to be in the choir, but they don’t really know the song and can’t hit the notes. Being in the choir is about hitting the notes, especially at the beginning. Being in the choir is about a level of mastery of the song, and that will take hard work. There will be nothing easy about it.
First and foremost, a choir member will operate from the heart. That loving heart will have transformed a person’s thinking from being a victim to being a creator. They will acknowledge Godzilla and the other predators, but will not overly focus on them. They will understand that the greatest barrier to manifesting FE for public consumption is humanity’s self-serving inertia and its semi-sentient allegiance to scarcity-based ideologies, not what Godzilla does.
Secondly, the choir member will think in comprehensive terms. My essay is intended to help people begin to think that way, and frankly, unless a person was already heading in that direction, he/she may not be able to get there. Scientific training can be highly helpful, but the person will have also escaped the dogmatic aspects of the scientific establishment, and there are many. As Fuller said, scientists are naïve (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#naive), and shedding that naïveté will be of critical importance in being a member of the choir. I have seen naïve and victim-oriented responses to the FE conundrum hundreds of times (was it thousands?) more often than I have seen enlightened, thoughtful ones. I am really looking for needles in haystacks.
The choir member will have mastered the material, or be well on the way to getting there. I have sketched things to do, for people to begin to think comprehensively:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing
Importantly, a choir member will get past doubt and denial about FE and its organized suppression. I have presented a great deal that people can explore, to get beyond all the crazed, naïve, and dishonest reactions and debate out there.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=514878&viewfull=1#post514878
But here is the hard part for aspirants for the choir: they have to get past the notion that unless they can have an FE device a delivered to their homes, that they are not sure about that FE stuff. It is life-risking to get meaningful experience in the FE field, and I don’t recommend it to anybody, but a person in the choir will somehow have to get past their doubt. Those who join the choir will get some “inside information,” but it will still fall short of getting in the room with a working FE device. I have been in the room with FE prototypes, and you can get a video of Sparky’s device in operation:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky
or Troy Reed’s, or those of other FE inventors. But I am not sure how important it is to see. If you see Sparky’s video, you will also see one of the reasons why somebody like Sparky did not have a prayer. Several times, flashing on the screen was something like “propriety technology.” Sparky played the “this is mine” game, naively tried to work with the big energy institutions (to the extent of mailing them working prototypes), while keeping it secret how he did it, and so on. He was kind of a quintessential example of how an FE inventor should not go about it, although many have played the same games. Even more naïve is applying for patents. Aspirants for the choir need to immerse themselves in the reality of the milieu for long enough so that they understand. This will be one of the hardest things to do, because there is no teacher like experience. I have a lot of experience in the field, and getting people over that hump will be one of my primary roles.
As I have stated many times, choir members will be real people, with real names and faces, not hiding behind pseudonyms and avatars. The world is not going to be changed by “anonymous.”
That is all for now.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
10th August 2013, 14:04
Hi:
I was taking the attached pictures during the past several days. Somebody has to do it. :)
I was talking with a teenager recently who approached me on Wade’s World. Over the years, what Fuller said seems to be true, in that young people’s thinking is usually not as ossified as those who are older, and my ideas are not difficult for them to grasp. Sometimes, I am surprised at how easily they pick it up and even extend my thought lines. I don’t think that most of my ideas and information is intellectually all that challenging – it just flies in the face of the scarcity-based indoctrination that everybody has swallowed and “knows.” Young people don’t have to shed as much baggage as older ones do. Of course, their parents rarely like my “subversive” message, and I don’t want to get burned at the stake. :)
Those who seem to understand the best are old scientists and academics (over sixty) who have been around the block a few times and have explored alternatives, often professionally, young people who have not been completely brainwashed yet, and others who care and have had some kind of awakening experience, usually related to their level of caring.
Everybody else is a tough nut, and I don’t waste my time trying to change their thinking. The risk is high, and the reward usually very low, if any at all. They will begin to understand when FE is delivered to their homes.
Looking for those needles in haystacks…
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
12th August 2013, 15:26
Hi:
Briefly, I saw Elysium yesterday. The reviews were middling, but I had “professional” reasons for watching it. As with Blade Runner and other dystopian flicks, depicting a future hellish Earth features LA as its example city. I wonder why. :)
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&viewfull=1#post406928
It had an orbiting paradise (similar to what Brian O wrote about http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#oneill), as Earth had been rendered a hellhole. But “paradise” was reserved for the rich, like the penthouse in that nightmare world of Roads’s:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115
That show was the epitome of the scarcity paradigm. My friend who wants to make a Hollywood movie more like this world:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
has his work cut out for him. Would Heaven on Earth sell? As my friend said, Hollywood is the realm of unconsciousness, as I suppose it is everywhere, but Hollywood’s unconsciousness gets broadcasted to the world, helping to reinforce the paradigm by using the world’s most powerful medium. We will see what I can get going using this new technology to find those needles.
The more that I work on my essay and think about it, the more paradigmatic I plan to make it. In a way, it will be like this:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#revolutions
but those last four revolutions will explicitly be humanity’s four epochal revolutions (Wrangham's Cooking Hypothesis keeps looking stronger http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/02/scientists-clue-human-evolution-question), with the potential fifth being the FE Revolution. There is going to be plenty on the social/technical/cognitive changes that initiated each shift, and what resulted from each one (and what can result from the FE Revolution). Again, I am trying to get my readers to think paradigmatically. Once they can do that, and can see how it all hinges on the energy situation, then we will be getting somewhere. If enough people can keep their eye on the ball and refrain from rushing down the many rabbit holes and pitfalls that await the newbies:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
maybe we can get a ball rolling.
Nearly every newbie wants to find allies amongst their family, friends, and colleagues, and wants to look for the rich angel or existing group that can help, as they seek the quick and easy way to FE and abundance. I even see newbies approaching the Pentagon – the very heart of darkness – thinking that those people will help. Those delusions, some of them potentially fatal, need to be shed as soon as possible. There is no group on Earth today with the right stuff. Scientists and academics are trapped by their “learning” and the soft berths that their positions afford them. No corporation on Earth would dare defy Godzilla, wittingly or otherwise. They are easily kept in line, with greed being the overriding reason for their existence. People applying for patents and trying to raise money via capitalistic methods are fools, almost invariably driven by their egos, trying to become rich and famous. Only fools such as Dennis, who consider their lives forfeit before they even start, have any business even trying those routes, and the FE Gang is about 0-for-50,000 so far, with nothing in sight that looks remotely promising. I only know of one person like this:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
and if he can’t get it done, I don’t know of anybody else on the planet with a prayer via that route. The only barrier to the heart-centered-sentience approach is finding enough people with the right stuff who can just imagine abundance. The imagination is infinitely more powerful than is imagined today, but the drumbeat of scarcity is the oldest “song” on the planet, and almost nobody today can even hear the abundance song, much less learn to sing it. But if an abundance choir can be formed, it will be a horse of a different color.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
12th August 2013, 23:20
Hi:
I recently finished Joachim Radkau’s Nature and Power, which is considered one of the best summaries of the history of humanity’s relationship with the environment. It can be a very useful book, but it is also interesting to see similar subjects treated by historians, economists, and scientists. Historians and economists can tend to focus on their specialized awareness, and miss important dynamics. But, as I have found is often the case, when I dive into works by those professionals, they are looking at the issue with their professional expertise, and the insight that I was hoping to find in their work is not there. To be fair, specialists often put big caveats in their works, stating that they were only exploring one aspect of the dynamic. I cannot really get on a scholar’s case when he writes an apple book, and I was looking for an orange book.
Multidisciplinary works have proven to be my favorite, as they do not get pigeonholed into the specialized perspective, and provide insights that specialized works do not. Even then, when dealing with just the facts, the contrast can be striking between two different scholars' treatment of the same subject, on the same facts. Radkau states that the evidence is thin that a wood shortage in the 1700s spurred England to begin using coal in industry, especially for ironworks. But in John Perlin’s A Forest Journey, he gives a great deal of detail, from contemporary sources, at how Great Britain became increasingly denuded of wood, and wood prices kept rising, and when Darby learned to produce coke:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Darby_I
his forge was in a town with about the highest wood costs in England. When coal-forged iron was made feasible by making coal into coke (baking out the impurities), it was one of the key steps in the Industrial Revolution:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=655010&viewfull=1#post655010
Radkau stressed that tree farms to supply the iron industry were plentiful in England when coal was used for smelting, but the fact is that before Darby, England was far from self-sufficient in iron production, importing a great deal from Sweden, with its plentiful forests. England’s lack of wood was widely acknowledged as the reason why England could not produce enough iron for its nascent industries. Darby’s breakthrough was so epochal that, for the first time ever, the public could buy affordable cast ironware, such as pots, kettles, and stoves.
So, where industrialization began, in England, the trees were scarce and the price of wood was high, so high that England was not sufficient in its iron production. Adopting the plentiful and local coal not only solved the wood problem for smelting iron, but it also became the fuel that drove the Industrial Revolution. As I have written, wind and water power were competitive with coal until well into the 19th century, but coal was not dependent on the weather bringing wind and water power, and it left them far, far behind by the end of the 19th century. Radkau’s emphasis on the “sustainability” of forests in pre-industrial England I think is a bit misleading. If you just think about the energy flows, and the many demands put on the land’s “solar income,” it becomes obvious that England was increasingly denuded and ecologically impoverished. Bears and wolves had been driven to extinction on the British Isles by that time, as were other animals.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/timeline.htm#bear
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/timeline.htm#wolf1
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/timeline.htm#wolf2
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/timeline.htm#wolf3
Walruses lived on the Thames as late as 1456. The English invaded and raped Ireland in the 1500s, to get its forests to build its navy,
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=666395&viewfull=1#post666395
and was soon laying claim to New England’s trees for its navy:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=602338&viewfull=1#post602338
I think that Radkau’s downplaying the denuding of England is one of the hazards that historians can run into. And as I have made clear for a long time, “sustainable” is a far cry from abundant:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#sustainable
Best,
Wade
Hughe
12th August 2013, 23:25
Only fools such as Dennis, who consider their lives forfeit before they even start, have any business even trying those routes, and the FE Gang is about 0-for-50,000 so far, with nothing in sight that looks remotely promising. I only know of one person like this:
I found one FE technology and have seen multiple prototypes that uses the same principal in Nature. New laws of motion that fixes the hidden flaw of Newton's laws make it theoretically possible. A Russian scientists discovered it by accident few decades ago. He developed a new theory of motion and had tried to publish it through peer journal but guess what happened to him. He couldn't find a publisher that prints paperback yet.
I consider fuel burning technologies are primitive including the cold fusion. They all depends on static energy which leads to depletion one day.
Real FE technology harnesses dynamic energy in Nature. To do it one only need to create condition of harmonic oscillating system. Nicola Tesla did it by electromagnetic devices. Few inventors came up with similar designs. Some others developed mechanical devices that harness kinetic energy of moving matter.
Any harmonic oscillating system has a function of time vs energy. This is one secret of FE technologies I figured out. How simple is that? ;)
An energy generating system pulses under specific parameter. It contracts and expands and during its transition the system produces usable energy for humans. Extracting too much will stops the system. Accelerating pulse [frequency] too fast will explode the system also. Vortex movement is another example of energy generating phenomenon in Nature. Perfect circle can't do it.
Is this too far fetched? I guess to whom blindly believes in our Universe is a close system. Most mainstream scientists and professionals are belong to this stupid group.
Considering time is indicator of change of state, it means awareness, which leads to intelligence eventually. Like the organic life form reacts against the change of surrounding environment, FE device reacts to energy fluctuation of the system.
Wade Frazier
13th August 2013, 15:55
Hi Hughe:
Yes, the oscillating “ether” is where the action seems to be. Some do it with rotating magnets, such as Adam T. and Troy Reed, and others did it with solid state magnets like Sparky Sweet did. If Bohm and others are right, there is more available energy in my fingertip than humanity could ever use.
But that is the easy part. The problem is humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression. The efforts have been defeated 100% of the time, and none have ever gotten remotely close to being market-ready. The closer that somebody gets to the market, the greater the organized suppression, as well as greed, delusions of grandeur, and the like rearing their heads amongst the aspirants.
More than once, Dennis was putting energy-saving technology on the market, stuff that was far short of FE, and they pulled out the bazookas. When one of the world’s most famous “conspiratorial” names calls you at home, asking you what the hell you think you are doing (as you run a full-page ad in a national newspaper), the billy club is coming close behind the call:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&viewfull=1#post694872
Forget lone inventors – efforts that are far short of FE, with thousands of people involved, have been easily wiped out by the organized suppression. Nobody has ever come close to cracking the nut, and the inventor/businessman route is the most easily defeated.
Best,
Wade
As an addendum, I am literally bombarded with inventor-of-the-hour stuff. When Dennis went to Washington D.C. with his 100 MPG technology, he was about the thousandth person to market high MPG technology, or beseech Detroit, the DOE, etc.:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#carb1
It is very well trodden ground, and the only thing that was different about Dennis’s attempt was his Indiana Jones, P.T. Barnum style. If Dennis could not make a dent going that route, nobody else can, either. But just yesterday, I was sent an email by a longtime observer of the FE and alternative energy fields. The guy has written up literally scores of suppression stories, even written about Dennis, so he knows how the suppression works. The email I received yesterday was a big one, with several photos, about a garage tinkerer who came up with a high MPG carburetor! :) Imagine that. Even observers of the FE field for forty years can still be stuck in the arrested development of thinking that tinkerers have a prayer. It really kind of boggles my mind that people keep on the same, dogged path, or cheer it along, thinking that it has a prayer. If 50K attempts have already failed, in fatal fashion often enough, what the hell does the new inventor/tinkerer of the hour have in his magic bag that will see him sail to the finish line? Why can’t people begin to think beyond that dead end? It calls to mind that definition of insanity, where the same thing is tried over and over, expecting a different outcome each time.
Limor Wolf
14th August 2013, 15:08
Originally posted by Wade Frazier: "Why can’t people begin to think beyond that dead end? It calls to mind that definition of insanity, where the same thing is tried over and over, expecting a different outcome each time."
Hi Wade,
It requires a zoom out (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZldMduYXeeU), and one that is done pretty far out of any situation. The FE movement on earth is as much a 'situation' as everything else. When most of us are emotionally and physically invested with any one thing, we find it rather difficult to get a bird's eye view perspective at the same time or the comprehensive pesrpective you yourself are advocating with your work (apparently with a good reason).
There are people who are naturally 'zoomed out' and they are called - observers, often times an observer and a participant are two differents rolles and there are a lot more participants then observers. For your plan of grand scheme both rolles are required and needed to be excercised simultaneously, you have this kind of character yourself, but many are homing on the 'zoom in' way of seeing things when the zoom in/out is what is needed. Hope that made some sense. Limor
Wade Frazier
14th August 2013, 18:59
Thanks Limor:
Probably my most pertinent qualification for what I am doing is that I have both observed the battle and been in it. It gave me insight that amounted to, “Well, this won’t work!” :)
Back in the 1980s, as we were being eviscerated in Ventura:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr
I got a clear hint that the inventor/businessman’s path to FE would likely not work, and during my second stint with Dennis in 1996-1997, I became convinced of it. But Dennis kept at it with a persistence that is hard to believe, to only admit to me, when I saw him recently, that the inventor/businessman’s path will likely not work, at least in the USA (and I highly doubt that it will work anywhere on Earth).
The writer of that carburetor email that I recently received has largely been in the observer mode for forty years, and has really never had the bullets whiz over his head. I can easily understand that somebody like Dennis would be slow to grasp that the battle plan won’t work, as he constantly dodges bullets and tries to scale the ramparts. But it has been harder for me to grasp why observers, who have seen every battle for the entirety of history turn out the same way, with the predators prevailing, would never begin to suspect that the entire inventor/businessman’s route is doomed. Or, at least, when the thousandth tinkerer came up with a high MPG carburetor, that the long-time observer would not yell, “This is it!”
I understand gung-ho newbies wanting to go play the Level 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 games:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
but for long-time observers of the milieu to be stuck in those Levels is harder for me to fathom. Maybe they need some experience on the battlefield, but it is not easy to survive it. Getting experience in the FE field is like trying to have an NDE: you may not survive the experience, to tell us all how it went.
I’ll definitely agree that having both the macro and micro views are essential, and switching between them is not easy. People usually get lost in the weeds or go floating off into space.
Best,
Wade
Limor Wolf
14th August 2013, 19:51
Hi again Wade, The way I understand it, a true observer is not necessarily someone on the out watching in, it may requires more. I do not know your email correspondent who understands how the FE supression really works so it might not be relevent to him, but even a spectator in a football field which is not playing himself can be energetically invested in the game system, he may be able to see that the soccer referee is faking it and the games scores are pre-sold, but he will keep watching despite the malfunctions. The onion ring has many layers, and as there are many positions on the field, so does observers has their own azimuth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azimuth), an observer can still be focused on what's going on in there. It is the comprehensive observer : ) that understands that there is a real need to completely disconnect from the game, that the referee will never improve his ways, that the coach and the players will continue to receive benefits on the side and that the results of the game will be continued to be determind in advance
You may just have to look for people with a Large Azimuth, but who can understand the game, the visionary aspect usually takes care of that. Limor
*By Azimuth I more or less mean - a certain range of vision
Wade Frazier
14th August 2013, 21:50
Hi Limor:
I am not sure what Azimut means, but I think I get the drift. Yes, the analogy of being a participant and a spectator in a rigged game works, too. Yes, the game is rigged, in ways that almost nobody who plays can even imagine. To your analogy, I still think that the goal can get scored, but not by playing on a rigged playing field, with bogus rules, and bribed officials and players. Also, the goal is not even understood very well, or maybe a better way to say it is that almost everybody is shooting at a different goal (the goal of serving each person’s self-interest), while the goal that we need to all be shooting for (the goal of serving everybody’s interest) is not really aimed for. If it is a side-effect of the primary goal, then it is convenient, but it is not really the goal of the players, the officials, or even the observers.
The game analogy can be a good one, and I use it often enough. For instance, in today’s crony capitalism, the game is not really even played anymore, but the scoreboard is rigged to provide whatever is needed to “win.”
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
14th August 2013, 23:24
Limor, Wade,
How do you explain people who "play" Lotto? It is same repetition of filling coupons in hope "this time it will work". I was one of those persons. Played last time in ~2005. Have even written a software to "help predict" the numbers ;) Can remember that "sweet rush" before number anouncement. And the moment after it turning into anger and depression. I personnaly know somobody i helped get out of debt because of Lotto. I am glad i am past this madness. In Poland it is controlled by the gov. Profits go to support "sport" ;) Particularly soccer...
But how do you explain this repetition? Maybe it is the same reason behind inventor path to FE? Something in the indoctrination programming?
Wade Frazier
15th August 2013, 00:50
Hi Robert:
You are writing of what is called “intermittent reinforcement” in psychological circles. Obviously, with Lotto, that reinforcement in the form of a jackpot comes for only one in millions of players. What is doubly crazy about Lotto is that nearly all of the “winners” are back to being broke in a few years as they piss it all away, as their “friends” and family all become parasites, and the like. It is a bizarre form of faux abundance in a world of desperate scarcity.
Lotto is also called a “poor tax” or an “intelligence tax” around here. In Orwell’s 1984, he wrote of the lottery and how only the “proles” played it. Alcohol, porn, and the lottery are what kept the proles doped up so they could trudge off to work the next day. Orwell wrote of how the most amazing feats of memory and other mental abilities was displayed for the lottery (if he wrote 1984 today, I am sure that he would also write about sophisticated programs to “predict” the numbers :) ), which was the only time that the proles evidenced any “sentience” in the slightest.
A la Orwell, Chomsky has noted that American men evidence great intelligence when talking about sports and other meaningless endeavors, while they cannot muster any sentience at all when talking about obvious and important issues (such as indefensibly invading Iraq and killing millions of people as we steal their resources).
On inventors and FE, yes, you may be on to something there. Almost all inventors do it to get rich and famous – a form of the lottery. FE would be the biggest lottery ticket of all time, obviously:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion
But that long-time observer who cheers on the latest inventor does not seem to be motivated by greed, etc. I think that it is just a situation of being stuck in the paradigm. In the past generation, “think outside the box” has come into vogue, which is just another way of saying thinking beyond the paradigm. IMO, people need some kind of radicalizing experience in order to break out of their conditioning. I encounter FE “enthusiasts” all the time, and for them, FE is a kind of hobby or lottery, and they are stuck in the scarcity paradigm (which is largely why they advocate Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11). FE means the end of the world as we know it, and almost nobody can really go there, and I mean really go there. As I have stated many times, we can’t get to abundance by dragging our scarcity-based baggage with us:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
The biggest paradigm shift of all time will be the one from scarcity to abundance.
Best,
Wade
Limor Wolf
15th August 2013, 05:44
Hi Robert,
Only my thoughts, It sure does gets to the realm of psychology, but it also touches energy (of the subtle kind). What is a rush of adrenaline if not a flactuation of energy in the body. The other important components in gambling are hope, mainly this absurd hope that the painted pieces of paper will bring a relief in life style and in the need to chase after those same pieces of paper, but it actually deepens the sustained slavery. Money is a fake source of ' energy' when in reality everything we need is around us. There's a lot to discover on how to 'play' with this essence when Wade's number one emphasis is to' play' from the heart and to 'play' with integrity. Addiction - is another component, which again, somewhat relates to the rush of energy in the body.
Lottery is an instatnt and a prolonged gratification. In our day to day life we need to be fed, to be dressed, be able to go long distances, but we also need to be happy. Money in our society provides the illusion of happiness. An ongoing programmed illusion like a hamster running on a wheel. It is a fata morgana. We get no where, we are exhusting our fake energy sources in the never ending running on the wheel and as Wade concludes, a break in paradigm is required , a break that can come only from a wider vision and from creative thinking. Alternatively, from one minute standing at the edge of the cliff and than falling into the abyss, but that may be a little too radical and a little too late, not a desired outcome.
Wade's choir singing idea can also bring change to the paradigm
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I have not yet read this book, but Avalon member - Dan33 has left me a qoute from it which sparked my interest. MIND OF THE CELLS- by satperm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satprem)
"Four and a half billion members of Homo sapiens are in the process of learning the futility of their ways of existence, just as one day some fish learned the futility of their gills on dry land, and evolved into amphibians. If those fish had sought to improve their aquatic Science, devised new gills and new philosophies, they would have been completely beside the point. Now the question is whether we will find the WAY, not to improve the human suffocation, but to be and live otherwise on this earth. Is there within this human body a handle, a lever, that would enable us to change our way of being on earth, just as the first mental vibration some three million years ago paved the way for Einstein and the Boeing 747? What vibration? Where, in the body? Could it be that the primary form of living matter, the cell, holds a power of consciousness or a "vibratory mode" capable of making all our present mental devices and pointless artifices obsolete? In other words, a Mind of the Cells which will open up to us new sources of energy, new methods of communication, a new power to handle matter. A new biology and a new consciousness which will enable us to face the challenge of a species on its way to self-destruction. Such is the incredible discovery of Sri Aurobindo and Mother (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirra_Alfassa) in the cells of the body, at a time when the earth is suffocating. For "Salvation is physical," said Mother, who, at the age of eighty, dared to knock at the last door in the body, and who made the most extraordinary discovery since Darwin"
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2365981.Mind_of_the_Cells_or_Willed_Mutation_of_the_Species
I look forward to reading it
Wade Frazier
15th August 2013, 12:30
Hi:
I have mentioned it previously:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=704670&viewfull=1#post704670
For none of the epochal changes was there some kind of social/political revolution that preceded it. The social revolution came as a result of it. This is where almost every activist for radical change has it backwards. Protohumans learned to sustain a fire probably only once, and other protohumans copied it. It was the result of fire that changed humanity. For that small group that learned to control a fire, it was an unprecedented social and technical act. That Great Leap Forward, when humans learned to become super-predators, is what allowed humans to spread across all the ecosystems. But it was the improved toolset that made the effort possible, and it was invented by a very small group of people and spread.
In a way, it is very much like how key aspects of life happened. It is currently thought that life came into being once, that the envelopment of a respiring bacterium into an archaean happened once (which became a mitochondria, and complex life was born), that the envelopment of a cyanobacterium into an archaean happened once (which led to plants):
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#_edn1
Domestication happened in several places across the planet, apparently independently, but in each instance, it surely began with a very small group of people, and maybe even one person in places, and then it spread as others copied it.
The only epochal event that happened during recorded history was the Industrial Revolution, and it happened in one place, England, and again, there were really only a relative few people that made the key breakthroughs. The study of the early days of England’s industrialization is not pretty, however. Industrialization, with its attendant capitalism, was a highly coercive institution, with the workforce for England’s industrialization being peasants who were forcibly removed from the land. Greed became sanctified into a virtue, and the early mills were hellish places, and child labor became normal. Social efforts indeed made working conditions better, but the feat of industrialization and the energy it harnessed was a technical achievement above all else that set the paradigm, and it was initiated by a relative handful of people. The social transformation of civilization came later, as women and slaves were liberated, etc.
After many years in the milieu, I have come to the same conclusion about FE. A social/political movement is not going to get it done. The Level 10 efforts have all been easily defeated:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10
as virtually everybody involved has been stuck in the old paradigm of scarcity:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming
and Godzilla is an expert at managing that paradigm. All the Level 10 efforts that I have seen pandered to some scarcity-based ideology to get its foot in the door, and that was the beginning of the end for them. FE is going to be a technical feat, engaged in by a relative handful of people. With what I am trying to get going, it will be a lot more people than ever initiated the other epochal shifts, but it will still be a relative handful of people. As with the other changes, the technical change will fuel the social/ideological/political changes, not the other way around. Way too many people are trying to fit the new wine into the old skins, thinking that some social or political movement is going to make FE happen, or some kind of ideological breakthrough. None of those things will do it, IMO. It is time to get beyond ideologies, social conditioning, thinking that the retail political system holds any promise, and so on.
The fifth epochal change will dwarf everything that came before it, and the inertia in humanity is truly awesome to behold, and its momentum may well take us all over the cliff into oblivion, but I am trying to see if we cannot only avoid sailing off into the abyss, but also manifesting something that looks one heck of a lot like Heaven on Earth. But we are not going to get there by the New Age flavor of the day, by some gurus enlightening us, and all the other stuff that we see out there. FE is going to happen via something different, by a small group of people who have let go of the scarcity-based baggage and who dare to imagine something different that has never been seen before: abundance. The organized suppression to prevent this from happening is also something awesome to behold, at least if you are one person or a small group whom it targets, but if enough people truly wake up, there is no way that they are going to be able to stop it.
What I am doing and about to do may be seen one day as an early failed attempt at it, but if FE is going to happen via the public, it is likely going to happen along the lines that I am attempting, unless Godzilla decides to let it happen, and I am not holding my breath for that possibility.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
ulli
15th August 2013, 16:36
I always had this theory that things started with two people.
who may not even have known about each others existence.
Two to create the dynamic to make the idea spread.
Wasn't the telephone patent registered by two, only hours apart?
1844 was the year that Karl Marx wrote his book Das Kapital, and at the same time the Bahai Faith was born in Iran, same message, minus the idea of using force.
Wade Frazier
15th August 2013, 17:53
Thanks Ulli:
Whenever two or more are gathered...:)
Yes, there was a priority controversy over the phone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Gray_and_Alexander_Bell_telephone_controversy#Background
This was common enough in the history of science and technology, where pioneers were on similar paths, due to the similar technological and scientific milieu. The priority of the Wright brothers was disputed for generations:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers#Smithsonian_feud
Newton fought for priority over calculus:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%E2%80%93Newton_calculus_controversy
Marx was active in 1844, but Das Kapital came in the 1860s. It seems that most FE inventors think that they are on some kind of cutting edge, technologically, but they are at a very rudimentary stage that has been getting refined in the above-top-secret world for longer than I have been alive. So, on the technological end, there is really nothing novel about FE. The idea of practical abundance that can come with FE is also an old idea, but if FE can be kept under wraps, then the idea of practical abundance is kept moribund. Godzilla knows what he is doing. This is a conundrum like no other, but since it revolves around the biggest event since the control of fire, an unprecedented conundrum around it makes sense.
It would be nice if the path to FE was being selflessly and thoughtfully trod by many, but that is not the case today, with everybody trying to get rich and famous, thinking that the old skins will hold the new wine, etc. The FE effort will start small, because there are not many who are thinking in those directions today. When I was with Dennis in Boston in 1987, and we began doing our first Greatest Energy Shows on Earth:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#barnum
we had this fantasy that once we got out of the gate (we gave away our first FE idea, and it still might work, but is a poor cousin to solid state FE devices), that others would get a stampede going, and then the Big Boys would have to beat us to the market with FE, and we could then sit back and say, “You won!” Wink. Nudge. :) But without Dennis to make noise, nothing happened, and every time he was wiped out, it was up to him to get it going again, with new people.
I wish it was more than a few, but it has never started that way, and only a relative few will make FE happen. The rest will begin to awaken when they can see it – so it has always been:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
20th August 2013, 23:15
Hi:
As I plunk along on the essay, in-between hiking, playing husband, and the like, I am reading and writing about the vast subject matter that will be in the essay. In between studying quantum physics, geology, and cosmology, I find myself reading plenty of anthropology. I just finished Ian Tattersall’s The World from the Beginnings to 4000 BCE, which is a nice, slim summary of the state-of-the-art in prehistoric anthropology.
Tattersall ends his book by noting that moving from the hunter-gatherer phase of existence to civilization was not necessarily a good thing. In it, he invokes a connectedness to nature that pre-civilized peoples had, which IMO is in danger of idealizing the so-called nature-worshipping aspect of “primitive” peoples. As made clear in Radkau’s Nature and Power, the relationship that pre-civilized peoples had with nature was one of trying to gain power over nature. Those pre-hunting rituals were first and foremost about making the kill, not the wellbeing of the prey. There is slim evidence that hunter-gatherer peoples ever reduced their killing out of some sense of balance with nature. If they saw an opportunity for windfall energy gains, they took it. If there is a constant theme of the human journey, it is that one, from the first stone tools to the awesome draining and burning of the world’s hydrocarbon deposits.
There is no Golden Age of the human journey, although arguments can be made for the initial plunder of the new energy resource, whether it was the megafauna, virgin forests and virgin soils, whales, fur-bearing animals, and hydrocarbons - oil in particular. But close behind the initial plunder was the plateau, whether it was peak megafauna, peak wood, peak fur, peak whales, or Peak Oil, and then it was a long twilight of sucking at the dregs until a new energy source was opened for plunder, usually via technological breakthroughs.
But the last paragraph in Tattersall’s book is particularly key for my work, which reads:
“We like to think that history is created by people, and we are certainly most often taught it that way; but things are not that simple. Irresistible socioeconomic forces often result in environmental pressures that are totally beyond the control of the societies concerned and of their leaders. Thus, factors that are external to individual people, or even to societies and nations themselves, have ultimately been behind a large proportion of the blossomings, breakdowns, and conflicts that make up the complex tapestry of human history.”
What Tattersall is referring to, in its essence, is scarcity. Humans have always wrested energy from nature, while simultaneously trying to avoid both the consequences of their actions and the capriciousness of the weather and climate. Droughts have been the chief proximal cause of the collapse of ancient civilizations, but they were exacerbated by the civilization taking its practices up to and beyond the local ecosystems’ ability to sustain the continual human impact. With FE, all of those dynamics disappear, virtually overnight. The same farming practices that leave the ecosphere alone will also keep crops immune to the vagaries of weather and climate, as well as bring abundance to all peoples. Talk about a win-win-win situation. In that light, it can really be surreal to see how FE is opposed from virtually all directions. It is unimaginable to more than 99% of the population, and the tiny fraction that gets past denial or fear gets tripped up by trying to put the new wine into the old skins (Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6 ).
Attached are some images from recent trips in the mountains. In that picture of Mount Rainier, on the small peak to the left of Rainier is a lookout. The other picture is taken from that lookout, looking back at the meadow (Grand Park http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/grand-park ) where that Rainier picture is taken from. I have to admit that I have been getting in my fair share of hiking on this sabbatical. Going out tomorrow, Friday, and Sunday, and that kind of pattern will continue for the next couple of months. Somebody has to do it! :)
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
21st August 2013, 15:36
Hi:
This is not news to any readers of this thread, but it foreshadows a key point in my upcoming essay. Richard Wrangham’s Cooking Hypothesis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catching_Fire:_How_Cooking_Made_Us_Human
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/02/scientists-clue-human-evolution-question
http://soar.wichita.edu/bitstream/handle/10057/3896/LAJ_2010_21-26.pdf?sequence=1
is looking pretty good, and key dates keep getting pushed back. For instance, it is now looking like the bow and arrow was invented far longer ago than previously thought.
http://www.uj.ac.za/EN/Newsroom/News/Pages/Stone-Agearrowsfound.aspx
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stoneage-humans-began-using-lethal-technology-71000-years-ago-to-fight-neanderthals-8294599.html
The early dates also may coincide with the dispersal of modern humans from Africa. A recent book, The Humans Who Went Extinct, by Clive Finlayson, argues that climate change did in the Neanderthals. I think it is a pretty weak hypothesis. Humans are the most adaptive species in the history of Earth. I think it very likely that Neanderthals met the same fate that so many megafaunal species did soon after modern humans arrived:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna#Megafaunal_mass_extinctions
Whether it was competition or violence is probably pretty moot; the Neanderthals ultimately could not survive direct contact with modern humans. Because there is Neanderthal DNA in the human genome, there are arguments for making Neanderthals a subspecies of homo sapiens, which may be appropriate. The Neanderthals showed very few of the cultural traits that marked modern humans. There appears to have been some incorporation of the stone technology of modern humans, but little else.
The genocidal spread of Europeans beginning five hundred years ago can be seen as just another episode in the spread of technologically-advanced humans. This has been our past, as bloody and unsavory as it may seem, but it does not mean that it has to be our future. Slavery was seen as human “nature” not too long ago. Women were seen as soulless in “Christian” circles, and so on. We can rise above our past. We can certainly learn from our past, which is theoretically one of humanity’s great advantages over other animals, but I see no strong reason why humanity’s future needs to be dictated by its past. The changes in human society and culture in the past two hundred years have nothing like them in the human past. We are in uncharted territory, and I think that the key to our future lies in our ability to manifest a heart-centered sentience, which will help FE manifest, and then a Star Trek future beckons.
Time to go hiking.
Best,
Wade
Hughe
22nd August 2013, 00:58
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Permaculture + Free Energy technology = New civilization
What it's so hard to embrace it?
Wade Frazier
22nd August 2013, 20:06
Hi Hughe:
Permaculture is a baby step in the right direction, but FE is a million times more important. The shift that FE brings is a paradigm shift from scarcity to abundance, which will be the biggest transition in the human journey, and could be the biggest one that humanity will ever experience. With FE, the human footprint on Earth’s ecosystems can approach zero, and humanity’s agricultural practices can go far, far beyond ideas of permaculture.
As an addendum to my prior post, I have seen the same pattern, ad naseum, during my studies since 1990, where people investigating events from the past have an inherent conflict of interest, and absolving their group of crimes, or corrupt motivation, etc., seems to be the goal, whether it was one’s species, race, nationality, and so on, and that absolution seems to be a standard pattern. The results can be starkly fraudulent, such as making Columbus:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm
Washington:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint
and Serra:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#serra
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#saint
into heroes and saints. The scholarly crimes, in those cases, were mostly of omission, although fairy tales were also concocted:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#weems
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#irving
The primary accomplishment of those men was theft and genocide, but a reader of their biographies would never know it. That kind of “history” is epidemic and always has been, with the aphorism “History is written by the winners,” an apt description. It is just one of countless instances of personal integrity being the world’s scarcest commodity:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
As Zinn stated:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#zinn
when such faux objectivity and/or justification comes from a scholar, academic, scientist, or other supposedly objective professional, it is all the more deadly. Many times, I have encountered scholarly whitewashes, whether it was the Warren Commission:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=615419&viewfull=1#post615419
the innumerable works that make the genocide of the Western Hemisphere some kind of unintentional side-effect of Europe’s invasion, sanitizing the images of mass murdering thieves, etc. The Global Warming denial was funded by the hydrocarbon lobby, and now, when Global Warming can no longer be denied, their fallback position is not attributing it at all to human dynamics.
On the subject of humans driving Earth’s large animals to extinction, I have seen a similar pattern. This goes back to when the hypothesis was first proposed back in the 1960s:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_S._Martin#Overkill_Hypothesis
and continues to this day. The fact is that in every instance where humans invaded a previously unpeopled land mass, virtually all of the large animals quickly went extinct:
http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/Fieldschools/Kauai/Publications/Publication%204.pdf
It does not take a Sherlock Holmes to suspect that humans had something to do with it. The megafauna would have been their primary food source, a veritable mother lode of energy. When it is the only constant variable, and it only happened once in the history of the world in all of those instances, all other factors will have secondary importance. When I have seen scholars and scientists try to explain the extinction of the megafauna as solely due to climate change or some catastrophic celestial events, the red flags shoot up. I consider it very likely that the scientists and scholars who concoct such tales are rarely conscious of their bias. Some undoubtedly are, but most just unthinkingly accept the prevailing egocentric assumptions and go about their business.
The denial of human agency in the megafaunal extinctions has been waning in the past generation, but there still is a great of obfuscation in various corners, trying to rank human agency below climate change, bolide impacts, and so on. Relatively recently, scientists have been considering the change to Earth’s ecosystems and geophysical processes due to the extinction of the megafauna. From their effect on cycling nutrients through the ecosystems:
http://theconversation.com/megafauna-extinction-affects-ecosystems-12-000-years-later-16977
to the reduction in methane production, which is a key greenhouse gas:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafauna_extinction#Effect_on_methane_emissions
to radical changes in the vegetation:
http://www.nioz.nl/press-release-reader/extinctionaustralianmegafauna
scientists are finally beginning to grapple with the big picture of what the human impact was on the world long ago. It helps put today’s impact in perspective, which dwarfs everything that has gone before:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
Related to the denial of human agency, Clive Finlayson’s The Humans Who Went Extinct chalks up the Neanderthal extinction to climate change, as did a study published in 2004:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/02/0209_040209_neandertals_2.html
But take a look at the “battle of the studies” regarding the Neanderthal extinction:
http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=3622&cid=32168
http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/did-climate-change-kill-off-the-neanderthals-not-likely%E2%80%A6/
http://www.livescience.com/4446-climate-change-humans-trounced-neanderthals.html
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/329235
http://www.science20.com/news/did_global_warming_and_not_competiton_with_modern_man_kill_neanderthals
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100921171412.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/02/120225110942.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110510153942.htm
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/07/new-study-suggests-humans-not-climate-killed-off-neanderthals/
In Finlayson’s book, he quickly mentioned the mammoth extinction, giving the impression that climate did them in, even for the last ones at Wrangle Island:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#Extinction
which “coincidentally” coincided with the earliest evidence of humans on the island:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island#Prehistory
When I see treatments like that by scientists, my radar goes on high alert. There is far too much of that out there. When a leading “skeptic” tried to debunk Brian’s Martian credentials:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#biographies
I was stupefied by the sloppiness and unread manner of the debunking exercise, as if Brian never wrote about his astronaut interview a few years after it happened:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianbio.htm#mars
As if the astronauts themselves were not aware that Brian was picked with a Mars mission in mind.
I don’t need to belabor the dishonesty of the “skeptics” here, as I do it plenty in other places:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=410817&highlight=gritz#post410817
but they are in good company, as they grind their axes, impudently ignoring evidence that stares them in the face.
Back to chores.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
25th August 2013, 14:11
Hi:
I was finally able to see Sirius last night. It brought up many thoughts and feelings. The bottom line is that I am doing something else. It did not seem to be a movie by Greer as much as it was a movie about Greer. Again, I have a lot of respect for what he has been through and accomplished. Also, however, for he is trying, I have been there repeatedly and have no desire to take that route again, or encourage anybody else to, either. When I was with Dennis, we had three “inventors’ sanctuaries,” and all three were criminally violated, and I have never met an inventor who really had the right stuff:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=594610&viewfull=1#post594610
In the end, the Sirius thrust was largely Levels 7 and 10:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7
and I am finished with playing those games in this lifetime. I am familiar with or encountered pretty much everybody interviewed in Sirius. Some are the Real McCoy, others I have strong doubts about, and some I know do not have the right stuff. That is just the terrain that exists in this field, and it is not easy to navigate. The “skeptics” nearly invariably have no idea what they are talking about, or are dishonest, so most criticisms from that crowd are invalid, to put it mildly.
Dennis tried to warn Stan Meyer about the military guys that he was hooking up with, but Stan did not want to hear it. His naïveté and bullheaded ignorance probably cost him his life. Banging on the Pentagon’s door, or corporate America’s, or Capitol Hill’s, or the patent office’s, is like walking into Godzilla’s lair. Mallove’s murder spurred Brian O to leave the USA:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland
and so on. Did anybody notice Brian’s signature at the top of that petition that they gave to Woolsey/Clinton?
When I saw Valone say that sneaking up on them might work, I shook my head at that Level 7 notion. Godzilla is not asleep.
I think that Sirius can be pretty good information for newbies who are just getting their feet wet. Maybe Level 10 can work with the right stampede, but I have no interest in it. For anybody who wants to try the tinkerer revolution route, Greer’s milieu beckons, and I wish them the best, but an insanely steep and dangerous learning curve awaits them. Few survive it.
Time to go hiking.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
26th August 2013, 18:53
Hi:
As I am writing my essay, I realize that it is going to be intellectually challenging for most people. But if people are going to develop comprehensive perspectives, they need to do the work. There will be a great deal of science in it. I am writing it for non-scientists, but the concepts can still be challenging. The hard part of developing a comprehensive perspective is holding the many pieces of the picture in one’s head, and then seeing how the pieces interact. It is also called a systems perspective, and few people on Earth today have one, but the choir will be comprised of people who have achieved it. Not many will to want to try, largely because the picture that I will be painting will be very challenging to people’s ideas of how the world works.
In most instances, people do not even know what orthodoxy says about how things work, so their beliefs will not be challenged by the orthodox tale, and my essay will largely hew to it, while also showing some of its limitations. My essay won’t be some kind of fringe science treatise. Just understanding the orthodox story will be plenty for most people to wrap their minds around. Only when the orthodox story is understood can critiques of it make sense. Even for those whose hearts are in the right place, and have no doubt that they are my target audience, it will require nimble minds and deep thinking to understand the picture that I will paint.
One deficiency of thinking that I have encountered repeatedly during my journey is the inability of people to develop an integrated point of view, as they ricochet between the poles of divergent schools of thought. They seize on one pole, then the other, while never grabbing both at once and understanding the continuity between them. In many, many situations, it is not either/or, but both, and there is a continuum between them. In many instances, a person camps at one pole and does not even begin to understand the other one. Instances of that kind of thinking can be found in materialism/spiritualism, structuralism/conspiracism, orthodoxy/alternatives, and so on.
Or a person will seize on one aspect of something and try to relate it to something else which is only superficially similar. As an example, in Concetta Bertoldi’s Inside the Other Side, she states that a psychologist pal said that what she does – bring messages in from discarnate beings, particularly departed loves ones – is similar to schizophrenics hearing voices, but the difference is that she can control it.
As my readers know well, a voice in my head led me on my journey, and very dramatically:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2
But I asked for guidance. But the last time I heard from that voice, I did not ask for it:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3
and I don’t want to hear from it again, and I haven’t. Because I have had that voice in my head, I have seen myself compared with a schizophrenic. I have written about others with voices in their heads. But I doubt that anybody would call them schizophrenics:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=633527&viewfull=1#post633527
There is a world of difference between asking for guidance and receiving it, or in those other instances linked to above, the voice could be considered a type of divine intervention, and somebody who is schizophrenic. But, particularly for those how have never heard their particular voice, they find it convenient to lump all voice-hearers into the schizophrenic camp, so they can dismiss it all with a wave of the hand. That is not practicing clear thinking.
Another example is the conspiracist/structuralist duality. My life was wrecked by the people who run the world, and they almost always stay in the shadows, with lackeys doing the dirty work. Mr. Deputy is a dark pather, but he likely neither knew nor cared who was behind dangling the carrots in front of him to do his dirty work. The carrot was all he cared for, and for people like him, inflicting suffering on others is a “bonus.”
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr
But because I acknowledge conspiratorial goings on, largely because I was subjected to them, I have been constantly derided as a conspiracy theorist over the years, and many conspiracists think that I am one of them, when I’m not. Conspiracists try to explain all events through a conspiratorial framework, and they consequently tend to have a very twisted and paranoid view of the world. The structuralists understand the big picture much better than the conspiracists do, although they have their blind spots, too:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness
If people are going to see the big picture, they need to put either/or thinking behind themselves, particularly when dealing with the complexities of the real world.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
26th August 2013, 21:13
Hi:
It’s current event time. My first public writings were about the USA’s attacks in the Persian Gulf, back in 1991:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#jesus
and writing about the USA’s imperial offenses ever since have taken plenty of my time. There are numerous writings of mine scattered across the Internet before I began to concentrate on my site. This thread makes a handy outlet for when I write about those subjects when they come up.
Today, John Kerry, the USA’s Secretary of State, made a speech about Syria using chemical weapons (AKA “WMD”) on the “rebels.” It can really challenge one’s sanity to be an aware American and hear that tripe. In the past generation, I have watched my nation destroy one nation after another, killing millions of people in the process, most of them children. Our day of reckoning will be a dark one, perhaps similar to what Germany got to experience at the end of World War II. I doubt that anybody on Earth, except for brainwashed Americans, believes anything that the USA has to say about WMD.
At least, today, my fellow Americans are not supporting the idea of invading another nation over the WMD issue:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/25/us-syria-crisis-usa-poll-idUSBRE97O00E20130825
http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/05/01/widespread-middle-east-fears-that-syrian-violence-will-spread/
Not that it will stop the bombs. As everybody on Earth knows, our hands are anything but clean, and we are certainly no knight of the light, spreading peace, justice, and prosperity. A joke making the rounds is that “democracy” is the USA’s deadliest export. Several million dead, as well as several million orphans, is the USA’s legacy in Iraq (and the privatization of Iraq’s oil, which was the goal in the first place, millions of deaths be damned):
http://www.globalpolicy.org/political-issues-in-iraq/oil-in-iraq/52265raq-at-the-brink-a-decade-after-the-invasion.html?itemid=id#40722
https://sites.google.com/site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/polya-gideon
a similar story in Afghanistan:
https://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/polya-gideon-afghan-holocaust-afghan-genocide/
and so on. We “helped” rip Yugoslavia apart:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kosovo
The “rebels” in Libya were like the “rebels” in Kosovo, and the probably just like the “rebels” in Syria, who are armed mercenaries, Al Qaeda-style. Those goons are all ours.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/terrorism-with-a-human-face-the-history-of-americas-death-squads/5317564
Some of the same people who were involved in the Central American genocides of the 1980s are involved in the Middle East today:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#central
Attached is a picture that I saw the other day on Rense. How apt.
The USA is taking a blowtorch to the powder keg once again, as if World War III is the goal. As Albert Einstein once said, he did not know what weapons would be used for World War III, but he was certain that World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones:
http://www.quoteworld.org/category/war/author/albert-einstein
Praying for peace,
Wade
Limor Wolf
26th August 2013, 22:17
Not to derail this thread, and thank you very much, Wade, it will be extremely interesting to dive deep and try to have a grasp of the tapestry you are weaving with your essey, some of which you have touched here. Do you have any time estimation of when you will be able to publish your work and when are we able to read it?
One small note about 'conspiracism', I think this is a point we touched in the past, you said:
Originally posted by Wade Frazier: "If people are going to see the big picture, they need to put either/or thinking behind themselves, particularly when dealing with the complexities of the real world"
Posted by Wade Frazier: " Conspiracists try to explain all events through a conspiratorial framework, and they consequently tend to have a very twisted and paranoid view of the world"
Can it be that this generality of a comment may fall in itself in the either/or thinking? particularly when dealing with the complexities of the real world..
The world is complex and has various conspiracies in it, quite large in effect, it is good to recognize them and not fall into obssesion with them, certainly not to explain all events through a conspiratorial eyeglasses, but the opposite may not be favorable as well, it may abduce the comprehensive seeker from paying (some) attention to 'conspiratorial' evidences, some of it is much needed to understand the "complexities of the real world" as you yourself chose to word it . I know that you have extensively researched through some of this stuff such as : the moon 'hoax' the JFK murder, 911 etc. and that your work is mostly focused on understanding the grievances of our past and present looking via different set of eyes and a birth of something new, but when we come to examine any one subject, isn't it more valueable to examine it from every angle and direction? (within reason of course)
Thoughts and schizophrenia which you touched on, are a complexed subject in itself. and if taking into consideration only divine (or other) intervention, or the maladie itself without considering other things such as this -
http://www.jeffpolachek.com/mind-control/mc-research-docs/199-government-technology-to-read-your-thoughts-and-implant-new-ones
Because of the concern to be considered a 'conspiracist', then the picture and conclusions may not at all be complete
All best, always,
Limor
Limor Wolf
26th August 2013, 22:50
I think my above post about conspiracism can be ignored, there are more important issues in the world today. Re: Wade's last post # 3064
An appropriate response from the American people. Prayers for sanity and healing of the world.
Israel is the little finger of the American hand, maybe not to steal the natural resources of another country or thrusting a stake in such a demonstrative way, but it has it's own concentrated evilness in the guise of 'protecting it's own interests'. We can say that again.
http://sabbah.biz/mt/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/israel_collective_punishment_by_latuff2.jpg
Prayers from the heart to the Children and adults in Syria, Afganistan, Palestine, Lybia... the list is endless : (
Wade Frazier
27th August 2013, 00:23
Hi Limor:
I hope to have the essay done by the end of the year, but there will also be an editorial process. We’ll see when it gets published, but in the winter, I hope.
My posts on conspiracism probably have something to do with making posts in what is largely a conspiracist forum, but it is also far more than that. I have been dealing with conspiracist stuff for nearly thirty years. Again, no denying that there are “conspiracies,” and that they have their effect, but conspiracists way overplay their hand, all the time, with the recent Boston Marathon attacks being a highly relevant example.
Conspiracism reflects itself in how most people that I encounter on the FE subject are fascinated with Godzilla and his machinations. Godzilla is not the problem; we are. Structuralists and conspiracists are united in their victim-oriented mentality:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness
Only a creator-oriented perspective is going to get us over the hump, IMO. I am all-too-familiar with MK Ultra and its roots. I was likely zapped with some of their brain-scrambling toys when I was with Brian O:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#_edn57
MK Ultra has its roots in the death camp Nazis that the USA brought over in Operation Paperclip:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#strughold
and those mind-controlling technologies are a dark pather’s dream, but probably about 0.0001% of schizophrenic cases might be attributable to MK Ultra and related stuff.
Yes, any perceptive observer will see that how the Israelis are treating the Palestinians is about like how the Nazis treated the Jews in the 1930s, or how the American Indian was treated, etc. Grim times.
Best,
Wade
CdnSirian
27th August 2013, 03:47
This is a flashback to the cow pie topic and was posted today on http://www.bubblews.com/news/1002395-cooking-oil-scam. The author is an 18 yr old Kuwaiti. I think I prefer cow pies...
"Cooking oil scam
Submitted by djmubeen on August 24th, 2013 – Flag this news as inappropriate
Category: Crime
In our everyday life we eat deep fried foods and enjoy the taste of life but when you will know how the cooking oil is made you will possibly start to vomit .
Now i am not talking about the famous brands .
I am talking about the oil used in this small restaurants or hotels.They all use the cheap oil which they get from small factories.
Now a million dollar recipe OK open your books these people use:
INGREDIENTS:
* All types of Animals fat which t hey get it from any slaughter house.
*All the animals intestines .
*In FACTORIES WHEN OIL GET MIXED WITH SAND T HEY USE SAND T O EXTRACT EVEN THAT OUT.
*Chicken feathers.
METHOD:
Just throw them in big saucepan a boil and melt till get oil and sell then to people in cheap prices.
So people this the truth they use a ll t his leftovers to make cooking oil .Now please dont worry if you use a famous brands oil you are safe but please be safe the healthy cooking oil makes you fat but t his oil is extreme. This usually happens in every country with poverty like Pakistan ,India and even other countries but this oil is used in cheap hotels or restaurants. BE SAFE"
Just in case you're travelling on the $5.00 a minute budget...
Wade Frazier
27th August 2013, 03:59
Hi CdnSirian:
Thanks. Oh boy, all the horrific stuff. I can only imagine what going through the kitchen of the restaurants of the poor nations must be like. Ah, it is horrible all around, how our food is produced:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#mcdonalds
With FE, of course, all of that can go away, and quickly.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
28th August 2013, 15:29
Hi:
I have been reading a lot of anthropology lately, and recently finished Clive Finlayson’s The Humans Who Went Extinct. I am probably going to skip ahead on my essay for a little, and write the early human part now. These areas are highly controversial, in many ways. But there is also a lot of agreement on the broad trends. The multidisciplinary works impress me the most, but they virtually all have blind spots that seem to come from the predilection of the authors. For instance, Finlayson was big on the climactic aspect of the Pleistocene extinctions, but was surprisingly ignorant about human-agency in the megafaunal extinctions.
Finlayson had some novel interpretation of the evidence that he was familiar with, but most of his stuff was pretty orthodox. Everybody agrees that anatomically modern humans first appeared in Africa, and the time is now thought to be 160K-200K years ago. What they did from there, to the end of the ice age, is where the controversy is. Neanderthals and humans had a common ancestor around 400K-600K years ago, which is called homo heidelbergensis:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_heidelbergensis
Homo erectus likely first appeared in Africa about two million years ago, and quickly migrated across the tropics, all the way to Java. Whether homo erectus appeared due to the taming of fire is an open question today:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/02/scientists-clue-human-evolution-question
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#cooking
but nobody is arguing against the idea that homo erectus was something different, the first large-brained hominid that spread across Africa and Asia, who mastered fire and lived the first hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The ones who stayed in Africa are called homo ergaster:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_ergaster
and they are considered to be humanity’s direct ancestor. After anatomically-modern humans appeared, they seemed to stay close to home for quite some time, not leaving Africa until about 100K years ago, during the warm period of the previous glacial minimum:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_glaciation#Land-based_chronology_of_Quaternary_glacial_cycles
One area of huge controversy is human intelligence. The human braincase back then was about at large as it is today, but they obviously did not have much in the way of modern culture. The first evidence for symbolic art is about 70K years ago, and is about when humans seemed to spread to India and South Asia. They arrived in China about 10K years later, and they seem to have made it to Australia about 50K years ago. It seems that the aboriginal Australians quickly drove all the Australian megafauna to extinction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_megafauna
generally by using fire. At Niah in Malaysia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niah_National_Park
it appears that humans burned the forest to create artificial savannahs, like they had in Africa. Something similar happened in Australia, which resulted in the extinction of the megafauna. Around this time, the Neanderthals were dwindling in Europe. Around 35K years ago, the Châtelperronian culture appeared:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2telperronian
It is controversial if it was associated with Neanderthals at all, but today there is definitely Neanderthal DNA in the human gene pool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_admixture_theory#Neanderthals
so there likely was cultural influence. One recent hypothesis is that the injection of some Neanderthal DNA into homo sapiens around Europe is the key ingredient in what happened next: a rapid advance of culture and invention, leading to the first art:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurignacian
That culture was quickly succeeded by the Gravettian culture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravettian
which appears to be the one that began to master living on the tundra below the ice sheets. It looks like those peoples drove the mammoth to extinction in Central Europe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Usage_in_the_Gravettian#Food.2C_prey.2C_and_diet
That culture initiated the Golden Age of the hunter gatherer. Finlayson is adamant that the Neanderthals went extinct before modern humans arrived in their last refuges in Spain, but others are not so sure. One theory is that Neanderthals were just one more megafauna that modern humans drove to extinction, although some interbreeding happened along the way. Other megafauna went extinct in Eurasia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event#Northern_Eurasia
There were plenty of African and Asian extinctions:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event#Africa_and_Asia
but Africa and Asia were spared the total extinctions that happened when humans intruded into Australia, the Western Hemisphere, and islands around the world. It is thought that that was because the megafauna in Africa and Asia learned to avoid humans before they went extinct. The others never had a chance to.
A rule of evolutionary theory is that when a life form finds itself in a biome where there is no competition for resources (energy resources above all), it will breed up to the maximum carrying capacity that it can. Those events happened many times over the course of life on Earth. It could be because the species survived a mass extinction so that all of its competitors were gone:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lystrosaurus
or because a biological innovation created an advantage that made previously unexploitable niches available. For instance, oxygenic respiration allowed for complex life to evolve, and complex life then ascended to the top of all ecosystems, and all complex life respires oxygen, except for a few small animals that respire hydrogen, which was likely respired before oxygen was:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#_edn2
So, humans quickly expanding across all of Earth’s ecosystems is nothing new, and humans have been compared to any species taking advantage of opportunities that present themselves. I have even seen humans compared to pond scum and the spring blooms that happen in the world’s waters, where life goes nuts until all the nutrients are used up, and then it collapses back, waiting for the next influx of nutrients.
Collapses of ecosystems have happened many times, often brought on by life itself, such as the hydrogen sulfide events that seem to be “revenge of the anaerobes” episodes:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=554340&viewfull=1#post554340
A prominent theme that Finlayson harped on was that the innovators came from the fringes, as they had to be nimble and innovative to survive – that “necessity is the mother of invention” idea. The apes that left the trees and learned to eat other food besides fruit (nuts, roots, leaves, etc.) were the “losers” of rainforest life, and their adaptations are what ultimately led to humans. Protohumans adapted to more meat eating, but as with all such changes, it came with a price. Finlayson makes the case that Neanderthals or other “primitive” humans were no less intelligent than those modern humans, particularly the Gravettians, and just made do with what they had available. But others are far from sure. Several hypotheses have been developed to account for the “Great Leap Forward,” which include that Neanderthal DNA, cultural complexity that encouraged greater brainpower to navigate, the specialist/generalist interaction that raised generalist awareness, etc. The leap definitely happened, whether it was purely a social/technical construct reacting to a changing environment or something happened to the human brain. I think it is a variation on the nature/nurture argument. However the advance happened, it was real. To say that others had the potential for it, but not the “opportunity,” I doubt is understanding the point. For instance, in these two worlds:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
the people were likely indistinguishable, genetically and morphologically, but their civilizations were like night and day, as would their measured “intelligence” have been.
Those Gravettian peoples had the toolset and flexibility to conquer all of Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems, and they did. The megafauna fueled their expansion, and when they were gone, then the Domestication Revolution happened. The revolution did not happen immediately, and it happened all over the world, within a five-thousand year window, from about 12,000 to 7,000 years ago. Most were offspring of that Gravettian culture. It is generally thought today that population pressures from the successful hunter-gatherer lifestyle brought on the Domestication Revolution.
Finlayson finishes his book with a common plaint, which is that modern industrial civilization is clearly unsustainable, with the masses glued to the tube, where gossip and entertainment are the primary predilections of the vast majority of humanity, and the apple cart will crash soon in an unprecedented catastrophe. Finlayson thinks that the world’s poor, eking out their existences at the margins, sifting through trash heaps, will be best suited to survive what is coming.
My experience is that nobody like Finlayson has ever been reachable on the FE front, as they are dug into their “scientific” perspectives. Scientists and academics will not lead us away from the abyss. They are too mired in their perspectives, for all of the insight that they often manifest. My work is not really aimed at them. It would be nice to wake some of them up, but if Brian O couldn’t:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions
I sure can’t. If I had to think about what audience I am the likeliest to connect with, it will be young adults whose minds are not ossified into their paradigms yet. I can’t really interact with minors, or I will be burned at the stake, but young adults are likely going to be my target audience, as Fuller also discovered:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#college
Best,
Wade
P.S. I have looked at a great deal of the evidence that the fringe has put forward on technologically advanced ancient civilizations and the like, and none of the evidence I ever looked at really held up. Stone Age peoples could be very clever, and the monumental architecture that has survived is indeed impressive, but I have seen nothing where advanced or ET technology needs to be invoked. There is an entire cottage industry based on that stuff, but I consider it a distraction at best.
Wade Frazier
28th August 2013, 17:13
As the USA is about to bludgeon another nation in the way of our imperial, oil-based ambition, I saw some tripe on the Wall Street Journal’s site:
http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-noam-chomsky-meets-his-match/C97C4C4E-C236-45E9-8877-AD4DF57EED4E.html#!C97C4C4E-C236-45E9-8877-AD4DF57EED4E
repeating the big lie that Noam Chomsky was somehow a supporter of the Khmer Rouge or was a genocide denier. Neither claim is remotely true, but there is an entire cottage industry devoted to perpetuating that lie:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#crv
Noam dealt with the Cambodian issue recently:
http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2009/04/khmer-rouge-cambodia-noam-chomsky.html
Establishment hacks such as Sophal Ear have made a career out of attacking Chomsky:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yraS_HzdezQ
That Ear did it at TED is one more reason why I don’t have much respect for that forum.
I have never seen Ear rationally deal with the issue, and others have deconstructed the hack attacks:
http://www.flagrancy.net/khmerchomsky.html
http://www.flagrancy.net/?entry_id=393
http://www.oocities.org/soho/9879/jamesd.html
But Wikipedia is dominated by Ear’s and the other hacks' disinformation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky%27s_political_views#Doubting_genocide_in_Cambodia
Noam dealt with this Slovenian “scholar” in typical Noam fashion:
http://www.zcommunications.org/fantasies-by-noam-chomsky.html
but there is no end to hacks who aspire to make Noam wrong. None of them can tie his shoes on the intellectual end of it.
I have written that the structuralists, and Chomsky is definitely one:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism
have really missed the boat on important issues, FE chief among them, but Chomsky’s detractors regarding his political writings can almost never string two rational thoughts together before they fly off the handle as they defend their egocentric conceits.
When I dip into the attacks on Chomsky, it reminds me of all the big lies that I constantly see told about Dennis:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=410817&viewfull=1#post410817
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=634680&viewfull=1#post634680
It is like Diogenes’s quest for the honest man, and stuff like that makes me wonder sometimes if humanity is really worth saving.
Just this morning, I saw this article on particle physics, where the scientists are trying to popularize it,
http://www.livescience.com/39212-why-particle-physics-matters.html
and compare themselves to mass murdering thieves and front men for empire such as Columbus:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm
and Lewis and Clark:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#lewis
How oblivious.
On little gentler note, I am getting no help at all regarding getting Brian O’s final statement on the moon landings published:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianbio.htm#statement
where Wikipedia’s “editors” do not erase the reference to it.
I am not done trying, but nobody in the milieu wants to help, as they all grind their particular axes where Brian was concerned. Personal integrity is indeed the world’s scarcest commodity.
Best,
Wade
onawah
29th August 2013, 02:03
I just saw a great show in PBS's Nova series Making Stuff, this week's installment called Making Stuff Cleaner, which you can watch free online at:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1768954299/
I don't know if this has been posted on the A Healed Planet thread as yet, but even if so, it's probably worth a bump.
It's a pretty great series, in 4 parts:
Program Description
What is the strongest material in the world? Is it steel, Kevlar, carbon nanotubes, or something entirely new? NOVA kicks off the four-part series "Making Stuff" with a quest for the world's strongest substances. Host David Pogue takes a look at what defines strength, examining everything from steel cables to mollusk shells to a toucan's beak. Pogue travels from the deck of a U.S. naval aircraft carrier to a demolition derby to the country's top research labs to check in with experts who are re-engineering what nature has given us to create the next generation of strong stuff.
The other programs in the "Making Stuff" series are "Smaller," "Cleaner," and "Smarter.".
See:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/making-stuff.html#making-stuff-stronger
Wade Frazier
30th August 2013, 01:33
Thanks onawah:
Readers probably realize that I very rarely refer to multimedia presentations, particularly those of the mainstream media, and PBS is definitely MSM. Watching stuff like that only makes my blood pressure go up. When I hit the link, up came a Boeing ad. Even the alternative multimedia presentations are virtually never up to snuff, and I very rarely watch even them, and usually only after I am badgered into it.
I mentioned Greer’s movie recently, and of all the FE-related presentations that I have seen over the years, that was about the best I have seen, but for what I am trying to teach, it was not all that good, as it was stuck in Levels 7 and 10, and kind of for beginners (I think that arguably any movie about any subject is for beginners):
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=719870&viewfull=1#post719870
I have mentioned The Secret on this thread, and do so on my site:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage
When it came out, my wife and I were bombarded with it by people in our lives. I tried to tell those around me that I was not really interested, and some really took me to task for it, with stuff like, “Hey, unless you watch it, you don’t know what you are missing,” etc. My wife eventually bought it, and we finally sat down to watch it. About three minutes into it, I paused it and looked at my wife in disbelief. “This is what people are raving about!” It was the kindergarten level of spirituality, and very narcissistic. It was about the worst crap that I have seen on the subject. Some years later, I was hectored enough so that I saw What the Bleep?. Again, a load of bilge. The MO seems to be a spoonful of truth helps the BS go down. A few years ago, somebody virtually forced me to watch that documentary on Searl, and it sent me through the roof, it was so bad, and I wasted two hours of my life. Similarly, Thrive was another huge disappointment, and I later found that Foster definitely does not have the right stuff, promoting libel about Dennis:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=633801&viewfull=1#post633801
The only reason I watched Sirius is that I have a lot of respect for what Greer did in the 1990s. I was watching when his team all came down with cancer:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#adamiak
He was never the same, understandably.
I bankrolled the NEM conference in 2004 where Greer spoke:
http://newenergymovement.org/recapsa1.php?p=recapsa.php
and took a break from working the registration table to listen to Greer speak, and it was highly informative. Greer and I have been in the same milieu for quite some time.
But something like Sirius is about all that I will watch anymore, when I have the time. People continually post links to YouTube videos and the like on this thread, but my work aims a lot deeper. A picture can be worth a thousand words, and a video even more, but in the subject matter that I am dealing with, MSM and other presentations do not cut it, IMO.
I posted a link to a YouTube video from TED in my previous post, but to show what tripe it was:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=721663&viewfull=1#post721663
Best,
Wade
onawah
30th August 2013, 06:39
I agree that most PBS stuff isn't much different from other MSM, but I liked that show because it demonstrated get-off-the-grid technology that is being used now, and ideas that are being developed now to help individuals and companies get more off the grid.
Sure, there are much more advanced technologies out there, but they are being kept secret and it will be awhile before they become public.
In the meanwhile, it's encouraging to see inventions that are more sustainable than the mainstream and that are helping to improve the way we live NOW.
Wade Frazier
30th August 2013, 12:21
Hi Onawah:
I hear you on the encouraging baby steps that some are taking, but I am trying to do something very different. When I see people promoting hybrids or electric cars, or windmills, direct solar, and what have you, I stay away from it for a few reasons. One is that they are all way too little, too late. In his last years, Brian O was looking for a research assistant to help him crunch the numbers on wind, solar, and the like. Brian crafted the energy policy that became Jimmy Carter’s:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#udall
Brian later lamented what a small view it was:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#udall
Those so-called energy solutions are rooted in austerity, are not really going to solve humanity’s energy problems, and are far, far short of abundance. When Dennis pursued high MPG carburetors several years ago:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&highlight=wirec#post694872
for me, it was like going the full circle to when I was sixteen:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse
and a little older:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#carb1
I get why Dennis did it, trying to get a leg up, but I had no interest in it, and am very glad that I did not get involved. Wringing more energy out of a gallon of gasoline, or getting a windmill or solar panel going in one’s yard, is not really even a baby step to helping this world manifest:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced
and the danger, to my thinking, is thinking that it is. So, that solar/windmill/etc. stuff has its place, but I am trying to do something very different. I am going after the Big One.
To my other readers, what I am trying to help people understand will be anything but easy. It is challenging on several levels. For starters, people need to relinquish all the seemingly comforting fictions that they were raised with. While they may seem beneficial, they are actually mind-traps, indoctrinating people into scarcity:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
Most of my original site is trying to help people shed their scarcity-based indoctrination. I put plenty of positive vision stuff there, too:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#can1
but I have found that for people whose minds are mired in scarcity, they really can’t imagine it, because they are dragging their scarcity-based baggage with them.
Darren is in an off-grid community, or at least partly so, and he has found how they are still mired in scarcity. Darren is doing his best to get beyond the scarcity mindset himself, but it is hard work. Scarcity is virtually baked into our DNA here on Earth. Abundance has never been seen before on Earth, and I am interested in nothing less. Nobody else on Earth is trying what I am, and I need to give it a shot, and not get it bogged down in the small-ball stuff that is a distraction at best.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
30th August 2013, 14:04
Hi:
As I bang away at my essay and think about the subjects that I cover, I don’t think that I can overemphasize how different what I am attempting is from anything that I have seen before. Building a choir is vastly different from building an army. I have the highest respect for the life-risking efforts that people such as Dennis, Greer, and Trombly have performed over the years. They are among the survivors of the murder attempts and other outrages that have been inflicted on people like them, not only by Godzilla’s minions, but by the numerous other predators in the milieu. As Dennis recently admitted to me, his allies have hurt him more than his enemies have. I knew it many years ago, and it was “nice” to see Dennis admit it. The enemy is us, not Godzilla.
The FE field is dominated by scientists and inventors, nearly all of them men, and the entire field is in arrested development, IMO, thinking that the inventor of the hour or some scientific theorist is going to somehow storm the ramparts. Dennis is the Indiana Jones of the field:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
but I saw, up close and personally, how futile and painful that path has been, and I put very little hope in it. Almost nobody on Earth has the right stuff to walk ten feet down that path. Those scientists and inventors have never come close to putting disruptive energy technology on the market, in a disruptive way. The game ascends a few orders of magnitude when you begin to do that, and nobody has ever come close to what Dennis did:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&highlight=wirec#post694872
and I saw that he/we did not have a prayer. A few lashes of Godzilla’s tail (or the other predators in the milieu), and it was all over. An inventor with a gizmo has not even gotten onto the playing field yet.
It took me a lifetime to arrive at my present views on the issue and what I think might have a prayer of making a dent. Once you get bitten by the bug, there is no turning back, unless you can drown yourself in alcohol or other inebriant, and so I plunk away.
Again, I am not looking for heroes, but people who can just lay aside their scarcity-based conditioning long enough so that they can imagine abundance. That is far, far harder than most can believe, because it means jettisoning their favorite beliefs, which usually feed them, in one way or another:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
and virtually nobody on Earth today has the courage to do that. Merely imagining abundance is plenty on the heroism scale, believe me. I am looking for needles in haystacks, and plan to take advantage of this new technology called the Internet to find them. And then we will see how it goes.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
1st September 2013, 13:46
Hi:
One issue that repeatedly arises when writing my essay is when I try to define a phenomenon, and find that science does not define it very well, if at all. Feynman said that we really don’t know what energy is:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#The_Feynman_Lectures_on_Physics_.281964.29
and Heisenberg voiced a similar caution:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#heisenberg
Scientists really do not know what energy is, what matter is, and so on. Science can only describe their effects. A great book for the lay audience on the controversies over the meaning of quantum physics is Rosenblum and Kuttner’s Quantum Enigma:
http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Enigma-Physics-Encounters-Consciousness/dp/0199753814/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377967821&sr=1-1
When quantum theory made its appearance in the 1920s, a debate between Einstein and Bohr ensued until Einstein’s death. Einstein and Schroedinger wanted to know what was really happening, and Bohr and his “Copenhagen interpretation” sided with the fact that the equations of quantum theory could predict what could be measured, and that what was really happening was irrelevant. It was similar to Newton’s equations on gravity. Newton’s did not know what gravity was, but his calculations could predict its effect (at least until Einstein came along and the effects of gravity in large bodies such as stars had to be accounted for). The quantum enigma, where light is both a wave and a particle, and the act of observation resolves light into one or the other, is the “skeleton in the closet” of quantum physics, where consciousness appears to be necessary to make the universe “objective.” That conundrum has yet to be unraveled, and scientists largely shy away from the implications of quantum theory, and just run the numbers.
The view of what is really happening is a matter of personal preference for physicists:
http://www.gizmag.com/confusion-basic-nature-quantum-mechanics/26216/
who have not come to agreement on the fundamental issues. They have been able to demonstrate the nonsensical nature of quantum physics, where something can be in two places at once:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100317/full/news.2010.130.html
http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120608_1.html
which will likely lead to practical applications. It is nonsensical but true. Einstein believed that there was something fundamental that quantum theory was missing. FE, antigravity, and other exotic technologies kept under wraps upends today’s mainstream physics, which is partly why it is all dismissed as a “conspiracy theory,” “contrary to the laws of physics,” and so on, in classic Level 3 fashion:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3
So, it can be like nailing jelly to a wall to present the orthodox perspective. One area that I have been scratching my head over for 25 years is the concept of temperature. Even in the field, temperature is a slippery concept:
http://temperatures.com/wit.html
Temperature seems to mean the energy of motion, but as with the quantum enigma, temperature breaks down at the atomic level:
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/040816/full/news040816-4.html
So in practice, temperature is a macroscopic definition of the mean translational kinetic energy, meaning the energy of moving molecules. The scientific endeavor ends up saying, with disturbing regularity, “We don’t really know what it is or what is really happening, but we can measure the results and have equations that can successfully predict them.” That kind of slipperiness is very much related to why people such as Schroedinger knew that science would never really be able to answer our most important questions, such as “Where did I come from? Where am I going?”
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#schroedinger
Best,
Wade
P.S. This post is reposted after the hack. This is the only one that I had to repost. Bill and gang are very prudent, with a daily backup. I have seen far more professional organizations fail to do it. In fact, at every company that I have ever been at, they did not get the backups done properly. I have designed the backup processes at my companies, and monitor and test them. Avalon is a “charity,” and that it was able to quickly restore from a backup is impressive.
Wade Frazier
1st September 2013, 15:40
Hi:
As I plunk along on the essay, I keep up on current events, as always, and am constantly struck by how deeply the scarcity-based paradigm is baked in human awareness, particularly when the energy issue is addressed. As my readers know, every FE attempt that I ever saw or heard of was based within the scarcity framework, to one degree or another (Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6). As I write my essay, I am constantly thinking about what I am attempting to get across to my readers. Again, reading my essay will only be a baby step along the path, but it is a path that has never been blazed before.
If people think about what human life was like before and after the control of fire, or before and after domesticating plants and animals, or before and after the Industrial Revolution (which we are really still in, as we continue to use fossil fuels as our primary energy source), the way people thought and how their worlds worked were so vastly different that it is almost silly to compare them, as each one operated under a totally different paradigm due to their level of energy use. We can see a lot of that even today, where some hunter-gatherers still exist, as do pre-industrial societies (none have escaped the West’s influence, but we can still see vestiges of how their societies used to be).
If/when the FE Revolution happens, it will make virtually everything that we see today obsolete. We can see hints of what that world can look like, with TV shows such as Star Trek:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#trek
but even those are very pale imitations of what abundance can look like, and that future Earth that Roads visited:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
is the best example of abundance realized that I have yet encountered. It is obviously an FE-based society, and it operates on the love principle. There is no way that I can overemphasize the changes that will happen with FE; I can barely imagine them myself, and I have been living with the idea for half of my life.
Imagining abundance in a world of scarcity is no easy feat. I have almost never encountered anybody who was willing to even try. My upcoming essay is intended to help people understand the energy issue and how life on Earth and human civilization has always ridden on it. That really is the first goal. My second is to help point people in directions to where, if they do the work, they can realize how close FE is to being publicly manifested. Again, Godzilla’s greatest triumph is making FE and what can come with it unimaginable, and, in that respect, I plan to be a fly in the ointment. But probably my most important goal is for people to begin to shed, at least in their minds, the scarcity-based baggage that we are all burdened with from the cradle (and learn to sing the new song :) ). When people can do that, then they can free up their minds and spirits for the potential of abundance. I know that my musings on the subject:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced
are only baby steps, at best. If I get this going, I fully expect people like Ilie to take it much further in their lifetimes. But until FE is manifested in the public sphere, the masses will stay mired in scarcity, and that is OK. I am not trying to reach them with my work. A person mired in scarcity cannot even begin to comprehend abundance. I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks, and I have found a few. I think that this might have a chance to make a dent, but we will see.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
5th September 2013, 03:49
Hi:
I took the attached picture of that lake yesterday, and woke up on that lake’s shores this morning. It is right off the Pacific Crest Trail. The night before, we slept in the meadow at the bottom of that valley in the other picture. Nobody was within miles of us when we slept in that valley. We could have stayed there a month and not have seen a soul. To Europeans, that seems like something out of a fairy tale, and I fully appreciate being able to do that in my backyard. My hiking pal had to work in Switzerland a couple of years ago, and when his Swiss coworkers knew that he hiked, he was regularly asked, in tones of awe, if he had ever seen a bear. I brought a friend here from Spain this past summer, and his goal was to bring back pictures of deer for his friends. He probably got tired of seeing deer by the time the trip was finished, but in one meadow that I took him to, a yearling bear was ambling through, and my friend took the attached picture. I don’t run into bears that often, and that was a bonus encounter that he will never forget. There is nothing like that in Spain, to put it mildly. He was slackjawed regularly.
I’ll make a post before the week is out.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
5th September 2013, 15:45
Hi:
As I have stated repeatedly, I am bombarded with the latest news in the FE field. I really can’t escape it; if it is not the inventor of the hour on this thread, then I get it via email, personal contacts, and so on. I got some when I came home from the mountains and read my email last night. And without fail, it is the same old, same old, where newbies and the naïve, greedy, and otherwise unqualified keep trying the same paths to disaster that I have been a part of or have witnessed since 1986. Raising money does not work, conferences do not work, the inventor of the hour does not work, applying for patents does not work, tinkering in garages does not work, scientific testing does not work, sneaking around does not work, etc., etc. The entire FE field is stuck in arrested development, and is largely a Boys’ Club. I have no interest in trying out the strategies that won’t work, or luring newbies into learning those lessons the hard way, which can be life-threatening. It is really maddening to see everybody in the field go down the same ruts, over and over, thinking that they somehow have some magic answer or unique virtue that will see them succeed where 50,000 before them have failed. I have watched them scoff, come up with a bright idea that has been tried a hundred times before, and so on. I really don’t want to watch anymore.
I once stated on this thread that I would go into the details of the Levels to show why each of those approaches below Level 12 has not worked and is highly unlikely to:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
but I doubt that I did it. Each level has a number of variations on the theme, and the levels are not mutually exclusive, as aspirants can rattle around between them and can be in thrall to elements of more than one of them at once. For instance, Level 6 is the most naïve level of all, for those that get past the initial denial and fear of FE. When inventors tinker in their garages, try to raise money, and apply for patents, they are in Level 6. They may have heard something about the organized suppression, but they either are in denial of it, dismissing as a “conspiracy theory” or just paranoid reactions to innocent situations, and so on. Nearly all inventors dream of becoming rich and famous from their inventions, and when the invention is FE (which is a Level 11 delusion), their dreams can quickly go beyond the notions of avarice:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion
and delusions of grandeur can take over, with the inventor thinking that he is The Second Coming (I am using a literal example here):
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#grandeur
When an inventor applies for a patent, he announces his weakness: he is trying to make money off of it. That is the easiest path to defeat, and thousands of energy patents have been classified:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=514878&viewfull=1#post514878
and those inventors are some of the lucky ones. The “luckiest” get the golden handcuffs:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#payoff
but that is an insanely dangerous lottery to play. The inventor can instead see his life wrecked or prematurely ended. Usually, the inventor will be betrayed by himself and his allies, and the entire thing collapses in a bloodbath of greed and fear, and Godzilla never even needs to lift a claw.
Level 7 is only slightly worldlier, and there are shacks, garages, and warehouses around the world with FE aspirants in them, thinking that they can build an FE device and sneak past the predators. There are variations on that theme. The most typical is trying to develop it in secret. Other tactics are to distribute it in secret, such as a battery-operated gizmo where the batteries never wear out, or put it on the market with little fanfare, thinking that it will catch Godzilla sleeping or him thinking that it is just another gizmo that might save a little energy. All of those have failed, repeatedly. What is doubly frustrating when I bring up that situation, to move on from it, newbies and others won’t let it go, but spout their bright ideas on how the sneak-up-on-them strategy can work. Without exception, such people have exactly zero experience in the field, acting like adolescent boys watching war movies:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#ryan
and some of them have been observers of the field for many years, and still can’t get past their armchair general approach.
The Level 9 approach is perhaps the most deluded, in thrall to Young Warrior fantasies:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#warriors
like those boys watching war movies, eager to get on the battlefield. Godzilla does not hang his shingle out. You don’t find him; he finds you. And even when you are snuffed out, you rarely have any inkling of what really happened.
I have been a key member of several Level 10 efforts, with Dennis and Brian, and those were agonizing learning experiences, to put it mildly. There are many, many Level 10 approaches. There are ad campaigns on TV and the print media (Dennis is the master of that), mass funding via capitalist or charitable routes, and rallying around scarcity-based ideologies to get some traction (Dennis has tried the capitalist, nationalist, and religious routes, repeatedly, and all were disasters - http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant).
One of the deadlier Level 10 strategies is the conference. If you attend an FE conference, you will be surrounded by Godzilla’s agents, delusional inventors, greedy opportunists, groupies, the inexperienced, and almost everybody else will be a naïve gawker. Almost nobody there will be the Real McCoy, and if they are, they are risking their lives. The allure of conferences seems to be some human social need, where people can press the flesh, meet the legends, and so on, but the downsides are enormous. I have been to far too many conferences and shows, and they all went nowhere, and if anybody had something going, the boom was lowered on them, either before, during, or afterwards.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#global
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#philly
Brian almost did not survive one of his earlier conference experiences:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack
and it shortened his life.
Another Level 10 approach is telling your friends, family, and colleagues all about FE. That is the trap that virtually all newbies fall into. If you understand anything about what I am writing, you will know that you are absolutely alone in your daily life; there is nobody like you in your life, and none of them are going to do much waking up at all on the FE front, and you can wreck family relationships, friendships, and careers by talking up FE with those around you. If longtime members of the field can’t do it, newbies sure can’t.
There seems to be no end to newbies who race at the pitfalls, thinking that they found The Way. That is the ego talking. The people whom I respect in the FE field all began their journeys naively, and it is no crime. If they survived the process, they eventually shed at least most of their naïveté. I have seen it with Dennis, Brian, Adam, me, and some others. But it is hard to shed one’s initial naïveté unless one has been on the battlefield:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business
Naïveté is a failing that can be overcome in a lifetime. The others are not so “easy,” and the most important one, by far, is a person’s level of personal integrity, and all the people whom I respect in the field had that quality when they began. Almost nobody can really learn the integrity lessons in a lifetime. I have seen people try, but they usually stumble badly as they backslide when temptation beckons. I think that you have to come in that way to make the grade that I think is needed. Those people are needles in haystacks, and those are whom I seek. Personal integrity is a quality of the heart. You either have it or you don’t. That lack of integrity manifests in thinking like a victim, with a fearful outlook, and other deficiencies.
There are many ways to get off course on the FE issue, if a person can overcome their denial in the first place. One example is the conspiracist/structuralist dichotomy:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism
The reason why we don’t enjoy the benefits of FE today is about 5-10% due to the organized suppression, and the rest is humanity’s inertia. The enemy is truly us, but conspiracists fixate on the organized suppression, attributing nearly the entire situation to Godzilla and his minions, when they are rarely involved in FE effort failures, as almost all efforts collapse from within, as greed, delusions of grandeur, and the like raise their heads. While conspiracists vastly overplay the importance of the organized suppression, the structuralists have an ideological aversion to the very idea of organized suppression:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#religion
and so miss important dynamics, too. The structuralists are almost all heavily entrenched Level 3s, if they ever hear of FE:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3
Both the conspiracists and the structuralists miss the FE boat, as they both think like victims:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness
As I have stated, love and FE are joined the hip, in physical, ethical, practical, and mystical ways:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest
Nothing about making FE happen will be easy, but it all starts in the heart.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
Hughe
5th September 2013, 23:06
I would like to share Buckminster Fuller's amazing vision with you. I'm absolutely sure that we have solutions to clean all the problems modern civilization have created.
Part Four, Critical Path, R. Buckminster Fuller, 1981, p336 – p337
Cloud Nine Floating Tensegrity Spheres
In 1958 I saw clearly the progression of technical events altering all odd engineering concepts regarding the relative increase in the overall weights of structures – and designed my sky-floating tensegrity structures, which I call “Cloud Nines.”
A 100-foot-diameter, tensegrity-trussed, geodesic sphere weighing three tons encloses seven tones of air. The air-to-structural-weight ratio is two to one. When we double the size so that the geodesic sphere is 200 feet in diameter, the weight of the structure increases to seven tons while the weight of the air increase to fifty-six tons – the air-to-structure ratio changes as eight to one. When we double the size again to a 400-foot geodesic sphere – the size of several geodesic domes now operating – the weight of the air inside increases to about 500 tons while the weight of the structure increases to fifteen tons. The air-weight-to-structure-weight ratio is now thirty-three to one. When we get to geodesic sphere one-half mile in diameter, the weight of the structure itself becomes of relatively negligible magnitude, for the ratio is approximately a thousand to one.
When the Sun shines on an open-frame aluminum geodesic sphere of one half mile diameter, the Sun penetrating through the frame and reflected from the aluminum members of the concave far side bounces back into the sphere and gradually heats the interior atmosphere to a mild degree. When the interior temperature of the sphere rises only one degree Fahrenheit, the wight of the air pushed out of the sphere is greater than the weight of the spherical-frame geodesic structure. This means that the total weight of the interior air plus the weight of the structure is much less than the surrounding atmosphere. This means that the total assemblage of the geodesic sphere and its contained air will have to float outwardly, into the sky, being displaced by the heavy atmosphere around it.
When a great bank of mist lines in a valley in the morning and the Sun shines upon it, the Sun heats the air inside the bank of mist. The heated air expands and therefor pushes some of itself outside the mist bank. The total assembly of the mist bank weighs less than the atmosphere surrounding it, and the mist bank floats aloft into the sky. Thus are clouds manufactured. As geodesic spheres get larger than one-half mile in diameter, they become floatable cloud structures.
If their surfaces were draped with outwardly hung polyethelene curtains to retard the rate at which air would come back in at night, the sphere and its internal atmosphere would continue to be so light as to remain aloft.
Such sky-floating geodesic/tensegrity spheres may be designed to float at preferred altitudes of thousands of feet. The weight of human beings added to such prefabricated “Cloud Nines” would be relatively negligible. Many thousands of passengers could be housed aboard one-mile-diameter and larger cloud structures. The passengers could come and go from cloud to cloud, or cloud to ground, as the clouds float around the Earth or are anchored to mountaintops.
While the building of such floating clouds is some years in the future, we may foresee that, with the floating tetrahedronal cities; air-deliverable sky-scrapers; submarine islands; sub-dry-surface dwellings; domed-over cities; flyable dwelling machines; and rentable, autonomous-living, black boxes, man may be able to converge and deploy around Earth without its depletion.
Wade Frazier
6th September 2013, 00:01
Hi Hughe:
Yes, Bucky had many ideas along his tetrahedron concepts. One of his big themes was ephemeralization, or what he called doing more with less. If you think about his ideas, they are about having something less harmful to Earth by using what we have, and smartly. His designs were highly constrained, however, by energy scarcity. Soon before he died, Bucky got to see an FE prototype, Adam’s:
http://projectearth.com/about/mission-statement?id=10
With FE, the horizons truly become limitless, and Bucky’s designs would have changed radically, once FE was introduced into the mix.
Best,
Wade
MariaDine
6th September 2013, 00:28
Interesting !!!
Wade Frazier
8th September 2013, 19:47
Hi:
A few odds and ends…
I am currently reading Rupert Sheldrake’s The Science Delusion. Good stuff. In it, Sheldrake ventures into FE. Sheldrake addresses one aspect of FE denial among scientists, which is the “laws of physics” and that there cannot be any FE, as it would tap into an energy source that is not currently recognized. That is the standard Level 3 reaction:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3
But Sheldrake also subscribes to the naïve notion that FE technology could ever be put to a fair and impartial test. His perspective totally denies that organized suppression could even exist. It does not even come up on his radar to be denied, but he thinks that inventors and scientists could get together, with the inventors being offered a prize, and impartial tests of FE devices could determine if the FE idea could sink or swim. He displayed a similar naïveté about organized suppression in Western medicine. While voices like Sheldrake’s are vitally needed on the issue of the scientific establishment, that naïveté that denies conscious manipulation of the system to keep the rackets intact makes him seem like an Ivory Tower guy. Brian O eventually got past those naïve notions, especially when he almost lost his life poking around in the fringes:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack
Brian O was a big advocate of scientific testing of “paranormal” phenomena. I have yet to do battle with the “editors” at Wikipedia who changed “The Frontiers of Science” section’s title to “Alternative Beliefs.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_O%27Leary#Alternative_beliefs
Advocating scientific testing is anything but “alternative beliefs,” but it is not the first time that his bio has been changed like that.
The drumbeat leading up to the invasion of Iraq might have been the most emotionally agonizing period of my life. I was reeling from Mr. Professor’s death:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey
which sent me into the dark phase of my midlife crisis, so those dynamics had something to do with it, but the WMD lie was about as stupid a rationale as there ever was, particularly coming from the USA:
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/wade_iraq.htm
and that the lies could be dusted off, to be used again a mere decade later, is pretty incredible from where I sit.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading
I truly live in Orwell’s nightmare world:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#orwell
That they have stopped to citing YouTube videos as their “intelligence” source, when we now know that the NSA monitors simply every electronic communication on Earth, and have subverted all encryption schemes, is nothing short of surreal.
Time to go play.
Best,
Wade
Hughe
9th September 2013, 05:32
Hi Wade,
I learned that most scientists are actually living in different world that far from reality.
I never heard about Nicola Tesla, Buckminster Fuller, Viktor Schauberger, or pioneers of Permaculture on schools.
The public education system completely removed these great minds. Why?
Anyway this is the latest Geodesic dome I built that has all features for real size dome.
http://butterflyofdream.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/img_1120.jpg?w=640&h=961
http://butterflyofdream.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/img_1111.jpg?w=640&h=425
http://butterflyofdream.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/img_1116.jpg?w=640&h=425
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David Hughes
9th September 2013, 07:50
I watched two excellent documentaries recently that will be of interest to anyone following this thread.
The first was, “Hoxsey: How Healing Becomes A Crime”
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/hoxsey-how-healing-becomes-a-crime/
It's a great overview of how the Medical Racket operates.
The FDA, federal government, the pharmaceutical companies who run the clinical trials to prove safety and efficacy, the AMA, NCI, ACS, accredited doctors, surgeons etc are all part of the racket which is basically a private club that has established a way of doing business. They decide and implement the rules and regulations of the racket. Anyone with an effective treatment (or cure) outside this well established racket who does not comply with the regulatory process will be prevented from breaking into the club (forcibly where necessary). The racket has created a barrier from entry with the huge costs involved in running the required clinical trials.
Cancer is big business. According to the ACS over 1.6 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in 2013. Cancer remains the second most common cause of death in the US, accounting for nearly 1 of every 4 deaths.
http://www.cancer.org/research/cancerfactsstatistics/cancerfactsfigures2013/index
Effective alternative cancer treatments based on plant based remedies etc are of no interest to pharmaceutical companies. Why waste time conducting muti-million dollar clinical trials demonstrating the safety and efficacy of something everyone can grow in their own back gardens and then consume for free?
As big as it is, the medical racket dwarfs the energy racket which is worth in the region of a quadrillion dollars. It operates in a manner very similar to the medical racket. Wade has repeatedly commented how baffled he is when folk who have been in the FE community for years still don’t get it and think the latest inventor of the hour has come up with the goods at long last. Naivety combined with ego can cost you big when trying to muscle your way into these well established rackets. As you have stated, the batting average is currently 0/50,000.
The other documentary was, “The Panama Deception”:
http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-panama-deception/
It offers a very interesting perspective on what the U.S foreign policy and military is all about, the likes of which you will never see on FOX.
A few links about the U.S's use of the chemical weapon white phosphorus that are worth reading:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-fog-of-war-white-phosphorus-fallujah-and-some-burning-questions-515345.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-intelligence-classified-white-phosphorus-as-chemical-weapon-516523.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4441902.stm
Wade Frazier
9th September 2013, 14:38
Hi all:
Hughe, the work of the Fullers, Teslas, etc., poses a threat to the orthodox rackets, so they have been cast from The Citadel. Accurate and meaningful accounts of their efforts will not be found in the halls of orthodoxy. What Sheldrake’s book, among others like it, does is show how the assumptions that underlie today’s scientific establishment amounts to a religion. Mainstream science has its priests, popes, the flock, and its heretics, inquisitions, torture chambers, and the like. As with the obedient in the pews, the vast majority of scientists will never find out any differently, and that is how those running the religion racket like it. Science in theory and practice are two very different things:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#real
Nice dome!
Hi David:
Great post. While I am always leery of video presentations, I cite those two documentaries on my site, and both are excellent introductions. The Hoxsey movie was followed by a great book by the same guy:
http://www.amazon.com/When-Healing-Becomes-Crime-Alternative/dp/0892819251
Hoxsey’s fate is one that I deal with in my medical racket essay:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#hoxsey
I also cite The Panama Deception in my work, for good reason:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#prelude
Several years ago, I obtained the DVD, and a small bonus feature discussed how that documentary became the leading source for Panamanians about what happened when the USA invaded Panama, and it helped them agitate to finally kick out the USA. Of course, there immediately became bigger fish to fry with the collapse of the Soviet Empire, and almost all U.S. military action since then has been in Oil Country, making the Middle East and Central Asia safe for U.S. oil companies. What the USA did in Panama was kind of a laboratory for honing tactics that it used in Iraq, Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, etc. The media was thoroughly muzzled, only mouthing the party line, numerous atrocities were covered up, and so on.
The media performance leading up to the first Gulf War was my wake-up call on how the media operated:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#loot
of course, after I had been radicalized in Ventura:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#cub
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=400492&highlight=treasure#post400492
The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan had a similar media performance:
http://www.deepjournal.com/p/2/a/en/1109.html
When the USA shelled the hotel where the foreign journalists were staying when it conquered Baghdad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine_Hotel#April_8.2C_2003_incident
my reaction was that the USA was giving a not-so-subtle message to the foreign press about whom the new boss in town was:
http://cpj.org/2008/04/five-years-after-deadly-palestine-hotel-and-aljaze.php
http://www.democracynow.org/2008/5/13/fmr_military_intelligence_officer_reveals_us
http://www.ifex.org/iraq/2004/01/15/rsf_investigates_us_military_strike/
The USA purposely bombed a radio station in the attack on Yugoslavia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_bombing_of_the_Radio_Television_of_Serbia_headquarters
Intentionally bombed the Chinese embassy:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#embassy
and so on.
On my own journey and the rackets, the way that my experiences are addressed by the FE “field” and by the public at large is really little different than how anybody’s experiences are received by those who simply have no experience running outside the herd. We all have egos, and what might be our greatest challenge, and the reason why we are here, is to transcend the ego and find our souls. It is a common enough mystical theme:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving
I have found that the way that my experiences are usually received is very similar to how eighteen-year-old boys think of the battlefield:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business
But that invincible sense of one’s immortality and continuing down the same paths of disaster can still be with FE aspirants until they are 85 years old. Sparky Sweet was trying to work with the big companies until the very end:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky
That naïve faith in “The System” is indoctrinated into Americans from their cradles:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#flag
and almost nobody escapes it. What I did not mention about Sirius was that it began with scenes at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, depicting the shrine in loving cinematic lighting, and Greer was saying that Jefferson was some kind of prophet. No American FE activist that I ever met or heard of takes on the images of the Founding Fathers like I do:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#fathers
Greer, Dennis, Brian, Adam, and so on, never seemed to entirely get the taste of the red, white, and blue Kool-Aid out of their mouths. Even when Dennis came to realize that it was all a Big Lie:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#voice
he later tried to use that illusion to manipulate the herd into saving itself. He even admitted it frankly to me that that was part of his strategy, and that is the biggest difference between how I operate and how Dennis and the others do. I am trying to get past all of the illusions, not use them to manipulate people, even if it is to save themselves. Godzilla is the master shepherd, and there is no way that he can be beaten at his game. The same goes for cloak-and-dagger strategies (Level 7 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7), appealing to greed (“business opportunities”), and so on. Godzilla is the world authority on those methods, and it is the height of foolishness to think that he can be beaten by being outmaneuvered on those playing fields.
I wake up every day and face my ego, as we all do, and some days are better than others. I had to wrestle with the delusions of grandeur that beckon when you take on FE:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#grandeur
and was quickly disabused of my conceits. I saw others totally overcome by those ego-traps, to never recover. It is possible that the next inventor with a gizmo will scale the ramparts, but if he does, it will only be because he was allowed to. Any inventor that thinks that he has the right stuff to get a patent, raise money, get scientific testing, and can bring that pig to market is fatally deluded. That entire path is one of unending catastrophe, and Godzilla rarely needs to lift a claw. The path is strewn with many life-wrecking perils, including lower-level predators protecting their turfs, such as the electric companies in Washington:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run
But nobody really wants to hear it, especially FE aspirants. Like those 18-year-old boys, they think that they have some unique virtue that will allow them to dance across the battlefield and avoid the mines, bullets, shrapnel, etc. That virtually everything written about Dennis in the FE field is in the Big Lie category:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=621892&highlight=barred#post621892
and is eagerly repeated by people like Foster, even when contacted and given the opportunity to adduce even the most elementary facts about Dennis’s adventures, is a big reason why I really don’t want anything to do with the FE field; virtually nobody in it today has the right stuff. I am trying to find something that will work, and plan to try out the loving, enlightened, comprehensivist path. I have some trepidation whether I have what it takes to help something like that along, but I don’t see anybody else trying, so I do what I do.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
David Hughes
11th September 2013, 07:22
I saw Obama on the TV last night in my salubrious $4/night hotel room :) , giving a speech at the White House regarding Syria. He put big emphasis on the children who were suffering at the hands of the Syrian regime, and their use of chemical weapons. His goal in the speech was to give off the air that the U.S were the good guys riding to the rescue of these poor little children. He didn't mention a word about the estimated 2 million+ Iraqi women and children who died as a result of the U.S turning their country into an oil pump.
I recall recently reading this from your website:
"The evidence for econocide regarding Yugoslavia is impressive. The Confederation of Trade Unions of Serbia published a list of 164 factories destroyed by the NATO bombings. Every single one was state-owned. Not one foreign-owned facility was targeted for bombing. Buildings that displayed such corporate logos as McDonald's and Coca-Cola received zero damage. When Michael Parenti visited Yugoslavia after the bombings, he was truly impressed when he saw that the NATO bombings badly damaged the state-run Hotel Yugoslavia, making it uninhabitable, while the Hyatt Hotel, with a bomb-inviting all-glass facade, did not receive a scratch. It does not get much clearer than that, regarding what the real goals of the NATO bombing were. Destroy all the state-owned institutions, and leave the corporate-owned ones alone. Then the neoliberals can crow about how socialism “does not work.”
As in Iraq, the United States used radioactive weapons on Yugoslavia. Depleted Uranium (DU) is nuclear waste. When U-235 is refined from uranium, U-238 is left over. It is not radioactive enough to make good reactor fuel or nuclear explosives, but works great as a penetrating missile, as DU is 1.6 times as dense as lead. DU is effective at penetrating tanks and other targets, but it is also radioactive for billions of years. DU is one suspected culprit in the Gulf War Syndrome and escalating Iraqi birth defects, as many thousands of people have been exposed to the radioactive debris of those weapons. In one sense, they get creativity points. Why spend billions on burying nuclear waste when America can make bombs from it and drop it on nations it destroys? "
I watched another documentary called "Into Eternity" a while back on how Finland are dealing with their nuclear waste. Nuclear waste management is also big business as is evident from watching the documentary.
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2010/nov/11/into-eternity-film-review
The construction industry is another racket. From Wade's website:
"One group we dealt with was Australian, and they developed a plastic house. It was made of a revolutionary plastic, and was made into modular pieces. A three-man team could build a house from it in two days without even using a hammer, and it would last nearly two thousand years. The houses looked good, and were cheaper than houses of today. As usual, they ran into many obstacles, such as the construction industry trying to wipe them out, their partners making things difficult, etc. If homes were made from that plastic, the world would be housed in a few years at significant cost, but then nobody would need to build a house for two thousand years. In the United States today, about two hundred billion dollars a year is spent on residential housing, with about another hundred billion a year spent on non-residential construction.
It is not any stretch of the imagination to see a worldwide construction project where everybody gets a home that will last two thousand years. That is only one way to do it. There are others. In those scenarios, everybody has a dwelling that is paid for, free and clear, and it will last thousands of years. Amortized over two thousand years, the cost of housing virtually vanishes. Also, it would end one of the darker aspects of our "civilization" - most Americans and most people on earth are only a few paychecks away from being thrown out onto the streets. It is a barbaric and inhumane system, but is a great racket for banks, the construction industry and other predators. That global housing situation is a major reason why people live lives of quiet desperation, knowing they are always near the edge, and have to keep punching that clock or be homeless. The housing situation helps keep humanity enslaved. Houses can be made out of completely recyclable materials, have high quality, can be made to exist in harmony with the environment, to where humanity could live indefinitely on the earth, with dwellings that cost virtually nothing."
The U.S spent $665 billion in 2011 on its military budget.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_States
A small fraction of that figure could provide food, housing and clothing for every single individual on the planet.
Wade Frazier
11th September 2013, 13:36
Hi David:
What is this, Wade’s Greatest Hits? :) That was written a long time ago. As I look back at writings like that, I want to rewrite them, but they do not fare too badly compared to my views today. I was just reading yesterday a recent book edited by Uncle Ed on the Srebrenica Massacre:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/147880146/the-Srebrenica-Massacre-Evidence-Context-Politics-Edward-S-Herman-Phillip-Corwin
What Ed’s detractors never, ever seem to understand is that when Ed takes on subjects like that, it is always with the mirror turned on the USA and its propaganda system, not who the good guys and bad guys are in Yugoslavia, Cambodia, etc.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=721663&highlight=sophal#post721663
I recently read this interview with Ed on the USA’s posturing over Syria:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/wmd-double-standards-u-s-war-crimes-and-the-extensive-use-of-chemical-weapons-against-civilians/5348974
Damn, Ed is 88 and still going strong. He is going to leave behind some insanely large shoes to fill, as Uncle Noam will, as Uncle Howard has:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm
The USA’s plan for that part of the world has been to “Balkanize” it, to set up peoples against each other and break nations such as Iraq into smaller, tribalized nations, so that there will not be a regional power that can challenge the West’s manipulations and domination – hey, that oil is ours! :). It is the ancient divide and conquer strategy, which in the West goes back to the earliest invasions of the Western Hemisphere by Europe (see the conquest of the Aztecs, for instance), and was a strategy specifically recommended by the USA’s first president:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint
On plastic homes and the like, since I wrote those words, I have become privy to many more technologies kept under wraps, and plastic homes would likely be seen as fairly primitive compared to the stuff in existence. The technology that exists today can easily make a home that can be made of glass and steel (stainless steel or something equally indestructible) that can be totally self-contained (make its own food, have its own power, water, etc.), and can move anywhere in the solar system that it wanted. And it would all be infinitely recyclable. A home that left Earth’s atmosphere and went beyond the Van Allen Belt would need to have thicker walls to shield from the Sun’s radiation, but since a few asteroids could meet all of humanity’s metal needs forever (or maybe a little mining of Mercury, Venus, or Mars), that would pose no problem at all.
These days, I am thinking a lot about that Fifth Epochal Event and the radical changes that would come with it. As with the previous Epochal Events:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
the social/cognitive changes came for the masses after the energy paradigm had changed (and it was changed by a very small group of people), and what came after the change looked almost nothing like what went before it. Again, before industrialization, slavery was seen as normal, and women were all supposed to be barefoot and pregnant. Before domestication (or, if you will, a local and stable energy supply – in a few places, there were relatively sedentary hunter-gatherers who were able to take advantage of salmon runs, herd migration routes and the like, and some elites appeared, but that was very relative – nothing like the potentates of early civilization, with their armies, harems, monumental architecture, priests, etc.), there were not professions, elites, slaves, etc. There was not even religion as we know it, political-economic ideologies, writing, etc. The civilized world versus what came before it would not have been recognizable to the hunter-gatherers.
So, when I see all the knee-jerk denial and other reactions to the idea of FE, those people are reacting to the end of the world as they know it, not what kind of world FE can help manifest.
I have stated it before, but my goals for this upcoming essay and subsequent work are:
1. Help people understand the role of energy in the human journey, and the journey of life on Earth;
2. Help people develop a comprehensive perspective of the situation;
3. Help people understand what the potential of a new energy regime based on FE can look like;
4. Help people get over the hump regarding the existence and feasibility of FE.
It goes far, far beyond those Level 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 delusions that FE newbies labor under:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
and I am shooting for developing a Level 12 effort. The main barrier is going to be finding enough people who truly care enough to lay aside their scarcity-based indoctrination long enough:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
so that they can at least glimpse what abundance means:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance
It will be a long haul that will likely keep me busy for the rest of my life, but I don’t know of anything more worthwhile to pursue.
Time for chores and plunking along on my essay.
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
12th September 2013, 08:05
FYI, some good news on Syria with an unusual twist from US Army Edgewood Chemical Biological Center research lab in Maryland. Apparently cool heads have won this round :)
NewScientist: Portable lab could guzzle Syria's sarin stockpile (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24187-portable-lab-could-guzzle-syrias-sarin-stockpile.html#.UjFwwsY9KaI)
Enjoy :)
David Hughes
12th September 2013, 08:26
I just left India after 6 months and am in Kathmandu, Nepal now. Similar deal to India here. Only about 40% of Nepal's population has access to electricity. Power cuts of up to 20 hours a day takes place in peak demand periods of winter and the peak electricity demand is almost double the capability or dependable capacity. Power-outs were the norm everywhere I went in India with some places lucky to get 3 or 4 hours worth of electricity a day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nepal
I was talking to the waiter in a local restaurant just there and as per usual he started asking me about my salary and the cost of living in my home country. He told me he earns 2500 Nepali Rupees/month ($25) which he tells me is about the normal monthly wage. Most tourists in Nepal easily spend more than that amount in one day. He works from 7am-10pm every day and is lucky if he gets 1 day off a month. He actually said that he can’t afford to take days off. His story is near identical to a waiter I remember talking to in Cambodia, and i’ve heard similar stories the world over in these 3rd world nations. These type of humble hard working folk earning buttons represent the majority of people living on this planet.
Kathmandu has all but shut down today due to a protest against the state owned Nepal Oil Corporations decision to increase the price of petroleum products. Petrol went up 5c/liter, diesel and kerosene by 3c/liter. There's almost no vehicles or public transport on the roads and most shops and businesses are closed due to fear of reprisals from the protest organizers.
India is a mess of a place with extreme poverty, pollution, and human rights abuses the norm.
Here’s a picture of the Taj Mahal:
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.....and what they don’t show you in the tourist brochures or on TV in the streets of Agra surrounding the Taj:
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Lovely. The trash can is all around you in India. All the plastic, polystyrene and paper waste gets swept up into a pile daily, and then it is set on fire at night. The smell of it burning is delightful. The streets also serve as a public toilet. The street cows, dogs, donkeys, monkeys, goats, cockroaches and rats take care of the rest of the waste.
The following is taken from The Times of India, Friday, August 30, 2013. It’s the most widely read English newspaper in India and has the largest circulation among all English language newspapers in the world, across all formats (broadsheet, tabloid, compact, Berliner and online):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Times_of_India
These stories represent just another day in India.
Short article on page 4 titled: “Woman poisoned for not bearing a son.”
“Jhansi: A 28 year old woman was forced by her husband and in-laws to consume poison in Siya village of Madhya Pradesh for her inability to bear a son. Her parents rushed her to Jhansi Medical College , where she succumbed on Wednesday.
According to the victims father Phool Singh, Sadhna was married 12 years ago. Ever since the marriage, she was being harassed. First for dowry and later for not bearing a child. However, after medical treatment, she had 2 daughters. Since then she was being harassed for not bearing a son. He also alleged that her husband was planning a second marriage.
Phool Singh said that Sadhna’s in-laws contacted a godman who declared that she would never bear a boy. Hearing this, in-laws decided to eliminate Sadhna. On Wednesday they trashed her black and blue and then forcibly made her consume poison.
She somehow managed to inform her parents and brother, who rushed her to Jhansi Medical College. On the way she narrated the entire incident but succumbed at the hospital.”
On page 5 an article titled: “ ‘Robber’ critical after MP cops ram baton into rectum”
“Madhya Pradesh police are indulging in a brutal crackdown to curb spiraling crime just months before assembly polls. And horror tales are emerging from torture chambers in the state.”
The article goes on to state: “ Doctors at Sanjay Gandhi Hospital confirmed on Wednesday that Mayurs rectum and intestines were ruptured and a corrective surgery had been performed on him. His family members claimed “police stripped Mayur and then rammed a baton inside his rectum after pouring petrol mixed with chili powder.”
Page 7 is devoted to: “Women Under Attack”
There are 6 separate rape stories.
The Himalaya mountain region of Kashmir, Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh was the most amazing natural beauty i’ve seen anywhere on the planet. A few pictures from India.....
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Wade Frazier
12th September 2013, 14:01
Hi Robert:
Yes, cooler heads may prevail on Syria, but Syria’s chemical weapons are a red herring, just an excuse to bomb. What is kind of interesting is that this is the first war in recent memory that Americans are not cheering en masse:
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/the-american-publics-foreign-policy-reawakening-9045
So that manufacturing of consent angle is not working like it used to, but Obama and company still want their war:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/obamas-war-on-syria-delayed-not-deterred/5349337
We will see how this plays out. As long as oil runs the world, and the main deposits are in that part of the world, these events will continue. That the USA has been using/supporting Al Qaeda in places such as Syria, Libya, Kosovo, etc., clearly shows how fraudulent the “war on terror” is. Maybe they are going to have to begin to manufacture the ET “threat” in earnest now.
Hi David:
Getting your “travelogue” posts has been great, and glad that I have provided you some bedtime reading. :) You are seeing, up close and personally, what poverty does to people and civilizations. Ever since my days in Skid Row:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&highlight=skid#post406928
I wanted to abolish those earthly hells, and it will take FE to do that, because FE would eliminate poverty, as all wealth is based on energy.
As I look at my site today, there is plenty that I would like to play editor on (I have been writing professionally for ten years since I completed my site in 2002). But, also, as I look at my site today, there also is nothing that I think that I need to rewrite because I messed up. If I had the time, I would like to go far more deeply on the medical stuff, particularly disease and subcellular dynamics. The field is fascinating:
http://www.sun-nation.org/merkl-pleomorphism.html
http://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/articles/germ12.php
http://www.helladelicious.com/blog/stories-and-news/2011/01/germ-theory-vs-cellular-theory/
http://newtreatments.org/doc.php/WisdomExperience/80/an_interesting_discussion_on_pleomorphic_microbes_bechamp_rife_pasteur_etc
I consider it very possible that those discoveries may rewrite the science texts regarding the subcellular milieu and the foundations of life itself, similar to how the reality of FE and antigravity devices would rewrite the physics texts. While some super-microscopes have been sequestered into the Black Ops world, several have not, such as Rife’s and Naessens’s, which shows that they are not nearly the threat that FE technology is, as it is always sequestered if it really works and has promise.
Yesterday was the twelfth anniversary of 9/11, and questioning the official story keeps growing:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-911-reader-the-september-11-2001-terror-attacks/5303012
Time to go hiking.
Best,
Wade
CdnSirian
12th September 2013, 19:52
Hi David Hughes and all...flashbacks! I just published some old travel stories on a little newsy site. Details - the little pile of firewood in Kabul that cost the same as the hotel room; the cow pies mentioned before for cooking food and said sacred cows eating garbage; side streets in Agra haven't improved any, they're far worse; Kathmandu city of rats selling kids and mediaeval economy; countrysides gorgeous.
David Hughes
13th September 2013, 04:31
There's plenty more I could write about India but I wanted to keep my posts as brief and as relevant to the thread as possible.
The spiritual side of things I found particularly facinating. You talk about that stuff with strangers in India you meet for the first time like westerners talk about their jobs. Even with my closest friends I grew up with we would rarely talk about spiritual stuff and when we did it was only because we were drunk enough to let our guards down. Its like a taboo subject matter in 1st world countries for the most part, something that is a personal and private affair. You rarely get to have a deep conversation because very few people have done their homework on why they believe what they do.
The true root of disease at the subcellular level. So scarce is the information available on disease at the subcellular level that you have to read books published over a century ago:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Blood-its-Third-Element/dp/0957985878/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379045384&sr=8-1&keywords=the+blood+and+its+third
Funny you should mention sacred cows eating garbage CdnSirian. I had planned to post 7 photos but the maximum allowed per post is 5. The following cow picture was to be picture number 6 :) The other one is the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar, Punjab.
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Wade Frazier
13th September 2013, 19:06
Hi David:
In a world of scarcity, everybody is using what angle they have to get fed, get a roof over the head, and the like. That is a big reason why personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity. When Dennis got repeatedly screwed over by his “allies,” the most common excuse was, “It is nothing personal, just business.” A related saying, as they were screwing him over (stealing his business, etc.), was that Dennis was so talented that he could always start over, while this was the only chance for the Big One that the thieves would have in their lifetimes. That idea that they were killing the Golden Goose for everybody never entered their minds, as they collapsed the entire thing on their heads, and I doubt that they understood even then. I do my best to not judge it, but I would prefer that we don’t destroy the planet and take ourselves with it. :)
That Béchamp book is pretty technical, but since you teach biology, it should be no big deal. His Les Microzymas has not been translated into English. Maybe that world-traveling Irishman knows French? How many languages do you know, trotting the world like you do? I only know the imperial tongue.
As I write my essay, I am tackling subjects much more thoroughly than I have in my Avalon posts. For instance, the first two epochal events, the control of fire and moving to the top of the food chains, were so long ago that there is plenty of controversy about what happened and when. But what is not controversial is that the human brain is an energy hog, consuming up to 20% of the body’s energy while at rest. For an infant, the number is around 50%. What also is not controversial is that the human digestive system has shrunken compared to the earliest hominids and our great ape brethren. It was an energy tradeoff in more than one way. The human digestive system shrank, so that more energy could be devoted to powering our oversized brains, and it meant that humans ingested easier-to-digest food so that the digestive system could become smaller. Until Wrangham’s cooking hypothesis, the predominant theory was that early hunters began to only consume the choicest meats in their kills, which would have been easier to digest. That provided more energy for the growing brain and allowed the digestive system to shrink, including losing the heavy jaws, teeth, and muscles, including the sagittal crest, whose disappearance in turn allowed the skull to expand. But the cooking hypothesis is challenging that theory, and the dates for controlling fire keep getting pushed back:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/apr/02/scientists-clue-human-evolution-question
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=713975&highlight=cooking#post713975
Will Wrangham’s two-million-years-ago date for controlling fire be confirmed? It is too early to tell, but it is beginning to look good. There has never been a studied human society that did not cook its food. But whether it was cooking that did it, or choicer meats, it was still an energy game. Controlling fire was the first mental/social/technical act that differentiated humans from all other animals.
The first wide-scale burning to transform the landscape was when humans invaded Australia and quickly drove all the megafauna to extinction:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=644451&viewfull=1#post644451
So, the mental/technical/social/physiological aspects of the human brain and fire are intertwined, and we will see if they are ever unraveled, where one thing can be seen to lead to another, or if there were positive feedbacks that propelled the developments. Today, they probably need to be seen as an interacting complex. The primary upshot, however, is that humans were able to get more energy to power their brains, and their shrinking digestive tract was an integral part of it. That also meant less time was devoted to eating, so humans could develop the skills that propelled the rise of humans.
That second epochal event is also quite controversial in determining how the dynamics interacted and when. Anatomically modern humans first appeared more than 150K years ago. There was a 100K period when human “progress” seemed to be very slow. Some argue that humans could have done the same things that they did later, when the opportunity availed itself (ice age climate dynamics and other environmental conditions contributed to when opportunities arose or disappeared), but when humans began spilling into previously unpeopled biomes (Australia, central Europe and the glacial steppes, the Western Hemisphere), there is no argument that the expansion would have been primarily fueled by meat. Those expansions left the tropics, and plant foods would have been very limited, especially when they were all new biomes, with plants never seen before. Meat however, was universally available, and those fire-and-weapon-bearing humans sure knew how to hunt, and all animals in those biomes would have been naïve to humans and effortless to kill, and there was a Golden Age in each of those biomes, at least until all the easy meat was rendered extinct. The most significant one in historical times was the Maori invasion of New Zealand, and it now looks like they drove all the big birds to extinction in less than a century:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moa#Relationship_with_humans
The result of one event, or tightly-related series of them, was a hominid with a big, energy-demanding brain, and the other was a meat-fueled migration into all ecosystems other than Antarctica, as humans ascended to the top of all food (energy) chains.
As I have stated repeatedly, I am continually bombarded with the inventor of the hour musings and other nonsense. The idea that a lone inventor can scale the ramparts, or kits for tinkerers can be made available, so that we can sneak right past a sleeping Godzilla, is not only an immense time-waster, but is the height of foolishness. But I am constantly bombarded with those naïve, adolescent notions. My patience is tested almost daily on stuff like that. There is almost nobody in my circles who understands what I am trying to do, even supposedly hip people. So, what is the chance that the general public will? The probability is about zero, which is why I have zero interest in engaging the general public. They will only begin to understand when FE is delivered to their homes, and Godzilla has made sure that nobody has ever gotten remotely close to that finish line. What Dennis did in Seattle with his heat pump:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run
is the closest that anybody ever came to something like that, but the FE field is completely blind and deaf to the lessons learned by that attempt. I am looking for needles in haystacks, and not trying to interest people in the FE field, the general public, so-called progressive organizations, etc. None of them have the right stuff. If this is going to happen, it will only happen by relatively few people who can lay aside their indoctrination long enough so that they can start to understand the big picture, which always has been and always will be predicated on energy availability. Everything else is just noise.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
14th September 2013, 04:29
Hi:
Quickly, I just saw this on drilling ever deeper for the oil:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-12/wildcatter-hunch-unlocks-1-5-trillion-oil-offshore-u-s-.html
What shameless cheerleading by the business press. All of that “gee whiz” reporting is ignoring the fact that the easy oil is all gone, and when you invoke all manner of “cutting edge” methods to go ever further down, you are literally sucking at the dregs. When they say stuff like 15 billion barrels of oil, they are generally exaggerating:
http://www.energyandcapital.com/articles/oil-jack-chevron/328
What makes the article surreal is that it is all about drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, and they pass off the worst oil spill in history with, “they improved the procedures.” When Luddites bemoan the fetish of technological fixes, that kind of situation is a great example of what they are concerned about.
What goes unsaid is that the EROI is going to be miserable for that stuff, as it is for all such marginal hydrocarbons. No answers there at all, but breathless articles like that make it seem like some kind of savior.
Best,
Wade
David Hughes
14th September 2013, 07:45
I learned French in Secondary school for 5 years but haven’t used it in years. With languages for me it’s a case of use it or lose it. I wouldn’t be anywhere near fluent enough to translate a book. I self taught myself Spanish and Portuguese while travelling through Central America and South America (nothing fancy, just enough to talk with a native speaker about the basics for an hour or so) and having lived in Korea for 4 years I learned plenty of that too.
I following is taken from your website:
"Béchamp held that microzymas were both the beginning and end of life, in a category all their own. Microzymas initiated the formation of cells, and also initiated the cells’ destruction. Béchamp stated that nothing is the prey of death, but everything is the prey of life. When animals and plants decay, organisms are nourished by consuming them. The organisms that live inside them are apparently responsible for their life in the first place. The decay initiated by the microzymas when cells die is identical to the fermentation process in wine, beer, and the inversion of sugar. Microzymas exist at the beginning of life, and when the cell dies, microzymas are eventually the only organized material left, and the rest is broken down into its constituent elements. The microzymas can survive in limestone for millions of years. The recent “revival” of ancient bacteria by today’s scientists is more confirmation of Béchamp’s work. Microzymas, not the cell, appear to be the smallest unit of life, and its building block. A cell is a higher level of organization of life processes, similar to the manner in which a multicellular creature is another, higher level.
Béchamp and Estor were discovering a dynamic that has profound implications for today's medicine. They set forth a theory known today as pleomorphism. What it meant was this: one day a microbiologist looks through his microscope, seeing a rod-shaped bacterium; the next day he sees a spherical-shaped bacterium; with his microbiology training, based in large measure upon Pasteur's germ theory of disease, those bacteria are considered separate species; according to pleomorphic theory, that rod-shaped bacterium one day and spherical-shaped bacterium the next is the same organism, but has "mutated."
That might seem a minor difference, but it has profound implications for the entire foundation of modern medicine. In the view of Béchamp, a bacterium was not the cause of disease, but one of its effects. Béchamp noted otherwise healthy microzymas going through pathological mutations when cells were ill or dying, mutating into bacterial and other forms.
Béchamp’s work has never been pursued by mainstream microbiology, and Pasteur led an effort to erase Béchamp’s name from the history books, and it largely succeeded."
The stuff George Merkyl was on to before he was poisoned particularly interests me. The following is taken from here:
http://goarticles.com/article/SOMATIDS-THE-MYSTERIOUS-DNA-PRECURSOR-AS-A-FUNCTION-OF-ZPE/2785891/
"Somatids are none other than condensed biophotons or light energy. We know that the human body glows and emits light often referred to as an aura. Another pleomorphic scientist named George Merkl referred to his tiny bodies as chondrianas contain tiny pyramidal shaped crystals of ATP. This is the transducer of all life.
Where do they come from? They must come from the quantum sea of ZPE (zeropoint energy). According to Heisenberg's "Uncertainty Principle" ZPE produces Brownian motion, relevant here as these tiny bodies move in Brownian motion. ZPE interacting with matter produces vacuum polarization affecting these particles.
This is the FORCE as it is conscious, alive, expanding and indestructible. It is the origin of life itself. It animates the somatid and all building blocks of life. ZPE pops into the third dimension from the electron-positron pairs; these are scalar waves of opposite oscillation and spin. I referred to them in my Zerostate manuscript as enantiomorphic dyads. The proton is an intermediate between particle matter and free energy. ATP must act as a transducer from the fourth dimension."
Again, all roads lead to FE and the vacuum (plenum is actually a more accurate term as the field is full of energy).
What particularly fascinates me is this Brownian motion. That is exactly the how the 'tiny' point of light that has appeared post 'death' in my lucid dreams behaves. What is light then becomes the question? A bit of digging on that brought me to another amazing guy named Walter Russell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Russell
http://www.amazon.com/The-Secret-Light-Walter-Russell/dp/1879605449/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379136360&sr=8-1&keywords=russell+secret+light
http://www.amazon.com/The-Man-Tapped-Secrets-Universe/dp/1879605074/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1379136025&sr=8-1&keywords=clark+man+tapped
This is a good overview of what he was about:
5U-WAtgan0A
Regarding FE, I was just talking to a buddy of mine from back home who just got back from a trip to Iceland. He was talking to some locals and they were telling him about the countries government backed plans to develop a Hydrogen Energy Economy that would eliminate its dependence on fossil fuels in favor of the limitless possibilities of clean hydrogen. Although not FE specifically, like Dennis' technology it presented a major threat to the energy racket. He was told that the project was progressing very nicely.......until.......the Icelandic economy crashed and the funding dried up. Since the crash the project has stalled completely. The locals are apparently very suspicious about what happened.
http://www.iceh2.com/projects.htm
http://www.worldwatch.org/node/4664
If the racket can effectively eliminate individuals and groups of individuals who are developing market disrupting energy technology, is it beyond the realms of possibility that the same interests could topple a whole economy to prevent the technology reaching the masses? I wouldn't be the least bit surprised.
Wade Frazier
14th September 2013, 09:19
Thanks David:
Yes, that entire line of inquiry, into the microzyma, pleomorphism, the “vacuum” (yes, plenum is used by some FE theorists, with good reason), and wrestling with the dualistic properties of light and matter, are heady areas to jump into, but are largely forbidden, so mainstream scientists don’t go there, or if they do, they risk their careers and sometimes their lives. Just investigating certain fringe topics can mean the end of mainstream science careers.
The Silva class:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva
wrecked a bunch of scientific careers back in the 1970s, and everybody whom I respect in the FE field had a mystical awakening. It seems to be part of what it takes to unhook from the indoctrination machine.
Crashing a national economy to keep the rackets intact is a small thing, especially for someplace like Iceland. Millions of people die annually and needlessly the world over to keep false paradigms such as the attack-the-tumor approach to cancer treatment intact:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#racket
Crashing an economy of a few hundred thousand people is nothing. I am not saying that that is what happened, but it is not farfetched. If a sizeable group decided to form a nation on some remote island to make FE happen, I would not be surprised if a natural “disaster” befell it, up to and including a meteor impact obliterating it. With the stakes of the game what they are, such suppression activities make sense. I have stated it before: the FE suppression boys have never had to consider the “nuclear option,” as their low-level stuff works just fine.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
17th September 2013, 14:21
Hi:
As I write the essay, I end up plowing through textbooks and other material, and I am continually struck by how scientists can treat their practice as a religion. Even the best of them seem to do that. One of the greatest flaws of their thinking is labeling anything not in their purview as “pseudoscience.” Carl Sagan was one of the most notorious practitioners of that flawed logic:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#pseudoscience
I was just reading a similar attack in a textbook on evolution. If a class is taught where people can have remote viewing experiences:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva
how is having such an experience “pseudoscience”? It is gaining the knowledge of experience. There have been scientific tests of ESP and Psi, and with untrained people, the effect is still measurable, although the “skeptics” attack the experiments and data with all the fervor and honesty of medieval inquisitors. Science as practiced today operates from a materialistic assumption, and anybody who does not operate from that assumption in their investigations of reality is called pseudoscientific. It is circular logic that makes materialism the only game in town.
The very term falsely presupposes that “pseudoscience” is trying to pass itself off as science. The irresponsible and irrational bandying about of “pseudoscience” is when science dons its priest’s robes. Another great failing of mainstream (“White”) science is its total denial of what is happening in the Above Top Secret world. It is well documented that antigravity research was barreling along in the early 1950s, with the aerospace companies merrily publishing scientific papers on their electrogravity research. Then in the mid-1950s, the entire field went black, and nary has a peep been heard since then. If you risk your life, playing at the high levels of the game for many years, then you might get a show like this:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground
Or if you poke your nose into the UFO issue, for instance, and you used to be an astronaut, you may not survive the experience:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack
But the reality of those situations is something that White Scientists cannot seem to wrap their heads around in the slightest. I have seen highly irrational and dishonest denial of those simple facts and events.
In the prologue of his last book:
http://www.brianoleary.info/Synopsis.html
Brian quoted Shaun Saunders:
“Most people,” writes Shaun Saunders, “prefer to cling to the belief that the ‘state’ will only do what is best for everyone—a childlike frame of mind, that encourages turning a blind eye to many evils…to think outside of this comforting box is too frightening for them, and would require that they take responsibility for what happens in their lives and the events that transpire around them.”
And this applies to White Scientists in spades. Even when there is undeniable evidence of technology suppression:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=514878&viewfull=1#post514878
the White Scientists are all blind, deaf, and dumb to it, or if they engage it at all, they take naïve, irrational positions on it. In light of those facts, that White Scientists can portray the current "approved" scientific process as the only road to truth and a rational worldview can be pretty mindboggling to witness.
The highly irrational and naïve positions taken by White Science does not make Fringe Science valid, either. The work of Velikovsky and other literalist interpreters of ancient texts, invoking catastrophes of celestial origin, is wanting, IMO. That did not make the attackers of Velikovsky pillars of virtue, either. In those battles, it is once again like looking for Diogenes’s honest man. In a world of artificially-enforced scarcity, everybody is defending what puts food on their table, and almost nobody does it honestly. That is the crux of the conundrum.
Getting back to work now.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
19th September 2013, 00:17
Hi:
As I write away, I keep thinking about what I intend to happen as a result of my efforts, particularly the upcoming essay and the choir work. In short, the goal is to get as many people as possible thinking comprehensively. That is far easier said than done. The comprehensive perspectives that will be needed are:
1. Understanding the role of energy in our world, both today and how it has shaped the human journey;
2. Understanding the economic/political/social/environmental effects of energy use by humanity;
3. Understanding how our societies actually operate, particularly the social enforcement dynamics; from the family and local institutions all the way to Godzilla;
4. Understanding what the transformative potential of free energy (FE) can be.
If people do the work to attain those understandings, they should be able to keep their eye on the ball and not get distracted by the social managers and the circus. There are a million distractions out there, and all manner of way to get derailed from doing anything productive. If people do the work, they should be able to understand why Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
are all dead ends in this environment. They will understand that ten like Dennis:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
could make FE happen. But they will also understand that ten like that do not exist on the planet right now. They will also understand that, as Darren put it:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=679145&viewfull=1#post679145
people “clouded” by ideologies and personal agendas are not any help and will generally harm the effort if they get involved. My goal is that people come to understand that a Level 12 effort is at least worth trying. When enough can learn the song and sing it, then we will be ready for the next step. Have no doubt that FE and a healed humanity and planet are my goals. A Level 12 effort may only be complementary to the FE heroes who will scale the ramparts, or a stampede of lambs just might do it. Whatever the case might be, a Level 12 effort can’t hurt, which is a supremely important aspect of my efforts. I have seen enough blood and guts for ten lifetimes. Along those lines, during my sabbatical, I talked with quite a few people, doing Bucket List stuff. As an example of how far the carnage spread, I talked with a fellow traveler who was with Dennis far longer than I was, and who is one of the few who bowed out with honor. I talked about how 1988 was the worst year of my life, by far:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr
and he said that it was the worst year of his life, too. I was surprised. He was one of Dennis’s dealers in 1988, and moved a good distance to a city to set up his business. When we got wiped out, his business naturally folded. This is far from the first time that I have heard stories like that. I will not denigrate experiences like his, but if people scattered across the nation had their lives wrecked as we were wiped out, imagine what Ground Zero must have been like. I was there, and do not want to be sitting there again when they call in the air strike. The devastation when efforts like ours are wiped out extends far and wide, which is a big reason why I do not want to go that route. There are many ways to risk one’s life. Financial ruin is only one of them, and if I had only been ruined financially, I would have gotten off easy. Going bankrupt in 1988:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bankrupt
and mortgaging my life in 1989:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#it
were the least of my problems back then. The last thing that I want is any Level 12 member telling me one day how their life was wrecked by getting involved with me. Choir members with the right stuff will not need to risk their lives to be involved with me. I am trying to avoid risking my life, much less the lives of anybody that gets involved. Naïve newbies and gung-hoers are generally the dangerous ones, and I will do my best to ensure that none of those are in the choir.
Back to writing.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
20th September 2013, 12:42
Hi:
Uncle Ed once wrote a book titled Beyond Hypocrisy:
http://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Hypocrisy-Decoding-News-Propaganda/dp/0896084353
and his word to define actions beyond hypocrisy was chutzpah, which is a Yiddish word:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chutzpah
Well, this morning, Israel wins the Chutzpah Award of the Day:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/20/us-iran-nuclear-israel-idUSBRE98J08Y20130920
Everybody on Earth except brainwashed Americans knows that Israel has a nuclear arsenal. I publicly wrote about the USA's hypocrisy regarding Iraq’s alleged WMD and the curious position of Israel fifteen years ago (where I also unfortunately predicted a 9/11-type event):
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#sunny
and Israel never misses a beat in accusing neighboring nations of pursuing nuclear weapons, when Israel is sitting on top of the biggest nuclear weapons stockpile in the Middle East, which they never admit, and illegally kidnap people when they honestly bring up the subject:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanunu
Vanunu is still stuck in Israel today. The USA also deserves a Chutzpah Award on the WMD issue. The USA is the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons on another:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#dropping
and still justifies those actions today. The USA, like Israel, has used depleted uranium munitions:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Depleted_Uranium
and the USA’s use of chemical weapons goes way back, from Agent Orange in Southeast Asia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange
and even Sarin in those halcyonic days:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#arnett
to White Phosphorous in Iraq:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/america-s-fallujah-legacy-white-phosphorous-depleted-uranium-the-fate-of-iraq-s-children/30372
The USA is the last nation on Earth that can accuse others of using WMD, but there we sit, astride the world stage, threatening to bomb and invade other nations because they have WMD. And as we all know, even if a nation does not have WMD, it does not matter:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=652292&viewfull=1#post652292
as the propaganda machine keeps grinding away, as Orwell predicted:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#orwell
The evil hypocrisy is surreal.
On a happier note, on some days, magic happens, and it happened yesterday while I was out hiking. Because of image limitations at Avalon, I will spread this over two posts. This sabbatical year will be memorable for several reasons, not least of which is all the hiking that I have been doing. I have been on the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Crest_Trail
on six different hikes/backpacks this year, and the hiking season will not end for another six weeks, so I may get in another trip or two that traverse the PCT. Yesterday, I enjoyed one of the last nice weather days that we will have this year, and I have had my eye on a meadow on a ridge alongside the PCT since the 1990s, wondering what view might be had from the top of it.
The day started with my arrival at the lake/pond in the image attached after 45 minutes of hiking. The mushrooms were prodigious on that trip. I can recognize some of them, and if I had a mind to, I could have picked a few hundred dollars of mushrooms in a few minutes. People in the business can sell them directly to gourmet restaurants and such. In the last image attached in this post is the meadow that I have hiked past several times.
Wade Frazier
20th September 2013, 12:44
I took yesterday’s trip to find out what the view from the ridge above the meadow might look like. Even near the top, I was not sure if I would get much of a view, and suspected that the ridge would be knife-like, with me struggling to get any view at all. Was I ever wrong. I crested the ridge to find a land of meadows laid out before me. To say that I owned it would be an understatement. I found my own private meadows. There was no water supply. Otherwise, I am sure that there would be a trail to the meadows. But I doubt that even one person a year visits those meadows.
But there was water below, and I am now sure that I will camp there one day, and haul up a gallon of water or two from below. In the first meadow that I encountered was a patch of fly agaric mushrooms, the classic “Magic Mushroom” that not only looks the part, but it has hallucinatory properties. There all manner of magic mushroom in Washington's forests, for those who can identify them, but fly agarics can’t be missed.
Owning my own private meadows was a magical day. That snow-covered mountain in the distance in an attached picture is Glacier Peak. So, the snows are already here for the higher elevations. At the level where I was hiking, you can usually hike through October, and the high country color can be spectacular. Images will be coming of those days in the next several weeks.
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
20th September 2013, 20:32
Wade, what a lucky guy you are :) And we are lucky too to have you here reporting your luck to us :) Hope i didn't make it too confusing ;) Your essay is going to be awesome after such high quality battery charging :) Can't wait!
Wade Frazier
21st September 2013, 15:10
Hi Robert:
As I write the essay, the reality of what I will be requiring of the choir hits home more and more, and it won’t be easy. It is going to scare off a lot of people with the mental challenges that it will present, but that is OK. I am not shooting for the mass audience, as I am going for quality over quantity. If the choir does not have a comprehensive perspective, my idea won’t work, and getting to a comprehensive perspective takes a lot of hard work. It may require more mental horsepower than most people can muster, but I am trying to make it so that people do not need to be geniuses to understand. That may be my folly, but we will see.
For those who achieve a comprehensive perspective and I invite into the choir (there will also likely be non-choir places for people to rest their heels, the Avalon forum one of them), what they won’t be doing is:
1. Posting up YouTube links to the inventor of the hour, or other documentary clips. YouTube is only good for introducing certain ideas and data, and is like watching TV. We have to go far deeper than TV to get there.
2. Proposing the many “sneak past Godzilla” level 7 ideas (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7) that you see on this thread and elsewhere;
3. Proposing the Level 10, “stampede” ideas that you see on this thread and elsewhere;
4. Getting all conspiratorial and blaming elite machinations for our predicament;
5. Getting all structural and denying the role of conscious manipulation of the world scene, particularly where FE is concerned.
What they will be doing is:
1. Writing essays like mine, where they have done their homework, and written something that evidences deep and original thought on the subjects. There may even be some kind of “peer review” process to get the essays in the best possible shape before publishing them.
2. Forum posts will be long, deep, and thoughtful, and won't be filled with spelling and grammar errors. They won’t be the kind of pithy and often retort-ish posts that you see in normal forums.
3. Their writings will be combining deep thought with a whole heart, and they will be “singing.”
I don’t kid myself that many will be able or willing to do something like that, and that is OK. What I am shooting for has never been attempted before that I know of, and it won’t be easy. Manifesting the biggest epochal event in human history won’t be easy, not with humanity’s inertia and addiction to scarcity, and the organized suppression. The choir has to be made of people whose hearts are whole, and who are honest, intelligent, informed, courageous, and worldly. Again, I am not looking for heroes, and certainly nobody who has performed feats like Dennis has done:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
or those who engage in the life-risking behaviors that Greer, Trombly, and O’Leary have done. But they will be courageous enough to not hide behind pseudonyms. I fully realize that I am looking for needles in haystacks. A few at Avalon may be able to sing in the choir, if they are willing to, but the search for and training of singers is what will likely consume my "spare" time after I get the essay done and forum started.
As an example of what I am writing, here is a draft of an early chapter of the essay, which only provides some foundational information. After I lay some foundations, then I will embark on the tale, and I will make many connections for the reader to consider. By the end of the essay, for those who do their homework and understand, they will not be suggesting Level 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 approaches:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
They will be past those early-stage pitfalls.
You can’t see the links or references in that chapter draft, but it will give an idea of what my essay will be like. For those in the choir, they either already know the information, or they will have to do the work to get familiar with it.
Best,
Wade
The Formation and Early Development of the Sun and Earth
After the Big Bang, when matter began to coalesce, virtually all mass in the universe was contained in hydrogen atoms, with traces of the next two lightest elements: helium and lithium. According to the Standard Model, atoms have no mass by themselves, but the field that gives rise to the Higgs Boson provides the mass. Gravity attracted hydrogen atoms to each other and, where “clumps” of hydrogen became large enough, the pressure in the clump’s center (a star’s core) became great enough so that the mutual repulsion of the protons in hydrogen nuclei was overcome (like charges repel each other, while opposite charges attract), and the protons fused together. That fusion released a great deal of primordial Big Bang energy, and fusion powers stars.
Depending on the star’s size and the resulting temperatures and pressures, larger elemental nuclei can be produced. Iron is the heaviest element created during a large star’s primary fusion process. Nuclei larger than the simplest hydrogen nucleus contain neutrons as well as protons. As the name implies, neutrons have no net electric charge. In the smaller stars that eventually collapse to become white dwarfs, the primary fusion process creates oxygen as its heaviest element. Even though the Sun is larger than about 95% of the Milky Way Galaxy’s stars, it is destined to become a white dwarf in about six or seven billion years.
Several different fusion processes have been identified, and stars from about half the size of the Sun to about nine times larger can undergo a process known as s-process fusion late in their lives, and that process has created about half of the elements heavier than iron, with bismuth the heaviest element created by the process. Those heavier elements are eventually blown from the star by its stellar wind as it becomes a white dwarf. Stars with more than nine times the mass of the Sun undergo a different process at the end of their lives. When the hydrogen and helium fuel is used up and the fusion processes in those stars’ cores are reduced low enough, gravity will cause those stars to collapse on themselves. That collapse creates the pressures needed to fuse those other atoms heavier than iron, including the heaviest elements, with uranium being the heaviest naturally-produced element. In an instant, r-process fusion occurs. Depending on a collapsing star’s composition, it can collapse into a black hole or explode into a supernova.
When a star becomes a supernova, those heavy elements are sprayed into the galactic neighborhood by a stupendous release of energy. Over the subsequent eons, gravity will cause the remnants of stars, and hydrogen that had not yet become a star or did not fuse within a star, to coalesce into an accretion disk, where a new star, with its attendant planets, will form. While the Sun will take more than ten billion years to live its life cycle before becoming a white dwarf, large stars burn much more quickly and can become supernovas after as little as ten million years of main-sequence burning. The rule is: the larger the star, the shorter its life.
The accretion disk that the Sun and its planets formed from appeared in a relatively short time, and the disk was originally a molecular cloud that may have been disturbed by an exploding star, which initiated the gravitational collapse into the disk. Earth’s age is estimated to be about 4.5 billion years, forming about 100 million years after the Sun did. In a mere 50 million years after formation, the Sun became compressed enough to initiate the sustained fusion that still powers it, and will for several billion more years. Some atoms are unstable and decay into smaller elements (also called “daughter isotopes”). That decay is mediated by the weak nuclear force. A great deal of scientific data has confirmed that decay rates are quite stable, primarily governed by the dynamics in a decaying atom. In the past century, dating the formation of rocks, fossils, and other objects by their measured decay rates and daughter products has become a sophisticated process. The dates adduced by radioactive dating have been correlated to other observed processes, with the data becoming increasingly robust over the years.
Our solar system’s planets initially formed from clumps of heavier atoms, with the rocky planets forming in a region too hot for lighter elements and compounds to condense. Oxygen and iron, those two largest products of main sequence burning, comprise nearly two-thirds of Earth’s mass.
Just past our solar system’s “frost line,” the largest planet and first gas giant, Jupiter, formed. In our solar system’s early days, smaller agglomerations of mass, called planetesimals, swarmed. Those that began their lives inside the frost line were rocky, while those outside the frost line were generally comprised of lighter elements. Those planetesimals bombarded the forming planets, usually increasing the planetary mass. Other planetesimals were ejected from the solar system as the gravity of the Sun and planets whipped them around. Today’s solar system provides mute evidence of that bombardment, with all rocky planets and moons heavily cratered. Earth’s geological processes have removed most evidence of that bombardment, but the other rocky bodies have preserved the evidence. It is thought that the bombardment of Earth by the planetesimals comprised of lighter elements provided the materials for Earth’s oceans and atmosphere. Venus and Mars were also bombarded with the lighter elements and may have had oceans long ago, but only Earth retained its ocean. The biggest collision between Earth and its neighbors may well have created the Moon, and although the currently prevailing hypothesis has plenty of problems, the other hypotheses have more. Moon rocks obtained by NASA’s Apollo missions show that the oldest parts of the Moon’s surface are about the same age as Earth.
Today’s prevailing scientific theories consider stars to be the observable universe‘s energy centers. According to today’s theories, 95% of the universe is not observable, with about 70% of it being dark energy, and 25% of it being dark matter. At this time, dark energy and dark matter have never been observed. Any theory that relies on unobserved phenomena is going to be highly provisional, and I consider it unlikely that the prevailing cosmological theories a century from now will much resemble those of today.
The chemistry of Earth’s land, oceans, and atmosphere provides the raw material for life, but if the Sun disappeared tomorrow, Earth’s surface would quickly become a block of ice, with an insignificant atmosphere. Because humanity has not explored beyond our home star system, our planet is the universe’s only place currently acknowledged to host life as we know it.
The journey of life on Earth has been greatly affected by geophysical processes as well as influences from beyond Earth, such as:
• Continental formation and moving tectonic plates, and volcanism;
• Land-based dynamics, including erosion, weathering, uplift, and subsidence;
• The chemistry of the oceans and atmosphere;
• The currents in the oceans and atmosphere, including the oceanic tides;
• The physics of Earth’s atmosphere and magnetic field;
• The climate, including precipitation and changing temperatures;
• Comet and asteroid impacts;
• Earth’s relationship with the Moon;
• Variations in Earth’s orientation to the Sun;
• The slowly increasing solar output as the Sun grows older, and minor variations in solar output.
Those processes and events can interact with each other, and a few examples can provide an idea of the dynamics’ complexity. Volcanism can not only temporarily alter the atmosphere’s chemistry; the ash from volcanism can also block sunlight from reaching Earth’s surface, leading to atmospheric cooling. Tectonic plate movements can alter the circulation of the atmosphere and ocean. When continental plates come together into a supercontinent, the oceanic currents can fail and the oceans can become anoxic, as atmospheric oxygen is no longer drawn into the ocean’s depths, which may have triggered mass extinction events. When continents are near the poles, ice ages can appear, but in our current ice age the tipping point seems to be variations in Earth’s orientation to the Sun, which is affected by, among other influences, the Moon.
Tectonic plates can collide, such as the collision of India into Asia, which formed the Himalayan Mountains and raised the Tibetan Plateau. That continuing event not only changed Earth’s weather patterns and influenced the monsoons’ formation, it exposed a great deal of raw rock to the atmosphere and consequently removed atmospheric carbon dioxide through weathering, which in turn made the atmosphere colder, which may have contributed to the ice age that we currently experience, although other studies indicate that the carbon removal may have been more due to the burial of organic matter, and the debate is continuing as the complex dynamics are subjected to scientific research. For all of the controversy over the dynamics, few scientists argue against the idea that atmospheric carbon dioxide has been falling, fairly consistently, for the past 150 million years, from several thousand parts per million to the roughly 200-to-300 parts per million (“PPM”) of the past million years. Nearly 35 million years ago, carbon dioxide levels fell below 600 PPM, which is when the Antarctic ice sheet began to form. During the current fossil fuel era, Earth’s atmosphere may reach 600 PPM again, or higher, in this century. Carbon dioxide levels are considered to be a primary variable affecting the temperature of Earth’s surface over the eons.
Earth’s development has also been greatly impacted by life processes. For instance, if hydrogen floats free in the atmosphere, Earth’s gravity is not strong enough to prevent it from escaping to space. Ultraviolet light breaks water vapor into hydrogen and oxygen. If not for the high oxygen content of Earth’s atmosphere, Earth would have lost its oceans as all the hydrogen from split water molecules eventually drifted into space, which scientists believe happened to Venus and Mars. Without the ocean, there would not be life on Earth as we know it. On Earth, that hydrogen liberated by ultraviolet light reacts with atmospheric oxygen to turn back into water before it can escape into space. The reason for free oxygen in the atmosphere is photosynthesis. When comparing Earth’s tectonics to Venus’s, the formation of granite, continents, and setting the tectonic plates in motion appears to be due to Earth’s ocean. Plate tectonics are responsible for recycling elements through Earth’s crust and mantle, carbon in particular. Photosynthesis led to atmospheric oxygen, which led to the recapture of hydrogen that would have otherwise escaped to space, which prevented the oceans from disappearing, which led to plate tectonics, which led to the formation of granitic continents, which led to land-based life. In short, life made Earth more conducive to life. That is the most important impact of life on geophysical processes, but far from the only, and others will be explored in this essay.
Geology in the West is considered to have begun during the Classic Greek period, with Islamic and Chinese scholars furthering the discipline during the medieval period. While volcanoes and geysers have always provided humanity with abundant evidence that Earth’s interior is hot, when humans began mining hydrocarbons and metals in abundance during the early days of industrialization, the collection of data about Earth’s subterranean temperature began. It was not until my lifetime that some of Earth’s geological processes were understood well enough to begin mapping its energy flows. Today’s most widely accepted theory is that the energy provided by radioactive decay of elements such as potassium, uranium, and thorium is the primary heat source for Earth’s geological processes, and propels mass flows within Earth. There is a constant upwelling of mass from the mantle, riding those energy currents. When those flows reach Earth’s crust, the lighter portions float to Earth’s surface. Those portions eventually cool, become denser and sink back into the mantle. That process is thought to have begun about three billion years ago, about the time that the continents began to form in earnest. Three billion years ago, the continents may have only had about a quarter of the mass that they do today.
The lightest portions of Earth’s crust, a relative wisp of mass, make up the continents today, which are primarily made of lighter rocks such as granite, while the remainder of the crust is composed of denser rock such as basalt. The granites were formed by basalt being exposed to ocean water, and the water became incorporated into the rocks, generally where the heavier oceanic crust was subducted below the lighter continental crust. It is thought today that the original ocean had about twice the volume of today’s ocean, with the “missing” ocean being incorporated into the crust and “hydrating” the basalt rocks. Hydrated minerals abound in Earth’s continents. Those continental masses have been floating across Earth’s surface for billions of years as they have collided with each other, rebounded, lifted, subducted below the crust, and recycled into the mantle. Those tectonic plates have been likened to the surface of a pot of boiling oatmeal. Plates can collide and form mountains, and they can pull apart and expose the hot interior, which spews out in volcanism (at the edges of tectonic plates, including ridges in the oceans). Currently, there is a 500-million-year cycle whereby the continents crash together to form a supercontinent, then break apart and scatter across Earth’s surface before coming back together. Today, the continents are about 100 million years from the midpoint of that cycle, when they will begin to come back together to form a supercontinent again.
Earth’s volume is about one trillion cubic kilometers, and its core is believed to be about 90% iron, with the rest largely nickel. The mantle is estimated to be mostly oxygen and silicone, with the remainder largely composed of the lighter alkali and alkaline earth metals, such as sodium, potassium, and calcium. Those mantle metals are primarily bound in oxides. The mantle makes up more than 80% of Earth’s volume. The crust is also almost solely comprised of oxides, but silicon dioxide (sand and glass are made from it) is the most prevalent compound and the crust is, by mass, nearly 75% oxygen and silicon, with nearly all the remainder being aluminum, iron, and those lighter alkali and alkaline earth metals. All other elements combined amount to less than 2% of Earth’s crust. An accompanying table presents the current estimates of the relative concentrations of Earth’s mass and atoms which are relevant to this essay.
The oceans and atmosphere amount to a tiny portion of Earth’s mass and are made of light elements and compounds with low boiling points as compared to the crustal compounds. The oceans are primarily comprised of water, and that water contains most of Earth’s hydrogen. On Earth, about 1-in-5,000 atoms are hydrogen, but 63% of the human body’s atoms are hydrogen. Carbon and nitrogen are also scarce Earth elements, but they total more than 10% of the human body’s atoms. What scientists call the biosphere (living organisms) amounts to less than one billionth of Earth’s mass. Land-based biomass is about five hundred times greater than ocean-based biomass. In the scale and scheme of the known universe, life as we know it is rare and delicate, confined to Earth’s surface. Below is a graphical representation of the relationship of Earth’s mass to the masses of the oceans, atmosphere, and biosphere.
Earth’s iron core gives rise to its pronounced magnetic field, which helps protect Earth’s surface from the solar wind. Planets with weak magnetic fields, such as Mars, are believed to be vulnerable to the solar wind stripping away their atmospheres. If Earth did not have a magnetic field, it is currently believed that its ozone layer would have been stripped away, which would have likely led to the extinction of complex life on Earth, if it would have ever appeared at all.
The fact that complex life exists on Earth seems to be a miracle of circumstance. From the life of the Sun, to the part of our galaxy where our solar system resides, to the dynamics that led to Earth retaining her ocean and having an ozone layer, to the molten core and magnetic field that protects Earth’s surface, life on Earth may be far rarer in the universe that it seems from the perspective of a species that has yet to visit other stars. Also, the era of complex life on Earth may be waning, even if humans do not make Earth largely uninhabitable by complex life in the near future.
Wade Frazier
22nd September 2013, 14:45
Hi:
As I write my essay, interact with people at Avalon and elsewhere, I further develop my intention and strategy for my essay and subsequent work. As Brian said, FE will likely happen by people new to the field:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#new
I think that most people who are going to be helpful have not heard of FE before. Those who have and keep coming up with their “bright ideas” of making FE happen, those Level 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 delusions:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
are trapped. They engage in armchair activism, thinking that they know what will work, although none of them have really been on the battlefield. Tinkering in garages and kitchens does not count. Some can get past their “bright idea” stage, the kinds of bright ideas that have been tried many times before, but almost all of them stay stuck, at kind of the enthusiast level of the game, which is a highly unproductive and naïve way to think. What I am really looking for are not FE enthusiasts, but people who want to understand how the world really works and who want to help humanity turn the corner. Those people are few and far between, but they are whom I seek. Generally, they have been searching for answers, but all they have found are joining the Elks Club and PTA, the structural analyses of the Chomskies, the conspiracism of the Ickes, Wilcoxes, and many flavors of right wing analysis:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism
the austerity “solutions” put forth by the environmentalists:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists
the narcissistic New Age pabulum:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage
the drumbeat of doom of the Peak Oilers:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#introduction
and the many other non-solutions that are bandied about. They will have come to an understanding that none of those approaches have a prayer of righting the ship, but they want to find something that can. They will come to the material with fresh minds, and refrain from thinking that they have some bright idea that will get us over the hump. They will spend their time developing a comprehensive perspective, first, and only then will they begin to think about FE and solutions. Otherwise, they end up rushing off, hacking at branches, signing up with the inventor of the hour, joining Dennis’s circus, and so on. When they do that, they almost never come back, but go haring off into the pitfalls, and many beckon:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls
Who can be introduced to FE, develop a comprehensive perspective, and refrain from rushing off to go “do something”? Almost nobody, which is why I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks, but I don’t know of anything else with a prayer today.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
23rd September 2013, 22:36
Hi:
Briefly, I have written plenty that the “sneak-past-them” Level 7 strategy does not have a prayer:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7
Nobody whose work I have respected in the FE field has advocated sneaking past them, not Dennis, Adam, Brian, Greer, and so on. When Sparky Sweet began getting secretive after he had been burgled and harassed:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky
he ended up defeating himself and his own legacy, with people futilely trying to reproduce his technology for the past generation. When those around me have advocated the cloak-and-dagger stuff, I asked them who they thought they were hiding from. Godzilla is the master of cloak-and-dagger games, and it is a boy’s fantasy that Godzilla can be out-competed in that game by tinkerers and secret handshakes. For all the recent revelations that the NSA records every electronic communication, including emails, texts, and phone calls, nobody playing the FE game was surprised. We have long known that we have been under surveillance. It just comes with the territory.
Not only is the idea that Godzilla can be snuck past silly and adolescent, but the simple desire to play secrecy game defeats the aspirant. Playing the secrecy game leads to paranoia, feelings of “specialness,” and other self-defeating attitudes. When I have seen people in the FE field advocate secrecy, or I have heard of inventors tinkering away in shacks in the boonies, it was always people that I knew did not have the right stuff. People such as Mark were disabused of their “sneak-past-them” fantasies pretty roughly:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread392968/pg7
Also, people who think that some kind of FE device can be made in garages and warehouses across the world, with Godzilla never being the wiser until it was too late, have obviously never been in the technology development game. Making market-ready FE devices is an industrial task, and nobody can play that game under Godzilla’s global radar, unless they already played at Godzilla’s level or above.
Not only is there no place to run and hide, but the very idea of hiding and sneaking up on Godzilla is not aligned with thinking like a creator, but thinking like a victim. We are not going to get there by thinking like victims. This has to all be done in the light of day, in love and high sentience. Anything less will likely not work and will often lead to catastrophe, and I don’t want to see any more of that, not on the FE trail.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
24th September 2013, 14:36
Hi:
I have threatened to do this before, and have some in prior posts, but the next few posts will likely be on what has not worked and why, in more depth than I have before. In my previous post, I mentioned the Level 7 “sneak-past-them” strategy. Level 7 as I originally wrote it was broader than just trying to sneak past them. Trying to sneak past them may be the most common Level 7 strategy of avoiding organized suppression, but it is far from the only one. Another is seeking a famous person or organization that can somehow lend an umbrella of high-profile protection, including capitalists, politicians, and various members of governmental institutions such as the Pentagon. I have seen all high level players in the FE milieu do that, including Dennis, Adam, Brian, and Greer. The rich and powerful never come through, and more often wreck the effort as they play their power-and-control games. Dennis has dealt with a fair number of billionaires, many politicians, up to the office of the U.S. president, celebrities, and so on. None have ever helped in any significant way. They were there to make a play to serve themselves, not to serve the effort. I have heard of the stray potential benefactor who might have really tried to help, but Godzilla easily dissuades such notions. Death threats are part of his bag of tricks:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#windmill
and the rich and famous quickly go scurrying back to their mansions. Long ago, I realized that it was a path that wasted time and effort, and was a backhanded way of acknowledging that the masses don’t have what it takes to help much. Money only buys somebody’s effort. Humans are the only animals on Earth motivated by money, which is only an accounting game. If somebody is involved because they are being paid to, they are easily swayed by the highest bidder, and Godzilla’s pockets might be the deepest on Earth. Looking for rich and famous people to help, or beseeching the world’s institutions, both governmental and private, is a loser. They are all corrupted and only seek to serve themselves. I have never met or heard of a rich altruist, an organization that had the right stuff to help along FE, etc. I carried Dennis’s and Brian’s spears as we approached the DOE:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#yull
http://www.brianoleary.info/Impacts.html
but I was wondering in the back of my mind what Dennis and Brian really thought that they would accomplish by going that route.
In the end, all of those routes, via the rich, powerful, and famous are trying to find the easy route to FE. I came to conclude many years ago that there are no easy routes to FE. If it was easy, it would already be here, transforming the world and humanity. But newbies invariably go chasing after the rich, powerful, and famous, and even people like Dennis, Adam, Brian, and Greer have done it. But it has never come close to working, and I watched Dennis and Brian become disillusioned over the years as they banged on the doors. Many times with Dennis, it was the other way around when he was flying high, when the rich, powerful, and famous approached Dennis with promises of assistance that never materialized.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#inventor
And those “offers” were often enough plays to steal it all or otherwise wreck it. I doubt that many of those instances were where they acted as cat’s-paws for Godzilla, but were just good old greed and a lust for power rearing their heads. In this world, people don’t become rich, famous, and powerful due to virtue. Quite the opposite is usually the case.
The very act of beseeching the rich, powerful, and famous is giving away our power, and making FE happen will need people who retain their personal power, not who give it away so that somebody can save us from ourselves.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
25th September 2013, 12:12
I would like to share with you my observation of sublime level of FE suppression:
http://www.robimyprad.pl/ (Polish version only, sorry).
This is a promotional webpage of an electric company from Poland. The catchphrase "Robimy prąd / góry / lasy / jeziora" translates to "We make power / mountains / forests / lakes". At the end, one can see: "Miejsca pełne energii" - "Places full of energy". The green place being bragged about is a recycled part of something much bigger not shown in the commercial - lignite open-pit mine "Bełchatów":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be%C5%82chat%C3%B3w_Coal_Mine
Here are those windmills at the top of the Kamieńsk "mountain" seen from a different point. Notice the barely green wastelands in the front.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/G%C3%B3ra_Kamie%C5%84sk_-_elektrownia_wiatrowa.jpg/800px-G%C3%B3ra_Kamie%C5%84sk_-_elektrownia_wiatrowa.jpg
The "mountain" is made of pile of dirt from, now defunct, open-pit mine excavation and brown water "lakes" are bio-filters for pit water... The trees might be planted purposefully to stabilize erosion of the pile or natural self-seeding.
This commercial is played in tv and cinemas. Right before kids movies start :( I was terrified when i saw this first time!
It suppresses any insight into environmental destruction by electric companies and falsely gives credit to themselves for "creating natural" habitats and gives a false impression of them being "green". Further, it numbs down any need for curiosity into "what's beyond wind/solar/fossil/fission energy?" because "apparently" there is no problem to see and solve with "something beyond"... It promotes a mix between level 2 and 3 on Wade's FE scale.
And yet insolently (or maybe unconsciously?) hints at "places full of energy"...
Hopefully the whole trick collapses if anybody who sees the commercial will travel there to experience it for themselves... Nevertheless there is much to do to transform it into FE world.
Wade Frazier
25th September 2013, 14:14
Thanks Robert:
Yes, those benevolent energy companies, turning Earth into a paradise! :)
Yes, that is an example of controlling the paradigm, boxing in people’s perceptions of what is possible and portraying something hellish as heavenly. The energy companies’ pockets are deep, and they spend plenty to brainwash people about energy. IMO, almost all energy company propaganda like that is playing far below Godzilla’s level. When Godzilla sees stuff like that, he smiles, knowing that the game is well in hand. That is one of many areas where those playing below Godzilla’s level enforce the scarcity paradigm as they protect their turf. In this instance, it is by putting a coat of paint on hell. As you observed, if people actually saw the place, it would be a depressing if not terrifying experience, probably doubly so because it is heavily promoted as something heavenly.
In North America, there is almost no media coverage of the Tar Sands and the devastation they are wreaking. Shell Oil at least got its knuckles rapped in the UK for making ads similar to that Polish coal mine:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alberta%27s_tar_sands#Shell_Ads_Declared_Greenwash
but, of course, people such as Obama promote the Tar Sands “solution.”
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alberta%27s_tar_sands#Obama_Says_that_Dirty_Tar_Sands_Can_Become_Clean
Not that I needed to, but a friend dragged me to an activist movie this spring (about the Occupy Movement), and I saw my first footage of the Tar Sands operations, and it reminded me of Mordor. I am not the only one:
http://www.beamsandstruts.com/bits-a-pieces/item/809-mordor-alberta
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alberta%27s_tar_sands#.22The_Air_is_Foul.2C_the_Water_is_being_Drained_and_Poisoned. 22
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/hussan/2011/05/why-hobbit-being-filmed-tar-sands
In the USA, the propaganda barrage is trying to make fracking seem safe, and that fracking, mining the tar sands, and the shale oil “boom” on the plains is making the USA energy “self-sufficient.” There was a big media push a year ago, touting that stuff, as if it was going to solve the USA’s energy problems. A civilization that is burning up its primary resource a million times as fast as it was created is somehow “self-sufficient.”
What is missing from all the cheerleading is that the EROI for all of that stuff is miserable, as it ranges from less than 2-to-1 all the way up to 6-to-1, a bit less than the 100-to-1 in East Texas of a century ago. We are truly sucking at the dregs.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=655549&viewfull=1#post655549
There are voices in the wilderness today pointing out the highly short-term nature of that shale oil:
http://www.oil-price.net/en/articles/shale-high-depletion-rates-in-bakken.php
It is nothing like the oil fields of the Middle East.
OK, back to what does not work. I feel kind of funny even pointing it out, but stuff like Rossi, Keshe, and Steorn is mostly Level 6:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
which is the most naïve position that a person can take, who admits that FE is possible. I have seen this a zillion times. People like that have not even gotten onto the playing field yet. Sparky Sweet’s mailing working FE prototypes to the big energy institutions is the classic instance of Level 6 naïveté:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sweet
When Adam made his FE prototypes, he was playing the Level 6 game, and maybe a little Level 7. He was harshly disabused of his naïveté, and has survived something like forty murder attempts since his FE salad days, with all of his prototypes seized, national security squashes put on them, etc.
Dennis never quite sang that Level 6 tune, as he had already had his clock cleaned in Seattle:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run
before he ever heard of FE. Dennis pretty much leapt straight to Level 10 when got his FE idea:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#chasing
and has stayed there ever since. Level 10 plays to the lowest-common-denominator, essentially finding a flag for everybody to rally around. Dennis has tried the capitalist, “Patriot,” and religious routes. Those are all orienting people around scarcity-based ideologies:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
and people are attracted to those ideologies for self-serving reasons, and do not have the selfless motivation needed to help make FE happen. When people are selfishly motivated, they are putty in Godzilla’s claws. Brian O also tried Level 10 efforts such as NEM, which harkened back to his political activist days:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#after
At the end of his life, he became very disillusioned with the Level 10 approach. Level 10 approaches will not work for FE, for a number of reasons, but most prominently, because people are involved due to self-serving motivation. The Occupy Movement epitomizes various shortcomings with Level 10 efforts. For one thing, Occupy was significantly comprised of homeless people looking to get fed and the counter-cultural fringe. When I have seen even sympathetic footage of the Occupy Movement, almost everybody was tattooed, pierced, had strange hairstyles and the like. Many were there to make fringe fashion statements. But the biggest problem with Occupy is that it is a complaint-based movement, just as almost all “progressive” movements are. They are not really proposing solutions, but trying to confront the rich and powerful. But they are not even addressing the right people, if they want to confront those who run things. Godzilla does not live on Wall Street. Wall Street is a lower level of the game, as Washington D.C. is. They have power of a sort, but are down the food chain a ways. And you don’t find Godzilla; he finds you.
Brian said it best, in that combined positive intention is the only way with a prayer. An effort with that motivation won’t go marching on Washington, Wall Street, and the like, but they will concentrate on making something happen on their own, like make an FE device that is ready to be put on homes. :)
I have never seen a Level 10 attempt that had a prayer, and Dennis mounted the biggest Level 10 efforts yet. The FE field mainly just lies about Dennis:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=621892&highlight=barred#post621892
or they naively pal up with people such as Mr. Skeptic:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=410817&viewfull=1#post410817
or newbies such as Foster knowingly and even proudly repeat the disinformation:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=621892&viewfull=1#post621892
While Level 10 advocates may have their hearts in the right place, I have never seen a Level 10 attempt with a prayer, and the reason was because there were very few people with personal integrity in the ranks. If you don’t start with FE journey with a heaping load of personal integrity, you won’t get ten feet down the path before you will fall off the rails in one way or another.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
26th September 2013, 00:28
Hi:
Some odds and ends…
My formal scientific training ended when that voice told me to study business:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice
which is nearly forty years ago. How time flies. I have been studying for this essay for the past several years, and it has been taking me back to my young days of avid study:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=514788&highlight=paleontology#post514788
but it has been pretty hard work. I’ll definitely be running the essay past my scientist pals before I finalize the essay.
Taking in the world of White Science has been fun, but I can also see vast differences between that world and the FE pursuit. For one thing, White Scientists rarely have their work classified, or get offered a billion dollars to stop their work, or get targeted by murder attempts. Consequently, almost none of them can really wrap their minds around the FE conundrum. When I see White Scientists dismiss FE suppression as a “conspiracy theory,” and deny the possibility of FE because it is “contrary to the laws of physics,” I get a glimpse of the depth of their naïveté and denial. White Scientists are definitely not my target audience, but it has been fun to peek into their world and work. The FE milieu bears little resemblance to the halls of White Science or corporate America, and one of the pitfalls for newbies is thinking that it does. Those Level 10 approaches also incorrectly assume that the FE milieu is like other issues that standard activism can be brought to bear on. Nobody offered the Occupy Movement a billion dollars to go away, or Greenpeace, etc.
People are really going to have to unhook from their familiar notions in order to begin to grasp the FE milieu, and that will be one of the greatest challenges that I will likely face. I have found that I can’t coax, cajole, or bribe people to go there. The only people who are willing to leave their preconceptions and comforting fictions behind are those with a love for the truth. Only those people are willing to lay aside what they think they know in order to learn something new.
I may put up a draft of another one of my early chapters before long, which deals with some technical foundational issues. It is pretty much just White Science.
What is probably the key upshot of the essay is how humanity no longer would need to be at the mercy of the elements, or wreck the elements in our quest for energy security. Studying the long journey of life on Earth really brings home how fragile life is, and how it has always been at the mercy of the elements, even as life changed them. FE means the end of all that. Humans will no longer be dependent on the climate and the other factors that life has to live with. Also, humans will no longer need to impact the climate and environment in order to live at orders of magnitude above Bill Gates’s lifestyle. Cleaning up our mess would also be easy to do. But it is getting over the hump that is the hard part. The heavy lifting is now, where that tiny fraction of humanity unhooks from the social management system, looks past the indoctrination, and dares to imagine abundance. When enough can do that, making FE happen will be easy.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
26th September 2013, 13:56
Hi:
Back to what does not work. I can sympathize with Level 6 tinkerers:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
but they have literally no idea what they are in for. Even when I was sixteen and got my first energy dreams:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#funeral
I knew that powerful interests would not welcome energy industry innovation. Even the “sneak-past-them” Level 7 stuff I have a certain amount of sympathy for, but Level 7 thinkers have zero experience in playing at the milieu’s high levels, or don’t have the right stuff, or both.
But the Young Warrior Level 9 approach is likely the most delusional and adolescent of all:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#warriors
and is like young boys dreaming of heroism on the battlefield:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business
When Young Warriors show up with their swords, saying how they will help take on Godzilla, the only thing that you can be sure of is that if the swords get used, Godzilla won’t get a scratch, but the Young Warriors will use their swords on each other and you.
During my early days with Dennis, I had fleeting Level 11 fantasies that I was disabused of fairly early on, for a few reasons. When I started getting attacked by friends and family:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=400492&viewfull=1#post400492
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=578559&viewfull=1#post578559
the bloom began to come off the rose for my dreams. Also, however, I met my first billionaire in Boston:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#chasing
and I soon came to find out that many rich and famous people were highly aware of what we were doing, and over the years, Dennis has encountered many billionaires and others who play at those levels, and a bunch of them are waiting like vultures to move in and coopt or steal it all if it ever gets going. For those who want to become the Bill Gates of energy, there is a long line of billionaires ahead of you. However, none of them are there to help, but to steal it all when the time is right. When Brian O heard a zillionaire say almost exactly that:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#oleary
he was stunned. When Dennis had his companies stolen so many times by his “allies,” they were all infected by the “Treasure of the Sierra Madre” fever:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=465318&highlight=madre#post465318
thinking that their ignoble deeds would see them jump aboard the gravy train. That delusion has been probably the most harmful for FE efforts on the inside, as they were all self-inflicted wounds as the effort’s “allies” made their plays to steal it all. As Dennis told me this past spring, he has been hurt far more by his “allies” than by his enemies. So, while Level 9 is perhaps the most delusional of all, Level 11 is also deluded, as there are a million parasites and predators watching and waiting for their opportunities, but there are huge players waiting in the wings, to take over when the plunder is assured, and many are billionaires and can command far more resources than the FE rabble. Watching many episodes of those dynamics led me to the primary lesson of my journey: personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
That is the reason for our predicament; not technology, not money, not organized suppression. Humanity’s egocentric inertia and lack of personal integrity is the primary issue. But I am not going to ask anybody to be a hero; they just have to manifest enough integrity to lay aside their indoctrination long enough so that they can imagine abundance:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced
That has never happened before with any significant group. It might be able to catalyze the manifestation of FE, abundance, and a healed planet and humanity. It seems like a worthwhile task, and nobody should have to risk their lives to do it.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
26th September 2013, 14:41
Hi:
I am going hiking soon, but wanted to note the passing of one of my influences, Paul Fussell:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Fussell
I did not know that he died until this morning. Kind of like Uncle Noam's coverage in the USA, the significant obituaries that I found were in non-U.S. publications:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9288518/Paul-Fussell.html
http://www.economist.com/node/21556557
and that first one had a little dig at the end, similar to American obituaries on Howard Zinn liberally using an Arthur Schlesinger quote that dismissed Zinn.
Reading Fussell in the early 1990s:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#good
led me to Eugene Sledge:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#sledge
World War II veterans are almost all gone now. My father-in-law was a WWII veteran, getting a head injury that altered his life as he flew The Hump:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hump
and he is the last living WWII veteran that I know. The war ended 68 years ago last month. The fiftieth anniversary of the JFK hit is in November:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=615191&viewfull=1#post615191
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=617751&viewfull=1#post617751
and the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show is this winter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show#The_Beatles
How time flies.
Best,
Wade
sandy
27th September 2013, 00:03
Happy hiking and may you savor every moment, seeing as time flies, especially when your having a good time :)
Still on board, just patiently quiet and savoring this time too.........
Wade Frazier
27th September 2013, 14:31
Hi Sandy:
I have been told that impatience is my Achilles heel:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading
and I’ll buy that. Since FE will be humanity’s fifth and biggest epochal event:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
and it might be the only way to save ourselves and our planet, it is something deserving of patience, so I get to work on patience every day. My soul definitely knew what it was setting me up for, the bastard. In the end, I can’t complain, even though this mission has consumed my life. I can’t think of anything more worthwhile to do with my time, so I plug along. I also know that time is very short for us to turn the corner, so I am sympathetic to people who want to rush out and do something, even when they have absolutely no idea what they are getting themselves into. But I also know that that kind of impatience is deadly in the FE field. This is certainly the biggest and most important conundrum on Earth, so trying to unravel it is worthwhile, I think.
There are other ways to go about this task, but my approach is informed by a lifetime of trying and watching, and the path that I am trying has never been attempted before. So, if nothing else, this will be a learning experience for me, too. There are days when I don’t feel up to the task, and others when I am in my comfort zone of working on the essay. I have been thrown several boomerangs in the past several months, but I keep plugging away. I think that the essay will get across most of what I am trying to communicate, but we will see.
Enjoy the autumn,
Wade
P.S. Yesterday, the person I was going to hike with was injured, and it was our last chance to get out this season, so we did a 12-hour road trip. Saw some nice stuff, attached.
Wade Frazier
28th September 2013, 14:11
Hi:
A few odds and ends. Before I began my essay, I knew that I needed to provide visual and other aids for my readers. As I have done with other big essays:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#timeline
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#timeline1
I will be putting timelines in my essay. It is all very much a work in progress, but my first stab at the early life timeline is attached. It will likely change some as the essay progresses. Many readers are going to get lost unless I put in aids like that. Digesting the essay will be very hard work. Conceptually, it will be highly challenging, but developing a comprehensive perspective demands no less. I will be trying to somewhat play down the emotionally-agonizing parts of the essay, because if people do the work, by the time they come to the truly horrific parts of the essay - the human journey part of it – the readers that I hope to connect with will have already laid aside most of our societies’ egocentric conceits, because when the big picture is seen, human egocentrism is more easily seen for what it is, and the grip of those scarcity-based ideologies:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
should be pretty loosened by that part of the essay, particularly when the past few thousand years are covered.
This has been discussed on this thread a few times, but I want to touch it again. FE and abundance certainly does not mean that all human problems go away. What it does mean, however, is that survival issues disappear. Anybody with any semblance of sentience will easily see that when FE and abundance makes its appearance, that it will be a given that all people have an absolute right to:
1. Food and water
2. Shelter
3. Clothing
4. Global and solar system transportation
5. Education
6. Communication
Those will all be provided freely to all people. FE and the attendant suppressed technologies would make providing such benefits virtually effortless for humanity, and there would also be no environmental harm to provide them. Also, cleaning up our mess will be a top priority. Not only would we clean up all trash on Earth, mine and remediate all landfills and waste dumps, but we would also clean up all the space junk and likely mine all near-Earth objects and prevent any big rocks from hitting Earth. All of that would be child’s play. It has amazed me when I bring that up how quickly people avert their eyes and change the subject, or swordfight and play devil's advocate or some other mind-f**k game, even people who fancy themselves to be hip and caring. Well, they aren’t, not at the level that will get anything of significance done. They are not my target audience, but they come calling from time to time, usually to see what is in it for them with FE. Almost nobody wants to claim responsibility for what humans have done to Earth and each other, as everybody acts like a victim. Cleaning up our mess should be fun. I would be very happy to spend my days helping to clean up our mess.
Today, sociopaths run the planet because almost everybody is asleep, playing the victim game. We truly have the system that we created, and railing against Godzilla is pointless. But if we grow up and act like creators, it can all change, and almost in the blink of an eye. The dark pathers:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving
are going to be very disappointed when their megalomaniacal plans come to naught. They will likely want to incarnate on planets where they can continue to explore the nature of evil, but for those who can stand it, Earth will be a place where they can be healed, but they will no longer run the show. They will be easily seen as sick people who need help, not people to look up to because they amassed the most plunder and have what seems to be “power” in a world of scarcity. If we make it over the hump, these will not be revolutionary thoughts at all, but obvious ones. I hope I live to see us heading in that direction.
Back to work.
Best
Wade
Ilie Pandia
28th September 2013, 19:13
This has been discussed on this thread a few times, but I want to touch it again. FE and abundance certainly does not mean that all human problems go away.
With my current perspective, for me, it does mean that all human problems go away.
I can not think of any problem that is not scarcity based and will not be solved (or quickly researched) in an abundance based world. Someone pointed out to me that a work of art is unique and so you can still argue about who will own it (yeah, I know...) and another point was made about two people falling in love with the same person. Even love is scarce on this planet. At that point I can stop my explanations, because it is clear that they will go no further. If they can't see how ownership will just vanish (both in works of art and love) then they've missed the point. Their eyes is still on the "no electricity bill".
It is possible, that still being trapped in a scarcity ideology, I am unable to see what other issues may come up that are not related to scarcity. But now, the "problems" in an abundant world I see more like "riddles". Eg: how to best assist the development this distant eco-system. But I suspect the new game in town will be exploring consciousness and with that coming the ability to "change reality frames", pretty much like Michael traveled in his visions.
So once you get to level 16 and you're able to doge 17, you're on an exponential curve to 21 unless you just want to "hang around" in some dreamy reality frame and just relax and have fun. But you will definitely not have to! It will be like a choice to take a walk, even though you can instant teleport anywhere in the universe. You simply enjoy walking....
sandy
28th September 2013, 21:01
Hi Ilie,
Personal integrity is a process IMHO and there in lies the rub, once FE is implemented. Globally, :grouphug: it will take some time and transition for consciousness to grow and imerge into LOVE ENERGY................
Wade Frazier
28th September 2013, 22:46
Hi you two:
I’ll agree that what we have here is an issue of semantics, to some degree. Deciding what to eat in the morning is a “problem.” In the West, we easily solve it, at least if we are not at the bottom of society’s food chain. Tens of millions of Americans face hunger each day, as incredible as that may seem. In India, or the poor African nations, it is a much harder problem to solve. But it is still a “problem” for everybody. I can see somebody saying that finding food when you are starving is a big problem, and not a problem at all for Bill Gates, but he still has to go down to the kitchen to eat. Not all “problems” need to be life threatening. In an FE-based world, there can be problems like:
1. How can I visit the center of the galaxy without being sucked into the black hole?
2. How can I be two places at once?
3. How can I learn how to read the mind of a plant?
4. How can I learn to live solely on the ZPF and no longer need to eat? (AKA Level 19)?
5. How can I take my body with me to the astral plane (AKA ascending)?
I could go on and on, but those are all problems, if we think of them as setting a goal and then finding out how to achieve it. Some problems are fun to solve! :) Ilie’s “riddle” concept could be considered similar.
To Sandy’s post, yes, there is a curve that we are all on, and it ends with love. A la Michael, the Tao is love and the source of creation and where our journeys begin and end. The message of the infinite spirit is that we are all one:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age1
but oh, what a voyage it is.
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
28th September 2013, 23:06
Illie I can assure you that there is something in some people which still commands them to take away things from others by force because they believe there is no point to even ASK if they can have it or simply look around for another thing in demand. Freely available acctually. I am speaking about my children :( It breaks my heart when I see it happen :(
I must had done something wrongly or what i see is a reflection of myself :( Children are like mirrors. They reflect true personality of the adults they come into contact with... Later to become these reflections themselves. And so this vicious cycle closes.
It's about time to break it :)
Wade Frazier
29th September 2013, 00:20
Hi Robert:
Don’t be so hard on yourself. Children, little beasts that they are, have to be trained to be considerate of others, as they come under the thrall of their egos. Heck, the important teachings are all received by age 5:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#forgetting
and are all about being considerate of others. The amazing part, to me, is how people “grow up” and conveniently forget those lessons. To see adults blithely disregard those lessons that they teach their children must make it hard to take the teachings seriously. :)
I remember right after 9/11, an American five-year-old was quoted by Z Magazine, saying something like, “Now we know that people can hit back!” As Chomsky has said, the selective ignorance and stupidity of the American political class, where they could be duped by the idiotic Iraq WMD issue, takes hard work to achieve. Children can be bad, but adults can be far worse, obviously.
Yes, breaking the cycle will take work, but we all have the opportunity to heal our inheritance. I have a feeling that your kids will turn out fine. :)
Best,
Wade
Hughe
29th September 2013, 00:50
Black Holes never existed. Really?
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Stephen J. Crothers
http://www.sjcrothers.plasmaresources.com/
The Big Bang universe was dead many years ago by astronomers like Halton Arp.
Seeing Red: Redshifts, Cosmology and Academic Science, 1998
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The Big Bang Never Happened
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Wade Frazier
29th September 2013, 01:06
Hi Hughe:
Since I became involved on the fringes of the Velikovsky controversy back in the 1990s, I have been aware of Arp’s work. Maybe the steady state universe model is the right one, but it is all irrelevant to our lives today, except for the stuff that leads to FE.
Heck, I am going to put up a draft of another chapter of my essay. As with the others, the links and references will not appear.
My take on cosmology is that since we have not even left our solar system yet, and I know that the UFO/ET cover-up is very real:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack
then who is to say how the vast universe really works and is built? We have barely left the cave.
Best,
Wade
The Orthodox Framework and its Limitations
In the West, the conception of the physical universe and humanity’s ability to manipulate it has remarkably changed in the past few thousand years, which has been a tiny fraction of humanity‘s journey on Earth. Thousands of years ago, Greek philosophers Democritus and Leucippus theorized that the universe was comprised of atoms and the void, and Pythagoras taught that Earth orbited the sun. Greeks also invented the watermill during the same era. Hundreds of years later, a Greek mathematician and engineer, Hero of Alexandria, invented the first steam engine and windmill. Western science and technology did not significantly advance for the next millennium, however, until ancient Greek writings were reintroduced to the West via Islam. The reintroduction of the Greek teachings, and the pursuit of their energy technologies, ultimately led to the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions.
Scientific practice is ideally a process of theory and experimentation that can lead to new theories. There are three general aspects of the scientific process. First, facts are adduced. Facts are phenomena that everybody can agree on, ideally produced under controlled experimental conditions which can be reproduced by other experimenters. Hypotheses are then proposed to account for the facts. The hypotheses are usually concerned with how the universe works, whether it is star formation or evolution. If a hypothesis survives the fact-gathering process – often by predicting facts that later experiments verify – then the hypothesis can graduate to the status of a theory. Scientific theories ideally can be falsified; they can be proven erroneous. The principle of theory falsification is what distinguishes science from other modes of inquiry.
Early in the 20th century, radical theories were proposed that remade scientists’ view of the universe. Along with relativity and quantum theory, a primary pillar of today’s physics is the notion that everything in the universe is a form of energy, as summarized by Einstein’s equation: E = MC2. Although the notion is still challenged in unorthodox corners, today’s prevailing theory is that the universe came into being in an instant called the Big Bang, and stars are the energy centers in the observable universe, powered by nuclear fusion. When the Big Bang supposedly happened, there was no matter, only energy. Only when the universe had sufficiently expanded and cooled, less than a second after the Big Bang, did matter begin to appear, which is considered to be comprised of relatively low energy states. This essay hews fairly closely to today’s orthodox perspective for much of it. However, there will be limitations, and some of them follow.
In the early days of science, it had a quasi-religious stature among its practitioners, and nineteenth-century scientists were prone to calling their hypotheses and theories “laws.” An astronomer colleague stated that there are no “laws” of physics, only theories, but the term “law” is lodged deeply in the scientific lexicon, although by the twentieth century scientists stopped calling new hypotheses and theories laws. Modest scientists readily admit that the so-called “laws” of science are not the “laws” of the universe, but human ideas about what those laws might be, if there are any laws at all. As Einstein and his colleagues readily admitted, the corpus of scientific theory barely says anything at all about how the universe works. Sometimes, paradigms shift and scientists see the universe with fresh eyes. The ideals and realities of scientific practice are often at odds. Ironically, when scientists reach virtual unanimity on a theory, it can be a sign that the theory is about to radically change, and most scientists will to go to their graves believing in the theory that they were originally taught.
Perhaps the most significant challenge to mainstream science is the fact that numerous advanced technologies already exist on Earth, including free energy and anti-gravity technologies, but they are being actively kept from public awareness and use. They and other exotic technologies developed in the above-top-secret world operate on principles that make the physics textbooks resemble cave drawings. Thousands of scientists and inventors have independently pursued such technologies, but all such efforts have been suppressed by a clandestine and well-funded effort of global magnitude. But this essay will lay most of that aside, other than to note that one of Einstein’s protégés, David Bohm, theorized that space is anything but empty. Einstein also stated that his general theory of relativity resurrected the idea of an ether that his special theory of relativity supposedly rendered obsolete. According to Bohm’s computation, the energy existing in “empty space” is great enough that it contains more energy in a cubic centimeter of it than is currently considered to be contained in all the mass of the known universe. One of Fuller’s pupils not only subscribed to the notion that “empty” space is not empty, but he built technologies that harnessed that energy source, and his life’s story, like my former partner’s, is hard to believe, but nevertheless true. But, black projects and “leading edge” theory aside (theory that is far older than I am), technologies have been publicly available for many years whose operation upends some of science’s oldest theories. “White science” (establishment science) has great defects, especially when its pursuit conflicts with deeply-entrenched economic and political interests.
Also, although the greatest physicists were often mystical in their orientation, they rarely explored the nature of consciousness in the way that modern human potential efforts have. When I was sixteen years old, it was demonstrated to me, very dramatically, that everybody inherently possesses psychic abilities, which invalidates the materialistic theories of consciousness. Millions of people had similar experiences during that era. They are usually life-changing events, available to nearly anybody who devotes the time to experiencing them, but a politically-active arm of establishment science, known as organized “skepticism,” has waged a holy war against such evidence for longer than I have been alive. The scientific establishment’s warriors often denigrate such phenomena as “pseudoscience,” which is a term that they have greatly abused as they attacked ideas and phenomena outside of their ability to investigate or conflicted with their materialistic assumptions.
The holy warriors’ efforts aside, the scientific data is impressive regarding what has been called “psi” and other terms, clearly demonstrating abilities of consciousness that are still denied and neglected by mainstream science. But direct personal experience is far more valuable than all of the experimental evidence that can be amassed. There is nothing like doing it yourself.
Not all mainstream scientists relegate consciousness to a mere byproduct of chemistry. John von Neumann’s interpretation of quantum mechanics is that consciousness is required for the wavefunctions that describe fields at the subatomic level to collapse into observable particles. He was not the only scientist whose theories required consciousness to exist in order for the physical universe to become observable. To the end of his life, Einstein was very uncomfortable with the implications of quantum theory, and his disquiet was ahead of its time. The greatest physicists knew that materialism was a doctrine built on unprovable assumptions, which amounts to a faith. Forthcoming quantum physicists regard the controversy over the implications of quantum theory as “our skeleton in the closet.”
Mainstream (“White”) science still has almost nothing to say about the nature of consciousness. However, Black Science (covert, largely privatized; the same province where that advanced technology is sequestered) is somewhat familiar with the nature of consciousness, and considers it to be far more than a byproduct of chemistry. The assumption that the entire universe is a manifestation of consciousness is not only unassailable by White Science, but is likely the foundational assumption of Black Science and mystics.
The battle between materialists and the religious orders over the years, where materialist evolutionists grapple with creationists and intelligent design proponents, seems to be a battle between two fundamentalist camps. The nature and role of consciousness, both in this dimension and beyond it, are likely far too subtle to be profitably engaged by the level of debate that currently dominates. Scientists such as Einstein were awestruck by the evident intelligence behind the universe’s design, but that did not mean that they believed in a God with a flowing beard.
White Science does not really know what energy is; it can only describe its measurable effects. At its root, there are only two primary components of our universe: energy and consciousness. Everything physical is made of energy, and our consciousness is all that we know. Energy and matter may well be manifestations of consciousness, and large brains are simply more refined “transducers” for more complex consciousness to manifest in physical reality. There is substantial evidence that evolution is not purely the province of chance mutations, but that organisms can direct their evolution at the genetic level.
The greatest scientists readily admitted that the theories and data of physics, that hardest of the hard sciences, drew highly limited descriptions of reality, and those scientists were usually, to one extent or another, mystics. If textbook science falls far short of explaining reality, what can be said within its framework that is useful? Plenty. Our industrialized world is based on textbook science, and feats such as putting men on the Moon were performed within the parameters of textbook science.
The mainstream theory is that matter consists of elementary particles (which are all forms of energy), and combinations of them are responsible for all mass. Almost all mass in the known universe consists of the protons in hydrogen atoms, and those protons are in turn comprised of quarks, and electrons and neutrinos are the other first generation fundamental particles. Protons have a positive electric charge, electrons a negative electric charge, and neutrinos no net electric charge. The simplest atom consists of one proton in the nucleus and one electron in “orbit” around it, which is the most common hydrogen atom. Today, mainstream science recognizes four forces in the universe: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces in an atom’s nucleus. Gravity attracts matter to matter, and is thought to be responsible for the formation of stars, planets, and galaxies. The universe seems to be built from processes, not objects.
The Standard Model of particle physics is complex, but the above presentation is largely adequate for this essay’s purpose, while it can be helpful to be aware that the physics behind free energy and antigravity technologies will likely render the Standard Model obsolete. If free energy, antigravity and related technologies finally come in from the shadows, the elusive Unified Field may come with them, and the Unified Field might well be consciousness, which will help unite the scientist and the mystic. But that understanding is not necessary to relate the story that White Science tells today of how Earth developed from its initial state to today’s state, where complex life is under siege by an ape that quickly spread across the planet like a cancer once it achieved the requisite intelligence, social organization, and technological prowess.
With the above limitations acknowledged, this essay will explore the earthly journeys of life and humanity, and energy’s role in them.
sandy
29th September 2013, 01:46
Hi Wade,
I think the below statement in this draft will keep me chuckling all night and at the same time impact the senses into knowing we have to own up to our responsibility in creating the mess we are in.....love it!! :)
"where complex life is under siege by an ape that quickly spread across the planet like a cancer once it achieved the requisite intelligence, social organization, and technological prowess."
transiten
29th September 2013, 09:04
The atom has no core and no particles, it's the flipping of "on and off on and off" of vibrations. They will never find "the particle of God" they are chasing in this hughe plant in Switzerland.
Nothing = No Thing = energy/vibration and there's no boundary between the "physical" and the "mind" as we all know on Avalon.
Ilie Pandia
29th September 2013, 09:38
Oh, I can hardly wait to dive my teeth into this essay: :becky: ... great preview.
Wade Frazier
29th September 2013, 12:27
Hi all:
According to Adam T., the Higgs field is just one more name for the ZPF:
http://projectearth.com/founder-essays/view/48-scientific-proof-of-the-presence-of-the-god-field-confirmed-by-cern
and I certainly won’t deny it. Again, my essay will largely stay within the bounds of establishment science, because it works fine for gaining an understanding of how energy runs the world and always has, and in fact, energy is all that there is in our universe.
What I have posted up as drafts will undoubtedly look different when the final version is published. I will likely put up some previews of other chapters as the months pass.
That chapter preview that I just put up is one of the few places where I will point out the limitations that I see in the orthodox framework, and I’ll sketch others, but I know that there is no way that I am going to come up with some new kind of physics. It would all be a bunch of theory, anyway. I am more into the data, but that is under deep wraps:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground
So, on that alternative physics and its resulting technologies, readers will have to do the work to get comfortable that my experiences are genuine, and those of my fellow travelers. There are not many of us. There are many pretenders, but only a few contenders, and with people such as Brian O passed on, and others taken out in a variety of lethal ways, our numbers have dwindled.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
29th September 2013, 12:55
Hi:
Not that it will surprise any of my readers, but below is a draft of the essay's introduction.
Best,
Wade
This Essay’s Purpose
These are challenging times for humanity, in which the survival of our species and the ecosystems that support our existence are questionable. However, the future can be very bright if enough of humanity overcomes its inertia and can overcome the organized suppression that has removed solutions to our predicament from public awareness and use. This essay was written with the intention of helping the second scenario manifest, while also preventing the first from happening. My background led me to writing this essay.
I was a key member of what is arguably the most sustained and successful effort yet made to bring alternative energy technology to the American marketplace. Contrary to my business school indoctrination, there is nothing resembling a free market in the USA, particularly in its energy industry, and there has never been a free market anywhere or anytime, a true democracy, a free press, an objective history, a purely pursued scientific method, or any other imaginary constructs that our dominant institutions promote. They may all be worthy ideals, but none have ever existed in the real world. Regarding free markets in the energy industry, reality has effectively been inverted, with the world’s greatest effort of organized suppression preventing alternative energy technology of any significance from public awareness and use.
My life was wrecked by the global oligarchy’s efforts to eliminate the threat that we presented but, before that, my partner was offered around a billion dollars to terminate our operation. I eventually understood that that offer was not unusual, not for the threat’s magnitude. I also came to learn that technologies that could permanently solve humanity’s energy situation have existed for longer than I have been alive, and close colleagues (1, 2) have witnessed such technologies in operation. Those technologies can produce virtually unlimited, environmentally harmless energy. Many other technologies have been systematically suppressed, such as antigravity technology, which could turn the human journey into something that resembles Star Trek. I have spent about half of my life so far considering the implications.
But the people who effectively run the world have prevented those technologies from achieving public awareness and use, although they have extensively developed those technologies for their use. This situation is not some armchair conspiracy theory; I am simply reporting my experiences and those of my few fellow travelers. I have called the controlling group the Global Controllers, and others have different terms for them. However, they are not the focus of my writings. I regard them as a symptom of our collective malaise, not a cause. Our fate is in our hands, not theirs.
I noted several crippling weaknesses in all alternative energy efforts that I was involved with or witnessed. Most importantly, when my partner mounted his efforts, the participants primarily became involved to serve their self-interest. While the pursuit of mutual self-interest is the very definition of politics, self-interested people were easily defeated by the organized suppression, although the efforts usually self-destructed before the suppression efforts became intense, as greed, delusions of grandeur, and the like seduced the participants.
Another deficiency was that most participants were scientifically illiterate and did not see much beyond the possibility of reducing their energy bills or becoming rich. Once the effort was destroyed (and they always are, if they have any promise), the participants left the energy field. Also, many lives were wrecked as each effort was defeated, so almost nobody was able or willing to pick up the pieces and try again. Every time my partner rebuilt the effort, it was primarily with new people, with few individuals lasting for more than one attempt.
Soon after I completed my present website in 2002, one of R. Buckminster Fuller’s pupils called my writings “comprehensivist,” and I did not know what he meant. I then read some of Fuller’s work and immediately saw the point, and my work since then has been more consciously comprehensivist (also called “generalist”) in nature. What is called comprehensivist or generalist I used to call a “big picture” view, and that scientific illiteracy and self-serving orientation helped prevent the energy effort’s participants from seeing that big picture.
This essay is intended to draw the big picture of life on Earth, the human journey, and the role of energy, in as comprehensive terms as I can make them. The references that support this essay are largely to works written for laypeople. I did that so that non-scientists can study the same works, without needing specialized scientific training. I am trying to help form a comprehensive awareness in a tiny fraction of the global population, with around five-to-ten-thousand people being my goal. My hope is that the energy issue can become the focus of that tiny fraction. Properly educated, that tiny fraction might be able to help catalyze an energy effort that can overcome the obstacles. That envisioned group may help humanity in many ways, but my primary goal is manifesting those technologies in the public sphere in a way that nobody has to risk their lives or livelihoods. I have seen too many wrecked and prematurely-ended lives in this milieu (1, 2), and plan to avoid those fates, for both myself and the group’s members.
Wade Frazier
1st October 2013, 23:48
Hi:
A few odds and ends…
As usual, it is surreal for me to see stuff like that meteorologist who vowed to never fly again after seeing the latest IPCC report:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10/01/meteorologist-eric-holthaus-vow-to-never-to-fly-again-draws-praise-criticism/
I have yet to see a scientist like that who ever got past Level 3:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3
Holthaus could literally do a million times as much good as ceasing to fly as he could by poking his nose into FE a little ways, far enough to at least seriously consider the idea. While he is well-meaning, his “solution” is along the same austerity lines as the environmentalists:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists
Peak Oilers:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#austerity
and so on. I have tried reaching people like him, as did Brian O (actually, Brian O was a scientist like Holthaus who got past Level 3, so some have existed, but I can almost count them on one hand, who came from Brian's background and progressed how he did on the FE issue):
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions
as have others who have had access that I never will. Nobody is home, anywhere, and for aspiring choir-members, they need to understand that fact. Those kinds of people will not be the target audience. There is no group on Earth ready to listen, but those who the songs are intended to reach are scattered across the planet, like needles in haystacks.
I am currently writing what may be my hardest chapter, both for the author and the readers, where I cover concepts in chemistry and energy, to provide a foundation for understanding the journey of life on Earth. The chapter will end with something like:
For this essay’s purposes, the most important understanding is that for virtually all life on Earth today, and for all complex life, captured sunlight is its sole energy source. All chemical cycles in complex organisms are ultimately powered by solar energy (other than those who feed on chemosynthetic organisms, and even they are dependent on solar energy). Today’s hydrocarbon energy that powers our industrial world comes from the energy of captured sunlight. Exciting electrons with photon energy, then stripping off electrons and protons and using their electric potential to power biochemical reactions, is what makes life on Earth possible. Too little energy, and reactions won’t happen (such as ice ages, enzyme poisoning, and the darkness of night), and too much (such as ultraviolent light and temperatures too high for enzyme survival), and life is destroyed. The journey of life on Earth is all about adapting to varying energy conditions and finding levels where life can survive. For the many hypotheses about those ancient events and what really happened, the answer will always be in energy terms, such as how it was obtained, how it was stored, and how it was used. For the life scientist, that is always the framework, and they devote themselves to discovering how the energy game was played.
Back to chores.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
2nd October 2013, 13:31
Hi:
It is time once again to reiterate my intention and strategy. My goal is a healed humanity and Earth, as I think is obvious. What still seems to be hard to comprehend is my strategy, even by people who are trying to understand.
As my coming essay will make the case, energy is the be-all, end-all of life in the physical universe. Energy makes it all happen. But while I acknowledge the mystical aspect of energy, and in fact suspect that the ZPF is divine in nature, almost all of my work on “energy” approaches it how scientists do. Most New Agey types deal with energy in very airy-fairy ways, such as male “energy,” female “energy” and so on. Those terms are pretty meaningless, IMO, and I don’t see how they will help us turn the corner. The energy issue, as energy is looked at by scientists, is the most important way to view energy right now, and it takes some scientific literacy to understand. Around 95% of the population is scientifically illiterate, which is one of the big strikes that FE efforts have against them. Almost nobody really understands the energy issue, not in how it runs the world and provides the foundation for all life and all human activities. Even mainstream economists understand that oil is the “master resource,” although almost none of them can seem the fathom the USA’s economic incentive to slaughter millions of people to steal their oil and gas:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=652292&viewfull=1#post652292
The grim death toll never even enters their analyses, them being largely cheerleaders and intellectual warriors for the capital class.
My initial orientation was the technical end of the energy issue, going back to when I was a teenager:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#introduction
and after some damned voice suggested that I study business, my late twenties were spent on the business aspect of the energy issue, and I got handed my head:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting
When the dust settled in Ventura and my life was shattered, I came to the stark realization that the primary reason for humanity’s predicament is that personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
and I resisted that realization every step of the way until I had it beaten into my head in no uncertain terms. Nobody who has challenged or denied that understanding has any experience at all in playing at the high levels, as they often go charging off to learn the hard way, if they survive the experience. There simply is not enough personal integrity in any “clumps” on Earth today to go try the technical/business/hero’s route to free energy and a healed planet. It is a dead end, but every newbie, and I mean every newbie, goes blithely charging onto that battlefield (or has "bright idea" boy-general suggestions for those who are), thinking that he/she has the magic answer. It is like 18-year-old boys who have never seen a battlefield:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business
and I really don’t want to watch as they sally forth. After realizing that none of those paths had a prayer, and losing interest in what people such as Dennis were doing, no matter how heroic their deeds:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&highlight=wirec#post694872
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
I hit the books and began to find out why almost nothing that I was taught about how the world works was true.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#books
Along the way, I met people such as Brian O, who was beginning his own adventures in the FE field:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#meet
and we traded notes and I watched him try the academic’s/scientist’s route of raising awareness, and as I suspected, nobody was home, anywhere:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions
Brian eventually wondered if humanity was a sentient species:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience
and I sadly understood his query. We also found that nobody was home amongst those who we thought might be allies or at least interested in healing the planet. Not the environmentalists:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists
not the Peak Oilers:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#austerity
especially not the New Agers:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage
and I found out that those in the FE field itself are really not helpful allies, as they almost uniformly fail on the integrity issue, or their naïveté is potentially fatal:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=621892&highlight=barred#post621892
and newbies such as Foster definitely do not have the right stuff. While I had great respect for what people such as Brian and Dennis were doing, risking their lives to make a dent, their efforts did not have a prayer, which I realized as I carried their spears.
So, I am trying something different. I am not asking people to pass some kind of high-level integrity test, because almost nobody has ever passed one of those, for those who survive the experience. But I also saw that almost nobody kept their eye on the ball, getting caught up in all manner of distraction, hacking at branches that were meaningless, and so on. In a way, I am trying to do what Fuller attempted, which was training people to be comprehensivists:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller
When people develop comprehensive perspectives, they may be able to keep their attention on what is important and let the other stuff fade into the background where it belongs. But people cannot really develop comprehensive perspectives while they maintain their allegiance to the scarcity-based, egocentric ways of thinking that feed them:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks, and that search will begin before long. I found a few at Avalon, and I don’t kid myself that the task will be in any way easy, but I have nothing better to do with my time. :)
Best to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
3rd October 2013, 15:01
Hi:
As my readers know, if people get past FE denial, one of their favorite entrenched positions are Pandora’s Box fears, the Level 5 reaction:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5
It comes in many guises, but it comes down to the view that people cannot be trusted with freedom. Of course, as far as I have seen, Level 5 people always exempt themselves from that group that can’t be trusted. I have two big problems with that. The first is that such a perspective is obviously egocentric, where the Level 5 person sees themselves as wise, but the rest of humanity are idiots who can’t be trusted with freedom (this is a common affliction with FE inventors, believe it or not). The second is that history has shown that before any freedom event, there are all manner of people saying how people were not ready for freedom. Before slaves were freed, the “they are not ready for freedom” talk was common. See the American South’s rhetoric before the Civil War to get an idea of what I refer to:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_United_States#Justification
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h244.html
And the whites have been limiting black freedom ever since, with more subtle ways than chattel slavery, although racism is rightfully under siege in the USA, as is sexism, ethnic bigotry, etc.
But the bigger issue is that before all of humanity’s epochal events, which were always primarily energy events:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
where humanity tapped into a new energy source that was orders of magnitude greater than before, if somebody would have seen protohumans before they learned to control fire, or hunter-gatherers before they domesticated plants and animals and created civilization, or England on the cusp of the Industrial Revolution, a common observation, probably even the dominant one, would be, “They are not going to be able to handle it!” Well, they always handled it. There were obviously downsides to each epochal event, but human welfare always went up, dramatically, and none was more dramatic than the Industrial Revolution. In many corners, there has been a great deal of romanticizing of the past, thinking that living in the rainforest like apes was some ideal, or the hunter-gatherer ideal, or the village life ideal, or the noble peasant ideal, but they were far from wonderful.
There is no Golden Age of the human past that anthropologists have ever been able to find. Life for preindustrial peoples was always nasty, brutish, and short. For the very few who climbed to the top of the steep food chain, life could be “good,” with harems, monumental architecture, having religions justify your “divine” status, and so on. But for the rest, who made up 99.99% of the population, life was not so good. Today’s average American lives better than the world’s richest man of three centuries ago did.
But energy is still relatively scarce, hence the USA’s genocidal invasions of the Middle East and central Asia, and that is how Godzilla likes it, because if he can keep energy artificially scarce and centrally-controlled, he can easily control humanity. If Godzilla had to make a public statement to justify his position, he would likely say that humanity is not ready for the freedom that FE would bring, although, like those Southern aristocrats in the American South in 1860, that is a lie to hide the fact that he just loves being the master of the slaves, and he has enslaved an entire planet. Godzilla and Peak Oilers such as Heinberg:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#heinberg
the environmentalists:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists
and “progressives” such as Amory Lovins:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions
make for very strange bedfellows. The fact is that for each epochal event, there was not some kind of “raising of awareness” beforehand so that people could handle the change; it just happened. And the event was often very coercive in nature, where the peasants of England and Scotland were forcibly removed from the land as they then became the Industrial Revolution’s workforce. For the FE revolution, the last thing that I advocate is coercion, but the planet is not going to raise its awareness on the FE scale by talk. It just won’t happen that way, all the New Agey bromides aside. As with the other events, when people experience the new energy regime, they will begin to wake up to its potential, just as Machiavelli said:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli
With the global scale of the organized suppression, there is no way that a hero like Dennis can scale the ramparts. But in order for FE to manifest in the public sphere, there at least has to be some awareness and action, and that is what I am attempting to initiate. But those people will be needles in haystacks. History will likely call them visionaries, because they will be advocating something that does not yet exist, at least in the public sphere. In the end, the people who make FE happen will be no different than the first band of apes that learned to control fire, the first people who domesticated a plant or animal in their vicinity, or the first industrialists. It was only when the change was evident that the common people began to catch on. It became obvious that if machines could do the work of humans, that slavery was a doomed institution. It will become obvious that FE means economic abundance, and exploiting ecosystems for human benefit will quickly be seen as primitive under the new energy regime, just as slavery is now seen as primitive.
Back to work,
Wade
Wade Frazier
3rd October 2013, 17:28
Hi:
As an addendum to the previous post, when I see those Level 5 fears rear their heads, at its root it comes in two basic flavors, but it is usually couched in a false one by its proponents. The voiced fear, as far as I have seen, is the fear that we would destroy the planet, but it is kind of a crazy one. We are doing a great job of destroying the planet with our current energy-acquisition methods. FE is the only way that we can have our energy-acquisition methods be environmentally harmless and usher in an epoch of abundance, where the standard of living of all peoples makes Bill Gates look like a pauper. Nothing else remotely has the potential to do that.
But the real fears are of two varieties, which revolve around the epochal changes that FE present:
1. The Level 5 proponents cannot imagine what the changes might all be, and most importantly...
2. The Level 5 proponents do now know where their place in that world might be.
For the first one, for none of the previous epochal changes could the people making the changes imagine where it all would lead. The control of fire and the enlarging protohuman brain led to humans, and imagine protohumans foreseeing what their energy practices would lead to. There is no way that the protohumans making the first fires or sitting around them had any idea what it would lead to. Similarly, the first super-predator humans had no idea where their journeys would take them. Three new continents were “discovered” by those super-predators. Similarly, the first people who domesticated crops would not have had any inkling that their invention would lead to cities. Simple metals would have been some kind of magic. Cities were totally unprecedented in the journey of life on Earth. There is no way that any of those early agriculturalists and herders could have fathomed what their activities would eventually spawn. Similarly, take a European peasant from 1500s Europe or China and transplant them to Times Square and see what happens. Their minds would be completely blown. The most mundane aspects of our daily lives would completely befuddle such a peasant. Just a light bulb would be magic. Imagine that peasant even seeing a TV, much less surf the Internet. Planes and rocket ships would stun them. When Ishi came in from the ruins of his world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi
as he was being given a tour of San Francisco, he saw a plane in the air. When told what it was, he laughed in astonishment. He was taken to an opera, and the entire time he just stared in amazement at all the people. He had never seen that many people in one place, ever.
Telescopes, microscopes, cars, phones, plastic, and so on would be so far outside of that peasant’s experience that they would be incomprehensible. Socially, the idea of female equality, the idea that slavery was obsolete, and so on, would have been equally bizarre.
While I have spent half of my life pondering the ramifications of FE:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced
I know that I can barely imagine it, but I sure don’t fear it. What the Level 5 people fail to understand is that in a world of abundance, nobody needs to worry about where they will fit in, because where somebody “fits in” will have nothing whatsoever to do with survival and a standard of living that makes Bill Gates look like a pauper. Everybody has ready access to that stuff as their birthright, and nobody thinks that there is not enough for everybody. In fact, making sure that everybody has access to the good stuff is an underlying principle.
So, the real fears of the Level 5 people are silly and reflect pure projection of the past, not any realistic consideration of what the future could look like. Imagine that hunter-gatherer trying to project his hunter-gatherer mentality on what civilization would be like. He would not have the slightest idea what it would look like. Fortunately, we do have some clues as to what an FE-based world could look like:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
So, we are not flying as blindly as those previous pioneers. We have many advantages over the pioneers of those previous epochal changes, and fearing it is just dragging our baggage along with us, not really looking forward.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
4th October 2013, 10:54
Hi:
For anybody that begins to understand the potential magnitude of FE's effect on on the human journey, it can be overwhelming. That is why one early pitfall for FE aspirants is delusions of grandeur:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#grandeur
There are many reactions by those new to the FE milieu, and I came up with a framework to help organize the thousands of reactions that I have seen over the years:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#chart
but it really only hits the highlights, and is simplified. I could break the levels into sublevels, such as Level 7 attempts to avoid the organized suppression, including:
1. Finding powerful patrons who can provide protection from Godzilla (they don’t exist, as far as I have seen, but the “White Hats” can come close, although those I am aware of are likely arms of Godzilla, so that kind of “help” is going to be dubious if not an outright trap);
2. Hiding from Godzilla by working on FE prototypes in secret, financing in secret, sneaking them onto the market, and so on;
3. Finding public avenues that Godzilla does not influence/control (sorry, but they do not exist);
4. Finding some nation or enclave where Godzilla’s influence is muted, and do it there (I have been hearing this one for nearly thirty years – that place does not exist on this planet).
And the levels are not mutually exclusive, I have seen some of those Level 7 strategies used in Level 10 and other level attempts. I have watched people rattle around between the levels, as they progress, backslide, drop out, come back, and so on. But, the framework can help people understand the many unproductive reactions that people have to the idea of FE. I am shooting for a Level 12 attempt, trying the comprehensivist, choir-based, sentient lamb’s approach. My attempt may end up “only” being complementary, helping to form a pool of heart-centered sentience that can help create an environment where an FE effort stands a chance. Or, it may be the missing ingredient to take FE over the top. I don’t know. It is possible that Godzilla is going to try to derail it before it gets going, but I hope that this is seen as low enough on the “threat” scale that he does not lash his tail at it:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#graphic
A big part of my strategy is keeping my effort low enough on the “abrasion” scale where people are not risking their lives to be involved. I am looking for singers, not soldiers, but the entire FE field is in a state of arrested development, dominated by tinkerers, scientists, and would-be moguls, and most male newbies want to rush off and go “do something,” but the choir will not be the place for them. The “do something” people are a danger to themselves and others in this field. If they actually go do something (almost nobody ever does, but talk is cheap), then they will be playing on the FE battlefield, the kind that leads to these kinds of experiences:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
But I don’t encourage anybody to sign up for that war. While newbies can think that “only” singing is not doing anything, gaining a comprehensive perspective:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing
is anything but easy. I have spent a lifetime developing it, and I know that I am only scratching the surface with my own efforts. My upcoming essay will be the initial work, or “hymnal,” if you will, for the choir to form around. It won’t be for quick-study artists. It will be much more challenging to read than my medical racket essay, for instance:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm
It will kind of be my energy essay:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm
grown up, after twelve more years of study, after I understood what “comprehensivist” meant:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller
There are days when I doubt that I am up for the task of writing that essay, or won’t have the time to do it right, but I think that I’ll pull it off adequately, well enough to get a choir going. But the material is going to be very challenging, and nobody is going to really understand its many dimensions and how they interrelate without deep study and reflection, the kind that takes many years. This thread at Avalon has been a warm-up, but only a warm-up. I will be likely creating the choir’s forum under my own domain, as I need to control it. I am going to be very particular on whom I will invite into it, and if it starts with three people, it does. It will be all about hitting the notes, not how loudly they are sung, or how many sing it, or how many people initially hear it. It really will be something different. I am regularly approached by people who suggest that this or that talking head out there is doing what I am. I have searched, and nobody is doing it. The FE milieu is a pretty small cottage industry, and nobody from the field has remotely attempted what I am about to, and nobody from outside the field is really qualified to, although I see many try, and the pretenders abound.
What Brian O, Adam T., Greer, Bearden, and Dennis have done could be considered aspects of what I will be doing, but they are really only aspects of it. I learned from all of them and have great respect for them, but am really doing my thing. It will be different, so different that I know of nothing quite like it. I don’t know if it will help all that much, but it can’t hurt, and “do no harm” has been my mantra in the FE milieu, after I saw all the wrecked and prematurely-ended lives. I don’t want to help add to that bloody tally.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
5th October 2013, 17:58
Hi:
To hone in more closely to my strategy, my work has virtually never been designed for mass consumption, and that will be doubly true for my upcoming essay and subsequent work. My “peers” – white, educated, American men – can only read a few pages of my work before blowing a fuse, as it takes a meat ax to our imperial conceits. I have watched them go off like Roman Candles after reading this section, for instance:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#progress
FE newbies regularly think that my work is for mass consumption, as they try to turn their friends, families, and colleagues onto my work. I have seen relationships end that way, and nearly careers. A recent infotainment forum, or it could even be called a dis-infotainment forum, is TED. While I have strong doubts about the validity of Hancock’s ancient civilization stuff, Sheldrake’s work is pretty tame and hard to argue against. His The Science Delusion is a straightforward challenge to materialism, which is effectively a religion. I know that materialism is an invalid philosophy, as do most people who have been trained to perform remote viewings:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown
have had NDEs, and so on. But the “skeptics” are holy warriors for materialism and the establishment, and they succeeded in getting Sheldrake’s talk banned from TED:
http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-for-discussion-graham-hancock-and-rupert-sheldrake/
The “skeptics” who attacked Sheldrake are the usual suspects, and they can’t honesty string together enough rational thoughts to make coherent arguments. They confuse the process of science with their materialist assumptions, and irrationally call irrational anything that is not materialistic. I am continually amazed at how supposedly intelligent people can’t think straight. They ought to become familiar with the mystical writings of their heroes:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#mystical
My point here is that places like TED are thoroughly establishment venues, and they have banned all things non-mainstream under the rubric of pseudoscience:
http://circularstateofmind.wordpress.com/category/tedx-2/
Carl Sagan must be smiling somewhere:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#sagan
Anybody with much experience in this field knows that FE talk is attacked wherever it appears, and if there are conferences and the like devoted to it, then look out, because untimely deaths:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland
raids, prison:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr
and the like will attend such efforts, even in The Land of the Free. Such gatherings are simply crawling with CIA personnel and Godzilla’s agents. Those are some of the realities that FE faces, and I am trying to do something very different. Showing up to a conference is easy. Much harder is doing to work to achieve a comprehensive understanding, and that is what I am shooting for. Not only are social gatherings unnecessary for what I am doing, it removes an easy avenue of organized suppression.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Izheheruvim
7th October 2013, 11:57
Hi, Wade
Probably someone somewhere in the thread raised a similar concern. If so, please just give a link to your website or wherever it's been addressed. And the concern is this: why do you believe that FE issue, if resolved, is going to help humanity in the most profound way? Ideologies, including religions, might have some connection to the patterns of energy consumption but they cannot be explained only in these terms. It's more about workings of the collective unconscious and how they seep into both the collective and individual conscious, if i am to use Jungian language. I personally see energy as a tool for something much more deeper. It can restrain or magnify it, nor doubt, but will always play a subordinate role.
Let's imagine the following scenario. A generation of young men and women is raised on the premise of mass consumption and cultural values borrowed from Hollywood, pop singers, i.e. Lady Gaga, Kanye West, Britney Spears, etc., mass media and the state ideology. Probably many people here would agree that it's not the best hotchpotch. And these young people are given FE. What kind of life would they live if whatever restrains them, and here the lack of energy is seen as the major culprit, drops off? Maybe i'm too pessimistic here but vulgarity, shallowness, and ugliness is most likely to flourish unless a better ideology is provided, or maybe not just an ideology but a sort of spiritual awakening. So, what would you see as a counter-weight to whatever has been damaged spiritually in these people? And speaking more generally, what life on earth would you personally like to see in terms of relationships, activities, spirituality, etc?
Robert J. Niewiadomski
7th October 2013, 12:30
Hi Izheheruvim,
The spiritual shallownes and escapism is a result of survival/victim mindset baked into those youngsters from the cradle. And that survival mindset being baked into them is a result of (artificial) energy scarcity. Banish that scarcity and young people will not have to escape from reality into shallow "entertainment". That's the logic behind freeing up Free Energy imho...:cool:
When children mature they subconsciously feel something world changing is about to happen in their lives. Some magic gate is about to open. And instead flying to the stars they are put into daily grind... It takes mountains of integrity to overcome that despair and various kinds of shortcuts and cutting corners temptations... All because of that pesky 1st law of thermodynamics...
EDIT:
Have found a quote from Joseph Chilton Pearce (Crack in The Cosmic Egg, Magical Child) to accompany my argument:
My feeling for most of my life has been that we have an absolutely unlimited possibility within us, and an equal amount of self-imposed limitations. For every possibility, we have a self-imposed limitation. This is the story of our species; we have infinite potential, and yet we also have incredible impositions just blocking everything. From about ages 5 to 7, I had the idea that the sky was the limit, but then all of a sudden school came along, and with it came this enormous weight of restriction. Again, that's kind of the general story of our species.Source: http://www.realitysandwich.com/we_are_unlimited_potential_talk_joseph_chilton_pearce
Mr Pearce quotes several times in his work, David Bohm's calculations of amount of energy available at our disposal in every cubic centimeter of quantum vacuum all around us. So he is aware of FE and publicly advocates it's use :) Although at the level 19 on Wade's scale (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#chart)...
Wade Frazier
7th October 2013, 13:19
Hi Izheheruvim:
My essay will deal very directly with that question. Indeed, it is almost the entire point of the essay. But yes, it has been covered in plenty of places on this thread and on my site. For now, I’ll just point to the epochal importance of the previous energy breakthroughs:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
In brief, all of today’s dominant ideologies would become obsolete with FE:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
because FE would mean the end of scarcity. That would be for starters. Survival issues would become obsolete:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=736407&viewfull=1#post736407
Today, people are so conditioned by scarcity that the idea of abundance scares them:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=739089&viewfull=1#post739089
As I was writing this, I saw Robert’s post, and it is a brilliant one. The grind of scarcity indeed begins in the cradle, and the crude and often self-destructive ways that people attempt to briefly escape from their misery would disappear pretty quickly with FE and abundance. Love and FE are joined at the hip, in practical and mystical ways:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest
The people who run the world know how “disruptive” FE would be to their reign of scarcity, which is why FE is suppressed as thoroughly as it is:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make
FE would be a quadrillion dollar technology for starters:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion
but that is the small stuff. The big stuff is healing the planet and humanity. With FE, this kind of world can begin to come into view:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
I’ll let you chew on that for a while.
I’ll give another little essay preview. I am still writing what will likely be the essay’s hardest chapter for me to write, where I deal with many concepts of physics and chemistry, and cover the earthly events that preceded the Cambrian Explosion. I have touched on some of the information elsewhere:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#footnotes
It can be astounding to consider how many seminal events in the history of life on Earth likely happened only once, and then proliferated across the planet. Events that are currently considered to have happened only once are:
1. Life appeared on Earth (if it did not appear only once, it appears that all life on Earth today is descended from one life form, known as LUCA today http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Universal_Common_Ancestor )
2. Photosynthesis was invented;
3. Oxygenic photosynthesis was invented (by cyanobacteria);
4. An archaean enveloped a bacterium, which became the ancestor of all mitochondria, which is the energy generation center in all animals, and that symbiotic union became the first complex cell;
5. A complex cell enveloped a cyanobacterium, which became the ancestor of all chloroplasts, which is the primary energy generation center in all plants (plants also have mitochondria, but photosynthesis supplies the energy that the mitochondria burn).
Along with the “invention” of enzymes, which speed up chemical reactions by millions of times and make life possible, those are the critical energy events of life on Earth, and they all likely happened more than a billion years ago. What has happened since then is the small stuff. Photosynthesis still powers all life on Earth, and it is primarily oxygenic photosynthesis (except for the chemosynthesizing microbes, but they are still dependent on the Sun and oxygenic photosynthesis, which "sets the table" for them to play their chemosynthetic games). Virtually all animals breathe oxygen. The basics have not changed in more than a billion years.
As I have written plenty, the epochal events in the human journey:
1. The control of fire/growing the protohuman brain;
2. Moving to the top of the food chain;
3. Domesticating plants and animals;
4. Tapping fossil fuel energy;
were all primarily energy events, and similar to those seminal energy events of more than a billion years ago, each event was initiated by a very small group of people, the “inventors” of their time. The breakthrough was quickly copied as its benefits became obvious, and it was the epoch after the event when the cognitive changes came for the masses. In each instance, the lives of the masses became unrecognizable compared to life before the epochal event. FE would be the biggest epochal event, by far, where a Star-Trek-like existence awaits us. As my work makes very clear, I am trying to help form a critical mass of awareness that can catalyze that epochal event. For this one, paradoxically, the technical breakthroughs have already happened:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sweet
but humanity’s inertia and addiction to scarcity, along with the organized suppression, have proven completely effective in preventing that technology from being used by the masses. In this regard, humanity has been its own worst enemy, with almost nobody having productive reactions to the situation:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#chart
I am trying to help change that, but as with humanity’s other epochal events, it is going to be a very small group of people who make the breakthrough. If I eventually form an abundance choir of 5-10K people, I think it would be enough to catalyze the change, and nobody would need to risk their lives, either.
Back to work,
Wade
Wade Frazier
7th October 2013, 13:39
Hi:
Briefly, I am regularly bombarded by newbies and allies who see something on YouTube or elsewhere on the Internet, and they contact me, saying, “Wade, here is somebody who is doing what you are!” That has never been the case. Every time that I look, the person is playing at one of the levels below Level 12 (such as 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11), or advocating Level 19 (which is completely impractical at this stage of the human journey, and usually reflects the typical New Agey naïveté and magical thinking http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage):
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level19
Brian O was the closest person that I have seen to my perspective, but Brian was playing the Level 10 game to a significant degree:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem
I have not seen anybody on Earth come close to what I am trying to do, which is create a Level 12, comprehensive-awareness choir. If I found anybody doing it, I would likely ask to join their choir and abandon what I am doing. But there is not anybody else with my experience and approach, so I have to roll my own, so to speak. That I keep getting hit with “they are just like you” stuff means that those pupils and allies are not really doing their homework, or maybe they don’t have the talent to be discerning. I don’t think that it is that hard to become discerning, but I could be wrong. Discernment will be a key ingredient in becoming a successful member of the choir, and it is possible that only experience will give a person the necessary discernment. That one is still a bit of a mystery to me, but when I see people like Ilie in action, it gives me the idea that the learning curve does not have to be all that steep for those needles in haystacks that I will be looking for.
Back to work,
Wade
Izheheruvim
7th October 2013, 17:12
Hi Izheheruvim,
The spiritual shallownes and escapism is a result of survival/victim mindset baked into those youngsters from the cradle. And that survival mindset being baked into them is a result of (artificial) energy scarcity. Banish that scarcity and young people will not have to escape from reality into shallow "entertainment". That's the logic behind freeing up Free Energy imho...:cool:
Thank you, Robert
I have a somewhat different reasoning though: a highly spiritual being can be raised on the very premise of energy scarcity. The fear can be channeled in a positive direction, i.e. respecting Mother Earth and using Her resources in a modest and rational way. I believe that Japan could serve as an example in this regard, at least before it incorporated "modern values", or pretty much every economy that had been somehow limited in its natural resources and yet retained much of its spiritual potency. To explain everything in human psyche in terms of energy scarcity would be a bit reductionist approach, don't you feel? And isn't it true that those raised in wealthy families on the premise of their personal abundance, however scarce other people's lives may be, tend to be less spiritual and concerned about others' well-being, especially when certain deleterious family values are passed on them and shape their psyche?
Wade, i checked out most of the links you kindly provided. I believe that my answer to Robert is pretty much in line with what i could have answered to you. So i am looking forward to reading your essay where strong evidence will be presented that energy scarcity has been the most important factor in spiritual life of people.
Peace
P.S. Don't get me wrong, i can clearly see how many advantages humanity will get when provided with FE. It's all about certain gross manifestations of psyche that would get unleashed in this case, all things being equal.
Izheheruvim
7th October 2013, 17:39
Probably this video doesn't fit quite well in here, but i thought it's relevant to our discussion:
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Wade Frazier
7th October 2013, 18:37
Hi Izheheruvim:
YouTube cartoons fall far short of the kinds of conversations that I prefer. In order to begin to understand my work, people need to begin thinking epochally, and that takes many years of experience and study, even for those who are so inclined, and there are not many of those walking on Earth today. I doubt that my essay will convince you of anything. At your age, it can only be a starting point for many years of hard work and deep contemplation.
When I was your age, I was only beginning to figure it out, and as I become an old man, I get glimmers of what might be called a big picture understanding. So-called spirituality has always been dependent on the political-economic foundation that it rode upon, which was always rooted in the level of energy consumption. Three centuries ago, slavery was considered “normal” and was even justified by the Old Testament.
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=738993&viewfull=1#post738993
Several hundred years ago in Europe, burning people alive at the stake was normal, and in the Western Hemisphere at the same time, torturing war captives to death was normal, and cutting out people’s hearts as they still beat within their chests was normal and an offering to the “Gods” who provided energy in the form of food.
Two millennia ago, forcing people to murder each other for entertainment was normal.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#gladiator
Fifty millennia ago, wiping out all of Earth’s large animals that had not yet learned to fear humans was normal.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#_edn5
In Japan not that long ago, suicide was “honorable,” and in China, killing infant girls was normal, and all of those activities were firmly planted within the “spiritual” traditions of all of those peoples. As standards of living have risen, people rightfully look at those “traditions” in horror, which were all rooted in economic scarcity. FE means abundance, and almost nobody on Earth today can even begin to imagine what that means. Today’s so-called spirituality will be seen as almost unrecognizably primitive under a political-economic system founded on FE.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Izheheruvim
7th October 2013, 20:19
Wade,
I hope i will have years ahead for contemplation and hard work to be able to understand your work better. Though even now i'm familiar with all those horrible things you've mentioned, and when i talk about spirituality i have a much bigger picture in mind than it might seem. By the way, i doubt that energy scarcity can be directly linked to some of them, such as burning someone alive or cutting hearts. It seems to be more about religious beliefs prevalent at the time in a particular society since pleasing God or gods in order to have food could have taken different forms, and not necessarily all of them were brutal. When, for example, prophet Muhammad came he made it clear that killing infants was against the Will of Allah whatever scarcity considerations could be there.
I understand that to be able to give all your heart to what you're doing, and what you're doing is very important indeed, you need to have a clear goal and as less variables as possible. But what if everything cannot be simply reduced to the variable you're looking at? I will delve deeper into your research with all openness i'm capable of. From my side, i'd recommend the following reading that would help to include more variables: http://www.roseofworld.org/book_eng.htm
Peace
eaglespirit
7th October 2013, 20:31
Wade,
I understand that to be able to give all your heart to what you're doing, and what you're doing is very important indeed, you need to have a clear goal and as less variables as possible. But what if everything cannot be simply reduced to the variable you're looking at? I will delve deeper into your research with all openness i'm capable of. From my side, i'd recommend the following reading that would help to include more variables: http://www.roseofworld.org/book_eng.htm
Peace
Hi Izheheruvim, wishing you well!
I will simply propose..."What if the only variable is selfless love backed by wisdom put into action in front of us?"
That wisdom gained from many places, personally, through much work and diligent determination with a few of life's bumps and scrapes thrown in to help expedite the realization that each one of us has the key but we must decide to live the solution, in some personal way(s), shape(s) or form(s), every moment every day.
Izheheruvim
7th October 2013, 21:11
eaglespirit, wishing well to you too! :) Your simple proposal resonates well with me, however difficult could be its realization.
sandy
7th October 2013, 22:26
Dear Wade,
IMHO, sometimes we can get so focused on our mission to help or make a difference we alienate others who wholeheartly give their best efforts to be supportive and encouraging. This type of dedication is admirable and certainly has purpose in manifesting ones hopes and dreams.
However if one is looking for others to help the manifestation, one might be best to not come across as exclusive, authortarian, parental and scolding of those who do not quite meet the standards, intellectually, comprehensively, experientially, or enthusiasitcally in what you are attempting to achieve.
I am aware that Iam not one of those needles in the haystack and am A okay with that, but want to support you anyway, just through cheers along the way.
I am one of those with lesser academic intelligence, not the best discernment skills, and in my 66 years on this wonderful planet am happy to still have a sense of naitivity to believe in miracles and others, YOU for one...............
I sent you a video a number of days ago , not under the premise of this person is doing what you are doing but under the premise of LOOK>>>>>>>there are others in their own way trying to raise the bar about FE and its supression, which I thought you would find encouraging. It seems you are quite irritated versus encouraged and I am sorry for the reaction it has caused. I admit I am taking a number of your latest posts personal and maybe I am just to senstive as well as my other down falls to be here any longer.
We all need to take a look at our behaviors sometimes and I am more than willing to do so if you think I am way out of line with this feedback Wade.
I know you need to be self protective due to your past and your mission and that the distractions are an irritant, but slapping participants will not help you or your efforts to create a choir of miracle workers, it will only alienate those with sensitivity and open hearts as feeling hurt is certainly not what I or anyone else wants to feel for trying to paartake, understand, comprehend, etc and or just cheer you on.
I love you my Brother in Spirit but right now I am stuck in the emotion of Human Experience, but do wish you continued energy and loving consciousness always.
Wade Frazier
7th October 2013, 23:15
Hi Sandy:
You are reading too much into my posts. You are not the target of them. I hear from plenty of people, all the time, and I have to admit that almost none of them understand my message. I have a very specific intention with my work, and am only looking to connect with people who are willing to do the work to understand. It really is about that simple. Avalon is not the ideal place to discuss my work, but it sure beats ATS and other forums of the anonymous. I need this thread to die down so that I can get my work done. I will get my own forum going before long, with people that I invite, and then we may be able to get some important work done. The exchanges will not look much like what you see at Avalon.
Love,
Wade
Wade Frazier
9th October 2013, 09:48
Here is a draft of another chapter of my essay that I just wrote. Again, the finished product will look different, perhaps radically so. Writing an essay like this is anything but a sequential process, although parts of it are drafted that way, as the pieces will all interrelate.
The Toolset of Mainstream Science
Humanity is the leading tool-using species on Earth, and our tools made us. While twigs, sticks, and other organic materials were undoubtedly used as tools by our protohuman ancestors, the only tools to survive for millions of years to be studied today are made of stone, and the oldest discovered so far are about 2.5-to-2.6 million years old. Humanity’s tools have become increasingly sophisticated during the intervening years. The Industrial Revolution was accompanied by the Scientific Revolution, and the synergy between scientific and technological advances has been essential and impressive, even leaving aside the many technologies and related theories that have been developed and sequestered in the above-top-secret world.
The history of science is deeply entwined with the state of technology. Improving technology allowed for increasingly sophisticated experiments, and advances in science spurred technological innovation. While many scientific practices and outcomes have been evil, such as vivisection and nuclear weapons, many others have not been destructive to humans or other life forms. The twentieth century saw great leaps in technological and scientific advancement. My grandfather lived in a sod hut as a child, his son helped send men to the moon, and his grandson pursued world-changing energy technologies and still does. Relativity and quantum mechanics ended the era of classical physics, and with their increasingly-sophisticated toolset scientists began to investigate phenomena at the galactic and atomic scales. Space-based telescopes, electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, atomic clocks, computers, and other tools allowed for explorations and experiments that were not possible in earlier times.
While intense organized suppression has existed where scientific and technological advances can threaten economic empires, many areas of science are not seen as threatening, and reconstructing Earth’s distant past and the journey of life on Earth is one of those areas. I have never heard of a fossil site being classified, or a Precambrian specialist being threatened or bought out in order to keep him silent. There is more controversy with human remains and artifacts, but I am skeptical of popular works that argue for technologically-advanced ancient civilizations and related notions. Something closer to “pure science” can be practiced regarding those ancient events without the threat of repercussions or the enticements of riches and Nobel Prizes. Much of this essay’s subject matter deals with areas where the distortions of political-economic racketeering have been muted, and the theory and tools have been relatively unrestricted.
Mass spectrometers weigh atoms and molecules, and have become increasingly refined since they were first invented in the nineteenth century. Today, samples that can only be seen with microscopes can be tested, and measured down to a billionth of a gram. All elements have varying numbers of neutrons in their atoms, and those varying neutrons give the atoms different physical properties, including mass, and each nuclear variation of an element is called an isotope. Some atoms are unstable and decay into smaller elements (also called “daughter isotopes”). Scientific investigations have confirmed that radioactive decay rates are quite stable, primarily governed by the dynamics in a decaying atom. The dates adduced by radioactive dating have been correlated to other observed processes, with the data becoming increasingly robust over the years.
The ability to weigh various isotopes, at increasing levels of precision, with mass spectrometers has provided a gold mine of data. Scientists are continually inventing new methods and ways to use them, new questions are being asked and answered, and some examples of the methods and findings follow.
Carbon has two primary stable isotopes: carbon-12 and carbon-13. Carbon-14 is the famous unstable isotope used for dating recently-deceased life forms, but testing carbon’s stable isotopes has yielded invaluable information. Carbon is the backbone of all of life’s structures, and life processes have a preference for using carbon-12, which is lighter than carbon-13 and hence take less energy to manipulate. Scientists have been able to test rocks, where the “fossils” are nothing more than smears, and determine that they were the result of life processes, as there is more carbon-12 in the smear than carbon-13 than would be the case if life was not involved. This has also helped date the earliest life forms. Life’s preference for lighter isotopes is evident for other key elements such as sulfur and nitrogen, and scientists regularly make use of that preference in their investigations.
The stable isotopes of oxygen have also yielded vital data, but not always because life processes prefer lighter isotopes, but because evaporation “prefers” it. The hydrological cycle is how water circulates through Earth’s oceans, atmosphere, and land. The energy of sunlight drives it, and that sunlight is primarily captured at the surface of bodies of water, the oceans in particular. A water molecule containing oxygen-16 (the most predominant isotope of oxygen) will be lighter than a water molecule containing oxygen-18, and it takes less energy to liberate an oxygen-16 water molecule than an oxygen-18 water molecule. Also, after being liberated, oxygen-18 water will tend to fall back to Earth more quickly than oxygen-16 water will, because it is heavier. As a consequence, air over Earth’s poles will be enriched in oxygen-16 – the colder Earth’s surface temperature, the less oxygen-18 will evaporate and be carried to the poles – and scientists have used this enrichment to reconstruct a record of ocean temperatures. Also, the oxygen-isotope ratio in fossil shellfish (as their life processes prefer the lighter oxygen isotope) has been used to help determine ancient temperatures. Also, during an ice age, because proportionally more oxygen-16 gets locked up in the ice sheets and does not flow back to the oceans, the ocean’s surface becomes enriched in oxygen-18 and that difference can also be discerned in the fossil shells. Some sediments have been laid down in annual layers, and in some places, such as the Cariaco Basin off the coast of Venezuela, undisturbed sediments have been retrieved and analyzed, which has helped determine when the ice sheets advanced and retreated during the present ice age.
Mass spectrometers have also been invaluable in assigning dates to various rocks and sedimentary layers, as radioactive isotopes and their daughter isotopes are tested, including uranium-lead, potassium-argon, carbon-14, and many other tests. Also, the ratios of elements in a sample can be determined, which can tell where it came from. Many hypotheses and theories have risen, fallen, and been called into question or modified with the data derived from these increasingly sophisticated methods, and a few examples will suffice to give an idea of what is being discovered.
The moon rocks brought back by the Apollo astronauts are still being tested, as new experiments and hypotheses are devised. In 2012, a study was published which resulted from testing moon rocks for the titanium-50 and titanium-47 ratios (both are stable isotopes), and it has brought into question the hypothesis that the Moon was formed by a planetary collision more than four billion years ago. The titanium ratio was so much like Earth’s that a collision with Earth forming the Moon is being questioned. The collision hypothesis may well survive, but it will be likely be markedly different from today’s hypothesis, with the colliding planet perhaps being larger.
Meteorites have been dated, as well as moon rocks, and their ages confirm Earth’s age that geologists have derived, and the meteorite dates also provide more evidence of how the solar system developed from an accretion disk.
In the Western Hemisphere, the Anasazi and Mayan civilization collapses of around a thousand years ago, or the Mississippian civilization collapse of five hundred years ago, have elicited a great deal of investigation. From New Age ideas that the Anasazi and Mayan peoples “ascended” to the Eurocentric conceit that the Mississippian culture was European in origin, many speculations arose that have been disproven by the evidence. It is now known that the Anasazi and Mayan culture collapses were influenced by epic droughts, but that was only the immediate cause. The proximate cause was that those civilizations were not environmentally sustainable. The Anasazi used logs to build their dwellings that today are famous ruins, and scientists have used strontium ratios in the wood to determine where they came from, as well as date the wood using tree-ring analysis and analyze pack rat middens, and a sobering picture emerged. The region was already arid, but agriculture and deforestation desertified the region around Chaco Canyon, which was the heart of Anasazi civilization. By the time the Anasazi civilization collapsed, at Chaco Canyon they were hauling in timber from mountains fifty miles away (the strontium ratios could trace each log from the particular mountain that it came from). When the epic droughts delivered their final blows, Anasazi civilization collapsed into a morass of starvation, warfare, and cannibalism, and the forest has yet to begin to recover, nearly a thousand years later.
Another major advance happened in the past generation: the ability to analyze DNA. The discovery of DNA’s double-helical structure happened in 1953, in 1973, the first amino acid sequencing for a gene was accomplished. In 2003, the entire human genome was sequenced, sequencing the chimpanzee genome was accomplished in 2005, in 2011 for orangutans, and in 2012 for gorillas. The comparisons of human and great ape DNA have yielded many insights, but the science of DNA analysis is in its infancy. What has yielded far more immediately relevant information has been studying human DNA. The genetic bases of many diseases have been identified. Hundreds of falsely convicted Americans have been released from prison, nearly twenty from death row, due to DNA evidence proving their innocence. Human DNA testing has given startling new views into the human past. For instance, in Europe it appears that after the ice sheets receded 16,000 to 13,000 years ago, humans repopulated Europe, and for all the bloody history of Europe over the millennia since then, there have not really been mass population replacements in Europe by invasion, migration, genocide, and the like. Europeans just endlessly fought each other, honing the talents that would one day see them conquer humanity. There were some migrations of Fertile Crescent agriculturalists into Europe, but mostly the “indigenous” populations adopted the energetically-superior practices of the agriculturalists and did not migrate, nor were they displaced. The Neanderthal genome has been sequenced as well as other extinct species, and for a brief, exuberant moment, some scientists thought that they could recover dinosaur DNA, Jurassic-Park-style.
Those interrelated and often mutually reinforcing lines of evidence have made many scientific findings difficult to deny. The ever-advancing scientific toolset, and the ingenuity of the scientists developing and using them, and particularly the multidisciplinary approach that scientists and scholars are increasingly using, has been making for radical changes in how we view the past. Those radical changes will not end any time soon, and what follows will certainly be modified by new discoveries and interpretations, but I have tried to stay largely within the prevailing findings, hypotheses, and theories, while also poking into the fringes and leading edges somewhat. Any mistakes in fact or interpretation in what follows are mine.
Melinda
10th October 2013, 01:18
http://i1267.photobucket.com/albums/jj550/DoodlemakerUK/HealedPlanetNote_zpsd063abd9.jpg (http://s1267.photobucket.com/user/DoodlemakerUK/media/HealedPlanetNote_zpsd063abd9.jpg.html)
Wade Frazier
10th October 2013, 13:41
Hi:
Yesterday was likely about my last visit to the high country for the year. It was a good season, and maybe the last in my lifetime like it. Whether I get to the high country again partly depends on the government shutdown, which has closed many trails and roads in the mountains. Attached to this post and the next one are pics from yesterday’s hike. I was not expecting the snow that I encountered. I was post-holing through foot-deep snow by the time I got to the top. It is still early October. The usual pattern is that the high country can be hiked until the end of October, but Global Warming has made the weather more erratic, with “hundred year” floods every few years, followed by years of epic drought. This year looks like it will be an early winter, and we will see how severe. One image is of me from about fifteen years ago, standing in a meadow on top of a mountain. The next is what that meadow looked like yesterday. I was expecting to see the scene from fifteen years ago, but to be fair, this one is taken a little later in the year. Due to the image limitation at Avalon, I’ll post the others on the next post, and get to the point that I want to make today.
Wade Frazier
10th October 2013, 13:43
Hi:
The pics attached are from yesterday’s hike, when I was below the snow. I will always be grateful for being able to hike in a rainforest. Although the forests on the Olympic Peninsula are called rainforests and rightfully so, the entire west side of the Cascades is a rainforest too. Instead of the 200 inches per year that the wettest part of the Peninsula gets, the Cascades might “only” get 100 or so, but most of it falls as snow, with Mount Rainier and Mount Baker in a “competition” for the greatest annual snowfall ever recorded on Earth. Those mushrooms in the attached pics are typical of what I hiked for miles through yesterday, and I did not see a soul.
I have stated this before, but it is time to state it again. I am looking to form a “choir,” for a Level 12 attempt, and Ilie and David are my ideal candidates. Ilie found me when I joined Avalon, and Brian O directed David to my work. Ilie came around very quickly, about as quickly as I have seen, in realizing that I was doing something different. He has been doing his homework, and his posts show that he gets it about as well as I have seen, especially for somebody as young as he is. He is definitely singing the song. I did not hear from David until he had read my entire site, and he has been reading it again, and when I hear from him, he has obviously been thoroughly chewing on my work, and he is beginning to sing a little.
Both of them needed to dabble in Levels below level 12, but they did it in ways that did not put them at undue risk. I don’t expect anybody to take my word for anything right off the bat. When they poke around like Ilie and David have, they will kick the tires of my work and see that I know what I am talking about, and then they can begin to progress beyond those early levels. Helping to educate people like that, while also keeping them out of trouble, is what I am here for, and is probably all that I am here for.
What they both have in common is some scientific training. David is a biology teacher, while Ilie has had plenty of scientific education. I think that those with some scientific training are going to make up most of the choir, but my essay is intended to help those without scientific training to begin to see the bigger picture. That may be my folly, but I have to try. But those without scientific training are the ones who will likely have to do the most work. Science is not easy. The problem with scientists, however, is that they are heavily indoctrinated in ways that are often invisible to them. Sheldrake’s book pointed out the many unproven assumptions that mainstream science has used as its foundation:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=726802&highlight=sheldrake#post726802
which can make it all seem like a house of cards. That said, there is plenty about the scientific world that I have great respect for, while also realizing how limited it can be. Every FE activist that I have had much respect for had a mystical orientation, but they virtually all started out as scientists, and only got that mystical orientation because of their experiences, not some kind of indoctrination. David can lucid dream and do other tricks, which likely helped open him to work like mine. They have been going deep, and that is what it will take to be able to sing the song. People who approach my work as another fringe-world flavor of the day are not my target audience. I am not trying to attract conspiracists, materialists, “patriots,” religious fanatics, New Agers, and others who have signed on to ideologies such as those, as their ideological commitments blind them to the bigger picture. I have virtually never encountered anybody like that who really understood what I was doing, which is another reason why I say that there is no group on Earth that can presently understand my message, as they all have their own axes to grind, and every single one of them is mired in scarcity. We can’t get there by dragging along our scarcity-based baggage.
So, when I hear from people like David, after they spent months digesting my work, or people like Ilie who obtain the books that I mention and read them, and then have insightful things to say after digesting them, or traveling across the world to get experience in areas that I mention, they have my full attention. Anything short of what they are doing will likely not make the grade for what I am looking for, which is partly why I say that I am looking for needles in haystacks. And I am not holding those high standards because I am trying to create some elite club; I am doing it because anything less will not work for what I have in mind. The effort that I am trying to mount cannot afford to be distracted by people who think the latest YouTube video from TED is the key, or who get caught up in the conspiracist or New Age flavor of the day, or who want to rush off and go “do something,” etc. Writing this essay is going to end up costing me more than $1 million. I have devoted my life to my path, and anything less would have seen me fall by the wayside long ago. And I have had to turn down invitations from Dennis, Brian O, and others in the FE field. While I can only have immense respect for their efforts, I have to do my own thing. I am done with carrying spears, and the current members of the FE field just don’t have what it takes to make a dent. I am only attempting this choir approach after many years of seeing what does not work. And approaches couched in Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 have never had a prayer of success:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
If people like Ilie and David had to go poking around in those lower levels a little before they started to get it, it is likely that all members of the choir will have to go through that phase. In many areas I get my patience tested, but in that area, it is not so much my patience being tested as it is trying to keep people like Ilie and David from harm. The FE field is very much like that Killer Bunny clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcxKIJTb3Hg
Because nobody has showed up at a newbie’s cubicle and “offered” them a billion dollars to stop what they are doing:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer
much less targeted them with a murder attempt, I regularly hear the scoffing and denial coming from the newbies, and they think that they know best how to make FE happen. It is the most common newbie disease that I have seen, and is almost universal. People like that scare me, and I do my best to weed them out of consideration for the choir. They are a danger to others and themselves. I also am not looking for people who need to be cajoled or whom I have to spend much of my time convincing. People such as Uncle Ed, Uncle Noam and others like them got my time (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm ), or a leading voice in the Free Software Movement (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/freesoft.htm ), and those efforts turned out to be a waste of my time. I surely will not try to overcome the “skepticism” of the many newbies that show up in my life. What a time waster that has been. I am a million times more skeptical of them than they are of me. I learned those lessons many years ago.
My work is out there, and only those who dive in and go deep and, when they come up for air, impress me with what they learned, are going to have what I am looking for. I don’t kid myself that there are many of those walking around on the planet, but those are whom I seek, and I know it will be like looking for needles in haystacks.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
10th October 2013, 21:12
Hi:
I am busy plunking along on the essay, and had occasion to stumble onto Brian’s epilogue to his last book, where he reproduced an email that I sent him around 2008:
http://www.brianoleary.info/Synopsis.html
As I read that email from five years ago, I was struck at how much it kind of sums up my Avalon work, down to the themes, my strategy, and even the terminology. About the only change was calling “the Big Boys” “Godzilla” at Avalon. My perspective continues to evolve, but I was surprised to see writings from five years ago so similar to today’s. I have not looked at the stuff for many years, but I wonder what I would think if I reread some of my writings from 25 years ago. I almost shudder to think about it, but one day, I might take a peek and see what that boy was writing about and how he did it.
Back to work,
Wade
Wade Frazier
10th October 2013, 21:24
Hi:
Another little aside. I just saw this:
http://news.yahoo.com/slavery--disease--death--the-dark-side-of-the-christopher-columbus-story-141953979.html
Every year at this time, my Columbus essay becomes by far the most popular on my site:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm
It is about the oldest essay on my site and, one day, I would like to rewrite it. It has been used in college and high school classes, and when I see that even Yahoo! has an article like that on Columbus, I think that there may be hope for us. :)
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
14th October 2013, 14:05
Hi:
Today is Columbus Day in the USA, and I got this in my email this morning:
http://www.zcommunications.org/it-s-columbus-day-time-to-break-the-silence-by-bill-bigelow.html
Bigelow is the guy whom I began my Columbus essay with:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm
and nice to see him still at it.
I am deep in the throes of writing my essay. I just woke up from dreams that seemed to last for hours, working on the essay’s part that I am currently about to write, where I am bringing together several themes that earlier parts of the essay introduced. When I am dreaming about it, it is a good thing, meaning that I am “in the zone” of writing it. I don’t get that kind of dream designing/writing effect very often, but when I do, it means I am engaged with my entire being, and it will take that to pull off the essay the way that I hope that I can. Attached is the essay’s current list of chapters, always subject to revision as the essay gets completed. Also, attached is the current version of one of the timelines that will be in the essay. I will likely have a few of those, to help the reader navigate and organize the information.
I have kind of gone into a writer’s hibernation, keeping my social and cyberspace interactions to a minimum, but as a coda to earlier posts, twice last week I was sent links to YouTube TED talks, with one of them asking me what I thought about a guy who gives an energy talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ghhgUmGBjX8#t=48
The clip is mislabeled as free energy, when it is really nothing of the sort, at least not in my circles, which is why something like Brian O’s “new energy,” can distinguish FE from all the stuff that masquerades as it. That clip was posted on this thread years ago, and that guy’s talk was only about more efficient solar energy, which is way too little, too late, for the kinds of problems that we face. Any true FE/NE talk is going to be banished from the infotainment forum known as TED, as we recently saw with the relatively tame talk of Sheldrake’s:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=740177&viewfull=1#post740177
And any fringe science, of which FE definitely qualifies, is going to be banned:
http://circularstateofmind.wordpress.com/category/tedx-2/
but I still get bombarded with TED links, and these are from pretty close colleagues whom I have met in the flesh and have been familiar with my work for more than a decade. If my close colleagues do not get it, what chance does the general public have? The mainstream is not where FE is going to come from. The mainstream is dead, and that is just how Godzilla likes it. I have no interest in knocking on the establishment’s door, and certainly do not look there for answers. That is one of the newbie afflictions:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#government
and I have been there, believe me. Dennis banged on those doors all the way to being banned from doing business in the USA:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&viewfull=1#post694872
and if Dennis cannot make a dent going that way, nobody can. If we are going to make a difference, it can’t be accomplished by beseeching the authorities, the rich and powerful, etc. They only have an interest in maintaining the status quo, with them atop the food chain. FE will be history’s most disruptive technology, initiating the biggest epochal event ever:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
and there is no way that it will come from the people at the top. Godzilla sits at the very top of the earthly food chain, and he has put a vast amount of money and effort into keeping the lid on FE. I should know:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make
but newbies keep wanting to find that easy way to FE, that magic answer that sees us get there with a minimum of effort. There are no easy ways to FE, and the people who I think have a chance of helping us get there have to lay aside their scarcity-based indoctrination:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
and achieve what I have been calling true sentience. Running our minds down the timeworn paths of scarcity is not really thinking, or if it is, it is firmly “inside the box.” Inside the box “thinking” will not get us there, but getting outside the box is very hard work, but nothing less will be required if we are going to go somewhere important. Again, there is nobody on Earth trying what I am. While it is a lonely path, it at least is an untried one, and that is one of the reasons why I am trying it. In his own way, Dennis finally came close to the way that I see the situation (and Brian O was beginning to, also, in his way). Dennis's view has a Christian hue to it, but he finally realized that without something resembling enlightenment, we are not going to get there, and it all starts in the heart.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
15th October 2013, 20:59
Hi:
As I think about the post-essay work, I will probably have a portion of the forum devoted to dealing with the typical questions that arise when people are introduced to FE, but they will be in a far corner where the discussion will be brief, because the conversation will not be focused on newbie stuff like that. I have spent a lot of time dealing with those Level 1 responses:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level1
but one that I did not put in that table, which I might have to add one day, is one of the most common that I see, which I had to deal with recently a few times, which goes this way:
“If FE was possible, somebody could put blueprints on the Internet and everybody could build one in their garage.”
I have seen and heard this one, and its variants, hundreds of times. Those kinds of responses reflect inexperience and misperceptions about how the world, and particularly technology development, works. For starters, I have never met, or even heard of, the inventor with the goods who was willing to give it away, which is what putting blueprints on the Internet is the equivalent of. If an inventor is making blueprints, it is always in conjunction with making patent applications and business plans. Somebody doing that has no intention of giving it away.
But that is just for starters. Anybody who is making patent applications and business plans for an FE device is naïve, having no idea how the terrain lies. No working FE device has ever made it to getting a patent publicly issued, and the businesses are uniformly wiped out if they ever get going. And applying for a patent or raising money for a business announces that the inventor can be bought, which is strike three against him ever getting anywhere with his gizmo. All that is left is seeing which sword he falls on.
That patent office is a great place to stonewall the inventor (the patent office policy is to not issue patents for stuff that “violates the laws of physics,” even if it has blueprints, etc.), and it is also a great place to classify it, so it gets taken away from the inventor in the first place, and any further pursuit means prison. So, the patent route is a foolish and futile one.
I am not sure exactly how Godzilla’s playbook reads, as far as who gets bought out, who gets subtly sabotaged, who gets threatened, who gets killed, and who has their patent stonewalled or seized, but it is likely along the lines that I heard Bearden talk about long ago:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bearden
and he likely assesses the risk something like this:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#risk
So, the inventor who makes a blueprint is almost always highly naïve, and even if he had the notion to “give it away” if he realized that he could not commercialize it, he probably would not realize it until it was too late.
The bigger problem, however, is that there is not some army of tinkers out there, waiting for the blueprints so that they can go build one and get them on houses. When I was with Dennis, we sold blueprints for the heat pump, and kits on how to build, install and sell them. The only people who tried to do anything with it were trying to steal Dennis’s businesses. Every time that Dennis rebuilt after having the business wrecked, he had to do it himself. Almost nobody has any honest gumption.
Another issue is that even if there was an army of tinkerers waiting for those blueprints, they could not make it work anyway, especially to the level where one could power a home. Late in his life, Brian O tried to educate the public on that issue. Taking a prototype to production status would take north of $100 million to accomplish. No FE tinkerer ever had access to that kind of money. I have seen and touched FE prototypes (if you have $1 million, you can go build one), and they were a long, long way from being able to be put on a home. Think of making an FE device as like making a Pentium chip. You can’t make those in garages.
A variant of this is the Level 7 fantasy:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7
that somebody will put blueprints out there, or distribute them in some kind of FE Underground Railroad:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_Railroad
and the tinkerers will make a bunch, and then some kind of secret army gets them into the public’s hands before Godzilla knows what is happening. That is about the equivalent of a Saturday morning cartoon fantasy, but I see newbies advocating that all the time, and even people who should know better. That kind of idea fails on several levels, naïveté aside. Godzilla is not asleep, and such adolescent fantasizing will never get to the level where Godzilla needs to even open half an eye, but even if something like that made it ten feet down the path, it would quickly succumb to paranoia, delusions of grandeur:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#grandeur
greed, and the like. I have never seen anybody with the right stuff think along those lines for even an instant, and when I hear of FE tinkerers hiding in their shacks in Montana, thinking that they can sneak past Godzilla, they have always been the field’s chaff, suffering from naïveté, dishonestly, etc. Mark honestly tried that route, at least once, when he was young:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread392968/pg7
and I have a lot of respect for youngsters who find out the hard way and learn from the experience. After Mark had it taken away the second time, after he tried the “sneak past them” strategy, he wisely stopped that entire route. Adam T. has had several of his FE prototypes seized, etc., but he never tried sneaking past them. He eventually realized the utter futility of the inventor/business path, after surviving numerous murder attempts, and never tried to sneak past them that I know of. Heck, Bill Ryan, Greer, Brian, Dennis, and all those whom I respect in these areas knew that they could not sneak past Godzilla, and never even tried. When people try to play the cloak-and-dagger game with me, I want out.
Not only do FE newbies regularly utter the blueprint/sneak-past-them strategy, the “skeptics” repeat the same idea as proof that FE is impossible, because if it was, somebody would put blueprints out there, etc. That shows the level of acumen that the FE “skeptics” have.
The conversation that I plan to mount is light-years past stuff like that, and I look forward to getting it going. Getting to Level 12 is no easy trick.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
16th October 2013, 12:24
Hi:
As I plunk along on my essay, I keep thinking about what FE can mean, and how epochal it will be. Again, for the other epochal events:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
the people before the event, and even the people making the key innovations that led to the event, had absolutely no idea what the event would lead to, how radically it would change human existence. The control of fire likely led to humans. Whether it was fire or the new tools and hunting tactics (fire definitely played a big role, and perhaps the central one), the growth in the human brain allowed humanity to evolve. Without that energy boost, there would not be people. Our species would still be like chimpanzees. That is arguably the most dramatic change of all, in that the species changed, but on the planetary scale, bigger changes were coming.
When humans developed the toolset and social organization about 50K years ago, they moved to the top of all food chains and conquered the entire planet, driving nearly all the big animals to extinction in the process. There was that brief “golden age” as the virgin continents were plundered, and it might not have looked too different to humans, but on a global scale, it was radical. At the same time, tools took a leap up in sophistication, art began, and humans became “modern.” Comparing humans before and after that change would have been dramatic. One recent hypothesis is that humans became a lot more intelligent at that time, maybe from interbreeding with Neanderthals.
When humans began to domesticate plants and animals, in several places around the world, independently and around the same time, it led to civilization in all of those places. Civilization was radically different than what came before it. Professions, religions, urban environments - they all came about because of domesticating plants and animals. The people domesticating those first plants and animals, probably from Malthusian necessity, could not have had any idea what that would lead to. Think about that.
Similarly, the Industrial Revolution was initiated by relatively few people, as with the other epochal changes. Learning how to maintain a fire was probably done by one band, once, and then spread as others copied it, as they noted its obvious advantages. Domesticating plants and animals also probably happened once for each domesticate. The Industrial Revolution had more parents than the other epochal events did, but it still was not that many. It began on a little island off the coast of Europe, and industrialization allowed that tiny island nation to conquer the world. The Industrial Revolution had some little steps leading up to it, all energy innovations, such as harnessing wind and water power. But compare today’s world to 1600s England, and a 1600s English peasant, plopped into today’s world, would simply be overwhelmed. The most mundane aspects of our lives, such as indoor plumbing, hot showers, electric lighting, appliances such as refrigerators and washing machines, and automobiles, would have been magical. But that would be the least of it. TVs, the Internet, plastic, rockets, space probes and the like would have been incomprehensible. Women with careers, no slaves, and the like would be equally bizarre. Just try to imagine how overwhelming it would all be to a 1600s English peasant. Could anybody say that the peasant would have been “ready” for what industrialization wrought? Could we argue that industrialization should have been put off for centuries, until the peasants could handle it?
With FE and related technologies that are being kept under wraps, such as antigravity and advanced materials technology, a Star Trek world awaits humanity. I have found that almost nobody on Earth today can even begin to imagine what abundance means:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced
even though we have shows like Star Trek that at least give us a hint. But when I began to discuss FE and abundance, the reactions that I saw were nothing short of incredible. They were all the reactions of denial and fear that I today call Levels 1, 2, 3, and 5:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level1
and what I found in every circumstance was that people were simply fearing the unknown, fearing what their place would be in that world. In every single case, the person was mired in his/her scarcity-based way of viewing the world. In ways, it would be like that chimpanzee-like ancestor fearing becoming human, or a hunter-gatherer fearing having a roof over his head and a predictably full belly, or that peasant fearing indoor plumbing and refrigerators. And they may have all feared those changes, but who would want to argue that the former state was desirable? Who wants to go back to living in a cave, being a slave, being lucky to live to be an adult? Even with shows like Star Trek, FE and abundance has proven to be unimaginable to the masses, and that is just how Godzilla likes it:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm#thinkable
The greatest “blow” that I can land with my life against our deeply-baked scarcity paradigm is helping a tiny group of people just imagine abundance. If 5-10K people could just lay aside their scarcity-based blinders for a little while, and learn to sing the abundance song, it would be more than enough to catalyze a world based on FE and abundance, but the masses are not going to begin to wake up to it until FE is delivered to their homes. It has ever been that way.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli
Virtually none of the people who benefited from those epochal shifts had anything to do with initiating them. They were just along for the ride, and it was the ride that transformed them. So, when I see the many so-called wise theorists say that humanity is not ready for FE and abundance, they are poor students of history, and all I see them do is project their fears, just like all the others did before the epochal shifts. They are all addicted to scarcity and the devil they know.
It will not take many people to initiate the shift, but that is whom I am planning to find and train. People such as Ilie, who are coming to this at a young age, I fully expect to take all of this much further than I will. If we make the shift and don’t crash the applecart before we do, people like me will be seen as the early pioneers who did not live to see what they initiated, and probably could not imagine what they kicked off. Fortunately, I have had Star Trek and journeys like Roads’s:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
to help paint what kind of world awaits the other side of the FE hump, although most of what I envision is just the result of living with the idea of FE for half of my life.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
16th October 2013, 13:37
Hi:
One other thought this morning, before I get deep into essay stuff. Similar to almost nobody even being able to imagine abundance, as their fears paralyze their imaginations, almost nobody ever has a balanced reaction to the idea of Godzilla. They either deny his existence, or believe that he is responsible for all of our problems. This is the structuralist/conspiracist divide:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism
I am not sure which reaction is more dysfunctional, the denial or the obsession. The denial parades as being rational, but that is far from the case. Back when Dennis was surviving mob hit attempts, and was throwing a mobster down a stairwell:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=606213&viewfull=1#post606213
when he would ask a mobster if he was a mobster, the mobster would say, “What are you talking about? A bunch of criminals have gathered together and formed some kind of underground organization? That sounds like a crazy conspiracy theory to me.” That is virtually the identical reaction of structuralists, those pipe-smoking academics, to the very idea that Godzilla exists. I have seen Godzilla described as very organized crime, and that is an apt description. But the rad lefties have actually made it clear that they have ideological objections to the idea of Godzilla:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#religion
Having an ideological objection to reality is not very productive, IMO. But the conspiracists have an even more unbalanced perspective, IMO, as they chalk up all of our problems to Godzilla’s machinations. I have even seen it stated that the sociopaths are the root of our problems. That is the cowboy movie view of the world. The mob, sociopaths, and Godzilla only have power because the masses have abdicated responsibility for their lives. Unfortunately, I studied mobsters when I was younger, and one principle of their operation is that their methods won’t typically work on honest people. They prey upon people’s dishonesty. One example will help make this clear. I recall a mobster telling one of his favorite scams. He would take a roll of copper wire, pretty heavy gauge, and anodize it with a gold film. Then he would append the last few feet of the roll with wire of pure gold. Then he would take it to jewelers, pretending like he was somebody who fell into possession of the roll, and was not sure what it was worth. So he would go to jewelers, asking them to assay it. The scam was after the jeweler assayed it, the mobster asked what it was worth. The dishonest jeweler would be fooled by the pure gold at the end of the roll, thinking that it was all pure gold. But the jeweler would lie to the mobster, stating that it was a lower grade wire. The jeweler would offer half or less of what he thought it was worth, and the mobster would happily play the “chump” and sell the wire for a “song,” and be on his merry way. The mobster laughed at the end of telling his little scam, and said that his scam only worked on dishonest people. An honest jeweler would tell him what he thought it was worth and send him to someplace that would buy it.
Here is another example of how criminals use the dishonesty of the general population to make their money. When I was a teenager, and meat was becoming expensive (the 1970s, during stagflation), some criminals stole a meat truck and were selling the meat out of the back of it, at about half price or so. Some of our neighbors rushed to be part of the “fire sale.” One neighbor happily bought the meat. My father actually hired the man for his first engineering job, and he took my neighbor to task, saying that he was profiting from a crime. The neighbor shot back with, “Everybody else is doing it, and if I don’t get the benefit then somebody else just will. The crime was already committed, I am not harming anybody.” I doubt that I have to deconstruct the ethical bankruptcy of that position, but that happened in a Beaver Cleaver (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Cleaver), middle class neighborhood, not some poor neighborhood. Such facile reasoning to profit from crimes is part and parcel of why we don’t have FE today, as the level of personal integrity in the general population is so low:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
All of those ways that people fall of the rails when pursuing FE, those Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11, fall short on the integrity scale for the task at hand. Making FE happen by any of those ways would require a gathering of saints, people of the highest integrity, to understand how the land lies and avoid the many yawning pitfalls:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#potholes
Those pre-Level 12 levels appeal to greed, ego, and fear – in short, the victim mentality. If a technological effort is going to be mounted, the only path with a prayer is for the inventor with the goods to give it to a worthy group. I have never met or heard of the inventor with the goods willing to give it away, and that worthy group does not yet exist. My current and future efforts can be seen as trying to help form that worthy group, but it won’t be a gathering of heroes, because the heroes needed for this task do not exist:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
But no group has ever imagined abundance before, and those that have pretended to have just put a shiny new coat of paint on scarcity:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
I am doing something different, and for those first members of the choir, it has to be about hitting the notes, not how many there are or how loudly they sing. Anything less will just be more of the same. People who advocate sneaking past Godzilla, and you have seen many of those suggestions made by Avalonians on my threads, are not only delusional, but mired in fear and scarcity. We are not going to get there that way, by playing subtle games, outsmarting Godzilla, etc. Or if somebody does do it that way, I want nothing to do with it. Many have tried to play that game, and nobody whom I respect is really trying that route. If my idea ends up working, Godzilla may regret not taking me out earlier, but if I end up “tricking” Godzilla, it will only be because he underestimates the power of love and true sentience. He is definitely aware of my activities, but he probably dismisses it as of no consequence, the harmless efforts of somebody who once posed a threat, but who now is playing games that will have no impact, and he might be right. But awareness and learning are never wasted, and it nothing else, I will be offering that to my future students and colleagues. If nothing else, I will be training people on how to think of a world of abundance, and we can even get glimpses of how to be in it.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
18th October 2013, 13:30
Hi:
Yesterday, I took a friend to see the larches, pics attached. For the “filtered” ones, I put my sunglasses over the lens. Real professional job. :) The larches looked electric through my sunglasses.
As I write the essay, it is not designed to be read in a sitting. It will be more like a textbook that is going to have to be studied at great length to be understood, and that is fine. There is nothing about it that is going to be easy. I am doing what I can to make it easier on the reader, but the material will be very challenging. There are many moving parts in a comprehensive view.
Back to writing,
Wade
Ba-ba-Ra
18th October 2013, 23:53
Wade,
Don't know if you already know about this - or are interested, but in a recent interview w/Charlie Rose of PBS, the President of Chile (Sebastian Pinera) claims he is encouraging scientists and inventors with great ideas to come to Chile and offering $40,000 Grants, plus facilities needed to explore their ideas. . . . The entire interview was interesting, but that particular part begins around 35:00.
http://www.charlierose.com/watch/60276007
Wade Frazier
19th October 2013, 00:50
Hi ba-ba-ra:
Not interested. Thanks.
Hi all:
The primary purpose of my essay is to help my readers think comprehensively and epochally. I hope that when people begin to do that, those Levels below Level 12 begin to become obvious in their uselessness. There a million ways to hack at branches. Only a comprehensivist is going to see the root and aim there, and an epochal thinker will look at the situation as something vastly larger than any current geopolitical games being played, the inventor of the hour, and so on. This is something that a person could easily spend the rest of their lifetime engaging, and still barely scratch the surface. I don’t know if I will live to see any of what I envision come to pass, but it is not really important, as far as my life goes. For humanity's and the planet’s sake, the sooner the better, but as far as any individual lives are concerned, it does not matter much. The ego does not like hearing stuff like that, but thinking comprehensively and epochally is all about transcending our mundane lives on Earth, the petty concerns, the melodrama, the chase for the daily bread, etc. When people begin to tackle the epochal stuff, the other stuff gets pretty small.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
21st October 2013, 15:36
Hi:
As I have stated, the choir will be about hitting the notes, and it if begins with five people singing, or two, so it will. Being willing and able to learn the song and sing it is extremely rare, and I will only be trying to recruit people who are already singing. Probably most of them will not be singing my song yet, but they will be close. Again, Ilie is exactly what I am looking for. He began around Level 7 or 10, and quickly understood my intent (he had FE dreams long before he encountered me). He has challenged me politely at times, and that is a fine thing. Usually, it was an opportunity to help me clarify my position, and when it was clarified, Ilie understood. I will have to raise my game, too, to build and lead the choir. With my impatience issues, I will have a hard time with pupils who are “slow,” do not really want to learn to sing, and so on. But if I have pupils and understudies like that, my idea is doomed anyway. The song will be a comprehensive one, but its intent will be very focused: create a nugget of heart-centered awareness that will help FE and a healed planet manifest. That is all that I am attempting. Nobody has tried to do it before, not like I am. I am engaged in my own struggles for survival, although they are not nearly what most people have to deal with.
The essay will be my hymnal, my site’s work, twelve years later. It will be my energy essay, grown up:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm
I doubt that I will remove any of my essays, although I sure want to edit and rewrite some of them. I may do that to some of them before I publish my essay.
If the effort is successful, scenes like this will quickly become part of our primitive history:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-21/another-chinese-megapolis-shut-down-hazardous-smog
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
23rd October 2013, 11:56
Hi:
As I write my essay and think about what I am advocating, it is mind-boggling to think about in several ways. I keep up on the daily news, but as I think epochally, the things that global society is obsessed with are pretty meaningless in the big picture. I know that FE, antigravity, and other technologies exist that could make this a Star Trek world. Next to that, nothing means much. The situation is also a conspiracist’s dream, where history’s biggest conspiracy is keeping the lid on all of it. But the conspiratorial aspects of this situation are not really very interesting or important.
If we turn the corner, humanity will have the opportunity to learn some big lessons, and the biggest one, IMO, is going to be what happens when people give their power away, playing the victim game. Humanity playing the victim is by far the most powerful dynamic in this situation:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness
The big lesson that will be up for learning once and for all will be that fear and thinking like a victim is a one-way ticket to catastrophe, and love and thinking like a creator is the way out. The paradigm shift that could come from FE and abundance would be total:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming
Again, almost nobody on the planet can even begin to imagine it today, but if they had experience of the daily reality of abundance, it would begin to sink in. Again, thinking about the previous epochal events:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=745089&viewfull=1#post745089
can provide an idea of the change’s magnitude. Almost nothing about today’s world would survive the transition. Everything that was based on fear and scarcity would become obsolete, the dominant ideologies for starters:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
People cling to those ideologies today out of scarcity and fear. Love and abundance will make them evaporate like morning mist.
It is really hard to overstate the changes that would come. Glimpsing realities like this one:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
can provide some clues, but are really only hints. None of us can really know what living in a reality like that would be like; what feelings would accompany our first waking thoughts each day, how we interacted with each other, what we spent our time and energy on, mentally, emotionally, physically. It would be unexplored territory, and I would sign up to explore it in a heartbeat.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
23rd October 2013, 18:53
Hi:
As I work on my essay, it is becoming evident to me that, for better or worse, it is what I am going to be primarily known for. I feel a lot of pressure to “get it right,” and make the best comprehensive case that I can. The chapters are getting big and hairy, and I doubt that I will be putting up many more previews at Avalon, as without the context of the essay they are going to seem a bit disjointed. I am at work on the Cambrian Explosion these days:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambrian_explosion
and I find myself bouncing around between chemistry, geology, paleontology, molecular biology, climate science and the like. Turning it into something that the reader can use to help develop a comprehensive perspective will be my biggest challenge. As the devil is in the details, researching and writing the essay is a learning experience in itself.
The Cambrian period begins the eon of complex life (with a little Ediacaran prelude), and the oil and coal deposits were created during that eon, with the coal beds almost all created during the Carboniferous period:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous#Rocks_and_coal
and about 70% of the oil was created during the age of the dinosaurs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anoxic_event#Consequences
largely during anoxic ocean events. 70% of Middle East oil was created during those dinosaur days:
http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Why_So_Much_Oil_in_the_Middle_East/58d94fc1.aspx
at the shores of the Tethys Sea:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethys_Ocean
Those warm, shallow, sometimes anoxic seas are long gone, as is the situation that laid down the coal beds. No oil or coal of significance has been “made” in about 50 million years. The coal beds will never be made again on this planet, and there will likely never be much oil created again, as Earth has become carbon-starved (burning up all the hydrocarbons is not going to ameliorate the long-term trend).
What formed over hundreds of millions of years is being burned up to fuel our industrial age in mere hundreds. At the rate we are going, never mind China, India, and other nations industrializing, we will have burned up virtually all of the oil and most of the coal in this century. Something is going to give long before then, and Godzilla’s contingency plan to terraform Mars as his “ace in the hole” makes a certain insane sense.
My hope is that my target audience begins to understand the central role of energy in the journey of life on Earth, the unsustainability of the current trajectory (humanity has never been on a sustainable trajectory, wiping out environment after environment, plundering energy resource after energy resource), and how FE can forever alter that trajectory into something that is not only sustainable, but abundant:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#sustainable
We will see how it goes.
Back to work,
Wade
Ilie Pandia
23rd October 2013, 20:18
What formed over hundreds of millions of years is being burned up to fuel our industrial age in mere hundreds. At the rate we are going, never mind China, India, and other nations industrializing, we will have burned up virtually all of the oil and most of the coal in this century. Something is going to give long before then, and Godzilla’s contingency plan to terraform Mars as his “ace in the hole” makes a certain insane sense.
Hi Wade,
I don't meant to keep you from your work, I just want to note that it seems to me like new technology is drip fed to us to keep us addicted to burning fossil fuels. And it has to be a balance. Not to fast, so they don't lose profit, but not too slow either or people will start to really think about "The Alternative".
Oil is not the only thing we can "burn". Anything will do as long as it's scarce and the supply can be controlled.
Of course, this is not really relevant in the Free Energy context, but it just means that the collapse may be able to be postponed for a while longer... That only goes for burning stuff, because if we manage to trash the ecosystem badly enough, we will die out... oil or no oil...
Wade Frazier
24th October 2013, 01:01
Hi Ilie:
At Godzilla’s level, it is not about profit, but power, and he knows that in a world of abundance, he loses his power over others. It really is about that simple. He walks the fine line between enslaving a planet and destroying it, and the insanity of his game has caused most at Godzilla’s level to wonder about it:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal
But the dark side is dark indeed. Corporations playing their profit games are at a lower level than Godzilla plays. Corporations are structurally-designed to make greed the paramount motivation:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#greed
with the capitalist ideologists (largely “economists,” but there are plenty of other professions who flack for greed and the status quo) making greed into a virtue. In a world of scarcity, everybody is looking to carve out and maintain their niche. I really don’t think that the corporations, per se, are really in charge of what is happening. Oh, there is plenty of evil there, to be sure, but they are “merely” grubbing for their plunder. The governments are similar, and the corporate/government nexus in the USA, for instance, plays below Godzilla’s level, although he uses them when he needs to.
I’ll agree that controlling the energy supply has been the primary predilection of imperialists from the early days. In Roman times, it was about controlling food, which was the primary energy industry back then (along with deforestation). Capturing agricultural land and sending its food to Rome was largely what Rome was all about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grain_supply_to_the_city_of_Rome
There was a famous instance when Rome had low supplies at winter’s end and the emperor made a public display of watching for the grain fleet’s arrival from Africa.
In 1912, the British Navy adopted oil as its fuel of choice, and by 1918 it had completely abandoned coal.
http://www.epmag.com/archives/digitalOilField/5911.htm
The fate of the Middle East was thus sealed – the Brits, and their imperial successor, the USA, have yet to leave that part of the world, and have no plans for leaving any time soon. Oil is the ideal hydrocarbon for fueling the industrial world.
I think that oilmen and the politicians they own know what’s important, but they are not really calling the shots of draining the last barrel before switching to FE. Godzilla has several problems relating to FE, but the biggest one is that if it ever got loose to the point of public use – as in you could buy an FE device – it would be the beginning of the end of his reign on Earth. He knows it, hence the organized suppression, and keeping FE and abundance unimaginable to the masses is his greatest triumph. What happened to Dennis in Seattle, for instance:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run
I think was largely the local electric industry just protecting its turf. Godzilla was not calling the shots on that one, but Bill the BPA Hit Man was likely on the payroll somewhere along the line, if not at the beginning of his “career”:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm
A collapse is definitely up ahead, maybe real soon, with the trajectory we are on. China passed the USA as the world’s biggest oil importer, and they are just getting started:
http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/China-is-Now-the-Worlds-Largest-Importer-of-OilWhat-Next.html
Nations printing money as fast as they can is pure insanity, with the USA leading the way. The end of the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency is coming fast.
Crazy times.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
24th October 2013, 16:14
Hi:
I doubt that I can overemphasize how radically different my approach is than anything that has ever been attempted before in the FE field. Probably the hardest thing for anybody encountering my material and approach is being able to think abundantly in a world of scarcity. Literally everything that we see around us is conditioned by scarcity, as scarcity forms the foundation for all human thought and activity. With abundance, it all blows away like ashes from a dead fire. I have yet to see anybody in the FE field, or who becomes aware of the idea of FE, fail to try to stick the new wine into the old skins.
Tinkering in garages, raising money, applying for patents, approaching the big institutions, looking for nations that can run below Godzilla’s radar, chatting up one’s friends, family, colleagues, and the like…
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#potholes
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls
I have seen it all, for nearly thirty years, and every newbie seems to have to test those dead ends. I am not exactly sure what the “do something” action will look like if I can assemble a choir of 5-10K that can attract 100K or so people, but it won’t look like anything that has ever been attempted before. The attempt has to be grounded in an epochal mentality. There is literally nobody in my daily life who understands, and if there is nobody in my life who understands, there will not be anybody in any choir-member’s life who understands, either. Maybe one or two choir-members will have that experience, but that will be about it. But all newbies begin by thinking that they can chat up their friends, family, and colleagues, telling them the “good news.” If the evangelizer is lucky, his/her relationships and career won’t end, and the audience may politely listen, maybe even understand a tiny part of it, but that is if the evangelizer is lucky. Scarcity cannot comprehend abundance. It is like an inhabitant of a two-dimensional world understanding a three-dimensional world:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
Again, some have had glimpses of what a world based on abundance looks like:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
but it has only been a few. Understanding my essay and grokking abundance will be very heavy lifting for the choir. Nobody should think that they can send the link to it to somebody, and their eyes will light up after skimming it. It won’t work that way. The essay will be unintelligible to the masses, no matter how much I will try to make it accessible. And that is OK, because it is not designed for them. Again, those addicted to scarcity cannot comprehend abundance.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
26th October 2013, 03:07
Hi:
A lot to write about, but not tonight. I am hard at work on the essay. I am currently writing about the mass extinctions, and I think I just came up with the tagline for the essay. I am attaching a draft of a table from the essay. There have been five mass extinctions recognized in Earth’s past:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Major_extinction_events
and humans are on the cusp of creating the sixth one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event
I have been writing plenty about the four previous epochal events:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
Bucky called it Utopia or Oblivion:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller
My tagline is going to be something like, “Are we going to have the Fifth Epochal Event or the Sixth Mass Extinction?”
Humanity might not survive the sixth mass extinction, so the “problem” might correct itself that way. Or we can become a truly sentient species and correct it with enlightenment and love.
That really is the divide that we are standing on today.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
26th October 2013, 14:08
Hi:
A little bit on paradigm shifts and my writings. Mr. Mentor was a world-renowned genius:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#funeral
but in the end, all of his innovations were either stolen or suppressed. Also, many times, the people around him could not understand what he came up with. He thought “outside the box,” and for those “inside the box,” they could not begin to understand. But when the epochal nature of his inventions became evident, people got in line to steal the next fruits of his mind. But even then, the thieves really could not understand, and one thief literally built one of Mr. Mentor’s inventions upside-down, as his understanding was so poor.
Dennis was a similar genius, with his brilliant marketing plans:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs
his industrialization of processes that were stuck in the craftsman stage:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=604055&viewfull=1#post604055
and so on.
In my career I have done similar, if more mundane, inventing:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/trucking.htm#introduction
and like with Mr. Mentor and Dennis, almost nobody could understand, and I usually had my innovations wrecked by new bosses and people who came behind me, who could not understand what I had invented. It was like I invented a bow-and-arrow, while those around me only understood clubs. And even after watching the arrows in flight and seeing what they brought down, they still could not understand and went back to the club, with my bow-and-arrow ending up in the trashcan. Have no doubt about it, my upcoming essay is going to be highly intellectually challenging. But I am trying to make it so that a layperson has a chance of understanding it. But far more importantly, the reader has to want to understand, and almost nobody wants to do that, because my work takes on the egocentric conceits that underlie the modern world. People have to leave their egos at the door and be willing to relinquish their scarcity-based teddy bears:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
Only when they do that can they begin to have a chance of understanding an abundance-based paradigm. The shift from scarcity to abundance will be the biggest one in the human journey, by far. Only needles in haystacks can initiate that. The “establishment” owes its entire existence to scarcity, so it is the last place where abundance will spring from. And this is why Godzilla’s machinations are really a tiny aspect of the problem. The worshipping of scarcity among the masses and establishment is the primary problem. Godzilla has only provided subtle “help” to keep the religion intact.
In his last years, Brian O quoted Bertrand Russell:
“The resistance to a new idea increases as the square of its importance.”
That is another reason why beseeching the establishment (corporations, governments, environmental organizations, etc.) is a dead-end for FE. FE would make those institutions obsolete, and they know it. But most can’t get past their conditioning, and Level 3:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3
is where most of the “smart” end up.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
26th October 2013, 15:11
Hi:
There are many topics that I could write about today, but a quick note…
FE newbies always have a long hill to climb to attain productive understandings of the issue. Newbies almost always want some quick and easy solution, like The Muppet Movie ending, but this reality does not work like that. The epochal significance of FE becomes evident pretty quickly to newbies:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced
and the first thing that newbies want to do is spread the gospel, see if Oprah has an opening on her show, and so on. I have been there, believe me. I think back to my salad days with Dennis, especially in Boston:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=606783&viewfull=1#post606783
and smile. I was so innocent and naïve. They were wonderful times in ways, but it was the calm before the storm (for Dennis, it was the interlude between two storms). If I begin to get a choir going, there are going to be many temptations and perils, and when Godzilla’s agents appear, they will have the Boy Scout/choirboy look, and they will have many tricks in their bag to seduce people, and the most common is the lure of some quick and easy way to make it happen. They will suggest approaching the White House, the Pentagon, Wall Street, the media, environmentalists, and so on. Just hook up with one of them, and it will be a downhill racer to FE and abundance. And those hoping for the quick and easy way, or fame and fortune, will be putty in their hands. Or they will offer to hire the newbie into their operation. I have seen this many times, and the newbies almost always fall for it, like lambs to the slaughter. That is partly why there are no commercial aspirations in what I am doing. Not only will it not attract people looking for fame, fortune, and some quick and easy answer, but it will also remove several avenues of opportunity that Godzilla has used to derail efforts like this. And what I am writing here simply goes sailing right over the heads of 99% of the newbies. The gung hoers who have been busting to go “do something” would be the weak links in what I am doing, and the first place that Godzilla would attack. I don’t know if my choir idea is going to work, but I know what many of the pitfalls are, and plan to steer away from them as much as possible. That is partly why I am going to be very picky about who gets invited into the choir.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
David Hughes
28th October 2013, 01:53
Hey,
Here’s an essay I’ve been working on. Still needs a lot of work but as it is it’s of relevance to topics previously covered on this thread.
Mind, Matter and Meditation
The conventional view of DNA is that it carries all our heritable information. Biological determinism is the hypothesis that biological factors such as an organism's individual genes (as opposed to social or environmental factors) completely determine how a system behaves or changes over time. When sperm and egg fused, the genetic information for your life was selected and it unfolds from the reading of the genes. Degenerative diseases like cancer, heart disease and diabetes develop due to the genes we inherited, and random chance mutations that occur during our lifetime which cause a change of the nucleotide sequence of the genome. This victim based mentality often leads to a tendency towards irresponsibility and recklessness towards ones health. We have been socially programmed to seek out medical treatments for illness and disease rather than focusing on root causes and prevention. The big money is made via disease and treatments. According to the World Health Organization, the United States spent more on health care per capita ($8,608), and more on health care as percentage of its GDP (17.9%), than any other nation in 2011. In 2011, global spending on prescription drugs topped $954 billion. According to IMS Health, the global pharmaceutical industry is expected to be worth $1.1 trillion by 2014.
The FDA, federal government, the pharmaceutical companies who run the clinical trials to prove safety and efficacy, the AMA, NCI, ACS, accredited medical schools, doctors, surgeons etc are all part of a racket which is essentially a private club that has established a way of doing business. They decide and implement the rules and regulations of the racket. Anyone with an effective treatment or apparent cure operating outside this well established racket who does not comply with the regulatory process will be prevented from entering into the club (by whatever means necessary). A study by the consulting firm Bain & Company reported that the cost for discovering, developing and launching (which factored in marketing and other business expenses) a new drug (along with the prospective drugs that fail) rose over a five-year period to nearly $1.7 billion in 2003. According to Forbes, development costs between $4 billion to $11 billion per drug. These huge costs obviously create a substantial barrier from entry into the racket.
Cancer is big business. According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), over 1.6 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed in 2013. Cancer remains the second most common cause of death in the U.S, accounting for nearly 1 out of every 4 deaths. Effective alternative cancer treatments based on naturopathic and harmless plant based remedies are of little interest to pharmaceutical companies. Why would a company and its investors waste time conducting expensive and lengthy clinical trials demonstrating the safety and efficacy of something that can be grown by people in their own gardens and be consumed for free?
The ACS attacks non-patentable, natural treatments in an effort to protect the interests of pharmaceutical companies. The ACS' controversial "Committee on Unproven Methods of Cancer Management" reviews unorthodox or alternative therapies, putting many of these treatments on the "Unproven Methods" list. Appearing on this list and recommending the use of those products can mean literal ruin to any health practitioner. Any practitioner assigned to this list is automatically considered a dangerous quack. Funding usually vanishes and the treatment fails before it ever undergoes rigorous testing. More than 100 promising alternative non-patented and nontoxic therapies have already been identified and discredited by the American Cancer Society in this way. Included among these are “Tumor Necrosis Factor” (originally called Coleys' Toxin), “Hydrazine Sulfate”, “Laetrile”, “Gersons therapy” and Burzynski's “Antineoplastons”. Practitioners, activists and cancer survivors are likening the "Unproven Methods" tactic to witch hunts that unfairly target natural therapies over approved and expensive toxic chemical therapies such as chemotherapy.
The food processing, tobacco and chemical companies help to create the patients that generate the money. Agribusiness and food processing companies sponsor nutritional training in American schools and universities. Food processors bankrolled the Harvard Department of Nutrition. The exponential proliferation of chemicals, particularly in the last half of the twentieth century, has subjected the body to a barrage of chemicals never before encountered. The cumulative effect of these chemicals, toxins and nutritionally devoid food in our diet are a major contributing factor to the degenerative diseases we see today.
The human body has an estimated 100 trillion cells. The cell is the basic structural, functional and biological unit of all known living organisms. Cells are the smallest unit of life that is classified as a living thing, and are often called the "building blocks of life". The theory of materialism holds that the only thing that exists is matter or energy; that all things are composed of material and all phenomena (including consciousness) are the result of material interactions. Matter is the only substance that matters. Reductionism holds that a complex system is nothing but the sum of its parts. By analyzing each individual functioning piece of a system we can better understand the system as a whole. Consciousness is apparently nothing more than an accidental byproduct of the complex interactions between atoms, molecules, neurons, glial cells etc. Consciousness has no role to play in the shaping of our reality.
Humans have over 200 different types of cells. A liver cell contains the same genes as a lung cell but each cell knows to code only those proteins needed for its own specific functioning. DNA is found in the nucleus of a cell and is equivalent in volume to 2-millionths of a pinhead. Only around 2% of our DNA actually codes for proteins. The other 98% is commonly referred to as “Junk DNA”. DNA is only ten atoms wide and as such constitutes a sort of ultimate technology. It is organic and so miniaturized that it approaches the limits of material existence. A thread of DNA is much smaller than the visible light humans perceive. Even the most powerful optical microscopes cannot reveal it because DNA is approximately 120 times narrower than the smallest wavelength of visible light.
DNA is a single molecule with a double helix structure. It is two complementary versions of the same "text" wrapped around each other which allows it to unwind and make copies of itself. This twinning mechanism has been at the heart of life since it began. Without it, one cell could not become two, and life would not exist. Our genes are made up of a sequence of bases known as adenine, thymine, guanine, and cytosine. The gene sequences code for amino acids which are the primary structure of a protein. Twenty different amino acids are commonly found in proteins, each protein having a unique, genetically defined amino acid sequence that determines its specific shape and function. Proteins act to build and maintain our cells and help a cell to perform life functions including catalyzing metabolic reactions, replicating DNA, response to stimuli, and transporting molecules from one location to another. Our genes code for many thousands of different kinds of proteins. Enzymes are specialized proteins that catalyze or speed-up chemical processes.
Proteins have a high specificity to what they bind to. They can alter their shape in numerous spatial configurations to suit the special needs of the physical and chemical activities of the cell. Protein folding is the process by which a protein structure assumes its functional shape or conformation. Muscle contraction is a complex process where the addition of chemical signals cause muscle protein to change conformation from one state to another resulting in movement. When the signals are removed the protein reverts back to its original state.
The nucleus is considered to be the command center or “brain” of the cell. Our DNA, made up of approximately 20,000 protein-coding genes, contains the genetic instructions necessary for the development and functioning of a person. If a brain is removed from the body the result is death, however, when the “brain” of the cell is removed the cell does not die immediately and can continue to live for some time without any genes at all. Without DNA, it can't make new proteins and can't reproduce, so its life span is very limited and the cell will die more quickly, but cells can live without DNA. Red blood cells are a prime example. They come from cells in the bone marrow. While the cells are still in the bone marrow they do have a nucleus. It isn't until just before they are released into the general circulation that they lose the nucleus and can no longer divide. Each red blood cell has a lifespan of about 3 months. Cells used in cloning are also able to live for some time without their nucleus. Experiments have also shown that enucleated cells may survive for two or more months without genes, and yet are capable of effecting complex responses to environmental and cytoplasmic stimuli.
The nucleus cannot be the brain of the cell and therefore does not control biological expression. DNA does not tell a cell how to function. It is not like a brain or control center that directs actions. DNA is more like an information blue-print. Components of the cell refer to the information coded in DNA to make new proteins, but many other activities of the cell don't require DNA. Converting sugars to energy, for instance, doesn't require DNA, assuming the rest of the machinery is already in place. Genes have the potential to be activated. Disease states such as obesity and cancer are not caused by ones genes but are correlated with them. That is a major difference.
In 1990, H. F. Nijhout postulated that “When a gene product is needed, a signal from its environment, not a self-emergent property of the gene itself, activates expression of that gene.” A gene cannot turn itself on or off, it is dependent upon a signal from its environment to activate it. Genes are indeed involved with the structure and behavior of an organism, however, they are not the source of “control.”
The nucleus can be more accurately termed the “gonad” of the cell as it is vital for reproduction. A cells membrane acts more like the “brain”. The cell membrane, or plasma membrane, surrounds the cytoplasm of a cell. In animals, the plasma membrane is the outer boundary of the cell. This membrane serves to separate and protect a cell from its surrounding environment and is made mostly from a double layer of phospholipids. Embedded within this membrane is a variety of protein molecules that act as channels and pumps that move different molecules into and out of the cell. The membrane is said to be semi-permeable in insofar as it can either let a substance (molecule or ion) pass through freely, pass through to a limited extent, or not pass through at all. Cell surface membranes also contain receptor proteins that allow cells to detect external signaling molecules such as hormones. The receptor proteins act like antennae that respond to environmental signals and result in behavioral change via protein conformation. Without these receptor proteins life cannot exist.
Our perception and beliefs based on our sensory experience play a vital role in determining our reality. We are not controlled by our genes but by our perceptions and beliefs. Perception is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the environment. All perception involves signals in the nervous system, which in turn result from physical stimulation of the sense organ. Human perception may not always be accurate so sensory experience leads to varying degrees and systems of belief rather than absolute knowledge. Learning is the acquisition, modification and reinforcement of an existing set of beliefs.
Adaptive mutation proposes that genetic mutations may arise as an immediate and direct response to selective pressures. This is in contrast to mainstream evolutionary theory, which holds that gene mutation occurs completely at random, regardless of the utility of a genetic mutation to the organism, and that mutations with survival advantage are then chosen by natural selection.
In 1988 molecular biologist John Cairns et al. proposed that "when populations of single cells are subject to certain forms of strong selection pressure, variants emerge bearing changes in DNA sequence that bring about an appropriate change in phenotype." The phenotype is the total observable physical traits of an individual (organism or cell). These observable features include anatomical, physiological, biochemical, and behavioral characteristics. This suggests that there exists a particular physiological pathway that responds to a specific selective pressure to produce a mutation conferring the correct phenotype that will alleviate this pressure.
The original Cairns experiments involved a strain of E. coli bacteria deficient in the proteins needed for processing lactose sugar. The bacteria were spread on an agar medium in which the only carbon source was lactose. This meant that a cell could grow only if a mutation occurred in the lactose operon allowing it to produce the enzyme necessary to break down lactose. Mutations with this effect occurred significantly more frequently than expected, and at a rate that was greater than mutations in other parts of the genomes of these E. coli cells. The results suggest that mutations are not random chance events. Similar results have been observed in other experiments which also suggest that mutations in bacteria are influenced by the selective pressures that the bacteria are placed under. Repeated attempts have been made to discredit the findings of experiments such as these which would result in a complete revision of the Darwinian theory of evolution.
Epigenetic switches and markers laying along the length of the DNA double helix and help instruct each different cell which genes should be expressed and silenced. Epigenetics adds a new layer to genes which goes beyond the DNA and proposes that everything we experience can affect which of our genes will be expressed and passed on to future generations. Experiments show us that the “epigenome” is sensitive to environmental cues which can affect our bodies and brains for life. In addition to this, experiments have shown that these environmental epigenetic signals can be passed on from generation to generation without a gene sequence ever being changed.
Scientific studies are increasingly showing the potential epigenetic effects on offspring. One such study suggests that pregnant women who smoke may spark asthma in their grandchildren decades later. If a child’s maternal grandmother smoked while she was pregnant the child may have double the risk of developing childhood asthma when compared with grandmothers who never smoked. The risk remains high even if the child’s mother was a non-smoker. The experimental findings strongly suggest that what we do in our life-times can have an effect on the health and behavior of not only our children but our great-grandchildren. What you eat, how you feel, what you inhale, what you see etc., can all directly affect your future offspring. The idea that inheritance isn’t just about which genes we inherit but whether they are switched on or not is a whole new frontier in our understanding of genetics, biology, and life as a whole. No longer is the debate about “nature or nurture”, it is about both.
Stress is known to cause the release of several hormones, primarily glucocorticoids and catecholamines. Glucocorticoids are a class of steroid hormones that cause immunosuppression, decreasing the function and/or numbers of neutrophils, lymphocytes (including both B cells and T cells), monocytes, macrophages, and the anatomical barrier function of the skin. For this reason glucocorticoids are widely used in therapy to reduce the inflammatory destruction of rheumatoid arthritis and other autoimmune diseases, and to prevent the rejection of transplanted organs. In the human body, the most abundant glucocorticoid is cortisol. The most abundant catecholamines are adrenaline, noradrenaline and dopamine. Release of the hormones adrenaline and noradrenaine from the adrenal medulla of the adrenal glands is part of the fight-or-flight response. Release of adrenaline and noradrenaline is triggered by nervous stimulation in response to physical or mental stress.
The physiological changes that occur during the fight-or-flight response are activated in order to give the body increased strength and speed in anticipation of fighting or running for example. The circulation of cortisol functions to turn fatty acids into available energy, which prepares muscles throughout the body for response. Adrenaline (also known as epinephrine) or noradrenaline (also known as norepinephrine), facilitate immediate physical reactions associated with a preparation for violent muscular action. These include the following: Acceleration of heart and lung action; Paling or flushing, or alternating between both; Inhibition of stomach and upper-intestinal action to the point where digestion slows down or stops; General effect on the sphincters of the body; Constriction of blood vessels in many parts of the body; Liberation of metabolic energy sources (particularly fat and glycogen) for muscular action; Dilation of blood vessels for muscles; Inhibition of the lacrimal gland (responsible for tear production) and salivation; Relaxation of bladder; Auditory exclusion (loss of hearing); Tunnel vision (loss of peripheral vision).
Stress, through the action of these hormones, has detrimental effects on immune function, including reduced NK cell activity (these cells are important for their ability to kill tumor cells), lymphocyte populations, lymphocyte proliferation, antibody production and reactivation of latent viral infections. Hormones involved in the fight-or-flight response temporarily disable non critical functions such as the immune system which has a high energy requirement. When faced with an external situation that presents a perceived threat, the body focuses its resources on the more immediate priority of survival.
Medical conditions that have been strongly linked with high levels of stress include heart disease, high blood pressure, eating disorders, poor immune function, headaches, and chronic pain. Hippocrates, regarded as the father of Western medicine, maintained that it was more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has. The high levels of stress in our modern lives means that this stress response is switched on far more than it should be, maybe even all day in some cases. Our fast-paced, goal driven societies are the perfect breeding ground for disease.
The placebo effect is a commonly observed medical phenomenon. A placebo is a pharmacologically inert preparation which can have significant beneficial medical effects. The effects seem to occur as a result of expectations within ones belief system. A patients symptoms can be alleviated based on their expectation or belief that the inert treatment will work. There are many different things that can act as placebos such as injections, pills, creams and surgery. Even doctors have even been called placebos. In terms of pills, the effect of the placebo can be enhanced based on factors such as the size of the pill, its color, its brand and its price. A 2004 study in the British Medical Journal found that 60% of physicians in Israel used placebos in their medical practice.
For pharmaceutical companies the placebo effect is the enemy. They are only interested in treatments with active ingredients that can be patented, have demonstrated efficacy, have a satisfactory level of safety, and which can be marketed and sold. In clinical trials by drug companies for antidepressants, research has shown that placebos have performed just as well and sometimes better than the antidepressant on trial did. The FDA’s minimum requirement for approving a new drug is two successful clinical trials showing efficacy versus a placebo. In the case of Prozac, its makers had to run five different clinical trials to get two results that were positive. Henry K. Beecher, in a paper in 1955, suggested placebo effects occurred in about 35% of people. Though not everyone responds to a placebo, neither does everyone respond to an active drug. In a study comparing morphine and placebo, the percentage of patients who reported relief following placebo (39%) was similar to the percentage who took 4 mg (36%) and 6 mg (50%) of hidden morphine.
Hope, expectation and belief are very powerful healing tools. Aromatherapy, faith healing, homeopathy, and prayer are some of the more popular alternative medical practices which are considered to be deeply affected by the placebo effect. Homeopathy involves the use of natural substances which are often acutely toxic. The homeopathic remedies are prepared by serial dilution. The dilutions often continue until none of the original substance remains. A 30X dilution is so large you would need to take around 2 billion pills to get one molecule of the active ingredient. Substances used in making the remedies include table-salt, white arsenic, bushmaster snake, poison-ivy, crude oil, cuttlefish ink, and onion.
Samuel Hahnemann (the founder of homeopathy) advocated a 60X solution for most purposes. A 400X dilution is used for the popular flu remedy “Oscillococcinum”. As there are only about 10(80) atoms in the entire observable universe, a dilution of one molecule in the observable universe would be about 40C. Oscillococcinum would thus require 10(320) more universes to simply have one molecule in the final substance. Despite this, homeopathy has demonstrated remarkable efficacy. Modern advocates of homeopathy have proposed a concept of "water memory", according to which water "remembers" the substances mixed in it, and transmits the effect of those substances when consumed. The fact homeopathy has been proven to be an effective treatment for diseases in animals other than humans suggests there may be more going on than purely the placebo effect.
Physical matter radiates and absorbs energy. Every atom and molecule in the body emits and absorbs light of characteristic wavelengths. A kidney stone is a solid concretion or crystal aggregation formed in the kidneys from dietary minerals in the urine. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy (ESWL) is a non-invasive treatment of kidney stones using an acoustic pulse. The lithotriptor breaks up the stones with minimal collateral damage by using the externally-applied, high-intensity acoustic pulse which is tuned to match the kidney stones resonant frequency of vibration. The harmonic resonance causes the kidney stone to shatter into smaller pieces which can be more easily passed out of the urinary tract.
A biophoton is a photon of non-thermal origin in the visible and ultraviolet spectrum emitted from a biological system. All living cells of plants, animals and human beings emit biophotons which cannot be seen by the naked eye but can be measured by special equipment. This light emission is an expression of the functional state of the living organism and its measurement therefore can be used to assess this state. Cancer cells and healthy cells of the same type, for instance, can be discriminated by typical differences in biophoton emission. In 1974 German biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp proved that their existence and origin is from our DNA. The discovery of biophoton emission lends scientific support to some unconventional methods of healing based on concepts of homeostasis (self-regulation of the organism), such as various somatic therapies, homeopathy and acupuncture. The "ch'i" energy flowing in our bodies' energy channels (meridians), which according to Traditional Chinese Medicine regulates our body functions, may be related to node lines of the organism's biophoton field. The "prana" of Indian Yoga physiology may be a similar regulating energy force that has a basis in weak, coherent electromagnetic biofields. Biophoton studies seem to indicate that the emission is coherent and that biophotons may be modulated and communicate information not only throughout the body but into the extended environment. It may be the process by which DNA actually communicates its information to protein molecules in the process of morphogenesis.
Atoms actually comprise of 99.99999% “empty” space. This space has been termed the vacuum (that is space completely devoid of matter, but can be more accurately called a plenum as it is actually full of energy). Quantum mechanical studies show us that two objects can be separated by a huge amount of space but not have a fully independent existence from one another. Even an enormous amount of space between objects does not weaken their quantum mechanical interdependence.
The atom is a basic unit of matter that consists of a dense central nucleus surrounded by a cloud of negatively charged electrons. The electrons of an atom are bound to the nucleus by the electromagnetic force. The central nucleus of an atom is composed of protons and neutrons which are themselves made up of three particles called quarks. When we reach the Planck length the journey into the microscopic ends. Because the Planck length is so many orders of magnitude smaller than any current instrument could possibly measure, there is currently no way of probing this length scale directly. Research on the Planck length is therefore mostly theoretical. According to the generalized uncertainty principle, the Planck length (1.616×10(−33) cm) is in principle the smallest meaningful measure of length before we enter the world of quantum mechanics. Calculations based on how many of these tiny lengths can fit into 1cm3 of space gives us a figure of 10(93) gm/cm3. If we took all matter in our known Universe and could compact it all into a space measuring 1cm3, we get a figure of 10(55) gm/cm3. Accordingly, the vacuum is essentially infinitely dense. It has infinite mass (energy).
The idea of wave–particle duality originated in a debate over the nature of light and matter that dates back to the 17th century, when Christian Huygens and Isaac Newton proposed competing theories of light. Light was thought either to consist of waves (Huygens) or of particles (Newton). Through the work of Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Louis de Broglie, Arthur Compton, Niels Bohr, and many others, current scientific theory holds that all particles have a wave nature (and vice versa). This phenomenon has been verified not only for elementary particles, but also for compound particles like atoms and even molecules, which exist on the one hand in states which evolve like waves when they are not observed, and evolve like particles when observed. The key is the observation. In its wave-like state the physical entity is typically extended in space, but then contracts abruptly to localized events or point-like particles when observed. This evidence indicates that we play a crucial role in creating the reality we are collectively experiencing.
Quantum mechanical experiments have demonstrated that there is an instantaneous link between particles that remains strong, secure, and undiluted no matter how far apart the particles may be – even if they're on opposite sides of the universe. It is a link that Einstein went to his grave denying, yet its existence is now beyond dispute. Scientists have conducted experiments using particles like electrons, photons and even diamonds that interact physically together as one, but when separated, they behave as if they are still together. We are in reality one consciousness that in our collective delusion has separated itself from matter and the entangled whole.
The idea that quantum theory has something to do with the workings of the mind go back to Eugene Wigner, who assumed that the wave function collapses due to its interaction with consciousness. Matter is the result of the division of the structure of space itself. We interact with this structure every second of every day. We and all matter are bathing in this unlimited energy. The vacuum (plenum) connects us all. David Bohm felt it was important for scientists to remember that no single cause-and-effect relationship was ever really separate from the universe as a whole. Dividing reality up into parts and then naming those parts is always arbitrary, a product of convention, because subatomic particles, and everything else in the universe, are no more separate from one another than different patterns in an ornate carpet.
Reality is maya, an illusion, and what is out there is really a vast, resonating symphony of wave forms, a “frequency domain” that is transformed into the world as we know it only after it enters our senses. Our brains mathematically construct objective reality by interpreting frequencies. What is “out there” is a vast ocean of waves and frequencies, and reality looks concrete to us because our brains are able to convert it into the familiar objects that make up our world. In a universe in which all things are interconnected, all consciousness is also interconnected. As Bohm puts it, “Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one.”
Robert G. Jahn studied psychic and parapsychological phenomena for many years. With Brenda Dunne, he established the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab (PEAR) in 1979 following an undergraduate project to study low-level psychokinetic effects on electronic random event generators. Over the years, Jahn and Dunne have created a wealth of small-physical-scale, statistically significant results that suggest direct causal relationships between subjects' intention and otherwise random results. Experiments under Jahn's purview also came to deal with Remote Viewing and other parapsychological matters. He has published more than 30 papers in peer-reviewed journals. The inconsistencies of PEAR’s empirical results with established physical and psychological theory indicate that no direct application or minor alteration of existing theoretical frameworks are capable of accommodating such anomalous effects.
The tantric mystics of Tibet referred to the “stuff” of thoughts as “tsal” and held that every mental action produced waves of this mysterious energy. They believed the entire universe is a product of the mind and is created and animated by the collective “tsal” of all beings. Only great yogis skilled at contacting the deeper levels of the mind were said to be able consciously to utilize such forces, and one of the things they did to achieve this goal was to visualize repeatedly the desired creation. Tibetan tantric texts are filled with visualization exercises, or “sadhanas,” designed for such purposes, and monks of some sects, such as the Kargyupa, would spend as long as seven years in complete solitude, in a cave or a sealed room, perfecting their visualization abilities.
The Hindus call the implicate level of reality Brahman. Brahman is formless but is the birthplace of all forms in visible reality, which appear out of it and then enfold back into it in endless flux. Hindus sometimes personify this level of reality and say that it is composed of pure consciousness. In the Hindu cosmogony it is matter that has emerged from consciousness, and not the other way around. Or as the Vedas put it, the physical world is brought into being through both the “veiling” and “projecting” powers of consciousness.
Any religion worth its salt has love as its core message. Jesus, Mohammad, Buddha, Krishna etc all preached the same message about universal love. Our vibration is currently out of tune with natures vibration and because of this, disharmony manifests. We are tuning forks of energy bathing in a sea of interconnected infinite energy whose base frequency can be called “love”. Nikola Tesla was quoted as saying “If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” Restoring the planetary vibration to love’s frequency may be the purpose of our being here.
In music, solfège or solfeggio is a music education method used to teach pitch and sight singing. The study of solfeggio enables the musician to mentally hear the pitches of a piece of music which he or she is seeing for the first time and then to sing them aloud. Solfeggio frequencies is a term coined by Leonard Horowitz, DMD and Joseph Puleo in 1999. It is based on the belief that a set of nine frequencies derived from numerology were used centuries ago in Gregorian and Sanskrit chants. The nine frequencies are 174Hz, 258Hz, 396Hz, 417Hz, 528Hz, 639Hz, 741Hz, 852Hz, 963Hz. Dr. Horowitz's work on the 528Hz frequency, which he refers to as the “love” tone, provides evidence that it compels healing in harmony with nature. It is love’s vibration. His revelations threaten the entire medical racket. "They killed John Lennon for promoting "All You Need is Love” Dr. Horowitz says, and evidences this claim. He celebrates the fact that Lennon, on occasion, played in 528Hz.
“Om” is a mantra and mystical Sanskrit sound of Hindu origin, sacred in various religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism. It is placed at the beginning of most Hindu texts as a sacred incantation to be intoned at the beginning and end of a reading of the Vedas or prior to any prayer or mantra. Hindus believe that as creation began, the divine, all-encompassing consciousness took the form of the first and original vibration manifesting as the sound "Om". "Om" is the reflection of the absolute reality, without beginning or the end, and embracing all that exists. It is the name of God, the vibration of the supreme.
Meditation is a practice in which an individual trains the mind or induces a mode of consciousness, either to realize some benefit or as an end in itself. The term meditation refers to a broad variety of practices that includes techniques designed to promote relaxation, build internal energy or life force (qi, ki, prana, etc.) and to help develop compassion, love, patience, generosity and forgiveness. Meditation has been practiced since antiquity as a component of numerous religious traditions and beliefs. It often involves an internal effort to self-regulate the mind in some way. Some of the earliest references to meditation are found in the Hindu Vedas. I attended a ten day Vipassana meditation course in Sarnath near Varanasi in India. Sarnath was where the Buddha gave his first teaching after attaining enlightenment in which he taught the four noble truths and the teachings associated with it. This technique is one of India’s most ancient and was rediscovered by the Buddha. Vipassana means to see things as they really are.
The first three days of the course are dedicated to Anapanasati which according to tradition, was originally taught by the Buddha. The objective is to focus on ones breath as it enters and exits the nostrils and to observe it as it is naturally, not as you would like it to be, just as it is. This has the effect of calming the mind and with practice a still mind free of thought can be maintained for long periods of time. You then focus your awareness on any sensations you can feel in a small triangular area encompassing the nose and upper lip. Again, one just observes the natural sensations coming and going while maintaining a still mind, and by maintaining an awareness of their ever changing nature and impermanence. When the mind begins to wander either by a thought or something else as it inevitably does, one simply returns their attention back to the breath and again simply observes it with a still mind.
Vipassana then involves going on to observe sensations all over the body starting with a small area at the top of your head. One observes the sensations with a balanced mind free of craving, aversion and attachment. You are taught not to crave pleasant sensations or generate aversion towards unpleasant ones, just to observe any and all sensations no matter how big or small with a completely detached mind. One is learning about impermanence by direct personal experience. It is affirmed constantly minute after minute for hours on end by your conscious mind which feeds the subconscious as you sit there in silence. One is rewiring the subconscious.
My big misunderstanding about meditation prior to ever experiencing it was that it all seemed to me to be about developing a coping mechanism to care less about the darkness present in our world. Find the space between two thoughts, detach oneself and just let it all be. After experiencing vipassana I learned that its not that you don’t care any less as a result of your awareness of the impermanence of a sensory experience, it’s the minds perception to the senses that has changed. A mind can be conditioned to be still when experiencing craving and aversions. It can be trained to remain balanced. In previous situations where the sensations experienced produced outward or inward expressions of anger, worry, sorrow, fear and the like, the mind can be re-programmed to remain still and balanced as it remains ever mindful of the impermanence of nature.
By day 5 I could see the massive potential this technique had for healing purposes. It explained the placebo effect and a lot more besides. It could be used to effectively treat a range of illness and conditions of a psychosomatic origin. Meditation has been linked to a variety of health benefits. A study of college students by Oman et al. (2008) found that meditation may produce physiological benefits by changing neurological processes. This finding was supported by an expert panel at the National Institutes of Health. The practice of meditation has also been linked with various favorable outcomes that include: “effective functioning including academic performance, concentration, perceptual sensitivity, reaction time, memory, self control, empathy, and self esteem.”
"Meditation as Medicine" (American Academy of Neurology) cites scientific evidence from various studies which claim that meditation can increase attention span, sharpen focus, improve memory, and dull the perception of pain. It causes a variety of biochemical and physical changes in the body that alter metabolism, heart rate, respiration, blood pressure and brain activation. Recent studies on meditation have linked it to increased intelligence through physical growth of the brain. Researchers at Harvard, Yale, and MIT conducted brain scans that reveal an increased thickness in the parts of the brain that deal with attention and sensory input processing. Using magnetic resonance imaging, they visualized variations in the thickness of the cerebral cortex of experienced Buddhist Insight meditation practitioners. The data show that regular practice of meditation is associated with increased thickness in a subset of cortical regions related to somatosensory, auditory, visual and interoceptive processing. Further, regular meditation practice may slow age-related thinning of the frontal cortex, leading to longer lasting executive functioning.
On day 6 it crossed my mind that hunger was a form of craving and I decided to suppress it. I did just that, and for the remainder of the course I had no desire to eat whatsoever. The interesting part was that my energy levels remained exceptionally high despite not eating. Before the meditation course my heart beat rate at rest was in the region of 75-80 beats per minute. On day 6 I measured it and it was down to 44 beats per minute.
According to the American Cancer Society, "available scientific evidence does not suggest that meditation is effective in treating cancer or any other disease". The cancer industry is a multi billion dollar industry. That is the kind of statement you would make if you wanted to preserve the status quo to protect your personal business interests.
Suffering is a big part of our existence on this planet. So how did we arrive at this version of conscious reality? We all have free will. This reality is the result of every single one of our collective thoughts, words and actions. It’s far from being an accident or chance occurrence. We the co-created, co-engineered, and co-imagined this reality into being. On some level or other we all chose to be here. You are not supposed to be anywhere else. Everything is exactly the way it is supposed to be. No mistake was made. There are no shortages of places in the universe that you could be now. Estimates suggest there could be as many as between one billion and thirty billion planets in our galaxy alone. With over a hundred billion galaxies in the universe there is no shortage of places you could be, and realities that you could be experiencing, but here you are. The future is not predetermined and nothing is permanent. We live in an infinite "now" and we are playing a game of polarity, yin/yang, joy/misery, virtue/vice. There is no correct way to live ones life and experience ones conscious reality. The path of vice is just as valid as the path of virtue, and must be respected equally. There is no purpose other than to have fun and experience joy. Our thoughts, words and actions coated with vice or virtue then mold our internal and external realities. All matter is impermanent no matter what game we choose to play. We have co-created our reality via a mind matter feedback mechanism and can thus liberate ourselves from suffering by understanding its root causes.
How far one takes oneself on the path to liberation (nirvana/moksha) is entirely up to them. Maintaining that state, even if one can ever achieve it, is a tall order in a physical reality like this one. Attachment, craving and aversion have been deeply ingrained into our minds. We often act without even the slightest consideration about why. We are creatures of habit and conditioning, and ignorance keeps the wheels turning. Our education system, governments, corporations, media etc all continually cultivate attachment, craving and aversion in our minds. Repetition reinforces and cements it within our subconscious mind. The social managers have turned vices into virtues.
If a certain critical mass of the global population started to think, speak and act with virtue as taught to us by the spiritual masters, a free energy based reality would naturally manifest into being. A free energy based society is the perfect environment in which to pursue liberation and enlightenment. But waiting for the minds of the masses to free themselves collectively from mental slavery will take longer than we currently have as we race towards oblivion. We must individually be the change that we want to experience. Now.
Imagine free energy and abundance and a collective conscious reality existing in harmony with all beings and life forms. Don't crave it, simply imagine and envision it. Imagine a reality free from attachment, craving and aversion where minds create with benevolent and virtuous intent if that's the reality you wish to consciously experience. Separateness then ceases to exist. We become at one and in harmony with creation and it’s our collective thoughts, words and actions that can take us to this imagined reality.
sandy
28th October 2013, 05:05
Wow David,
Don`t know what to say other than I hope you didn`t burn out as many brain cells writing this wonderful article as I did comprehending all you have written. :)
I couldn`t agree more with all you have written including the scientific findings. My personal experiences too and understanding continue to affirm my deep belief and knowing that the frequency of Love is the ultimate answer and totally agree that it is our thoughts, words and actions that add or detract from the collective manifestation of the reality of FE. Thank you for adding to the manifestation of LOVE.
Wade Frazier
28th October 2013, 13:12
Hi:
As readers of this thread may gather, David has had scientific training. :)
His little essay is just the kind of stuff that I plan for the choir to do. The medical racket is one of the world’s largest. If I had to rank the rackets in importance for Godzilla’s power game:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc
they would be:
1. Energy
2. Medicine
3. Military
4. Media
5. Intelligence
6. Banking
7. Organized religion
That ranking is obviously debatable, but energy will always be number one, as it makes everything else possible (food and forestry are part of the energy industry, as is the cow pie industry, :) and were the first energy industries). The medical and military rackets are not only lucrative, but they hold the power of life and death over the masses. The media, intelligence, and organized religion are mental games, although the spooks can get violent, and are responsible for harassing and bumping off FE inventors, alternative doctors, and the like. Banking is just accounting, but is also a control mechanism. If you think about it, the last five are all control mechanisms, while the first two are “real” in that they have unavoidable real-world impact to everybody on the planet (try to go a day without energy :) ). People can do without organized religion and the media. Doing without money is harder, particularly in the industrial world, but it can be done. The military and spooks are active control mechanisms, as one is intrusive while the other hovers in the background; their attacks can be deadly, but most people do not encounter them in their daily lives.
There are levels of the game, too. In energy, Dennis found out the hard way that there are several levels of racketeering and predation. There are the street-corner players, such as all the people who attempted to steal Dennis’s companies, including the Mob:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#dennis
It was only after surviving that shark tank for more than a decade that Dennis reached the next level, of the local energy industry; the electric industry in his case:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run
And, of course, when they had him in a headlock, his “allies” tried stealing the business several times, and they eventually succeeded. It was also the first time that Godzilla may have become involved, when one of his assets was used to help take the company down:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm
In Boston, Godzilla definitely became involved, with us receiving the first friendly buyout offer:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#ten
while the local electric industry was holding secret meetings to decide what to do about us. I have long thought that they were acting fairly independently. The Seabrook Chairman:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#seabrook
likely had no awareness of Godzilla, but the local electric industry was likely behind the shark nibble that we received just before we left town, which may have been unrelated to the “investigation” that the local county prosecutor was conducting:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#middlesex
Only in Ventura did Godzilla take his mask off:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer
and even then, he only sent a lackey. We will likely never know of how much of what happened in Ventura was the local electric industry, how much was free-lance gangsterism, and how much was Godzilla. The man who led the effort to steal the company in Ventura was likely a Godzilla asset:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=585787&highlight=hodgell#post585787
but the local judicial system was likely not in on it, other than being a gun for hire, to either the local electric industry or Godzilla. There was likely little direct contact, but that CIA man who offered Dennis the billion to go away may have been “directing traffic.” It really is hard to know who exactly did what, but it was definitely local and global in nature, with the federal government’s involvement muted, but that is relative.
When the federal courts threw out Mr. Big Time Attorney’s lawsuit and threatened to disbar him if he refiled it:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=612175&highlight=attorney#post612175
then the national level was involved, but the ninth district is the most corrupt in the USA:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#cohen
So it might have been just the state-level gangsters, as California is the most corrupt state in the USA. But when the USA’s Supreme Court took its bizarre action in Dennis’s case:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#violate
the federal level in Washington was definitely involved. All sitting presidents since Reagan knew Dennis by name, and the destruction of Dennis’s latest effort:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&highlight=wirec#post694872
definitely had presidential involvement, with the national media playing its role:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=412345&highlight=dateline#post412345
When I saw Dennis this past spring, he talked a little about Mr. Big Time Attorney’s lessons when he was with us. Dennis said that he was a changed man after the case was over, and not in a good way. He had just finished whipping the IRS’s butt in the USA’s Supreme Court when he took Dennis’s case:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bigtime
but when the federal courts threw out his case and threatened to disbar him, with the media blacking out all coverage:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#disbar
Mr. Big Time Attorney realized that he was small fry. The Big Boys treated him like he was something unpleasant that they stepped in and unceremoniously wiped from the bottom of their shoes. The IRS is a ways down the global food chain, as Mr. Big Time Attorney discovered the hard way. He got put in his place rather harshly.
I doubt that I mentioned it yet, but one of the biggest names in conspiratorial circles interrogated one of Dennis’s associates in an eavesdrop-proof room at Langley not too long ago, trying to find out what Dennis’s weaknesses were (just like Bearden said http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bearden) and that is another instance of the Godzilla/CIA connection. But the CIA is only a tool, really. Most in the CIA have no clue about what they are really doing:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm
and those that do become zombies at Langley, waiting to retire:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#stockwell
While love is indeed the answer, anybody doing anything about our predicament as a species gets to encounter that terrain and the dark path team. I have never seen anything close to what FE pioneers have endured in any of the other rackets. While the medical racketeers offered to buy out cancer cures long ago:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#rife
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#durovic
I have not heard of that kind of stuff happening in my lifetime, as the medical racketeers go straight for the stick, dispensing with the carrot:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#justice
It may be because American medical doctors are Earth’s highest paid professionals and usually go into it for the money. They already have plenty of carrots, so the stick is all that is necessary (and for the rich, they often go straight to the stick http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#windmill). But the energy industry is by far Earth’s most lucrative. The USA does not invade nations because they practice alternative medicine like they do with oil:
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/top-republican-leaders-say-iraq-war-was-really-for-oil.html
http://www.thedebate.org/thedebate/iraq.asp
FE is clearly beyond the dreams of avarice:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion
which is why almost everybody involved, at any level, degenerates into Orcs chasing The One Ring.
Again, David’s response to my work is just what I am looking for. He goes deep, comes up for air months later, and does the work. Nothing less is going to really begin to grasp the multiple dimensions of the issue.
One comment to make, on Planck’s length, is that one of the issues with FE is that whether it is LaViolette’s etherons, or Seth’s Units of Consciousness, or what is happening at the Planck Length:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_length
is that it is far too small for today’s instruments to begin to investigate, which is part of the problem with FE theory. When FE prototypes are built, from Sparky Sweet’s:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sweet
to Adam Trombly’s:
http://projectearth.com/closed-path-homopolar-machine
to Dennis’s (Dennis once built a prototype like Adam’s, and all such devices that I am aware of begin to tap the ZPF at about 2000 RPM, while Sparky’s was solid state, and would be the clear winner in FE feasibility, which is partly why he drew the kind of attention that he did), then it tends to validate the theory. There is lots of theory out there, but technology is the acid test, and that is why there is a warehouse like in Raiders of the Lost Ark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDzV3qycOqM
to house all the seized FE prototypes, and that is not even the good stuff. The good stuff has been developed to the 35th generation or so:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
28th October 2013, 15:31
Hi:
I am about to go hiking for the last time of the season, and what a good season it has been; probably the last in my lifetime like it. I am working hard on my essay, and now is a good time to really state what I am looking for. What David just put up is exactly the kind of effort that I am looking for. Anything less will not cut it for what I have in mind. In order to understand how the world really works and what to do to right the ship, it takes long, hard work, the kind that Ilie has also been doing. People have to go deep, question everything they think they know, be ready to discard their scarcity-based conditioning:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
and the like.
I am not really interested in fielding newbie questions from people who heard of FE the first time from me and want to know what I think about Rossi, Keshe, Steorn, and the other aspirants of the hour, or the other kinds of responses that have been on this thread way too many times. It is time to raise the level of conversation. My upcoming essay and forum will be taking it far above what you have seen so far here at Avalon, and David’s little essay can be seen as a hint in the direction that I plan to take.
Time for hiking.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
29th October 2013, 00:21
Hi:
Attached is from this morning and another recent hike. The season is ending.
Back to what I am trying to accomplish and am looking for. What David posted up:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=749983&viewfull=1#post749983
is exactly what I am looking for. The goal is to get enough people thinking comprehensively. All that exists in the universe is consciousness and energy, and energy may only be a manifestation of consciousness, so we might say that consciousness is all that there is. Seth stated that, as do most mystical sources.
Thinking comprehensively should bring the energy and consciousness issues front and center. Then the goal is to begin understanding the epochal nature of energy on Earth, going back to the very beginning of life on Earth. It has always been an energy game, first and foremost. I’ll agree with the notion that consciousness has been evolving along with life, and that humans are a unique life form, probably capable of unmatched feats of consciousness and environmental manipulation. I don’t want to slight our cetacean brothers:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/simon.htm#dolphins
They may have the inside edge on sentience on this planet, but they can’t manipulate the world like humans can. The human journey is unprecedented in this planet, and for Earth’s other species, that has not been an easy coexistence, as we are quickly driving complex life to extinction, in what is being called the Sixth Mass Extinction, for good reason:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
The goal of my work is to help people understand how the energy issue has not only been the overriding one for the entire human journey, about how it has not only shaped our world, but us and our thinking. In particular, energy scarcity has defined the human journey. It has never been truly abundant, but there have been short blips where relative abundance was enjoyed, and those were always Golden Ages. But humans quickly burned through the energy supply and the Golden Age was over. Then it was back to scraping by, and the environment always paid dearly, as humans wrested energy from other life forms. The current industrial age has been almost entirely fueled by fossil hydrocarbons, particularly those laid down during the days of the dinosaur and when coastal swamps abounded (the Carboniferous Period). When people being to see the situation in epochal terms:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
the usual objections to FE largely vanish (we are not ready for it, we would destroy the Earth with it), or can be seen as hasty and fearful projections of scarcity onto a situation of abundance. Those reactions could even be called an addiction to scarcity, as I have long argued. I know that FE technology, and related stuff that could quickly turn the human journey into something resembling Star Trek, already exist on the planet. But Godzilla sits on his Golden Hoard, the masses are oblivious, and it will be up to a relatively small group of people to overcome the organized suppression and humanity’s inertia. There was resistance to the previous epochal events, too, but nothing like what we have today.
Virtually none of the current FE aspirants have the requisite integrity, talent, and experience to get ten feet down the path to bringing FE to the public, and the few FE heroes:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
don’t have a prayer in the current environment. So, I am trying to amass at least some awareness of how the world really works, how the land lies, and what might help move FE along. Nothing that has been attempted until now has come remotely close to working, and I am trying something else. It can’t hurt, and it might help. A lot. Once the FE threshold has been reached and the public gets the benefit of it, only then will the transformation of civilization happen, and civilization will look and feel nothing like today’s, but that has always been the case, if we compare life before and after the epochal energy event, and the FE event would be the biggest one by far in the human journey. It would be the first time that humanity shifted from scarcity to abundance:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
29th October 2013, 20:26
Hi:
Some of the essay will be devoted to activism, and I will likely write a chapter titled something like, “Barriers to comprehension.” All levels below Level 12:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12
suffer from a significant misunderstanding about how the world really works, and those misunderstandings have to be laid aside if a person is going to reach Level 12, which is where a choir-member will be, at least most of the time. Generally, those misunderstandings can only be dispelled by experience, but getting that experience is the hard part. Also, if a person can dispel one misunderstanding, then then others should be easier, like a domino effect. I am not quite sure how I will organize it, but it may be along the lines of the levels, and I’ll sketch some of them here.
Level 1 misunderstandings:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level1
are due to being under the thrall of the most basic conditioning that we receive. I am an American, so while I am most familiar with the dynamics in my nation, all people are subject to variations of these. For those in other nations, they may be able to add or subtract from those ideological indoctrinations, but they will have their own suite of scarcity-based ideologies that they are indoctrinated into. I have tried to generalize them so that they are not very American-centric, but Europeans, for instance, after living through two world wars, are not as crazily nationalistic as Americans are.
Waking up from American nationalist indoctrination can be brutal. Dennis:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#voice
and Ralph McGehee:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#saigon
almost did not survive their moments of awakening from the lies of their nationalistic indoctrination. Religious fanatics can have an even harder time waking up. Capitalistic indoctrination is also a mean one. While I luckily escaped religious indoctrination, and I began to put my nationalist indoctrination behind me fairly early (but it was not entirely gone until my radicalizing moment on the witness stand http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#faces), I got my capitalistic indoctrination last, and questioned that indoctrination as soon as I graduated, to eventually see how I had been trained to believe in the Easter Bunny:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#believing
So, all of those whom I have had high respect for all were deeply indoctrinated into the population management ideologies, but they all escaped them, usually because they were such fervent believers in them. They honestly believed:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts
People stuck in Level 2:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level2
have usually put aside the Level 1 delusions, to some degree, but they did not move all that far from it. They tend to put their faith in science and opt for a kinder, gentler nationalism than the fundamentalist forms of it, similar to more liberal versions of Christianity, or the liberal view of the corporate/governmental union. In ways, those are romantic fantasies, but a more adult version that the Level 1 stuff.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#_edn1
At Level 3:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3
we find the “radicals,” a number of scientists, and the learned and “intelligent.” Their indoctrination was far more subtle than those of the earlier levels. Scientists get indoctrination into the “laws of nature.” As Brian O said, there are no “laws of physics,” only theories. Calling them laws creates a quasi-religious certitude about them. Scientism is the religion of far too many scientists, and they are the most stuck of those early levels. Nationalists can wake up to the reality of their conditioning, and so can an environmentalist, but not many scientists can wake up to the fact of their conditioning into the rationalist-materialist paradigm. It is a subtle and seductive indoctrination. Everybody whom I have had much respect for in the FE field was a mystic, and almost always also a scientist, and usually a scientist first. They developed their mystical perspectives due to their experiences, not because they bought some ideology. History’s greatest scientists were often mystical in their orientation:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#mystical
The rationalist-materialist paradigm denigrates consciousness as some byproduct of brain chemistry, and those subscribing to that ideology tend to dismiss consciousness manipulation of the global political-economic scene as a “conspiracy theory.” Their ideological assumptions have blinded them to Earthly reality, which is ironic, as the real world is their object of study.
Level 4s can be considered to be beyond those early level states of denial:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level4
but they also labor under some delusions. That “I can be a showcase installation” idea is lazy and delusional at best. When it comes time to put one on a house, the hard work is 99.99% finished, and the FE heroes won’t lack for people wanting to have one put on their homes for free. That offer is kind of like saying, “If you want to give me a billion dollars, I would take it.” The scientific Level 4 statement, where a scientists wants an FE device delivered to his lab so that he can test it, relies on the false assumption, once again, that there is no such thing as organized suppression. That is the naïve, armchair scientist position that I have encountered far too often. In the USA, to a degree, it also reflects naïve American nationalism. Most American scientists have worked for the military-industrial complex, so they have been subjected to heavy indoctrination and training in “national security,” which can be a great barrier to comprehension. “National security” as practiced in the USA is largely fraudulent:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#secrecy
but a scientist will never know any differently until he breaks out of the herd in some way, like Ralph did. Level 5 is actually a kind of corollary to Level 3, where the “smart” will deny the possibility of FE, but then state that if it was, it would be the worst thing possible for humanity, as we would quickly blow ourselves or the planet up with it. Nuclear bombs have been around for nearly seventy years, and we still seem to be here. Level 5s are eager to quickly dismiss the idea of FE and focus instead on the draconian “solutions” promoted by Peak Oilers and other austerity advocates:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#austerity
Those early levels are all either useless or in denial, and few exposed to the FE idea today ever get past those levels. Those that do usually garner my respect, but they almost never have any idea what they are getting themselves into. Probably most FE inventors are in Level 6:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
doing the kinds of things that Sparky Sweet did:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#sweet
such as mailing off working FE prototypes to the big energy institutions, expecting a ticker-tape parade as the response. Most garage tinkerers never come up with anything worth suppressing, but for those that do, they don’t have a prayer:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bearden
Applying for patents, raising money from investors, approaching Wall Street and corporate America are suicidal behaviors for FE inventors, but that is where they always go, seeking fame and fortune, or laboring under the naïve belief that the world will welcome them. It has never, ever worked that way.
Those slightly more worldly FE inventors (Level 7) think that they can sneak past the organized suppression. That is like a teenage boy pining for the battlefield:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business
which is a particularly deadly delusion. Godzilla is not asleep, and he is far from the only predator in the jungle. He is merely the apex predator. People usually have to see the corpses of their buddies or have a bullet pass through them before they begin to understand how that land really lies. This is one of the harder delusions to shed, partly because it is rooted in an inexperienced ego, like those young soldiers eager for the battlefield, who have yet to glimpse what the reality is like:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#good
I got disabused of my delusions fairly early on, and when the dust settled in Ventura, I would never see the world again in the same way:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#books
and my number one lesson was that personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
and I resisted that lesson every step of the way. Who wants to learn that? But it is the reality on this planet, for my species, at this time, and anybody who denies it and tries to do something like pursue FE had better be ready to pass this test:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
And people can’t even apply to take the test until they consider their lives forfeit. That is the price of admission. Being betrayed by one’s friends, family, and colleagues is usually an early-stage lesson. When I experienced those events, my few fellow travelers would commiserate and say, in so many words, “Join the club.”
I have some respect for people who get to Level 8 and give up:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level8
but it is only a little. Nobody whom I respect in the FE field ever argued for defeat. They would not be trying if they did, and only fools like Dennis and Brian have ever tried a Level 10 mass movement effort and gotten anywhere. They have always failed due to my primary lesson; the average person does not have the integrity to make it past the many perils and temptations that come with an FE effort, and they are legion:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#potholes
I have seen countless aspirants disappear into those pitfalls.
Level 9:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level9
is where the Young Warriors end up, kind of like those teenage boys pining for battle. The only people they are going to hurt are themselves and those they think they are helping. Godzilla looks on and laughs when people like that show up, as they do his work for him.
Level 11 is another delusional place, although I have seen billionaires think that they can play there:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#oleary
Dennis has dealt with many billionaires, and they never help. Their motivation is corrupt from the outset, which is likely why they became rich in the first place.
Getting past those barriers to comprehension is necessary for somebody to get to Level 12, and there is nothing easy about it. Usually, somebody needs to have some kind of real-world experience that shows them the futility of those early levels, maybe by poking their nose in and getting hit by shrapnel. Wounding is a great way to wake up, but in this field, million-dollar wounds:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#million
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million-dollar_wound
are hard to come by. Fatal and crippling wounds are the norm. I am still recovering from my FE days, and probably always will.
So, those whom I plan to invite into the choir have gotten past all, or almost all, of those barriers to comprehension. It is OK for somebody to be 80% of the way there and only need a little help in getting over the final hurdles, but my effort will not be suitable for newbies around Level 6. My effort is really only suitable for those still having some trouble with Level 10 (I never met anybody who got to Level 12 on his/her own). I have been a part of several Level 10 efforts with Dennis and Brian, and I can help with that hurdle. In some ways, what I am trying looks like Level 10, but it is not. I am not going to pander to scarcity-based ideologies to get my foot in the door. I will not be trying to subtly lure people into my effort. It will only be suitable for those who can leave their delusions at the door, who are willing to do the work to develop a comprehensive and epochal perspective, and that will take a great deal of effort. Nothing about it will be easy, but I also will not be asking anybody to become a hero. After looking for heroes for many years, I came to understand that virtually nobody can pass the high level tests:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
and passing those tests usually means ruining/losing your life. I have no desire to witness that anymore.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
31st October 2013, 13:33
Hi:
Here is another chapter draft that can be put here without seeming too disjointed. Again, this is an early draft. As I write the essay, I revise earlier chapters, invent new chapters that I had not previously considered, condense some, etc. The draft below will change, perhaps markedly, by the time the essay is published. As with the other drafts, you can’t see the links or references, of which there are many. For people who join the choir, skimming the chapters won’t get it done. The chapters are designed to help along some pretty deep study. There is a method to my madness, and chapters like this are germane to the points I will be making in arguing for a global civilization based on free energy. Comprehensive perspectives are built this way. :)
Best,
Wade
The Cryogenian Ice Age and the Rise of Complex Life
This essay’s section will provide a somewhat detailed review of the Cryogenian ice age and its aftermath, including the hypotheses regarding it, the evidence for it, and its outcomes, as the eon of complex life arose after it. This review will sketch the complex interactions of life and geophysical processes, and the increasingly multidisciplinary methods being used to investigate such events, which are yielding new and important insights.
The idea of an ice age is only a few hundred years old, and was first publicly proposed as a scientific hypothesis by Louis Agassiz in 1837, who got his first ideas from Karl Schimper and others. There had also been proposals for ice ages in the preceding decades. By the 1860s, most geologists accepted the idea that there had been a cold period in Earth’s recent past, with advancing and retreating ice sheets, but nobody really knew why. Hypotheses began to proliferate, and the hypothesis of variations in Earth’s orientation to the Sun causing the continental ice sheets was proposed by James Croll in the 1870s. Because of problems in matching his hypothesis with dates adduced for ice age events, it fell out of favor and was considered dead by 1900. Croll’s work regained its relevance with the publication of a paper by Milutin Milanković (usually spelled Milankovitch in the West) in 1913, and by 1924, Milankovitch was widely known for explaining the timing of the advancing and retreating ice sheets of the current recent ice age.
The book that made Milankovitch famous (Croll’s work is still obscure, even though Milankovitch gave full credit to Croll in his work) was co-authored by Alfred Wegener, who a decade earlier first published his hypothesis that the continents had moved over the eons. As is often the case with radical new hypotheses, aspects of it previously existed in various stages of development, but Wegener was the first to propose a comprehensive hypothesis to explain an array of detailed evidence. Wegener was a meteorologist and was working outside of his specialty when proposing his “continental drift” hypothesis. His hypothesis was harshly received and dismissed by the day’s orthodoxy, with Wegener dying a few years later while setting up a research station on Greenland’s icecap, and his hypothesis quickly sank into obscurity. It was not until my lifetime, when paleomagnetic studies confirmed his views, that Wegener’s work returned from exile and plate tectonics became a cornerstone of geological theory.
That relegation of hypotheses and theories to oblivion, with the pioneer dying in obscurity or being martyred, to only be vindicated many years later, is typical. The man who first explained the dynamics behind the aurora borealis, Kristian Birkeland, died in obscurity in 1917, with his work attacked and dismissed. It was not until Hannes Alfvén won the 1970 Nobel Prize that Birkeland’s work was finally vindicated. Endosymbiotic theory, the widely-accepted theory of how mitochondria, chloroplasts, and other organelles came to be, was first proposed in 1905 and was quickly dismissed, and was not revived until the late 1960s.
When a new hypothesis appears, particularly a radical one, even if it is not a lone pioneer being martyred, the old guard usually attacks the new hypothesis and the situation turns into bitter feuds and armed camps all too often, such as the recent rise of the asteroid impact hypothesis regarding the dinosaurs’ demise. To a degree, those withering attacks are supposed to be how science works. Doubt instead of faith is the guiding principle of science. Until a scientist’s bright idea is tested against the real world, it is just a bright idea. The best tests are designed to falsify a hypothesis, and only hypotheses that have survived numerous attempts to falsify them graduate to becoming theories. It can be argued that the “attack mode” that science has adopted toward new hypotheses has formed a structural bias so that all scientific pioneers will be attacked by their peers; it is simply the nature of the profession. Only scientists who can weather the attacks from their peers will survive long enough to see their hypotheses get a fair hearing. That “shark tank” environment, particularly with lucrative prizes and tenured academic berths awaiting the winners, has arguably set back science’s progress considerably. With what I know has been suppressed by private interests, often with governmental assistance, mainstream science is largely irrelevant regarding many important issues that would theoretically be within its purview.
Quite often, the pioneers of science and technology receive no credit at all, as others steal their work and become rich and famous. The Wright brothers labored in obscurity for five years after they first flew, with the scientific press ridiculing their “fabled” claims of flight, and the Smithsonian Institution tried to deny the Wright brothers their rightful precedence for generations. A colleague, who was a former astronaut and Ivy League professor and who explored the frontiers of science, told me that the scientific establishment’s blindness and denial is worse today than it was in the Wright brothers’ time. But if private and governmental interests do not suppress the data and theory, as is regularly done regarding alternative energy and other disruptive technologies, eventually the data will win, even if the pioneers may not receive any credit, or they receive it posthumously. Ice age data and theory does not pose an immediate threat to the global rackets, so the history of developing the data and theories has been publicly available.
Wegener’s fledgling continental drift hypothesis had him conclude, based on his gathered evidence, that there was a global ice age in the Carboniferous and Permian periods. He was right. In 1964, the same year that the first symposium of the plate tectonic era was held, Brian Harland proposed, based on paleomagnetic evidence, that there was a global ice age immediately preceding the Cambrian period, where even the tropics were buried under ice. This was the first time that a truly global glaciation was proposed, and Harland’s hypothesis was developed into what is today called the Snowball Earth hypothesis.
Ice ages are an important area of scientific investigation today. Humanity’s prodigious burning of Earth’s hydrocarbon deposits may well be delaying the return of the ice sheets, which have been advancing and retreating in rhythmic fashion for most of the past million years. Today, it is accepted that the tipping point for the current pattern has been Earth’s orientation toward the Sun, particularly the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit, which has a roughly 100-thousand-year cycle. While Earth’s orientation is overwhelmingly considered to be the tipping point variable, it is not the only influence. The master variable has been steadily declining atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Antarctica began developing its icecap about 35 mya due to its position near the South Pole and declining carbon dioxide levels. The current ice age began 2.5 mya, and it may have been initiated by the formation of Panama’s isthmus three mya, which separated the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and radically altered oceanic currents. Also, the Arctic Ocean is virtually landlocked. Those factors likely all contributed to the current ice age.
In investigating how ice ages begin and end, positive and negative feedbacks are weighed. A positive feedback will accentuate a dynamic, while a negative feedback will mute it. In the 1970s, James Lovelock and the author of today’s endosymbiotic theory, Lynn Margulis, developed the Gaia hypothesis, which essentially states that Earth has provided feedbacks that maintain its homeostasis. Under that hypothesis, environmental variables such as atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, ocean salinity levels, and Earth’s surface temperature have been kept in homeostasis by a combination of geophysical and life processes, maintaining Earth’s inhabitability. The homeostatic dynamics were mainly negative feedbacks. If positive feedbacks dominate, then “runaway” conditions happen. In astrophysics, runaway conditions are responsible for a wide range of phenomena. A runaway greenhouse effect may be responsible for the high temperature of Venus’s surface. Climate scientists today are concerned that burning the hydrocarbons that fuel the industrial age may result in runaway climactic effects. Mass extinctions are the result of Earth becoming largely uninhabitable, and mass extinction specialist Peter Ward recently proposed his Medea hypothesis as a direct challenge to the Gaia hypothesis.
Gaian and Medean dynamics have both played their roles in the development of Earth and the biosphere, with positive and negative feedbacks having their impacts. Life saved Earth’s oceans with its negative feedback on hydrogen loss to space, without which life as we know it on Earth would likely not exist. But there is also evidence that life contributed to mass extinction events.
Investigating the Cryogenian ice age led to finding evidence of runaway effects causing dramatic environmental changes, and the Cryogenian ice age’s dynamics will be investigated and debated for many years. While the position of Antarctica at the South Pole and the landlocked Arctic Ocean have been key variables in initiating the current ice age, another continental configuration that could contribute to initiating an ice age is when a supercontinent is near the equator, which was the case during the Cryogenian ice age. A hypothesis is that Canfield Oceans accompany supercontinents, so warm water is not pushed to the poles as vigorously, and a supercontinent near the equator would not normally have ice sheets, which means that silicate weathering would be enhanced, removing more carbon dioxide than usual. Those conditions could initiate an ice age, beginning at the poles. It would start out as sea ice, floating atop the oceans.
Around when Harland first proposed a global ice age, an early climate model developed by a Russian climatologist, Mikhail Budyko, concluded that if a Snowball Earth really happened, the runaway positive feedbacks would ensure that the planet never thawed, becoming a permanent block of ice. For the next generation, that climate model made a Snowball Earth scenario seem impossible. In 1992, a Cal Tech professor, Joseph Kirschvink, published a short paper that coined the term Snowball Earth. Kirschvink sketched a scenario where the supercontinent near the equator reflected sunlight, as compared to tropical oceans that absorb it. Once the global temperature decline due to reflected sunlight began to grow polar ice, the ice would reflect even more sunlight, with Earth’s surface becoming even cooler. This could produce a runaway effect where the ice sheets grew into the tropics and buried the supercontinent in ice. Kirschvink also proposed that the situation could become unstable. As the sea ice crept toward the equator, it would kill off all photosynthetic life, and a buried supercontinent would no longer engage in silicate weathering. Those are the two primary ways that carbon is removed from the atmosphere in the carbon cycle. Volcanism would have been the main way that carbon dioxide was introduced to the atmosphere, and with the two primary dynamics for removing it knocked out by the ice, carbon dioxide would have increased in the atmosphere and the resultant greenhouse effect would have eventually melted the ice and runaway effects would quickly turn Earth from an icehouse into a greenhouse. Kirschvink proposed the idea that Earth could vacillate between icehouse and greenhouse states.
Kirschvink noted that BIFs reappeared in the geological record during the possible Snowball Earth times, after vanishing about a billion years earlier. Kirschvink noted that iron cannot increase to levels where they would create BIFs if the ocean was oxygenated. Kirschvink proposed that the sea ice not only killed the photosynthesizers, but it also separated the ocean from the atmosphere so that the ocean became anoxic. Iron from volcanoes on the ocean floor would build up in solution during the icehouse phase, and during the greenhouse phase the oceans would become oxygenated and the iron would fall out in BIFs. Other geological evidence for the vacillating icehouse and greenhouse conditions was the formation of cap carbonates over the glacial till. It was a global phenomenon; wherever the Snowball Earth till was, cap carbonates were on top of them. In geological circles, cap carbonates deposited during the past 100 million years are considered to be of tropical origin. The fact of cap carbonates atop glacial till is one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the Snowball Earth hypothesis. Kirschvink finished his paper by noting that the era of complex life came on the heels of the Snowball Earth, and scouring the oceans of life would have presented virgin oceans for the rapid spread of life in the greenhouse periods, and this could have initiated the evolutionary novelty that led to complex life.
Kirschvink is a polymath, and soon was pursuing other interests, leaving his Snowball Earth musings behind. Canadian geologist Paul Hoffman had been an ardent Arctic researcher, but a dispute with a bureaucrat saw him exiled from the Arctic. He landed at Harvard and soon picked the Precambrian rocks of Namibia to study, as it was largely unexplored geological territory. The Namibia strata were 600-700 million years old, instead of the two billion years that Hoffman was more familiar with. In the Namibian desert, he soon found evidence of glacial till among what were known to be tropical strata when created.
Glacial till is composed of “foreign” stones that had been transported there by ice. When ice ages were first conceived, a key piece of evidence was “erratics,” which were large stones found far from their place of origin. Also, erratics were found in ocean sediments and were called dropstones. Eventually, after plenty of controversy, scientists decided that erratics had usually been deposited by glaciers. Oceanic dropstones were transported by melting icebergs, the land-based erratics by retreating glaciers.
Hoffman’s team tested the carbon-13/12 ratios of the cap carbonates and found them to be lifeless. This was key evidence presented in their 1998 paper that argued for Kirschvink’s Snowball Earth hypothesis. Kirschvink did, Hoffman and his colleagues argued that the BIFs were evidence of the Snowball Earth conditions, and they concluded their paper like Kirschvink did, stating that the alternating icehouse and greenhouse periods would have produced extreme environmental stress on the ecosystems and may well have led to the explosion of complex life in their aftermath. A few months after publication of the Hoffman team’s paper came another seminal paper, by Donald Canfield. Those papers resulted in a flurry of scientific investigations and controversy, with Hoffman engaging in caustic feuds, as he was Snowball Earth’s front man. The Snowball Earth hypothesis has won out, so far. There is a “Slushball Earth” hypothesis that posits that the Cryogenian ice age was not as severe as Hoffman and his colleagues suggest, and there are other disputes over the Snowball Earth hypothesis, some of them rancorous, but the idea of a global glaciation is likely here to stay, with a great deal of ongoing investigation. Andrew Knoll is among the scientists in the Snowball Earth milieu, and some of his work dealt with carbon ratios during the Cryogenian period. The record shows wild swings, with organic carbon burial coinciding with forming the late-Proterozoic BIFs, which is consistent with the biological explanation of BIF formation.
Canfield’s original hypothesis, which seems largely valid today, is that the deep oceans were not oxygenated until the Cryogenian period, with the process not beginning until about 580 mya and first completed about 560 mya. The deep-ocean currents, taking atmospheric gases deep into the oceans like they do today, do not seem to have existed back then, and atmospheric oxygen was only a few percent at most when the Cryogenian period began. Canfield’s evidence partly came from testing sulfur isotopes. As with carbon, nitrogen, and other elements, life prefers the lighter isotope of sulfur, and sulfur-32 and sulfur-34 are two stable isotopes that can be easily tested in sediments. Canfield hypothesized that in the pre-Cryogenian ocean’s depths, sulfate-reducing bacteria, which are among Earth’s earliest life forms and produce hydrogen sulfide as its waste product, abounded. Hydrogen sulfide gives rotten eggs their distinctive aroma, and is highly toxic to plants and animals, as it disables the enzymes used in mitochondrial respiration. Hydrogen sulfide would react with dissolved iron to form iron pyrite and settle out in the ocean floor, just like the iron oxide did that formed the BIFs. The sulfate-reducing bacteria will enrich the sulfur-32/34 ratio by 3% and did so before the Cryogenian, but the Cryogenian iron pyrite sediments showed a 5% enrichment, which is only explained by recycling sulfur in the oceanic ecosystem, which can only happen in the presence of oxygen.
Part of the hypothesis for skyrocketing oxygen levels during the Cryogenian was that high carbon dioxide levels, combined with a continent that had been ground down by glaciers, and the resumption of the hydrological cycle, which would have vanished during the Snowball Earth events, would have created conditions of dramatically-increased erosion, which would have buried carbon (the cap carbonates are part of that evidence), and thus helped oxygenate the atmosphere. Evidence for that increased erosion also came in the form of strontium isotope analysis. Two of strontium’s stable isotopes are strontium-86 and 87. Earth’s mantle is enriched in strontium-86, while the crust is enriched in strontium-87, so basalts exposed to the ocean in the oceanic volcanic ridges are enriched in strontium-86, while continental rocks are enriched in strontium-87. If erosion is higher than normal, then the ocean sediments will be enriched in strontium-87, which analysis of Cryogenian ocean sediments confirmed. That evidence, combined with carbon isotope ratios, provided strong evidence of high erosion and high carbon burial, which would have increased atmospheric oxygen levels. There is other evidence of increasing atmospheric oxygen content during the Cryogenian period, such as an increase in rare earth elements in Cryogenian sediments, and the consensus today is that the Cryogenian is when atmospheric oxygen levels dramatically rose to modern levels, where they have largely stayed, although as this essay will later discuss, oxygen levels have varied widely since the Cryogenian (from perhaps 15% to 35%).
As noted previously, an increase in atmospheric oxygen usually meant a decline in carbon dioxide, which would have cooled the planet. Recent data and models suggest that during the Cryogenian period, global surface temperatures declined from around 40oC. to around 20oC., and it has been below 30oC. ever since, generally fluctuating between 25oC. and 10oC. Today’s global surface temperature of around 15oC. is several degrees warmer than during the glacial periods of the current ice age, but is still among the lowest that Earth has ever experienced, and is generally attributed to atmospheric carbon dioxide’s consistent decline during the past 150 million years.
Paleontologists were lonely fossil hunters for more than a century, but in my lifetime they found allies in geologists, and with DNA sequencing and genomics, molecular biologists have provided invaluable assistance. In 1996, a paper was published that created a huge splash in paleontological circles. It was the work of molecular biologists who used the concept of the “molecular clock” of genetic divergence among various species. Their work concluded the stage was set for animal emergence hundreds of millions of years before they appear in the fossil record, particularly during the Cambrian Explosion. That paper initiated its own explosion of genetic research, and the current range of estimates has the genetic origins of animals somewhere between 1.2 bya and 700 mya, but this field is in its infancy, with more results surely coming.
In particular, the synergies of molecular biology and paleontology have identified the importance of Hox genes in early animals. In bilaterally-symmetric animals, the Hox genes dictate body development, and the Hox genes are effectively identical in a fly and a chicken, which diverged from their common ancestor nearly 700 million years ago. Hox genes became an anchor in animal development, with the basics unchanged for more than 600 million years.
The purpose of the foregoing Cryogenian discussion was to provide the dimensions of the scientific enterprise in some depth, and to show how the intersecting lines of evidence, brought from diverse disciplines and using increasingly sophisticated tools, is providing new and important insights, not only into the distant past, but which also have modern-day relevance.
In summary, today’s orthodox Cryogenian period hypothesis is that the complex dynamics of a supercontinent breakup somehow triggered the runaway effects that led to a global glaciation. The global glaciation was reversed by runaway effects primarily related to an immense increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. During the Greenhouse Earth events, oceanic life would have been delivered vast amounts of continental nutrients scoured from the rocks by glaciers, and the hot conditions would have combined to create a global explosion of photosynthetic life. A billion years of relative equilibrium between the prokaryotes and eukaryotes was ultimately shattered, and oxygen levels dramatically rose during the Cryogenian period toward modern levels. Largely sterilized oceans, which began to be oxygenated at depth for the first time, are now thought to have prepared the way for what came next: the rise of complex life.
Fossils are created by undisturbed life form remains that become saturated with various chemicals, which gradually replace the organic material with rock by several different processes of mineralization. Few life forms ever become fossils, but are instead consumed by other life; rare dynamics lead to fossil formation, usually by anoxic conditions leading to undisturbed sediments that protect the evidence and fossilize it. Geological processes are continually creating new land, both on the continents and under the ocean. The seafloor strata do not provide much insight into life’s ancient past, particularly fossils, because the process recycles the oceanic crust in “mere” hundreds of millions of years. The basic process is that, in the Atlantic and Pacific sea floors in particular, oceanic volcanic ridges spew out basalt, and the plates flow toward the continents that bound the oceans. When oceanic plates reach continental plates, the heavier mafic (basaltic) oceanic plates are subducted below the lighter felsic (granitic) continental plates. Parts of an oceanic plate were entirely subducted into the mantle more than 100 mya, leaving behind plate fragments. On the continents, however, as they have floated on the heavier rocks, tectonic and erosional processes have not obliterated all ancient rocks and fossils. The oldest “indigenous” rocks yet found on Earth are more than four billion years old. Stromatolites have been dated to 3.5 bya, and fossils of individual cyanobacteria have been dated to 1.5 bya. There are recent claims of finding fossils of individual organisms dated to 3.4 bya. The oldest eukaryote fossils found so far are of algae dated to 1.2 bya. The first amoeba-like vase-shaped fossils date from about 750 mya, and there are recent claims of finding the first animal fossils in Namibia, of sponge-like creatures which are up to 760 million years old.
During the eon of complex life, the geological time scale is divided by the distinctive fossils found in the sedimentary layers attributed to that time. Before the eon of complex life (that ancient time before complex life first appeared, which represents about 90% of Earth’s existence so far, is called the Precambrian supereon today), fossils were microscopic and rare. Over time, geophysical forces eradicate sedimentary layers, and for the earliest animals, their fossils are found in only a few places on Earth. The first animal fossils of significance formed about 600 mya, and are strange creatures to modern eyes. They were first noticed in 1868 in Newfoundland, but the fledgling paleontological profession dismissed them, not recognizing them as fossils. In Namibia in 1933, those Precambrian fossils were again noted but given a Cambrian chronology because the day’s prevailing theory placed the beginning of animal life during the Cambrian Explosion. In 1946, in the Ediacara Hills in Australia, more such strange fossils were found in what were thought to be Precambrian rocks, but it was not until 1957, when those fossils were found in England, in rocks positively identified as Precambrian, that the first period of animal life, the Ediacaran, was on its way to being recognized (it was not officially named the Ediacaran until 2004, for the first new period recognized since the nineteenth century). In China, the Doushantuo Formation has provided fossils from about 635 mya to 550 mya, which covers the Ediacaran period, and Ediacaran fossils have been found in a few other places. Microscopic algae spores and animal embryos abound in the Doushantuo cherts, and the spores look like little suns and other fanciful shapes. Almost all of them went extinct within a few million years of appearing in the fossil record, for an “invisible” mass extinction. That mass extinction directly preceded the appearance of the first large organisms that Earth ever saw: Ediacaran fauna.
Early Ediacaran fossil finds were often dismissed as pseudofossils because they did not fit the prevailing idea of an animal or plant, and Dickensonia left the most famous Ediacaran fossils. Today, the most likely interpretation seems to be that Dickensonians flopped themselves down on bacterial mats and fed on them. When one finished eating a mat, it flopped its way to another. It was a bilateral-like creature, and is today classified into an extinct phylum with other Ediacaran fauna. Charnia looked like a plant but was not, and is classified into another extinct phylum. Phyla are body plans, and the Ediacaran fauna are indeed strange looking. There is debate whether the Ediacaran fauna were plants, animals, or neither, and that debate will not end soon. Spriggina resembled a trilobite, and may have been its ancestor. Paths in the sediments, called feeding traces, have been found, but there was no deep burrowing in the Ediacaran period. In the last few million years of the Ediacaran, the first skeletons appeared, particularly of the Cloudinids. The Ediacaran fauna suddenly appeared in the fossil record about 575 mya, and all abruptly disappeared about 542 mya.
There has been controversy regarding why Ediacaran fauna quickly disappeared, and even if their disappearance qualifies as a mass extinction. One prominent idea that their disappearance was due to predation by what became Cambrian fauna, and another one is that they ate their food sources to extinction, but it appears more likely that it may have been an extinction brought on by anoxic oceans, and Cambrian fauna filled the vacant niches, and then some, when the oceans became oxygenated again. Although Ediacaran fauna did not move much, their existence was owed to some oxygenation of the oceans, and although their metabolisms would have been slow compared to the animals that followed them, they could not have survived in anoxic oceans.
As will become a familiar theme in this essay, whether it was suffering from predation, a food shortage, or a lack of oxygen, in each instance it was primarily an energy issue. Ediacaran fauna either became an energy source for early Cambrian predators, they ran out of food energy, or they ran out of the oxygen necessary to power their metabolisms. For this essay’s purposes, the most important understanding is that the Sun provides all of earthly life’s energy, either directly or indirectly. Today’s hydrocarbon energy that powers our industrial world comes from captured sunlight. Exciting electrons with photon energy, then stripping off electrons and protons and using their electric potential to power biochemical reactions, is what makes Earth’s ecosystems possible. Too little energy, and reactions won’t happen (such as ice ages, enzyme poisoning, the darkness of night, food shortages, and the lack of key nutrients that support biological reactions), and too much (such as ultraviolet light and temperatures too high for enzyme survival), and life is damaged or destroyed. The journey of life on Earth is all about adapting to varying energy conditions and finding levels where life can survive. For the many hypotheses about those ancient events and what really happened, the answers are always primarily in energy terms, such as how it was obtained, how it was preserved, and how it was used. For life scientists, that is always the framework, and they devote themselves to discovering how the energy game was played.
ulli
31st October 2013, 13:43
Hi Wade
I just thought this quote of yours was particularly good, so I want to pull it out, for emphasis:
The rationalist-materialist paradigm denigrates consciousness as some byproduct of brain chemistry, and those subscribing to that ideology tend to dismiss consciousness manipulation of the global political-economic scene as a “conspiracy theory.” Their ideological assumptions have blinded them to Earthly reality, which is ironic, as the real world is their object of study
Wade Frazier
31st October 2013, 13:58
Thanks Ulli. Yes, it is one of their most fatal delusions. Scientists and structuralists need to get past that denial. As you know, conspiracists tend to get unbalanced in the other way, attributing all of our problems to elite machinations:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness
Both are fear-based perspectives. Only a love-based perspective can properly weigh the dynamics and realize that it is what we do, not what the elites do, that really matters. Focusing on the elites, or beseeching them for help, or attacking them, or worshipping them, is where our problems begin. We need to look within, not without, to solve this conundrum. Elites and their antics are only a symptom, not a cause. With FE and abundance, elites become obsolete. But they definitely play their games to maintain their current position atop the food chain. So it is, in a world of scarcity.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
2nd November 2013, 04:38
Hi:
I have been sharing some early drafts with people, to give me their feedback and to also provide them some insight into my writing process. Here is another section hot off the press. It is a very rough draft, a section that I decided that I needed just last week, and we will see what the final product looks like. I think that the section will survive, but it may look a bit different than this draft. Right now, that little timeline that is attached is intended to head the section.
Best,
Wade
Speciation, Extinction, and Mass Extinctions
In his Origin of Species, Charles Darwin sketched processes by which species appear and disappear, today called speciation and extinction. Origin of Species is a landmark in science’s history and is still immensely influential. But it was also afflicted by false notions that are still with us. Europe’s emergence from dogma and superstition has been a long, fitful, only partially-successful process. In the 1500s, Spanish mercenaries read a legal document to the unfortunate Indians that they conquered and annihilated that stated that Creation was about five thousand years old, as scholars of the time simply added up the Book of Genesis’s “begats.” The Old Testament is filled with tales of genocide, miracles, and disasters, with a global flood that the faithful Noah survived. As geology gradually became a science, and processes such as erosion and sedimentation were studied, the Judeo-Christian belief of Earth being five thousand years old was discarded and the concept of geologic time arose in Europe.
In the early nineteenth century, there was a dispute personified by Charles Lyell, a British lawyer and geologist, and Charles Cuvier, a French paleontologist. Their respective positions came to be known as uniformitarianism and catastrophism. Just as Britain prevailed in its global imperial competition with France, so did uniformitarianism prevail in scientific circles. Under the comforting uniformitarian worldview, there was no such thing as a global catastrophe, but changes had only been gradual. The British Charles Darwin explicitly made Lyell’s uniformitarianism part of his evolutionary theory, and he proposed that extinction was only a gradual process. While Cuvier did not subscribe to the evolutionary hypotheses that predated Darwin, his catastrophic extinction hypothesis was informed by his fossil studies. But Lyell and Darwin prevailed, and suggesting that there might have been catastrophic mass extinctions in Earth’s past was an invitation to be branded a pseudoscientific crackpot, and that state of affairs largely prevailed in orthodoxy until the 1980s, after the asteroid impact hypothesis was posited for the dinosaurs’ demise. An effort led by a scientist publishing outside of his field of expertise (a Nobel laureate in this instance) removed gradualism from its primacy. It is only since the 1980s that English-speaking scientists could study mass extinctions without facing ridicule from their peers, which has never been an auspicious career situation. Since then, many minor and major mass extinction events have been studied, but the investigations are still in their early stages, partly due to a dogma that prevailed for more than a century and a half, and Lyell’s uniformitarianism is still influential. The ranking of the major mass extinctions is even in dispute, with the Carboniferous period extinction recently argued as greater than the Ordovician–Silurian extinction.
Speciation has probably been more controversial than extinction. To be fair to Darwin, genetics was not yet a science when Origin of Species was published in 1859. It was not until the 1866 publication of an obscure paper by German friar Gregor Mendel that the science of genetics began, but Mendel’s work was dismissed and ignored by mainstream science until the twentieth century. Darwin went to his grave unaware of Mendel’s work. Today, speciation is considered to primarily be a genetic event. But similar to how proteins have several dimensions of structure that dictate their function, and emergent properties that appear at higher levels of complexity, the DNA code by itself does not explain life, although the popular selfish gene hypothesis frames life and evolution as a competition between genes.
Before humans began to alter “natural” evolution with selective breeding, genetic engineering, and the like, speciation has been largely thought to be the result of populations becoming genetically isolated, primarily through geographic isolation, and the isolated populations continue to evolve and adapt to their environments. Eventually, the separated populations become separate species. Even defining what a species is is still controversial, but the general concept is that if two sexually-reproducing organisms can breed and produce fertile offspring, they are of the same species. In light of evolutionary theory, human races are simply genetically-isolated populations that have evolved as they adapted to their environments, but all races can interbreed, so humanity is a single species. Recent DNA studies suggest that white skin is an evolutionary adaptation to northern climates, and white skin may be only six thousand years old. As Europe’s conquest of the world and subsequent Industrial Revolution have ended a great deal of genetic isolation, the adaptive differences seen in the races have been gradually disappearing as multiracial offspring have increased. If humanity attains the free energy epoch, “race” will disappear along with geographic isolation.
Liebig’s Law states that life can only grow as fast as its scarcest nutrient, and nutrient availability is clearly the limiting factor in many ecological situations. In the oceans today, most marine life lives near land (99% of the global fish catch is caught near land), as nutrient runoffs from land feed the oceanic ecosystems. The runoff is seasonal and so is the fish catch, the deposition of marine sediments, and the like. Nitrogen and phosphorous are two particularly critical nutrients, with blooms and die-offs based on those elements’ availability. In the industrial age, with phosphorus and nitrogen artificially added in agriculture, the runoff has created great algal blooms (which create hypoxic “dead zones”) and other events, and even artificially-introduced carbon is a suspected variable.
Since the greatest instances of speciation seem to have happened in the aftermath of mass extinctions, this essay will survey extinction first. A corollary to Liebig’s Law is that if any critical nutrient falls low enough, the nutrient deficiency will not only limit growth, but the organism will be stressed. If the nutrient level falls far enough, the organism will die. A human can generally survive between one and two months without food, ten days without water, and about three minutes without oxygen. For animals, all the food and water in the world are meaningless without oxygen. While some microbes can switch between aerobic respiration or fermentation, depending on the environment (which might be a very old talent ), complex life does not have that ability; all aerobic complex life is oxygen dependent. Also, marine life has adapted to varying levels of oxygen. Birds can go where mammals cannot, flying over the Himalayas, for instance, or being sucked into a jet engine at several kilometers above sea level, due to their superior respiration system. If oxygen levels rise or fall very fast, many organisms will not be able to adapt, and will die.
Biologists consider extinctions to be due to failure to adapt to environmental changes, and the “environment” includes other organisms. But exactly how species go extinct is still poorly understood. There are many interacting variables, including those environmental nutrients, both inorganic and those provided by life forms. The ability of an organism or species to adapt is partly dependent on how specialized it is and how unique its habitat is. Absolute numbers, geographic distribution, position in the food chain (higher in the food chain is riskier), mobility, and reproductive rates all impact extinction risk. During the Cambrian period, about 80% of all animals were immobile. Today, 80% of all animals are mobile. The immobile animals were at higher extinction risk, for obvious reasons.
The evolutionary game for a species is for enough of its members to survive long enough to produce viable offspring. Organisms have adopted myriad survival and reproduction strategies, with astonishing diversity. There are many ways to win or lose that game, but every species eventually loses. More than 99.9% of all species that have ever lived on Earth became extinct. A mammalian species has a life expectancy of around a million years, while a marine invertebrate species has one of about five-to-ten million years. Today’s global extinction rate is more than one hundred times the “normal” rate (“background rate”), and perhaps far greater, due to human domination of the ecosphere.
There are “normal” extinction scenarios, and the “happy ending” extinction is when a species lives, evolves, and there comes a time when it would no longer be able to produce viable offspring by breeding with its ancestors. There obviously would not be a “bright-line” demarcation of such an event, or any way to currently test such an event, but it has likely happened countless times. Another normal extinction begins when a species splits into isolated populations, such as by tectonic plates moving away from each other. Old World and New World monkeys became separated when monkeys from Africa migrated to South America, before the Atlantic Ocean grew to its present size. Isolated populations of a species would continue to evolve and eventually could no longer interbreed, making them different species by definition, and perhaps neither population could breed with its ancestors at the time the populations became separated. Both populations might continue to thrive, but one might find itself in unfavorable conditions and go extinct, while the other continued living. If those isolated populations were still the same species, the population that went extinct would be called locally extinct, but if they were separate species, then the disappearing population would be a species extinction.
Scientists often measure extinction rates at the family and genus levels of the taxonomy, with genera and families being far harder to kill off than species. Some species/genera/families have beaten the odds and survived for hundreds of millions of years. They are called living fossils, and usually all of their close relatives went extinct long ago. The ubiquitous and lowly horsetail is a living fossil, first appearing nearly 400 mya.
Whether more extinctions have been due to “normal” evolutionary processes or catastrophes is debated today. Some kinds of organisms will find great success with their strategies, marginalizing other kinds and even driving them to extinction, to only die off themselves in a mass extinction event, and the previously marginalized life forms will flourish in the post-catastrophic biome. The rise of mammals might have never happened without the dinosaurs’ demise.
The extinction of Ediacaran fauna was the first mass extinction of organisms that could be seen with the naked human eye. There was an extinction of microscopic eukaryotes soon before the eon of complex life began, and there may have been mass extinctions of microbes before then, but the evidence is so thin for anything before then that scientists may never know just how many mass extinctions there were. However, bacteria and archaea, those biochemical wizards, can exist in environments far too harsh for complex life, so there may have been few mass extinctions in Precambrian times.
Mass extinctions always have critical geophysical aspects to them. Continental shelves under shallow seas, which are home to most marine life, are vulnerable to sea level and oceanic current changes. Stagnant waters can lose their oxygen, triggering anoxic events that kill complex life. A continental shelf exposed to the atmosphere by a falling sea level would obviously lose its marine life. Sea levels can rise or fall for different reasons. The most obvious reason has been advancing and retreating ice sheets, but the aggregate continental landmass has always grown (possibly sporadically), and continents can rise and can fall during the journeys of their tectonic plates. Generally, when sea levels fell, the continental shelves lost their marine life, and when they rose, anoxic conditions often accompanied them. There is evidence that the ozone layer has been periodically damaged (1, 2), stressing all plants and animals that the sun shined on. The positions of the continents, both in relation to each other and their proximity to the equator or poles, can have dramatic effects, including impacts on global climate. When global climate changes, new weather patterns can turn rainforests into deserts, and vice versa.
There is also evidence that life itself can contribute to mass extinctions. When the GOE eventually oxygenated the oceans, the organisms that could not survive or thrive around oxygen (called obligate anaerobes) sank into the anoxic margins of the ocean and land. When anoxic conditions appeared, particularly during Canfield Ocean times, the anaerobes could come out to play once again, and when sulfate-reducing bacteria thrived, usually arising from ocean sediments, they produced hydrogen sulfide as a waste product. Since the ocean floor had already become anoxic, the seafloor was already a dead zone, so no harm done there. The hydrogen sulfide became lethal when it rose in the water column, killing off surface life and then wafting into the air and asphyxiating life near shore. But the greatest harm to life may have been inflicted when hydrogen sulfide eventually rose to the ozone layer and damaged it, which could have been the final blow to an already stressed ecosphere. While that may seem a fanciful scenario, there is evidence for it. There is fossil evidence of ultraviolet-light-damaged photosynthesizers during the Permian extinction, as well as photosynthesizing anaerobic bacteria (green and purple), which could have only thrived in sulfide-rich anoxic surface waters. Peter Ward has made this key evidence for his Medean hypothesis, and he has implicated hydrogen sulfide events in most major mass extinctions. An important upshot of Ward’s Medean hypothesis work is that about 1,000 PPM of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which might be reached in this century if we keep burning fossil fuels, may artificially induce Canfield Oceans and result in hydrogen sulfide events. Those are not wild speculations, but logical outcomes of current trends and growing understanding of previous catastrophes, proposed by leading scientists. Even if those events are “only” 10% likely to happen in the next century, that we are flirting with them at all should make us shudder, for a few reasons, one of which is the awesome damage that it would inflict on the biosphere, including humanity, and another is that it is entirely preventable with the use of technologies that already exist on the planet.
Mass extinction events can seem quite capricious as to what species live or die. Ammonoids generally outcompeted their ancestral nautiloids for hundreds of millions of years. Ammonoids were lightweight versions of nautiloids, and they often thrived in shallow waters while the nautiloids were banished to deep waters. Both dwindled over time, as they were outcompeted by new kinds of life forms. In the Permian and Triassic mass extinctions, deep-water animals generally suffered more than surface dwellers did, but the nautiloids’ superior respiration system still saw them survive. Also, nautiloids laid relatively few eggs that took about a year to hatch, while ammonites laid more eggs that hatched faster. However, the asteroid-induced Cretaceous mass extinction annihilated nearly all surface life, while the deep-water animals fared better, and the nautiloid embryos that rode out the storm in their eggs were survivors. The Cretaceous extinction wiped out the remaining ammonoids, while the nautiloids are still with us, comprising another group of living fossils. The lystrosaurus is about the only land animal of significance that survived the Permian extinction, and it dominated the early Triassic landmass like no animal ever has, comprising about 95% of all land animals. Why the lystrosaurus, which was a kind of reptilian sheep? Nobody knows for sure, but it looks like it may have been the luck the draw. It seems to be that relatively few bedraggled individuals existed in some survival enclave until the catastrophe was finished, and then they quickly bred unimpeded until the supercontinent was full, for the most spectacular species radiation of all time, at least until humans appeared on the evolutionary scene.
There are many speculated causes for mass extinctions. Before the era of mass extinction investigation that began in the 1980s, a hundred hypotheses were presented in the scientific literature for the dinosaur extinction, but it was kind of a scientific parlor game, with scientists from all manner of specialty concocting their theories. But even during the current era of scientific study of mass extinctions, much is unknown or controversial, with even the data in dispute, much less its interpretation. Dynamics may have conflated to produce catastrophic effects, such as increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration warming the land and oceans to the extent that otherwise stable methane hydrates on the ocean floor and in permafrost would be liberated and escape into the atmosphere. That dynamic is currently suspected to have contributed to the Permian and Paleocene-Eocene extinctions, as well as helping end the Cryogenian ice age. Today, there is genuine fear among climate scientists that those dynamics might return in the near future, as global warming continues and hydrocarbons are burned with abandon, which could contribute to catastrophic runaway conditions. Wise scientists admit that humanity is currently conducting a huge chemistry experiment with Earth, and while the outcomes are far from certain, the risk of catastrophic outcomes is very real and growing.
Recent environmental studies show that disturbed ecosystems can have cascading failures, where the removal of one part of a food chain can collapse the entire chain in cascading failures, where entire ecosystems go extinct. Those cascading events can happen in aquatic and terrestrial environments. Food chains are essentially energy chains made possible by aerobic respiration, and the more complex they are, the more energy is needed to sustain them. I find it striking that the leading hypothesis for why complex civilizations collapse is an energy-scarcity dynamic. Also, the most compelling findings that I have encountered regarding degenerative disease in humans shows that if individual cells no longer have their nutritional needs met by the organism, they stop acting out their role as specialized cells and “go rogue.” It may be difficult-to-impossible for scientists to reconstruct and test cascading failure hypotheses in ancient mass extinction events, but they may have played a major role in them, if not the dominant role.
In summary, mass extinction events may be the result of multiple ecosystem stresses which reach the level where the ecosystem unravels. Other than the meteor impact that destroyed the dinosaurs, the rest of the mass extinctions seem to have multiple contributing causes, with each one ultimately having an energy impact on life processes. The dynamics can be complex, and scientists are only beginning to understand them. This essay will survey mass extinction events and their aftermaths in some detail, as they were critical junctures in the journey of life on Earth.
In 1972, Niles Eldridge and Stephen Jay Gould published their theory of punctuated equilibrium, which has generated plenty of controversy. The basic idea is that species usually evolve slowly and even remain in a kind of stasis, except in certain exceptional times when they evolve relatively quickly. Those exceptional times are often when new ecological niches become available, such as a new biological feature that allows exploitation of previously unavailable niches, or after an ecosystem is wiped clean by a mass extinction. If a creature finds a way of life that works and it can keep exploiting/defending its unique niche, and the niche does not disappear, it can keep doing it for hundreds of millions of years without any significant changes, such as the horsetail, nautilus, and coelacanth have done.
Gene duplication is a major avenue of genetic innovation that leads to speciation, which begins when a gene is duplicated, seemingly in error, and it kind of gets a “free ride,” like a spare part that never gets used. The spare can then “experiment,” which can lead to a new and useful gene, perhaps coding for a new biological feature that enhances an organism’s ability to survive or reproduce. About 15% of humanity‘s genes arose through gene duplication events, and in eukaryotes gene duplication is around 1% per gene per million years. In the wake of mass extinctions, new species appear at high rates in what is called an adaptive radiation. A leading hypothesis is that those post-extinction times allow for a Golden Age where life is easy, without the competition for resources typical in more crowded biomes. In such environments, organisms with duplicate genes and other genetic “defects” survive, and after long enough, those mutations become useful, leading to new species. The most famous such adaptive radiation was the Cambrian Explosion.
Oxygen levels have fluctuated far more than temperature, ocean salinity and pH have during the eon of complex life. Peter Ward has recently hypothesized that fluctuating atmospheric oxygen levels have not only contributed to mass extinction scenarios, but adapting to low oxygen levels has been a key stimulus for biological innovation. In summary, speciation is a reaction of organisms to challenge and opportunity which is eventually reflected in their DNA.
Wade Frazier
5th November 2013, 14:02
Hi:
I am hard at work on the essay, trying to turn the jargon in scientific papers and books into plain English. Disjointed or not, I may end up putting up more chapter drafts than I originally intended. We will see. Probably none of the chapters will survive in close to their originally drafted forms. In a comprehensive treatment, all chapters end up interacting to a degree.
I am continually approached by people in the Levels below Level 12. Sometimes it is just tiring, and other times it is frightening, as FE inventors try the same old, same old. The coast is not clear, as far as I have seen. Godzilla is alive and well, if conflicted. I think that one of the most productive thought experiments for choir members is going to be about getting into an epochal frame of mind. I have found that until people begin thinking epochally, they keep trying to pour the new wine into the old skins, probably because they do not understand that it is new wine. I constantly see scientifically illiterate people equating energy with retail politics, retail economics, or some New Age philosophy, thinking that they all rank at about the same place, or that energy is some kind of sideshow or assumed resource of minor importance. When people achieve scientific literacy and begin to understand the previous epochal events, then they can begin to see the forest from the trees. If people think about the previous epochal events:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
and I mean really think about them, it will become obvious that the world as we know it will end with FE, and in ways that almost nobody on Earth today can even imagine, and that is normal.
Before fire was controlled by protohumans, there was not even a humanity. You could not have told a protohuman what life would be like once fires were controlled and the human hearth was created and the protohuman brain consequently grew. The “people” of the time were about as intelligent as chimpanzees. Imagine trying to have a conversation with a chimp. The first campfires were tended by creatures that looked like upright chimps, and the evidence is pretty strong that the control of fire had a lot to do with the appearance of humans on the evolutionary scene. There was no way on Earth that one of those chimp-like ancestors could have had a foggy idea of what the control of fire would lead to. Just the idea of humans sitting around a fire would have been too much for them to comprehend, even if they could have seen it. Just the idea of humans would have been beyond them. Staring into a fire has been the chief “entertainment” for the majority of the human journey.
Similarly, although there may not have been too much language, a human of 100K years ago would have been hard-pressed to comprehend much about The Great Leap Forward of 50K-40K years ago. Sewn clothing, art, music, an advanced toolset and social organization would take humans to distant lands almost unimaginably different than what humans were familiar with – all of it would have been unimaginably bizarre. The simple bow and arrow would have been magical. Rafting across the ocean to get to Australia would have been an incomprehensible epic event, and once it was accomplished, nobody did it again for many thousands of years.
Similarly, imagine trying to explain civilization to one of those hunter-gatherers. Buildings, monumental architecture, professions, slaves, royalty, writing, plumbing, sewers, domestic plants and animals, farming, religion, metals, huge concentrations of people in cities, epidemic disease. Imagine trying to even explain those concepts to the denizens of a world that has never experienced such things. There is no way that any of it could be understood until it was shown to them, and even then, it would have boggled the minds of the hunter-gatherers scattered around the world.
Similarly, imagine trying to explain today’s world to an English peasant of 1600. Indoor plumbing and flush toilets, daily bathing, cars, planes, rockets to the moon, plastics, electricity, and televisions. Even if you could plop them down in our world today, they could scarcely believe their eyes. Most of what we take for granted would have been incomprehensible to them, even magical. The Internet, submarines, nuclear weapons, genetic “engineering,” lasers, calculus, scientific theories, the liberation of women and slaves – even if they saw it, they could scarcely believe it. Now imagine trying to explain it to them without showing it to them. You could not even begin. At best, they would have absolutely no idea what you were talking about, and at worst you might be burned at the stake. In 1700, there was no place in the world where slavery was questioned. That great figure of 1600s science, Isaac Newton, lost a fortune speculating in the slave trade in 1720:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton#Personal_life
Trying to talk up FE and abundance to Joe Average is like trying to tell a 1600s English peasant about the Internet. It won’t work. Today’s peasants will have to have it shown to them before they can begin to comprehend it. Again, we have some hints of what that world might look like, such as Star Trek:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#trek
or glimpses of future worlds where FE and abundance reigns, such as what Michael Roads stumbled into:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
but Joe Average will not begin to comprehend it until he can experience it. Scarcity has been the human reality forever, with only brief Golden Ages of relative abundance, and in the USA, history’s richest and most powerful nation, that Golden Age is already gone as we sink beneath the waves that take all empires, called burning through one’s energy resources until the point of collapse is reached. While Joe Average only comprehends the trappings, such as tight budgets and other signs of decline, it is always rooted in the EROI:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=662267&highlight=eroi#post662267
which has been plummeting for the past century, and the hydrocarbons that have powered the Industrial Revolution are quickly disappearing. Highly-touted non-solutions such as biofuels, increasingly-deep oceanic drilling, fracking, tar sands and shale oil, along with things crazily promoted that are not even energy sources, such as hydrogen “power,” are all the dregs-sucking activities that have always accompanied the depletion of energy resources, going all the way back to the megafaunal extinctions:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#_edn5
Humanity has never lived in abundance, and has never performed sustainable energy practices of any significance. FE would change all of that, and in ways that almost nobody on the planet today can even imagine.
But I am about to look for the few who can, and can learn to sing the abundance song before FE is delivered to their homes. It might seem like a boy’s dream, but all of the previous epochal events were initiated by a handful of people who had no idea what their innovations would lead to. We would at least have the advantage of having a glimmer of what it would lead to.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
7th November 2013, 18:27
Hi:
The asteroid impact hypothesis of the dinosaurs’ demise and the increasingly sophisticated scientific toolset has unleashed great controversy and new findings in the past thirty years, and there is no sign of letting up. Regarding the origins of complex life, the Cambrian Explosion, gigantism, climate changes, mass extinctions, adaptive radiations, etc., there is no lack of controversy, competing hypotheses, new findings vying for attention, and the like. I have been wading through it all for the past several years, and am currently doing some heavy lifting in reading through scientific papers and books, making my own assessments, and trying to give it some sense of comprehensibility. What is clear, with all of the controversy, is that all such hypotheses are variations of the energy issue. Whether it was high oxygen that triggered the Cambrian Explosion, or high salinity prevented it, or global temperatures and ice ages played their roles, they were all, at their root, energy-based hypotheses, and I suppose that that is one of the major points of my upcoming essay.
I’ll present a few examples. All creatures have to regulate their water content, and they do it through a process called osmoregulation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmoregulation
Aquatic animals have different challenges than terrestrial ones in that they live in water. But all life forms are essentially self-organized and contained entities, separated from their environment by membranes, and different concentrations of chemicals have to be maintained by organisms to maintain their metabolisms (which is an energy dynamic above all else).
Most marine fish have salt concentrations less than the surrounding sea water, so they have to spend energy to eject salt, which is constantly invading their bodies. Freshwater fish have the opposite problem. Today, it is thought that between 5-10% of a fish’s energy is used for regulating the water content of its body. But for brine shrimp, which live in highly saline water, about 30% of their energy is used to regulate their water content (expel salt). Precambrian oceans had high salinity at times, and may have been too high for complex life to evolve in them (they would have spent most of their energy maintaining their water, and not enough could have been used for the other vital life processes), and a recent hypothesis attributes the lateness of the Cambrian Explosion to salinity, and even suggests that complex animals may have evolved in freshwater and then invaded the oceans when salinity levels declined sufficiently:
http://www3.geosc.psu.edu/~jfk4/Geosci_500/Discussion%20papers/Last%20week/Knauth%202005.pdf
It has been generally accepted for some time that the high oxygen levels of the Carboniferous period (as atmospheric carbon was sequestered in coal swamps at levels never seen before or since) caused the gigantism of insects of the time, but that notion is being challenged:
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2010/03/04/rspb.2010.0001.full
A recent study showed that polar gigantism in cold-blooded animals seems to be due to oxygen availability:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v399/n6732/abs/399114b0.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/plants-animals/1999/05/cold-blooded-critters-reveal-their-secret
On islands, animals can become giants or dwarfs:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_gigantism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_dwarfism
and the suspected dynamics behind both are all primarily energy reasons.
Also, deep-sea animals can also become giants or dwarfs, for different reasons, but as you can see in this scientist’s speculations:
http://davehubbleecology.blogspot.com/2012/02/antarctic-sea-spiders-polar-or-abyssal.html
every single suspected dynamic is energy-related, from temperature regulation to protection from predation to food availability to storing energy in fat. I could almost take most of my essay and throw it away and say, “All geophysical and life processes are energy-dependent above all else, and everything else is just noise,” and then get on with human civilization. However, I want my readers to understand why energy has that fundamental role. Because only when that role is understood, in comprehensive fashion, can the underlying role of energy in human civilization be understood, and how the levels of its availability initiated and sustained each of humanity’s epochal stages, from the control of fire to today’s industrialized civilization:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
The overwhelming importance of the energy situation will become evident, and maybe enough people can keep their eyes on the ball long enough so that the fifth epochal event can manifest. Technically, it has already been accomplished:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground
but humanity’s inertia and addiction to scarcity, and the organized suppression, of which Godzilla is far from the only player, have so far proven to be formidable obstacles, and humanity’s ideological fixation on scarcity:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
has proven to be virtually inescapable by the masses, and the “smart” seem to be the most stuck of all. Indeed, I have never seen or heard of a group that escaped it, or even wanted to.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Carmody
7th November 2013, 19:36
to Dennis’s (Dennis once built a prototype like Adam’s, and all such devices that I am aware of begin to tap the ZPF at about 2000 RPM, while Sparky’s was solid state, and would be the clear winner in FE feasibility, which is partly why he drew the kind of attention that he did), then it tends to validate the theory. There is lots of theory out there, but technology is the acid test, and that is why there is a warehouse like in Raiders of the Lost Ark:
It's a particle to particle planck length polarity differential. It can only happen in gas, liquid,and plasma. It cannot happen in frozen lattice structures, like elemental solids. Soilds, due to their polarity lock-singularity/exclusion zone, cannot exhibit both transverse and longitudinal waveform aspects.
That's why it sometimes does not work, and when it does work, it works with low efficiency, like 120-200-300%
Only the gas, fluid and plasma are capable of having a shifting a complex multi-axis shifting polarity from particle to particle. When we add in the elasticity of the particle, this means it is a bit like hydrodynamics, and must reach a certain multi-axis level of torsional stressing in multiple axis.. THEN it works. Sorta like the non Newtonian solids aspect. Reach the right 'speed' of complex field polarity and overall stressing, and then the FTL/OU aspects begin to rear their head.
eg, sparky's device was plasma based.
Wade Frazier
7th November 2013, 19:45
Hi Carmody:
All I can say is that Sparky’s was a solid, and it worked, producing about a million times the energy that went into it:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sweet
That is why I say that alternative theory is nice, and there is plenty of it out there, but working devices are where the rubber hits the road. Godzilla knows this well, and that is why such technologies are sequestered like they are.
Best,
Wade
Carmody
7th November 2013, 20:26
OK. found it. It appears to be magnetic field shock/flux gating in design. I had heard that it worked best when it was in it's original form, which apparently involved vacuum tubes. In that way we have the complex integrated plasma field capable of the correct function, working with the device of the correct function (complex multi-axis field gating) I did not bother investigating it closer than the original analysis I found on the net, as I know such things work, it would just be another variant out of literal hundreds of functional OU devices.
The sky's the limit, one people get the point of how they work. One can then 'MacGyver' (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=macgyver) their way into anything at all.
Perhaps you meant 'solidly functional'. The complexity adding aspect is that there was apparently an all solid state version of his device made, but it was not anywhere as efficient as his original vacuum tube triode device (which is inherently a charged/ionic/plasma device) (FYI for readers, see Rex Research)
getting back to the main thrust, I'm noting that almost every single branch of physics is now..notably, as least half way through the act of crashing through their Godzilla imposed glass ceiling.
Wade Frazier
7th November 2013, 21:00
Hi Carmody:
Your explanation may be correct, but the device I am familiar with was just conditioned solid-state magnets hooked up to a microwatt power source, and it output watts - hundreds of them (Bearden sells a video of that demonstration, and I know heavy-hitting scientists who witnessed Sparky's device in action and studied it, including Brian O). The last thing that I am trying to do is tell people how to make one in their garage. Sparky’s device was a lot harder to make than it appeared. Bearden unsuccessfully spent nearly twenty years trying to reproduce Sparky’s device. Specifically, Sparky kept the process of conditioning his magnets a secret, and took it to his grave with him, and what a grim end for Sparky:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky
As Brian O tried to help educate the public, even the gap between Sparky’s device and the market was more than $100 million. That is a big part of the problem with tinkerers thinking that they can make stuff for the market (or power their homes and cars with it). And nobody can come up with that kind of money and effort under the radar, and that is partly how Godzilla and friends have been nearly 100% successful in preventing anything remotely disruptive from making it to market. And even if it gets to market, it gets taken out, as Dennis knows all too well:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&highlight=wirec#post694872
Hi all:
In general, on the fringes, technologies have been invented that defy conventional physics, and those that can upset the rackets are marginalized or suppressed, and when the technologies are related to FE and antigravity in particular, they can be suppressed with extreme prejudice. Technologies that have not been suppressed to the extent where they no longer exist in the public domain include Rife’s and Naessens’s microscopes, and Brown’s Gas machines.
Rife’s scopes predated electron microscopes, and he had the most powerful microscopes in the world before the AMA wiped him out. While “skeptics” and other assorted scoundrels deride and dismiss Rife as some kind of criminal, surviving micrographs prove that Rife’s scopes indeed obtained their “impossible” resolutions:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#rife
I have heard theory on how Rife’s scopes did it, but it is theory. Rife’s personal scope has been on sale at eBay for years:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Royal-Rifes-Famous-Microscope-AZ58-Rife-Machine-more-/200616975822
with no takers, as it just sits there. After Naessens built his somatoscope:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#naessens
he tried to patent it, but when it came time to explain the attained resolutions in terms of orthodox optical theory, he and his technical experts were unable to, so the patent process ended. You can have something that works, but if you can’t explain how it works by using orthodox theory, you can forget it. How crazy is that? It is that way today, for fools who try to patent FE devices at the USA’s patent office. The patent process is not supposed to work that way. The applicant is only supposed to show how to make one, and the patent is supposed to protect the design, but orthodox theory is trotted out to deny patents to those people. That is only one of many lines of defense against disruptive energy technologies from ever making a public impact.
The medical racket does something similar. Cancer treatments are only legal if they can overcome preposterous barriers to entry, such as several hundred million dollars for starters, and if a treatment cannot make it over that hurdle, it goes nowhere, if the doctor survives the process:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#justice
That circular reasoning is used to protect the cancer racket:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#moss
When Yull Brown performed his transmutation experiments:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#yull
many scientists scratched their heads at the bizarre properties of Brown’s Gas, and many hypotheses have been advanced to explain how Brown’s Gas works, but Yull was disinterested in the theories. He was more interested in what Brown’s Gas could do. Situations like that are why I am not too interested in the alternative theories to explain why Brown’s Gas works like it does, or why Rife’s and Naessens’s microscopes achieve their “impossible” resolutions, or how antigravity and FE devices work. In Godzilla’s operations they probably have some dim idea of how their toys work, but my understanding is that their grasp is limited, partly because of their primitive understanding of consciousness and their denial of the power of love. Again, FE and love are joined at the hip, in both practical and mystical ways. This I know for sure: we barely have any idea at all about how the universe really works.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Carmody
8th November 2013, 01:23
without checking, or reading into your links, IIRC, it is monochromaticism, to narrow the bandwidth of the optical signal, so the focus can be retained, without 'spreading'. simple.
Make a very narrow bandwidth signal/light source, and then the further up the chain 'narrowed bandwidth optics package' won't suffer from chromatic aberration.
one could easily go to 100x that of the known optical limits of approx 1600-2000x. those limits arise from using full bandwidth light. narrow the light bandwidth by a factor of 500 or more and the ability to magnify cleanly, in the optical sense, goes up by a subsequent 500x.
IIRC, he used a narrow bandwidth light source and then subsequent prisms and slits to narrow it further. Each narrowing of bandwidth brought his potential magnification up by 200-300x or so.
Or, 1600x times lets say... 500..equals..800,000x optical magnification, as seen by the human eye. It is simply a ~VERY~ monochromatic image that is seen..
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In other areas, I myself am making nothing. I only touch on the fundamentals of the theory behind it all.
David Hughes
9th November 2013, 19:34
Carmody,
Are not the workings of a free energy based society worth more time dwelling on than the finer points of the science involved with the related technology?
Reminds me of this quote:
“You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.”
Henry David Thoreau
Anyone that's done their homework knows that the technology is real, and is suppressed by the GC's. How do you suggest we get from A to B given that the tech issue has already been solved?
Wade Frazier
9th November 2013, 22:21
Hi:
There is a free energy physics thread, here:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14129-Free-Energy-Physics&p=138564&viewfull=1#post138564
for those who want to discuss FE physics.
For people who want to discuss their free energy approach, to get from point A to B, as it were, there is a thread here:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32475-Free-Energy-Transition-plans-for-Earth/page3
I have a highly specific intention for what I am doing, and am trying to keep this thread away from all the approaches that I have seen many times, tried more than a few times myself, that either don’t have a prayer or are insanely risky, or both :) (levels 6, 7, 8, 10, and 11):
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
I don’t want to discourage people from having those conversations, but please do it on another thread. I know that people mean well (that means you, too, David :) ), but I am trying to focus my efforts.
Thanks,
Wade
Carmody
10th November 2013, 04:45
Yes, Wade, I stepped past that IMO necessary boundary a bit. Apologies.
Wade Frazier
10th November 2013, 16:13
Hi:
I am not sure why I still need to write stuff like this, but I was recently contacted on behalf of a world-famous scientist doing some FE tinkering, and I was asked if “the coast is clear.” As Dennis’s recent experiences can attest:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&highlight=wirec#post694872
the coast is definitely not clear. Nobody has ever played at Dennis’s level, but for anybody who gets remotely close to it, they all have similar tales to tell. I have heard plenty of scuttlebutt of goings on at Godzilla’s level, and there is definitely dissention in the ranks, but trying to play the FE game these days is still suicidal. What I will be attempting may end up being suicidal, too, but nobody has tried it before, and we will see. Those I end up inviting into the choir will either be over their Level 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 delusions:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
or be almost there, and only need a little help.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
10th November 2013, 17:21
Hi:
To give aspiring comprehensivist writers a little glimpse into my process, below is a revised version of what I posted recently:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=751488&highlight=cryogenian#post751488
While studying and writing about the Cambrian Explosion, I immersed myself in numerous current controversies, and decided to more fully flesh out that section, where I get into the scientific process in some depth.
This is all before I receive feedback from scientists and my editor has at it, so the final product will certainly look different, and as I continue with the essay, I may go back again and again, tweaking the other sections, as the essay's comprehensive nature takes shape.
Best,
Wade
The Cryogenian Ice Age and the Rise of Complex Life
This essay’s section will provide a somewhat detailed review of the Cryogenian ice age and its aftermath, including some of the hypotheses regarding it, evidence for it, and its outcomes, as the eon of complex life arose after it. This review will sketch the complex interactions of life and geophysical processes, and the increasingly multidisciplinary methods being used to investigate such events, which are yielding new and important insights.
The idea of an ice age is only a few hundred years old, and was first publicly proposed as a scientific hypothesis by Louis Agassiz in 1837, who got his first ideas from Karl Schimper and others. There had also been proposals for ice ages in the preceding decades. By the 1860s, most geologists accepted the idea that there had been a cold period in Earth’s recent past, with advancing and retreating ice sheets, but nobody really knew why. Hypotheses began to proliferate, and the hypothesis of variations in Earth’s orientation to the Sun causing the continental ice sheets was proposed by James Croll in the 1870s. Because of problems in matching his hypothesis with dates adduced for ice age events, it fell out of favor and was considered dead by 1900. Croll’s work regained its relevance with the publication of a paper by Milutin Milanković (usually spelled Milankovitch in the West) in 1913, and by 1924, Milankovitch was widely known for explaining the timing of the advancing and retreating ice sheets of the current recent ice age.
The book that made Milankovitch famous (Croll’s work is still obscure, even though Milankovitch gave full credit to Croll in his work) was co-authored by Alfred Wegener, who a decade earlier first published his hypothesis that the continents had moved over the eons. As is often the case with radical new hypotheses, aspects of it previously existed in various stages of development, but Wegener was the first to propose a comprehensive hypothesis to explain an array of detailed evidence. Wegener was a meteorologist working outside of his specialty when proposing his “continental drift” hypothesis. His hypothesis was harshly received and dismissed by the day’s orthodoxy, with Wegener dying in 1930 while setting up a research station on Greenland’s icecap, and the continental drift hypothesis quickly sank into obscurity. It was not until my lifetime, when paleomagnetic studies confirmed his views, that Wegener’s work returned from exile and plate tectonics became a cornerstone of geological theory.
That relegation of hypotheses and theories to oblivion, with the pioneer dying in obscurity or being martyred, to only be vindicated many years later, is typical. The man who first explained the dynamics behind the aurora borealis, Kristian Birkeland, died in obscurity in 1917, with his work attacked and dismissed. It was not until Hannes Alfvén won the 1970 Nobel Prize that Birkeland’s work was finally vindicated. Endosymbiotic theory, the widely-accepted theory of how mitochondria, chloroplasts, and other organelles came to be, was first proposed in 1905 and was quickly dismissed, and was not revived until the late 1960s.
When a new hypothesis appears, particularly a radical one, even if it is not a lone pioneer being martyred, the old guard usually attacks the new hypothesis and the situation turns into bitter feuds and armed camps all too often, such as the recent rise of the asteroid impact hypothesis regarding the dinosaurs’ demise. To a degree, those withering attacks are supposed to be how science works. Doubt instead of faith is the guiding principle of science. Until a scientist’s bright idea is tested against the real world, it is just a bright idea. The best tests are designed to falsify a hypothesis, and only hypotheses that have survived numerous attempts to falsify them graduate to becoming theories. It can be argued that the “attack mode” that science has adopted toward new hypotheses has formed a structural bias so that all scientific pioneers will be attacked by their peers; it is simply the nature of the profession. Only scientists who can weather the attacks from their peers will survive long enough to see their hypotheses get a fair hearing. That “shark tank” environment, particularly with lucrative prizes and tenured academic berths awaiting the winners, has arguably set back science’s progress considerably. With what I know has been suppressed by private interests, often with governmental assistance, mainstream science is largely irrelevant regarding many important issues that would theoretically be within its purview.
Quite often, the pioneers of science and technology receive no credit at all, as others steal their work and become rich and famous. The Wright brothers labored in obscurity for five years after they first flew, with the scientific press ridiculing their “fabled” claims of flight, and the Smithsonian Institution tried to deny the Wright brothers their rightful precedence for generations. A colleague, who was a former astronaut and Ivy League professor who explored the frontiers of science, told me that the scientific establishment’s blindness and denial is worse today than it was in the Wright brothers’ time. But if private and governmental interests do not suppress the data and theory, as is regularly done regarding alternative energy and other disruptive technologies, eventually the data will likely win, even if the pioneers may not receive any credit, or they receive it posthumously. The expedient but misleading tale of Louis Pasteur’s triumph in explaining the origins of life, which microbiology students are still taught in college, is an unfortunate example of that phenomenon. Ice age data and theory does not pose an immediate threat to the global rackets, so the history of developing the data and theories has been publicly available.
Wegener’s continental drift hypothesis had him conclude, based on his gathered evidence, that there was a global ice age in the Carboniferous and Permian periods. He was right. Nearly fifty years later, in 1964, the same year that the first symposium of the plate tectonic era was held, Brian Harland proposed, based on paleomagnetic evidence, that there was a global ice age immediately preceding the Cambrian period, where even the tropics were buried under ice. This was the first time that a truly global glaciation was proposed, and Harland’s hypothesis was developed into what is today called the Snowball Earth hypothesis.
Ice ages are an important area of scientific investigation today. Humanity’s prodigious burning of Earth’s hydrocarbon deposits may well be delaying the return of the ice sheets, which have been advancing and retreating in rhythmic fashion for most of the previous million years. Today, it is accepted that the tipping point for the current pattern has been Earth’s orientation toward the Sun, particularly the eccentricity of Earth’s orbit, which has a roughly 100-thousand-year cycle. While Earth’s orientation is overwhelmingly considered to be the tipping point variable, it is not the only influence. The master variable has been steadily declining atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. Antarctica began developing its icecap about 35 mya due to its position near the South Pole and declining carbon dioxide levels. The current ice age began 2.5 mya, and it may have been initiated by the formation of Panama’s isthmus three mya, which separated the Atlantic and Pacific oceans and radically altered oceanic currents. Also, the Arctic Ocean is virtually landlocked. Those factors likely all contributed to the current ice age.
In investigating how ice ages begin and end, positive and negative feedbacks are considered. A positive feedback will accentuate a dynamic, while a negative feedback will mute it. In the 1970s, James Lovelock and the author of today’s endosymbiotic theory, Lynn Margulis, developed the Gaia hypothesis, which essentially states that Earth has provided feedbacks that maintain its homeostasis. Under that hypothesis, environmental variables such as atmospheric oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, ocean salinity levels, and Earth’s surface temperature have been kept in homeostasis by a combination of geophysical and life processes, maintaining Earth’s inhabitability. The homeostatic dynamics were mainly negative feedbacks. If positive feedbacks dominate, then “runaway” conditions happen. In astrophysics, runaway conditions are responsible for a wide range of phenomena. A runaway greenhouse effect may be responsible for the high temperature of Venus’s surface. Climate scientists today are concerned that burning the hydrocarbons that fuel the industrial age may result in runaway climactic effects. Mass extinctions are the result of Earth becoming largely uninhabitable, and mass extinction specialist Peter Ward recently proposed his Medea hypothesis as a direct challenge to the Gaia hypothesis.
Gaian and Medean dynamics have both played their roles in the development of Earth and the biosphere, with positive and negative feedbacks having their impacts. Life saved Earth’s oceans with its negative feedback on hydrogen loss to space, without which life as we know it on Earth would likely not exist. But there is also evidence that life contributed to mass extinction events.
Investigating the Cryogenian ice age led to finding evidence of runaway effects causing dramatic environmental changes, and the Cryogenian ice age’s dynamics will be investigated and debated for many years. While the position of Antarctica at the South Pole and the landlocked Arctic Ocean have been key variables in initiating the current ice age, another continental configuration that could contribute to initiating an ice age is when a supercontinent is near the equator, which was the case during the Cryogenian ice age. A hypothesis is that Canfield Oceans accompany supercontinents, so warm water is not pushed to the poles as vigorously, and a supercontinent near the equator would not normally have ice sheets, which means that silicate weathering would be enhanced, removing more carbon dioxide than usual. Those conditions could initiate an ice age, beginning at the poles. It would start out as sea ice, floating atop the oceans.
Around when Harland first proposed a global ice age, a climate model developed by Russian climatologist Mikhail Budyko concluded that if a Snowball Earth really happened, the runaway positive feedbacks would ensure that the planet never thawed, becoming a permanent block of ice. For the next generation, that climate model made a Snowball Earth scenario seem impossible. In 1992, a Cal Tech professor, Joseph Kirschvink, published a short paper that coined the term Snowball Earth. Kirschvink sketched a scenario where the supercontinent near the equator reflected sunlight, as compared to tropical oceans that absorb it. Once the global temperature decline due to reflected sunlight began to grow polar ice, the ice would reflect even more sunlight, with Earth’s surface becoming even cooler. This could produce a runaway effect where the ice sheets grew into the tropics and buried the supercontinent in ice. Kirschvink also proposed that the situation could become unstable. As the sea ice crept toward the equator, it would kill off all photosynthetic life, and a buried supercontinent would no longer engage in silicate weathering. Those are the two primary ways that carbon is removed from the atmosphere in the carbon cycle. Volcanism would have been the main way that carbon dioxide was introduced to the atmosphere (animal respiration also releases carbon dioxide, but this was before the eon of animals), and with the two primary dynamics for removing it knocked out by the ice, carbon dioxide would have increased in the atmosphere, and the resultant greenhouse effect would have eventually melted the ice and runaway effects would quickly turn Earth from an icehouse into a greenhouse. Kirschvink proposed the idea that Earth could vacillate between icehouse and greenhouse states.
Kirschvink noted that BIFs reappeared in the geological record during the possible Snowball Earth times, after vanishing about a billion years earlier. Kirschvink noted that iron cannot increase to levels where they would create BIFs if the ocean was oxygenated. Kirschvink proposed that the sea ice not only killed the photosynthesizers, but it also separated the ocean from the atmosphere so that the ocean became anoxic. Iron from volcanoes on the ocean floor would build up in solution during the icehouse phase, and during the greenhouse phase the oceans would become oxygenated and the iron would fall out in BIFs. Other geological evidence for the vacillating icehouse and greenhouse conditions was the formation of cap carbonates over the glacial till. It was a global phenomenon; wherever the Snowball Earth till was, cap carbonates were atop them. In geological circles, carbonate layers deposited during the past 100 million years are considered to be of tropical origin, so it is thought that the cap carbonates reflected a tropical environment. The fact of cap carbonates atop glacial till is one of the strongest pieces of evidence for the Snowball Earth hypothesis. Kirschvink finished his paper by noting that the eon of complex life came on the heels of the Snowball Earth, and scouring the oceans of life would have presented virgin oceans for the rapid spread of life in the greenhouse periods, and this could have initiated the evolutionary novelty that led to complex life.
Kirschvink is a polymath, and soon was pursuing other interests, leaving his Snowball Earth musings behind. Canadian geologist Paul Hoffman had been an ardent Arctic researcher, but a dispute with a bureaucrat saw him exiled from the Arctic. He landed at Harvard and soon picked the Precambrian rocks of Namibia to study, as it was largely unexplored geological territory. The Namibia strata were 600-700 million years old, instead of the two billion years that Hoffman was familiar with. In the Namibian desert, he soon found evidence of glacial till among what were considered tropical strata when created.
Glacial till is composed of “foreign” stones that had been transported there by ice. When ice ages were first conceived, a key piece of evidence was “erratics,” which were large stones found far from their place of origin. Also, erratics were found in ocean sediments and were called dropstones. Eventually, after plenty of controversy, scientists decided that erratics had usually been deposited by glaciers. Oceanic dropstones were transported by melting icebergs, the land-based erratics by retreating glaciers.
Hoffman’s team tested the carbon-13/12 ratios of the cap carbonates and found them to be lifeless. This was key evidence presented in their 1998 paper that argued for Kirschvink’s Snowball Earth hypothesis. As Kirschvink did, Hoffman and his colleagues argued that the BIFs were evidence of Snowball Earth conditions, and they concluded their paper like Kirschvink did, stating that the alternating icehouse and greenhouse periods would have produced extreme environmental stress on the ecosystems and may well have led to the explosion of complex life in their aftermath. A few months after publication of the Hoffman team’s paper came another seminal paper, by Donald Canfield. Those papers resulted in a flurry of scientific investigations and controversy, with Hoffman engaging in feuds, as he was Snowball Earth’s front man. The Snowball Earth hypothesis has won out, so far. There is a “Slushball Earth” hypothesis that posits that the Cryogenian ice age was not as severe as Hoffman and his colleagues suggest, and there are other disputes over the Snowball Earth hypothesis, but the idea of a global glaciation is likely here to stay, with a great deal of ongoing investigation. The record during the Cryogenian ice age shows immense swings in organic carbon burial, coinciding with forming the late-Proterozoic BIFs. The Proterozoic eon is the last one before complex life appeared on Earth.
Canfield’s original hypothesis, which seems largely valid today, is that the deep oceans were not oxygenated until the Cryogenian period, with the process not beginning until about 580 mya and first completed about 560 mya. The wildest carbon-13/12 ratio swing in Earth’s entire geological record begins about 575 mya and ends about 550 mya, and is called the Shuram excursion. Explaining the Shuram excursion is one of the most controversial areas of geology today, with numerous proposed hypotheses. Ediacaran fauna, the first large, complex organisms to ever appear on Earth, also first appeared 575 mya, when the Shuram excursion began. I strongly doubt that Earth’s first appearance of large complex life at the exact geological timescale moment of the biggest carbon-isotope anomaly in Earth’s history will prove to be a coincidence. There are numerous competing hypotheses to explain the Shuram excursion, including:
• The oxidation of a vast pool of organic carbon in the oceans, aided by the effect of animal feces dropping to the ocean floor;
• The excursion does not mark a genuine event relating to life processes, but is an artifact of geological processes (called diagenesis); this has a high hurdle to overcome, as the excursion has been measured globally and diagenesis is usually a local phenomenon, and no global mechanism has yet been proposed for it;
• The excursion is the result of an asteroid impact that changed Earth’s tilt;
• The vaporization of methane hydrates on the ocean floor;
• It was related to a global glaciation, similar to previous Snowball Earth glaciations;
• The excursion was real, but there were others, and none of them significantly impacted Precambrian evolution.
Deep-ocean currents, taking atmospheric gases deep into the oceans like they do today, do not seem to have existed during supercontinental times, and atmospheric oxygen was only a few percent at most when the Cryogenian period began. Canfield’s ocean-oxygenation evidence partly came from testing sulfur isotopes. As with carbon, nitrogen, and other elements, life prefers the lighter isotope of sulfur, and sulfur-32 and sulfur-34 are two stable isotopes that can be easily tested in sediments. Canfield hypothesized that in the pre-Cryogenian ocean’s depths, sulfate-reducing bacteria, which are among Earth’s earliest life forms and produce hydrogen sulfide as its waste product, abounded. Hydrogen sulfide gives rotten eggs their distinctive aroma, and is highly toxic to plants and animals, as it disables the enzymes used in mitochondrial respiration. Hydrogen sulfide would react with dissolved iron to form iron pyrite and settle out in the ocean floor, just like the iron oxide did that formed the BIFs. The sulfate-reducing bacteria will enrich the sulfur-32/34 ratio by 3% and did so before the Cryogenian, but the Cryogenian iron pyrite sediments showed a 5% enrichment, which is likely explained by recycling sulfur in the oceanic ecosystem, which can only happen in the presence of oxygen.
Part of the hypothesis for skyrocketing oxygen levels during the Cryogenian was that high carbon dioxide levels, combined with a continent that had been ground down by glaciers, and the resumption of the hydrological cycle, which would have vanished during the Snowball Earth events, would have created conditions of dramatically-increased erosion, which would have buried carbon (the cap carbonates are part of that evidence) and thus helped oxygenate the atmosphere. Evidence for that increased erosion also came in the form of strontium isotope analysis. Two of strontium’s stable isotopes are strontium-86 and 87. Earth’s mantle is enriched in strontium-86, while the crust is enriched in strontium-87, so basalts exposed to the ocean in the oceanic volcanic ridges are enriched in strontium-86, while continental rocks are enriched in strontium-87. If erosion is higher than normal, then the ocean sediments will be enriched in strontium-87, which analysis of Cryogenian ocean sediments confirmed. That evidence, combined with carbon isotope ratios, provided strong evidence of high erosion and high carbon burial, which would have increased atmospheric oxygen levels. There is other evidence of increasing atmospheric oxygen content during the Cryogenian period, such as an increase in rare earth elements in Cryogenian sediments, and the consensus today is that the Cryogenian is when atmospheric oxygen levels dramatically rose to modern levels, where they have largely stayed, although as this essay will later discuss, oxygen levels have varied widely since the Cryogenian (from perhaps 15% to 35%).
As noted previously, an increase in atmospheric oxygen usually meant a decline in carbon dioxide, which would have cooled the planet. Recent data and models suggest that during the Cryogenian period, global surface temperatures declined from around 40oC. to around 20oC., and it has been below 30oC. ever since, generally fluctuating between 25oC. and 10oC. Today’s global surface temperature of around 15oC. is several degrees warmer than during the glacial periods of the current ice age, but is still among the lowest that Earth has ever experienced, and is generally attributed to atmospheric carbon dioxide’s consistent decline during the past 150 million years.
Paleontologists were lonely fossil hunters for more than a century, but in my lifetime they found allies in geologists, and with DNA sequencing and genomics, molecular biologists have provided invaluable assistance. In 1996, a paper was published that created a huge splash in paleontological circles. It was the work of molecular biologists who used the concept of the “molecular clock” of genetic divergence among various species. Their work concluded the stage was set for animal emergence hundreds of millions of years before they appear in the fossil record, particularly during the Cambrian Explosion. That paper initiated its own explosion of genetic research, and the current range of estimates has the genetic origins of animals somewhere between 1.2 bya and 700 mya, but this field is in its infancy, with more results surely coming.
In particular, the synergies of molecular biology and paleontology have identified the importance of Hox genes in early animals. In bilaterally-symmetric animals, the Hox genes dictate body development, and the Hox genes are effectively identical in a fly and a chicken, which diverged from their common ancestor nearly 700 million years ago. Hox genes became an anchor in animal development, with the basics still unchanged after more than 600 million years.
In summary, today’s orthodox Cryogenian period hypothesis is that the complex dynamics of a supercontinent breakup somehow triggered the runaway effects that led to a global glaciation. The global glaciation was reversed by runaway effects primarily related to an immense increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide. During the Greenhouse Earth events, oceanic life would have been delivered vast amounts of continental nutrients scoured from the rocks by glaciers, and the hot conditions would have combined to create a global explosion of photosynthetic life. A billion years of relative equilibrium between the prokaryotes and eukaryotes was ultimately shattered, and oxygen levels dramatically rose during the Cryogenian period toward modern levels. Largely sterilized oceans, which began to be oxygenated at depth for the first time, are now thought to have prepared the way for what came next: the rise of complex life.
Fossils are created by undisturbed life form remains that become saturated with various chemicals, which gradually replace the organic material with rock by several different processes of mineralization. Few life forms ever become fossils, but are instead consumed by other life; rare dynamics lead to fossil formation, usually by anoxic conditions leading to undisturbed sediments that protect the evidence and fossilize it. Geological processes are continually creating new land, both on the continents and under the ocean. The seafloor strata do not provide much insight into life’s ancient past, particularly fossils, because the process recycles the oceanic crust in “mere” hundreds of millions of years. The basic process is that, in the Atlantic and Pacific sea floors in particular, oceanic volcanic ridges spew out basalt, and the plates flow toward the continents that bound the oceans. When oceanic plates reach continental plates, the heavier mafic (basaltic) oceanic plates are subducted below the lighter felsic (granitic) continental plates. Parts of an oceanic plate were entirely subducted into the mantle more than 100 mya, leaving behind plate fragments. On the continents, however, as they have floated on the heavier rocks, tectonic and erosional processes have not obliterated all ancient rocks and fossils. The oldest “indigenous” rocks yet found on Earth are more than four billion years old. Stromatolites have been dated to 3.5 bya, and fossils of individual cyanobacteria have been dated to 1.5 bya. There are recent claims of finding fossils of individual organisms dated to 3.4 bya. The oldest eukaryote fossils found so far are of algae dated to 1.2 bya. The first amoeba-like vase-shaped fossils date from about 750 mya, and there are recent claims of finding the first animal fossils in Namibia, of sponge-like creatures which are up to 760 million years old.
During the eon of complex life, the geologic time scale is divided by the distinctive fossils found in the sedimentary layers attributed to that time. Before the eon of complex life (that ancient time before complex life first appeared, which represents about 90% of Earth’s existence so far, is called the Precambrian supereon today), fossils were microscopic and rare. Over time, geophysical forces eradicate sedimentary layers, and for the earliest animals, their fossils are found in only a few places on Earth. The first animal fossils of significance formed about 600 mya, and are strange creatures to modern eyes. They were first noticed in 1868 in Newfoundland, but the fledgling paleontological profession dismissed them, not recognizing them as fossils. In Namibia in 1933, those Precambrian fossils were again noted but given a Cambrian chronology because the day’s prevailing theory placed the beginning of animal life during the Cambrian Explosion. In 1946, in the Ediacara Hills in Australia, more such strange fossils were found in what were thought to be Precambrian rocks, but it was not until 1957, when those fossils were found in England, in rocks positively identified as Precambrian, that the first period of animal life, the Ediacaran, was on its way to being recognized (it was not officially named the Ediacaran until 2004, for the first new period recognized since the nineteenth century). In China, the Doushantuo Formation has provided fossils from about 635 mya to 550 mya, which covers the Ediacaran period, and Ediacaran fossils have been found in a few other places. Microscopic algae spores and animal embryos abound in the Doushantuo cherts, and the spores look like little suns and other fanciful shapes. Almost all of them went extinct within a few million years of appearing in the fossil record, for an “invisible” mass extinction. That mass extinction directly preceded the appearance of the first large organisms that Earth ever saw: Ediacaran fauna (also called “Ediacaran biota,” in certain scientific circles, as there is debate whether those Ediacaran fossils were animal remains ).
Early Ediacaran fossil finds were often dismissed as pseudofossils because they did not fit the prevailing idea of an animal or plant, and Dickensonia left the most famous Ediacaran fossils. Today, the most likely interpretation seems to be that Dickensonians flopped themselves down on bacterial mats and fed on them. When one finished eating a mat, it flopped its way to another. It was a bilateral-like creature, and is today classified into an extinct phylum with other Ediacaran fauna. Charnia looked like a plant but was not, and is classified into another extinct phylum. Phyla are body plans, and the Ediacaran fauna are indeed strange looking. There is debate whether the Ediacaran fauna were plants, animals, or neither, and that debate will not end soon. Spriggina resembled a trilobite, and may have been its ancestor. Paths in the sediments, called feeding traces, have been found, but there was no deep burrowing in the Ediacaran period. In the last few million years of the Ediacaran, the first skeletons appeared, particularly of the Cloudinids. The Ediacaran fauna suddenly appeared in the fossil record about 575 mya, and all abruptly disappeared about 542 mya.
There has been controversy regarding why Ediacaran fauna quickly disappeared, and even if their disappearance qualifies as a mass extinction. One prominent idea is that their disappearance was due to predation by what became Cambrian fauna, and another one is that they ate their food sources to extinction, but it appears more likely that it may have been an extinction brought on by anoxic oceans, and Cambrian fauna filled the vacant niches, and then some, when the oceans became oxygenated again. Although Ediacaran fauna did not move much, their existence was likely owed to some oxygenation of the oceans, and although their metabolisms would have been slow compared to the animals that followed them, they may not have been able to survive in anoxic oceans.
As with all “big idea” hypotheses such as those that gird the foregoing narrative of a global glaciation and the rise of complex life, there are challenges aplenty coming from various corners, and some are:
• There was not really a Snowball Earth, but several regional plateau glaciations have been misinterpreted as a global glaciation, and the reappearing BIFS were only local in nature;
• There was not really a Snowball Earth, and a naturally wandering axis of rotation has created the illusion of tropical glaciation; another version is that the magnetic poles wandered more than currently believed and made the paleomagnetic evidence invalid, which has created an illusion of tropical glaciation;
• The trigger for the Snowball Earth episodes was the drawdown in atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by life processes; one hypothesis is that land plants did it, as they colonized the continents hundreds of millions of years before popularly supposed, and another is that early animal life did it;
• Reconstructions of the oxygen record are subject to a wide range of error, so the levels used to make life-related arguments may be invalid for the points being made;
• Animal activities may have been responsible for ventilating the oceans, especially near shore, so animals were a cause, not a consequence, of oxygenating the oceans;
• Even if rising oxygen levels in the atmosphere and oceans coincided with the rise of complex life, it was not necessarily a causal relationship; some animals can respire anaerobically (at up to four times the usual rate for anaerobic respiration and fermentation), and perhaps the rise of complex life happened in an anaerobic environment, and only switched to aerobic respiration when oxygen became available;
• Canfield’s sulfur evidence may not be evidence of an oxygen increase, but of an increase in burrowing animals in the ocean sediments;
• Ocean salinity may have prevented complex life forming in the ocean, and maybe complex life first evolved on land and only entered the ocean when it was safe to do so, but the fossil record is too sparse to currently prove it; maybe even life itself first evolved in fresh water, not in oceanic volcanic vents;
• Atmospheric oxygen levels really did not change around the ventilation episode; oxygen may have been no more important to the appearance of complex life than water or photosynthesis were;
• The coming eon of complex life had no single underlying cause, but was the result of fortuitous circumstances and dynamics that happened when they did.
Some hypotheses are stronger, others weaker, and some have already come and gone (and might be resurrected one day, like Birkeland’s hypothesis?). The coming generation of research may resolve most of these issues, but new ones will undoubtedly arise, and there is obviously a long way to go before significant consensus will be reached on these ancient events.
Again, the purpose of this section’s presentation is to cover, in some depth, the scientific process and the kinds of controversies and numerous competing hypotheses that can appear, and to show how intersecting lines of evidence, brought from diverse disciplines and using increasingly sophisticated tools, is providing new and important insights, not only into the distant past, but which can also have modern-day relevance.
Readers for the collective task that I have in mind need to become familiar with the scientific process, partly so they can develop a critical eye for the kinds of arguments and evidence that attend the pursuit of free energy and other fringe science/technology efforts. For the remainder of this essay, I will attempt to refrain from referring to too many scientific papers and getting into too many details of the controversies. Following my references will help readers who want to go deeply into the issues, and many of them are as deep and controversial as the Snowball Earth hypothesis and aftermath has proven to be, or attempts to explain the Shuram excursion. These are relatively new areas of scientific investigation, partly due to an improved scientific toolset and ingenious ways to use them. It is very possible that the controversies in those areas will diminish within the next generation, as new hypotheses account for the increasingly sophisticated data, and paradigmatic changes in the near future are likely. But science is always subject to becoming dogmatic, and hypotheses prevailing for reasons of wealth, power, rhetorical skill, and the like, not because they are valid. The history of science is plagued with that phenomenon, and likely always will as long as humanity lives in the era of scarcity.
As will become a familiar theme in this essay, whether it was suffering from predation, a food shortage, or a lack of oxygen, in each instance it was primarily an energy issue. Ediacaran fauna either became an energy source for early Cambrian predators, they ran out of food energy, or they ran out of the oxygen necessary to power their metabolisms or some other energy-delivered nutrient. For this essay’s purposes, the most important understanding is that the Sun provides all of earthly life’s energy, either directly or indirectly (all except nuclear-powered electric lights initiating photosynthesis in greenhouses). Today’s hydrocarbon energy that powers our industrial world comes from captured sunlight. Exciting electrons with photon energy, then stripping off electrons and protons and using their electric potential to power biochemical reactions, is what makes Earth’s ecosystems possible. Too little energy, and reactions won’t happen (such as ice ages, enzyme poisoning, the darkness of night, food shortages, and the lack of key nutrients that support biological reactions), and too much (such as ultraviolet light and temperatures too high for enzyme survival), and life is damaged or destroyed. The journey of life on Earth is all about adapting to varying energy conditions and finding levels where life can survive. For the many hypotheses about those ancient events and what really happened, the answers are always primarily in energy terms, such as how it was obtained, how it was preserved, and how it was used. For life scientists, that is always the framework, and they devote themselves to discovering how the energy game was played.
Wade Frazier
10th November 2013, 23:18
Hi:
A little on current events. This past week, a referendum in Washington to get GMOs labeled was defeated by big agribusiness money:
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/11/06-4
I rarely see any TV, but in the weeks leading up to election, I saw some ads by the agribusiness mouthpieces, and their front man was the former attorney general who ran Dennis out of the state:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#scam
I had never seen the gangster before, but as I watched the ads, he looked like Mr. Boy Scout, which is a great dark pather attribute. As I have mentioned previously, his underling hatchet ladies teach law school in Seattle:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=300436&viewfull=1#post300436
Those are some of the reasons why I have turned down all public-speaking invitations in my home state, and am glad that the Internet allows me to reach beyond my home turf.
Fun times.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
11th November 2013, 18:49
Hi:
Here is a public service announcement. I in no way want to be the recipient of some FE prototypes or other exotic technology. When people suggest it to me, I get very uneasy, and it has happened a number of times, some pretty recently. Delivering an FE prototype to my door would be like putting a bomb on my front porch with the fuse lit. I have been around them, and prefer to stay away from them.
This is not the time for FE tinkering. I find the situation with FE tinkerers and scientists to be like that joke about the drunk looking for his car keys under the streetlight instead of the alley where he lost them, because the light is better under the streetlight. Scientists and inventors get all wrapped up in the technical/scientific end of the FE conundrum because that is all they know, when those are far from the most important issues. The FE conundrum is about integrity and sentience, not technology or physics. This is one of the reasons why I keep stating that the entire FE field is in a state of arrested development. How many inventor-itis posts have been made in this thread? Fifty? A hundred?
All too often, when I have brought up Mark’s story:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread392968/pg7#pid5873793
as a cautionary tale, I get responses such as there are ways to shield FE devices from detection and other tricks, showing that the respondents completely missed my point of using Mark’s story as an example. The best there ever was for bringing disruptive technology to the market has been Dennis, and if he can’t make a dent in the current environment, nobody can.
When I write how about Dennis was flying high before they lowered the boom on him in Seattle:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run
or on us in Ventura:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#pursuit
or when he put five thousand people into a stadium to discuss FE:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#philly
and we met with Al Gore at the White House right afterward:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#yull
or Dennis’s latest attempt:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&highlight=wirec#post694872
where once again a sitting USA’s president’s eyes bugged out, I don’t write about those events so that newbies can tell me where we went wrong and they know how to make it work. Billionaires often swarmed on Dennis during those events, but they did it like vultures, not out of a desire to help. But that is typical with most people who get involved with FE. I don’t write about Dennis’s efforts so that people can try to dissect it and find out where Dennis went wrong and then chime in with their bright ideas. That is the ego talking. I do it so that enthusiastic newbies get sobered up a little, and help them realize what a dead end those paths are in the current environment, and so that people can begin to understand why I am taking the approach that I am. I don’t know if it has a prayer, but there are not enough heroes on Earth who have played at this level:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
to make the usual routes work. Again, tinkering, patenting, raising money, etc., have all been tried countless times, and if the aspirant is lucky, he will be made the offer that he can’t refuse:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make
If he is not so lucky, his life will be wrecked or prematurely ended, and he may up taking his friends, colleagues, and loved ones with him. The tinkerer fantasy is adolescent. People like Keshe, Rossi, Steorn, and the like have not even arrived onto the playing field yet, but there is no lack of people who want to cheer on the aspirant of the hour, kind of like gawkers. I have less than no interest in that stuff, but am bombarded with it.
Similarly, I also get bombarded with tales of so-called FE aspirants who are really nothing of the sort, where they either argue against FE (usually with Level 3 or Level 5 arguments (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3)), or people think that some TED speaker is stating my message, when almost the opposite is true. Impatience is my Achilles heel (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading), and all I can say is that I get to work on it every day, particularly regarding my FE-related work.
I am doing something that nobody has tried before, not even remotely. Brian O was the closest that I ever saw to my perspective, but Brian also hailed from sixties activism, and that is not my bag. The so-called rad left is stuck in the 1960s, too:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm
I eventually had to admit that there is no group on Earth with the right stuff for what I am planning to do, so I have to “roll my own.” It was not a fun realization, and I resisted the truth for about twenty years, but it is the reality of the world that we live in.
Again, will my approach have a prayer of making a dent? I don’t know, but nothing else has, either, and at least this one does not ask people to throw their lives away, or lure them into it. I have seen enough blood and guts in this lifetime, and don’t see the point of making any more FE martyrs.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
13th November 2013, 00:13
Hi:
Study, think, write, edit – rinse and repeat – that has been the story of my life lately. I was a bookworm from the time I could walk. I admit that writing this essay is a fun process for me, although I have been doing some heavy conceptual lifting lately, and then it gets uncomfortable for me, as new information and ideas roll around in my head, looking for a place to stay. I have learned to trust the process, as my most valuable insights come from it, but it is difficult for me. Writing runs in my family, but it has taken many years to kind of get comfortable doing it, and you never want to get too comfortable. :)
I have been studying for this essay in my “free time” since about late 2006, as I emerged from my midlife crisis, but if I think back, I really have been studying for this essay since I completed my present site in 2002, when I was introduced to Fuller:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller
began reading Peak Oil stuff the next year:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm
and so on. The reading never stops, but I really began doing the study with something big in mind in 2006. While those small essays and tweaks added since 2004 have kept me from having too much idle time:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/new.htm#add2010
I was drawn to do something big and comprehensive, and this choir idea has taken a while to form. My NEM days with Brian:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem
helped me finally see the futility of all Level 10 efforts:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10
My NEM days were child’s play compared to my days with Dennis, but they were nevertheless educational. I have to credit Brian with helping me get back to engaging the public. My first interview was due to Brian’s influence:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radio.htm
but I prefer to write instead of talk. I get my points across better by writing, I think.
And I don’t think that I can overstress the value of experience. For all of my background and training, if I had not had my adventures with Dennis:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting
I really don’t think that I would have much worth saying. Although I began questioning my indoctrination as soon as I left college:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#believing
it took my days with Dennis to really open my eyes to how the world really worked. I have encountered numerous enthusiasts in the FE and related fields, but because they never went through a meat-grinder, they have naïve and false (or needlessly paranoid) notions about how the world really works, which is why almost everybody who gets past FE denial ends up stuck in Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11. It is probably really hard for an enthusiast to get to Level 12 without some kind of radicalizing experience.
I doubt that it has to be by going through the FE meat grinder – others whom I respected got it in different ways, such as Ralph McGehee’s moment of truth:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#saigon
or Dennis’s:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#voice
Brian barely survived his early days of poking around in the fringes:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack
and while his incident shortened his life, it also made him far more worldly.
I have definitely put in my 10,000 hours of writing in the past 25 years, and for better or worse my style is pretty baked by now, and we will see how this essay goes. One thing I am pretty sure of, however; just as I did some big bucket list chores on my sabbatical, I may not get the chance to write like this again in my lifetime. I will be hitting the career again when I am finished with this essay, and the challenge will be to see how long I can keep working at the high levels that I have. My mind is not as sharp as it was when I was younger. My mother and her mother went demented, but even though I will be doing heavy brain calisthenics for the rest of my life, I can tell that the decline is coming, so I need to get this essay done sooner than later. I expect that it will be published by spring. The drafting process will still take some months to complete, and then at least a few people are going be taking editorial whacks at it, including me. This period is an intersection of increasing information processing, lesser ability to do it, and the financial and health opportunities to give me the time to get this done. And then we will see what happens from there. Maybe I can get some kind of choir going, but all I can do is form it and lead it; it will be up to others to do the hard collective work.
The essay’s structure is putting forth some basic concepts and information, then drawing a historical narrative that illustrates those principles, then recapitulating those principles in a higher order of understanding that the historical narrative has helped the reader achieve. Then the seemingly disparate pieces begin to relate to one another, and a comprehensive picture is slowly built. I have no illusions that a reader will breeze through it and have a new paradigm when finished. It will be more like a textbook and guide for study. The goal, however, is for non-scientists to get up to comprehensive speed, and maybe some scientists will learn some new stuff, too.
Here is a snippet from the summary of my Cambrian Explosion chapter, and a piece of it was posted on this thread previously.
It can be helpful at this juncture to grasp the cumulative impact of life forming by harnessing energy gradients, inventing enzymes, inventing photosynthesis, inventing distributed energy centers that made complex cells possible, and inventing aerobic respiration. Pound-for-pound, the complex organisms that began to dominate Earth’s ecosphere during the Cambrian period consumed energy about one-hundred-thousand times as fast as the Sun produced it. Life on Earth is an incredibly energy-intensive phenomenon, powered by sunlight. In the end, only so much sunlight hits Earth, and it has always been life’s primary limiting variable. Photosynthesis became more efficient, aerobic respiration was a leap of magnitude in energy efficiency, the oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans allowed animals to colonize land and ocean sediments and even fly, and life’s colonization of land allowed for a great leap in biomass. Life could exploit new niches and even help create them, but the major innovations and pioneering were achieved long ago. If humanity attains the free energy epoch, new niches will arise, even of the artificial off-planet variety, but all other creatures living on Earth have constraints, primarily energy constraints, that produce very real limits. Life on Earth has largely been a zero-sum game for several hundred million years, but the Cambrian Explosion was one of those Golden Ages when animal life had its greatest expansion, and one not built on the bones of a mass extinction so much as it blazed new trails.
The twin ideas of efficiency and resilience are important to understand at this stage. Efficiency has to do with getting more for less, particularly energy. Aerobic respiration’s energy efficiency allowed for food chains to develop. But food chains end up creating interactions and dependencies, and the entire structure can lose it resilience when compared to the simpler systems. Take out one part of the food chain and the entire ecosystem can collapse. And it can be any part of the chain, from top to bottom. Making systems more efficient, as the last bits of energy are wrung from the system, reduces their resilience to the surprises that the real world continually serves up. This is likely a major contributing factor to mass extinctions during the eon of complex animals. Modern ecosystems studies are making the connections clear, and are being applied to the dynamics of human civilizations; the work of C. S. Holling has been seminal in this regard. Complex ecosystems pass through adaptive cycles of exploitation, conservation, release, and reorganization, and three dimensions of interaction are involved: potential, connectedness, and resilience. In general, simple systems are more stable than complex ones, which is another reason why any mass extinctions of prokaryotes, if there were any, would have likely been far less cataclysmic than those of complex life.
Also, similar to how no fundamentally new body plans appeared after the Cambrian Explosion, modern ecosystems seem to be constrained by body size. Body sizes have similar “slots” and body sizes outside of those slots are rare. However, successful innovation usually happens at the fringes. The fringes are where survival is marginal and innovations carry a high risk/reward ratio. Most innovations fail, but a successful one can become universally dominant, such as all of those biological innovations which are considered to have happened only once. There have likely been countless failed biological innovations during the history of life on Earth, many of which might have seemed brilliant and helpful, but did not survive the rigors of living on Earth.
There are fundamentally only two things in the universe: energy and consciousness. The universe may have begun as pure energy (and even if it did not, all matter appears to be comprised of energy), and consciousness may be required for the universe to manifest at all, which may well be part of the quantum enigma. As the greatest physicists admitted, the nature of conscious is not something that today’s science is equipped to study, even though our consciousness is all we know. The rise of life was based on energy and information, and the ability to manipulate them. Similar to the foundation of complex life remaining basically unchanged since the Cambrian Explosion, energy systems form the foundation for all ecosystems and civilizations. While the superstructure can change, and seemingly radically at times, the foundation dictates what kind of superstructure can exist. A huge superstructure on a small foundation will not be very resilient (the first earthquake or storm levels it) and will not last long. Today, industrialized civilization is burning through its foundational energy sources a million times as fast as they were created, and will largely use up all of them in this century at the current trajectory. On the geologic timescale, the rise and fall of humanity may happen in the blink of an eye, and create more ecosystem devastation than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, and would it happen faster than all previous mass extinctions other than that asteroid’s effect.
Best,
Wade
Dennis Leahy
13th November 2013, 16:20
Don't take this as sycophantic - it's not - but to blow a puff of wind into your sails, Wade, I want you to know that I plan to read, no, to savor and digest, every word of the essay you're writing.
I already "get" it that the story of life itself - not just humanity's chapter, but the entire story of life, even proto-life - is the story of energy. But, to pretend that "getting" it at a core level is as fulfilling as seeing this from a multidisciplinary, comprehensivist approach would be like saying that understanding "love" would be as fulfilling as loving.
I also know some other people that I believe will greatly appreciate this work. Thank you in advance for the incredible effort and self-discipline required to undertake and complete this.
Dennis
Wade Frazier
13th November 2013, 20:14
Hi Dennis:
Your encouragement is appreciated. In my daily life, I rarely receive encouragement at all, and usually the opposite, but I got used to that during my days with Dennis Lee. What I am doing is kind of between me and my conscience. I need to do what I can, while I can.
Hi all:
I met with Dennis Leahy and Scott during my sabbatical, and tried to meet a few other Avalonians, but it did not work out, and not for a lack of willingness on our parts. As I become an old man, I try to pick my moments and do what I do best, and I am an introverted nerd in the autism spectrum, so I will never be a man of the people, and that is OK with me. One-on-one with some people can work after a fashion, but I am going to be best at writing, hence my site and upcoming essay.
Some days, I think that my essay should be titled “How the world works.” That may seem arrogant, but it really is the point of the essay. The more people who understand how the world really works, the better chance we have of getting over the hump, and at this time, it is easy to become pessimistic about our chances. Understanding how the world really works has numerous levels to it, such as:
1. There is how things work at the subatomic level. But this is subject to plenty of doubt and conjecture, and it is this level where FE happens, which is part of the problem, as Godzilla keeps this part under wraps, among others. Einstein and Schroedinger were very unsatisfied with Bohr's Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory, because it emphasized how to compute the outcome of quantum dynamics, not understand what was really happening. I am not a physicist, and would not expect anybody to take my explanations seriously about what is really happening at the quantum level, particularly where FE is concerned. All I can do is tell my tale and those of my few fellow travelers, and let people know that FE is real. Brian and Dennis are the people that I respected the most in the field, and they knew how real FE was, as did some of my other close associates who will remain nameless for now.
2. There is how things work at the galactic and geophysical level, such as how the Sun and Earth work. Earth sciences have been key areas of study in the past several years, as I have studied geology, atmospheric science, and so on, which had to build on my scientific training from long ago. I know enough to be dangerous, but it will be enough to make the points in my work.
3. There is how things work at the life level, at the molecular level, the organism level, the species level, and the ecosystem level. Geophysical and biological dynamics have co-evolved on Earth, and this has been an important area of study, and mass extinctions, speciation, and the like have been part of that study.
4. There is how things work at the human level, the realm of rational thought, social behavior, the human journey, and the stages of civilization. This is in ways the hardest part, and the one where people have the most delusions about how it really works, on many levels:
a. There is how technology works, for which the vast majority of humanity has no idea at all;
b. How energy runs the show and always has;
c. There is how political-economic systems work, which does not work at all how the media and textbooks present it, largely because if it was really told how it works, civilization might collapse as people might no longer follow orders that the elite dictate, as they prefer to rule in hell. The elite machinations that my close circle and I have borne the brunt of are dismissed (often quite harshly) by those most invested in the “system,” because it shows how criminal our system really is. That includes most of the technically-trained and degreed, and other “pillars” of civilization, known as the “political class.”
d. There is how social circles work, and they don’t work how most people think they do, as virtually everybody seeks the safety of the herd. History shows very clearly how innovators, pioneers, and others like them are almost invariably martyred by the herd, and the elites who are protecting their rackets from the threat of innovation that might unseat them usually just have to sit back and watch the pioneer’s inner circle do him/her in. The “Give us Barabbas” and Judas phenomena are not confined to Jesus’s time, and for the few who actually make key innovations, they virtually all get betrayed and martyred by those around them. This is why thinking that people can tell their families, friends, and colleagues the “good news” of FE and abundance is delusional. Those who do that have yet to understand how the vast majority of people operate: in fear and scarcity. None of those in my close circle can tell those close in their lives (except for a spouse and child or two) about FE and abundance, and if we can’t, how can newbies?
e. There is also how it works on the mystical end of things. Everybody whom I respect in the FE field is, to one degree or another, a mystic. The religions, surprise of surprises, actually have some dim understanding of how it works. The message of the masters has always been adulterated by the priesthood and their patrons as a way to control the masses, build harems, get fed, and the like, but the Golden Rule and love still shine through as the bedrock of any religion worth anything, and that is really about all we need to know. The rest is just frills, and are usually bastardizations of the masters’ messages, to turn their enlightened messages into just another way to control people and rake it in. The message of love can be understood by the oldest and youngest souls, so everybody really has a compass to navigate with, even though nearly everybody gets lost and has to grope along, such is the nature of this plane of existence.
As I have stated, I am using a new technology, the Internet, to throw my net far wider than was previously possible, to look for those needles in haystacks who already know how the world works or are well on their way. Learning the tricks of survival in one’s life is not really understanding how the world works, but is just understanding how to survive, and all animals can do that.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
14th November 2013, 15:04
Today's post is over here, as a response to Ilie's perceptive post:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29372-What-technologies-activities-or-concepts-will-be-made-obsolete-by-Free-Energy&p=757631&viewfull=1#post757631
Wade Frazier
14th November 2013, 16:10
Hi:
I can’t help myself, and will make one more brief post. This morning’s post on Ilie’s “what becomes obsolete?” thread:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29372-What-technologies-activities-or-concepts-will-be-made-obsolete-by-Free-Energy&p=757722&viewfull=1#post757722
is about pointing out how our hearts and minds are imprisoned in scarcity-based assumptions. The “do something” people often think that thinking clearly is irrelevant, as only “doers” get anything done. One of the family friends when I was a teenager was fond of saying, “Let’s do something, even if it is wrong.” Make no mistake, my work is ultimately about “doing something,” but I found that when people’s minds were so mired in scarcity and egocentric delusions, their actions reflected it, and they were putty in the hands of Godzilla and friends, and ended up being the worst enemies of FE efforts, because they came from within and knew to hit where it hurt, and when it hurt the most.
I have written that those who hurt me the most were those close to me (Dennis recently admitted the same thing to me), and they usually tried to “help” me, but their offers of assistance (and they really helped sometimes) were really based in their egos, not a genuine motivation to help achieve my goals, which are global and epochal in nature:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694648&viewfull=1#post694648
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=695102&highlight=gump#post695102
Before we can even think about “doing something,” the effort that I have in mind has to get past as much of that ideological indoctrination as possible, because those wedded to their particular scarcity-based ideologies are hooked on egocentric ways of viewing the world (as they feed or comfort them), and they won’t be any help in making FE manifest.
And I know that almost nobody on Earth is fit to be an FE hero:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
so I am asking far less of the “choir,” but it will be anything but easy. Almost nobody on Earth today is willing to relinquish their scarcity-based baggage, but it has to be the first thing to go, if we are ever going to “do something" that won't end in disaster.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
14th November 2013, 20:07
Hi:
This is a reply to a post of Ilie’s on another thread:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29372-What-technologies-activities-or-concepts-will-be-made-obsolete-by-Free-Energy&p=757787&viewfull=1#post757787
as this response is not entirely appropriate to that thread, which I consider to be one of the best on the Internet, if not the best.
Hi Ilie:
I know so well how hard it is to keep our eyes on the ball. The song of scarcity is the only one that humanity has ever heard, and even when there has been relative abundance, of which Britain and the USA were the first to experience (and there were other brief periods of relative abundance until the energy supply was burned up, but nothing remotely like the Industrial Revolution), their relative abundance was built on the graves of those they exploited and exterminated:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#english
Even today, genocide in the name of exploitation and securing energy supplies is still the primary international game that the USA and Britain play:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29372-What-technologies-activities-or-concepts-will-be-made-obsolete-by-Free-Energy&p=757722&viewfull=1#post757722
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=652292&viewfull=1#post652292
Imagining abundance in a world of scarcity is incredibly hard to do, and there are so many perils and temptations in interfacing with the FE issue that most people refuse to believe any of it, or it knocks them completely sidewise, with greed, delusions of grandeur, and the like rearing their heads:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#grandeur
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion
When I saw Dennis and other fellow travelers this past spring, and they told me about some of the murder attempts and other perils that Dennis was subjected to that I had not yet heard of:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&viewfull=1#post694872
I asked Dennis if he should have been dead about twenty times by now, and he replied that it was a lot more than that. Just on my relatively tame journey, I have now passed up more than a million dollars on five different occasions to pursue my FE activities, passing up anywhere from a “mere” one million dollars to up to a hundred million. Sometimes I knew that I was passing it up at the time, and at other times it became evident later, but I have no regrets. Those are the kinds of larger-than-life activities that attend these journeys.
Dennis considered his life forfeit when he began his journey:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#voice
and it is that “I have already forfeited my life” mentality that has seen Dennis walk the path that he has. I do not know, nor have I heard of, anybody remotely like Dennis:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
While I am not starving, I have my own pressures, believe me. I may run out of time to do my essay the justice it deserves. Frankly, I could spend the rest of my life on it and not do the material the justice it deserves, but I can only manage a few more months of writing before it is back to the workaday world again, and I have to do it as long as I can, and can only do the “choir” work in my “spare” time.
As George Carlin once said, the most powerful force in the universe is inertia, and it is very clear regarding the FE and abundance issue. You are my star pupil, and see how hard it is for you. Your pleasantly honest and revealing responses are no surprise to me. Again, I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks, and first and foremost, they are going to have to want to do the work, and it will be anything but easy. But I also know that training the first pupils is the hard part; the others go easier.
When I first encountered Chomsky’s work in 1990, as I was staggering out of Ventura, radicalized:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#books
I was ready for Chomsky, but it took me about two years of continual effort of trying to understand what he was talking about for it to finally sink in, even though when I look back at it, it can seem like pretty simple stuff. But it took shedding many preconceptions and indoctrination to really understand what Uncle Noam was saying.
I have been at this, in one way or another, since my mystical awakening in 1974:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#my
and my first dreams of changing the energy industry at about the same time:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse
and I still feel that I am groping at times for the comprehensive perspective that I think is necessary for my “choir” idea to work. There is nothing about it that will be easy, and I agree with you that constant reminders of what abundance means, and how scarcity-mired the world is, is important work.
Here is another way to look at what I am doing. When Dennis and I were doing our work in the 1980s, there was no Internet, no easily-accessible repositories of FE suppression stories, and the like. We began our journeys quite ignorant of what we were about to step in. We began hearing the stories quickly enough:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#car
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#windmill
and by the time I left Ventura in 1990, I had heard enough for a lifetime, but I would eventually hear much more. Again, I am not somebody who likes hearing FE suppression stories, as I am one of the stories myself (soldiers who have really been on a battlefield are not eager to tell their stories or hear them), but I have heard way too many. Brian did not make it a point to collect them, either, but he knew about 25 dead FE inventor stories:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#_edn56
So, we discovered the hard way how the world really works. That Godzilla was alive and vigilant was not my big surprise, but was the fact that personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
That was a real booby prize of a lesson to learn, and I resisted it every step of the way, but it is the reality of the planet that we live on.
And after my Ventura days, when I began to contact people such as Uncle Noam (who was a gracious correspondent, but it was a dead-end, as all rad lefties have proven to be, even my dear, beloved Uncle Ed), I began to see the various flavors of denial (it was a different experience that my days with Dennis, being the P.T. Barnum that he is http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#barnum). By the time Brian O decided to play the Paul Revere of FE in 1996:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#expo
I was pretty skeptical at how that ride would go, but Brian was no idle talker; he rode and rode for several years, and in 2001 I got to hear how his ride went:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions
He openly wondered if humanity was really a sentient species:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience
and I sadly understood. Those experiences helped me eventually see that I was witnessing a general addiction to scarcity:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
It took nearly thirty years of my journey to finally understand. My interactions with Peak Oilers and others really brought it home, and I came to realize that FE and abundance are simply unthinkable for the masses:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm#summary
and that is just how Godzilla likes it. So, from where we sit, the road ahead is not only crazily perilous for FE aspirants, but they do it completely alone, with no support from the world, and even worse, those who get anywhere close to “doing something” are visited by Godzilla’s minions. Believe me, you don’t want to meet Godzilla and his minions, and you don’t find them; they find you.
As I began to understand the path to FE laid out before me, I realized that if people could not even imagine where we can go, we surely are not going to get there, not with humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression. Consequently, I have been doing something else: helping people see what could lie on the other side of that hump. If enough people can do that, who knows what might happen? In a way, I am straddling the FE hump, with us standing here today, but with one toe, at least, on the other side of that hump. What almost everybody does who gets past FE denial is try some kind of scarcity-based and naïve approach to the FE conundrum (levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6 ). What my Level 12 attempt is trying to achieve is get people’s minds over the hump, at least in “fantasy,” and instead of plowing along with all the scarcity-based methods to get there, we can kind of “reverse engineer” the solution while coming from a place of abundance, at least in our imaginations, and reaching backwards to today for the solution, as we straddle the hump. I have several idea of how to make it happen, but it needs a choir, first.
Hi all:
Now, that may seem crazy, unworkable, and other unflattering descriptions, but since Godzilla’s greatest triumph is keeping FE and abundance unimaginable, what I am attempting could become his worst nightmare and his greatest liberation – the dark path is not forever (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love ). I know that if I could find five thousand like Ilie and train them, making FE and abundance happen would be child’s play. The FE conundrum is not about technology and physics, but is about integrity and sentience. Again, I know that this is highly difficult to grok, and Ilie has been on this one for three years and still finds himself backsliding. All I can say is that it can’t hurt, and I am sure that Ilie does not want to go back to where he was three years ago, although he brought plenty to the table that likely reflects many lifetimes on Earth.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
16th November 2013, 14:56
Hi:
Briefly, I have been in the business world for my entire career, from multi-billion-dollar conglomerates to start-ups. One entrepreneurial approach is a shotgun approach, or what is also known as the spaghetti approach, where they throw it against the wall as fast as they can and see what sticks. I have been around that style several times, and seen it from afar many times. The spaghetti approach can be seen as a strategy for those in their creative throes, but it is often a tactic of desperation. I have seen it work, after a fashion, and I have seen it fail. Most of the spaghetti ends up on the floor, and usually all of it. I have had to mop up the aftermath of those spaghetti parties many times. Spaghetti flinging is one way to go about things, but is far from the only way.
FE newbies virtually always have their bright ideas of how to make FE happen, and I have yet to see any of them with any real-world experience in the field, as they play armchair strategist. I have seen them advocate throwing spaghetti against the wall that I have already seen slide down it many times, but they know better, in their theorizing.
I am doing something different, and am not advocating the spaghetti approach at all. My approach is a dart. It will stick, but where it will stick is a good question. I don’t know how much that dart will help. It might help a lot, it might help a little, and it might even hit the bull’s-eye, but in this field, the spaghetti on the floor represents wrecked and prematurely-ended lives, and that is something that armchair generals can never understand until they have been on the battlefield. I have seen enough blood and guts in this lifetime, and do no harm is my motto. My approach will not risk anybody’s life except mine, although I will need to keep the naïve and gullible out of the effort, as there will be many perils and temptations of simply being in the choir. I am looking for singers, not soldiers.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
17th November 2013, 13:08
Hi:
A couple of odds and ends. I was trained to be a scientist, but became a CPA after that voice piped up:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice
I have always been an idealist, but also tried to translate that ideal to the real world, with the results known all-too-well. But what I often found was that the ideal I had been taught was rubbish:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#believing
In that way, I was like Ralph McGehee:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm
Dennis, Mr. Professor, and others. And when I found out that I had been sold a lie, I began to deconstruct the propaganda and indoctrination. That is a big part of my work. One of the most successful stratagems engaged in by the “system” is obscuring real economics, and making symbolic economics seem real, and by that I mean the financial systems. Money, banking, the financial markets, and the like are only accounting. They are not real systems, but only symbologies, and most of it is just obfuscating crap designed to befuddle people. The financial economy has been concocted to resemble a temple of deep, arcane knowledge, when it is really just a grand illusion. But virtually everybody worships it. When economics is mentioned, everybody immediately thinks of money, when money is truly meaningless.
I have been around scientists when they have mentioned stuff like the tax system or the financial system, and I knew those scientists were as smart or smarter than me, and they said how the financial stuff went over their heads, as if they were not smart enough to understand. When I heard that, I knew how successful the obfuscation was, and I told those scientists that they were plenty smart enough to understand, and if they took the time to unravel the mental games of the tax and financial systems, they would realize that it was just clever theft and making things complicated so that the theft could go on in broad daylight, with the victims not understanding how they had been robbed.
Now, most in the “system” are not consciously aware of its rapacious nature, largely because they do not want to know, but also because the system has been designed so that it takes time and effort to figure it out, but very few are going to be motivated to figure it out.
There are many who know they are getting screwed, and they just ignore everything that “the man” has to say, knowing that it is all just bunk, but that is not the same as understanding how it is bunk. I have found that only when people understand how the real world really works, not the symbolic one, that they can then envision something different. That is largely what my upcoming essay is about.
Almost every economic analyst or reformer that I have ever seen or heard of is stuck in the symbolic economy, and they focus on the exchange aspect of economics. None of that is real or can solve the fundamental problems, which why the “radical left” is not really radical. I was dismayed to read the “radical” economic manifesto, Parecon:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#parecon
and looked in vain for any mention of energy. It took me a long time to understand how they were stuck, and becoming familiar with Marx’s work helped. Communism and socialism are just different ways to slice the scarce economic pie, not making the pie bigger. Marx could be forgiven in that his work was done before the rise of the science of energy, but modern “radicals” don’t have that excuse. I can’t get on the “radicals’” case too much, as they are as blind as everybody else, but to see "radicals" advocate “radical” change that is no more than shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic was really disappointing, and was part of my process of understanding how everybody hacks at branches and ignores the root, and probably are not even aware that there is a root.
That situation is a cousin to people thinking that somehow change will come from government. Government is purely an exchange phenomenon, just like Wall Street. Those temples are only devoted to carving up the scarce economic pie (and it is all about carving it in their favor, surprise of surprises), and as long as nobody really questions the situation, or they think that situation is where the problem really is, Godzilla has the game well in hand. Those systems are only symptoms of our problem, not the problem itself. The primary issue is that we are burning up our primary energy source a million times as fast as it was created, and there is not enough of it to go around, so most of the world’s people have been actively prevented from using it. All the rest is just noise.
Until epochal change happens:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
we are all on the sled ride to oblivion. Truly radical change is the only way out, and the only radical changes in the human journey have been about using new energy sources. There are no exceptions.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
18th November 2013, 16:53
Hi:
This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of JFK’s murder. Watching the funeral on TV, while my mother seemed sick, is one of my starker early memories. A few years later, the deaths of the Apollo 1 astronauts was a similar event for me, and was the beginning of the end of my father’s days at NASA:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary
It has been gratifying to see Gary Wean’s testimony regarding Oswald’s true involvement in the JFK hit make it into serious works in recent years:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wean
Already, I am seeing establishment-defending articles on the JFK hit making the rounds, as usual. It was significant that the Kennedy family came out for the first time earlier this year and disputed the Warren Commission’s findings:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=617351&viewfull=1#post617351
We may have to wait another five years before the Kennedy family says that they also suspect that RFK was killed in a covert op. Imagine the fear that keeps a dynastic political family silent for fifty years. I have encountered similar silence in FE circles, for understandable reasons, and I am willing to let those people die in their anonymity. I have even been constrained by the families of dead FE heroes, many years after the events, as they still fear Godzilla’s vengeance for the dead hero’s actions. I have to honor those fears, but they are part of the reason why much of my work essentially has one arm tied behind its back, handicapped by fear and anonymity. It just comes with the territory, as anybody in the field knows.
Political assassination seems to have been formal policy in the USA for a generation, beginning with the JFK hit and continuing through MLK, RFK, Malcom X (and maybe John Lennon), and the attempts on Wallace, Ford, and Reagan, which put George Bush in the driver’s seat, as Reagan was a vegetable after the hit attempt:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#reagan
David Rockefeller was George the First’s mentor, and my journey has intersected the Rockefellers’ quite a few times. Quite a few of the conspiracy theories around the Rockefellers are likely true, in one way or another, although I have my doubts that they play at Godzilla’s level. The general rule is: if you have heard of them, they are not Godzilla.
Fiftieth anniversaries of many seminal events in U.S. history will now be coming fast and furiously, with fiftieth anniversaries of the Beatles’ Ed Sullivan Show performances:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show#The_Beatles
and Gulf of Tonkin incidents coming up next year. I am closer to some of those events than I can publicly state these days, but one day, some of it may come out. But, as always, it is not what the Rockefellers do that is really important, although they have squashed people like me like a bug (a lot of the ruination and near-ruination of my life has telltale Rockefeller fingerprints on it), but what we do. There are not enough heroes on Earth for the hero’s route to work:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#hero
which armchair advocates will not discover until they have been on the FE battlefield, but maybe there are enough lambs. :)
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
19th November 2013, 02:58
Hi:
Briefly, if I had the time, I would rewrite the JFK section of my site:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wean
The basic information and conclusions would not change, but I have periodically dipped my nose into new evidence as it has arisen, and I have thirteen more years of writing experience, a lot of it writing technical business documents. If I only had time. :)
The bottom line is that every new piece of important evidence that has come out since the 1980s, when Gary first published his book (and arguably since the early 1970s, when Gary wrote most of his book, as he tried to survive what the Ventura County gangsters were serving up), has only confirmed Gary’s story. The best evidence continually points at the CIA and its Castro fetish being where the plot hatched that got JFK killed. Ferrie, the Cuban exiles, Ruby, Operation Northwoods, Hunt’s involvement, Oswald’s background and “defection,” and his very curious pals such as de Mohrenschildt, all point at covert activities being involved, revolving around Cuba and the mob. Where I think so many researchers and others miss the boat is trying to solve the crime. That will never happen, just like 9/11 will never be officially solved, other than serving up some patsies with wobbly evidence.
According to John Tower’s testimony to Audie Murphy, Bill Decker, Gary, and his partner:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower
the operation backfired by being interposed from the inside. Just who all was involved will never be unraveled, but that is not the point. Every single government-led “investigation” into efforts like that always served up some scapegoats and never seriously tried to solve the crime. IMO, that should be the lesson of JFK, 9/11, and the like. You can’t trust the government! :) However, my experience is that the government is not really where the power is, as they are just taking orders from their private-interest patrons. Every time that Dennis was wiped out, it was obviously that way; the government wielding the club on behalf of its private-interest patrons. That kind of stuff is why nobody on Wall Street went to prison or even lost their jobs in the wake of 2008-2009, but got trillions in bailouts instead, a bailout that is ongoing, with the Fed printing money as fast as it can. The “system” is not legitimate and is not worth listening to, especially where the big wealth and power issues are concerned. It is all about greed and a lust for power, and none of it approaches justice, truth, love, etc. That is just how it is today. That is why it is time for the fifth epochal event! :)
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
19th November 2013, 18:18
Hi:
There won’t be much of it in my essay, just as there is not much of it on my site, but a little humor here and there might make it. I am currently writing about the Carboniferous Period, and am writing about the gigantism of the period, which is generally believed to have been due to the record-high oxygen levels of the period. The largest freshwater fish all of all time lived then:
http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/r/rhizodus.html
I have drafted the following, which might not make it past my editor, but we will see…
“I can imagine a scene with Roy Scheider reprising his Jaws scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gciFoEbOA8 ), but in a rubber raft on a lake, with a fisherman’s hat, watching that apex predator swim by, maybe bumping the raft, and Scheider saying, “I need a bigger raft.”:
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
19th November 2013, 22:47
Wade, you have found The Loch Ness monster! ;)
(it lived in the area of present day Ireland and Scottland according to page linked by you)
If Latimeria (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth) could survive to our times, why not Rhizodus (http://www.prehistoric-wildlife.com/species/r/rhizodus.html)? Latimeria has evolved ~400 mya to the present form. Right about the time of Rhizodus according to geologic time scale (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale). And Latimeria was believed to go extinct "just" ~60 mya. Though Rhizodus officially went extinct "just" ~300 mya. ~100 my after Latimeria evolved.
Wade Frazier
20th November 2013, 01:25
Ha ha, Robert: :)
Actually, it could not have, because Nessie would have been under ice not too long ago. Living fossils need continual conditions that they can survive, and it sure seems like the luck of the draw at times. The nautilus survived when the ammonites all went extinct probably because it laid eggs that took a year to hatch, and they laid them deeply, so some eggs survived the Cretaceous extinction. Coelacanths found oceanic niches that never entirely disappeared, and nothing else could really exploit them like they could. What makes the coelacanth even more fascinating is that our ancestor was a lobe-finned fish:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcopterygii
that grew those lobes into limbs. The coelacanth is a cousin to the ones that split and became land vertebrates.
Studying living fossils can be fascinating:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_fossil
Before that voice spoke in my head:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice
I was probably heading into the life sciences, but I can think of many ways that that could have turned out very badly, in our materialist age. What makes the study of ancient life harmless and even salutary is that scientists do not have to kill anything to get their information. I have been taking a journey into life’s past, both human and other life, for several years now, even if it is mostly study and not digging in Mesozoic strata. What I have seen in many life science professionals is them coming away from it with a reverence for life; all life. They often get past human egocentrism and the Genesis stuff, and they see all life as fellow travelers. Studying the human lineage, going back billions of years, can be a very inspiring experience, and the idea of ranking some life forms higher than others sure begins to seem silly. In the zero-sum-game world, that approach can make sense, as scarcity and survival is the lens that all is seen through. But what if the lens was abundance? I submit that the view would change, and radically, in all directions that one looks.
I see it as just one more way that everything changes with abundance. It is one more way that I think that what FE and abundance can mean is truly unimaginable for people mired in scarcity. I doubt that any of us can really understand what it means, but I think it would be fun to learn, to put it mildly. Visits such as Michael Roads’s:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748
are just the tiniest glimpses. I believe that for those who truly desire it, lifetimes in those realities beckon, for starters, and what we do here, and now, is what attracts us to our futures. Again, even imagining a world of abundance is one of the hardest tricks on Earth today. I have almost never met anybody who really could. I know it is worthy work, and may be critical to manifesting that world. But the practical effort to get there is what my work is really about. But we have to understand the goal and realize that only actions in alignment with the goal will get there, because the means become the ends:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#idealist
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
20th November 2013, 15:10
Hi:
I am going to be pretty quiet until December, but I’ll throw out a section that I recently drafted. Again, without links, references, and the benefit of reading previous sections, it is going to be a little disjointed. We will see what the final product looks like.
Best,
Wade
Complex Life Colonizes Land
With the extinction at the Cambrian period’s end, animal life’s greatest period of innovation was finished, but the next geological period, the Ordovician, still had dramatic changes. The Ordovician would not see any new phyla of note, but the Ordovician was a time of great diversification, as new niches were created and inhabited, which reached modern levels of abundance and diversity. Food chains became complex, and could be called food webs. More so than the Cambrian Explosion, the Ordovician “explosion” was an adaptive radiation.
The continental configuration when the Ordovician began was similar to the Cambrian’s, with shallow hot tropical seas. The Tethys Ocean began forming in the Ordovician. The first reefs that would impress modern observers were formed in the Ordovician, with different animals building the corals (1, 2, 3) than Cambrian reef builders; but there were no schools of fish swimming around them, as the Ordovician was before the rise of fish. Fish existed (1, 2, 3), but they were armored, without jaws, and lived on the seafloor. The first sharks may have appeared in the Ordovician, but because they have cartilaginous skeletons, the fossil record is equivocal. Some fish had scales, and an eel-like fish might have even had the first teeth. Planktonic animals became prevalent, which were key aspects of the growing food chains. Trilobites and brachiopods thrived, but Ordovician marine life’s most spectacular development might have been the rise of the mollusk. Bivalves exploded in number and variety, and nautiloid cephalopods became the apex predator of Ordovician seas, and some were gigantic, with one species reaching more than three meters long, and another reaching six meters or more. The largest trilobite yet found lived in the late Ordovician.
Gigantism is a controversial subject. Islands often produce giant and dwarf species, and both are the result of energy dynamics; in general, large species tend to get smaller and small species tend to get larger on islands. A landmark study of polar gigantism among modern seafloor crustaceans concluded that the oxygen level was the key variable. Recall that colder water can absorb more oxygen. Size is a key “weapon” used in evolution’s arms race. The bigger the prey, the better it could survive predation, and the bigger the predator, the more likely it would kill a meal. Since the 1930s, there have been continual controversies over size and metabolism, energy efficiency, complexity, structural issues such as skeleton size and strength, and so on. In evolution’s final cost/benefit analysis, complex life decided that bigger was better, and the Ordovician saw much larger animals than the Cambrian did. Bigger meant more complex, and more complexity meant more parts, usually more moving parts, and that took energy to run. Whether increasing size was due to more oxygen being available, more food availability, greater metabolic efficiency, reduced risk of predation, or increased predatory success, it was always a cost/benefit analyses whose primary parameter was energy; how to get it, how to preserve it, how to use it.
Peter Ward has suggested that the superior breathing system of nautiloids led to their dominance. Nautiloids do not appear in the fossil record until the Cambrian’s end. Only one family of nautiloids survived the end-Cambrian extinction, and they quickly diversified in the Ordovician to become dominant predators, replacing arthropods atop the food chain. During the Ordovician, nautiloids gradually developed a sturdy build and they likely began spending time in deep waters, where their superior respiration system enabled them to inhabit environments that would-be competitors could not exploit.
While the Ordovician’s shallow seas were fascinating places of biological innovation, of perhaps more interest to humans was the first colonization of our future home: land. Land plants likely evolved from green algae, and while molecular clock results suggest that plants first appeared on land more than 600 mya, the first fossil evidence of land plants is about 470 mya, in the mid-Ordovician, which would have been moss-like plants, and they seem to have predated land animals by 40 million years or so.
The Ordovician was characterized by diversification into new niches, even creating them, but those halcyonic times came to a harsh end in one of the Big Five mass extinctions: the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction. The event transpired about 443 mya, and was really two extinction events that combined to comprised the second greatest extinction event ever for marine animals. Around 85% of all species, nearly 60% of all genera, and about 25% of families went extinct. Today, the ultimate cause was likely the drifting of Gondwana over the South Pole, triggering a short, severe ice age. As the current ice age demonstrates, ice sheets can advance and retreat in cycles, and they appeared to do so in the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction. There is evidence that the ice age was triggered by the volcanic event that created the Appalachian Mountains. Newly exposed rock from volcanic mountain-building is a carbon sink due to basalt weathering (as contrasted with silicate weathering – volcanoes spew basalt) of that fresh volcanic rock. The combination of Appalachian volcanism ending and subsequent sequestering of atmospheric carbon dioxide apparently triggered an ice age. The ice age waxed and waned for thirty million years, but the first event was calamitous.
Two primary dynamics drove the first phase of the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction: the sea level dropped drastically and the oceans became colder. When sea levels fell at least fifty meters, the cooling shallow seas receded from continental shelves and eliminated entire biomes. Many millions of years of “easy living” in warm, shallow seas abruptly halted. Several groups were ravaged, beginning with the plankton that formed the food chain’s base. About 50% of brachiopod and trilobite genera went extinct in the first phase, with cool-water species appearing to fill the newly vacant niches. Bivalves were largely found in seashore communities, and were scourged when the seas retreated, losing more than half of their genera. Nautiloids were also hit hard, and about 70% of reef and coral genera went extinct. The retreating seas somehow triggered the extinctions, and whether it was due to simply being exposed to the air, or changing currents, nutrient dispersal patterns, ocean chemistry, and other dynamics did it, is still debated, and those extinction events are currently subject to intensive research.
After as little as half a million years of bedraggled survivors adapting to ice age seas, the ice sheets retreated and the oceans rose. The thermohaline circulation of the time also likely changed, and upwelling, anoxia, and other dramatic chemistry and nutrient changes happened. Those dynamics are suspected as being responsible for the second wave of extinctions. There also seem to have been hydrogen sulfide events. Oxygen levels may have fallen from around 20% to 15% during the Ordovician, which would have contributed to the mass death. Seafloor anoxia seems to have been particularly lethal to continental-shelf biomes, possibly all the way to shore. While it took the ecosystems millions of years to recover from the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction, basic ecosystem functioning was not significantly altered in the aftermath of these extinction events, which is why a mass extinction during the Carboniferous has been proposed as a more significant extinction event.
The Silurian period, which began 443 mya, is short for the geologic time scale, lasting “only” 24 million years, ending about 419 mya. The Silurian was another hot period with shallow tropical seas, with Gondwana still covering the South Pole, but the ice caps eventually shrank, which played havoc with the sea level and caused minor extinction events (1, 2, 3), the last of which ended the Silurian. Reefs made a big comeback, extending as far as fifty degrees north latitude (further north than where I live in Seattle). According to the GEOCARBSULF model, oxygen levels skyrocketed during the Silurian, rebounding from a low in the mid-Ordovician, and may have reached 25% by the early Devonian, which followed the Silurian. Coincident with rising oxygen levels, more giants appeared. The scorpion-like eurypterids were the largest arthropods ever, with its biggest specimen reaching nearly three meters near the Devonian’s oxygen highpoint. The first land-dwelling animals - spiders, centipedes, and scorpions - came ashore in the Silurian between 430 and 420 mya, and the first insects appeared about that time. Arthropods became dominant predators once again, although cephalopods patrolled the reefs as apex predators. Brachiopods reached their greatest size ever at that time. As oxygen levels rose, trilobites lost segments and, hence, gill surface area, which may have been an ultimately extinctive gamble. When the Devonian extinction happened during anoxic events, trilobites steeply declined and thereafter only eked out an existence until the Permian extinction finally wiped them out. Fish began developing jaws in the Silurian, which was a great evolutionary leap and arguably the most important innovation in vertebrate history. Jaws, tentacles, claws… prehensile features were advantageous, as animals could more effectively manipulate their environments. On land the colonization began, as mossy “forests” abounded, with the first vascular plants making their appearance, although they were less than a hand-width tall when the Silurian ended.
Oxygen levels appeared to keep rising into the early Devonian and then declined over most of the period, which lasted from about 419 mya to 359 mya. The Devonian marked the dramatic rise of land plants and fish, and that period saw the first vertebrates that enjoyed a terrestrial existence. Armored fish supplanted arthropods and cephalopods during the Devonian as the new apex predators, weighing up to several tons, and sharks began their rise. Rising oxygen levels have been proposed as causing the spread of plants and large predatory fish, and a school of thought challenges high-oxygen reasons for many evolutionary events, with Nick Butterfield a prominent challenger.
Bony fish (both ray-finned and lobe-finned) first appeared in the late Silurian and thrived in the Devonian. All bony fish could breathe air in the Devonian, which provided more oxygenated blood to their hearts. Ray-finned fish largely lost that ability and their lungs became swim bladders, which aided buoyancy, similar to gas-filled nautiloid shells. Ray-finned fish can respire while stationary (unlike cartilaginous fish, sharks most famously) and are the high-performance swimmers of aquatic environments, comprising about 99% of all fish species today, although they were relatively marginal fish during the Devonian.
Today’s lungfish are living fossils that first appeared at the Devonian’s beginning, demonstrating that the ability to breathe air never went completely out of fashion, which was fortuitous, as one class of lobe-finned fish developed limbs and became our ancestor about 395 mya. The first amphibians appeared about 370 mya. In the late Devonian, lobe-finned and armored fish were in their heyday. The first internally-fertilized fish appeared in the Devonian, for the first mother that gave birth. A lightweight descendent of nautiloids appeared in the Devonian, and ammonoids subsequently enjoyed more than three hundred million years of existence, often playing a prominent role, until they were finally wiped out in the Cretaceous extinction. Nautiloids retreated to deep-water ecosystem margins and still exploit that niche today as a living fossil.
But the Devonian development that humans might find most interesting was land colonization. The adaptations invented by aquatic life to survive in terrestrial environments were many and varied. Perhaps most importantly, the organism would no longer be surrounded by water and had to manage desiccation. Nutrient acquisition and reproductive practices would have to change. Also, moving on land and in the air became major bioengineering projects. Breathing air instead of water presented challenges. The pioneers who left water likely led both aquatic and terrestrial existences. Amphibians had both lungs and gills, and arthropods, whose exoskeletons readily solved the desiccation and structural support problems, evolved book lungs to replace their gills, which were likely book gills.
All such developments had to happen in water, first, for a successful move to land. But plants had to make the move first, as they formed the base of the terrestrial food chain. Along with desiccation issues, plants needed structures to raise them above the ground, roots, a circulatory system, and new means of reproduction. Large temperature swings between day and night also accompanied life on land. Plants developed cuticles to conserve moisture, a circulatory system that piped water from the roots up into the plant and transported nutrients where they were needed, and plant photosynthesis needed water to function. Vascular plants pumped water through their tissues in tubes by evaporating water from their surface tissues and pulling up more new water behind the evaporating water via the “chain” of water’s hydrogen bonds. The last common ancestor of plants and animals reproduced sexually, and sexual reproduction is how nearly all eukaryotes reproduce today, although many ways exist to reproduce asexually. The first vascular plants are considered to have attained their height in order to spread their spores. The Rhynie chert in Scotland is the most famous fossil bed that records complex life’s early colonization of land.
The early Devonian was a time of ground-hugging mosses and a strange, lichen-like plant that towered up to eight meters tall. The oldest vascular plant division (“division” in plants is analogous to “phyla” in animals) still existing first appeared about 410 mya, and today’s representatives are mostly mosses. In the late Devonian, horsetails and ferns appeared and still exist. The first trees appeared about 385 mya (1, 2), could be ten meters tall, and formed vast forests. Seed plants also developed in the Devonian, which enabled plants to quickly spread to higher elevations and cover the landmasses. The Devonian was the Cambrian Explosion for plants, and it paved the way for animals to colonize land. One of the most important plant innovations was lignin, which is a polymer whose original purpose appears to have been creating those tubes for water transport, and was also used to help provide structural support so that trees could grow tall and strong. Without lignin, there would not have been any true forests and probably not much in the way of complex terrestrial ecosystems. That lignin was also responsible for forming the coal beds that powered the early Industrial Revolution, but that coal-bed formation would not happen in earnest until the next geologic period, the aptly-named Carboniferous. It took more than a hundred million years for life forms to appear that could digest lignin. A class of fungus gained the ability to digest lignin about 290 mya, and by that time, most of what became Earth’s coal deposits had already been buried in sediments. And as with other seminal developments in life’s history, the ability to digest lignin seems to have only evolved once. The enzyme that fungi use to digest lignin has also been found in some bacteria, but fungi are the primary lignin-digesters on Earth.
From a biomass perspective, the Devonian’s primary change was the proliferation of land plants. Land plants comprise about half of Earth’s biomass today, with prokaryotes providing the other half. Terrestrial biomass is five hundred times greater than marine biomass, and terrestrial plants have about a thousand times the biomass of terrestrial animals, so animals constitute less than 0.1% of Earth’s biomass. The ecologies of the marine and terrestrial environments are radically different. Virtually all primary producers in marine environments are completely eaten, being the food chain’s foundation, while less than 20% of land plant biomass is eaten by animals.
Creating the huge biomass of land-based ecosystems meant that carbon was removed from the atmosphere. Also, root systems were a new phenomenon, with dramatic environmental impact. Before the rise of vascular plants, rain on the continents ran to the ocean in sheets and braided rivers. Every rainfall just ran off into the oceans in a flash flood, as happens in deserts today. Plant roots stabilized riverbanks, forming the rivers that we are familiar with today. Also, roots broke up rock, accelerated weathering, and created soils. Vast nutrient runoffs from land into the ocean were stimulated by the colonization of land by plants, which in turn stimulated life in the oceans. Plants and trees created a “boundary layer” of relatively calm air near the ground which became the primary abode of most land animals.
But forests were a radical innovation that has not been seen before or since. Trees were Earth’s first and last truly gigantic organisms, with the largest trees dwarfing the largest animals. Why did trees grow so large? It seems to be because they could. Land life gave plants opportunities that aquatic life could not provide, and plants “leapt” at the chance. Lignin, first developed for vascular transport, became the equivalent of steel girders in skyscrapers. In the final analysis, trees grew tall to give their foliage the most sunlight. The limits of Earth’s tallest trees is an energy issue; the ability to pump water to the treetops. Arid climates are why trees do not grow tall, or even grow at all. Energy availability limits leaf size, too. The great biomass of forests was primarily a huge store of energy, with trees allowing for prodigious energy storage per square meter of land.
Going back to how energy enters ecosystems, primarily via the photon energy captured by photosynthesis, only so much sunlight hits Earth, and photosynthesis can only capture so much. The energy “budget” available for plants has constraints, and the question is always what to do with it. Plants faced the same decisions that societies face today: consumption or investment? Only with an energy surplus can there be investments, such as for infrastructure. Plants invested in trunk-and-branch infrastructure to place their energy collecting equipment in the best possible position. Plants race for the sky, and trees represent a huge energy investment. In the early stages of forest development, most energy goes for building plant infrastructure, and in “climax ecosystems,” when the building limits have been reached, most energy is consumed to run life processes within the infrastructure. When humans began building cities and urban infrastructures, the basis process was the same.
As with previous critical events, such as saving the oceans and life on Earth itself, life helped terraform Earth. But the late Devonian is an instance when the rise of land plants may have also had Medean effects. That greatly increased nutrient runoff into the oceans may have initiated huge algal blooms that caused anoxic events near shore. According to the GEOCARBSULF model, oxygen rose and carbon dioxide fell in the late Devonian, which would be expected if forests began blanketing the continents. Carbon dioxide sequestering, which reduced the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide concentration by up to 80%, may have cooled Earth’s surface enough so that an ice age began.
Most marine phyla were unable to manage the transition to land and remain aquatic to this day. Arthropods found a way, with scorpions, spiders, and millipedes being early pioneers. The first insects probably appeared in the Silurian, as did fish, which became the first amphibians, and those clades are the most successful terrestrial animals today. Gastropods made it to land, mainly snails and slugs, as did several worm phyla, but the rest of aquatic life generally remained water-bound. Also, many animal clades have moved back-and-forth between water and land, usually hugging the shoreline, sometimes in a single organism’s life cycle, which blurred the terrestrial/aquatic divide at times. The first fish to venture past shore seem to have done it in the mid-Devonian, and colonizing land via freshwater environments was a prominent path of development.
The first insects appeared in the fossil record about 400 mya, and were fairly developed, meaning that they likely have an older lineage, beginning in the Silurian. The first land animals would have been vegetarians, as something had to start the food chain from plants, and early insects were adapted for plant-eating. Plants would have then begun to co-evolve with animals, as they tried to avoid being eaten.
When life colonized land, global weather systems began impacting life, as land plants and animals would be at the mercy of the elements as never before, with forests and deserts forming. The continents also began coming together and eventually form Pangaea in the Permian, and converging plates meant subduction and mountain-building. Mountains of the British Isles and Scandinavia were formed in the Devonian, and the Appalachians became larger. Mountain ranges would have great impact on weather systems during terrestrial life’s future, also profoundly influencing oceanic ecosystems.
As already noted, in the late Devonian, carbon dioxide levels fell, apparently coincident with oxygen rising, and the rise of land plants is the primary variable. Those plant-based dynamics may have undermined Earth’s ecosystems, as they are the prime suspects in precipitating the second of the Big Five mass extinctions. A bolide impact has been invoked in some scientific corners, but the evidence is weak. As with the Ordovician extinction, the primary cause seems to have been rising and falling sea levels, likely associated with growing and receding ice caps, as Gondwana still covered the South Pole. Ocean anoxia again made its appearance. Unlike the short, severe Ordovician events, the Devonian extinctions may have stretched for up to 25 million years, with periodic pulses of extinction.
The late Devonian extinctions meant the end of armored fish, the near-extinction of the new ammonoids (perhaps only one genus survived), oceanic eurypterids went extinct, trilobites began to make their exit as seafloor communities were scourged, coral reefs were again devastated and permanently altered, and lobe-finned fish reached their peak influence. On land, in ways it was similar to the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods in being a time of great innovation and failed experiments. Trees first appeared during a plant diversity crisis, and the arrival of seed plants and ferns ended the dominance of the first trees, so the plant crises may have been more about evolutionary experiments than environmental conditions, although a carbon dioxide crash would have impacted photosynthesizers. The earliest woody plants that gave rise to trees and seed plants largely went extinct at the Devonian’s end. But what might have been the most dramatic extinction, as far as humans are concerned, was the impact on land vertebrates. During the Devonian extinction about 20% of families, 50% of genera, and 70% of all species disappeared forever.
Wade Frazier
21st November 2013, 04:41
Hi:
Again, these are very early drafts that will look a lot different by the end of the editorial process. Just today, I decided that what I put up earlier was the place for me to bring in some new energy dynamics. Below is an early version of what I added into the previous post, too.
"But forests were a radical innovation that has not been seen before or since. Trees were Earth’s first and last truly gigantic organisms, with the largest trees dwarfing the largest animals. Why did trees grow so large? It seems to be because they could. Land life gave plants opportunities that aquatic life could not provide, and plants “leapt” at the chance. Lignin, first developed for vascular transport, became the equivalent of steel girders in skyscrapers. In the final analysis, trees grew tall to give their foliage the most sunlight. The limits of Earth’s tallest trees is an energy issue; the ability to pump water to the treetops. Arid climates are why trees do not grow tall, or even grow at all. Energy availability limits leaf size, too. The great biomass of forests was primarily a huge store of energy, with trees allowing for prodigious energy storage per square meter of land.
"Going back to how energy enters ecosystems, primarily via the photon energy captured by photosynthesis, only so much sunlight hits Earth, and photosynthesis can only capture so much. The energy “budget” available for plants has constraints, and the question is always what to do with it. Plants faced the same decisions that societies face today: consumption or investment? Only with an energy surplus can there be investments, such as for infrastructure. Plants invested in trunk-and-branch infrastructure to place their energy collecting equipment in the best possible position. Plants race for the sky, and trees represent a huge energy investment. In the early stages of forest development, most energy goes for building plant infrastructure, and in “climax ecosystems,” when the building limits have been reached, most energy is consumed to run life processes within the infrastructure. When humans began building cities and urban infrastructures, the basis process was the same."
Attached is a pic from my neighborhood, that I took today on the way back from a hike. It was taken literally a block away from my house. That was a three-or-four point buck.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
24th November 2013, 15:49
Hi:
I am hard at work on the essay, working on the rise of reptiles and dinosaurs. As usual, it is an energy tale, where metabolisms and adaptations to changing environments and ecosystems comprise the framework that paleobiologists work within. In the seas and on land, early periods are called “Golden Ages” for various animals. The Devonian was the Golden Age of fish, and the Carboniferous was the Golden Age of sharks. On land, the Carboniferous was the Golden Age of Amphibians, and the Permian was the rise of reptiles, which led to the Age of Dinosaurs after the Permian extinction, which was Earth’s greatest extinction ever, so far. The Devonian was the “Cambrian Explosion” of plants, and like with the Cambrian, once their respective explosions were over, plants and animals never changed much afterward. The die had been cast, and all innovations afterward were made within the original frameworks. But they were all primarily energy frameworks.
As I think about the rest of the essay (it will be book-length, weighing in at around 200 pages, it seems at this stage), I also think about what I will be doing afterward as I try to recruit and train a choir. Avalon has been a good experience in that regard, as my threads have seen an almost continual stream of newbies who stumble in and advocate those many failed paths to FE, such as inventor-itis, the hero’s route, the sneak-past-them strategy, the chat up one’s friends, family, and colleagues strategy, the stampede strategy, the beseech the rich-and-powerful strategy, and all of those other dead ends that I have lived through and seen over the years.
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#potholes
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
All of those approaches reflect deep-seated delusions, and I really don’t want to spend all that much time on them, as those perspectives keep dragging it all down the lowest-common denominator states, reflecting how deeply-baked scarcity is in their awareness. I am trying to do something different, so radically different that I have yet to see hardly anybody really understand. That is both good and bad. Good in that it is truly untrodden territory that almost nobody can comprehend, but bad in that almost nobody can comprehend it or even seem willing to, as they continually chase down those blind alleys.
I see that I am still going to have to devote more time and effort than I want to, even for the nascent choir, to help them shed those delusions. They are potentially deadly delusions in this field, and the choir cannot be mired in them if they are going to get any good work done.
Best,
Wade
Delight
24th November 2013, 16:56
Hi:
Briefly, if I had the time, I would rewrite the JFK section of my site:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wean
The basic information and conclusions would not change, but I have periodically dipped my nose into new evidence as it has arisen, and I have thirteen more years of writing experience, a lot of it writing technical business documents. If I only had time. :)
The bottom line is that every new piece of important evidence that has come out since the 1980s, when Gary first published his book (and arguably since the early 1970s, when Gary wrote most of his book, as he tried to survive what the Ventura County gangsters were serving up), has only confirmed Gary’s story. The best evidence continually points at the CIA and its Castro fetish being where the plot hatched that got JFK killed. Ferrie, the Cuban exiles, Ruby, Operation Northwoods, Hunt’s involvement, Oswald’s background and “defection,” and his very curious pals such as de Mohrenschildt, all point at covert activities being involved, revolving around Cuba and the mob. Where I think so many researchers and others miss the boat is trying to solve the crime. That will never happen, just like 9/11 will never be officially solved, other than serving up some patsies with wobbly evidence.
According to John Tower’s testimony to Audie Murphy, Bill Decker, Gary, and his partner:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower
the operation backfired by being interposed from the inside. Just who all was involved will never be unraveled, but that is not the point. Every single government-led “investigation” into efforts like that always served up some scapegoats and never seriously tried to solve the crime. IMO, that should be the lesson of JFK, 9/11, and the like. You can’t trust the government! :) However, my experience is that the government is not really where the power is, as they are just taking orders from their private-interest patrons. Every time that Dennis was wiped out, it was obviously that way; the government wielding the club on behalf of its private-interest patrons. That kind of stuff is why nobody on Wall Street went to prison or even lost their jobs in the wake of 2008-2009, but got trillions in bailouts instead, a bailout that is ongoing, with the Fed printing money as fast as it can. The “system” is not legitimate and is not worth listening to, especially where the big wealth and power issues are concerned. It is all about greed and a lust for power, and none of it approaches justice, truth, love, etc. That is just how it is today. That is why it is time for the fifth epochal event! :)
Best,
Wade
Dear Wade,
Thanks for your volumes of information. Personally, the JFK assassination was something that shaped my own life and all that i have been thinking since. Though I was 8 years old when it happened, I was immediately shocked and unable to believe the way things were portrayed.
My parents were very focused on politics so I overheard many conversations. There were many strange paradoxes presented in how they made sense of events. I was always thinking about "right" and "wrong" myself, trying to understand "evil". There seemed to be much more to everything than politics and religion that I did not understand.
When the Warren Commission came out, the "case" was closed as far as my parents were concerned and I recall that was a shock to me as even as a kid, the whole episode made no sense. However, it was years before more information was available to me. The sense of shock at the un-reason shaped my attitudes in a large way.
My mother was an ardent anti-communist and also involved in civil rights. She vacillated wildly in her opinions about 'civil rights" players according to how everything fit with "Communism" as the central threat.
My father was an intellectual who studied history. Unfortunately I was a child of divorce and he left us when i was 13 so I am not sure what he came to understand later.
While I was growing up, my mother thought that much I considered "progress" was a communist conspiracy. Her stance shaped my "rebellions" and I decided to be aligned against her stance until I gave up politics all together. Such is the way opinions from reaction operate.
The 50th anniversary of the event has reawakened my personal interest to give me some greater understanding. I am left today with certainty that the event was a major cross roads for the US and that behind all the details is a larger conspiracy that I cannot really grasp. However, I have decided that whatever has happened, I want to claim something great and beautiful in human capacity.
I gather from you the central idea that we have to work from a different deep mind set that is one of "Abundance" and I too have that idea. How I have been translating that may be mistaken but I ardently want to sing in your choir.
Thanks very much for your efforts to make all the layers more available. Personally, I am thinking along the lines that I would not like to plan for an ELE that takes us back to a primitive state. If it happens, that is out of my control. It is my intention to support technology that harmonizes in the biosystem of many varieties of sentient life.
Personally I feel that I am in a web of consciousness that is much different than the web out of which the JFK assassination (and all the later events of distortion) evolved. The major insanity that still shapes the world is based on fundamental liearchies and ideas of purpose.
Thanks for the opportunity to speak here in your thread! Maggie
Robert J. Niewiadomski
25th November 2013, 12:52
From today's NewScientist website news: Early life built Earth's continents
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22029443.100-early-life-built-earths-continents.html#.UpNEp8S9Sq4
Scientists Tilman Spohn and Dennis Höning of the Institute of Planetary Research in Berlin, Germany, have created a computer model of Earth's evolution taking up into account the process of biological weathering and it's impact on below surface processes. Conclusion: "lifeless Earth would be unrecognizable water-world with very few continents, if any at all".
Submitted for peer-review:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063313002663
Wade Frazier
25th November 2013, 18:01
Hi Robert:
Thanks. That might even make it into my essay. I write plenty that life helped terraform Earth, including saving our oceans. That it may have helped hydrate the mantle, leading to the lightweight granitic continents, is a new one to me, but is consistent with the recent trend in findings and hypotheses.
Hi Maggie:
Great post. We will see just what the choir looks like. At minimum, all members will have real names and faces, and there may be different aspects of it. One part for scholarly writings, one part for “banter,” and maybe some other aspects, but the “banter” will need to be along the lines that you see me do. My posts are rarely terse, but thought out, with often long and complex thought lines. That is what comprehensive thinking usually entails.
For Americans, the JFK hit was a watershed event, in that the dysfunction in our system began to become obvious. Again, the series of assassinations and attempts in the generation after JFK were likely all related, with no true “lone nuts” for any of them. Yes, viewing the world through ideological lenses, then inflicting such views on others, sure can lead to cognitive dissonance and other reactions. I was raised with the anti-communist catechism, too, as were virtually all American children. It was all a crock, of course:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#saigon
and we were simultaneously trained to worship a flag:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#flag
Breaking out of nationalistic indoctrination is an important part of becoming truly sentient, but our conditioning extends to other “isms,” too:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
and what they all have in common is a foundation of scarcity-based assumptions. Shedding the assumption of scarcity is the hardest part of thinking abundantly, which is why learning the song and singing it will be so hard.
Thanks for writing,
Wade
ulli
25th November 2013, 18:18
Asking myself if growing legs to roam around on terra firma was not
what initially triggered the scarcity mindset.
Although hunger was still the driving force, even then, in those oceans.
Eat. And be eaten.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-frc3/q71/1476461_678573962167885_1950650623_n.jpg
Wade Frazier
25th November 2013, 18:57
Hi Ulli:
Cute cartoon. It has always been energy scarcity that did it. All of those animal “Golden Ages” were due to new biomes being inhabited/created, which was always because more energy became available. The “Golden Age” never lasted long, as others came to the table, “demanding” their share, or, in the case of humans, the energy source was burned through and gone, then it was game over and back to the ragged edge of survival, fighting over the scarce, energy-based resources. The falls of civilizations were like that, from Sumer onward through Rome to the Mayans and many others. We are in the early stages of the collapse of industrial civilization, as nations such the USA invade and slaughter millions of people to steal their energy supply, Iraq most infamously:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=652292&viewfull=1#post652292
but far from the only instance, and is really only the latest in a century of invasions and manipulations by the West in Hydrocarbon Country.
With FE, there would be, for the first time, an abundant, inexhaustible, and environmentally harmless energy source (practically inexhaustible, although some want to debate how deep that well is, even though it could power human civilization on a galactic scale, if that was our intent, although our neighbors will not allow it, particularly since humans are presently such barbarians), and what could come from that is something that looks a lot like heaven on Earth:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#advanced
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
26th November 2013, 12:21
Hi:
I’ll throw up a couple of chapter drafts, again without links and references. Again, the final product will look different, but here is how it looks today.
Best,
Wade
Early Life on Earth
Above all else, life is an energy acquisition process. All life exploits the potential energy in various atomic and molecular arrangements, or captures energy directly, as in photosynthesis. Early life exploited the potential energy of chemicals. The chemosynthetic ideal is capturing chemicals fresh to new environments that have not yet reacted with other chemicals. The currently dominant theory has life first appearing on Earth about 3.5-to-3.8 bya, probably in volcanic vents on the ocean floor. The earliest life forms took advantage of fresh chemicals being introduced to the oceans. Life had to be opportunistic and quick in order to capture that energy before other molecules did.
Today’s mainstream science has nothing to say about any intent behind the appearance of life on Earth. Today’s science pursues the physical mechanism. When life first appeared on Earth, the evolutionary process that led to humanity began. The United States is Earth’s only industrialized nation where there is significant doubt about evolution among the general population, and that is primarily because Biblical literalism is still strong here. In all other industrialized nations, there is virtually no controversy over evolution being a fact of existence, and those nations view the controversy over evolution in the USA with befuddlement. Enlightened scientists will state that science’s story of evolution is one of process and history, not intent, and really has nothing to say about a creator.
There is no scientific consensus regarding how life first appeared, but it is currently thought that all life on Earth today descended from one organism, a creature known today as the Last Universal Common Ancestor (“LUCA”). The reasoning is partly that all life has a preference for using certain types of molecules. Many molecules with the same atomic structure can form mirror images of themselves. That mirror-image phenomenon is called chirality. In nature, such mirror images occur randomly, but life prefers one mirror image over the other. In all life on Earth, proteins are virtually without exception left-handed, while sugars are right-handed. If there was more than one line of descent, life with different “handedness” would be expected, but it has never been found, which has led scientists to think that LUCA is the only survivor that spawned all life on Earth today. All other life forms died out, or they may have all descended from the same original organism. As we will see, this is far from the only instance where such seminal events are considered to have likely happened only once. Also, the unique structure of DNA and many enzymes are common to all life, and they did not have to form the way that they did. That they came from different ancestors is extremely unlikely.
The critical feature of earliest life had to be a way to reproduce itself, and DNA is common to all cellular life today. The DNA that exists today was not likely a feature of the first life. The most accepted hypothesis is that RNA is DNA’s ancestor. The mechanism today is that DNA makes RNA, and RNA makes proteins. DNA, RNA, proteins, sugars, and fats are the most important molecules in life forms, and very early on, protein “learned” the most important trick of all, which was an energy innovation: facilitate biological reactions. If we think about activation energy at the molecular level, it is the energy that crashes molecules into each other, and if they are crashed into each other fast enough and hard enough, the reaction becomes more likely. But that is an incredibly inefficient way to do it. It is like putting a key in a room with a lock in a door, and shaking up the room in the hope that the key will insert itself into the lock during one of its collisions with the room’s walls. Proteins make the process far easier, and those proteins are called enzymes.
Enzymes speed up chemical reactions, and they do it similar to if a person entered that room, picked up the key, and inserted it into the lock. That took far less effort than shaking up the room a million times. Enzymes are like hands that grab two molecules and bring them into alignment so that the key inserts into the lock. The lock-and-key analogy is the standard way to explain enzymes to non-scientists. Enzymes make chemical reactions happen millions and even billions of times faster than they would occur in the enzymes’ absence. Life would have never grown beyond some microscopic curiosities without the assistance that enzymes provide. Almost all enzymes are proteins, which are generally huge molecules with intricate folds. The animation of human glyoxalase on Wikipedia’s enzyme page depicts a standard enzyme. Enzymes look like Rube Goldberg-ish contraptions when their function is considered: huge molecules are used to make small ones interact. Those intricate folds are mainly kept in place with hydrogen bonds. The enzyme’s pair of “hands” are like those of a robot on an assembly line, putting two parts together and passing the assembly to the next stage. An enzyme can catalyze millions of reactions per second. All of today’s life on Earth would cease to exist in the absence of enzymes. Other than the ability to reproduce itself and produce proteins, speeding up reactions by millions of times is life’s most important “trick” and its greatest energy innovation.
The immediate source of energy for all life processes on Earth is ATP. The human body produces its own weight in ATP each day. Poisons and drugs generally work by disabling enzymes, by plugging or wrecking the “lock” so that the intended “key” will not fit. Cyanide kills by disabling a key enzyme that produces ATP. Cyanide induces an energy shortage at the cellular level.
Another vital invention of life is creating the “room” where those reactions can take place. The “rooms” of the first life forms were created by membranes, which are comprised of proteins and fats. As with the first RNA, DNA, and proteins, the first membranes likely did not resemble today’s very much. Membranes define life, keeping it separate from other molecules in Earth’s brew.
There are two primary aspects of life, and what can be observed in human civilization are often only more complex iterations of those aspects, which are:
1. Life harnessed energy so that it could manipulate matter to create itself;
2. Life created information so that it could reproduce itself.
One aspect manipulated matter and energy, and the other was the “program” for manipulating it. Matter and energy could be manipulated to either build a living structure or operate it (or disassemble it), and the life form always made the “decision.”
Entropy is another important concept for this essay. Entropy is, in its essence, the tendency of hot things to cool off. The concept is now introduced to students as energy dispersal. While science really does not know what energy is, it can measure its effect. In practice, entropy is the tendency of mass to become disordered over time, as the random motion of matter spreads in collisions with other matter, until the interacting matter has the same temperature. Life had to overcome entropy in order to exist, as it brought order out of disorder and maintained it while alive, and it takes energy to do that. The prevailing theory is that net entropy can only increase, and life has to create more entropy in its surroundings so that it can reduce entropy internally and produce and maintain the order that sustains itself.
Of those key elements necessary for life as we know it, the most diverse is carbon, with that half-filled outer electron shell. Carbon provides the “backbone” for life’s chemistry, and is the foundational element of DNA, RNA, sugars, proteins, fats, and virtually all other components of life. Carbon can form, one, two, three, and fours bonds with itself, forming by far the most diverse bonds with itself of all elements, and an entire branch of chemistry is devoted to carbon, called organic chemistry. Organic molecules are by far the largest known to science. During my first day of organic chemistry class in college, the professor observed that because the primary use of hydrocarbons was burning them to fuel the industrial age, we were living in “the age of waste,” as hydrocarbons are a treasure trove of chemical raw materials. In the eyes of an organic chemist, burning fossil hydrocarbons to fuel our industrial world is like making Einstein dig ditches or making Pavarotti wash dishes for a living.
Nitrogen and phosphorus are the most vital elements for life after carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. In its pure state in nature, nitrogen, like hydrogen and oxygen, is a diatomic molecule. Hydrogen in nature is single-bonded to itself, oxygen is double-bonded, and nitrogen is triple-bonded. Because of that triple bond, nitrogen is quite unreactive, preferring to stay bonded to itself. In nature, nitrogen will not significantly react with other substances unless the temperature (activation energy) is very high. Most nitrogen compounds in nature are created where the nitrogen and oxygen that comprise more than 99% of Earth’s atmosphere react under lightning’s influence to create nitric oxide, which then reacts with oxygen to form nitrogen dioxide, and atmospheric water combines with that to make nitrous and nitric acids, which then fall to Earth’s surface in precipitation. Certain kinds of bacteria “fix” the nitrogen from the acidic rain into biological systems. Also, some bacteria can fix nitrogen directly from atmospheric nitrogen, but it is an energy-intensive operation, using the energy in eight ATP molecules to fix each atom of nitrogen. For the earliest life on Earth, nitrogen would have been essential, and some nitrogen is fixed at volcanic vents, where life likely first appeared.
The nitrogen cycle is one of life’s most important, where some bacteria fix nitrogen for biological use and others release nitrogen back to the atmosphere. Nitrogen’s relatively inert nature, and preference for being bonded to itself, is why it is the dominant atmospheric gas, at 78% of the atmosphere’s volume, and it has held that dominant status for billions of years.
Carbon dioxide, on the other hand, has been generally decreasing as an atmospheric gas for billions of years, and has consistently declined for the past 150 million years. The geophysical process is similar to nitrogen in that atmospheric water combines with carbon dioxide to form a weak acid, which then falls to Earth in precipitation. But carbon is in the same elemental family as an abundant crustal element: silicon. The carbon replaces the silicon in crustal compounds, turning silicates into carbonates in a process called silicate weathering. Most of Earth’s primordial carbon dioxide was probably removed by this process, although the exact mechanisms are in dispute. In all paleoclimate studies, carbon dioxide is a prominent variable, if not the prominent variable, in determining Earth’s surface temperature. But perhaps as early as three bya, life became a significant source of carbon removal from the atmosphere, as life forms died and sank to the ocean floor, were subsequently buried by sedimentation, and tectonic plate movements further buried them into Earth’s crust and mantle.
More carbon dioxide was removed from the atmosphere by those processes than was reintroduced to the atmosphere by volcanism and other processes. That removal and reintroduction of carbon to Earth’s surface is called the carbon cycle. As carbon dioxide keeps getting removed from the atmosphere, life will have a harder time surviving, to eventually go extinct, as first plants, then animals decline and go extinct, and it will be back to microbes ruling the Earth until the Sun’s expansion into a red giant destroys Earth. The earthly end of complex life’s reign may be a billion years away, but might come much sooner.
When life first appeared, it was single-celled and simple, and such organisms are called prokaryotes today. Prokaryotes do not have organelles such as mitochondria, chloroplasts, and nuclei, but even the simplest cell is a marvel of complexity. If we could shrink ourselves so that we could stand inside an average bacterium, we would be astounded at its complexity, as molecules move here and there, brought inside the bacterium’s membrane, used to generate energy and build structures, with waste products ejected from the organism. Cellular division would be an amazing sight.
The most significant branch of evolution’s tree of life may have been the first, when bacteria split into two branches; one branch is called Bacteria, with Archaea being the other. Darwin’s notion of slowly accumulating differences through descending organisms gradually leading to new species is confounded at the single-celled level in particular, with microbes swapping DNA with abandon. The so-called tree of life at the microbe level better resembles a web. The classifications in the evolutionary tree of life are by no means settled, with frequent disputes and changes.
In the earliest days of life on Earth, it had to solve the problems of how to reproduce, how to separate itself from its environment, how to acquire the raw materials and make the chemical reactions that it needed. But it was confined to those areas where it could take advantage of briefly available potential energy as Earth’s interior was disgorged into the oceans. The earliest process of farming energy from energy gradients to power life is called respiration. That earliest respiration is today called anaerobic respiration because there was virtually no free oxygen in the atmosphere or ocean in those early days. Respiration was life’s first energy cycle. A biological energy cycle begins with harvesting an energy gradient (usually by a proton crossing a membrane or, in photosynthesis, directly capturing photon energy), with the acquired energy powering chemical reactions. The cycle then proceeds in steps, with the reaction products of each step sequentially using a little more energy from the initial capture, until the initial energy has been depleted and the cycle’s molecules are returned to their starting point, ready for a fresh influx of energy to repeat the cycle.
Back in life’s early days, some creatures discovered another source of energy and nutrients besides the chemical brew of volcanic vents: other life forms, and predation was born. Evolution has plenty to answer for, and opportunistically robbing creatures of their lives to eat them is perhaps evolution’s primary “negative” outcome.
The evidence is that after “only” 100 million years or so after life first appeared, it learned its next most important trick after it learned how to come into being and speed up reactions: it tapped a new energy source. Photosynthesis may have begun 3.4 bya. Bacteria are true photosynthesizers, fixing carbon from captured sunlight. Archaeans cannot fix carbon via sunlight capture, so are not photosynthesizers, even those that capture photons.
As with other early life processes, the first photosynthetic process was different from today’s, but the important result – capturing sunlight to power biological processes – was the same. The scientific consensus today is that a respiration cycle was modified, and a cytochrome in a respiration system was used for capturing sunlight. Intermediate stages have been hypothesized, including the cytochrome using a pigment to create a shield to absorb ultraviolet light, or that the pigment was part of an infrared sensor (for locating volcanic vents). But whatever the case was, the conversion of a respiration system into a photosynthetic system is considered to have only happened once, and all photosynthesizers descended from that original innovation.
Metals used by biological processes can donate electrons, unlike those other elements that primarily seek them to complete their shells. Those metals used by life are isolated in molecular cages called porphyrins.
As with enzymes, the molecules used in biological processes are often huge and complex, but ATP energy drives all processes, and that energy either came from potential chemical energy in Earth’s interior or sunlight, but even chemosynthetic organisms rely on sunlight to provide their energy. The Sun thus powers all life on Earth. The cycles that capture energy (photosynthesis or chemosynthesis) or produce it (fermentation or respiration) generally have many steps in them, and some cycles can run backwards, such as the Krebs cycle. The respiration and photosynthesis cycles in complex organisms have been the focus of a great deal of scientific effort, and cyclic diagrams (1, 2) can provide helpful portrayals of how cycles work. Photosynthesis has several cycles in it, and Nobel Prizes were awarded to the scientists who helped describe the cycles.
Chlorophyll molecules look like antennae, with magnesium in their porphyrin cages, and long tails. Those molecules initiate photosynthesis by trapping photons. Chlorophyll is called a pigment and, as it sits in its “antennae complex,” it only absorbs wavelengths of light that boost its electrons into higher orbits. The wavelengths that plant chlorophyll does not absorb well are in the green range, which is why plants are green. Some photosynthetic bacteria absorb green light, so the bacteria appear purple, and there are many similar variations among bacteria. Those initial higher electron orbits from photon capture are not stable and would soon collapse back to their lower levels and emit light again, defeating the process, but in less than a trillionth of a second the electron is stripped from the capturing molecule and put into another molecule with a more stable orbit. That pathway of carrying the electron that got “excited” by the captured photon is called an electron transport chain. Separating protons from electrons via chemical reactions, and then using their resultant electrical potential to drive mechanical processes, is how life works.
Early photosynthetic organisms used the energy of captured photons to strip electrons from various chemicals, with hydrogen sulfide being an early electron donor. In the early days of photosynthetic life, there was no atmospheric oxygen. Oxygen, being as reactive as it is, was deadly to those early bacteria and archaea, damaging their molecules by oxidizing them. Oxidative stress, or the stripping of electrons from life’s molecules, has been a problem since the early days of life on Earth. Oxidative stress is partly responsible for how organisms age, but it can also be beneficial, as organisms use oxidative stress in various ways.
The dates are controversial, but it appears that after hundreds of millions of years of using various molecules as electron donors for photosynthesis, cyanobacteria began to split water to get the donor electron, and oxygen was the waste byproduct. Cyanobacterial colonies are dated as early as 2.8 bya, and it is speculated that oxygenic photosynthesis may have appeared as early as 3.5 bya and then spread throughout the oceans. Those cyanobacterial colonies formed the first fossils in the geologic record, called stromatolites. At Shark Bay in Australia and some other places, the water is too saline to support animals that can eat cyanobacteria, so stromatolites still exist, giving us a glimpse into early life on Earth.
Oxygenic photosynthesis uses two systems for capturing photons. The first one (called Photosystem II) uses captured photon energy to make ATP. The second one (called Photosystem I because it was discovered before Photosystem II) uses captured photon energy to add an electron to captured carbon dioxide, to help turn carbon dioxide into a sugar. That “carbon fixation” is accomplished by the Calvin Cycle, and an enzyme called Rubisco, Earth’s most abundant protein, catalyzes that fixation.
Some bacteria use Photosystem I and some use Photosystem II. More than two bya, and maybe more than three bya, cyanobacteria used both, and a miraculous instance of innovation tied them together. Some manganese atoms were then used to strip electrons from water. Although the issue is still highly controversial regarding when it happened and how, that instance of cyanobacteria using manganese to strip electrons from water is responsible for oxygenic photosynthesis. Water is not an easy molecule to strip an electron from, and a single cyanobacterium seems to have “stumbled” into it, and it likely happened only once. Once an electron was stripped away from water in Photosystem I, then stripping away a proton (a hydrogen nucleus) essentially removed one hydrogen atom from the water molecule. That proton was then used to drive a “turbine” that manufactures ATP, and wonderful animations on the Internet show how those protons drive that enzyme turbine (ATP synthase). Oxygen is a waste product of that innovative ATP factory. As oxygenic photosynthesis spread through the oceans, everything that could be oxidized by oxygen was, during what is called the Great Oxygenation Event (“GOE”). The event began as long as three bya and is responsible for most of Earth’s minerals. Atmospheric oxygen stayed at a few percent until everything that could be oxidized by oxygen was and, beginning about 750 mya (and perhaps as long as 850 mya), atmospheric oxygen began its steep climb to 20% of the atmosphere and beyond.
As noted previously, atmospheric oxygen prevented Earth from losing its oceans as Venus and Mars did, which saved all life on Earth. An atmosphere of as little as two percent oxygen may have been adequate to form the ozone layer, and that level may have been attained more than two bya. The ozone layer absorbs most of the Sun’s ultraviolet light that hits Earth. Ultraviolet light carries more energy than visible light and breaks covalent and other bonds, wreaking biological havoc, particularly to DNA and RNA. Before the ozone layer formed, life would have had a challenging time surviving near the ocean’s surface. Ultraviolet light damage presented a formidable evolutionary hurdle, and proteins and enzymes that assist cellular division are similar to those that arose to repair damaged DNA. Life has adapted to many hostile conditions in Earth’s past, but if conditions change too rapidly, life cannot adapt in time to survive. Many of the mass extinctions that dot Earth’s past were probably the result of conditions changing too rapidly for most organisms to adapt, if they could have adapted at all. During the Permian-Triassic extinction event, which was the greatest extinction event yet known, there is evidence that the ozone layer was depleted and ultraviolet light damaged photosynthesizing organisms that formed the base of the food chains. From the formation of stromatolites to mass extinction events, ultraviolet light has played a role.
The GOE is widely accepted to have created almost all of the banded iron formations (“BIFs”), as the dissolved iron in the primordial oceans was oxidized from a soluble form to an insoluble one, which then precipitated it out in those vivid red (the color of rust) layers that we see today. The GOE is not the only BIF-formation hypothesis and there is a great deal of controversy, but life processes are generally considered to be primarily responsible for forming the BIFs. Most iron in the crust is bound in silicates and carbonates, and it takes a great deal of energy to extract the iron from those minerals; oxides are much less energy-intensive to refine. BIFs are the source of virtually all iron ore that humans have mined. Life likely performed the initial work of refining iron so that humans could easily mine it billions of years later.
About the time that the continents began to grow and plate tectonics began, Earth produced its first known glaciers, between 3.0 and 2.9 bya, although the full extent is unknown. It might have been an ice age, or merely some mountain glaciation. The dynamics of ice ages are complex and controversial, with numerous competing hypotheses about how the dynamics might have interacted to produce them. Because the evidence is relatively thin, there is also controversy about the extent of the ice ages. About 2.5 bya, the Sun was probably a little smaller and only about 80% as bright as it is today, and Earth would have been a block of ice if not for the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide and methane that absorbed electromagnetic radiation, particularly in the infrared portion of the spectrum. But that Venus-level carbon dioxide began declining during the Archaean eon, the GOE also removed methane from the atmosphere (a methane molecule is more than twenty times as effective as a carbon dioxide molecule in absorbing radiation in Earth’s atmosphere), which may have been created by methanogens (methane-producing archaea), and Earth’s first ice age began about 2.4 bya and lasted for 300 million years. There is no scientific consensus regarding the exact dynamics that caused that first ice age, but there is general agreement that it was ultimately due to reduced greenhouse gases. That first ice age may have been a “Snowball Earth” event, where Earth’s surface was almost completely covered in ice.
Around the end of that first ice age, another unique event transpired with enormous portent for life’s journey on Earth; one microbe enveloped another, and both lived. The currently prevailing theory is that an archaean enveloped a bacterium, either by predation or colonization, and they entered into a symbiotic relationship. Today’s leading hypothesis, called the hydrogen hypothesis, is that the archaean consumed hydrogen, and the bacterium produced hydrogen, forming the basis for their symbiosis. That unique event happened around two bya and led to complex life on Earth. That enveloped bacterium was the parent of all mitochondria on Earth today, which are the primary energy-generation centers in all animals. About ten percent of the human body’s weight is mitochondria. If not for the red of hemoglobin and the melanin in skin, humans would look purple, which is the mitochondria’s color. That purple color is likely because the original bacterium that led to the first mitochondrion was purple.
The mitochondrion’s creation had impact far beyond “only” creating “power plants” in cells; it allowed cells to grow to immense size. That first mitochondrion became, according to the most restricted definition, the first organelle. Cells with organelles are called eukaryotes, and today they are generally thought to have descended from that instance when a hydrogen-eating archaean enveloped a hydrogen-producing bacterium. That animation of ATP Synthase in action depicts a typical event in life forms - the generation of energy as protons cross a membrane - which in that instance makes the turbine rotate that manufactures ATP. For prokaryotes, the cellular membrane is their only one and the site of the process that fuels their lives. Cells are three-dimensional entities, and if spherical, the cell’s volume will increase at the cube of its diameter, while its cellular membrane only grows at the square of its diameter. If the diameter of a spherical bacterium is doubled, its surface area increases four times, but its volume increases eight times, and the disparity between surface area and volume increases as the diameter does. For a prokaryote, it means that the cytoplasm-to-membrane ratio quickly shrinks as the cell grows, so that less ATP is serving more cytoplasm. That means that with increasing size comes slower metabolism, so the cell becomes sluggish. Imagine a grown man trying to live on the calories that he ingested when he was eight years old. He would quickly starve to death or have to hibernate each day.
Prokaryotic cells are limited in size because their energy production only takes place at their cellular membranes. In ecosystems, the race usually goes to the quick, and it is very true with bacteria, where the smallest bacteria are faster and “win” the race of survival. Mitochondria increase the membrane surface area for ATP reactions to take place, which allowed cells to grow in size. The average eukaryotic cell has more than ten thousand times the mass of the average prokaryotic cell, with the largest eukaryotic cells having hundreds of thousands of times the mass (or around a trillion times for ostrich eggs, for instance, which exist as a single-cell when formed). Where an organism has the greatest energy needs, such as in muscle and nerve cells, the greatest numbers of mitochondria are found. In a typical animal cell, dotted with hundreds of mitochondria, a single mitochondrion is the size of the prokaryote that became the mitochondrion, and is representative of prokaryote size in general. That increased surface area to generate ATP allowed eukaryotic cells to grow large and complex. There are quintillions (a million trillion) of those ATP Synthase motors in a human body, spinning at up to hundreds of revolutions per second, generating ATP molecules.
It can help to think of mitochondria as “distributed” energy generation centers in eukaryotes, versus the “perimeter” energy generation in prokaryotes. While the new mode of energy production presented various challenges, it allowed life to become large and complex. Size is important, at the cellular level as well as the organism level.
The primary advantage that mitochondria provided was not only that increased surface area for reactions, but unlike other organelles that began as bacteria (such as hydrogenosomes), mitochondria retained some of its DNA. That DNA was likely retained so that mitochondria could make key proteins vital to its functioning on the spot, instead of waiting for the nucleus to get around to sending DNA “instructions.” Essentially, mitochondria provided flexible power generation, similar to a field commander being empowered to make decisions far from headquarters, quickly responding to conditions on the ground. Mitochondria move around inside the cells, providing energy where it is needed. That flexibility of decentralized power generation is likely mitochondria’s chief contribution to making complex life possible, and that in turn led to many changes that are characteristic of complex life, some of which follow.
Perhaps a few hundred million years after the first mitochondrion appeared, as the oceanic oxygen content, at least on the surface, increased as a result of oxygenic photosynthesis, those complex cells learned to use oxygen instead of hydrogen. It is difficult to overstate the importance of learning to use oxygen in respiration, called aerobic respiration. Before the appearance of aerobic respiration, life generated energy via anaerobic respiration and fermentation. Because oxygen is in second place for creating the most energetic reactions, aerobic respiration generates, on average, about fifteen times as many ATP molecules per cycle as fermentation and anaerobic respiration do. The suite of complex life on Earth today would not have been possible without the energy provided by oxygenic respiration. At minimum, nothing could have flown, and any animal life that might have evolved would have never left the oceans, because the atmosphere would not have been breathable. With the advent of aerobic respiration, food chains became possible, as it is several times as efficient as anaerobic respiration and fermentation (about 40% as compared to less than 10%). Today’s food chains of several levels would be constrained to about two in the absence of oxygen.
Complex life means, by definition, that it has many parts, and they move. Complex movement needs energy to run the many moving parts. Complexity’s dependence on greater levels of energy use not only applies to all life forms, but it has also applied to all human civilizations, which will be explored later in this essay. When cells became “complex” with organelles, a tiny observer inside that cell would have witnessed a bewildering display of activity, with mitochondria sailing through the cells via cytoskeleton “scaffolding” on their energy generating missions, the ingestion of molecules for fuel and to create structures, with the miracle of cellular division, the constant building, repair, and dismantling of cellular structures, and the ejection of waste through the cellular membrane. The movement of molecules and organelles in eukaryotic cells is accomplished by using the same protein that became muscle: actin. Prokaryotes used an ancestor of actin to move, with their flagella providing their main mode of travel, to usually move toward food and safety or away from danger, including predators.
For various reasons, eukaryotes did not immediately rise to dominance on Earth, but were on a fairly even footing with prokaryotes for more than a billion years. That situation was at least partially related the continental configurations and the ocean’s currents.
The Moon has stabilized Earth’s axial tilt in relation to the Sun, making the seasons vary within a relatively narrow range. Without the Moon, Earth could have up to 90o changes in its axis of rotation instead of the 22o-to-24.5 o variation of the past several million years. If that had happened, while life may have survived, Earth’s climate would have been extremely chaotic, with part of the planet going into perpetual day, while another went into perpetual night, and other wild variations, which would have had mass-extinction effects on those portions, and the rest of the biosphere would have been extremely challenged to survive. Complex life on Earth would little resemble today’s, if it had appeared and survived at all, if Earth’s axis tilted chaotically and severely. The primary effect of Earth’s stable tilt is the planet’s entire surface receiving relatively uniform and predictable energy levels.
The primary heat dynamic on Earth’s surface is that the oceans near the equator are heated by sunlight and entropy spreads the heat toward the poles via oceanic currents. Today’s continental configuration, with three major oceans besides the polar ones, has seen a global current develop that takes water 1,600 years to travel. Where the Atlantic Ocean meets the polar oceans, the warm surface currents cool and sink to the ocean’s bottom, which is how the oceans are oxygenated. Without that oxygenation, there would be little life on the ocean floor or much below the surface; almost the entire global ocean would be lifeless. Before the GOE, this was certainly the case, but relatively recent hypotheses make the case that the oceans were anoxic for more than a billion years after the GOE began, largely related to the continental configuration and geophysical processes.
Many people are familiar with the term Pangaea, which was all of today’s continents merged into a supercontinent. Pangaea formed about 300 mya, but it was likely not the only supercontinent; it was just the only one existing during the eon of complex life. One called Rodinia may have existed one bya and did not break up until 750 mya (and reformed into another supercontinent, Pannotia, 600 mya, which did not break up until 550 mya), and there is a hypothesized earlier one called Columbia that existed two bya. There is also a hypothesis that all continental mass was contained in one supercontinent that lasted from 2.7 bya to 600 mya. The continental land masses of two bya may have been only about 60% the size of today’s. Supercontinents are generally associated with ice ages.
When the total continental land mass was small or combined into a supercontinent, there was no land to divert that diffusion of warm water toward the poles, which results in currents. During those times, the ocean became one big, calm lake, with no currents of significance. Those oceans are called Canfield Oceans today, and they would have been anoxic, as the oxygenated surface waters would not have been drawn by currents to the ocean floor, and the oceans were certainly anoxic before the GOE. While the interplay of the many interacting dynamics can be incredibly complex and lead to the multitude of hypotheses posited to explain those ancient events, a leading hypothesis today is that a combination of factors, including supercontinents, variations in volcanic output, Canfield Oceans, and ice ages, prevented eukaryotic life from gaining ecosystem dominance until the waning of the second Snowball Earth event, which was the greatest series of glaciations that Earth has yet experienced, known today as the Cryogenian period, which ended about 635 mya. The study of the Cryogenian period, which is the subject of this essay’s next section, resulted in the term “Snowball Earth.”
All animals, except for some tiny ones in anoxic environments, use aerobic respiration today, and it is likely that the early animals (multicellular heterotrophs, which are called metazoans today) also used aerobic respiration. Before the rise of eukaryotes, the dominant life forms, bacteria and archaea, had many chemical pathways to generate energy, farming that potential electron energy from a myriad of substances, such as hydrogen sulfide, sulfur, iron, hydrogen, ammonia, and manganese, and photosynthesizers got their donor electrons from hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen, arsenate, nitrite, and other variants. If there is potential energy in electron bonds, bacteria and archaea will often find ways to harvest it. Many archaean and bacterial species thrive in harsh environments that would quickly kill any complex life, and those hardy organisms are called extremophiles. In harsh environments, those organisms can go dormant for millennia and perhaps longer, waiting for appropriate conditions (usually related to available energy). In some environments, it can take a hundred years for a cell to divide.
But once the GOE reached the level where eukaryotes could reliably power their respiration aerobically, then virtually all complex life went “all in” with aerobic respiration, and all plants engage in oxygenic photosynthesis. The conventional view is that the GOE was a microbe holocaust, as most anaerobic microbes died from oxygen damage. However, there is little evidence for a holocaust. Today, it looks more like the anaerobes were driven to the margins where oxygen is scarce (underground, and in some anoxic waters such as today’s Black Sea) while aerobes quickly came to dominate the planet. Once the oxygenic photosynthesis and aerobic respiration regime was achieved around two billion years ago, the cycle of photosynthesizers creating oxygen and aerobes eating it began. The atmospheric carbon dioxide and oxygen levels have seesawed ever since the beginning of the eon of complex life, and probably earlier. For instance, the coal beds that humanity is mining and burning with such abandon today were created because trees invented lignin that allowed them to grow tall, and it took millions of years for life forms to learn how to break lignin down, and like the other big events, that trick was likely only learned once. Consequently, carbon got buried with those trees in prodigious amounts, eventually forming most of Earth’s coal beds. That time is known as the Carboniferous period, and all of that carbon being sequestered in Earth led to skyrocketing oxygen levels; the highest that Earth has yet seen. Over the billions of years since oxygenic respiration began, aerobes have consumed 99.99% of all the oxygen created by oxygenic photosynthesis. That remaining 0.01% was buried into Earth’s crust and is responsible for the generally declining atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. It has been estimated that there is 26,000 times more organic carbon buried in Earth’s crust than exists in today’s biosphere.
The times between 1.8 bya and 800 mya are called “the boring billion years” in scientific circles, because there were no dramatic evolutionary events that left a fossil record, and it was likely because the oceans were largely anoxic and rich in hydrogen sulfide, which prevented eukaryotes from attaining dominance. It is also hypothesized that a shortage of molybdenum, which bacteria use to fix nitrogen, may have contributed.
During that “boring” time before complex life appeared, key biological events happened that were critical for the later appearance of complex life, and some of them follow. About 1.5 bya, eukaryotic organisms are clearly seen in the fossil strata, but are simple spheroids and tubes.
About 1 bya, stromatolites began to decline and microbial photosynthesizers began to evolve spines, probably due to predation pressure from protists, which are eukaryotes. Eating stromatolites may reflect the first instance of grazing, although grazing is really just a form of predation. The difference between grazing and predation is the prey. If the prey is an autotroph (it fixes its own carbon, by using energy from either sunlight capture or harvesting the energy potential of inorganic chemicals), it is called grazing, and if the prey got its carbon from eating autotrophs (such creatures are called heterotrophs), then it is called predation. There are other categories of life form consumption, such as parasitism and detritivory (eating dead organisms), and there are many instances of symbiosis. For complex life, the symbiosis between the mitochondrion and its cellular host was the most important one ever.
Similar to how mitochondria were “invented,” somewhere between 1.6 bya and 600 mya a eukaryote ate a cyanobacterium and both survived, and that cyanobacterium became the ancestor of all chloroplasts, which is the photosynthetic organelle in all plants. And as with similar previous events, it appears that it happened only once, and all plants are descended from that unique event. The invention of the chloroplast quickly led to the first multicellular eukaryotes, algae, which were the first plants. The first algae fossils are from about 1.2 bya. Most algae species are not called plants, as they are not descended from that instance where a eukaryote ate a cyanobacterium. The non-plant algae, such as kelp, also have chloroplasts, from various “envelopment” events, where an algae chloroplast was eaten and the grazer and chloroplast survived.
Mitochondria, being the energy generation centers in eukaryotic cells (some eukaryotes lost their mitochondria, usually because the mitochondria evolved into other organelles such as mitosomes and hydrogenosomes), present similar issues to how industrialized humanity generates energy today. Power plants have pollution issues, and can explode and create environmental catastrophes such as happened at Chernobyl and Fukushima. The electron transport chain used to create ATP in a mitochondrion leaks electrons, which creates free radicals. A free radical is an atom, molecule, or ion with an unpaired valance electron or an unfilled shell, and thus seeks to capture an electron. Those lost electrons due to transport chain leakage create free radicals, and they will take that electron from wherever they can get it. With aerobic respiration, some of the most dangerous free radicals are created, particularly the hydroxyl radical. The more hydroxyl radicals created, the more damage inflicted on neighboring molecules. Another free radical created by that electron leakage is superoxide, can be neutralized by antioxidants, but there is no avoiding the damage produced by the hydroxyl radical. Those kinds of free radicals are called reactive oxygen species (“ROS”). ROS are not universally deleterious to life processes, but if their production spins out of control, the oxidative stress inflicted by the ROS can cripple biological structures. ROS damage can cause programmed cell death, called apoptosis, which is a maintenance process for complex life. Antioxidants are one way that organisms defend against oxidative stress, with vitamin C being a standard antioxidant. Antioxidants usually serve multiple purposes in cellular chemistry, and antioxidant supplements generally do not work as advertised, as they not only do not target the reactions that it might be beneficial to prevent, but they can interfere with reactions that are necessary for life processes. Antioxidant supplements are blunt instruments that can cause more harm than good.
While there is plenty of uncertainty and controversy regarding just how connected the issue may be, it appears that keeping some DNA at the mitochondria, in order to have more efficient and flexible energy generation, helped lead to the genetic phenomenon known as sexual reproduction. Bacteria swap DNA in reproduction and have done so since life’s early days, but the process of meiosis, where two parent life forms split and recombine their DNA to produce an offspring, is unique to eukaryotes, and that form of reproduction appeared between 1.2 and 1.0 bya. And as with the other seminal events, it seems that sexual reproduction using meiosis happened once, and all eukaryotes that reproduce sexually are descended from that one instance. Protists were the first organisms to reproduce sexually.
Again, the dates for these events are rather rough, but if the creation of a chloroplast happened once, and the creation of sexual reproduction happened once, then sexual reproduction would have needed to come before the chloroplast, as many plants produce sexually. If it turns out that the chloroplast really is 1.6 billion years old, then the current date for sexual reproduction would need to be pushed back, or the “sex was invented once” idea would have to be discarded, and biologists would likely decide that the date of sex appearing would need to be pushed back, even without fossil evidence of it.
Many principles of evolutionary theory have not changed much since Darwin, and one of them is that when one species gains the “upper hand” in the struggle of life on Earth, as there is only so much sunlight and nutrients to go around, the losers become marginalized or go extinct. Ultimately, the species with the highest carrying capacity, or ability to extract energy from its environment, wins. There are many ways, however, to attain that winning carrying capacity. Another Darwinian concept is that species adapt to their environments (which include other species) to benefit that species, not any other (and Darwin used the concept at the organism level, not the species level). Darwin’s idea of all life on Earth descending from a common ancestor is a central feature of evolutionary theory. But Darwin’s idea of gradual changes leading to speciation is confounded by the appearance of mitochondria, which led to complex life. There was nothing gradual about an archaean swallowing a bacterium and both surviving, with the bacterium eventually becoming the power plant for all animals. It was a radical change, and a chasm between simple and complex life.
Another evolutionary concept is that all changes had mechanical reasons for happening (again, today’s science has nothing to say about any intent), and each mechanical change required some purpose in improving an organism’s chances of surviving to reproduce, or at least not have unduly impaired it. And as evolution progressed, for each species, it was like taking a road, and the further down the road a species went in its development, the “lifestyle” opportunities that its biological operation created precluded other kinds of styles. For instance, trees will never become Ents. Trees went down the path of roots, lignin, growing taller than their neighbors and the like. A plant cannot choose locomotion as a way of life. It does not generate enough energy for it, for one thing. Animals went down a very different evolutionary path than plants did, and muscles, brains, livers, and the like have no analogy in plants and, by themselves, plants will not grow muscles or brains anytime soon, although humans have been making radical changes in animals over brief periods of time, such as the many breeds of dog.
The nutrient cycling that life contributes to, and the oxygen that is generated that maintains the ozone layer, was all initially performed by prokaryotes, and will continue to be performed by them long after complex life goes extinct. From the geophysical perspective of making Earth inhabitable, complex life is largely an unnecessary frill. Earth’s biomass today is about half prokaryote and half eukaryote.
I had to truncate the chapter, because of Avalon's space limitations. The end of the chapter will go in the next post.
Wade Frazier
26th November 2013, 12:26
Here is the end of the Early Life on Earth chapter:
During that “boring billion years,” sexual reproduction was invented, plants became possible, and the rise of grazing and predation had eonic significance. While many critical events in life’s history were unique, one that is not is multicellularity, which independently evolved dozens of times, and some prokaryotes have multicellular structures, some even with specialized organisms forming colonies. There are various hypotheses to explain why life went multicellular, but the primary advantage was size, which would become important in the coming eon of complex life. The rise of complex life might have happened faster than the billion years or so after the basic foundation was set (the complex cell, oxygenic photosynthesis), but geophysical processes had their impacts. Perhaps most importantly, the oceans probably did not get oxygenated until just before complex life appeared, as they were sulfidic Canfield Oceans from 1.8 bya to 700 mya. Atmospheric oxygen is currently thought to have remained at only a few percent at most until about 850 mya. Just as the atmospheric oxygen content began to rise, then came the biggest ice age in Earth’s history, which probably played a major role in the rise of complex life.
Here is the Cambrian Explosion chapter:
The Cambrian Explosion
Until Ediacaran fossils were recognized for what they were, the Cambrian period was considered to have produced the earliest known fossils, and that situation has vexed scientists from Darwin onward. If animals just came into being from nothing, the Creationist arguments of Darwin’s time may have had some validity. Darwin attributed the lack of Precambrian fossils to the geological record’s imperfection. As can be discerned in this essay’s previous sections, scientists have filled many gaps, and Darwin’s theory has held up well.
The Cambrian period, however, is of eonic significance and still a source of great controversy. The Cambrian Explosion was unique, and was the development of the first complex, modern-looking ecosystem. Although the Cambrian Explosion is the most spectacular event in the fossil record, it is questioned whether it was really an explosion at all, and many contenders for the “cause” of the explosion have been offered, with various hypotheses falling by the wayside over the years, but the hunt for one “cause” may be futile. While one factor may have triggered the more dramatic manifestations of it, several dynamics played their roles. There are going to be proximate and ultimate causes for events such as that. First and foremost, the Cambrian Explosion was about size, which was likely enabled by oxygenating the seafloor, which interacted with developmental changes (from egg to adult) and new ecological relationships. The currently predominant hypotheses feature geophysical processes interacting with biological ones. The increase in organism size that marked the rise of complex life is today thought to be a response to predation, which led to life’s “arms race.” The competition between organisms, locked in predator/prey, parasite/host, grazer/grazed dynamics, is thought to be behind a great deal of evolutionary innovation. The Red Queen hypothesis posits that the constant battle between those competing life forms led to sexual reproduction and other innovations.
During the Cambrian Explosion, an ecosystem developed where life on the sea floor, surface, and water column all interacted for the first time. All but one of the environmental factors currently and prominently considered were energy dynamics, with the environment providing either too much or too little energy, and the nutrient hypothesis (calcium in this case) will be revisited numerous times in this essay. A lack of nutrients, mineral and otherwise, always meant that the energy-driven dynamics that delivered the nutrients were curtailed. If enough energy is applied properly, all nutrients can be abundant.
Before the rise of humanity and industrial agriculture, the interplay of life, climate, and land masses created the seasonal runoffs that fed oceanic ecosystems. However, during the Cambrian Explosion the land was largely barren, as life had yet to significantly invade land. Also, continental shelves have always been key hosts for oceanic ecosystems, as sunlight could reach the seafloor and nutrients were closer to the surface. As supercontinents broke apart or formed as the tectonic plates danced across Earth’s crust, shallow seas were often created, which were usually quite life-friendly. Those ancient shallow seas and swampy continental margins have great importance to today’s humanity, as our fossil fuels were usually created there. Earth’s coal beds were created in swampy floodplain conditions, usually near coasts, and the oil deposits were created by black shale and marlstone that formed in shallow anoxic waters. The Tethys Ocean and its predecessors (1, 2) had a half-billion-year history that began in the Ediacaran, with the Tethys finally disappearing less than twenty mya. The shallow margins of those tropical oceans, and the anoxic events that would dot the eon of complex life, formed most of today’s oil deposits, particularly Middle East oil. Numerous shallow tropical seas characterized the Cambrian period.
While the first skeletons appeared in the Ediacaran, in the Cambrian period skeletons became a key aspect of the coming arms race between predator and prey. Food chains appeared, in which about ten percent of an organism’s energy was transferred to the animal that ate it. Unlike the internal skeletons that characterized fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, the first skeletons were external. Hard shells protected from predation, and the bigger the animal, the more likely it would survive (but a bigger animal also meant a bigger energy windfall if it could be eaten). But size presented immense challenges. Similar to how complex cells needed to solve the energy generation and distribution problem before they could grow, increasing size presented numerous problems to early complex life. How could a large organism supply energy and other nutrients to its cells? Remove waste? Move? Life solved the problems by making structures and organs from specialized cells. By the Cambrian period’s end, animals had developed skeletons, gills, muscles, brains, circulatory systems, digestive and eliminative systems, nervous systems, respiratory systems, and internal organs which included eyes, livers, kidneys, etc.
Just as the aftermath of the appearance of complex life was uninteresting from a biochemical perspective, as the amazingly diverse energy-generation strategies of archaea and bacteria were almost totally abandoned in favor of aerobic respiration, biological solutions to the problems that complex life presented were greatest during the Cambrian Explosion, and everything transpiring since then has been relatively insignificant. Animals would never see that level of innovation again. While investigating those eonic changes, many scientists have realized that the dynamics of those times may have been quite different from today’s, where once again Lyell’s uniformitarianism is of limited use for explaining what happened.
Phyla consist of body plans, which scientists have used to classify all life forms, and all significant animal phyla had appeared by the Cambrian period’s end. The Cambrian Explosion has been difficult to explain, and while there is still great controversy and there are many unanswered questions, it has also been difficult to explain why significant change stopped after the explosion. Once the basic body plans appeared and biomes were filled, new plans never appeared again. Why did all fundamental change stop? The emerging view is the same for why complex life went all in with aerobic respiration and never changed since then. Not only could innovation confer great benefits, but once that path was embarked on, further travel along the developmental path made it continually less feasible to either backtrack, start over, and take another path, or choose a fundamentally different path. The history of life’s choices was ingrained into organisms in several ways, and the source of that inertia began to be understood when biology and chemistry at the cellular and subcellular levels were investigated, particularly after DNA was sequenced and studied. The fact that Hox genes have not significantly changed in several hundred million years points to the issue. Hox genes have not changed because they control key developmental steps in embryonic development. Not only do Hox genes work, there are no practical ways to significantly change them, as they lay the animal’s structural foundation. Hox genes are called regulatory genes, and the nature of gene regulatory networks seems to be why animals have not fundamentally changed since the Cambrian Explosion.
Imagine a family having a custom home built and, after it was built, they decided that they wanted a basement, four extra stories, central gas heating rather than baseboard electric heating, and a swimming pool on the third floor. It would not be feasible to renovate the home to give it those new features, especially if the family was already living in it. They would need to build a new house from scratch, with a new foundation, and they would have to find a temporary home during the construction period. But an animal has to live in its body all the time. There is no way to redesign and rebuild an animal’s foundation while it lives in its body, and the biological superstructure built on the foundation was designed for that foundation. A new superstructure would also have to be designed and built on the new foundation. A six-chambered heart, for instance, could not just be invented and put into a human chest and work, or a second brain, or a third arm. The kinds of changes that are feasible have to adhere to the basic structural and biochemical foundations that the phyla represent.
Once animals appeared on the evolutionary scene and filled most possible niches, new biological foundations could not be built, with superstructures built atop them, and hope to compete for resources that were already being consumed in the food chains. Developing the original animal body plans took millions of years. There were many other possible body plans that could have been developed in the early days of animals, which might have worked wonderfully, but those chosen ones worked well enough for survival and reproduction, and once chosen, there was no going back. There really could not be, unless all animal life was wiped out and protists could start over, as they are the last common ancestors of animals (and eliminating all animal life would lead to great plant extinctions for starters, such as flowering plants). The biological commitments to those basic modes of existence had their own inertia, and it starts at the root, with the DNA.
The primary unit of taxonomic organization is a clade, which consists of a single ancestor and all of its descendants. The study of body features has been augmented by recent findings in molecular biology, and many organisms have had their cladistic classification changed, and many more will in the future. Many common features among diverse organisms are due to convergent evolution and not ancestry, as organisms independently developed similar solutions to life’s challenges.
Ediacaran traces show that some animals were mobile before the Cambrian Explosion. The first creatures that we would recognize as animals were probably worms, crawling atop ocean sediments. As lowly as the worm might seem, it would have needed muscles, bilateral symmetry, a circulatory and digestive/excretory system, and a nervous system run by a brain; that distant ancestor likely possessed Earth’s first brain. Some early worms may have even had rudimentary eyes. And of possibly eonic importance, worms likely made the first poop. The evolution of feces-producing animals may have been a seminal event in the organic carbon burial process. Sponges may have also been largely responsible for initially removing oceanic carbon, which helped increase atmospheric oxygen and helped ventilate the oceans. Until then, organic carbon from dead life forms would not have settled to the ocean floor, but would have floated in the water column and been recycled by other life forms. Although the hypothesis is considered marginally valid today, feces sinking to the ocean floor may have been how life’s burial of carbon began, as well as robbing sulfate-reducing bacteria in the water column of their nutrients, thus enabling oceanic waters to remain oxygenated. Ediacaran fauna did not burrow into ocean sediments, but deep burrowing was characteristic of Cambrian sediments. There is debate today whether the Cambrian burrowing was a consequence or cause of oxygenating the ocean floor, in a conflict of the top-down or bottom-up models.
As with those small worms that crawled along and burrowed into the newly oxygenated seafloor (or helped oxygenate it), many small animals with shells and mineralized parts appeared in the late Ediacaran, and a misnomer was coined to account for them termed small shelly fauna. Those small animals also thrived in the Cambrian, and many of them were ancestors to their larger descendants, showing more intermediate steps in the “explosion.”
The Cambrian Explosion’s iconic animal was the trilobite. As a child, I read every paleontology text in my elementary school’s library, and I have fond memories of imagining trilobite lives. Was there love among the trilobites? Among the protists? The bacteria? To a scientist, those questions might not have any meaning, but to a mystic they could. I will not wax too mystically in this essay (I do it elsewhere), but that may well be the big question of life on Earth, and an enduring mystery to humanity. The nature of consciousness and love in the Cambrian, or the lack thereof, as much as it may always be a mystery, does not invalidate life’s arc through the evolutionary process; it only challenges materialism.
Creationist critiques of the evolutionary corpus, which all-too-often attempt to portray the Book of Genesis as literally true, often use the eye as evidence of their Creationist notions. The eye is too complex and function-specific to be some kind of evolutionary development, so goes Creationist reasoning. Even Darwin confessed to the problems that eyes posed for his theory of natural selection, stating that the notion of eyes being the product of natural selection seems “absurd.” However, the evolutionary path to the fully-developed eye appears pretty clear to today’s scientists. Eyes began with pigments similar to chlorophyll that captured photons that initiated electrical impulses through chemical cycles in a new kind of specialized cell, the nerve cell. Neurons are energy hogs, being the “high-tension electric lines” in animals. Human brain tissue uses ten times the energy that average tissues elsewhere in the body do. The first eyes probably only detected light, and perhaps even infrared light, so that organisms could remain the proper distance from life-giving/destroying volcanic vents, for instance. Hydrothermal vent shrimp today have such infrared sensors, which can be likened to naked retinas. The development of an eye with a lens was not a great evolutionary leap from rudimentary eyes, and a recent calculation shows how eyes with lenses could have developed from scratch in about a half-million years of evolution. Protozoa may have had the first precursors to eyes. Once the eye evolved, its benefit was overwhelmingly obvious, and virtually all animals that live where vision would help them have eyes. Animals that adopted subterranean existences have lost their vision and even their eyes. It is thought today that the development of eyes was a key innovation in the arms race that would soon characterize the eon of animals, and might have even triggered it. There is a gene known today as Pax6, and it is common to all animals with eyes. As with those other early-life events, that gene supports the widely-accepted idea that vision evolved only once.
The Cambrian Explosion marked the rise of the arthropods, which may be the most successful animal body plan ever, and accounts for more than 80% of all animal species today. Arthropods such as the trilobite left spectacular fossils, and were once thought to dominate the Cambrian period, but in 1909 the Burgess Shale was discovered, which might be the world’s most famous fossil bed. The Burgess Shale preserved the soft parts of Cambrian organisms, and interest was renewed in the Burgess Shale in the 1960s, as the unique fossils coming from them began to be appreciated. Mining the Burgess Shale for fossils will continue for the foreseeable future, with new and important findings expected. Recent finds in China and elsewhere have greatly improved scientific understanding of the Cambrian Explosion.
While grazing and predation far predated the Cambrian Explosion, it took on new forms as animals became large. Trilobites, for instance, rolled up like pill bugs to protect themselves from predators, and trilobites could be predators themselves. The Burgess Shale produced the first complete fossil of Anomalocaris, which is a close cousin of the bizarre-looking Opabinia, and Anomalocaris was likely the Cambrian period’s apex predator, with Chinese specimens reaching up to two meters in length; it was the leviathan of its time. It is controversial whether Anomalocaris could have preyed upon armored arthropods or shellfish, as its mouth may have been unsuited for it.
An important evolutionary principle is organisms developing a new feature for one purpose, and then using that feature for other purposes as the need arose. As complex life evolved in the newly-oxygenated seafloors, several immediate survival needs had to be addressed. Going back to the hierarchy of nutrients that a human needs, if an oxygen-dependent animal did not have access to oxygen, it meant immediate death. Obtaining oxygen would have been the salient requirement for early complex life that adopted aerobic respiration as its primary respiration process, which is how nearly all animals today respire. While animals in low-oxygen environments have adapted to other ways of respiring (or perhaps never relinquished them in the first place), they are all sluggish creatures and would have quickly lost in the coming arms war. Collagen, which is a critical connective tissue in animals, requires oxygen for its synthesis, and was one of numerous oxygen-dependencies that animals quickly adopted during the Cambrian Explosion.
Diffusion works for animals that are no more than a couple of millimeters thick, but for larger animals a respiration system was necessary. The rise of the arthropods has been an enduring problem for paleobiologists. Why was the arthropod so successful, particularly in the beginning? Segmented animals dominated the Cambrian seas, and segmentation provides for repeated features. The segments obviously became important for locomotion but, for arthropods, segmentation appears to have conferred a more important advantage, of distributed oxygen absorption. Each trilobite leg had an attached gill, and leg motion constantly drew fresh oxygenated water over each gill. Arthropods never developed the kinds of lungs that vertebrates have, or the pump gills of fish and other aquatic animals. Early arthropods breathed by moving their legs. Peter Ward’s recent hypothesis is that segments were first used for respiration, to provide a large gill surface area, and using the segments for locomotion came later. For trilobites, the same functionality that pushed water over gills was also coopted for food intake. Also, the leg-mounted gill was necessary because of an arthropod’s body armor; oxygen could not be absorbed through tough exoskeletons.
Every aerobic aquatic animal had to solve the problem of extracting oxygen from the water, and there was diversity in its accomplishment. Key Cambrian animals such as sponges and corals had very high-surface-area-to-body-volume ratios, which allowed diffusion to provide their oxygen. Immobile animals such as sponges and coral had to position themselves where oxygenated water flowed past or through them. Sponges work like chimneys, designed to passively draw water through them. The position and structure of reefs facilitated those oxygen-providing dynamics, so corals helped create the conditions that sustained them, with calcified exoskeletons of corals dissuading predation and building the reefs.
The Cambrian ocean contained far less oxygen than today’s. Being newly and probably inconsistently oxygenated by oceanic currents was only part of the problem. The Cambrian oceans were warmer than today’s oceans, perhaps far warmer, such as 40oC. and higher for the tropical ones. Water’s ability to absorb oxygen declines as it gets warmer. Water heated from 10oC. to 40oC. will lose 40% of its ability to absorb oxygen. The phenomenon of warmer water absorbing less oxygen contributed to many instances of anoxic waters during the eon of complex life, particularly in the warmer, earlier periods.
Members of another phylum, Brachiopoda, which superficially resemble clams, were successful in the Cambrian, but if their shells are opened, they look very different inside. Inside the shell is mostly empty space, with ciliated tentacles that perform a dual function of filtering food and absorbing oxygen. The cilia pump water through the shell and over the tentacles, which allows such animals to be immobile.
Another winner in the Cambrian period was the mollusk phylum, which today comprises nearly a quarter of all marine animals. As with arthropods and corals, mollusks developed predation-defending armor, with their variation being shells. Mollusks include the cephalopod, bivalve, and gastropod classes. Similar to brachiopods, mollusks developed “power gills,” whereby they actively pumped water across their gills using cilia, and bivalves usually use also their gills to catch food. One early class of mollusks, which may be the first mollusks, had the repeated gill structure of the trilobites, but their gills lined the inside of their shells, which supports the idea that shells may have been developed for improving respiration first and predation-protection second. There is even evidence that a gastropod-like animal might have lived on the seashore about 510 mya, and might have been the first animal to visit land.
But the most impressive dual-use innovation in mollusks is what cephalopods invented. Their gill pump is quite muscular, and jets water over its gills. That jet is also used to propel the animal. Jet propulsion is not an energy-efficient means of transportation, but the cephalopod’s ability to pass oxygen-bearing water over its gills is unmatched. Cephalopods can thrive in waters too hypoxic for fish to survive. In the coming Ordovician period, cephalopods would be apex predators of the marine biomes and would hold that distinction for a long time. Cephalopods are today’s most intelligent invertebrates, with the octopus performing surprising feats of intelligence, and it has the largest brain-to-body-size ratio of all invertebrates. It is thought that the skills needed for predation stimulated cephalopodan intelligence. Today, the nautilus is the only survivor of that lineage of Ordovician apex predators.
But the branch of the tree of life that readers might find most interesting led to humans. Human are in the chordate phylum, and the last common ancestor that founded the Chordata phylum is still a mystery and understandably a source of controversy. Was our ancestor a fish? A sea squirt? Peter Ward made the case, as have others for a long time, that it was the sea squirt, also called a tunicate, which resemble fish in its larval stage. The nerve cord in most bilaterally-symmetric animals runs below the belly, not above it, and a sea squirt that never grew up may have been our direct ancestor. Adult tunicates are also highly adapted to extracting oxygen from water, even too much so, with only about 10% of today’s available oxygen extracted in tunicate respiration. It may mean that tunicates adapted to low oxygen conditions early on. Ward’s respiration hypothesis, where adapting to low oxygen conditions was an evolutionary spur for animals, will repeatedly reappear in this essay, as will challenges to that hypothesis. Ward’s hypothesis may be proven wrong or will not have the key influence that he attributes to it, but it also has plenty going for it. The idea that fluctuating oxygen levels impacted animal evolution has been gaining support in recent years, particularly in light of recent reconstructions of oxygen levels in the eon of complex life, called GEOCARBSULF and COPSE, which have yielded broadly similar results, but their variances mean that much more work needs to be performed before confidently placing oxygen levels on the geologic timescale can be done, if it ever can be. Ward’s basic hypotheses is that when oxygen levels are high, ecosystems are diverse, with life an easy proposition; when oxygen levels are low, animals adapted to high oxygen levels go extinct, and the survivors are those adapted to low oxygen with body plan changes, and their adaptations helped them dominate the period after the extinctions. The chart used to support his hypothesis has a pretty wide range of potential error, particularly in the early years, and it also tracked atmospheric carbon dioxide levels. The challenges to the validity of a model based on data with such a wide range of error are understandable. But some broad trends are unmistakable, as it is with other models, some of which are generally declining carbon dioxide levels, some huge oxygen spikes, and the generally seesawing relationship between oxygen and carbon dioxide levels, which a geochemist would expect. The high carbon dioxide level during the Cambrian, of at least 10,000 PPM, is what scientists think made the times so hot.
As will be explored in this essay, all of the first four major mass extinctions of complex life have anoxia as a suspected contributing cause, so oxygen is a major area of interest among extinction specialists. Whether oxygen levels were also significant contributing causes of evolutionary innovation is another area of keen interest today. Again, the vast energy superiority of aerobic respiration led to food chains. If the first animals respired anaerobically, they adapted to aerobic respiration early on and then became dependent on it. There would be no going back for animals; all except those few adapted to hypoxic and anoxic environments went “all in” with aerobic respiration.
One irony of fossilization is that conditions hostile to life usually left the best-preserved fossils, because nothing disturbed the sediments, which were anoxic and usually sulfidic. In the sea sediments that mark the geologic periods, white limestone and black shale are typical layers, with the limestone meaning oxygenated oceans, and black shales and mudstones meaning anoxic conditions. The black color means reduced carbon, where the ecosystems could not recycle the carbon and it was instead preserved into the sediments which have been the primary source of the oil and gas being burned in today’s industrialized world.
Supercontinents tend to result in Canfield Oceans, and land near the poles could help initiate an ice age. For the coming geologic periods, the configurations of the continents were critical variables for determining what kinds of ecosystems existed, whether there were anoxic oceans, greenhouse conditions, ice ages, extinction events, or adaptive radiations. Helpful animations exist to make the configurations easier to visualize.
The Cambrian Explosion had several phases to it, with explosions of life and mass extinctions, and a general atmospheric oxygen rise accompanied it, and anoxic conditions coincided with extinctions. While prokaryotes would not be that affected by what complex life was doing (although anaerobes were generally driven underground and into the seafloor), the rise of complex life led to new ecosystems. Before the rise of animals, the seafloor was smooth and “stiff,” but burrowing animals had profound impact on seafloor ecosystems, and likely played a prominent role in creating the ecosystems themselves. Corals created new ecosystems, as life terraformed Earth.
A recent study shows a more dramatic rise and fall during the Cambrian than the GEOCARBSULF model does, with oxygen levels seesawing and doubling to around 30% in the Late Cambrian. Those seesawing levels coincide with evolutionary radiations and extinctions, and big questions are if they were triggering causes for them or not. They were likely related, and many of today’s specialists suspect that they played key causative roles.
Around 530 mya, the first brachiopods, reef-building animals, and fish appear in the fossil record, and trilobites first appear in the fossil record about 521 mya, only a few million years before a mass extinction about 517 mya, which wiped out those early reef-building organisms and nearly all of the small shelly fauna. Similar to the Ediacaran fauna, those early extinctions extinguished major portions of the ecosystems. With the rise of DNA studies, scientists are trying to recover the tree of life’s lost portions, looking for “ghost ancestors.” This is a new area of study, with current findings quite speculative, but we can be confident that many clades were born and went extinct, all the way up to the phylum level and maybe even higher, particularly in the Ediacaran and Cambrian periods, without leaving a trace in today’s known fossil record. Specialists in these areas are always calling for more fossil-hunting, analysis with new tools, and the like.
The Middle Cambrian years were halcyonic for trilobites, where they reached peak dominance. It is thought that they filled vacant niches in the wake of those early mass extinctions. The early corals went extinct, and the rise of the demosponges followed it (those early corals are currently classified as sponges, although the issue is controversial). Sponge reefs would dominate in later times, and sponges have perhaps been the most successful early animal, still thriving today.
There is evidence that rising and falling sea levels, likely the result of a periodically growing and shrinking ice cap at the South Pole, as the continent Gondwana was there, contributed to the radiations and extinctions that marked the Cambrian. The trilobites went through several boom-and-bust phases in the Cambrian. Many extinctions were more local than global, but at the end of the Cambrian most trilobites went extinct and would never dominate again. They survived until the greatest mass extinction of all, the Permian extinction, and then disappeared from Earth, at least until the rise of paleontology and reconstructions to fascinate children and adults. The leading hypothesis is that rising seas caused anoxia and led to the end-Cambrian extinctions at about 485 mya. That this may have coincided with a rise in atmospheric oxygen is not necessarily contradictory; all the oxygen in the world will be useless to deep-ocean and seafloor life if there are not mechanisms, primarily currents, to introduce atmospheric gases into the oceans. Surface life can thrive in high-oxygen conditions while the seafloor dies from lack of oxygen, especially when the surface rises further above the seafloor. Oxygenation and anoxia during the Cambrian may well have been sporadic and regional, and research is ongoing, trying to unravel the dynamics. If the evidence was better, the Cambrian extinction could rank among the Big Five, but we may never know. The older the fossils, the less likely they will survive subsequent geological processes. Cambrian fossil beds discovered so far are uncharacteristically rich, with the next period, the Ordovician, relatively impoverished. It is suspected that unique geological and fossil-preservation dynamics led to the Cambrian’s gold mine of fossils.
In summary, the deadly waltz of predator and prey characterized the Cambrian, and complex ecosystems were born for the first time. Again, from a biochemical and morphological perspective, all events since the Cambrian have been relatively insignificant, but are still fascinating and led to the bipedal ape writing these words.
It can be helpful at this juncture to grasp the cumulative impact of life forming by harnessing energy gradients, inventing enzymes, inventing photosynthesis, inventing distributed energy generation centers that made complex cells possible, and inventing aerobic respiration. Pound-for-pound, the complex organisms that began to dominate Earth’s ecosphere during the Cambrian period consumed energy about one-hundred-thousand times as fast as the Sun produced it. Life on Earth is an incredibly energy-intensive phenomenon, powered by sunlight. In the end, only so much sunlight hits Earth, and it has always been life’s primary limiting variable. Photosynthesis became more efficient, aerobic respiration was an order-of-magnitude leap in energy efficiency, the oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans allowed animals to colonize land and ocean sediments and even fly, and life’s colonization of land allowed for a great leap in biomass. Life could exploit new niches and even help create them, but the key innovations and pioneering were achieved long ago. If humanity attains the free energy epoch, new niches will arise, even of the artificial off-planet variety, but all other creatures living on Earth have constraints, primarily energy constraints, that produce very real limits. Life on Earth has largely been a zero-sum game for several hundred million years, but the Cambrian Explosion was one of those Golden Ages when animal life had its greatest expansion, and one not built on the bones of a mass extinction so much as it blazed new trails.
The twin ideas of efficiency and resilience are also important to understand at this stage. Efficiency is about getting more for less, particularly energy. While aerobic respiration’s energy efficiency allowed for food chains to develop, food chains end up creating interactions and dependencies, and the entire structure can lose it resilience when compared to simpler systems. Remove one part of the food chain and the entire ecosystem can collapse. And it can be any part of the chain, from top to bottom. Making systems more efficient, as the last bits of energy are wrung from the system, reduces their resilience to the real world’s surprises. That dynamic is likely a major contributing factor to mass extinctions during the eon of complex life. Modern ecosystems studies are making the connections clear, and are being applied to the dynamics of human civilizations; the work of C. S. Holling has been seminal in this regard. Complex ecosystems pass through adaptive cycles of exploitation, conservation, release, and reorganization, and three dimensions of interaction are involved: potential, connectedness, and resilience. In general, simple systems are more stable than complex ones, which is another reason why any mass extinctions of prokaryotes, if there were any, would have likely been far less cataclysmic than those of complex life.
Also, similar to how no fundamentally new body plans appeared after the Cambrian Explosion, modern ecosystems seem to be constrained by body size. Body sizes have similar “slots” and body sizes outside those slots are relatively rare. However, successful innovation usually happens at the fringes. The fringes are where survival is marginal and innovations carry a high risk/reward ratio. Most innovations fail, but a successful one can become universally dominant, such as those biological innovations which are considered to have happened only once. There have likely been countless failed biological innovations during life’s history on Earth, many of which might have seemed brilliant and helpful, but did not survive the rigors of living.
As stated previously, there are fundamentally only two things in the universe: energy and consciousness. The universe may have begun as pure energy (and even if it did not, all matter appears to be comprised of energy), and consciousness may be required for the universe to manifest at all, which may well be part of the quantum enigma. As the greatest physicists admitted, the nature of conscious is not something that today’s science is equipped to study, even though our consciousness is all we know. The rise of life was based on energy and information, and the ability to manipulate them. Similar to the foundation of complex life remaining basically unchanged since the Cambrian Explosion, energy systems form the foundations for all ecosystems and civilizations. While the superstructure can change, and seemingly radically at times, the foundation dictates what kind of superstructure can exist. A huge superstructure built on a small foundation, if it can be built at all, will not be very resilient (the first earthquake or storm levels it), and will not last long. Today, industrialized civilization is burning through its foundational energy sources a million times as fast as they were created, and will largely deplete all of them in this century at the current trajectory. On the geologic timescale, the rise and fall of humanity may happen in the blink of an eye, and create more ecosystem devastation than the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, and would it happen faster than all previous mass extinctions other than that asteroid’s effect. Arthropods may then rule the world once again.
Wade Frazier
27th November 2013, 18:12
Hi:
Again, I have a very specific intention and process for what I am about to attempt. It will not look like anything anybody has tried before, which is partly why there are so many inventor-itis, “let’s be heroes,” “let’s start a stampede,” “let’s sneak past them,” and other approaches being bandied around on these “Wade-related” threads, which all reflect those inexperienced perspectives:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
Such people are playing the “bright idea” game, but have never tried to take their bright ideas into the world. There is a universe of difference between armchair theorists with their bright ideas and those who try them out in the real world.
My approach came to me after many years, of not only being in the trenches, but also doing relatively tame stuff such as help found NEM:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem
and trade notes with my few fellow travelers, and there are really only a handful of them on Earth today. I am looking for singers, not soldiers, and singers first have to have singing talent, and then learn a new and unusual song. That is what my upcoming essay is all about. That song will not be intended for those near the singers (families, friends, colleagues), but will be intended for a relative handful of people around the world who will be ready to hear it, and in fact have been pining for it for their entire lives. I will be using this new technology, the Internet, to reach them. When the singers reach that handful (I hope for about 100K people, and much less will make my strategy less likely and more dangerous), then we will be ready to go “do something,” and FE is the primary goal, which will make everything after it possible. As Machiavelli noted five hundred years ago:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli
John Q. Public will not begin to wake up to the idea of abundance until FE is delivered to his door, and that is what made Dennis so dangerous:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs
and why he was taken out, repeatedly, with such extreme prejudice. As I studied the other epochal events:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=674575&viewfull=1#post674575
I found that they were always mental/technical/social energy breakthroughs achieved by a relative handful of people, and then they spread when the benefits became obvious. This understanding came to me relatively late in my journey, such as in the past few years. I was already on my trajectory to my planned approach, but seeing how the other epochal events happened was only reinforcement to me that I may be heading in a productive direction, where that choir might help get something done.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
29th November 2013, 01:14
Hi:
I posted over here:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29372-What-technologies-activities-or-concepts-will-be-made-obsolete-by-Free-Energy&p=764484&viewfull=1#post764484
today.
Wade
Wade Frazier
1st December 2013, 20:11
Hi:
I have written a little about the damage that FE activists have suffered:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=408726&viewfull=1#post408726
All of us on that path that have survived for long are damaged goods, to one degree or another, and it shows. Dennis relied on his religious orientation to get him through, Greer went über-warrior, Brian had his Einstein hair and Lapis Pig, and I have my impatience and other personality issues, some of which were accentuated by going through the meat grinder. But we survived and kept going. The vast majority who get anywhere near the meat grinder crumble and are often reduced to quivering piles of protoplasm, never coming close to recovery. That has been one of the sadder sights on my journey, which I never want to see again, and why when newbies advocate the “let’s be heroes” game, I can tell that they never have done it, not at the levels where Godzilla and the other predators decided to do something about it, or their “allies” skewer them as the Treasure of the Sierra Madre effect takes over.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treasure_of_the_Sierra_Madre_(film)#Plot
Very few can survive those perils, and only saints have any business even trying.
Again, I am trying to do something different, where nobody needs to play the hero, largely because almost nobody is qualified to, particularly at the level needed to help give FE a chance:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
The meat of my essay is showing how energy has powered and shaped the universe, including all of Earth’s ecosystems and all human civilizations. Then I will be getting into how the FE and related land lies, and what the potential is. That is where readers will be seeing more of my experience and less of my scholarship, but it will always be tightly aligned with my experiences and those of my few fellow travelers.
Dennis’s wild ride has provided proof aplenty about not only how the energy racket operates:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#dennis
but also capitalism in general. Brian’s experiences playing the Paul Revere of FE:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions
showed how receptive scientists and environmentalists are to the idea of FE. Of course, I have had my own experiences with those two, as well as independently of them, which only added more textures to the central lessons they learned. We also had FE inventors and witnesses in common, such as Sparky Sweet:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sweet
and my friend who glimpsed what goodies are in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground
That was years before Greer’s Disclosure Project witnesses began describing some of those very same technologies, and when Greer reported that Godzilla had paid $100 billion in quiet money by the early 1990s:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#payoff
it made perfect sense to me, as I had already experienced and heard of that many times by then:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make
and when I went to go see some UFOs for myself, I was not disappointed:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm#call
Brian’s experience with the UFO issue shortened his life:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack
I will not be reporting much in those realms that I did not experience or my close circle experienced. If I was at liberty to put names, dates, and locations to some of the events where the participants wish to remain anonymous, readers would be impressed, but that is a limitation that comes with the territory of what I do, which anybody in these fields is well-acquainted with.
People are not going to need to take my word for much, and that is very much intentional, and I will only ask readers to take my word on issues where going to find out on their own is life-risking or the event that only happened once, and the circumstances do not lend themselves to happening again, such as my friend’s underground technology show (and you have to risk your life to be eligible for such a show). About 99% of the work toward developing a comprehensive perspective that places FE front and center does not require being stepped on by Godzilla or getting an underground technology show, but just deep study and reflection, maybe with a little help from me. What people such as Ilie and David are doing is exactly what I am looking for.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
4th December 2013, 00:31
Hi:
I was at the grocery store earlier today, and I saw this article at the newsstand:
http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/jfk-conspiracy-theories-at-50-how-the-skeptics-got-it-wrong-and-why-it-matters/#at_pco=tcb-1.0&at_tot=5&at_ab=-&at_pos=0
That article is just the kind of effort that I can usually count on from the “skeptics.” As I discovered long ago, organized skepticism is really only establishment apologetics:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends
dressed up as the height of rationality and even-handed assessment of the evidence. That article’s defense of the magic bullet theory is about the worst I have seen. After becoming familiar with the evidence over the years, to see how Gary’s testimony held up:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wean
it can be quite interesting to see how people deal with the evidence. The magic bullet was found on an unused stretcher at Parkland Hospital. That alone should have disqualified the bullet from the evidence ledgers (that it was "discovered" that way greatly bolsters the "conspiracy" angle on the JFK hit). Gary and others suspected that Seth Kantor planted the bullet (others suspect Jack Ruby), but we will likely never know. The famous autopsy photo of JFK, where the wound caused by the magic bullet (at least according to the Warren Commission) can be seen, which was used to perform a tracheotomy:
http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/history/news-jfk-autopsies-and-conspiries-photos?image=4
is the one that the debunker Skeptic article states was an exit wound, not an entrance wound (the edge of the wound can be seen at the bottom of the tracheotomy hole, and you can see why the doctors called it an entrance wound). If that is accepted, there is no way that the magic bullet could have entered JFK’s back and exited the center of his throat without passing through a vertebra. If it hit a vertebra, it would have shattered into a million pieces like the head shot bullet(s) did, not continued on its improbable path of creating several more wounds before ending up on an unused stretcher in virtually pristine shape.
These are just some of the many instances of strained logic used to defend the Warren Commission, whose findings are now known to have been avidly disbelieved by the Kennedy family:
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/12/16474762-rfk-jr-very-convincing-evidence-that-jfk-wasnt-killed-by-lone-gunman?lite
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=759574&viewfull=1#post759574
but it took them fifty years to publicly voice their opinion. And if they think that no “lone nut” killed JFK, they surely don’t think that RFK was killed by one, either, but it might take more years for them to publicly admit it. Without the magic bullet, the “lone nut” hypothesis collapses, so it is interesting to see how establishment defenders try to make the magic bullet’s story seem credible.
Ruby was a mobster who once worked for Al Capone, and Gary interacted with Ruby when Ruby was hanging out with fellow Jewish mobster Mickey Cohen:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#ruby
Ruby was no two-bit gangster wannabe. Oswald was a military intelligence operative working under E. Howard Hunt’s direction to stage a fake assassination attempt to frame Castro, and somebody turned the operation from a fake assassination into a real one (which the 7/7 subway bombings and 9/11 also have in common, where official "training drills" were being enacted when the real ones happened, where fake scenarios became real ones at the same time).
I have seen Gary’s testimony called the bedrock evidence of a master theory that ties together many of the seemingly disparate threads of the JFK assassination, including the CIA, FBI, military, mob, Texas, oilman, Cuban exile, Republican, and Bush connections, among others. There were obviously many powerful players that had vested interests (even interest in their survival, if their involvement became known) in making Oswald into a scapegoat, and “free thinkers” such as that Skeptic author blithely submit to the stage-managed “evidence,” without ever imagining that something might be awry. And they call themselves critical thinkers.
That the article states that the "skeptics" were wrong about the JFK hit is Orwellian; organized skepticism has never given any credence to anything other than the Warren Report regarding the JFK hit; I have never seen any "skeptical" publication seriously question the official story of the JFK hit. The "skeptics" are the ultimate establishment defenders.
The declassified Operation Northwoods documents:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
have brought Gary’s testimony a lot more credibility over the years, with Gary’s testimony appearing in Richard Gilbride’s Matrix for Assassination, for instance.
Again, the crime will likely never be solved, but that is not really the point; the point is that the government served up the tawdry fiction known as the Warren Commission Report, and magazines such as Skeptic are still defending the Warren Commission, fifty years later. That is really the lesson of the JFK hit, to me.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
5th December 2013, 17:12
Hi:
The essay is going well, and it is a very iterative process, where writing new sections cause me to go back and revise previous ones. After I finish the first draft, I am sure there will be many “comprehensive” changes, where sections are revised in concert, for brevity, emphasis, organization, new connections, and the like.
Today, I will bring up a phenomenon that I have seen for nearly thirty years during my journey. Again, a few heroes can’t get it done. By far, the biggest reason for the predicament that humanity finds itself in is a sleeping and egocentric public. That is the main problem, not Godzilla and his vigilance, and not the idiosyncrasies of the few true heroes laying their lives on the line and having them wrecked or lost. Again, I lived through what the hero’s journey entails:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#hero
and not only do I not want any part of it, but I highly doubt that the approach has a prayer. There are simply not enough people on Earth like this:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
But for nearly the past thirty years, I have fielded observations such as:
“Dennis should stop talking and just do it.”
“If your team was so talented, I can’t see how Godzilla could have stopped you.”
and variations on those themes. Some observations have actually come from high-profile members and witnesses of the FE “community,” and at times I have been shocked by their naïveté and Monday-morning-quarterback criticisms, not to mention all of the people who simply lie about Dennis:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#libel
and those who eagerly repeat the lies.
Those kinds of criticisms are typical of newbies who have yet to get their feet wet, but I was surprised to hear those kinds of comments coming from supposedly worldly people. What I keep coming up against, and you can see it on the Wade-related threads at Avalon, is the state of arrested development in the FE and related fields. Thinking that the inventor of the hour has a prayer in the current environment, or that somewhere there are a bunch of heroes waiting in the wings for their chance, is quite naïve. Thirty years ago, I was influenced by such notions, as was Dennis, but we got to find out the hard way how the world really works. When I saw Dennis this past spring, he had already begun to come around to my way of thinking about the problem, but only after a dozen or so attempts using the Level 10 strategy:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10
He certainly gave it the college try, and he is now banned from involvement with the energy industry in the USA. Brian O fled to South America after Mallove was murdered:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland
Those are the fates of the FE heroes in our evil system.
I am doing something radically different, which is a path informed by my experiences and those of my few fellow travelers. I don’t know if my approach will bear fruit, but nobody has tried it before.
And although my patience is tested (and I fail at it often enough, and try to get on the horse again, while also trying to limit my involvement with those who try my patience) by all the newbie posts that people have made on my threads, it strangely gives me some confidence in that it is so radical that almost nobody can even understand what I am about to try. Only a radical new approach has a prayer, not the same tired and suicidal approaches that have never come close to working (levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6 ).
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
6th December 2013, 02:04
Hi:
This will be another strategic post. When I saw Dennis this past spring (maybe for the last time in my life, but we will see), we talked about the old days in the 1980s. He said it before, and he repeated it, that Mr. Professor, his wife, and I were the only people to pass the integrity test in all of his years playing Indiana Jones. We did not need to be told that we passed the test, as we all had our lives wrecked as our “diploma” (and it is obvious to anybody who reads Dennis’s books), but what is depressing was how few we were. With that level of personal integrity among the general population, we just might be doomed.
Dennis went into some detail about those horrible days in 1988, especially when Mr. Texas and his dupes were at Mr. Professor’s house, where Mr. Texas:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=585787&highlight=hodgell#post585787
took off his mask, at least to Dennis:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#performance
Dennis said that there was a moment of truth that day, when Mr. Stooge could have saved the day by acting with integrity, but he instead played along with Mr. Texas:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#trio
When Mr. Stooge made his move, our operation was truly doomed. It was already doomed, but Mr. Stooge just helped kill it quicker. His move had a lot to do with the ruination of my life, as he drug people close to me into his play, duping them with his nice guy act, just like Mr. Texas, and all I could do was stand by and watch, in disbelief that supposedly “smart” and worldly people could be so easily duped. As Dennis has written, he has never been screwed by a man that he did not like:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#shocked
That is what happens when people “invest” their livelihoods into an FE effort. That is primarily why the inventor/capitalist path is doomed from the start. It does not even need to get close to the level where Godzilla has to lift a claw before the entire effort collapses in a bloody mess of greed, betrayal, and the like.
Brian O founded two non-profit organizations where the people whom he invited into it kicked him out of it. They were non-profit organizations.
These kinds of events were part and parcel of the primary lesson of my journey:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
It is just where humanity is these days, and it has likely always been that way, to one degree or another. So, why the heck do I think that I can make anything happen? :)
For one thing, the only thing that I will be asking is that the members of the group I plan to build spend time and energy in raising their awareness. They will really be investing in themselves, and who can complain about that (well, they can complain that it won’t be easy to go back to sleep, and they will have my apologies)? And none of it is going to be buying into some kind of belief system, a new mystical flavor of the day, or even very much on the fringes. People do not need to get all mystical or fringe-dwelling to realize that the “heroes” that have been presented to us via national histories and the like were generally a bunch of mass-murdering thieves:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint
and fake saints:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#serra
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#saint
And that phenomenon is not confined to the distant past. Mother Teresa is faring similarly:
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-02/uk/37389641_1_mother-teresa-vatican-study
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/racket.htm#teresa
And good ol’ Barack, the Nobel Peace Prize recipient, is waging the war against Afghanistan into the thirteenth year, rattling his sabre at other nations, and presiding during the “shocking” revelation that the NSA spies on everybody on Earth, and I have yet to even hear him speak out against it much, kind of like, “They may be evil spies, but they are our evil spies.”
Heck, I just surfed the net and saw Obama defend the NSA just today:
http://www.boston.com/2013/12/05/obama-defends-nsa-against-latest-spying-report/IUWpAljC1eDf0bWjf2rVHJ/story.html
The NSA admitted it did not foil even one terror plot:
http://antiwar.com/blog/2013/10/15/no-nsa-surveillance-wouldnt-have-prevented-911-and-it-hasnt-foiled-a-single-terror-plot/
and admitted to lying about their efforts:
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/nsa_director_admits_to_misleading_public_on_terror_plots/
while it tracks the Internet traffic of its targets, in order to discredit them:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/26/nsa-porn-muslims_n_4346128.html
It cannot even be argued against that the USA has murdered several million people, most of them children, in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past generation:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=652292&viewfull=1#post652292
as we expand our energy-hungry imperial footprint, and we are supposedly the leader of the world. Leader in what? Genocide? Our high moral standards?
Nationalism is pretty easy to dismantle, as is capitalism, and organized religion. They are all scarcity-based ideologies designed to manage the herd:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
The assumptions underlying today’s scientific and academic disciplines are also scarcity-based and serve to control their adherents:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle
Probably 90% of what I am hoping to help my readers do is just let all of that garbage go. While it may sound easy, it isn’t. I know almost nobody on Earth who has relinquished those ideological teddy bears and still kept an even keel. Almost nobody even wants to.
Much of my essay is intended to be an antidote to those ideologies, but not so much by making frontal attacks on them, but drawing a big picture so that those limiting ideologies are clearly seen for what they are, without having to point it out. What I hope is that for those who take the journey and do the work, at the end of it all, I can then ask the question of how valid and helpful those ideologies are, and everybody will chuckle, it will be so obvious.
Only when all of that refuse can be left at the curb will we be able to get anything done on the pursuit of abundance.
I can guarantee that there will be some who will try to infiltrate and derail my effort, coming in like parasites to steal it (or destroy it, or both), as I saw so many times with Dennis, and I will do several things to help prevent those activities from hurting anybody. I have said it before: in this field, naïveté is a killer. Naïveté can only be shed by experience, as far as I have seen, and that is part of the problem and probably the most dangerous part of what I will be doing, as the lambs can become lambs to the slaughter if they allow themselves to be seduced by the Pied Pipers who will inevitably appear. That there will not be any money changing hands or really much of an “organization” will make that a difficult task. When people show up here and exhort people to be heroes and scale the ramparts, I will make at least ten posts to try to show how off-base such a sentiment is. In fact, the very people who will try to infiltrate and derail the effort will talk just like that, with their silver tongues. I will do my very best so that such people never make it past the front door, and we will see how that goes. It will be educational, if nothing else.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
6th December 2013, 13:23
Hi:
I gave Mr. Texas’s name in a previous post:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=585787&viewfull=1#post585787
and I wrote about how he went to prison for a scam where his cronies alleged that they were trustees of a trillion dollar Mormon trust.
http://www.justice.gov/tax/usaopress/2007/txdv07cas70827-Kempton.pdf
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/974609/Utahns-victimized-in-insurance-scam.html?pg=all
http://www.offshorealert.com/forums.aspx?boardid=tngzphtihoxx&g=posts&page=-1&t=36457
Mr. Texas tried to have his sentence vacated:
http://dockets.justia.com/docket/circuit-courts/ca9/11-56233/
but was denied:
http://www.supremecourt.gov/docketfiles/12-8910.htm
He lives here, at what used to be the most famous Club Fed facility:
http://www.myinmatelocator.com/Federal/Federal_Prisons/Lompoc_Federal_Prisons_Complex.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/31/us/famed-country-club-prison-is-to-house-violent-inmates.html
Mr. Texas will get out in 2016 (inmate number 87634-198), according to this:
http://www.bop.gov/iloc2/InmateFinderServlet?Transaction=NameSearch&needingMoreList=false&FirstName=Kenneth&Middle=&LastName=Hodgell&Race=W&Sex=M&Age=&x=72&y=18
when he will be 77 years old, probably too old to get into too much trouble.
The trillion dollar trust was a popular scam for several years, and that sting operation that targeted us in 1996-1997:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting
had an alleged trillion dollar trust as part of its bait. Again, in operations like that, you don’t seek money from them, but they approach you, offering you huge sums of money to make your dreams come true. I have never seen or heard of a true rich humanitarian. The “humanitarian” game is largely a scam, and as we saw, being approached by “humanitarians” was a big part of the sting operations to entrap people like us. If you ever get involved with true Earth-healing activities such as the FE pursuit, be very wary if you are approached by people offering money to help, as strange as that may seem.
After years of dealing with “humanitarians,” James Gilliland:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm
told the riddle, “If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?”
Dennis said something similar, in that the Big Boys serve humanity all right, by the plateful each night.
This is also an example of when Godzilla uses his agents, they are eventually left to fend for themselves, and the skills they used in attacking Dennis were evident in their later scams. Bill the BPA Hit Man:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm
had a similar “career” after helping take out Dennis in Seattle, and Bill spent years before being sicced on Dennis developing fake alternative energy credentials, similar to how Oswald spent years developing fake communist credentials:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower
This MO is a common enough one. My relative who was a contract CIA agent:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#cia
was a “good boy” who probably went to his grave believing in his mission, although he drank himself to death, surely to help relieve the cognitive dissonance of murdering his own people and others, for the “cause.” He was furloughed, too, barely scraping by between missions, and dying alone and nearly destitute. The contract agents who work for Godzilla, the CIA, and so forth, are disposable assets, and their immediate afterlives are not pretty.
Again, it is cheaper if the asset believes in the mission, as he gets psychic income from the deal to supplement the cash. Using true psychopaths can be very effective for the right missions, but they are only there for the money, and their "psychic income" is gained from inflicting misery and pain on others. They will gladly turn on their employers if the opportunity presents itself and there is profit to be had. So, while psychopaths (AKA dark pathers) have their uses, they are dangerous tools to use.
Best,
Wade
Earlybird
7th December 2013, 19:58
Hi Wade;I am a long time lurker on this thread.I have not posted before as i am attempting to assimilate the information shared.Thank you sincerely for your site and ongoing effort ;it is easily the most rewarding,challenging,demanding and simultaneously refreshing material i have encountered .Sometimes the more i read ,the further down the 'levels' i realize my thinking is :-) What a stretch!
Apologies if this has been asked/answered before, but where will your upcoming essay be published? or rather,will it be 'read-only' for the prospective Choir?
Thanks again for your efforts
Percy Tuschling
Wade Frazier
7th December 2013, 21:09
Hi earlybird:
A lot of my writing is especially for the lurkers. :) You might be surprised at who some of the lurkers are. I hear from them once in a while, usually privately. And yes, Godzilla is watching, but I am not sure what the interest level is. Probably not a lot, but I gave him some interesting days at the office, and he has not forgotten about me.
Boy, it sure would not do much good if I privately published my essay. It will be my biggest public statement ever, and for better or worse, what I may become best known for. Heck, I am putting chapter drafts on this thread, so I am certainly not playing the private game. That essay will actually be my recruiting tool for the choir. I am going to put my mark on the wall, or sing a note, if you will, and whoever can sing similarly is what I will be looking for. It is about hitting the notes, not about the numbers singing or high decibels. When enough can hit the notes and sing in harmony, then we will be getting somewhere.
Privacy and secrecy is antithetical to what I plan to do. This will all be done in broad daylight, in the town square. I will not be trying to recruit the masses at all, but the information will be available to them. The choir will likely come from all walks, not any one particular group, as Dennis, Brian, and I learned after beating on group doors endlessly. I am finished with that strategy; all earthly groups are addicted to scarcity, and I have never seen even one that truly comprehended the idea of abundance.
The essay is designed to be standalone, so it could reside in numerous places on the Internet, but it will likely become the centerpiece of my own site. Again, it is costing me a million dollars or so to write it, so I hope to get “bang for my buck,” so to speak. After I publish it (likely this coming spring), I will probably do some interviews and the like, but I don’t plan to do too much of that. The essay will do most of the talking, and will get my message across about the best I can. Then it will be up to others to do the work. I am meeting everybody far more than halfway, but I can’t do it all myself. Heroes and warriors can’t get it done, which I learned from my journey with Dennis:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
But a stampede of sentient lambs might make a dent.
Thanks for reading and thinking about this stuff. The more who do the deep thinking, the better off we all are.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
7th December 2013, 21:40
Hi:
As an FYI, when I thought about this essay over the years, and had a false start or two in beginning it, I wondered how long it would be. I suspected that it would weigh in at hundreds of pages, like my other big essays on my site (American Empire http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm , Medical Racket http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm , etc.), but on some days, I thought that I could say it in fifty pages. Well, my initial thought is going to be the right one. It might even be bigger than my American Empire essay, which is my site’s largest, at more than two hundred pages.
I spent nearly a year outlining the essay’s themes:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=516792&viewfull=1#post516792
and I initially though that I would refer to my outline when I wrote the essay, but it has not worked out that way so far. I am currently writing about the Permian extinction, and am more than a hundred pages into it. This baby will likely top 200 pages when it is finished, not including the notes (250 notes, so far, but not terribly scholarly – I am not writing it for scientists, not really, although plenty will read it). It is going to be very dense, like a textbook. There will be plenty of meat on those bones, and I am writing it so that the non-scientist will not be lost, but that does not mean that it will be easy reading. I will be introducing many scientific concepts and information, and what I hope will be most important stuff will be my original contributions, of which there will be many. Nobody has really dealt with FE on the epochal event scale, not how each began and how each influenced the epoch built on it, and particularly weaving in what the potential of FE is. Many have addressed aspects of it, but nobody went after the whole enchilada yet that I have seen. That is one reason why what I am doing is unique, especially somebody from the FE field. People like Dennis are too busy playing Indiana Jones to do any study or writing, and if FE aspirants never played the Indiana Jones game, they almost never had the radicalization necessary to really see what was happening, on several levels.
Again, my unique journey led me to this juncture, and I did not see anybody else trying what I am about to, or even really qualified to, so I have to do this. Will it cost me my life, as this field has cost so many others? Beats me, but I plan to stay away from the pitfalls that have swallowed so many others. In ways, this has already cost me my life. My fellow travelers always kept going until their dying breaths, and it will likely be that way for me.
I will do my best to keep people away from the Pied Pipers who will inevitably appear, and that is also another reason why I am not reaching for the masses. The masses have formed a semi-sentient herd that is easily stampeded this way and that by the social managers. I am not trying to out-herd the master shepherd, but looking for those who left the herd, at least in their minds, or are looking to.
The song of scarcity is all that humanity has ever known, and every day I have to be vigilant that I am not humming its tune. And if I have to do that, more than twenty-five years after I was radicalized, I have an idea how hard it will be for aspirants for the choir. But I see people like Ilie doing the work, and it gives me hope that the choir is not some Peter Pan fantasy. This is uncharted territory, and there is no telling how it will turn out, but I had to try.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
8th December 2013, 20:42
Hi:
I am about to spend the rest of the day playing, and I’ll put up a couple of chapter drafts. For those interested, here is a revised draft of one chapter that I previously posted, and the next post will be a chapter draft that I just finished a few minutes ago. For those who are interested, they will be able to see how the chapter drafts will change on the way to the published essay.
Best,
Wade
Complex Life Colonizes Land
With the extinction that ended the Cambrian period, animal life’s greatest period of innovation was finished, but the next geological period, the Ordovician, still had dramatic changes. The Ordovician would not see any new phyla of note, but the Ordovician was a time of great diversification, as new niches were created and inhabited, which reached modern levels of abundance and diversity. Food chains became complex, and could be called food webs. More so than the Cambrian Explosion, the Ordovician “explosion” was an adaptive radiation.
The continental configuration when the Ordovician began was similar to the Cambrian’s, with shallow hot tropical seas. The Paleo-Tethys Ocean began forming in the Ordovician. The first reefs that would impress modern observers were formed in the Ordovician, with different animals building the corals (1, 2, 3) than Cambrian reef builders; but there were no schools of fish swimming around them, as the Ordovician was before the rise of fish. Fish existed (1, 2, 3), but they were armored, without jaws, and lived on the seafloor. The first sharks may have appeared in the Ordovician, but because they have cartilaginous skeletons, the fossil record is equivocal. Some fish had scales, and an eel-like fish might have even had the first teeth. Planktonic animals became prevalent, which were key aspects of the growing food chains. Trilobites and brachiopods thrived, but the Ordovician’s most spectacular development might have been the rise of the mollusk. Bivalves exploded in number and variety, and nautiloid cephalopods became the apex predator of Ordovician seas, and some were gigantic, with one species reaching more than three meters long, and another reaching six meters or more. The largest trilobite yet found lived in the late Ordovician.
Gigantism is a controversial subject. Islands often produce giant and dwarf species, and result from energy dynamics; in general, on islands, large species tend to get smaller and small species tend to get larger. A landmark study of polar gigantism among modern seafloor crustaceans concluded that the oxygen level was the key variable. Recall that colder water can absorb more oxygen. Size is a key “weapon” used in evolution’s arms race. The bigger the prey, the better it could survive predation, and the bigger the predator, the more likely it would kill a meal. Since the 1930s, there have been continual controversies over size and metabolism, energy efficiency, complexity, structural issues such as skeleton size and strength, and so on. In its final cost/benefit analysis, complex life decided that bigger was better, and the Ordovician saw much larger animals than the Cambrian did. Bigger meant more complex, and more complexity meant more parts, usually more moving parts, and that took energy to run. Whether increasing size was due to more oxygen being available, more food availability, greater metabolic efficiency, reduced risk of predation, or increased predatory success, it was always a cost/benefit analyses whose primary parameter was energy; how to get it, how to preserve it, and how to use it.
Peter Ward has suggested that the superior breathing system of nautiloids led to their dominance. Nautiloids do not appear in the fossil record until the Cambrian’s end. Only one family of nautiloids survived the end-Cambrian extinction, and they quickly diversified in the Ordovician to become dominant predators, replacing arthropods atop the food chain. During the Ordovician, nautiloids developed a sturdy build and they likely began spending time in deep waters, where their superior respiration system enabled them to inhabit environments that would-be competitors could not exploit.
While the Ordovician’s shallow seas were fascinating abodes of biological innovation, of perhaps more interest to humans was the first colonization of our future home: land. Land plants likely evolved from green algae, and while molecular clock studies suggest that plants first appeared on land more than 600 mya, the first fossil evidence of land plants is about 470 mya, in the mid-Ordovician, which would have been moss-like plants, and they seem to have predated land animals by forty million years or so.
The Ordovician was characterized by diversification into new niches, even creating them, but those halcyonic times came to a harsh end in one of the Big Five mass extinctions: the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction. The event transpired about 443 mya, and was really two extinction events that combined to comprise the second greatest extinction event ever for marine animals. Around 85% of all species, nearly 60% of all genera, and about 25% of all families went extinct. The ultimate cause was likely the drifting of Gondwana over the South Pole, triggering a short, severe ice age. As our current ice age demonstrates, ice sheets can advance and retreat in cycles, and they appeared to do so during the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction. There is evidence that the ice age was triggered by the volcanic event that created the Appalachian Mountains. Newly exposed rock from volcanic mountain-building is a carbon sink due to basalt weathering (as contrasted with silicate weathering – volcanoes spew basalt) of that fresh volcanic rock. The combination of Appalachian volcanism ending and subsequent sequestering of atmospheric carbon dioxide may have triggered an ice age. The ice age waxed and waned for thirty million years, but the first event was calamitous.
Two primary dynamics drove the first phase of the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction: the ice age caused the sea level to drop drastically and the oceans to become colder. When sea levels fell at least fifty meters, the cooling shallow seas receded from continental shelves and eliminated entire biomes. Many millions of years of “easy living” in warm, shallow seas were abruptly halted. Several groups were ravaged, beginning with the plankton that formed the food chain’s base. About 50% of brachiopod and trilobite genera went extinct in the first phase, with cool-water species appearing to fill the newly vacant niches. Bivalves were largely found in seashore communities, and were scourged when the seas retreated, losing more than half of their genera. Nautiloids were also hit hard, and about 70% of reef and coral genera went extinct. The retreating seas somehow triggered the extinctions, and whether it was due to simply being exposed to the air, or changing and cooing currents, nutrient dispersal patterns, ocean chemistry, and other dynamics did it, is still debated, and those extinction events are currently subject to intensive research.
After as little as a half-million years of bedraggled survivors adapting to ice age seas, the ice sheets retreated and the oceans rose. The thermohaline circulation of the time also likely changed, and upwelling, anoxia, and other dramatic chemistry and nutrient changes happened. Those dynamics are suspected as being responsible for the second wave of extinctions. There also seem to have been hydrogen sulfide events. Atmospheric oxygen levels may have fallen from around 20% to 15% during the Ordovician, which would have contributed to the mass death. Seafloor anoxia seems to have been particularly lethal to continental-shelf biomes, possibly all the way to shore. While it took the ecosystems millions of years to recover from the Ordovician-Silurian mass extinction, basic ecosystem functioning was not significantly altered in the aftermath, which is why a mass extinction during the Carboniferous has been proposed as a more significant extinction event.
The Silurian period, which began 443 mya, is short for the geologic time scale, lasting “only” 24 million years, ending about 419 mya. The Silurian was another hot period with shallow tropical seas, with Gondwana still covering the South Pole, but the ice caps eventually shrank, which played havoc with the sea level and caused minor extinction events (1, 2, 3), the last of which ended the Silurian. Reefs made a big comeback, extending as far as fifty degrees north latitude (further north than where I live in Seattle). According to the GEOCARBSULF model, oxygen levels rose greatly during the Silurian, rebounding from a low in the mid-Ordovician, and may have reached 25% by the early Devonian, which followed the Silurian. Coincident with rising oxygen levels, more giants appeared. The scorpion-like eurypterids were the largest arthropods ever, with its biggest specimen reaching nearly three meters near the Devonian’s oxygen highpoint. The first land-dwelling animals - spiders, centipedes, and scorpions - came ashore in the Silurian between 430 mya and 420 mya, and the first insects appeared about that time. Arthropods became dominant predators once again, although cephalopods patrolled the reefs as apex predators. Brachiopods reached their greatest size ever at that time, although the succeeding Devonian has been called the Golden Age of Brachiopods. As oxygen levels rose, trilobites lost segments and, hence, gill surface area, which may have been an ultimately extinctive gamble. When the Devonian extinction happened during anoxic events, trilobites steeply declined and thereafter only eked out an existence until the Permian extinction finally eliminated them from the fossil record. Fish began developing jaws in the Silurian, which was a great evolutionary leap and arguably the most important innovation in vertebrate history. Jaws, tentacles, claws… prehensile features were advantageous, as animals could more effectively manipulate their environments and acquire energy. On land the colonization began, as mossy “forests” abounded, with the first vascular plants making their appearance, although they were generally less than a hand-width tall when the Silurian ended, with nothing reaching even waist-high in those times.
Oxygen levels appeared to keep rising into the early Devonian and then declined over most of the period, which lasted from about 419 mya to 359 mya. The Devonian marked the dramatic rise of land plants and fish, in what is called the Golden Age of Fishes, and that period saw the first vertebrates that enjoyed a terrestrial existence. Armored fish supplanted arthropods and cephalopods during the Devonian as the new apex predators, weighing up to several tons, and sharks began their rise. The Devonian has been called the Golden Age of Armored Fish. Rising oxygen levels have been proposed as causing the spread of plants and large predatory fish, and a school of thought challenges high-oxygen reasons for many evolutionary events, with Nick Butterfield a prominent challenger.
Bony fish (both ray-finned and lobe-finned) first appeared in the late Silurian and thrived in the Devonian. All bony fish could breathe air in the Devonian, which provided more oxygenated blood to their hearts. Ray-finned fish largely lost that ability and their lungs became swim bladders, which aided buoyancy, similar to gas-filled nautiloid shells. Ray-finned fish can respire while stationary (unlike cartilaginous fish, sharks most famously) and are the high-performance swimmers of aquatic environments, comprising about 99% of all fish species today, although they were not dominant during the Devonian. All fish devote a significant portion of their metabolism to maintain their water concentrations. In salt water, fish have to push out salt, and in fresh water, they have to pull in water, using, on average, about 5% of their resting metabolism to do so. Brine shrimp use about a third of their metabolic energy to manage their water concentration.
Today’s lungfish are living fossils that first appeared at the Devonian’s beginning, demonstrating that the ability to breathe air never went completely out of fashion, which was fortuitous, as one class of lobe-finned fish developed limbs and became our ancestor about 395 mya. The first amphibians appeared about 370 mya. In the late Devonian, lobe-finned and armored fish were in their heyday. The first internally-fertilized fish appeared in the Devonian, for the first mother that gave birth. A lightweight descendent of nautiloids appeared in the Devonian, and ammonoids subsequently enjoyed more than three hundred million years of existence, often playing a prominent role, until they were finally rendered extinct in the Cretaceous extinction. Nautiloids retreated to deep-water ecosystem margins and still exploit that niche today as a living fossil.
Land colonization was perhaps the Devonian’s most interesting event. The adaptations invented by aquatic life to survive in terrestrial environments were many and varied. Most importantly, the organism would no longer be surrounded by water and had to manage desiccation. Nutrient acquisition and reproductive practices would have to change, and the protection that water provided from ultraviolet light was gone, with plants and animals devising methods to protect from the Sun’s radiation. Also, moving on land and in the air became major bioengineering projects for animals. Breathing air instead of water presented challenges. The pioneers who left water likely led both aquatic and terrestrial existences. Amphibians had both lungs and gills, and arthropods, whose exoskeletons readily solved the desiccation and structural support problems, evolved book lungs to replace their gills, which were likely book gills.
All such developments had to happen in water, first, for a successful move to land. The evidence seems to support the idea that life first began to colonize land via freshwater ecosystems, which provided a friendlier environment than seashores do. The first arthropods ashore were largely detritivores, eating dead plant matter, and what followed added live plants and early detritivores to their diets. The land-based ecosystems that plants and arthropods created became nutrient sources that benefitted shoreline and surface communities, but the vertebrate move to land was not initiated by the winners of aquatic life. To successful aquatic animals, the shore was not a new opportunity to exploit but the frontier of existence. What are today called tetrapodomorphs made the vertebrate transition to land as marginal animals eking out a frontier existence. The fins that became limbs originally developed for better swimming, and further muscular-skeletal changes enabled them to exploit opportunities on land. Two key reasons for the migration onto land could have been for basking (absorbing energy) and enhanced survival of young from predation (preserving energy). The five digits common to limbed vertebrates were set in this time; early tetrapodomorphs had six, seven, and eight digits, with the digital losses likely related to using feet on land.
But plants had to migrate before animals did, as they formed the terrestrial food chain’s base. Along with desiccation issues, plants needed structures to raise them above the ground, roots, a circulatory system, and new means of reproduction. Large temperature swings between day and night also accompanied life on land. Plants developed cuticles to conserve moisture, a circulatory system that piped water from the roots up into the plant and transported nutrients where they were needed, and plant photosynthesis needed water to function. Vascular plants pumped water through their tissues in tubes by evaporating water from their surface tissues and pulling up more new water behind the evaporating water via the “chain” of water’s hydrogen bonds. The last common ancestor of plants and animals reproduced sexually, and sexual reproduction is how nearly all eukaryotes reproduce today, although many ways exist to reproduce asexually. The first vascular plants are considered to have attained their height in order to spread their spores. The Rhynie chert in Scotland is the most famous fossil bed that records complex life’s early colonization of land.
The early Devonian was a time of ground-hugging mosses and a strange, lichen-like plant that towered up to eight meters tall. The oldest vascular plant division (“division” in plants is analogous to “phylum” in animals) still existing first appeared about 410 mya, and today’s representatives are mostly mosses. In the late Devonian, horsetails and ferns appeared and still exist. Seed plants also developed in the Devonian, which enabled plants to quickly spread to higher and dryer elevations and cover the landmasses, as seed plants did not need a water medium to reproduce as spore-based systems did (in spore systems a water film was required for the sperm to swim to the ovum). The first trees appeared about 385 mya (1, 2), could be ten meters tall, and formed vast forests, but reproduced with spores, so needed moist environments. The first rainforests appeared in the Devonian and reached their apogee in the Carboniferous. Those rainforests produced Earth’s first thick coal beds. The Devonian was the Cambrian Explosion for plants, and enabled animals to colonize land. The plants that best succeeded in the Devonian were those with the highest energy efficiencies, which involved size, stability, photosynthesis, internal transport, and reproduction. Plants had different dynamics of extinction than animals did, with plants being more vulnerable to climate change and extinction via competition, but being less vulnerable to mass extinction events than animals.
One of the most important plant innovations was lignin, which is a polymer whose original purpose appears to have been creating those tubes for water transport, and was also used to help provide structural support so that trees could grow tall and strong. Without lignin, there would not have been any true forests and probably not much in the way of complex terrestrial ecosystems. That lignin was also responsible for forming the coal beds that powered the early Industrial Revolution, but that coal-bed formation would not happen in earnest until the next geologic period, the aptly-named Carboniferous. It took more than a hundred million years for life forms to appear that could digest lignin. A class of fungus gained the ability to digest lignin about 290 mya, and by that time, most of what became Earth’s coal deposits had already been buried in sediments. And as with other seminal developments in life’s history, the ability to digest lignin seems to have evolved only once. The enzyme that fungi use to digest lignin has also been found in some bacteria, but fungi are the primary lignin-digesters on Earth.
From a biomass perspective, the Devonian’s primary change was the proliferation of land plants. Land plants comprise about half of Earth’s biomass today, with prokaryotes providing the other half. Terrestrial biomass is five hundred times greater than marine biomass, and terrestrial plants have about a thousand times the biomass of terrestrial animals, so animals constitute less than 0.1% of Earth’s biomass. The ecologies of marine and terrestrial environments are radically different. Virtually all primary producers in marine environments are completely eaten, being the food chain’s foundation, while less than 20% of land plant biomass is eaten by animals.
Creating the huge biomass of land-based ecosystems meant that carbon was removed from the atmosphere. Also, root systems were a new phenomenon, with dramatic environmental impact. Before the rise of vascular plants, rain on the continents ran to the ocean in sheets and braided rivers. Every rainfall ran toward the oceans in a flash flood, as happens in deserts today. Plant roots stabilized riverbanks, forming the rivers that we are familiar with today. Also, roots broke up rock, accelerated weathering, created soils, and created a huge “sponge” that absorbed precipitation, which the resultant ecosystems depended on. Vast nutrient runoffs from land into the ocean were stimulated by plants’ colonization of land, which in turn stimulated ocean life. The reefs of the Devonian were the greatest in Earth’s history, reaching about ten time the area of today’s reefs, with a total area about equal to the continental USA, of about five million square kilometers (three million square miles).
Plants and trees created a “boundary layer” of relatively calm air near the ground which became the primary abode of most land animals. Also, forests created a positive feedback where moisture was recycled in the forests, keeping them moister than purely ocean-sourced precipitation would. Today, somewhere between 35% to 50% or more of the rain that falls in the Amazon rainforest is recycled water via transpiration. Rainforest dynamics thus create positive feedbacks that maintain the rainforest. Conversely, the rampant deforestation of Earth’s rainforests in the past century has created negative feedbacks that further destroy the rainforest.
Forests were a radical innovation that has not been seen before or since. Trees were Earth’s first and last truly gigantic organisms, with the largest trees dwarfing the largest animals. Why did trees grow so large? It seems to be because they could. Land life gave plants opportunities that aquatic life could not provide, and plants “leapt” at the chance. Lignin, first developed for vascular transport, became the equivalent of steel girders in skyscrapers. In the final analysis, trees grew tall to give their foliage the most sunlight and to use wind and height to spread their seeds, and in the future that height would help protect the foliage from ground-based animal browsers. The limits of Earth’s tallest trees is an energy issue; the ability to pump water to the treetops. Arid climates are why trees do not grow tall, or even grow at all. Energy availability limits leaf size, too. From an ecosystems perspective, the great biomass of forests was primarily a huge store of energy, with trees allowing for prodigious energy storage per square meter of land.
Revisiting how energy enters ecosystems, primarily via the capture of photon energy by photosynthesis, only so much sunlight hits Earth, and photosynthesis can only capture so much. The energy “budget” available for plants has constraints, and the question is always what to do with it. An organism can break bonds between atoms and release energy or bind atoms together to build biological structures, which uses energy (usually – exothermic reactions release energy, while endothermic reactions use them, and most biochemical reactions follow that pattern of exothermic reactions releasing energy for use, and endothermic reactions being an investment of energy to build structures). Plants faced the same decisions that societies face today: consumption or investment? Only with an energy surplus can there be investments, such as for infrastructure. Plants invested in trunk-and-branch infrastructure to place their energy collecting and seed-spreading equipment in the best possible position. Plants race for the sky, and trees represent the biggest energy investment of any type of organism. On average, today’s plants use a little more than half of the energy they capture via photosynthesis (called gross primary production) for respiration. Growing forests use most of that gross primary production to grow (called net primary production), when the structural limits have been reached, most energy is consumed via respiration to run life processes within the infrastructure. Animal development is similar. When humans began building cities and urban infrastructures, the basis process was the same.
Most marine phyla were unable to manage the transition to land and remain aquatic to this day. Arthropods found a way, with scorpions, spiders, and millipedes being early pioneers. The insect and fish clades comprise the most successful terrestrial animals today, with fish leading to all terrestrial vertebrates. Gastropods made it to land, mainly as snails and slugs, as did several worm phyla, but the rest of aquatic life generally remained water-bound. Also, many animal clades have moved back-and-forth between water and land, usually hugging the shoreline, sometimes in a single organism’s life cycle, which blurred the terrestrial/aquatic divide at times. The first fish to venture past shore seem to have accomplished it in the mid-Devonian, and colonizing land via freshwater environments was a prominent path of development.
Although the first insects appeared in today’s fossil record about 400 mya, they were fairly developed, meaning that they likely have an older lineage, beginning in the Silurian. The first land animals would have been vegetarians, as something had to start the food chain from plants, and early insects were adapted for plant-eating. Plants would have then begun to co-evolve with animals, as they tried to avoid being eaten.
When life colonized land, global weather systems began dramatically impacting life, as land plants and animals would be at the mercy of the elements as never before, with forests and deserts forming. The continents also began coming together and eventually formed Pangaea in the Permian, and converging plates meant subduction and mountain-building. Mountains of the British Isles and Scandinavia were formed in the Devonian, the Appalachians became larger, and the mountains of the USA’s Great Basin also began developing. Colliding tectonic plates can build mountains, and mountain ranges would have great impact on weather systems during terrestrial life’s future, also profoundly influencing oceanic ecosystems.
As with previous critical events, such as saving the oceans and life on Earth itself, life helped terraform Earth. But the late Devonian is an instance when the rise of land plants may have also had Medean effects. Carbon dioxide sequestering, which reduced the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide concentration by up to 80%, may have cooled Earth’s surface enough so that an ice age began and another one of Earth’s mass extinctions began. As with the Ordovician extinction, the primary cause for the Devonian extinctions seems to have been rising and falling sea levels, likely associated with growing and receding ice caps, as Gondwana still covered the South Pole. The Devonian extinction events began happening more than 380 mya, and a major one happened about 375 mya, called the Kellwasser event. The reasons for the Kellwasser event are today generally attributed to the water becoming cold and anoxic. A bolide impact has been invoked in some scientific corners, but the evidence is weak. Mountain-building and volcanic events also happened as continents began colliding to eventually form Pangaea (and the resultant silicate and basaltic weathering removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere), and the dynamics may have been similar to what precipitated the previous major mass extinction. Black shales abounded during and after the Kellwasser event, and they are always evidence of anoxic conditions and how the oil deposits initially formed. However, the Kellwasser event anoxia may have not only been due to low atmospheric oxygen, but was also the result of eroding the newly-exposed land and the detritus of the new forest biomes, which created a vast nutrient runoff into the oceans may have initiated huge algal blooms that caused anoxic events near shore.
Unlike the short, severe Ordovician events, the Devonian extinctions may have stretched for up to 25 million years, with periodic pulses of extinction. The Kellwasser event seem to be comprised of several extinction events, and when they ended, at least 70% of all marine species went extinct, and the greatest reefs in Earth’s history were 99.98% eradicated, and it took 100 million years before major reef systems again appeared. Armored fish and jawless fish lost half of their species, and armored fish were rendered entirely extinct in the extinction event that ended the Devonian.
What was most relevant to humans, however, was the almost-total extinction during the Kellwasser event of the tetrapods that had come ashore. Tetrapods did not reappear in the fossil record until several million years after the Kellwasser event, and has even been referred to as the Fammenian Gap (the Fammenian Age is the Devonian’s last age). The Kellwasser event also appeared to be a period of low atmospheric oxygen content, with some evidence being the lack to charcoal in fossil deposits. Recent research has demonstrated that getting wood to burn at oxygen levels of less than 13-15% may be impossible. Because all periods of complex land life have evidence of forest fires, it is today thought that oxygen levels have not dropped below 13-15% since the Devonian, but during the “charcoal gap” of the late Devonian, when the first landlubbing tetrapods went extinct, oxygen levels reached their lowest levels ever, which must have impacted the first animals trying to breathe air instead of water. During the Kellwasser event, there is no charcoal evidence at all, which leads to the notion that oxygen levels may have even dropped below 13%. This drop may be related to severe climactic stresses on the new mono-species forests, which are probably related to the ice age that the forests helped bring about due to their carbon sequestering. While that is an attractive and explanatory scenario, the controversy and research continues. The first seed plants likely appeared before the Kellwasser event, but it was not until after the Fammenian Gap that seed plants began to proliferate.
The Kellwasser event ended the first invasion of land by vertebrates, and created an evolutionary bottleneck. Some stragglers survived the Kellwasser event, but the fossil record for the next seven million years has been devoid of tetrapod fossils with the exception of one species. After the Fammenian Gap ended about 368 mya, tetrapods renewed their invasion of land, and those tetrapods with many toes appeared in the fossil record with the second invasion, with Ichthyostega being Earth’s largest land animal in those days. The tetrapods of the time may have not yet been true amphibians (the issue is controversial), but they were making the adjustments needed to become true land animals, such as losing their gills and improving their locomotion. No new arthropods appeared on land during that time.
After several million years of adaptation, tetrapods seemed ready to become the dominant land animals, but then came the second major Devonian extinction event, today called the Hangenberg event. While the ice age conditions around the Kellwasser event are debated, there is no uncertainty about the Hangenberg event. There were massive, continental ice sheets, accompanied by falling sea levels and anoxic events, as evidenced by huge black shales. The event’s frigidity was likely a key fatal dynamic, with anoxia the other killing mechanism. The Hangenberg event had devastating consequences; it meant the end of armored fish, the near-extinction of the new ammonoids (perhaps only one genus survived), oceanic eurypterids went extinct, trilobites began to make their exit as seafloor communities were scourged, lobe-finned fish reached their peak influence, and the archaeopteris forests collapsed.
Trees first appeared during a plant diversity crisis, and the arrival of seed plants and ferns ended the dominance of the first trees, so the plant crises may have been more about evolutionary experiments than environmental conditions, although a carbon dioxide crash and ice age conditions would have impacted photosynthesizers. The earliest woody plants that gave rise to trees and seed plants largely went extinct at the Devonian’s end. But what might have been the most dramatic extinction, as far as humans are concerned, was the impact on land vertebrates. During the Devonian extinction about 20% of all families, 50% of all genera, and 70% of all species disappeared forever.
While there seems to have been convergent evolution among the early tetrapods, they were beaten back twice during the late- and end-Devonian extinction events, and what emerged the third time was different than what came before. As with many mass extinction events, evolution’s course was significantly altered in the extinction’s aftermath. As with studies of human history, events are always contingent and not foreordained in Whiggish fashion. While the increase in “intelligence” may well be an inherent purpose of being in physical reality, the evolutionary path to the man writing these words had false starts, “detours,” singular events, expansions, bottlenecks, catastrophes, and the like. Evolutionary experiments on other planets likely had radically-different outcomes. A mystical source that I respect once stated that there are one million sentient species in our galaxy, with a diversity that is mind-boggling, and from what I have been exposed to (and here), I will not challenge it.
Wade Frazier
8th December 2013, 20:43
The Carboniferous and Permian Periods
With the second attempt of vertebrates invading land cut short by the Hangenberg event, there was another 14-million-year gap in the fossil record called the Tournaisian Gap, which is part of what is today called Romer’s Gap (which is considered to be about a thirty-million-year gap). After all mass extinctions, it took millions of years for ecosystems to recover, even tens of millions of years, and markedly different ecosystems and plant/animal assemblages often replaced what existed before the extinction. The Devonian spore-forests were destroyed, and outside of the peat swamps, the tallest trees in the Tournaisian Gap were about as tall as I am, and even in the swamps, the tallest trees were about ten meters tall, as they were before the Hangenberg event.
Peter Ward led an effort to catalog the fossil record before and after Romer’s Gap, and they found a dramatic halt in tetrapod and arthropod colonization that did not resume until about 340-330 mya. Romer’s Gap seems to have coincided with low-oxygen levels of the late Devonian and early Carboniferous. If low oxygen coincided with a halt in colonization, just as the adaption to breathing air was beginning, the obvious implication is that low oxygen levels hampered early land animals. Not just the lung had to evolve for the up-and-coming amphibians, but the entire chest cavity had to evolve to expand and contract, while also allowing for a new mode of locomotion. When amphibians and splay-footed reptiles run, they cannot breathe, as their mechanics of locomotion prevent running and breathing at the same time. Even walking and breathing is generally difficult. This means that they cannot perform any endurance locomotion, but have to move in short spurts. This is why today’s predatory amphibians and reptiles are ambush predators. They can only move in short bursts, and then have to stop, breathe, and recover their oxygen deficit. In short, they have no stamina. This limitation is called Carrier’s Constraint. The heart became steadily more complex during complex life’s evolutionary journeys. Fish hearts have one pump and two chambers. Amphibians developed three-chambered hearts, wherein oxygenated and deoxygenated blood are not structurally separated, but mix. That arrangement is obviously not as energy-efficient as separating oxygenated and deoxygenated blood, and some later reptiles evolved four-chambered hearts, which their surviving descendants the crocodilians, birds, and mammals possess.
While oxygen level changes of the GEOCARBSULF model show early fluctuations that the COPSE model does not, both models agree on a huge rise in oxygen levels in the late Devonian and Carboniferous, in tandem with collapsing carbon dioxide levels. And there is virtually universal agreement that that situation is due to rainforest development. Rainforests dominated the Carboniferous period. If the Devonian could be considered land life’s Cambrian Explosion, then the Carboniferous was its Ordovician. In the Devonian, plants developed vascular systems, photosynthetic foliage, seeds, roots, and bark, and true forests first appeared. Those basics remain unchanged to this day, but in the Carboniferous, there was great diversification within those body plans, and Carboniferous plants formed the foundation for the first complex land-based ecosystems. Ever since the Snowball Earth episodes, there has almost always been a continent at or near the South Pole, and the ice ages that have prominently shaped Earth’s eon of complex life probably always began with ice sheets at the South Pole, with the current ice age arguably being the only partial exception, but today’s cold period really began about 35 mya, when the ice sheet at Antarctica began developing.
The first tree forests formed in the late Devonian, and bark is the great innovation that led to forming the Carboniferous’s prodigious coal deposits. Compared to modern trees, Carboniferous trees seemed to go overboard on bark, at least partly to discourage arthropods. Today’s trees generally contain at least four times as much wood as bark. Those early trees had about ten times as much bark as wood, and the bark was about half lignin. Lepidodendron trees dominated the Carboniferous rainforest, and could grow thirty meters tall. Because it took more than a hundred million years for life to learn to break down lignin, that early lignin did not degrade via biological processes. The early Carboniferous was warm, even with a small ice cap at the South Pole, and Earth’s first rainforests appeared in the late Devonian and again thrived in the Carboniferous. The Carboniferous lasted from about 360 mya to 300 mya and was the Golden Age of Amphibians, as the rainforest was largely global in extent and swamps abounded. Amphibians were the Carboniferous’s apex predators on land, some reaching crocodile size and acting like them.
Artists have been depicting Carboniferous swamps for more than a century, with the cliché image including a giant dragonfly. That giant dragonfly represents a key Carboniferous issue and perhaps why the period ended. That giant, and others like it, appeared in the fossil record about 300 mya, when oxygen levels were Earth’s highest ever, somewhere between 25% and 35%. The almost universally-accepted reason for that high oxygen level is that burying all of that lignin for the entire Carboniferous period removed carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in vast amounts. Today, the estimate is that carbon dioxide fell from about 1,500 PPM at the beginning of the Carboniferous to 350 PPM by the end, which is lower than today’s value. That tandem effect of sequestering carbon and freeing oxygen not only may have led to huge arthropods and amphibians, but also intensified the ice age that ended the Carboniferous in what some scientists have argued should be a Big Five mass extinction. The idea that high oxygen levels led to those giants was first proposed more than a hundred years ago and dismissed, but has recently come back into vogue. Flying insects have the highest metabolisms of all animals, but they do not have diaphragmatic lungs like mammals have, or air sac lungs like birds have, and although they may have some way of actively breathing by contracting their tracheas, it is not the bellows action of vertebrate lungs. The two primary hypotheses for early insect gigantism is that high oxygen, as well as a denser atmosphere (the nitrogen levels would not have fallen, so increased oxygen would have added to the atmosphere’s mass), would have enabled such leviathans to fly, and the other is that flying insects got a head start in the arms race and could grow large until predators that could catch them evolved. The late Permian had an even larger dragonfly, when oxygen levels had crashed back down. The evolution of flight is another area of great controversy, and insects accomplished it long before vertebrates did. The general idea is that flight structures evolved from those used for other purposes. For insects, wings appear to have evolved from aquatic “oars,” and gills became lungs. Reptiles did not develop flight until the Triassic, and only glided in the Permian.
But it was not only flying insects that became huge: giant millipedes, scorpions, and other arthropods also abounded in the Carboniferous, such as mayflies with half-meter wingspans. The giant millipede (more than two meters long) has been featured in popular culture as a nightmare creature. The largest freshwater fish ever lived in the Carboniferous, reaching seven meters long. The high-oxygen hypothesis is challenged for giant insects and giant animals in general, and the controversy will likely last for many more years.
The Carboniferous also marked the rise of reptiles, which first appeared between 340 and 335 mya. The very term reptile has become rather informal with the rise of cladistics, as birds and mammals descended from “reptiles” but are not called that. The term paraphyletic refers to groupings such as reptiles, where part of the clade is not classified in the named group; monophyletic clades are tidier and scientists often prefer them. Although the issue, as usual, is controversial today, it seems that amphibian ancestors and reptile ancestors may have descended from different groups of tetrapods, with some seemingly transitional animals adding to the controversy. But the idea that reptiles are descended from amphibians is still prominent. Most importantly, reptiles were the first amniotes, a clade that also includes birds and mammals, which do not need to lay their eggs in water, which allowed reptiles to become independent of swamps. Reptiles then colonized niches previously unavailable to amphibians. The first reptiles were small and ate insects, and laying eggs in trees may have been a solution to arboreal life. Seed plants and amniotes could reproduce on dry land, and their success greatly expanded terrestrial ecosystems.
Amniotes are primarily classified by the number of holes in their skulls. The earliest reptiles may have had skulls like amphibians, with only holes for eyes and nostrils. In some early reptiles, a hole developed behind the eye, probably for attaching jaw muscles, and animals with such skulls are called synapsids; mammals evolved from that line, and are essentially the only survivors of it. Near the Carboniferous’s end at about 300 mya, skulls with two holes behind the eye developed, probably for anchoring more powerful jaw muscles. Animals with those skulls are called diapsids, and one line of diapsid descendants eventually ruled the Earth as dinosaurs. Dinosaurs had the greatest terrestrial jaws of all time, which is the primary energy acquisition equipment of vertebrates. Complex life’s arms race reached its ultimate expression in dinosaurs, with the fearsome teeth and jaws of the late-Cretaceous’s Tyrannosaurus rex matched against the spear-and-shield arrangement of Triceratops. Jurassic dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus, with its Thagomizer, would not have been easy meals for predators such as Allosaurus. Turtles are today generally considered to be diapsids that lost their skull holes, and would otherwise seem to be anapsids.
In the oceans, the Carboniferous is called the Golden Age of Sharks, and ray-finned fish arose to a ubiquity that they never fully relinquished. Ray-finned fish may have prevailed because of their high energy efficiency. Their skeletons and scales were lighter than those of armored and lobe-finned fish, and their increasingly sophisticated and lightweight fins, their efficient tailfin method of propulsion, changes in their skulls, jaws, and new ways to use their lightweight and versatile equipment accompanied and probably led to the rise and subsequent success of ray-finned fish in the Carboniferous and afterward. Foraminifera, which are amoebic protists, rose to prominence for the first time in the Carboniferous, and reefs began to recover, although they did not recover to pre-Devonian conditions; those vast Devonian reefs would never be seen again. Today’s stony corals would not appear until the Mesozoic Era. Trilobites steadily declined, and nautiloids developed the curled shells familiar today, with straight shells becoming rare. Ammonoids flourished once again, after barely surviving the Devonian Extinction. This essay is only focusing on certain prominent clades, and there are many animal phyla and plant divisions. The early Carboniferous, for example, is called the Golden Age of Crinoids, which are a kind of echinoderm, which is a phylum that includes starfish. The crinoids had their Golden Age when the fish that fed on them disappeared in the end-Devonian extinction. Ecosystems are vastly richer entities than this essay, or any essay, can depict.
In the early Carboniferous, the continents were still somewhat dispersed, but began merging into the supercontinent called Pangaea. The period from the Late Devonian extinction event to the late Permian about 260 mya is also called the Karoo Ice Age, with various stages of ice sheet development. It was the last ice age before the current ice age. In the mid-Carboniferous, around 318 mya, the ice cap once again began to grow and sea levels fell, devastating the ammonoids among others that lived in the shallow seas near shore. That growing ice cap eventually destroyed the Carboniferous rainforest. Cooler oceans will have less evaporation and therefore produce drier climates; that dynamic began to reduce the Carboniferous rainforest, breaking them up into “patches” that kept shrinking, to eventually result in the collapse of the rainforests around 305 mya. Only a few pockets of rainforest survived into the Permian period. The collapse of the rainforest ended the dominance of amphibians, and flora and fauna that adapted to warm, wet environments. The cooler, dryer conditions that ended the Carboniferous led to the dominance of seed plants and amniotes.
When the Carboniferous rainforest collapsed about 305 mya, Earth’s oxygen levels were at their highest ever. About 75% of Earth’s coal deposits were formed in the Carboniferous, with almost all of it laid down in the 25-million-year epoch called the Pennsylvanian. There will never be a coal-forming period like that again on Earth, as organisms developed the ability to decay lignin about 290 mya, and even if humans burned all the fossil fuel deposits, carbon dioxide levels will never again reach the levels the preceded the Carboniferous, at many times today’s concentrations.
The Permian period ran from about 299 mya to 252 mya, ending with the greatest mass extinction in the eon of complex life. The Carboniferous rainforests not only collapsed, but great deserts formed in the interior of the newly-formed supercontinent of Pangaea. Pangaea was a little scattered when it formed, with a huge ice cap at the South Pole, but by the end of the Permian, the ice age was finished and another ice age would not appear for more than two hundred million years. The continent that became North America and Europe collided with Gondwana, and a gigantic mountain range was formed as a result, called the Central Pangaean Mountains. Those mountains created climate effects, and great deserts formed on each side of that range. Remnants of that range include the Appalachians and part of the Atlas Mountains. The Ural mountain range began forming during the creation of Pangaea, and the Tethys Ocean grew during the Permian.
Conifer forests, which I have spent my life happily hiking through, first appeared in the Permian. Devonian forests were ten meters tall, the Carboniferous rainforests were thirty meters tall, and Mesozoic conifer forests reached sixty meters tall. Conifers were one of the early seed plants, and it used pollen to fertilize the seeds, which is a method of fertilization that did not need the water that spores did. As conifers appeared during an ice age, they are well-adapted to cold climates, which is why conifer forests are so prevalent today. As discussed later in this essay, conifers were later displaced by flowering plants, which engaged in an unprecedented symbiosis with animals, and conifers were pushed to the cold margins of Earth. Tree ferns declined after the Carboniferous, but still exist today.
In water environments, there are not diurnal temperature changes as there are on land, so regulating body temperature was not a significant issue. The rise of reptiles created a new kind of animal, and regulating body temperature became a major challenge, particularly in an ice age climate. The early Permian was the Golden Age of Synapsids, as they dominated the land masses, and thermoregulation was a prominent trait, with huge “sails” on the backs of the largest synapsids, with the Dimetrodon being popular with children’s models of ancient animals (I had one in my childhood collection, along with mammoths and stegosaurs). Animals made many adaptions to land’s temperature swings. Today’s mammals and birds are warm-blooded, and controversy has raged whether dinosaurs were warm-blooded. Keeping a body’s temperature within certain ranges can allow for optimal enzyme functioning. Humans, for instance, can only survive within a narrow range of body temperature. High temperatures kill humans because key enzymes begin to fall apart, and key reactions their biochemistry cannot happen. Too low a temperature and activation energies for key biochemical reactions are not reached. But maintaining that equable body-temperature is costly in terms of energy, with mammals and birds consuming about ten-to-fifteen times the energy of today’s reptiles. A snake can live for a month on a good meal, while a mammal must constantly eat or hibernate. As with other life features, those synapsid sails may have had a dual function, and the most popular speculation today is that it was used for “display,” which is a way to attract a mate. Sexual selection has been a major source of evolutionary change (it is likely why men are larger and stronger than women), and those tremendous sails may have been an early example of enhancing a feature to attract a mate. Dimetrodons also had different-sized teeth, which was likely a distant ancestor to mammalian teeth.
During the Permian, synapsids had great radiations, typical of Golden Ages. Synapsids developed many evolutionary novelties, one of them leading to therapsids appearing in the mid-Permian, which were the direct ancestors of mammals. Therapsids began to overcome Carrier’s Constraint by evolving a more upright posture, with their legs more under them, rather than splayed to their sides. This improved their breathing ability, and that it happened during Earth’s most spectacular oxygen crash is likely no coincidence. From a high of 25%-30% at the end of the Carboniferous, oxygen crashed down to around 15% by the Permian’s end. Animals that could adapt to lower oxygen levels could dominate, and therapsids did just that, completely displacing pelycosaur synapsids, which included Dimetrodon, and huge dinocephalians dominated the mid-Permian. The largest amphibian ever also lived in the high oxygen times of the mid-Permian. As oxygen levels crashed in the late Permian, land animals became smaller. In the mid-Permian, synapsids began to develop the secondary palate, which would allow them to breathe and chew at the same time. Therapsid jaws became more powerful, and their teeth became more diverse than synapsid teeth. Such innovations typically improved an animal’s energy efficiency, and thus were favored innovations.
One of Peter Ward’s recent hypotheses is that those animals that adapted to the changing conditions, particularly when oxygen levels crashed, survived the catastrophes to thrive in the post-catastrophic environment. In the late Permian, several therapsid lines developed turbinal bones, which may have been used for respiratory water retention in a world where oxygen levels were crashing. This is a controversial issue, and related to the controversy over when reptiles developed endothermy.
The earliest diapsid appeared in the late Carboniferous, and looked like a modern lizard. It also had non-uniform teeth, with canine-type teeth. Diapsids, however, were marginal animals in the Permian, as they were times of synapsid and therapsid dominance. Diapsids would not rise to prominence until the Triassic.
In the oceans, reefs finally began to make a comeback in the late Permian, and the remnants of those reefs can be seen in Texas today. Tabulate and rugose corals were abundant, as were ammonoids and echinoderms. Articulate brachiopods (with two shells that can open and close, like a clam’s) were also doing fine. Fish (ray-finned fish and sharks), however, were the dominant sea animals. Trilobites were a mere shadow of their former selves, eking out an existence on the seafloor, similar to how nautiloids eked out their existence in deep waters while ammonoids dominated the surface. And then came the Great Dying.
The Permian extinction, like the prior great extinctions, was more than one event and had more than one cause. While the Cretaceous extinction is what most people think about when mass extinctions are mentioned, as it was Hollywood-spectacular and ended one fascinating line of animals and paved the way for mammals to dominate, leading to the existence of humans, the Permian extinction was the Big One. Before the taboo against investigating mass extinctions began lifting in the 1970s and 1980s, specialists generally thought that the Permian extinction only impacted the oceans, with terrestrial ecosystems unaffected. The picture has radically changed since the 1980s, with terrestrial extinctions now acknowledged as being similarly catastrophic. The Permian extinction is Earth’s only mass extinction of insects, and while plants are not normally vulnerable to mass extinctions, probably because they are at the food chain’s bottom and so are not as subject to trophic cascade failures, land plants also barely survived the Permian extinction. But the extinction came in phases, and each may have had different causes, and there is currently great ongoing controversy and research regarding the extinction and its causes.
The ultimate cause of the Permian extinction was likely the formation of a supercontinent. When Pangaea finally formed, new dynamics appeared. One was that there became only one major ocean, the Panthalassic, with the Paleo-Tethys and nascent Tethys oceans being largely landlocked. Those landlocked smaller oceans would have become like lakes, with little current in them (the Black Sea is the favored analogy today), and the Panthalassic (which the Pacific Ocean eventually formed from) did not have continents to divert them during their journey from the equator to the poles, so today’s circuitous thermohaline circulation would not have existed. The Panthalassic’s currents were likely slow and lazy, and the deep-water oxygenation of today’s oceans would have been quite different, perhaps even ceasing to exist. Also, when supercontinents form, the sea level falls as the oceanic basin expands. The many shallow seas of complex life’s earlier periods also disappeared with the formation of Pangaea, which were the abode of most marine life. The merging of continents also results in mountain-building and volcanism. As can be seen in the map of Earth’s landmasses during the late Permian, what became China and Siberia were on the northeast margins of Pangaea, bordering the Paleo-Tethys Ocean, and two volcanic events arising from China and Siberia are currently favored as the immediate causes of the Permian extinctions.
The first death knell sounded about 260 mya, in what is called the mid-Permian or Capitanian extinction, or the end-Guadeloupian event, although a recent study finds only one extinction event, in the mid-Capitanian. The extinction was thought to be the result of falling sea levels in the 1990s. But the first of the two huge volcanic events happened then, in China. There can be several deadly outcomes of huge volcanic events. As with an eruption in the early 1800s, huge volcanic events can block sunlight with the ash and create wintry conditions in the middle of summer. That alone can cause catastrophic conditions for life, but that is only one potential outcome of volcanism. What likely had far greater impact were the gases belched into the air. As oxygen levels crashed in the late Permian, there was also a huge carbon dioxide spike, as shown by GEOCARBSULF, and the late-Permian volcanism is virtually the unanimous choice as the primary reason. That would have helped create super-greenhouse conditions, perhaps coming right on the heels of the volcanic winter. Not only would there have been carbon dioxide vented from the mantle, as with all volcanism, but the late-Permian volcanism occurred beneath Ediacaran and Cambrian hydrocarbon deposits, burning them and spewing even more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. Not only that, great salt deposits from the Cambrian period were also burned via the volcanism, creating hydrochloric acid clouds. Volcanoes also spew sulfur, which reacts with oxygen and water to form sulfurous acid. The oceans around the volcanoes would have become acidic, and that fire-and-brimstone brew would have also showered the land. Not only that, but the warming brought on by the initial carbon dioxide spike could have then warmed up the oceans enough so that methane hydrates could have been liberated and created even more global warming. Such global warming apparently warmed the poles, not only melting away the last ice caps, ending an ice age that had waxed and waned for 100 million years, but deciduous forests are in evidence at high latitudes. Warming the poles would have lessened the heat differential between the equator and poles, further diminishing the lazy Panthalassic currents. The landlocked Paleo-Tethys and Tethys oceans, and perhaps even the Panthalassic Ocean, may have all become superheated and anoxic Canfield Oceans as the currents died, and huge hydrogen sulfide events also happened, which may have damaged the ozone layer, leading to ultraviolet light damage to land plants and animals. That was all on top of the oxygen crash. With the current state of research, all of the above events may have happened, in the greatest confluence of life-hostile conditions during the eon of complex life. In 2001, a bolide event was proposed for the Permian extinction with great fanfare, but it does not appear to be related to the Permian extinction; the other dynamics would have been quite sufficient. The Permian extinction was the greatest catastrophe that Earth’s life experienced since the previous supercontinent existed in the Cryogenian.
Siberian volcanism (which formed what are called the Siberian Traps) is considered to have been the main event, with the Chinese volcanism of ten million years earlier being the warm-up, with other minor events between them, in a series of blows that left virtually all complex life devastated when it finally finished.
While the Chinese eruption was the warm-up, it devastated marine environments, and a brief review of the casualties will make it clear. Tabulate and rugose corals were brought to the brink of extinction, and ammonoids, echinoderms, articulated brachiopods, gastropods, and complex foraminiferans suffered similarly, while fish, bivalves, and small foraminiferans were largely unaffected.
After the mid-Permian extinction, marine life recovered and there were many radiations to fill empty niches, but coral reefs did not recover. Between the two extinction big events, extinction levels were highly elevated, suggesting that some of those aforementioned dynamics were still wreaking havoc, with possible cascade effects. Critics of extinction hypotheses often say: “Correlation is not necessarily causation.” While there can be great merit to that position, it seems to be overused by various critics. When the guns are as smoking as volcanic events were, and they often “correlate” with mass extinctions, they are increasingly hard to deny as being at least immediately causative.
The end-Permian extinction correlated rather precisely with the eruption of the Siberian Traps, which continued for a million years and spewed millions of cubic kilometers of basalt. The end-Permian extinction was the final blow for many ancient organisms. My beloved trilobites made their final exit from Earth during the end-Permian extinction, as did tabulate and rugose corals, spiny sharks, and the last freshwater eurypterids. Articulate brachiopods completely vanished from the fossil record, but reappeared in the Triassic, meaning that some ghost ancestors survived, but brachiopods never recovered their former abundance and have only lived a marginal existence ever since. Glass sponges and bryozoans disappeared along with the reefs, while complex foraminiferans and radiolarians also vanished, with all of them staging comebacks in the Triassic via ghost ancestors. Bivalves suffered relatively modestly (“only” about 60% of bivalve genera went extinct) and quickly recovered, fish were barely affected, and gastropods were devastated but quickly recovered. Ammonoids went through their typical boom-and-bust pattern during the Permian extinctions, while nautiloids kept dwindling but scraping by in their deep-water exile. When it was all over, more than 95% of all marine species went extinct. Not only was the death toll tremendous, but the post-Permian oceans were so different than before that the Permian extinction marks the end of an era, which began with the Cambrian Explosion. The Paleozoic era ended with the Permian extinction, and the Mesozoic era began.
On land, the devastation was similar. Again, insects suffered their only mass extinction, with several orders of insects vanishing from the fossil record after the Permian; those gigantic flying insects of Paleozoic times also vanished forever. Permian conifer forests gave way to deciduous forests in the wake of global warming, and early gymnosperms and seed ferns were largely replaced as lycophytes made a comeback in the early Triassic. The lycophyte radiation in the wake of the Permian extinction is typical of what are called disaster taxa, which are the first organisms to colonize disturbed environments. Reptiles and amphibians lost nearly two-thirds of their families, which translates to more than 90% of all species. All large herbivores and predators went extinct, along with gliding reptiles. In total, the Permian extinctions wiped out about 90-96% of all species, more than 80% of all genera, and nearly 60% of all families. Nothing else in the history of complex life comes close, putting the Permian extinction in a category all its own.
While the overwhelming devastation of the Permian extinction seemed to play no favorites and whatever survived was the luck of the draw, recent research has demonstrated that even with such an overwhelming catastrophe, certain life forms were more resilient than others, related to biological “buffers” in their life processes. In marine environments, the warming, anoxia, and acidification would have wiped out species vulnerable to them, and corals were and still are particularly susceptible to those changes. Those conditions wiped out the corals in the Permian extinction, and they are the first ecosystems being devastated today, with similar conditions of warming, anoxia, and acidification. Whether it was the ability to move to safer environs, or the ability to buffer chemical changes, the more resilient organisms had a better survival rate than others.
Wade Frazier
8th December 2013, 20:50
The remaining chapters have this tentative organization:
The Reign of Dinosaurs
The Age of Mammals
The Path to Humanity
Humanity’s First Epochal Events: Growing our Brains and Controlling Fire
Humanity’s Second Epochal Event: The Super-Predator Revolution
Humanity’s Third Epochal Event: The Domestication Revolution
Humanity’s Fourth Epochal Event: The Industrial Revolution
Today’s Global Political Economy
Humanity’s Fifth Epochal Event: Free Energy and an Abundance-Based Political Economy
The Sixth Mass Extinction or the Fifth Epochal Event?
What Has Not Worked So Far, and What Might
We will see what the final result looks like.
Best,
Wade
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What I have drafted so far has this tentative organization:
Dedication
This Essay’s Purpose
This Essay’s Tables and Timelines
Energy and the Industrialized World
The Toolset of Mainstream Science
The Orthodox Framework and its Limitations
Energy and Chemistry
The Formation and Early Development of the Sun and Earth
Early Life on Earth
The Cryogenian Ice Ages and the Rise of Complex Life
Speciation, Extinction, and Mass Extinctions
The Cambrian Explosion
Complex Life Colonizes Land
The Carboniferous and Permian Periods
Ilie Pandia
9th December 2013, 12:45
A few hundred billion years from now, if our Sun is still around in some fashion, a future Wade will imprint in the holographic records the following:
"Before sentient life ever appeared on our planet there was a species who has trived on oil, a resource that was, thus far, non-usable. That species was considered somewhat intelligent (Level 0 on today's scale), being able to devise ways to extract oil from the ever dwindling reserves.
The waste product of that life form was plastic and aluminium, usually packed in cilindrical shapes or rectangular shapes. As usual, when a new niche was discovered there followed a Golden Age of Oil when this life form experienced a literally explosion in numbers and dominated the planet it was a blink of an eye on the evolutionary time scale.
That life form's life style is likely what has caused the Sixth and greatest mass extinsion event. It's almost a miracle that life was not whiped out completely and that we are here today documenting this, but the evolution of humans could be looked at as a failed attempt to evolve intelligence.
It look about 300 mya for new life forms to learn to digest plastic and aluminium, but when it did... it thrived!
The fact that plastic and aluminium were not digestible for such a long time may account for the large deposits that we can still find on our planet even today! It's very likely that this was a one time event and the plastic and aluminum deposits will never be formed again."
Sunny-side-up
9th December 2013, 13:25
Those of the Human species that survived their so called Evolution got it right by going back! They did so by the finale realisation that!
They were not material beings after all and did not need material substance at all!
Their planet is a keepsake Eden (For lower life forms of inter woven beauty) which orbits a Sun/Star Spirit that will/can never fade!
That was us once I do believe! and or could be!
Wade Frazier
9th December 2013, 14:02
Hi:
Ilie gave me my laugh of the morning. On a side-note, dinosaurs had the first hands, and I grew up hearing how small their brains were, but research has confirmed that they were warm-blooded and engaged in parenting and herd behaviors, so were like mammals and birds (which are the only dinosaur survivors). Dinosaur also had hands (even with opposable thumbs). Maybe their relatively small brains is all that kept them from building cities and burning up all the coal before we could get at it. :)
Hi Sunny-side-up:
It has been a very interesting journey for me, to go from scientist-in-training to mystical awakening, to chasing FE and being handed my head, to resuming my scientific studies in my old age. Some of my favorite early mystical influences, such as Seth, say stuff such as Earth being trillions of years old, and I have heard about how the Sun is filled with zillions of entities. After resuming my studies, I really wonder about some of that. I think that consciousness is all that ultimately exists, but I also have respect for the physical journey, its limitations, and whatever the purpose might be (to evolve consciousness seems to be the answer). We definitely are going to Cruel School, and can we change it into something different? Does anybody really want to? That is the big question, to me.
Astronomers have been able to see stars be born, live, grow old, and die, and I have little doubt that all stars go through life-cycles, just like people do. Most go out with a whimper, but some go out with a bang. Similarly, the radioactivity that seems to drive plate tectonics eventually runs out, and the Moon and Mars are examples of running out of energy and becoming solid and inert. While fringe people talk up hyper-dimensional physics, genic energy and the like, mainstream science seems to have explained star and planet life-cycles pretty impressively. I know that plenty is being kept from the public, such as how we are not alone in the universe, and I am quite willing to keep an open mind in many fringe issues until our ET pals can come into the open (or Godzilla lets loose his Golden Hoard), and we can be informed of many issues that have been kept quiet.
However, I will be very surprised if it turns out that stars and planets do not have life cycles, of birth, life, and death, just like life on Earth. I believe that the nature of physical reality is limitation, but that does not mean that our consciousness does not live forever, although it seems to go through its own cycles of evolution. The picture that I have seen, with the scientific and mystical sides of the house weighing in, along with some fringe stuff such as remote viewings, psychic healings, UFO encounters, and peeks at Godzilla’s Golden Hoard, makes a lot of sense to me, although there is plenty that is still mysterious. I am into open inquiry above all else, and when the blinders finally come off of humanity, it will be interesting to see where it all goes, and I hope to live to see at least the beginning of it, because it will mean that we will likely turn the corner and not have to find a new planet to continue the evolution of our souls (but probably without opposable thumbs that time :) ).
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
9th December 2013, 14:44
Hi:
On a little side note, a relative recently visited Roman ruins such as Pompeii and the Roman Coliseum (I have been there, too), and spoke of wishing that he could have gotten into a time machine and seen them in operation. I replied that he would not have liked it, and he kind of agreed. Going to the Coliseum was the Roman equivalent of going to the movies. Watching people being forced to murder each other was how people got their jollies in ancient Rome, and the crueler the spectacle, the more the audience liked it.
But the gladiator phenomenon was also telling in ways. The masses preferred a little fig leaf of legitimacy, so before the fights began, the gladiators would make a statement that they were about to battle to the death of their own free will. When the “choice” was being worked to death in the mines or fighting to the death, to perhaps survive to the next day, that “choice” was understandable. Also, although virtually nobody ever spoke out against the institution, the Romans were not all that proud of their “entertainment.” All manner of activity was depicted on Roman coinage, but never gladiatorial combat:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#gladiator
Rome drove many animals to extinction wherever the Romans conquered, to feed the arenas and temporarily slake the human bloodlust. Rome still gets extolled in song and legend as the greatest empire ever, with its influence still felt. In ways, the USA is the new Rome, but also, in ways, we can see how far we have come. At least the gratuitous murder usually takes place on the movie screen, not at the local stadium, although American football is not all that far removed from the gladiatorial “games.”
Similarly, the brutality of early civilization is evident in the Code of Hammurabi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Hammurabi#Laws_covered
the many human sacrifices found in most ancient human civilizations, and other niceties. Seeing how all the great apes except the bonobos abuse the females perhaps gives us a window into our barbaric past, but it does not have to be that way, and a Star Trek future likely awaits us if a tiny fraction of humanity can muster a bit of integrity and sentience. If five thousand people could reach the level of awareness that I hope to help people attain, it would be game over for Godzilla, and he knows it. Probably the main reason why he leaves me alone right now is that he thinks that those people do not exist. Is that a projection on his part, thinking that everybody is as egocentric as he is, or is he right?
I discovered the hard way that the hero’s journey to FE won’t work, because there are not enough heroes:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany
but does that mean that almost nobody is even courageous enough to leave aside their scarcity-based and egocentric teddy bears:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
for even a minute? That is what I am trying to find out, and we will see how it goes.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
9th December 2013, 15:27
Hi:
OK, one last post before I get to chores. On this thread, in private correspondence, in most FE documentaries, web sites, and in FE circles, I see people advocating this way and that for making FE happen. Without exception, they have been oriented around FE tinkering, sneaking up on Godzilla, raising money, getting patents, storming the ramparts with a host of heroes, and so on (levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6 ), or people offer to brainstorm with me on solutions.
To put it politely, I have already done the “brainstorming,” and am about to try something that nobody has tried before. My so-called “brainstorming” was many years of study and training, listening to that damned voice in my head, and then getting to try out my bright ideas in the real world and being handed my head. Carrying Brian’s spears was one of my life’s highlights:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm
But Dennis’s spears weighed a hundred times Brian's, and is where I got my radicalization:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting
Nearly forty years after I got my first alternative energy dreams:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse
I am about to try out something new. I am not looking for bright ideas and problem-solving. Every “bright idea” that I have yet seen was made by somebody who has not been though the meat grinder and is still stuck in those lower levels of tinkering, business plans, sneaking past Godzilla, and so on.
If I can get that choir formed and trained, eventually it will be time to “do something,” but it will not be along the lines of what I have always seen in the FE field.
As I have stated plenty of times, the technology route to FE only has a prayer if the inventor with the goods gives it to a worthy group. I have never met or heard of an inventor with the goods willing to give it away, and that worthy group has never existed. What I am about to do can be seen as attempting to form that worthy group, or a nucleus that the worthy group can form around, and if it comes time to “do something,” as in a technical project, it will be done in broad daylight, it will be non-profit, and it is not going to play the “sneak up on them” games, the stampede games, and so on. It will not be seeking the attention of the masses, although anybody can look in on what is happening. Again, John Q. Public is only going to begin to wake up to abundance when the means to it are delivered to his door:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli
Again, I learned those lessons long ago the hard way, and if newbies just have to go find out for themselves, they are welcome to, but they need to do it on their own time, and it can be life-risking behavior to find out. The choir is not going to be about beating all of those dead horses one more time.
So, in summary, I already know what I am going to do, in the broad strokes. The devil is in the details, but I already have my strategy developed, and it is only a matter of execution and seeing if I can find enough people with the right stuff to execute it with. And as I have stated many times, it will not be a hero’s journey that I plan for the choir to walk, but the lamb’s route.
Time for chores.
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
9th December 2013, 23:35
This might to be relevant in regard of certain FE approaches having or having not "a prayer". Not long ago while browsing Tom Bearden's website I've once again stumbled onto an interesting observation of peculiar property of FE devices. I don't know if it applies to "every type".
For FE device to work, the physical volume of space, the place it is located upon Earth must be first "conditioned" with it's builder intent. Call it wishfull thinking if you want.
http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/042208.htm
I think this intent must also be filled with the awarenes of the rough idea of the principle of operation. It is not enough to simply wish for it to have COP >1. It must be awareness of tapping directly into The Field. And you must "disobey the Laws of Physics" and believe there is that field. Much to overcome on personal ego level here. Very convenient for sc "sceptics". But it provides a safety lock too. You can't fake the intent. The Field knows it.
And it might be not enough to just build the circuit right of the schematics without first creating "a healthy spiritual atmosphere". Or having "a prayer". This might be further extended. Let me explain. Suppose we somehow managed to survive Godzilla and are ready to sell. Chances are we end up being accused of scam simply because our customers are spiritually unable to provide "mystic component" for our device to work properly. The sad fact is mystic and money don't mix. Some are trying to prove otherwise with unpleasant results.
Wade's approach will greatly improve level of now missing component provided by the recipients' of FE devices in the days that will come. This will help to "condition" the areas of Earth to prepare ground for deployment of long awaiting tech.
I am slowly plowing through essay's drafts posted by Wade so far. It's very different reading type compared to regular "quick read" posts, which require certain amount of quiet self-time. Not to be swallowed on the go for sure. At least not for me ;) Plenty of good stuff in one place :)
Wade Frazier
10th December 2013, 01:46
Hi Robert:
What Bearden is referring to is partly why I repeatedly say that there are mystical and practical issues with the FE conundrum. After long years of being in the FE trenches, and hearing tales from fellow travelers, I began to get the idea that the ZPF is divine in nature. The inventor’s consciousness seems to be very much a part of the dynamic, but that also seems to be true of all great inventors. My early exposure to inventors hinted in that direction:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse
But is also became clear on the practical side of it, and I am not just referring to getting a ZPE device working. It began to become clear to me, much to my dismay, that inventors invent primarily to get rich and famous, not to help the world. Many inventors can talk a good game, but when it comes time to make something happen, then the rubber hits the road and you find out what people are made of, and it is almost never pretty. I never met or heard of an altruistic FE inventor with the goods. They all tried to cash in, and Godzilla derails that approach in his sleep. When cashing in is the primary motivation, the effort usually self-destructs before Godzilla even needs to roll out of bed.
Again, it was only after seeing similar dynamics over and over and over that I began to see the issue in broader, even mystical, terms. I think that if a civilization does not have enough collective divine intention, they are not going to get the benefit of FE, or not for long. It will either stop working, or they will destroy themselves with it.
Eventually, you begin to suspect that something bigger is happening than “only” the fifth epochal event. Manifesting FE seems to be a test of our integrity, and in the big picture Godzilla may indeed be doing God’s work by wiping out all FE aspirants so far. It is almost a tautology, in that there has not yet been an effort with sufficient divine intention to overcome Godzilla and humanity’s inertia and deadly sins. That is another reason why the Young Warrior approach is pure foolishness:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#warriors
thinking that they will vanquish Godzilla and save the day. I believe that if we decide to be coercive, violent, and so on, no matter what the stakes are, we will fail the test of our integrity, and thus not be “worthy” of FE, which is another reason why I advocate the lamb’s path.
On delivering an FE device, heck, probably the first installations will be on the choir’s homes (and they will likely be paying to have them built, but that is a long way down the road). The effort really only needs to worry about Godzilla until one can be put on a home and mass producible. Once that happens, and Joe Average can walk down the street and see it powering a choir-member’s home, it is game over for Godzilla, and he knows it. Then, a stampede will begin. Getting to that stage is the hard part. It will take an industrial process, not a craftsman one, which is a big part of the problem.
On my chapter drafts, glad somebody is reading them ( :) ), but the final product will have links and references (many of them). Just reading the text and thinking deeply is a man’s way of doing it. :) But deep thinking is what the essay will be all about – that is the only way to a comprehensive perspective that I know of.
One book that I refer to plenty in my essay is Richard Cowen’s History of Life:
http://www.amazon.com/History-Life-Richard-Cowen/dp/0470671726/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1386638913&sr=8-1&keywords=History+of+Life
which is about the best of its kind. The book's last chapter is about the megafauna extinctions. Other than the “loyal opposition” to the idea of human agency in the megafauna extinctions, of which Don Grayson is the grandmaster and still at it:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130506181711.htm
I have yet to see a serious and disinterested scientist fail to agree with the overkill hypothesis for the megafauna extinctions (or variations of it - primarily humans hunting the easy meat to extinction, and it also seemed to have cascade knock-on effects). Even Grayson concedes that the islands extinctions were caused by people, but he is going to go to his grave clinging to the climate hypothesis for the Americas and Australia. That dog simply does not hunt.
After surveying the human-wrought carnage on the world’s megafauna (key Eurasian megafauna were driven to extinction before the Americas were invaded, mammoths in particular), Cowen makes the kinds of comments that I do, about the romantic fantasy that “primitive” peoples lived in harmony with nature, and in the end, he kind of questions whether humans are sentient, in his thinly-veiled disgust and dismay regarding our benighted species (any book like that will end on a similar note, as it is obvious that we are causing the sixth mass extinction, due to short-sighted greed, elite-induced poverty, etc., even leaving aside Godzilla). He ends the book with:
“The anthropologist David Pilbeam wrote that we have only begun to tap the potential of the human brain. He had better be right.”
Back to chores.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
10th December 2013, 02:30
Hi:
A last thought tonight:
When it comes time to bring FE devices to the world, my ideal is that they would never be sold. Again, the solid-state device that Sparky had:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky
which has been developed to the thirtieth generation in Godzilla’s workshop, would probably be able to be mass-produced for a few bucks each. If it gets to where Joe Average can get it, then the only “buyer” is going to be the world’s governments, who will then give them to the public, or some charity, etc., like maybe The Choir Charity. :) That will be the beginning of the end of capitalism and market economies, and also the beginning of the end of government as we know it. FE will not be seen as a product, but everybody's birthright.
When FE is out in the open and essentially free for everybody, the fifth epochal event will be here, and none too soon. If FE can get to the world, particularly in that way, it will be the biggest agent of change in human history. It could also happen in other ways, but my point is that for my part, I don’t want to see FE get to the world via capitalistic means, and capitalistic means are a dead-end anyway these days, courtesy of Godzilla and friends. This will be new wine that has never existed before, not even close, and the old skins probably won’t hold it, and I doubt they should.
The world will quickly look nothing like it does now, but that is because it will soon begin to resemble heaven on Earth.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
10th December 2013, 14:43
Hi:
The action today will probably be over here:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29372-What-technologies-activities-or-concepts-will-be-made-obsolete-by-Free-Energy&p=770041&viewfull=1#post770041
but answering Ilie’s query brought up another issue that I have had to repeatedly deal with. Focusing on FE and abundance is very hard to do, for many reasons. One thing that I have dealt with zillions of times is when I begin painting the FE and abundance picture, supposedly “deep thinkers” immediately try to derail the thought thread with “devil’s advocate” musings, or “How might this be harmful or misused?” musings, or “Why don’t we skip all of that and become Level 19” (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level19 ) musings, or “We just have to sit in a room and change our perspectives!” “insight,” and so on. What they are really doing is avoiding abundance and its practical ramifications at all costs. It is really Level 5 fear-porn:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5
dressed up as “reasonable,” “deep-thinking” prudence. If people can really grok abundance and how the tiniest bit of collective integrity and sentience can manifest it, here and now, those fear-based musing take a seat way at the back of the bus, and are only visited after abundance is truly comprehended, because when you truly comprehend abundance, you can scarcely think of anything else.
On the high road to FE like Dennis and Brian trod, the most common response to the idea of abundance is fear and denial, and all of those “reasonable” objections, or “let’s become Level 19” games and so on are really just arguments for the status quo, getting nothing done at all, and going back to their games of scarcity, with the threat of abundance kept at bay once again. Also, when people really comprehend abundance, they will relinquish the many scarcity-based assumptions that undergird their awareness. All the time, I have people say to me that they see the FE light, and then they advocate hemp or bamboo or more “humane” animal farming, etc., which means that they still don’t understand. With FE and the related technologies and material technologies that are under wraps, no life form would ever be exploited again for human benefit (except for food, but that would become symbiotic, as in the world that Roads glimpsed http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748 ). With FE and abundance, that would all be seen as incredibly barbaric. But the zero-sum-game is baked deeply, so deeply that almost nobody can shed themselves of its many insidious assumptions. It takes a great deal of work to really examine the scarcity-based assumptions that have become the furniture of our minds, and the founding assumptions of all ideologies:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
Again, I am looking for the very, very few who are willing and able to do the work. My upcoming essay will be a mark on the wall, but just one. People like Ilie will one day take it further.
Back to chores.
Best,
Wade
Carmody
10th December 2013, 17:25
We definitely are going to Cruel School, and can we change it into something different? Does anybody really want to? That is the big question, to me.
Well, it does provide for drama. and drama provides for the colors of the rainbow and thus, rumination on the complexities. Thus, (to cut to the chase) 'cruel school' is probably the game of the day and it may not change, anytime soon. However, the wilder the hands on the wheel, the harder to stop the thing from careening about. Of course, the bigger the scare, the harder the railing on the road is impacted (bouncing off, bits flying everywhere), the greater, the more complex, the move varied and colored the lesson.
But we come to a point that the careening must be brought under control lest the whole thing go beyond repair and general capacity to be useful...and the question is asked: To let the avatar rest, that poor bruised flesh, is it now strong enough, evolved enough... to let it into the wild?
I think the answer is yes.... and the final stages of it begin to roll out.
Wade Frazier
11th December 2013, 01:43
Hi:
All the posts from me lately are because I took a little breather after I got through the Permian extinction, but I am diving back in now, so will be rather quiet.
I would like to make a little post on the nature of prophecy and prediction. I have written about it plenty:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#alternate
Anybody familiar with the fringes is well aware of people, “channels,” “insiders,” and the like who make all manner of predictions, many cock-sure, to only fall by the wayside when their predictions don’t quite manifest, although they usually try to save face and backpedal, etc. We are all very familiar with that, especially now that 2012 is in our rear-view mirrors. I can’t tell you how many predictions I have seen in the past forty years, by all manner of “seer.”
I have made many predictions that came true in one way or another:
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/wade_iraq.htm
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#sunny
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#enron
but it had nothing to do with prophetic powers, but just seeing where things were heading. I’ll make another one right now: the “experiment” that the Federal Reserve is doing today, printing a trillion dollars’ worth of money annually, with Japan and Europe following suit and getting even crazier, will result in a financial catastrophe. That requires no prophetic skill on my part, but just understanding how the world works and having a sense of history. Every single fiat currency was eventually wrecked by the people in charge of the printing press, because of the seduction of the seemingly “easy way out” of economic problems by printing money. Money is only accounting – there is nothing real about it. But when it is abused like it is and has been, it eventually no longer even has accounting reality, and eventually the currency will be devalued and abandoned, while creating great havoc on the way out. It is the equivalent of Rome debasing its coins. This stupid dynamic is literally as old as money, especially money will no intrinsic value. I will be proven right, whether the catastrophe comes to pass in one year or ten, but I am no prophet. That money-printing is a sign of a weak real economy, and wildly printing money is like building a Potemkin Bank.
There is too much Hollywood in Walsch’s Conversations with God work, but there are plenty of nuggets in it, and one of them was observing that if you say you are heading toward San Jose but are really driving toward Montreal, it can be helpful to just take a good look at the signs and see where you are really heading.
Mystics will say that violence breeds violence, and even astute historians and social commentators can see that dynamic:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#primary
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#luther
and it sure did not take a genius to see that the USA could take the world to the brink of World War III by invading Asia once again, grabbing more oil, as usual. We are taking a blowtorch to the powder keg.
Our future is what we make of it, and my future won’t necessarily be yours. When Max (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#hell ) next incarnates, he may end up here:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115
but that is between Max and the reality that he co-creates. If I end up incarnating on Earth again after this life is finished, this earthly personality is going to ask for this duty:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth/page8
But where will my soul’s next incarnation be, if it incarnates again? Beats me, but I doubt that anybody can predict what I will end up doing, and certainly cannot make a prediction that will set my path. So-called prophets that say exactly what is ahead, as if they have foreordained it, actually play the victim game, as if we don’t make decisions each moment of each day that determines our future. There are certainly big trends that can be discerned, planetary karma, and the like, but each one of us chooses what our future will be, and we largely do it with the actions that we take each day, and what we choose to focus our awareness on.
So, when anybody states what is ahead for us, from some kind of alleged prophetic ability or their keen understanding, I always take it with a grain of salt. The talented may see where things seem to be heading, but nobody knows how it will turn out. That is the “divine surprise” that comes with having free will. I never say what will be, but only what can be. When I see the train is about to go off the cliff, even if the passengers and even the engineer are oblivious, I can predict with some confidence that the ride will get rough, but even then, there is an emergency brake, and some might even jump out of the windows before it all goes sailing off the cliff.
This thread was once the best on the Internet:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29372-What-technologies-activities-or-concepts-will-be-made-obsolete-by-Free-Energy/page29
and it is still damn good, but it has been wandering in recent months. Ilie is trying to right the ship on that thread right now, and we will see how it goes. The choir will not have conversations that wander like that, not at cross-purposes to the conversation’s intent.
I have already written it plenty, but capitalism will become obsolete with FE and abundance. Greed will simply not make sense anymore. One of the surreal things about my journey is finding out how the world really works versus how the ideologies depict it. Classical economists were flacking for the capitalists from the very beginning, as their ideological foot soldiers. It was actually Marx who called it what it was, with his notions of “primitive accumulation” that the classical economists turned a blind eye to, as that was how their masters made their piles. One of the big lies of capitalism is how efficient it is. In the big picture, it may well be the most inefficient system yet devised. It is only “efficient” when you are at the tail end of the process reaping the profits, but it sure is not very efficient for those being ground in its maw. As I discovered the hard way, Godzilla’s suppression of FE is capitalism on steroids:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make
Capitalist apologists cannot afford to admit how evil the system is. Almost nobody wants to do that, certainly not its beneficiaries, so my experiences, Dennis’s, Brian’s, and so on are irrationally dismissed as “conspiracy theories” and the like. The suppression of FE is perhaps the key cornerstone of propping up capitalism and Godzilla’s reign, because if abundance was allowed to appear, a greed-based system would simply make no sense.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
11th December 2013, 01:53
Oops! I posted it to the wrong thread. The post is over here:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?29372-What-technologies-activities-or-concepts-will-be-made-obsolete-by-Free-Energy&p=770487&viewfull=1#post770487
Wade Frazier
11th December 2013, 16:29
Hi:
I am working hard on the Triassic period and the rise of dinosaurs, but I just saw this:
http://world.time.com/2013/12/09/china-here-are-some-great-things-about-toxic-air/?hpt=hp_t3
and had to comment. China is spinning air pollution as a benefit. They did this with concurrently raising the level where smog is considered harmful:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-10/if-you-can-t-beat-the-shanghai-smog-change-the-system-.html
Americans are laughing at this, but the same thing was done to fluoride:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#compulsory
and today most Americans think it is good for them:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#tomorrow
Orwell was an optimist.
Best,
Wade
Ilie Pandia
11th December 2013, 16:51
I think something similar happened with radiation limits being raised after the Fukusima power plant accident.
Wade Frazier
11th December 2013, 17:27
Hi Ilie:
Yes indeed, they raised the radiation limits:
http://www.inlandnewstoday.com/story.php?s=18279
http://enenews.com/doctor-japan-raise-radiation-limits-keep-people-calm-theyre-being-poisoned-video
The USA has done that with all sorts of industrial pollutants, including lead, fluoride, electromagnetic radiation, etc. Japan is in a world of hurt because of Fukushima. Fukushima may end Japan as we know it, and all that crazy money printing in Japan:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing#Japan_after_2007_and_Abenomics
is just one of the symptoms. Japan is in the midst of its own “Homeland Security” overhaul, where they are going to make everything secret that they can, and even criminalize independent reporting on Fukushima:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-06/japan-secures-final-passage-secrecy-bill-designed-kafka-inspired-hitler
This past summer, Japan’s finance minister expressed his admiration for Hitler’s wily methods of changing the laws and wrecking the German democratic system before anybody realized it.
We just had the spectacle of Japanese officials eating Fukushima rice:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-12-11/rice-fukushima-was-served-japanese-government-officials-and-then-something-odd-happe
Again, all of this craziness is likely a prelude to catastrophic events, while the media of all governments assures us that all is well, that smog is good for you, that radiation is good for you (that made the rounds in the American media right after Fukushima, with more pro-nuclear propaganda than I had ever seen before, even from “environmental” organizations), etc.
We are racing toward the abyss…
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
11th December 2013, 22:14
The new debt limit was not raised yet ;)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/on-small-business/what-business-owners-should-know-about-the-new-budget-deal/2013/12/10/8839313c-61e4-11e3-94ad-004fefa61ee6_story.html
Another drama to unfold in early February 2014
$17.3 trillion and counting...
Wade Frazier
11th December 2013, 22:41
Hi:
As I work on the dinosaur section, I am reminded by recent events of what I have learned on my journey. Again, I cannot overemphasize that I would likely not have anything worth saying if I had not had my ride with Dennis:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting
There are people very close to me, who are sometimes in my corner, who cannot understand that. Maybe they are too close to it to see, but it is probably because they never had radicalizing experiences. I regularly meet “enthusiasts” who are kind of in my corner, but they are nearly invariably naïve, too naïve to be much good for what I have in mind, and probably too old to go chasing the kinds of experiences where they will lose their naïveté. Naïveté is only shed by experience, as far as I have seen. Those enthusiasts usually sit in some academic berth, corporate slot, and so on, and they don’t fully appreciate how their minds have been boxed in by their indoctrination and conditioning, and those people are really trying. And they often see me as smart, informed, and noble, and they think that those are the key qualifications for what I do. But while those are helpful traits, they are not the key one. If I had not been through the meat grinder, I would probably have ended up like them, and would not really have had much useful to say. I almost shudder to think if I had just gone for the money and gotten rich at Microsoft or some Internet startup and never met Dennis. I would have been rich, naïve, and useless. That does not mean that I am happy with the voice in my head, either. One day that voice and I will have a long talk. The naïveté and inexperience of the enthusiasts keeps their thinking well within conventional boundaries, trapped at some level within one or several dominant ideologies:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant
They are usually into “weird stuff,” and often have a kind of lurid fascination with conspiracies, but it is at the enthusiast level. Those people keep the New Age expos and fringe talk circuits in business, but it is no good at all for really getting anything important done. And it took me many years to finally understand. Some was by trading notes with people such as Brian O:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience
sitting at Dennis’s feet and the like, but the vast majority was gleaned through my direct personal experience. Beginning in 1996, I had my email address on my site and took on all comers until 2002. That was educational, and I’ll never do that again. I engaged in hundreds of exchanges with people (or was it thousands?), and the many ways that people reacted to my work was part of developing the approach that I plan to try out soon. Ever since I began using Outlook in 2000, I have kept all of my emails, and I have sent nearly 25,000 emails since 2000, and some unknown thousands before then. I have made thousands of forum posts, too, with nearly two thousand at Avalon, and few of them short. If I had to guess, I would say that I have made about 35,000 posts, emails, and other correspondence since I put up my first website in 1996. At least 20,000 of those missives are related to my life’s work, and it may be more like 30,000. My opinions on these matters are not formed off the cuff.
I found that turning one’s friends, family, and colleagues onto my work was a very hazardous undertaking. I watched friendships and other relationships disintegrate when people were introduced to my work. The bottom line was that almost nobody really understood, or seemed to really want to. To some, I represented something new and unusual, and for others I represented a great threat to their world. Even the dimmest among them got an inkling that FE would end the world as they know it. It also did not take much insight to realize that chasing after FE could mean money beyond the dreams of avarice:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion
They also had some idea what happened to me, Dennis, and the like, so they also had at least some faint idea of the peril. With those kinds of perils and temptations, the kinds of reactions that people have to my work have rarely been tame. They loved me, hated me, hero-worshipped me, saw me as Public Enemy Number 1, and so on. Many wanted to sword fight with me, as if by vanquishing me, at least rhetorically, their delusions would remain intact and unchallenged. I had no interest in sword-fighting, and it took me a long time to realize the many tactics such people used against me. One of their favorites was acting like they had a hard time understanding my position, and they wanted me to elucidate it and help them see the light. I walked right into that one many times before I understood the many variations of that approach. In a way, it is the “Samaritan Trap” strategy, of which there are many flavors.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708768/
http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2013/11/07/an-ohio-good-samaritan-was-lured-into-trap-and-beaten-unconscious-when-he-tried-to-help-a-couple-jump-start-their-car
They feigned interest and wanting my help, but were really only looking for the chance to stick it in me when my back was turned. Since it was usually by email (although I have had many face-to-face versions of this phenomenon, I am sorry to say), the damage they could inflict was usually limited, although I have written how “friends” and family have tried to wreck my family relationships:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694648&highlight=cautionary#post694648
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=695102&viewfull=1#post695102
Similarly, I write about the pitfalls of FE pursuit:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#potholes
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6
from personal experience and those of my close fellow travelers, not some theory or something I got out of a magazine.
When I hear about somebody who is going to go storm the FE ramparts, or is itching to go “do something,” it reminds me of eighteen-year-old boys pining to prove their manhood on the battlefield:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business
It took me many years to finally realize that almost nobody on Earth is willing or fit to comprehend abundance before it is delivered to their homes. It is just what it is, and after finally acknowledging that reality I developed my latest strategy of looking for needles in haystacks, but I am not going to waste my time with people who just don’t quite get it and who want me to help them understand, when I can tell in the first minute that they never will (before that FE device is delivered to their homes) and are not really willing to. In Internet forums, I can usually tell in one post if the person may have what I am looking for. It does not always work out, in that they eventually show me that they just can’t quite get over the hump, even though they may really want to. But I have never seen anybody who gave me the sign that they were not what I was looking for, who eventually proved me wrong. I am finished with giving such people the benefit of the doubt. They are still free to read my work and do what they can to heal our world, but they won’t get my time.
Anybody who challenges me, or comes to grind an ax that I already deposited in the trashcan many times, is not whom I am looking for. I quickly either ignore them or send them on their way. I am not going to waste time with such people. I can’t afford to. There is only one of me, and I only have so much time in my life, and I am getting old. I can’t afford the timewasters. I learned my lessons from them, and that is a well that I will not be revisiting if I can avoid it.
And this is not about forming some cult or insulating myself from truth tellers. The best critiques of my work have come from people in my corner, who were trying to make it better, and they are all precious to me. I have never received a challenge to my work that was trying to invalidate it that was honest, informed, and intelligent. It has really been something to see people try to cross swords with me, who knew I had them by 40-70 IQ points as they tried to take me on in the areas of facts, reason, and interpretation. I know people a lot smarter than me (off-the-scale IQs), and I would never dream of doing something like that with them; about the only outcome would be me looking like an idiot, but those people launched right in to hand me my head. I never tried to pull the “intelligence” card, but it was a quite a grotesque sight to see them try to skewer me, as all they did was hoist themselves by their own petards, and then strut away with certainty that they just “won.” What can possess people to do that?
The people that I am looking for will tackle my upcoming essay and won’t come up for air for months. They are going to go deep. They are going to do it because they know they will learn something new and important, and they will realize the importance of the subject and know that even if we do not push FE over the hump by ourselves, the learning is never wasted and our efforts can only help. And when I begin to go recruiting for the choir, and I see somebody who has done the work and is singing and hitting the notes, they won’t be able to get rid of me. It will not be the case of people approaching me, asking to be in the choir, but me approaching them and begging.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Robert J. Niewiadomski
11th December 2013, 23:30
I have found this mentioned in September 2013 on PA in "Here and now" thread by Carmody:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?30405-Here-and-Now...What-s-Happening&p=732043&highlight=amplituhedron#post732043
And today i saw it mentioned in Wired magazine (after 3 months?):
Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/12/amplituhedron-jewel-quantum-physics/)
It's called amplituhedron (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplituhedron) and it's a kind of "geometric calculus" for solving quantum equations. Here is ~1 hour lecture by Nima Arkani-Hamed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nima_Arkani-Hamed), the author
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By27M9ommJc
(...)The amplituhedron, or a similar geometric object, could help by removing two deeply rooted principles of physics: locality and unitarity.(...)Looks dangerously innocent ;)
I wonder if "FE proof" would pop out of this at some unsuspecting white scientist?
The paper has been submitted for peer review on Dec 6th
http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.2007
so maybe it's to early for more atention.
Wade Frazier
12th December 2013, 00:40
Been looking at the news lately, Robert? :)
If relatively “innocent” breakthroughs are the least bit threatening to Godzilla or lower-level interests, they are removed from the scene, the taboo is put on them, etc. In the life sciences, the fate of Rife’s scope:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#rife
and data showing that fluoride damages the brain:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#mullenix
are two of many examples. The scientist gets skewered (murder is common enough), the stuff gets classified, bought out, the “skeptics” are sicced on it, and so on. It may have a life in the fringes for a while, then it goes into oblivion, Godzilla’s Golden Hoard, or both.
Relativity posed no threat to the economic empires of the day, while Tesla’s stuff did. That is why Einstein is a household word and Tesla was cast into oblivion. One could make the argument that one was pure science while the other was applied science, but plenty of pure science has been buried because it could become threatening.
I really feel sorry for innocent scientists who stumble into that stuff. Most “radicals” that I have encountered “stumbled” into it, and if they survived the experience, they were radicalized.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
12th December 2013, 13:16
Hi:
Well, we’ll see if I get quiet soon as I work away at the age of dinosaurs, but I feel driven to make another post related to the theme of yesterday’s long one:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=770816&viewfull=1#post770816
As serious readers know, I began my journey naively, and what I was most naïve about was the idea that people really cared about something other than their egocentric existences. Well, they don’t, and that is the root of our problems:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn
And any attempt to move humanity from the ragged edge of survival and egocentrism is met with the sledgehammer, with FE being the Big One, by far. Everything else is just noise. But blaming Godzilla for our predicament is just one more way to play the victim game. When you walk the high road to FE, and see all the crazy dysfunction come out of people, people that you thought you knew, people you had known your entire life, you begin to understand how we are truly our own worst enemies, with Godzilla simply an “enabler.” There is really no need to blame Godzilla, as we do almost all of his work for him, and a case in point is how those in the FE field have vilified Dennis.
Lately, in preparation for publishing my essay, I am taking some choice parts of my Avalon posts and putting them on my site, and I recently did it with the relatively recent libel that Mr. Skeptic has written about Dennis:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#attack2006
and the surreal part is how Mr. Skeptic was actually embraced by leading figures in the FE field. And some doing the embracing turned around and attacked Brian. I don’t think that any of them were on Godzilla’s payroll (except perhaps Mr. Skeptic), but it is just an example of how those in the FE field are their own worst enemies. Embracing a man who criminally attacks the man who should be the patron saint of the FE movement, while people like Brian are also attacked (Dennis and Brian were always the two with my most respect, by far, in the field), is just one more sign of how personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity.
I wish that a likely paid provocateur such as Mr. Skeptic was the only assailant from the FE ranks, but he was far from the only one, and that scientist who libeled Dennis, and still proudly stands behind his libel:
http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#libel
is just another example of what is wrong with the FE field today. The only people who have any business pursuing FE have to have the motivation of a saint and consider their lives forfeit. Lying about Dennis like that scientist did is the opposite end of the spectrum. That scientist is a criminal, but because he has “Ph.D.” behind his name and he wrote cleverly, it blew me away at how many people embraced him, including Brian (right in front of me, when he knew the story of that man’s attacks on Dennis). Brian was still learning the worldliness and discernment game to the end of his life, but he at least began to understand the integrity issue, and I was the only person outside of his family that he trusted, I am sorry to report.
I don’t need to belabor how many times I was handed that scientist's libelous essay, given to me by allies as an example of great writing on the FE subject! :(
It was incredible at first, but I eventually began to see it as just a sign of the times, and when folks such as Foster’s organization:
http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=621892&viewfull=1#post621892
began to promote that libel tract, and even proudly defend it when asked to consider the criminal attack on Dennis, I have used those acts to winnow the wheat from the chaff in the field. Unfortunately, chaff is almost all that the field is comprised of. That situation with Dennis and his assailants is a basic integrity test, and it has been very telling to see who failed. Aligning with criminals to make FE happen… that will not even get the aspirant safely past his/her front door on a journey that will take him/her to The Lonely Mountain and back:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonely_Mountain
And when I see newbies such as Foster defend libel, I know that they have no business being involved in the FE pursuit at all, and will end up hurting themselves and those around them.
And when I have used those acts relating to Dennis as my litmus test, it has also amazed me how other newbies simply had no idea what the ramifications were. Those people failed a very easy test that any newbie with any hope of making a dent would pass with flying colors. They disqualified themselves from serious consideration as an FE contender. But other newbies would try to convince me that I was being too hard on them, that they could be rehabilitated and be made to see the light, and then they would be worthy aspirants. How clueless!
An analogy would be trusting Gollum with taking the One Ring to Mordor and casting it into the fire because he obviously desired the One Ring. Or maybe thinking that Boromir could be trusted after realizing his folly of trying to steal the ring from Frodo. If Aragorn had taken the ring from Frodo and given it to Boromir, trusting him with the mission, how “wise” would we have considered Aragorn to be? I think that analogy can help make the point clear, and I have had no end to newbies who have defended Foster, that libeler, Mr. Skeptic, and the like, while sometimes the very same people have attacked Dennis and Brian, and I am talking about leading figures in the field and observers of it.
The only thing that Boromir was fit to do was go back home without doing more damage, and while I wish that those FE criminals and their admirers would see the light and become true FE heroes, they are the last people who should be trusted with the quest. But to this day, whenever anybody sends me the latest on FE efforts, I can almost count on the effort quoting that libeler with his astute commentary, and I am rarely disappointed.
Those are reasons why I don’t want to have anything to do with any current FE efforts; not only does almost nobody have the right stuff, but the entire route of tinkerers, patents, the business-route, and the like is doomed from the start.
I doubt that Dennis would like much of what I am writing here, as he keeps trying the hero’s route, trying to get a stampede going (although he has been slowly coming around to my way of thinking, but Indiana Jones has a hard time retiring that whip), and so on. I lost interest in the approach in the 1990s, and have taken a different path, although Dennis has tried getting me back in the saddle with him, repeatedly, since the 1980s. I have to try something different, something that nobody has tried before. I don’t know if it will work or not, but it can’t hurt, although I see many newbies susceptible to the Pied Pipers who will certainly try to infiltrate what I am doing, and I will need to be vigilant.
Back to work.
Best,
Wade
Wade Frazier
12th December 2013, 14:58
Hi:
One more thing, before I lie down for a little while. It was something I thought of last night, as I perused an expensive book I just bought (academic specialist tomes are often very expensive, running into hundreds of dollars, although I try to not pay more than $100, but I have), that dealt with South American megafauna and their disappearance. What has become common is for scientists and financial writers to disclose any potential conflicts of interest in their work, usually at the end or beginning of the work.
In that light, I have a suggestion. Any scientist who makes the “the climate did it” argument for any late-Pleistocene and Holocene megafaunal extinctions should be required to have this disclaimer attend his/her books/papers:
“I am a member of the species that is suspected of driving the megafauna to extinction that this work examines, and my attribution of the extinctions to climate and other non-human dynamics, which tends to absolve my species of responsibility, should be read with that conflict of interest in mind.”
Similarly, when I have read white scholars and scientists examining Europe’s conquest of the world, and downplaying the genocide while focusing on disease and other “unintentional” dynamics, or playing up the “benefit” that Europe brought the world, the following disclaimer should accompany the work:
“I am member of the race and culture that exterminated the natives, exploited them, and stole their lands, and I am a beneficiary of that crime, so my writings that tend to absolve my race/culture of responsibility, or that focus on the shortcomings of the annihilated, conquered, and robbed, as a seeming justification for what my race/culture did, should be read with that conflict of interest in mind.”
Will we ever see those kinds of disclaimers? :)
Best,
Wade
Carmody
13th December 2013, 05:07
Been looking at the news lately, Robert? :)
If relatively “innocent” breakthroughs are the least bit threatening to Godzilla or lower-level interests, they are removed from the scene, the taboo is put on them, etc. In the life sciences, the fate of Rife’s scope:
The saving grace is the gap between initiation of the situation and the speed of the response to control it.
If that gap did not exist.... neither your story or this forum would exist.
The obvious conclusion (logical reduction) is that 'Godzilla' - does not possess omnipotence.
This statement of mine does not mean that I dismiss or denigrate your direction and tack.
Robert J. Niewiadomski
13th December 2013, 09:07
Been looking at the news lately, Robert? :)
If relatively “innocent” breakthroughs are the least bit threatening to Godzilla or lower-level interests, they are removed from the scene, the taboo is put on them, etc. In the life sciences, the fate of Rife’s scope:
The saving grace is the gap between initiation of the situation and the speed of the response to control it.
If that gap did not exist.... neither your story or this forum would exist.
The obvious conclusion (logical reduction) is that 'Godzilla' - does not possess omnipotence.
This statement of mine does not mean that I dismiss or denigrate your direction and tack.
Carmody, don't underestimate Godzilla. If this Twitter feed is not by the author
https://twitter.com/amplituhedron
then it's already being derailed. No links to the scientific papers, no author's real name mentioned and it feels intimidating to read :(
Also look at this Google trend hit stats for word "amplituhedron". Big spike in September and then ...almost silence:
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=amplituhedron
There is raising trend for December probably because of the submission of the paper and Wired article...
If you enter "amplituhedron" into google search box you'll get "only" ~29k hits :( Not much for 3 month existence on the internet.
Compare it to this term: "razor crazy cart":
http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=razor%20crazy%20cart
~4mil hits since June.
I am not literate in quantum or string theory equations. When i looked at the amplituhedron paper, i was ashamed of my ignorance. It looked like a foreign language to me. And there is no chance for a lay person like me to fully comprehend it and appreciate it's potential. We are at the mercy of white scientists doing the peer review. If they are as honest as Wade presented in Mr. Skeptic case, the amplituhedron is already dead :(
At least for the white science...
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