WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To Melinda's post on the traditional alternatives, that is where Brian, Dennis, and I were in the 1970s. Brian ended up writing what looked a lot like Jimmy Carter's plan when he became president:

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

and Brian was really at the forefront on the political end of it. Dennis made the greatest attempt ever made to bring alternative energy to the marketplace:

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

and my horizon of awareness before I met Dennis was my tutelage under the man who invented the world's best engine for powering an automobile:

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

Brian eventually discovered that traditional alternatives were way too little and too late:

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

and in his last years, he was looking for an assistant to help crunch the numbers on the unviability of traditional alternatives. I devoted a little space to it in my upcoming essay, to wit:


"Almost all traditional alternative energy sources and related technologies have low EROIs (direct solar 2-to-8, wind turbines 18, geothermal less than 5). Those alternative sources all have the same problems that wind and water power had before the Industrial Revolution and more, such as being intermittent, not much energy is available to begin with, and they all create environmental impacts that, while not as great as fossil and nuclear fuels, are still considerable. Wind turbines not only kill vast numbers of birds each year, but they are noisy and create inland turbulence. In order to replace fossil fuels, there would need to be about four hundred times as many windmills on Earth as there already are, and I have driven through several windmill farms in the USA, which are spread across many miles of suitable terrain. In order to raise humanity to the American standard of living, there would need to be far more than a thousand times as many windmills. There may not be enough suitable land on Earth to host those windmills, and windmills are considered the most viable traditional alternative. Direct solar, including photovoltaics, makes the most sense in deserts. However, it does not deliver much energy, but is considered the next most viable alternative, and there would have to be about four thousand times as many photovoltaic arrays as already exist to raise the world to the American standard of living. Again, finding the land to host them is a problem, and the materials need to be mined. There are maintenance issues and other problems. Rock is not a good conductor, so heat is rapidly depleted from the geothermal source and it quickly goes “dry,” and has to go “fallow” to recover..."

"Although the organized suppression inflicted on technologies such as my partner’s heat pump are partly why there is not much alternative energy technology on the market, their low EROI and low available energy are leading reasons why those traditional alternative energy sources are not viable replacements for hydrocarbon energy, which in 2014 amounts to more than 80% of the non-food energy that humanity uses. Forty years after Jimmy declared the moral equivalent of war on energy, traditional alternative energy still amounts to less than 1% of American energy production."


But what Dennis and I discovered the hard way was that no alternative energy of any significance has ever been allowed on the market, as the energy racket is well in hand. If you ever actually study the work of alternative energy proponents, such as Heinberg, all they have to offer is austerity and depopulating the planet:

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

and they all have a pretty incorrigible naïveté about how the world really works. When Brian tried engaging "visionaries" such as Amory Lovins on FE, they almost soiled themselves, which is when Brian began to wonder if humanity was really a sentient species:

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

Even at their most optimistic, traditional alternative energy technologies all have low EROIs and very low available energy; certainly not enough to initiate the Fifth Epochal Event, but more like a limp-along strategy for a dreary and depopulated planet. Trying to wrap one's head around their "visions" is enough to drive people to drink. And they all treat FE like the enemy. It took us many years of befuddlement, of watching those crazed reactions repeatedly, that I came to suspect that I was seeing a generalized addiction to scarcity, as bizarre as that might seem. The bottom line is that traditional alternative energy is nowheresville, on several levels.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

A lot of what I see the choir doing is going more deeply than the essay does on various topics, and making new connections. On cities becoming obsolete, the choir will need to really think, in depth, about what cities are and what they do. Cities are energy-concentrating devices that allowed for professions to develop and making easy social and communication connections. The reasons for cities pretty much vanish with FE, antigravity, and computing and communications technologies. Some might think that there is something intrinsically valuable in Manhattan's skyscrapers, for instance, so humanity would still "need" Manhattan, but they will need to do the work to see past that. Roads, bridges, and water and electric (and gas) infrastructure would all become meaningless. Even the buildings would seem about as sophisticated and useful as huts and caves do to industrialized peoples today. There would literally be nothing in Manhattan that would be useful at all for an FE-based civilization. I can see Manhattan Island turned back into forest. If that would happen to Manhattan, what urban area on Earth would survive? None that I can think of. And when I hear objections to that idea, I can tell that the person is stuck in scarcity thinking, kind of like a cave man saying that we will always need caves.

That kind of situation is where the choir will do deep thinking, and come to understand, to an increasing degree, what FE really means. That is just one example. The end of money, the exchange function of economics, the end of ecosystem domination, and other ideas also come with FE. Again, that it takes epochal thinking to begin to comprehend that, kind of like an English peasant in 1500 imagining London in 2014:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=827022&viewfull=1#post827022

It is that kind of thinking that the choir will need to achieve if it is going to make a dent. And, again, they are not going to be out proselytizing, stirring up their neighborhood, and the like. The choir members' friends, families, and neighbors will not begin to understand until FE is delivered into their lives.

The choir is going to learn to sing a song that a slightly larger population has been pining for for their entire lives. Once that gang can get together, it will be time to make FE happen. That gang likely needs to be 100,000 people or so. It will not form overnight, but manifesting the Fifth Epochal Event, which can also prevent the Sixth Mass Extinction, is worth the effort, IMO. :)

Going to bed now.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am now revising my cover-up essay. That essay has been one of the most popular on my site, if not the most popular, since I first published it in 2001. I expect that most of the next week will be devoted to the revision. I do not have the year that it would take to do justice to the subjects that the essay covers, but a week will have to do for now.

My main impression, before I begin really going deep on the revisions, is that the entire area is extremely controversial, and I have interacted with many players in the related milieus. The bottom line on JFK is that the evidence is truly overwhelming that Oswald worked in military intelligence, and that his "communist" fascination and "defection" were just performing his job duties.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Harvey_Oswald#Defection_to_the_Soviet_Union

Oswald had a crypto clearance when he worked at the U-2 base, and he became quite infamous because of the 1960 U-2 incident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960_U-2_incident

If Oswald was a genuine defector with a crypto clearance, he would have found himself in U.S. custody when he returned, just as Snowden would be if he returned to the USA. He would not have been welcomed with open arms by the federal government, with them making his transition back to civilian life easy. What a crock. Only the most credulous believers in the official story about Oswald can give any credence to his "commie" background and Cuban activities. That milieu was all a hotbed of military and CIA activity, and most of Oswald's associates were right in the thick of it. No genuine "commie" would have lasted ten seconds in that milieu. Anybody who argues for the "lone nut" angle on Oswald is either unfamiliar with the evidence, exceptionally naïve, or is part of the cover-up effort.

After the JFK hit, assassination became a "sport" in the USA, up until the Reagan assassination attempt. Nearly all, if not all, of the assassinations and attempts during those years were likely spook-related, as well as "untimely" deaths, such as J. Edgar Hoover's. It was truly a scary time, domestically, in the USA.

However, the moon landings happened as advertised, as far as them being legitimately performed using the rocket technology of the day. I was never able to get Brian O over the hump, but that was because Brian really never dove deeply on the evidence. However, Brian had very good reasons for doubting the official story. He nearly lost his life immediately after rejecting an "offer" from the military to do UFO work. The UFO cover-up is very real, and it is related to covering up FE, antigravity, and related technologies.

Navigating that minefield has been fun, let me tell you. I have had a great deal of interaction with people who saw what they probably should not have, and I heard and saw stuff that I probably should not have. But almost none of my information is undocumented "confessions" by alleged insiders. I consider a great deal of that kind of "information" to be disinformation. Also, it is very easy to get sucked into the conspiracist rabbit hole, and I have watched countless people disappear into them.

In the end, I am interested in FE and a healed planet. We are not alone in the universe, and the UFO/ET cover-up is an ultra-elite operation, with the military and government used as pawns. The primary reason behind the cover-up is to keep the ultra-elites on top, ruling the world from the shadows. That is my perception, and one day, I may be able to provide better evidence, in the way of names and dates, but what comes with this territory is a genuine fear by people of going public. Brian O never publicly talked about his brush with death, but only alluded to it vaguely:

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

fearing retribution, with those military gangsters "finishing the job" with Brian. I have not been given permission to be more forthcoming, and even if I did, I would likely become a target, even more than I already am. I do not see anything productive coming from naming names, and that can lead to a great deal of danger. Similarly, the people who gave my friend an underground technology show:

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

risked their lives to give it, and I am not at liberty to disclose any details of the encounter, the participant did not even know anything about who gave him the show, and I have purposely avoided knowing very much about it, and more details are really not important.

FE and antigravity technology have existed since before I was born, along with many exotic technologies and materials, and that kind of "cloak-and-dagger" milieu is all-too-real, I am sorry to report. However, I avoid it and pretty much never rely on anonymous "whistleblowers" and others who have questionable/tainted backgrounds. I only relied on the reports of people very close to me, and documentation is always best.

The general public and many "conspiracists" get swept up into the titillating tabloid nature of much of that milieu, and their fascination and orientation is usually far less than helpful. But the establishment's defenders are usually even more deluded. Not too long ago, a debunker forum treated Brian's encounter with the military about like a fifth-grade teacher would have, saying that Brian should have contacted the authorities about the murder attempt that nearly killed him and ended up shortening his life. That kind of response is right out of Sesame Street and sums up the debunker mentality all-too-often.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have been doing heavy emotional lifting on the JFK hit lately, and am now beginning to revise that part of my site. The most formidable JFK work in recent years is JFK and the Unspeakable. As with the declassification of Operation Northwoods, Gary Wean's work has been getting plenty of vindication:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#assess

James Douglass, the author of JFK and the Unspeakable, came to the same conclusion that Gary had forty years ago, which was that JFK was trying to end the Cold War, and that is why the MIC murdered him and then covered it up. Douglass is an academic with some impressive activist credentials:

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

I will not be hard on him, but I will say this, and I have found this to be true of nearly all academics, particularly from the Left, and it comes out in JFK and the Unspeakable: they do not understand the private interests that really pull the strings, and they really do not understand the nature of evil-minded people. While Douglass fully places the responsibility for JFK's murder on the MIC, he frames it as JFK's attempts to broker world peace seemed to place the USA in danger in the MIC's eyes, and then the MIC felt that JFK had to go. So, the MIC, in Douglass's view, followed a higher calling of national security, which JFK was imperiling by negotiating with the Soviet Union. There are obviously people in those ranks that are that stupid, but there are also people at the high levels who want warfare because, frankly, there is plenty of money to be made in warfare, and it also inflicts pain and agony on humanity. They truly get off on all the pain and suffering that warfare causes, and it also provides them more opportunity to work their evil. Leftists can almost never go there, but it is a real situation. As the Left has stated, they have an ideological aversion to admitting that such evil-minded people even exist:

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

and such willing blindness is partly why they cannot even imagine that FE could exist, because they cannot fathom anybody wanting to prevent it from coming forth. It is one of the biggest deficiencies that scientists, academics, and the Left have, and is partly what keeps them entrenched in Level 3:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3

Attached is a pic from this morning's hike. The top of those falls were at about 70 meters above me:

http://www.waterfallsnorthwest.com/nws/falls.php?num=2999

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Dennis Leahy]

... The top of those falls were at about 70 meters above me...
You were "in the zone" for a bath of negative ions. :~)

Dennis

[CdnSirian]

I've been reading Peter Dale Scott - http://www.history-matters.com/pds/dp3.htm "Peter Dale Scott is often called the "dean" of JFK assassination research, having engaged in scholarly research and writings on the topic for three decades. His landmark Deep Politics and the Death of JFK goes beyond Dealey Plaza and focuses instead on the "deep politics" of the assassination and the Kennedy era. "

So much data to be compared...ultimately his writings close in on - the energy issues.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Dennis:

Yes, I was in the ion zone. :) But every step of trips like that are so blessed that they recharge my batteries. That spot is so steep that you actually see underneath part of the falls. That was a half-hour drive from home, an easy three-mile hike, and because we hit the trailhead a little after 8:00, we owned the falls while we were there, on a sunny summer's Sunday morning. Where else in the world can you do that?

Hi CdnSirian:

Scott's work is pretty good, and he has some FE awareness, I believe, although I am not sure if he has written about it. Stuff like this is good:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-doomsday-project-and-deep-events-jfk-watergate-iran-contra-and-9-11/27806

but he has not dealt with the conjoined FE and UFO/ET suppression that I know of. I have seen scholars deal with it, and even with some sophistication, but when they bring up FE, they end up stuck in the FE field's arrested development, and cannot seem to get their arms around the spiritual aspects. Conspiracists do so, but they end up obsessing on the conspiratorial aspects and ignore the structural ones. This is the same divide that I have been remarking on:

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

My explanation of that aspect of the conundrum is largely what brought Brian O back into my life, and Scott will be one of those invited to the party after my essay is published.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As an addendum to the previous post, what I have noticed about academics, scholars, and scientists is that they generally never had any business experience, especially this kind:

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

and that has tended to stunt their perspective. As I have stated plenty, without my days with Dennis, I likely would not have much worthwhile to say, and would likely be stuck on the naïve rut that I have seen so many academics, scholars, and scientists sitting in, so that they really cannot comprehend the situation. Brian O even had problems understanding it, until he survived a murder attempt and saw plenty of untimely deaths. Then the reality came home, pretty fast. The government is not the problem, not really. It is the private interests, with the government merely the muscle that they use to keep their rackets intact. People who focus on government machinations miss seeing the big picture, but what is really the most informative is seeing Joe Average in action, and then you get to realize how personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity:

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

That is by far the most important reason why we do not have FE, not the elite and government machinations, and it is also why a Level 10 effort will not work for FE:

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

But the Internet is giving me the ability to hunt for needles in haystacks, and if I can find enough of them, nobody needs to play the hero, and almost nobody is fit to play that game:

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

So, we will see how it goes.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am taking a little break between JFK writing and chores. I just got back from a hike with my wife. I constantly see the problems that people will have to comprehend my work, and there are many ways to get off track. Naïveté and scientific illiteracy are two of them. My work will not be understood by the mentally lazy, and they are not my target audience. Only a tiny fraction of humanity is going to be able to help my project along, and I have written plenty about the state of arrested development that the FE field is in today and always has been, with its obsession on inventors, scientists, business approaches, and the like.

Not only am I besieged with the Keshe/Rossi/Steorn stuff, but I am also regularly approached on FE ideas as if they were new and unusual, when they are all variations of the same thing. In Jeane Manning and Joel Garbon's Breakthrough Power, Jeane listed the various terms that have been used for what she quotes Shad Loncar as calling the "Standing sound-wave which moves as a vortex," which its "best condition…is the vacuum, of non-conductive, dielectric, non-linear materials."

Jeane has collected thirty names that various scientists and theorists have used to describe that vortex/field:

Zero-point radiation
Radiant energy
Cosmic energy
Cold electricity
The sea of energy
Dirac Sea
Vacuum fluctuations
Higher dimensional energy
Zero point vibration
Residual energy
Quantum oscillations
Vacuum electromagnetic field
Virtual particle flux
Dark energy
Cosmic energy
Aether
Ether
Negative electricity
Bioenergy
Orgone
Space energy field
Hyperspatial energy
Life energy
Creative vibration
Tachyon-energy
Prana
Chi
Scalar energy
Neutrinos
Quantum flux

They are all likely describing the same thing. Many different ways to access that field have been developed over the past century, and anything with promise is sequestered via organized suppression, and the tricks of suppression are many, varied, and have been 100% successful so far, with nothing ever coming close to breaking past the suppression:

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

Those techniques are used on any energy technology that might upset the global energy racket, upon which all else rides. My work is mainly about people understanding the " upon which all else rides" aspect of it, so they can keep their focus on what is important and not disappear into the innumerable rabbit holes and blind alleys that await newbies. If theorists talk up scalar energy or ZPE or orgone or prana as some kind of unique discovery or theory, I am not really too interested, as they are all describing the same thing. It will be vitally important for the choir to get past that stuff and see the big picture. I accessed that field when I played the healing and mummification game:

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

and others have attained levels of mastery that I call Level 19:

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

But people living off of "prana" is in no way practical for humanity right now, and even if everybody was a Level 19, that falls far short of a Star Trek or Roads-world civilization:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

In my visions chapter of the essay, I wrote:


"With FE, all of the changes listed in this chapter become feasible; without FE, virtually none of them will be, in any meaningful way. All of today’s dominant ideologies will become obsolete in a world where abundance reigns, and all abundance notions have to be based on energy abundance above all else. If energy is not abundant, none of the abundance ideas put forth by various visionaries have much hope, if any, of coming to fruition."


The previous several chapters of the essay discuss humanity's previous epochal events. They were all energy events above all else. Stone tools and fire increased the caloric intake of protohumans and led to humanity. The second event was humanity rising to the top off all terrestrial food chains, which allowed humans to inhabit the entire Earth. The downside of that event was driving all other human species and most of Earth's large animals to extinction. The third event was creating a vast and stable energy supply that allowed civilization to form. And again, there were downsides to the Domestication Revolution, such as elites, slavery, and mass warfare, and early civilizations all wrecked their environments because of their energy practices, which were largely deforestation and agriculture. Those practices also began driving other plants and animals to extinction, largely through habitat loss, but in places such as the Mediterranean's periphery, species were also hunted and harvested to extinction, especially during the days of Egyptian and Roman civilization. But literacy and the amenities of civilization were huge upsides for humanity.

The fourth epochal event was tapping the energy of fossil fuels, which four centuries later still powers industrialized civilization. Europe tapped wind and water power before hydrocarbon power, which led to its initial rise and conquest of humanity. But energy-powered machines made human labor less valuable, which directly led to the end of slavery and the subjugation of women. Vast changes to human civilization happened as a result of that energy event. Without hydrocarbon energy, the Industrial Revolution could not have happened. Of course, wars became far more deadly, even though civilization itself became proportionally less violent. The same mentality, of exploiting others in the name of scarcity (greed is a reaction to scarcity) exists, and is becoming more pronounced as the world begins to run out of hydrocarbon fuels. The imperial nations, led by the USA, genocidally invaded the Middle East will all of its oil. Everything else that happens in the Middle East is noise compared to who controls the oil.

I have some sympathy to those who fear FE because all they can see is strip-mining Earth to the bedrock or having Earth-shattering wars. But those are irrational views, and what I found that those people really fear is their world coming to an end, even if heaven on Earth can replace it. All they see is their niche of hell disappearing, which they worked so hard to adapt to. With FE and the attendant antigravity technologies that I know are under wraps, Earth will never be mined again, even if Earth remains the primary abode of humanity. Earth's ecosystems can easily be restored and can recover to where they were before humans learned to control fire. Also, all wars for all time have been about resource scarcity at their root, so if energy and all resources were abundant, why would there ever be war again? Everybody on Earth could live at a lifestyle that makes Bill Gates look like a pauper, just as the average American today lives richer than the world's richest man did three centuries ago. Again, I favor some transitional strategies while humanity gets over its scarcity-based mentalities, but that transition will really not last long. People are just not that stupid. We are at least a semi-sentient species, and if fear and scarcity stop becoming the primary organizational principles of humanity, true sentience will be experienced by humanity for the first time.

One of the primary concepts of my essay is that the energy event was the epochal event. Everything followed from tapping the energy source, and nobody could imagine what it would lead to. Does anybody want to go back to living in trees? Or caves? Or huts? I did not think so. If anybody tasted what life was like in those earlier epochal periods, they would be happy that those days are over. They were all far more violent, dirty, ignorant, and frankly brutal than anything that we see today in the industrialized world, except for the scarcity-based warfare that our semi-sentient species still engages in.

So, it is all about manifesting the next energy event. Nothing else matters. All capitalist attempts to manifest it have failed, which includes getting patents, playing the proprietary technology game, raising money from the public, and the like. The approach I will advocate is going to be non-profit, transparent, and FE will be given away. It does not even matter if the open-sourced technology is put on the doorsteps of the biggest corporations as well as given to the general public; the end of capitalism would be at hand, as well as the end of money, exchange professions, and the like. The world will change like never before, and something that looks like heaven on Earth is highly feasible, and the potential of a humanity that no longer lives in scarcity and fear is something that almost nobody on Earth today can even imagine. However, for this event, we have some hints at what it could look like:

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

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748

so we are not sailing as blindly as the pioneers of the previous epochal events are. But it will take very special people to make it happen, as the world is addicted to scarcity in deeply insidious ways, and organized suppression of FE and related technologies has been happening, on behalf of elite interests, for the past century. My essay is intended to begin training for those extremely few people whose hearts are in the right place and have the courage to imagine abundance before it is delivered into their lives. My plan is forming a choir that can attract enough people with the right stuff so that "doing something" becomes feasible, but the choir alone may be able to shake loose FE, as Godzilla is currently very fractured and the largest faction favors bringing out FE and related sequestered technologies. But while humanity is fast asleep, and no conversation on Earth has ever reached the level of sentience and worldliness that can form a vessel for FE to safely manifest within, we have the situation that we do today, as humanity races toward its self-destruction, and the elites are busy preparing their survival enclaves for when it all unravels. Everything happening on Earth today is trivial compared to manifesting FE, and I seek people who are willing and able to understand that.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have written about Sparky Sweet plenty:

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

Sparky was highly aware of what happened to us in Ventura, and as I was looking at some of his writings:

http://www.rexresearch.com/sweet/1nothing.htm

I realized that he published it the same day that Mr. Deputy made his motion to raise Dennis's bail to $1 million:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/bail.jpg

Kind of synchronistic, but likely not that much.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

If people read those papers by Sparky Sweet linked in the previous post, they can see a formidable FE physics discussion. Mr. Advisor:

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

was particularly impressed with the math, but if he had not seen Sparky's device in action, it would have just been pretty writing, and highlights a big problem with FE inventors and scientists. There is a boatload of alternative theory out there, but working technology is going to be the acid test, along with experimental evidence. But evidence of inter-dimensional energy is not easily amassed, and then Godzilla gets involved.

I see that a corner of the choir will be devoted to FE physics, but it will just be a corner. The FE field is unfortunately dominated by FE inventors and physicists, which is partly why the field is in a state of arrested development. I am not trying to train FE physicists. You can see in that paper that Sparky also discussed antigravity, and his device produced measurable antigravity effects.

But Sparky was highly naïve, mailing FE prototypes to the big energy institutions, expecting a tickertape parade, just like Dennis did in Seattle with his heat pump:

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

If you buy the video showing Sparky's device in action, you can see something like "proprietary technology" flash across the screen several times. Sparky's proprietary technology games, along with his naïveté, helped doom his efforts, but nobody like him has ever had a prayer, not with Godzilla's vigilance and the "help" of the inventor's "allies." A few years before Sparky wrote that paper, Mark was trying the "sneak past them" approach, to be rudely disabused of his fantasies:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&highlight=comings#post811647

All of those approaches have never had a prayer and are really foolish, but I see no end of newbies advocating such games, or thinking that they are the Messiah:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=825669&viewfull=1#post825669

and so on. Those behaviors and mentalities are all part of the state of arrested development that the FE field is in. The open-source culture of the Internet has helped lead to approaches advocated today, and they are definitely steps in the right direction. But there needs to be a worthy group to support the inventor with the goods willing to give it away so that it can be developed into something that will make a dent. Even Sparky's prototype, as jaw-dropping as it was, was a long way from being developed to where it could be mass produced and put on homes.

Godzilla has developed that stuff to that level and beyond:

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

but we do not get any while we are collectively asleep and easily manipulated by the social managers. It is time to amass a nugget of heart-centered sentience that can help move the boulder, and my essay initiates my attempt to help amass that nugget.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Oh boy, that heavy lift is done:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm

That is the last really heavy lift that I have planned for my current site. The others will be far easier affairs. Well, revising my American Empire essay will not be fun, but should not be as bad as the cover-up essay was. I do not think I have what it takes to revise my war essay, but a bout of foolishness and "free" time may overcome me, and I will at least clean it up a little.

To my previous posts about Sparky and FE physics, in the field, when somebody's gizmo begins to form ice on it when it runs, that is when they are definitely tapping the ZPF. James Gilliland worked with a guy whose device did that, before the cloak-and-dagger crowd descended on him. I have talked with others in the know, and that so-called "cold electricity" is the Real McCoy. If you read Sparky's and Bearden's papers, they get into other dimensions and negative time. It might all seem to be the bizarre products of insane minds, but Sparky's device, and the few others like it, showed that the theories were not so far out there, but that kind of stuff is why scientists run away, screaming, when somebody like Brian O suggested FE:

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

as FE blows their minds on several levels. One of which is the "laws of physics," another is the idea of organized suppression, but I think the most important is that those screamers see their world coming to an end, the one that they have tried so hard to survive in. I came to call it an addiction to scarcity:

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

Again, you really have to see those reactions to believe them, but after many years of witnessing them, I came to suspect that I was seeing a fear reaction.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Well, shame on me. I did not even take a break after the cover-up essay was revised, and have spent the day on the American Empire essay. So far, it is just updating the formatting and some style changes. The editing begins this weekend. I really do not plan to update it all that much. My upcoming essay will be the only one that I will plan to update much in the future. I just might be done with writing essays. We will see, but I do not need to write essays to build the choir. I am finishing the heavy lifting now, and it will be up to choir aspirants to do start doing the work.

Editing my old essays sure takes me to many places in my head and heart. Again, I do not expect many people to understand my work, and that is OK. I do not need the world to understand my work. Just the choir and those I hope it attracts will be enough, and that will be a miniscule fraction of humanity. It will be out there for anybody to read, and I am already getting people trying to grind their in-group ax.

About midway through my upcoming essay, I write:

"During the remainder of this essay, it will become evident that a human penchant is absolving one’s in-group of responsibility for catastrophes and crimes, and historians, scientists, and other professionals regularly engage in such interest-conflicted acts, whether they were defending their species, race, gender, nation, class, ideology, ethnicity, or profession. That in-group/out-group difference in treatment has a long history, probably going back to the beginnings of territorial social animals."

People stuck in in-group awareness, which is rooted in the ego and survival, will not understand my work, and I have no interest in helping them to get unstuck, not with any words. Only FE, delivered into their lives, will begin to wake them up, just as every previous epochal event woke people up to a greater awareness.

The choir has to get far past those in-group notions, and they are not going to be trying to wake up their families, friends, and colleagues with my work. Those who try that are still stuck in Level 10:

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

and the choir will be a Level 12 effort.

I am going to have very little contact with the general public after I publish my essay, maybe even less than I do today. We will see. It will all be about training the choir.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Boy, a lot is happening, and I am trying to get the rest of my site's old essays edited before the big essay is published.

Again, I do not plan on mounting anything like a Level 10 effort. It is going to be Level 12, and if somebody never heard of FE before encountering my work, I think that they should not come up for air for about a year before they will really have much worth saying that approaches Level-12 understandings. Again, I am after needles in haystacks.

What I am doing is something very different, and what I am not going to be doing is playing the Q&A game, where people ask me what I think of this or that inventor, what about the latest YouTube video on FE, and the like. Such people are not doing the work that will see them make the choir, and that is all that I am going to be interested in. They need to focus on what I am offering (and it goes deeply into many subjects, so nobody can say that they are bored or it is easy stuff), and not wander into the many pitfalls and rabbit holes that await the unwary and lazy thinkers who want some easy answers. There is lots of fringe chaff out there.

While I have purposely made my work accessible, where no one concept is a brain-breaker, taken as a whole, it is going to be very challenging to digest, hence not coming up for air for a year, etc. The quick-and-easy stuff has all failed, and spectacularly. That is not what I am about. Manifesting the biggest event in the human journey will not be easy, but I think it will be worthwhile. I have been at it for forty years, passed up many millions of dollars, had my life wrecked repeatedly, and I have no regrets. I am not asking anybody to go to the mat like that, but I really will not have any interest in entertaining newbies who are not doing the work. There is only one of me, and I have to get this going in my "spare time" that is about to become very limited. I do not know if I will continue to have an Avalon presence. I hope so, but we will see how it goes.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Originally posted by Wade Frazier: " I do not know if I will continue to have an Avalon presence."

It is up to your best of judgment, of course, Wade, but please do what you can to stay here, as there is a ripple effect in a second and third layers that you might not be interested in at the moment, and that has a meaning despite your complete focus on the prime sphere. You did mention more than once that the choir forum will be open for outside viewers but Avalon has also partly energetically contributed to the leverage, please consider not to cut this umbilical cord

Kindly,

Limor

[gripreaper]

While I have purposely made my work accessible, where no one concept is a brain-breaker, taken as a whole, it is going to be very challenging to digest, hence not coming up for air for a year, etc.

I agree. I've been reading your essay draft and it takes time to digest it all. May take me a year to come up for air. The seed is planted, germination takes time, and so does going from seedling to full fledged mature plant.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor and Grip:

I understand the concentric levels of awareness that may surround this effort, I really do. It is going to come down to how much time and energy I have. If I cannot get a choir going, the rest will not matter. I have stated before that the choir will raise the conversation far beyond what you have seen at Avalon. That is because it has to get higher if my idea will have a chance at working.

As Grip knows, the essay covers vast territory, and serious choir aspirants not coming up for air for a year was my intention. Unless people dive deeply, they will not have a chance of getting to Level 12. And I plan to be there when people come up, maybe throwing them a life preserver, toweling them off, feeding them, and the like. That is where my contribution will begin to be important, not answering the "What about Keshe?" questions that you see on this thread, or watching the latest YouTube video on the inventor-of-the-hour, etc.

I took est in 1979, and it was Werner Erhard's attempt to give people an awakening experience in one week. It was great for me, but many est pupils crashed and burned. One professional friend in the field said that est was the best thing for psychotherapy since Freud.

After a genetic inheritance and a childhood of being trained to be who I became, I embarked on an odyssey that few survive. It taught me lessons that I could not have imagined that I would have learned. I still sit back at times and wonder if it all really happened, and I lived it. I also realized that we were on the royal path to a healed planet, which was why our adventures were so extreme. So, like Dennis and Brian, I could not give it up. I survived, watched, and traded notes with fellow travelers, and it took me the better part of forty years to come up with my current approach, after life-wrecking and life-shortening trial-and-error. I will not make another attempt like this in my lifetime. This will be the end of the line for me.

How can anybody overcome humanity's inertia and the organized suppression to manifest FE in the public sphere? Its mere manifestation will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far. Everything else is noise. But almost nobody on Earth even understands that concept, wrapped up as they are in their stuff, which is usually about surviving in their niche of hell, filling their heads with tabloid clippings, etc.

I watched Dennis and Brian try to whip up awareness, get a million daggers in their backs, and become voices in the wilderness. Both got run out of their home country, and they both started out as flag-saluting, overgrown Boy Scouts.

Because personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity:

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

this task has been anything but easy. I eventually realized what was missing, and am making an attempt to fill that hole, but the choir has plenty of hard work ahead of it.

Kind of like est or even homeopathy:

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

I am continually approached by people who are trying to make my work easier to digest. I honor some of that, and have been spending the past month or so making reader-friendly changes. But I also am resisting the suggestions to water it down, cut to the chase, make it something that a person can understand in an afternoon, and the like. That is the Level 10 approach:

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

and it is dangerous. The biggest danger that I see is half-cocked newbies trying to play the Level 10 game, and I am constantly trying to discourage it. But how the heck can I get across my learning experiences in a way where people can be truly helpful for the project of manifesting the biggest event in the human journey? That has been part of the conundrum that I have been wrestling with for many years, and I eventually came upon my choir idea. I spent the past year writing the hymnal, after studying to write it for much of the past decade.

As I have stated previously, the world's leading expert on a huge portion of my essay said that it was about the best that he had ever seen, so I am getting feedback that I was not wasting my time. But my goal is that people who begin with the right stuff and some worldliness can take my "class," and when they get to the other side of that adventure they are going to be well on their way to developing a comprehensive perspective, will see the role of energy on Earth for the past several billion years, and will understand both the potential of FE and what I am attempting. Will even one person in a thousand who encounters my essay be willing and able to achieve that? That is what I am about to find out. And for those who can complete the curriculum, this Avalon thread will seem like pre-school or kindergarten. Kindergarten is OK, but I need a bunch of high school graduates for my idea to have a chance.

When the essay is published, I plan to do some interviews, and yesterday I was reviewing a PowerPoint presentation that an Avalonian made of part of my essay. But those kinds of activities will only be a kind of "advertising" for the class. The class is where the important work will be done, not listening to my interviews or skimming a PowerPoint presentation. The danger is people seeing the intro and thinking that they took the class. :) This will not be some New Age flavor of the day.

That is the long way of saying that I do not know about my long-term presence at Avalon. The experience at Avalon was part of the process for me writing the essay, when I saw how people like Ilie were beginning to understand. Again, I do not know if my idea will work, but I have to give it a chance, and that will take most of my "spare" time once I resume my career, which I am about to do. But I designed my essay and am tweaking my site so that my pupils can do most of the work in the quiet of their homes. As I saw with Dennis's efforts, Erhard's, and my own journey, there are no short cuts, and the path to FE has to have a solid foundation to build upon. I have not seen anybody even try before, as they all go for the quick kill and are stuck in the field's arrested development, where the focus is on the inventor of the hour, the hero trying to scale the ramparts, the scientist with his theory, some money-raising scheme, and the like.

About 99.9% of the population is either in denial of organized suppression or obsesses about it. Both are victim-orientations, and neither are productive:

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

and it is really a minor aspect of the FE Conundrum:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#summary

I almost never see anybody who achieves a balanced and mature perspective of that issue, and that is indicative of how rare choir-members will be. My path has been teaching me patience, and my experience at Avalon has been no exception. My Avalonian presence will be about the only way that the "public" can interact with me, so I want to keep the presence, but we will see how it all goes.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am banging away at the editing. The spook issue comes up a great deal in my interactions with people regarding my work. I am not into spooks. They are real, they may take me out one day, but they are not the focus of my efforts. I generally ignore them.

Conspiracists are often fascinated with spooks, but mostly from a titillating or victim-oriented perspective, not a productive one. With FE will come the end of secrecy, because secrecy games are all about amassing and maintaining wealth and power, which will become obsolete in a world of abundance. People who think they can play with the spooks are almost invariably extremely naïve and foolish. I have about zero interest in what spooks say or do. When I see people in the field say how they have befriended spooks, I usually see them shortly disappear down the rabbit hole, and they are never seen again, or when they reappear, they have spook handlers.

If a spook wants to show off some FE or antigravity technology, call me interested, but I have little interest in spook tales. I know enough from people close to me, some of whom were spooks, but our relationship was not based on their spook activities. It was just something they did to make a living or got suckered into. Most spook tales are disinformation, as that is part of their profession. Spooks have no place in the world that I envision, and even the spooks will eventually be happy that they no longer play those games.

The "left" often pretends that spooks do not exist, but that is a mistake in the other direction, playing the denial game. But most people will not encounter spooks unless they begin doing important stuff, like trying to bring FE to the world, and spook attention is not the kind that anybody wants. They will come knocking at some point, if my work begins to make a dent, and I know well that I have been on Godzilla's radar since the 1980s, but I really do not put too much energy into it, while I am also trying to do something that will see me survive the process, but I could be waltzing to my demise.

It really is pretty easy to spot the provocateurs, once they begin to work their magic:

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

and I will not be shy about pointing it out when I see it, but I am designing my effort so that any spook trying to take it down will have his work cut out for him, and the more people that I can train for the choir, the less likely I will be a target, which is one of my goals.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am hard at work, editing the American Empire essay, and it is a slog. Also, everything about the essay's subject matter is controversial. I just spent hours reviewing the pre-Columbian population estimates for the Amazon basin, and reading scientific papers and the academic ferment. Oh boy. In the Amazon, trees made up about half of the domesticated species studied so far, and a lot of the Amazon is like a big orchard. The super-soils that Amazonian natives made:

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

have been the subject of a great deal of controversy, and the battle of the scientific research and papers is ongoing, where some argue for the Amazon being a wilderness, and others a garden. South America is about the least studied continent, and we will see what the future brings on the research into it. I have this feeling that, as with everywhere else in the world, particularly the tropics, it will be found that the human impact was profound, and the Amazon is not nearly so pristine as some might think. There is no doubt that all the megafauna were quickly exterminated when humans arrived in South America, and wiping out the elephants in particular would have had pronounced ecosystem effects, as elephants are keystone species, tearing up forests to eat.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Hi Wade,

Interesting to know about this conflict. The question of the Amazon forest being a 'garden' or 'wilderness' is (deriving from public ignorance) almost a 'no brainer' to most who have never deepen to ask such a question or recieve an answer on that one. Millions of years of nature's creation and this vast area's public image is as if it was never 'touched', right up to our modern days with the acknowledgment in accelerated deforestation, the unfortunate abuse of the land and the demolition of the ecosystem. In addition, the image of the native tribes is as ones who live together with the land and environment in a relative safety to the ecosystem and that is quite evidently by now from your essey, a source of fallaciousness.

If I understand correct, the question then may be how much the Amazon rain forest was at all inhbited, since the equation that results from your work is that humans = equal to plunder of energy = equals to detrioration of the planet's resources, megafauna and vegetation. Is it therefore accurate to think that since nature has in general a constant regeneration process and almost no natural erosion (suicide), then it is the exclusive human factor that determines the difference between 'wilderness' and 'garden'? Is this where the root of the scientific debate focuses on?

p.s

I went in to read on the link you gave and it seems that the focus is indeed mostly on the density of the population, as example those along the rivers

But doest that at all means that the Amazon forest covering such a vast and large area is partly not the 'original'? is this the contentious issue?


Many blessings ~

Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

That is a big, big subject. My upcoming essay covers some of the territory. Basically, the ice age we are in, and its prelude, when the Mediterranean vanished forty times about five million years ago, as Africa collided with Europe at Gibraltar, shrank the African rainforest. It not only led to the bonobo, but it also led to humanity, as the loser chimps left the rainforest for the woodlands and adopted upright posture to walk the increasing distances for food, and began adapting to roots and other foods as they lost access to the moist leaves and fruit of the rainforest. Ultimately, all of that adaptation meant that humans were not well adapted to rainforest life when they began to discover rainforests in Southeast Asia and the Americas. So, people began burning the rainforests (the area around Niah Cave is an early example of this), to make them more conducive for humans.

And yes, humans quickly drove all the South American megafauna to extinction, but what about after the big animals were gone? What then? The evidence is that where people could, they domesticated plants and animals. That was how civilization began. In Australia, the circumstances never aligned for humans to domesticate any animals, similar to the Western Hemisphere, because humans quickly exterminated all the candidates for domestication. In Australia, they did not even domesticate plants, which may have been because of their warlike nature.

Today, it is thought that agriculture could have only developed in a peaceful environment, otherwise hungry hunters would have robbed the farmers, and agriculture would not have been able to overcome that dynamic. Those "pristine" places where agriculture began is where all the animals had been killed off, women were the first farmers, and they had high social standing because of their economic contribution. As feminist authors have long written, that was when women had their highest relative status ever, before the Industrial Revolution.

When farming became masculinized (plow agriculture and draft animals, which men's physical strength could handle easier than women) and when agricultural surpluses became large enough so that redistribution became a "profession," men rose to dominance, and women became second-class citizens ever since, and in agricultural economies, strong backs are valued, so women became baby machines, producing the labor force for agricultural societies. Industrialization freed both women and slaves, as machines greatly reduced the need for unskilled human labor, making it pretty worthless. Then the demographic transition began, where the population changed from steeply stratified (with slaves and peasants at the bottom, and royalty and other elites at the top), uneducated, and short-lived, to "free," less stratified (with the "floor" raised far higher), educated, and long-lived, where women had the highest status ever. Those are the primary human benefits of industrialization, which is all dependent on the energy of fossil fuels.

That is all a prelude to discussing the Amazonian experience. Early European invaders of the Amazon described thickly populated lands:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra_preta#Pre-Columbian_Amazonia

The Western Hemisphere, with some small exception among the Incas, was all in its Stone Age, and Stone Age peoples cannot ravage the land like Bronze or Iron Age (or industrialized) peoples can. Also, the ancestors of the Western Hemisphere's people killed off nearly all the candidates for domestication (as they also did in Australia), so they did not have draft animals, which gave the Old World a huge "advantage," but is also where most epidemic diseases come from.

In a number of ways, the Western Hemisphere was "behind" the Old World, and they derived practices that, while many were familiar to the Europeans who "discovered" them, were markedly different in ways, and one of them was how relatively gentle the Western Hemisphere's subsistence practices were, with the emphasis on relatively. The Pacific Northwest's salmon economy, the Great Plains' bison economy, and the Eastern woodlands' horticultural economy, were all pretty sustainable and relatively sedentary. It was a far gentler tenure on the land than could be seen in the Old World, which is why the Americas were plundered by Europe as they were, as they were Earth's richest continents. The USA rose to prominence because of its natural riches (energy, initially in intact forests and soils, and later in coal and oil).

The genocide of the peoples of the Western Hemisphere at the hands of Europe, and their gentler subsistence practices, have largely caused the firestorm of controversy that dogs every aspect of studying the Western Hemisphere and its indigenous peoples, and the Amazon is no exception. The Amazon rainforest provided the opportunity to plant trees that could provide fruit, nuts, and other human-edible foods, and planting orchards does not disturb the soils like root and seed crops do. That is part of the problem today with the scientists and their research. Amazonian fruit-subsisting civilizations would not have disturbed the soils and forests like tilling civilizations would have. But the rainforest has been relatively "hostile" to humans, ever since they adapted to woodlands, but if they could live more like their gorilla and chimp ancestors, life may have been easier. So, that is largely the crux of the controversy in the Amazon, as well as its rampant recent deforestation, neocolonial meddling, and the like. These issues are presenting some challenges in updating my American Empire essay.

I will follow the Amazon issue with interest (of course, FE makes the entire issue disappear), and my take today is that the Amazon likely had a significant population, more significant than was previously suspected, with me thinking that the upper end of the 2-10 million range currently debated is more likely. For instance, the cassava is one of the most important tropical foods on Earth today, and is the subsistence crop for about a half billion people today. It was domesticated in Brazil about 10,000 years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava#History

People have always lived wherever they could scratch out a living. In that regard, I am kind of like Malthus, in that people always maxed out their energy supply wherever they could, as pre-industrial peoples were always near the brink of starvation. The "sustainable" societies of the New World are still intriguing to me. In those horticultural societies of the Eastern Woodlands, where the women did the farming and the men the hunting, women had that higher status befitting their economic contribution, and the Eastern Woodlands were dominated by matrilineal societies (where men, not women, leave their societies to breed), which are far gentler than patrilineal societies (which violent gangs of related men run), which was part of their attraction to the invading Europeans, which is why so many ran off and "went native" in the early days of the European invasion.

On a different note, I am continually reminded that personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity, and that is greatly informing the attempt that I will be making, with my upcoming essay as its textbook. If the choir ends up having to try to catalyze a technical FE effort, it will be non-profit, volunteer, open-sourced, transparent, and the goal is giving away some production-ready FE prototypes, and then the Fifth Epochal Event will be here. There is not enough personal integrity on Earth today for the business route, the hero's route, and others being tried today to work. The FE field has been in a state of arrested development for longer than I have been alive, with it being dominated by scientists, inventors, "Messiahs," "heroes," and the like. Those approaches have never worked and are unlikely to. I really want to have nothing to do with the FE field today. Its ranks are filled with the naïve and gullible, the criminal, the greedy, "Messiahs" and those who follow them, etc. The very few with the right stuff, like Brian and Dennis, are attacked by their "peers," wiped out by Godzilla, run out of the country, etc.

I eventually understood that I was just seeing my primary lesson play out in that field:

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

Newbies continually look to today's FE field, to try to learn something and see who they can ally with in the field, but there is not anybody that I have seen, and I stopped dealing with the field some years ago.

Almost nobody on Earth today has the right stuff to walk those routes to FE:

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

and I am not looking for them. I am trying out something different, and while I will be asking plenty of the choir, it will not be the kind of life-risking and life-shortening adventures that Dennis, Brian, and I had. I am not looking for heroes, and almost nobody in Earth today can avoid the perils and temptations of the FE pursuit on the paths currently being advocated.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Wade, thank you, I appreciate you taking the time and relating to this. I was left to wonder if there is anywhere on earth that is not and never was inhbited, besides the regions of radical climate like Antartica, Greenland or Siberia, just for the sake of comparison with what we know, but I am not quite sure there is.
Humanity have filled the earth and as such took advantage of every piece of land.

And how would life with FE will look like with regards to vegetation and animals cohabiting with humans.. Just the thought brings a longing that goes straight to the heart.. Whatever time it may take, it will be lush and luxuriant..

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Originally posted by Wade Frazier: "On a different note, I am continually reminded that personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity"


" Its ranks are filled with the naïve and gullible, the criminal, the greedy, "Messiahs" and those who follow them, etc. "

It may be fair to mention that most of these above attributes people are born with and carry with them along the way, but the "Messiaha complex" is a one which is most often than not 'given' as a treatment nowdays and is part of godzila's sack of 'charms', unfortunately said.

Best wishes,

Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

As my essay goes into some detail regarding, when behaviorally modern humans left Africa about 60,000 years ago, they quickly inhabited whatever could be inhabited, in a process that took about 50,000 years. All the large animals on three continents were quickly driven to extinction, as well as all other human species. Some, like those "hobbits," survived in remote niches for some time, but humans eventually filled all of Earth, and the last places to feel the brunt of humanity were remote islands, and when humans arrived there, the large animals were quickly driven to extinction:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event#Later_extinctions

This has been the standard pattern for about 50,000 years, ever since humans "discovered" Australia. As you can see here:

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

remote islands were the last to be inhabited.

You are bringing up the nature/nurture issue. The very concept of the "hero" arose from the warfare of early civilizations (see Guilaine and Zammit's The Origins of War, chapter 5). My studies have clearly shown me that human civilization has always been shaped by its economic circumstances, which was always about the energy surplus, above all else; everything else was noise. Nurture becomes nature, as we can see with Ashkenazy Jews and their high IQs. Sure, soul age plays into it but, as I have pointed out plenty and do so in my essay, three hundred years ago, nobody on Earth challenged slavery, and today it is unthinkably barbaric. Two thousand years ago, everybody thought that watching people being forced to murder each other was the ultimate in entertainment. We do not think that way anymore, but our biological equipment is the same as back then.

Economic conditions largely make the people, not the other way around. If not for the industrial age, you would be barefoot and pregnant and I might be literate, if I was lucky. Both of us would be already far older than our life expectancies, with very few pre-industrial peoples living to be older than I am today. With FE, a Star-Trek-like existence awaits humanity, and ideas like scarcity and money will go the way of slavery and gladiators.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Originally posted by Wade Frazier: " All the large animals on three continents were quickly driven to extinction, as well as all other human species."

It seems that was never any stage in humanity's history that survival was not on the line, up and close and residing in every human being's subconscious as a deeply rooted program, maybe the biggest promise of Free Energy in the human aspect is that all the psycological diseases of 'the need to survive' will disappear and the 'needle in the haystack' qualities (such as integrity, compassion etc) will emerge to show itself, and people will practice veganism instead of survivalism and than will come an end to all the above mentioned.

With regards to Ashkenazi Jews, I can't help but wonder if this may relate mostly to statistics (relative successful jews in banking, nobel prize, medical research, politics, science etc) and less to genetics or IQ tests, and I will claim that these are people in key positions that were groomed specifically. There is the conspiratorial aspect here (therefore it might not be the right place to develop this) of certain bloodlines and it is not reflecting the ashkenazi group as a whole (which were the main target of Nazis mass destruction because of 'poor genes'), and by contrast those specific Ashkenazi elite jews are working for the Aryan cause while the other Ashkenazi jews are tagged under 'depopulation'.

Open slavery may be considered barbaric nowdays, yet if not relating to the illusion surrounding us we are all practicing slavery, in one way or another, simply in a more civilised way. And killing is done by soldiers and not by gladiators. The subjugagation to energy resources is what characterises our world, so things will dramatically change when consciousness and Free energy will arrive respectively to the arena and this may change everything we know and take us to everything we dared to dream about and more.


Originally posted by Wade Frazier: " Economic conditions largely make the people, not the other way around"

The study of epigenetics supports this, but there are exceptions to the rule especially nowdays where the posibilities for modification behaviour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior_modification) are coming to the surface and being used in an unethical way, i.e the Messiah complex.

Consciousness and awarness may always be the remedy for crossing over such hurdles


p.s

A flower always brings gentleness to unpleasent subjects :)


Blessings ~

Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

Actually, IQ tests, as limited as they are, show Ashkenazy Jews having a median IQ which is the highest for any ethnic group on Earth, which led to them having ten times the geniuses (at least as measured in IQ) as other ethnic groups. Oh boy, on the Jews and conspiratorial topics, Limor, my darling, that is one subject that I will not tangle with you on. I understand too much of the conspiratorial part, but Hitler's seduction by Henry Ford's conspiracism helped lead to one of the most evil events in the human journey, and that is saying something.

Yes, that survival awareness is what FE can end. For all the evils in today's world, and there are many, industrialized society is vastly more just and peaceful than pre-industrialized civilizations. If the wars of the twentieth century had the casualty rates that preliterate societies did in their wars, instead of 100 million war deaths, there would have been two billion. That is one example of many. I try to bring America's misdeeds right into the living rooms of those brave enough to look:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/invasion.jpg

but they truly pale beside the USA even 150 years ago, when making trousers out of Indian skins was the ultimate frontiersman's apparel. What the Nazis did in WWII, preserving tattooed Jewish skin, was a day at the office in the USA in the 19th century. A future American president, Andrew Jackson, even handed out the noses of slaughtered Indians to the ladies of Tennessee as souvenirs:

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

If you valued your life, you did not walk down a London street at night in the 1500s. Those movie scenes where men walked around with a sword on their hip was actually typical in those days. You walked around armed, or risked your life. If strangers were found roaming near a community in 1500's England, they could be legally enslaved. In so many ways, the barbarities of earlier times are breathtaking to modern sensibilities.

People were property in my great nation only 150 years ago. I do not like bringing my family into it much, but one of my relatives, whom I dearly loved, had a family heirloom that he kept preserved in glass next to his bed. It was the receipt for a slave boy, purchased in the 1830s. It was a treasured heirloom! When I think of that, I still shake my head. That happened in my adult life.

I was likely zapped by Godzilla's mind-f**king toys during my FE days, and it was no fun, let me tell you. I am all too aware of the kinds of diabolical stuff that is happening, but most of the worst is right out in the open, like making mass murdering thieves into my nation's original heroes:

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

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

Crazy stuff, and most Americans have no idea, even today.

I have to run.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Editing my American Empire essay is going well, and I am about halfway through the essay, right now dealing with the dispossession of the Cherokee. It is still heavy lifting, and I am looking forward to finishing this heavy lift. I may well edit some of the smaller essays before I am finished (my "lies" and introductory essays, for instance), but I may leave the war essay for the distant future, if at all.

One thing that I think I am making clear on this thread, and my essay and "choir" work will make it clearer, is that I am not really interested in what is happening in the FE field today. Naïve newbies, inventors with delusions of grandeur and dreams of riches, scientists with their theories, people trying to be heroes, and the like, hold no interest for me, and are only indicative of the state of arrested development that the FE field is in. My work is about something radically different than the inventor of the hour, the hero trying to scale the ramparts, and the like. My effort cannot afford to get stuck in those newbie levels, which will be part of the hard work that the choir will have to do. There are many barriers to awareness that need to be overcome. Godzilla's existence needs to be acknowledged and respected, the "laws of physics" need to be seen more as a faith than something that came from a pure pursuit of the scientific method, and the FE field's state of arrested development needs to be understood, only so that people can let it go and get to the level that I need them to reach if the choir will have a chance of making a dent.

All Level 10 ideas need to be relinquished:

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

as well as Levels 6, 7, 9, and 11. Those are all pitfalls where today's FE field's arrested development arises from, and they need to be let go. I see people struggle all the time with those ideas, as they just cannot restrain themselves from trying to proselytize the new gospel, they blow a fuse, etc. Just as with all the previous epochal events, humanity is not going to wake up with talk: only a new level of energy surplus will do it. And almost nobody today can even imagine where FE can lead, and that is OK:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=827022&viewfull=1#post827022

It has always been that way, but I am trying to do something unprecedented in the human journey: amass a nugget of humanity that can imagine the next event as a way to helping it manifest. Nothing remotely like it has been attempted before, and I fully realized how unique my effort is, which is putting plenty of pressure on me to get this as right as I can before I unleash it, and we will see how it goes.

But I cannot overemphasize how difficult this will be for even the choir to achieve, as people almost constantly project their scarcity-based awareness onto the situation. We are not going to get to abundance via scarcity. It will not work, and that is what I finally realized after many years of my journey. I do not know if what I am trying will work, but I had to try it. I burned up my life doing it, but I cannot regret it.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[ulli]

Could scarcity-based awareness be remedied by curing damaged self-esteem?
Because my own experience has been that whenever there was a sudden increase in self confidence
my powers in general were increased, and life became nearly magical,
with loads of lucky streaks following one after the next.

Until the next surge of self doubt ruined everything.....

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As an example of the heavy lifting, I just added this text to the American Empire essay:

After his stint as president ended, Jackson echoed Washington in comparing the Indians to wolves, and in the great tradition of American presidents, he advocated the complete extermination of the Indians, especially the women and children, writing that to fail to do so was the equivalent of hunting a, "wolf in the hamocks without knowing first where her den and whelps were."


Washington's wise words are here:

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

Going hiking now…

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ulli:

When I was in my 20s, getting deep into the spiritual stuff, one standard dynamic was that anybody who committed to walking the spiritual path immediately had all hell break loose in their lives. That roller-coaster that you describe is a typical part of the process.

That self-esteem stuff would arise as we got battered (arrogance and feelings of worthlessness are part of that dynamic), and it is all part of the process, but scarcity is an economic concept above all else. It has to do with lack. Hard to be a loving parent when there is no time, as parents spend their time battling for survival and trying to recover to do it again the next day. Fuller's work was very trenchant in that regard:

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

We are ego-bound as a species, and that has to do with the fear and survival issues that come with scarcity. Let off that pressure, and a lot will change about the human animal. We can see it with how slavery ended, and so on. The so-called choir will have to overcome those self-esteem issues (at least well enough to sing), but the mass of humanity will not until scarcity ends.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Up to the Vietnam War, and I just added this:

In 2013, Kill Anything That Moves was published, which was the result of a quick-thinking-and-acting college student and his professor, who obtained military documents that were briefly declassified, that demonstrated the American military's approach to the Vietnam War, where the troops had murder quotas, to keep those body counts on the evening news high. Bombing and napalming villages thus became an American pastime. Murder quotas comprise a style of warfare that logically arose from the USA's industrialized ways.

Racing to the finish line, so this heavy lifting can be behind me.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

While I am getting useful feedback on the essay, I am also seeing the problems that people are having in achieving a comprehensive perspective. A comprehensive perspective sees the big picture while it also understands the details well enough to understand the basis for the generalizations. It is an integration of the macro/micro perspectives. Almost every reader of my upcoming essay is going to skip to the parts that interest them and focus there. Those who do that are not whom I am looking for. And when I hear from them, they fixate on that area of interest to the exclusion of all else, and their tunnel-vision perspective will be no help at all for what I have in mind. What they tend to do is overemphasize the importance of the object of their obsession, thinking that it is somehow the key, when it is really a minor aspect of the issue.

For instance, Godzilla is really not very important. He is only in his position because the vast majority of humanity has chosen to sleep. Dennis encountered organized suppression at the local, state, national, and global levels. Godzilla was not involved with all of those levels, or if he was, he only had to slightly intervene and then just sit back and watch it all work wonderfully, as greed, fear, naïveté, corruption, and the like worked its magic, with all the greatest damage done by Dennis's allies, not the "bad guys." And when I dismiss Godzilla's importance, conspiracists with no experience being stepped on by Godzilla as I have will labor to tell me how important Godzilla is, as they view the world through their victim-oriented lenses.

Similarly, when I dismiss today's FE field as being a state of arrested development, with no effort launched from that milieu having a prayer, including what Dennis and I did, people want to inform me about the inventor of the hour and his gizmo, or the latest scientist with his FE theory. It is a different version of the victim game, where they are looking for heroes to save us from ourselves.

In a related manner, as I deal with scientific issues, people want to bring up the latest fringe theory, some "channeled" stuff from ETs, angels, and the rest of that cast of characters, where nothing is proven and everything is alleged. I grew up digesting that stuff, and while my spiritual training came in handy during my journey, all of that esoteric stuff if food for thought at most, not a guide for action, and I am about action.

While the scientifically illiterate will skip over my scientific chapters or decide that their fringe source on the subject is the gospel, when they do not even understand the orthodox position, they then ask me if Global Warming is a hoax or not. If they read those chapters they skipped over, their questions would be answered. Nobody in the choir is going to be acting like that, which is why I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks.

It is not going to be easy to achieve the worldly, comprehensive that the choir will need, and I am not going to invite anybody into the choir unless that are already publicly singing. It will be about hitting the notes, not the numbers.

On a nice note, I think I am going to finish editing my American Empire essay today. I vividly recall editing that essay back in the summer of 2002, thinking that it would never end. I must be getting better at it, as this time, it has not seemed like a slog, although it took me about a week to get it done.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I'll put up the revised American Empire essay tomorrow. Not much new there, but more getting it tidied up and more aligned with my style today and the upcoming essay. I doubt that I will revise it much in the future, as I will be concentrating on the big essay and the choir.

But I did add this near the end of the essay:


Regarding scientific issues, ultimate and proximate causes are considered in explaining events. For instance, the ultimate cause of the Icehouse Earth that has existed for the past 35 million years and the ice age that Earth has been in for the past 2.5 million years has been the decline of atmospheric carbon dioxide related to a reduction in volcanism, which is in turn dependent on tectonic plate movements, which is in turn dependent on internal Earth processes, which are dependent on energy production from radioactive decay. No scientist will deny that atmospheric carbon dioxide traps radiation from Earth and warms the atmosphere. Proximate causes for our Icehouse Earth and ice age have been oceanic currents shaped by land masses (with configurations at the poles and equator being important for this ice age) and Milankovitch cycles. Today's so-called Global Warming debate is largely a fraudulent charade concocted by the hydrocarbon lobby, and the industrial age's pollution is impacting the ultimate cause of this ice age and Icehouse Earth, not a proximate cause. Arguments made by hydrocarbon lobby "scientists" seem to purposefully confuse ultimate and proximate causes.

Similarly, in July 2014, as I updated this essay, I read many explanations proffered by all manner of observer for why the USA invaded Iraq, as the official rationales were obviously fraudulent. Those analyses could have benefitted from understanding the distinction between ultimate and proximate causes. The ultimate cause for invading Iraq was its oil, which is history's greatest material prize. Any analysis that ignores the ultimate cause and begins debating proximate causes has failed to see the forest for the trees, but virtually every analysis that I saw ignored oil. Were they assuming it away so that they could discuss proximate causes? If so, that silence crippled the validity of their analyses, just as the Bush administration was silent about the oil, although Bush, Cheney, and Rice were all oil industry executives. Whom did they think they were fooling?



Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, that is done:

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

Off to chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

My grandfather was a poet of international reputation, and my father also had the talent, so I had a genetic advantage to writing, but nothing about it has been easy. My work has come a long way since the 1980s, but I still feel barely competent. One thing I learned back in the 1990s was that the editorial process is vital, especially for somebody writing material as emotionally charged as mine is. I also wrote professionally for the past decade, writing technical business documents. You really come to appreciate the editorial process when writing professionally.

As I have been editing my old essays in recent months, I have been putting on my editor's hat, and today, for the first time, really, I began to tackle my upcoming essay as an editor. It took some months of distance from the writing process before I could really don the editor's hat, and I will be playing editor now on the essay, before I publish it. I also have editors banging away at it, so the final version should be relatively honed.

Today is chore day, but during breaks I am editing, making this post, etc. Later today will be a short hike, carrying about 30 pounds (a bowling ball is half the weight), as I worry this old body into shape to take my nephew on a backpack on August, so he can earn his Eagle Scout credential. Just happy that I can still do it, even if I somehow am getting slower at it. :)

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Hi Wade,

You are getting older and I guess it would be silly not to acknowledge the changes that take place in the body and mind. But I just want to say that I have a grandfather, who is living up on a hill, where there is no road access and I can barely keep up with him when we hike there. He's not very fast, be he seems able to go on forever when hiking. He has a sharp mind too :).

When you do what you're passionate about it seems like there is a form of energy that helps you keep in shape and have a clear focus.

In short, I would not say that you have reached your peak, it's only your perspective that's changing :)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

Thanks. OK, anecdote time. I did a little searching, and doubt that I told these stories publicly before. My father was a math genius and systems thinker, and NASA recruited him to work in Mission Control during the space race, and he helped save the Gemini program's communication system:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary

by diagnosing where the failure was in the global system in a few minutes, soon after he started there. NASA soon was begging my father to ascend into its hierarchy, but the Apollo 1 fire drove my father from NASA. I am a systems thinker, too:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/trucking.htm#footnotes

My father did not get more than ten miles from where he was born until he was sixteen, and in that same year, he saw his first black man. In that isolated existence, he had a girlfriend whose IQ was about half of his. That situation would not be seen today in the USA, as people are no longer that isolated. When my father got the highest score in the state on the math exam given to its high school students in 1954, he had a full-ride scholarship awaiting him at the University of Washington. His father's last act of petty tyranny was forbidding my father from moving to Seattle to attend the university on that scholarship, as the local college in Bellingham was "good enough." In those days, a man was not legally emancipated until age 21, so my grandfather's edict was legally enforceable. However, my grandfather could not prevent my father from enlisting in the Marines, which was how he escaped home. He took his girlfriend with him as they escaped home together. That was not an ideal way to get married. He ended up in Korea, and was a boot camp drill sergeant before he was discharged in 1957. My parents also discovered the sunshine and laid-back lifestyle of California, and spent nearly all of rest of their lives there. After the Marines, they moved back to Seattle, and my father finally got to go to college, at the University of Washington, and then on the G.I. Bill. We moved to California as soon as he graduated. I was the first unplanned addition to the family, born in 1958, with another brother born the next year. Back in those Baby Boom days, having children was the thing to do.

While my father read a book a day while growing up, my mother bragged that she never read a book in her lifetime. In school, when she had to do book reports, she would read the first and last chapter and fake it. What kind of children would come from that genetic roulette? The first two sons had genius-level IQs, if not quite so high as their father's, and the third son, born in 1965, soon before we moved to Houston for my father's NASA stint, got the short end of the stick, with an IQ about half of mine. But a high IQ is only part of the equation. I was the Golden Boy while growing up, while the other genius son was a psychopath. It was "fun" being raised in that environment, let me tell you. I no longer have any contact with my brothers or father, who all eventually attacked and disowned me, even as I saved all of their lives; such has been the cost of my journey. All of the attacks were related to my FE journey.

While I memorized the books that my parents read to me by the time I could walk, my psychopath brother tore the pages from those very same books when his turn came. That was an early indicator of the opposite directions that we took. Those high IQ and psychopathic tendencies are actually common dynamics in my father's side of the family. One cousin murdered his infant son, and there are others on the psychopath scale, and some other genius types. Genes have plenty to do with it.

I got my father's brain, but took after my mother in other ways, such as looking like her, having the same Viking build, and other traits, such a my placid nature. My high level of conscience is freakish, although it was encouraged in my family. But, as I saw with my psychopath brother, if you come in that way, you generally leave that way, no matter what your circumstances. That has to do with the soul's journey, I believe.

Anyway, there was a not a book in my mother's home when she grew up, and when I visited my grandmother over the years, there were some Reader's Digest condensed books on a shelf, and those were the only books in the house, even though my grandmother got a degree in the 1920s, as her sisters did (very rare for those times), and she ran the family business and became wealthy.

My grandmother began losing her mind in her 80s. My mother began to lose it in her 70s. I can tell that my nearly photographic memory is beginning to slip in my 50s, which is partly why I took the year off to write my essay: to do it while I still could. It will likely be seen as the work that I am best known for, and is already being hailed as a paradigm-breaking work. We will see what its impact is, but I have my doubts that I could have done it a decade from now, when I originally planned to retire. I have no regrets, but taking that time off probably cost me at least $1 million, for the fifth time that my FE journey has cost me at least $1 million.

I can tell that age is catching up with me, in both body and mind, and I am planning on adopting an even healthier regimen than I already have (vegetarian, no drinking, smoking, or drugging, and I hike as much as I can and lift weights, and will add more cardio activities to my regimen), so that I can keep my mental edge as long as I can. When I recently revised my medical essay, I wrote about the organ failures that Americans die of:

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

which are likely all related to all the horrific toxins that we ingest, both in our air, food, and water, but also in our "pleasures," such as drinking, smoking, and drugging. Brain failure is one of them.

I do not know how much the dementia of my mother's side was genetics, toxins, or just not working the "muscle" of the brain, but I am doing everything that I can so that I keep my wits to the end. I would rather die than go out as a vegetable like my mother and her mother did. If I lose my mind, I will have lost my most valuable asset and the one that I enjoy having the most.

Again, the lower astral plane is full of "geniuses,"

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

so that so-called "intellect" is far from the be-all, end-all, but almost all of the advances in math and science came from geniuses. I work in high-tech nerd-land, and being around geniuses can be a pretty nice experience, although some companies fostered a shark-tank environment, such as Ballmer's stack-ranking at Microsoft, and a shark-tank full of geniuses is Max's kind of place.

I learned my mortality lessons in my twenties. I had a world-class throwing arm, and might have been able to have make the Olympic trials (in the javelin throw) if I had trained properly and dedicated myself to it. Instead, I got a permanent back injury out of it, and a few years later, I discovered that I could not sit at a desk for a year and then put a pack on my back and hike 40 miles while fasting. I blew out my knee that way, although it turned out to only be tendinitis, which I also got in my shoulders, thinking that I could sit at a desk all year and then go throw major-league velocity baseballs. So, by my mid-20s, I was well-acquainted with my mortality and set my goal back then of being able to hike in my 80s. While I was ridiculed for my "health nut" ways while growing up, my relatives began admitting that because of how I took care of myself that I would likely realize my goal. And I may. However, my short hikes today are three miles and a thousand foot in elevation gain, compared to twelve miles and four thousand feet when I was in my twenties. I still do the ten miles and three thousand foot day hikes, at least in mid-season shape, but it is not as easy as it used to be. I do not know if I will do another four thousand foot day. When I took my nephew on his life-changing backpack last year:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/pics.htm#white2

it took me twice as long to do the three thousand foot climb to the meadows as it used to (I am planning on taking him to my secret meadow http://www.ahealedplanet.net/pics.htm#meadow this summer, so he can earn his Eagle Scout credential), and that will be a three thousand foot day, hauling a pack, so am trying to get in shape for it now.

In 1998, I went with the uncle who introduced me to hiking, and his buddy, whom I hiked with often back in 1986, the year I met Dennis, to some remote lakes where they could fish. They were big-time fishermen. Those lakes were off-trail, way up in the mountains, where I am sure the road is impassable today, so we were some of the last people who will visit those lakes, at least until antigravity craft rule the skies. I was 40, my uncle was 70, and our other pal was 81. As we were navigating through the trackless forest to those lakes, I thought to myself, "This is as good as it gets, hiking with people in their 70s and 80s." They both died in 2009; hiking to the end. They went out on their terms. I took my uncle on his last hike, and took him on one hike a year in his last years, and we did a ten-miler with a two thousand foot gain a couple of years before he died. His diet was atrocious, and he carried about forty pounds of spare tire with him. I hope to be able to do better than that, but I have been fighting my weight for many years – part of the aging process in history's fattest and most sedentary population. They are my hiking role models, and my goal is to go out like they did. That one buddy lived to be 92, and ate well and always looked hale. The day before he died, he announced to his relatives whom he was living with that he was going into his bedroom and would not come back out again, and he died the next day. That is my ideal: as close to a conscious exit as I have heard of.

So, yes, I plan to keep mind, body, and spirit as fit as I can, as long as I can, but there are no guarantees.

Time go visit a friend in the hospital, and then take the wife hiking.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

My upcoming essay is intended to help those who want to join the choir do some really deep work, so that they can recognize the cage of scarcity that encloses almost everybody's minds and spirits, and they can then dare to look beyond the bars. It takes deep and often subtle work to really understand, which is partly why nobody will have much worthwhile to say anytime soon whose introduction to my work is that essay. People like Ilie have been getting the nearly daily class on this thread for a few years now, so he has already been doing the work.

Once you begin to have the paradigm shift, so much starts becoming clear, and when that paradigm shift is achieved, then I do not need to repeat myself endlessly, as newbies almost constantly ask the same questions over and over, about the inventor of the hour, why patenting route does not work, why the capitalist route does not work, why we can't sneak past Godzilla, why scientists are so heavily entrenched Level 3s:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3

and so on. Newbies constantly brim with "bright ideas" for making FE happen, which they think that nobody ever thought about before, when their "experience" in the milieu equals zero. All of those questions and approaches show that the person has not made the shift yet.

Similarly, I am pretty continually approached on why windmills are not really the answer, and what "good work" is being done today by environmentalists, and don't they have some of the answers? What that also shows is that the person has not done the work to make the shift yet. And these are people who are trying. More than 99% of the population is not even interested in trying. That is why I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks.

If a person really begins to understand the nuts and bolts of how the world really works, and how it all rides on energy, they can then look at the "solutions" that environmentalists, Peak Oilers, and others put forward, and they can see how the "solutions" are rooted in an assumption of energy scarcity. If energy was abundant and clean, those "solutions" make no sense whatsoever. It is like the current "environmentalists" and "visionaries" are advocating horses wearing diapers to solve the waste problems in city streets in 1900, and debating the best brand of buggy whip, when FE means that we all ride rocket ships.

Another analogy is like how "humanitarians" of three centuries ago were advocating the most benign forms of slavery. They could not even imagine a world with no slaves, as that was all that history had ever known. With FE, money becomes as obsolete as slavery did when industrialization happened, which was all about tapping new energy sources and making human unskilled labor uneconomical. Women became liberated, too, as pumping out those strong backs for agrarian economies was no longer economically important.

When a person begins to understand the bigger picture of what FE means, almost everything about today's world fades to oblivion. On one hand, what a liberation of the mind and spirit, but almost everybody on Earth reacts to the idea with fear, as they project scarcity onto a situation of abundance. Those people are not going to be talked into waking up beyond scarcity. They will only begin to wake up when the means of abundance are delivered into their lives, and that is what the choir is all about helping manifest. I know that FE, antigravity, and those other Star Trek technologies, and much more, already exist on the planet, and Godzilla is keeping it all under wraps for now, although if you constantly risk your life to make FE happen, you might get one of these shows one day:

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

I am not clamoring to get one, and those in the choir will need to get to the place where they at least know that the technologies are possible. What is better is taking my word for it, that those technologies exist, but they do not need to blindly take my word for it. Many of the Disclosure Project witnesses described what my friend saw, and I watched UFOs zoom over James's ranch:

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

There is plenty that sincere seekers can do to satisfy themselves that far more than meets the eye is happening. There is also a great deal of disinformation out there, valid information being distorted for various agendas, some of which are Godzilla's, and the sincere seekers have a tall task to get their arms around it all. My essay will be a kind of online textbook on how the world works. It will be light on the conspiracist and fringe stuff, because not much of that is really needed to understand how the world works (and most is born of scarcity, which will disappear with abundance), and can be a great distraction and time-waster. People are constantly trying to get me to look into the latest channelings, the latest UFO stuff, the fringe and New Age flavor of the day, Godzilla's latest antics, the latest hero trying to scale the ramparts, and so on, and none of it is really relevant to my work. I have spent many years diving into stuff like that, and almost none of it is really important for helping us turn the corner. We are on the edge of the abyss and need to focus on what is important, not get swept up into the million distractions that await.

Well, I did not even take a break from revising the American Empire essay, and have been working on my "lies" essay today:

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

I'll probably get it done this weekend. There is not much more on my list of essays to revise, which is a project that has been weighing on my mind for several years, so it feels good to get it done.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, anecdote time again. Last year, I took a 9,000-mile Bucket List road trip, making 25 stops in 30 days, seeing people. I saw Dennis Lee on that trip, and also saw Dennis Leahy. Two people that I was planning to see died between the time I planned the trip and was able to see them, with me discovering the second death, after trying to reach him for weeks, the day that I left. That death was Ralph Hovnanian's, and I will update my Ralph quote page one day soon:

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

Among the Dennis visits, I also visited Mr. Professor's widow, at the end of an 800-mile day. On the way, I visited Mr. Professor's family farm, and also visited his grave.

Even though I got to see him in his heaven at his funeral:

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

and he sent me a vision to tell me that he was OK, his death devastated me and sent me into the dark phase of my midlife crisis. I looked forward to visiting his grave with some trepidation, expecting it to be emotionally heavy. Nobody ever blamed me for what happened to him, but that burden has been heavy on me for a quarter-century. As you can see in the attached picture, the weather was gray and my shoes got soaked as I looked for his grave. I once sat on my great, great grandfather’s headstone, in the middle of nowhere in Kansas, who died in the Dust Bowl, and tried to imagine his life.

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

As I walked up to Mr. Professor's grave and sat on his tombstone, suddenly an unexpected feeling of joy swept over me. It was the last thing that I thought I would feel, and I think it was him coming through, letting me know how happy he was to be involved with us, even if his life was wrecked and shortened. Since then, when I think of him, the feelings are lighter, and I think of that moment of unexpected joy, and think that that is how he wants me to feel when I think of him, and I am doing my best to.

Yesterday was the 4th of July celebration in the USA. I am a pretty heavy sleeper and go to bed early, so the fireworks last night did not bother me. I am not sure how many Americans really realize it, but all those fireworks are simulating warfare. And the War of 1812 is the war in particular that was in mind when the national anthem was penned:

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

We celebrate by simulating a war where we were the aggressor:

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

How American.

On my site, and my upcoming essay will be no exception, I write plenty about how the pioneers of science and medicine were crucified, while their breakthroughs were stolen by the establishment and turned into lucrative opportunities, while the pioneers are often still obscure even today:

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

While it is certainly possible that my efforts will become obscure, as a "hero" such as Bill Gates brings FE to the world when the time is right, I kind of doubt it. My work is going to be too prominent to ignore, and regarding Dennis and Brian, my upcoming essay shows how their initial work is well-represented in the approach that I am taking. The whole open-source, "give FE away" ideas that are gaining strength in the FE community are only Dennis's ideas updated 40 years later. Dennis is the first person to advocate anything close to FE (Tesla aside), where he put equipment on people's homes for free, and they only paid what the equipment was proven to save until it was paid for:

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

While Brian's work was not quite as original, he helped pioneer the ideas of asteroid mining and space colonies:

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

and my essay will also take those ideas further, using FE and antigravity.

FE will be the most valuable technology ever invented:

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

and if it is given away, it will break the entire capitalist paradigm in one fell swoop. The Fifth Epochal Event will then be here far faster than almost anybody could imagine, and we could clean up Earth and forestall the Sixth Mass Extinction in almost no time at all. But giving away the most lucrative technology in world history? I have not shared that idea with Dennis, but I think that he would recognize not only his early programs in it, but the brilliance of it is truly paradigm-busting. Now, finding people willing to sing the song of abundance and help bring something into being that would be given away…that is another reason why the people I seek are needles in haystacks. One of the biggest reasons why all FE efforts have failed is that the people involved were all trying to cash in. This is one of those examples where people need to be the change they want to see. Giving away the most lucrative technology in history seems insane to people mired in scarcity-based thinking, which is why they can't help this along. The people who make FE happen will understand abundance, and are going to make abundance happen.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another one down:

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

My style back in the 1990s was to have more quotes, and I have been deciding to leave them in. My upcoming essay only has two large quotes:


After consolidating their ill-gotten positions, the elite can rule more gently. Sociologist Steven Spitzer stated:


“Pristine states, precisely because they lack legitimacy, must develop and impose harsh, crude, and highly visible forms of repressive sanctions; developed states, having successfully ‘re-invented’ consensus, can achieve social regulation through a combination of civil law and relatively mild forms of ‘calculated’ repression.”

Recently, Canadian Indians stated:


“Canada, the most affluent of countries, operates on a depletion economy which leaves destruction in its wake. Your people are driven by a terrible sense of deficiency. When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.”

I left in my big Zinn quote in my Columbus essay, in Zinn's honor:

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

Not too many essays to revise now. I don't know if I will get the courage to revise my way essay. We will see.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I edit my last essays that I plan to revise, I am also beginning to make the upcoming choir section of my site, including my forum. I just drafted the introduction to my choir page, below. We will see what it ends up looking like when I publish it.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

My idea for an abundance choir that can help catalyze the healing of humanity and the planet, primarily by assisting the manifestation of practical abundance via abundant and harmless energy production, was a long time in coming. My journey into alternative energy began in the 1970s, and in the 1980s I received my radicalization as I pursued the development of free energy technology. I barely survived the experience. During the 1990s, I studied why the world I encountered during my free energy adventures was radically different than the one that I was taught existed. In 1996-1997, I was briefly involved with pursuing free energy again and nearly went to prison for my trouble. I then performed the studies and writing that became my website, which was first completed in 2002.

Over the years, I traded notes with fellow travelers and confirmed my understanding that free energy and a world based on abundance was literally unimaginable for almost all humans, as scarcity is all that humanity has ever known. In 2003, I once again became involved in public activities relating to free energy, but that time only to help raise the public's awareness. That was the last time that I attempted to engage the masses regarding the free energy issue. I do not plan to try again, as today's mass awareness has only superficial understanding and is easily manipulated by the social managers. Also, with very few exceptions, free energy aspirants did not have the qualities necessary to attempt overcoming the organized suppression and humanity's inertia, as naïveté, greed, dishonesty, delusions of grandeur, and the like abounded.

I eventually realized that a critical missing ingredient for a successful free energy effort was an aware and engaged public. While very few in the free energy field had the necessary qualities, personal integrity above all else, to mount an attempt with a chance of success, there was also no viable support from the public. Without any support, the aspirant was on his own against organized suppression, which included a global effort with tremendous resources, and nobody ever stood a chance against that. Also, the "allies" of free energy aspirants have done more damage than the organized suppression has. The entire free energy field has been in a state of arrested development for longer than I have been alive, and it is time for a different approach.

As I walked my path and performed my studies, I slowly began to realize what was missing and what could be helpful, and my choir idea was born. My imagined choir will have several purposes, but building the choir will be the hard part. Choir aspirants first have to relinquish their indoctrination and conditioning into today's dominant ideologies, all of which assume economic scarcity. That insidious assumption prevents the achievement of an abundance-based awareness. Choir members will also have to achieve a comprehensive perspective of how the world really works; it has always run on energy and always will. When the role of energy is understood, and particularly the limits that have been imposed by energy scarcity, then the potential of abundant, harmlessly produced energy will become evident, including environmentally, economically, and socially. The choir will understand that something resembling heaven on Earth is possible with wisely implemented free energy technology. The choir's purpose is learning the song of abundance and singing it. But they will not be singing it to those in their daily lives. Almost nobody on Earth today has the ears to hear that song, but the Internet will give the choir a global reach, and people are scattered across the planet who have longed to hear that song for their entire lives, and they are my intended target audience. The choir will be about hitting the notes, first and foremost. For those with ears to hear it, they will eventually listen.

While it is about hitting the notes, it is also about the numbers. My goal for the choir is amassing about 5,000-to-7,000 people, and my goal is to eventually attract an audience of about 100,000. It will take hard work to hit the notes needed to join the choir, and while the audience that hears that choir may reach into the millions, those 100,000 will "do something" to directly help free energy manifest. Although free energy and related technologies have long existed on Earth, it may come down to those 100,000 people mounting an independent development effort. If so, the goal will be developing a production-ready free energy prototype that will be given away to humanity. The effort will be transparent, the technology will be open-source, and it will be given away. When that day comes, humanity will live in true abundance for the first time ever, and the world as we know it will end, but few will miss its passing, if anybody, as something resembling heaven on Earth will replace it.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

It is picture time. For the first time, I have lived in a house with hydrangeas in the yard, pic attached. I was hiking with my wife last week, and we hung out in a stream on my favorite local mountain. I had the best salmon berries of my life, from bushes at the stream's edge. Maybe the watery environment did it, but salmon berries are usually kind of sour, and are an early season berry. Those orange ones in that pic are the typical ripe berries, and they were very sweet, and there was also a variety that was deep purple, and they were as tasty as blackberries. I think I found the patch that I will return to over the years. :)

To my previous post, the standard way that people think of social change will not be what the choir does. What Dennis and Brian did, as they engaged John Q. Public and tried to get some kind of mass movement going, will not be my approach at all. Again, more than 99% of humanity will not want to hear my message. All they can see is their world coming to an end, and it scares them. They will not be talked into understanding abundance, but it will have to be shown them. The standard methods of so-called social change, where "warriors" get hammered as they encounter the masses or the "powerful," are not going to be used for amassing the choir, and will not be what the choir will do. It will be broadcast to the world, and those with ears to listen will come. They will dive in and not come up for air for months or years; only people who do that kind of deep work are going to be helpful. People who need to be cajoled, baited, and seduced into grappling with my material are not in my target audience, and they should not be the choir's, either. The choir will be about hitting the notes. It is about making the music, and those with ears to hear it will find it. It will not happen overnight, and it is about quality, not quantity.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another essay revised:

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

and only a few more to go. As I revised that introductory essay, I once again dipped into a number of controversies. One was Global Warming, and once again, the scientific efforts that I respect continually derive new and alarming findings, such as how fast the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are melting, and a newly discovered dynamic is that melting from below the ocean's surface appears to be a major dynamic in the melting that was previously underestimated. I added this note to my upcoming essay as a result of snooping around:

See Eric Rignot, et al.'s "Acceleration of the contribution of the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to sea level rise", Geophysical Research Letters, volume 38, issue 5, March 16, 2011. See M. E. Weber, et al.'s "Millennial-scale variability in Antarctic ice-sheet discharge during the last deglaciation", Nature Letter, volume 510, issue 7503, June 5, 2014, pp. 134-138. See B. Wouters, et al.'s "Limits in detecting acceleration of ice sheet mass loss due to climate variability", Nature Geoscience Letter, published online July 14, 2013 for a cautionary paper on extrapolating trends. See Ian Joughin, et al.'s "Marine Ice Sheet Collapse Potentially Under Way for the Thwaites Glacier Basin, West Antarctica", Science, May 16, 2014, volume 344, number 6185, pp. 735-738. See M. Morlighem, et al.'s "Deeply incised submarine glacial valleys beneath the Greenland ice sheet", Nature Geoscience Letter, volume 41, issue 7, pp. 418-422. See J. Mouginot, et al.'s "Sustained increase in ice discharge from the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West Antarctica, from 1973 to 2013", Geophysical Research Letters, volume 41, issue 5, pp. 1576–1584, March 16, 2014.

Another controversy is the extinction of the Taino.

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

I have found the issue to be like the revival of American Indian tribes that were considered extinct. In the USA, the tribal revivals are literally being promoted by organized crime as a way to get a casino in operation, as corporate America drove the mob out of Las Vegas. I am not saying that I do not have great sympathy for what the Native Americans experienced at the hands of Europe:

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

but the tribal revivals are often the equivalent of finding an Indian in a gutter and putting him in a headdress so that the "tribe" can be revived so that the mob can put another casino into operation. The USA also likes the casino idea, as the tribes that do it essentially abdicate their sovereignty in the deal. The tribes then fight over the casino revenues. Some tribes have also been used by the Black Ops people, and I unfortunately have some personal experience with that phenomenon.

Even in 2014, the Pine Ridge reservation, where the Sioux live, which was the last Indian tribe to be subdued by the USA and went down fighting, is the poorest place in the USA, with a life expectancy thirty years shorter than the USA's general population. I do not know of anyplace else on Earth with that kind of disparity. The USA inflicted some stiff vengeance on those resisting Indians, which included imperial affronts such as Mount Rushmore carved into their sacred lands.

The so-called Taino revival is not about some intact surviving remnant of the original Taino, but more like some ethnic pride movement that seeks recognition and government funding, similar to tribal revivals in the USA. I have read the work of academics in the field, and in the first few sentences, they can betray their bias by misrepresenting early encounters between the Spaniards and the natives, and one example should suffice. During his first voyage, Columbus never received a hostile reception, with either the natives fleeing or giving the Spaniards a warm welcome, as they feverishly sought gold and captured the first natives they met:

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

The natives were naked and harmless, and when Columbus showed off his sword on the first day, the natives grabbed the sword by the blade and cut themselves, as they were so unacquainted with weaponry. Columbus demonstrated European firearms to the natives who helped and hosted him and his men, in order to scare them into submission. On the way back to Spain, the Spaniards made an example of some natives. They had the bow-and-arrow, as was common through the Caribbean, and Columbus had his men buy those weapons from the natives, and after selling some for trinkets, the natives tried to sell some rope instead, which the trigger-happy Spaniards interpreted to mean that the Indians were trying to capture them, and the Spaniards then attacked the natives, inflicting almost certainly fatal wounds, and the natives fled inland.

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

One scholar who disputed the Taino extinction said that that incident demonstrated what fierce warriors the natives were. It demonstrated no such thing, and the scholar cited another example of the natives' military prowess, and just as convincingly. The entire Taino extinction/revival issue is heavily politicized. The natives of the Bahamas, where Columbus first made landfall, were quickly driven to extinction, and the only "debate" about the Taino extinction of Española is whether some survived in the mountains. Maybe some did, but it was only a few. The Taino were almost, if not completely, eradicated on the island where Europe first "settled" in the New World. I do not find the Taino survival claims, particularly on Española, to be very convincing, and the entire issue of reviving a people and culture that was eradicated is not helpful for healing the planet, IMO. The entire issue of ethnic pride and in-group cohesion is one of the greatest vectors of humanity and Earth's destruction.

I revised part of my "visions" part of my upcoming essay to read:


12. Numbers and measurement will still exist, but egocentric economics that focuses on money and self-interest to the exclusion of all else will disappear, as will anthropocentric economics, where ecosystem health is only seen in terms of how it can support human welfare. The economic view that will supersede those frameworks is what I call life-centric or soul-centric, and it measures and values the wellbeing of all life on Earth, not just human welfare. If humanity can see its in-group as being all of life on Earth, then humanity will have truly become a sentient species.


I have received numerous "ethnic pride" reactions to my work, whether they were white Americans, Spaniards, or Indians, where they defend their group. The choir, for instance, has to get far beyond all in-group notions. With FE and abundance, geographical isolation will end. That will spell the end of ethnic, racial, language, and cultural differences. It will not happen overnight, but humanity will quickly begin moving in that direction, and those who lament the passing of those difference are little different than those who reminisced about slavery and other obsolete institutions. It is time to look forward, not backward.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another short essay knocked off:

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

Time to go hiking.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is kind of an addendum to a previous post, I am nearly an eighth American Indian by genetics, but I consider myself a white person and was raised that way. I am enough Indian to have qualified for federal aid, but my grandparents would have never admitted to Indian blood, even though it was obvious with my grandmother. That aside, for a white guy, I have studied the Indians and their encounters with Europe probably more than just about anybody who is not an Indian or Indian specialist.

As I wrote about the Taino, they were easy prey for the Spanish, but that extended to all natives of the Western Hemisphere. All people are descended from the Universal People of 60,000 years ago or so:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=795942&viewfull=1#post795942

and the biological differences are trifling, but the cultural differences were vast. Eurasian people had a 4,000 year lead in literacy on the Western Hemisphere, and the Europe that encountered the Western Hemisphere had the greatest energy technology in history to that time (the ocean-going sailing ship), and had technologies of violence that the Indians could not hope to compete with. Several years before Cortes conquered the Aztecs, Machiavelli wrote The Prince:

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

which became a kind of handbook for European statecraft. I have witnessed many fierce debates on the issue, but after many years of digesting the accounts, I have to conclude that the Europeans were so far "advanced" over the natives in the area of Machiavellian duplicity that the Europeans treated the Indians like rubes, and it nearly always worked. Indian plotting was like child's play compared to the European version, which had been honed for millennia. The Europeans were far more sophisticated, and the natives almost never figured it out before it was too late. I bring this up because I see it even today with Indian tribes in the USA today.

When I wrote about the black ops stuff on the reservations, if you subscribed to magazines such as Lies of Our Times or Covert Action Information Bulletin in the early 1990s:

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

you would have read plenty about a firm similar to Blackwater, Wackenhut (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wackenhut), running black ops out of Indian reservations in the desert of Southern California, and I had personal encounters with such operations, I am sorry to say. My informed speculation about that issue is that it is likely related to the quasi-sovereign status of the reservations. If you study work such as John Perkins's:

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

you know that covert action has largely been privatized. Every time Dennis was taken out, it was by government officials and agents provocateurs acting on behalf of private interests. Godzilla is a private entity, not governmental. Government personnel are just goons that Godzilla uses when convenient, and that includes the sitting American president.

So, I suspect that running some of those evil operations out of reservation land is a way to use the sovereign status as a shield from public scrutiny, and a legal loophole that can be used to provide cover for those operations, as plausible deniability and non-accountability are key goals of covert action. Again, that is speculation on my part, but the puzzle pieces that I have seen align pretty well with a scenario like that. Of course, the Indians end up getting screwed again in such operations.

During my days with Dennis, when Godzilla's psychopaths were sicced on us, I watched how easily they manipulated people, and I think I was seeing the 20th century version of what the Spanish did to the Indians. Their ships, violent ways, and unmatched treachery saw them easily conquer native civilizations. The greatest danger to Spaniards was other Spaniards, not Indians. Again, I have seen an Aztec specialist, for instance, try to read between the lines of the Spanish conquest and attribute Cortes's success to luck, as he somehow outmaneuvered the Indians. Hell, he outmaneuvered the Cuban governor who sent him there. That kind of analysis only works in blinkered isolation from how the Spanish conquered all Indian civilizations. They were far more accomplished in fraudulent negotiations and other tricks, and it certainly did not stop with the Spanish.

Poisoning the wine at a peace conference was an early instance of the English bag of tricks:

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

and George Washington crafted the strategy of defrauding the Indians with phony treaties, and it worked brilliantly:

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

The Europeans and their descendants kept playing the Indians like rubes to the very end, and even until today. Oh boy, is Europe's karma ever dark and heavy.

Best,

Wade

P.S. Pic from today's hike. The next pics should be of meadows. :)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, this essay is no longer so important:

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

because of this Avalon thread, but I just revised it. My list of essays to revise is getting pretty small now. I had been planning on the updates for several years, and this was a good time to bring the rest of my site into alignment with my upcoming essay. Many of the links in the revisions point to the unpublished essay, so they will not work for now, but will when the essay is published.

Time to go hiking.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Attached are from yesterday's hike here:

http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/hikes/grand-park

The old man can still do ten-milers. My plan is to be able to do ten-milers into my 80s. One of my hiking buds was able to do that, because he took good care of himself. That has been my goal since my 20s, and we will see how it goes, but so far, so good. I have been living in Seattle since 1997, and I have to say that I have had my fair share of hiking for this lifetime. When I was in LA, chasing Dennis around the USA, and living in Ohio, I wondered if I would ever get my chance, and I am pleased to say that I got it. I have no plans to ever leave the Seattle area, so another thirty years of weekly hiking suits me just fine. :)

That is my sixth trip to Grand Park, and that was my earliest trip, and that carpet of yellow flowers reminded me of the Wizard of Oz. In a couple of weeks, it will be a carpet of purple and pink, as the lupin and Indian paintbrush will be in bloom. I hope to take my wife there then. She has never been there. Somebody has to do it! :)

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Snowflower]

One word in one of your posts popped out at me in neon lights: vegetarian. Couple that with the dementia of your mother and grandmother and I simply had to write. Please, please, please - buy the book, "Grain Brain," by David Perlmutter, and read it. I agree about preferring death to loss of self. By definition, a vegetarian diet must necessarily be high in carbohydrates and low in fat. This is a perfect setup for Alzheimer's, along with eating glyphosates from hidden sources (wheat, cane sugar) in addition to the known pollutants of GMO foods.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Sunflower:

I may put it on my list, but grain is nowhere near what the ideal human diet should be based on, and is a small part of my diet today. Unfortunately, when people think vegetarian, they think in terms of today's vegetarian diet under today's food supply practices. The paleo people do that, and I have tangled with them, unfortunately:

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

Under an FE-based economy, humanity's diet would look almost nothing like today's. My diet actually has too much fat in it, and my battles with my weight for the past fifteen years have demonstrated. :)

It looks like he is a paleo advocate, and if he advocates 75% fat, as this article states:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/12/this-is-your-brain-on-gluten/282550/

that seems pretty wacky to me.

I will agree that increased meat-eating is part of the rise of humanity, but that was far from ideal. This vision will likely always sustain me:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748

I have watched the nutrition wars for many years now, and everybody has a theory about Alzheimer's, but I think it is just another organ failure, brought on by our "civilized" methods, and my mother and her mother never really exercised that organ much, and I am sure it had plenty to do with their dementia.

All that aside, I will put work like his in my stack, but I am very leery of the paleo people.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Rolling along, and another essay revised:

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

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

What I have been getting for a lot of my time at Avalon, and I have been getting a lot of while I have been writing this essay, is people trying to find the shortcut, trying to find the group that is already doing what I am, so that I can either ally with them or what I am doing can kind of be grafted onto what they are doing, and we can all have The Muppet Movie ending in a few weeks or months. That is the path of laziness, and it will not work.

There is nobody on Earth attempting what I am, and those who keep thinking that there is, or that I can just ally with some group out there, reflects people's inability to really understand what I am doing, and I am referring to allies, not Joe Average. There is nothing else like what I am attempting and never has been, and there is no group that is doing anything close to what I am trying. Dennis and Brian would recognize some of their work in mine, and nobody has ever promoted their work like I have, but it is radically different than their work, too. Brian's perspective came the closest, but he was a Level 10 guy to the end. And that is OK, as the people that I respected the most in the field were Level 10s, and I played the Level 10 game for nearly twenty years. But it won't work, not for manifesting the biggest event in the human journey. Level 10 efforts seek some common denominator, and in every instance I have seen in the FE field, it was somehow appealing to people's mutual self-interest. When people come together for their mutual self-interest, it is by definition egocentric. And when egocentric mentalities encounter the biggest event in human history, they can't handle it and blow a fuse. Many if not most are overwhelmed by greed, as FE means realizing dreams beyond avarice:

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

Others begin thinking that they are the Messiah:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=825669&viewfull=1#post825669

and so on. If people get beyond outright denial of FE's possibility, even the dimmest of them quickly understand that the world will end as they know it, and all they then do is react with Level 5 fear:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5

And those are just the highlights, as I eventually put the innumerable responses to the idea of FE that I have encountered into those levels. The bottom line, as far as I have seen, is that all of those people, including those looking for the quick and easy answers, just can’t shake scarcity, and cannot really comprehend what abundance means. That is OK, as almost nobody on Earth can today, but I am seeking the extremely few who can. I am not going to be inviting anybody into the choir who has not done the work and begun to understand what energy abundance means, and begun to sing it. They will be Level 12s or close to it. There is no Level 12 group on Earth, and the Level 12 choir will be built one person at a time. And the choir's first members will be the most important, and they will need to hit those notes, to help induce that tone in others.

Again, the conversation will be much higher than has been seen at Avalon or anyplace else that I have seen. It has to be that way, or it will not work. I am into what works or has a chance of working, not the same paths of failure that have been trod literally thousands of times by FE aspirants. Whenever I see somebody who is kind of hip talking about FE, I have yet to see any of them get beyond the arrested development that is in the FE field today, where they either discuss the Keshes, Rossis, and Steorns, as if any of them have a prayer, and they have rarely seemed to have heard of organized suppression. And this is the stuff that comes from people around me who think that I can ally with such people. Sigh. I have heard rumors of such people who "get it," and we will see how they react to my essay.

There is a concept called "pristine" that is used to describe the first civilizations or the advent of capitalism, for instance. What it means is that it appeared without any outside influences. There were likely only four pristine civilizations in world history: in Mesopotamia, China, Mesoamerica, and Peru. All other civilizations were influenced by them. The Industrial Revolution and capitalism only appeared in one place: Great Britain in the 1700s, and tapping coal energy propelled it. It was the pristine instance, and it influenced all other industrialization and the political-economic ideologies that accompanied it.

What I am trying to do could be seen attempting to mount a pristine effort. Nobody ever got as far along as Dennis did in the alternative energy field, and his attempts were pristine in that sense.

While my approach was taken by learning from my own harsh experiences and of those around me, I am really trying to build something from the ground-up, and nobody has tried it before, not like I am. It will not be easy, but I know of nothing more worthwhile on the planet to pursue, or anything more likely to forestall the catastrophe that humanity is blithely heading toward.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This revision has been on my list for a year: my tribute to my friend Ralph Hovnanian:

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

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I was writing my essay and posting up chapter drafts, I mentioned that writing the essay was a learning process for me, too. I was expecting to achieve new insights during the process of writing the essay, and that happened. As I think of that process and what I learned or came to think about differently, two things really stick out. The first is the truly epochal nature of the energy events that propelled the human journey. Those events so radically transformed the human journey that what came afterward was virtually unrecognizable to those who lived immediately before the event:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=827022&viewfull=1#post827022

That really sank in as I wrote the essay, and that helped lead to the second realization. I had already been thinking in that direction for many years, beginning with the brilliance of Dennis's marketing plans, where he put the equipment on people's homes for free:

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

and I was influenced by Tesla's idea of FE, where people could just tap the energy from their homes, for free. But the almost unimaginable changes that FE will give rise to, and how it can also halt the Sixth Mass Extinction in its tracks and even heal the biosphere, really drives home the gravity of the situation and the realization that nobody should be in position to deny it to humanity, and also what kind of walking the razor's edge will be needed to get to the goal. Today's world really does not support an effort that I am about to mount, but there is a window of opportunity that I am trying to slip into.

Also, I realized more than ever that any effort that is not trying to make it to give it away, which will mean that the Fifth Epochal Event will definitely manifest, is doomed to failure, not only because Godzilla finds such self-interested efforts so easy to derail, but any self-serving orientation will not be aligned with the intended outcome. Manifesting the Fifth Epochal Event will be the greatest collective act of love and sentience that humanity has ever experienced, and worlds like this can begin to come into view:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748

The effort needs to be aligned with the change that it intends, and I know that none of it will be easy. Who wants to discard everything they think they "know," and spend a great deal of time studying, reflecting, and looking deep within themselves, and nobody is paying them to do it? Not many are willing to even try, but those needles in haystacks will be the people who will help manifest the Fifth Epochal Event. There is no way that this can be some kind of halfway attempt, where it tries to drag the baggage of scarcity with it, where it tries to shake loose "philanthropic" money from the billionaires, pander to people's egos, and the like. This will be nothing like the New Age or conspiracist flavor of the day, and how radically different it will need to be became clearer as I completed the process of drafting my essay. In short, writing the essay only strengthened my convictions on how to go about it, and what it can mean to the human journey and Earth.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am between chores. What will be the case when I publish my essay is that there will be many critics in cyberspace, But I have never received an honest, intelligent, and informed critique of my work that was trying to invalidate its thesis:

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

It is a standard newcomer tactic to surf the Internet and look for reactions to work like mine, and I expect people to do that. However, I also expect them to do their homework, which will mean following my sources, the documentation that I provide, and the like. Nobody whom I am going to have any interest in for inviting to the choir is going to be letting me know about all the things written about Dennis, Brian, and me in cyberspace. I know what is out there, but I also lost interest in it long ago, when I could not find any honest, intelligent, and informed critics. They usually repeat each other's lies and seem to think that if they can lie in chorus, that it somehow transforms into the truth. And some of the biggest liars are the government and media, but that is their "job":

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

I looked for years to find credible critics of Chomsky and Herman's work, for instance, and never really found any. Actually, I would probably be one of the best critics of the "left," as far as their materialism and conspiracy-phobia is concerned, and I have written about it:

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

but, really, it is not worth spending much time on. I tried to reach them for more than twenty years on the FE issue, and nobody is home. I eventually just accepted it, and it was one of the kinds of reactions that let me know that I would be on my own, building an abundance choir.

Chomsky and Herman's work can stand on its own, but also seeing how their critics always resorted to lies, name-calling, and other rhetorical devices only showed me that I was right to be impressed with their work. However, I never contacted Uncle Noam and Uncle Ed and tell them about the criticisms of them, and watch them try to defend themselves. That would have been childish on my part, and lazy to boot. I took on their critics a few times, before I learned that there was not much to be gained by that approach. I am more interested in pursuing the truth than I am in exposing lies, and that will likely extend to lies about Dennis, Brian, or me. There are many psychopathic liars in the world, and those who cannot really string together two rational thoughts as they pen their critiques. Engaging them is not worth my time.

But even when the "smart" and educated join the fray when attacking work like mine, or Brian's, or Dennis's, I have always found them to be defending their assumptions, which my life's experiences, and those of my fellow travelers, invalidated. They really did not deal in fact and logic, but instead defended their faith (a scarcity-based faith), and it really is not productive for me to engage them, either. When I was younger, I used to, but I finally discovered what a waste of time it was. Those people did not seek the truth, but sought to protect their worldview, which they used to get fed. The choir will raise its voice to notes far above stuff like that, and those with ears to hear will listen, and the cacophony of critics will just have to caw away. It will not disturb those who have what I am looking for, and while they may look on and maybe even engage the critics once in a while, they won't do so for long, before they learn their lesson. I have trained some of my pupils in the past, where I told them where to go to engage a critic, and it was a learning experience for them, as they encountered lying, obfuscation, and the like. But they are early-stage lessons to learn, and pre-choir activities.

I am not going to spend my time with those who don’t get it and won't until FE is delivered to their homes, but those who do.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As readers of this thread know well, I have encountered thousands of reactions to the idea of FE over the decades that I have been involved with trying to make it happen. Denial is by far the most common response, as in denial that FE is even possible. If people get past that denial, the next two most common responses are that they sure would like to have an FE device delivered to their homes, or they make all sorts of arguments for why FE is not desirable. For those who want an FE device delivered to their home, my response is that I would like one too, and if they want to wait, maybe one day they will get one, but while that attitude is better than denial or fear, it is also not helpful at this stage of the game.

For those who deny why FE is desirable, the standard reactions are that we would either weaponize it and blow up the planet or use it to strip-mine the planet. As far as I have seen, both reactions are fear reactions rooted in scarcity-based thinking, and neither even seems very realistic, but are simply projections of fear. In a world of scarcity, those fears have some basis in reality, but in a world of abundance, those fears make no sense. However, I have never been able to engage such people in rational conversation about their fears, which I suppose is common with all fears, as fear shuts the neocortex down.

I honor some fears, but they are basically around the transition. All wars for all time have been over resources, and FE makes all resources abundant, so thinking that we would just have wars with FE is irrational. Again, I advocate a peacekeeping force of grandmothers to take the toys away from the boys who cannot play nicely, and I believe that the technology already exists to detect and disable weaponization of FE. Those grandmothers would not be needed for that long, however, as the utter stupidity of weaponizing FE will become evident to even the dimmest among us, if everybody lived in abundance.

The other fear, of strip-mining the planet, is equally irrational and begs the question. Mining waste is due to energy scarcity, as all elements are useful, but better than that, all elements that humanity mines today are in abundance in the asteroid and Kuiper belts, not to mention the other planets, and I know that antigravity technology also exists and is suppressed:

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

and mining the asteroids and Kuiper belts would be child's play. The mentality that would quickly seat in human awareness, IMO, is that ravaging Earth's surface for raw materials, and exploiting Earth's ecosystems, will be seen as primitive and will be banned. Earth's government will strictly be involved with ensuring safety, harmlessness, maintaining what little solar system infrastructure might be needed, and ensuring that everybody lived in abundance. With FE and the technologies that I am aware of that already exist and are sequestered, making all that happen would be easy.

At about this stage, most people blow a fuse, as they are overwhelmed by the implications, and they react by conjuring all manner of fearful scenario. Again, it took many years for me to finally understand what I was seeing, what Brian was encountering, etc. Almost all people are addicted to scarcity and fear, as strange as that may seem. So, a big part of FE happening is rehabilitating people's minds and spirits. Humanity is not quite a sentient species yet, but these people are:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748

In the end, what is in our hearts determines what kind of world we will live in, but there are feedback effects with our material reality, and for all the evils that the USA has inflicted on the world, we have been able to see changes and potential that did not exist before. I have been in high tech since the 1990s, and I am planning to use this new technology, the Internet, to build that choir. The idea of open-sourcing came from the Internet culture, and even a high-tech potentate like Bill Gates lives very unassumingly:

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

and that is due to the baby boomers that grew up in the post-war boom, which was based on the cheap energy that the USA enjoyed. So, I can see a window of opportunity that I am planning to take. Heck, I am doing it already. Just this thread at Avalon, and its audience, was unimaginable twenty years ago, and when I think of what information people can have access to today, compared to when Dennis and I first had our FE dreams:

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

nobody on Earth with Internet access can really plead ignorance about FE and its potential. But those in denial of FE or live in fear of it are not my target audience. For every epochal event, the protohumans/people would have feared what the next epochal phase looked like, at least until they could live in it, and it will be the same with FE. That is why Level 10 efforts have all failed and will never work for FE. FE is an epochal change, not a flavor of the day that gets bantered about in cyberspace. That is one reason why whenever I appeared in any other forum besides Avalon, I was attacked, the trolls would swarm, and the like. They were trying to prevent the end of the world as they knew it. There was a Next Generation episode that showed a civilization that was not ready for the next step:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Contact_%28Star_Trek:_The_Next_Generation%29

Most viewers, I think, would have seen that guy who tried to prevent contact as some backwards rube, but he also represents about 99.9% of today's global population and its thinking about FE. If we had a few centuries for people to begin to warm up to the idea, I could see the patience that Picard displayed being appropriate, but we are also causing the Sixth Mass Extinction that might take us with it, due to our energy practices and addiction to scarcity. All of the catastrophes that loom are based on scarcity and our energy practices:

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

So, the advent of FE is not just about having some kind of Star Trek future, but the survival of the ecosphere and humanity. Again, I do not plan to engage those in denial and fear. They will only begin to wake up when FE is delivered into their lives, like Machiavelli said:

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

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another one down:

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

The list of essays/pages to change is getting pretty short. I'll likely tackle the site timeline next.

One pal asked me this morning about how my vision will prevent humanity from becoming just a bunch of hedonistic pleasure seekers, who all get fat and watch TV all day long. I'll likely update my essay to more completely reflect that concern, but what we see fat-assed Americans doing today is not what they would do in a world of abundance, where their so-called pleasures are part of being a dumbed-down populace that gets doped up so that they can go the work the next day at their worthless job that they hate. When it will take less than an hour of work per day per person to give all humans a standard of living that makes Bill Gates look like a pauper, new horizons of the human experience beckon. Fuller wrote about it, and I will need to update that section to reflect it:

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

hmmm, maybe I will update that essay next…

What Fuller said was that when abundance reigns, humans will pursue self-realization, not survival. That is a big subject, and I will address it more fully in my writings soon. As I recall, I discussed it in an interview or two with Scott, but I will make it a more explicit part of my site.

I just went looking for it, it is near the end of this section of the first interview that I did with Scott and Tom:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYth4J7YqDo

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, I revised that essay:

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

When I first published it, a history forum got ahold of it, and some academics got on my case, trying to invalidate it. I had not read the essay for several years, and have only looked at that page for the Fuller section:

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

I was expecting to cringe as I revised it, but I was very pleasantly surprised at how well it held up, and how well I grasped some of that stuff more than eleven years ago, and here is a little anecdote on the vagaries of memory. Some areas where I thought I learned new stuff while studying for the upcoming essay, I saw that I understood when I first wrote that essay in 2003. I am not sure if that was a good thing or bad thing. :) And as I thought about forgetting when I learned what I have, I recalled reading more than forty years ago, when I still read Ripley's Believe It or Not as a teenager, that Carl Linnaeus avidly read his own work as an old man, but did not know that he was the author. I just confirmed that piece of trivia floating around in my mind for the past 40 years:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Linnaeus#Last_years

and I hope that I do not repeat his fate. :)

I added that little tidbit about Fuller and the next level of the human journey:

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

which I will expand on in my upcoming essay. How seemingly small questions lead to a day of work. But, I am getting real close to the finish line.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I revised that essay:

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

some dates changed, but because the scientific consensus changed. The dating issue can dramatically change hypotheses, as it can change hypothesized causal relationships. If A happened before B, then B did not cause A. The other changes were mostly where I originally wrote it broader due to uncertainty, and made it more specific. You call tell that many links go back to the as-of-yet unpublished essay, but they will all work when the essay is published. I am pretty happy that the site will get integrated around the upcoming essay.

While some dates will move (I moved back the appearance of flowers from 135 mya to 160 mya), none of them changed any causal relationships. For instance, the evolutionary split for the human line is that orangutans split first, gorillas second, and chimps last. But there are debates on the dates of the splits and various lines of evidence are cited and pursued, where they can overlap. But I highly doubt that dates will ever be adduced that change that descent relationship. If it does, the dates will likely be wrong, not the descent relationship. There is just far too much evidence that supports those splits, which were largely derived before DNA analysis was possible, and the DNA analysis just confirmed it. No scientist is going to say that humans descended from gorillas and bypassed the chimp line, or that humans came from orangutans. So, some relationships of the evidence are so solid that I do not see them changing, while others can wobble.

That highlights the kind of uncertainty in science. Nothing in science is ever certain, but various levels of confidence exist. Paradigms can shift, and radically, and they have. Just in my lifetime, dinosaurs went from slow, stupid, cold-blooded beasts to fast and often smart animals that were far advanced over the mammals of the day and actively regulated their temperatures. The bolide hypothesis of the early 1980s was a kind of bolide event in paleobiology, with the heated debates still simmering. Dinosaurs went out with a bang, not a whimper, and birds are dinosaurs, the closest cousins to T-Rex that we have. So, radical shifts have already happened, and more are certainly coming. That is the nature of science. Studying ancient animals does not threaten any economic empires, so no dinosaur digs have been classified. Energy – now that is a horse of a different color, and that paradigm will shift radically with FE.

The beginning of my "visionary" chapter currently reads:

"Many different technologies have been developed that attempted to harness the zero-point field, and devices made from rotating magnets seem to be the most common prototypes (the effect begins to appear at about 2,000 RPMs in properly constructed devices), but a solid-state device similar to what Sparky Sweet developed would be the likely “winner” in any FE device contest. Sparky's explanation of how his device operated included concepts such as reversing the space-time continuum and other fantastic ideas that nobody has an easy time comprehending. Sparky's paper could be seen as merely pretty theorizing, but his device worked. I will never forget the awe in my close associate's voice as he described ice forming on Sparky's device as it began churning out electricity, with the wiring defying conventional notions of electricity. A radically different physics than is taught to mainstream scientists in the early 21st century explains why Sparky's device worked. Sparky's device also produced antigravity effects, and the electrogravity technologies for which the research went black in the 1950s needed vast amounts of energy to operate. Those technologies have been developed far past what Sparky created in his home. FE and antigravity are interrelated in more ways than one, and the vision presented in this chapter will assume that those technologies are universally used by humanity."


The minds of scientists are going to be completely blown by FE, and that is part of the problem today. It is similar to that advice that the Brookings Institute gave to NASA long ago:

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

That is all part of the conundrum.

Back to chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I have stated before, reactions to my essay drafts have been interesting, with scientists being the most impressed, and the scientifically illiterate being less so. One pal stopped reading because I extensively deal with evolution, and the friend did not "believe" in evolution. In all of science, there is probably not a more battle-tested theory than evolution. In more than 150 years, scientists have not found even one exception to Darwin's idea of descent with modification. For more than a century, it was just the fossil record that they were testing, and they never found an exception. When radioactive dating and DNA testing were invented and used, they only proved Darwin right again, and in ways that he could not have suspected. During the study for writing that essay, I regularly found scientists exclaiming "Darwin was right again!", as some new finding, often from a new tool or technique, aligned with Darwin's theory.

I have read attacks on Darwin and evolution, but none of them invalidated evolution that I ever saw. But my scientifically illiterate friends often do not "believe" in evolution. They cannot explain the basics of evolution, but they reject it. The choir cannot be comprised of people like that.

Now, I know that the materialistic theories around evolution are false, where consciousness is attributed to some byproduct of chemical reactions in the brain, but that does not invalidate Darwin. That is where scientists miss the boat, and badly, and best of them leave that issue open, and the very best of them know that today's science is not even capable of addressing the issue:

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

And when we deal with the quantum paradox, where light can be a particle or wave, depending on how we look at it, big-name scientists thought that consciousness was required for physical reality to manifest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann#Mathematical_formulation_of_quantum_mechanics

Performing remote viewings ruined far more scientific careers than Brian's:

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

When the materialistic theories of consciousness are falsified in that dramatic fashion, scientists no longer drink the Kool-Aid of materialism, and that can mean the end of their careers. The choir will need to understand at least the rudiments of those issues. Fringe theories will also be addressed. However, the orthodox position needs to be understood before somebody embraces the fringe theory, otherwise, they are doing it on faith. My work is short on faith and long on experience and knowledge. What science is good at, and what it is currently not good at, needs to be understood. Yes, technologies exist that make the science texts look like cave drawings:

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

and as I noted yesterday, Sparky Sweet's paper on his technology brings in multiple dimensions, a reversed space-time continuum, and other "way out" ideas:

http://www.rexresearch.com/sweet/1nothing.htm

but his gizmo worked:

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

If you play at the leading edge of the FE field, eventually you learn that the canon of mainstream science has been censored, to protect political-economic empires. Most mainstream scientists cannot handle the fact that they are being fed only what certain interests want them to digest, but if they begin poking into FE, UFOs, and the like, they will discover differently, if they survive the experience. Scientists are humans, and they play the faith game, are conditioned by scarcity and fear, are herd animals, and the like. But that does not mean that within its framework, science is not useful. Once science is liberated from its false assumptions and scientists are introduced to information that has been carefully hidden from them, then they can begin playing the big game. Until then, they are playing a small game, and the best of them know it.

But the choir will understand the game as it is currently being played, understand the rules, and understand the limitations. In that way, they have a better chance of avoiding the many pitfalls and rabbit holes that await the unwary and gullible, and the fringes are filled with chaff, to the point where the grains of wheat are exceedingly difficult to locate. It takes a lot of work to get there, but my essay is intended to make it an easier process, and it is also intended to get people focusing on what is important, so that they are not distracted by the circus, both in the mainstream and on the fringes.

Everything is an energy game above all else, and it has always been that way. The world is quickly running out of the fossil fuels that powered the Industrial Revolution, and the so-called solutions promoted by environmentalists, Peak Oilers, and the like, are too little, too late, and based on a dreary austerity. If you study their work and proposed "solutions," it is enough to make you want to drink, and they attacked and dismissed people like Brian, with his message of FE and planetary healing. It got so bad that Brian wondered if humans were a sentient species:

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

My effort is intended to prove that we are, at least some of us. :)

I eventually realized that we were seeing an addiction to scarcity, or perhaps more accurately, people's addictions to the frameworks that fed them in a world of scarcity:

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

Coming to a productive understanding of all of that is not easy, and has taken me most of a lifetime to get there, and my essay is intended to shorten the learning curve. If everybody had to learn the hard way, like Dennis, Brian, and I did, humanity is not going to turn the corner, but will meet its demise in a manmade global catastrophe, and right now, the smart money is putting it on some kind of World War III scenario, fighting over dwindling resources, oil in particular, which may "win by a neck" over some environmental meltdown. Humanity is the author of the Sixth Mass Extinction, and it may take us with it. My work is intended to forestall those related catastrophes, and is intended to bring something into being that looks a lot like heaven on Earth:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748

But I cannot do it alone, and superficial understandings of the issues will not cut it. The choir will have to go deep in order to really understand, and my essay is my intended textbook for the curriculum. I plan to publish it within a month, and we will then see how it goes.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I looked at my "visions" chapter of my essay, to reply to my pal's concerns:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=852564&viewfull=1#post852564

I saw that I did address his concern, but I fleshed out the section a little more, which now reads:

"Professions involved in exchange will all become pointless in a world of economic abundance, which include accountants, cashiers, lawyers, police, and soldiers. Entire industries, such as banking and insurance, will disappear. Politicians will largely cease to exist, especially those on today’s world stage, who are puppets of economic interests. Even seemingly worthwhile professions are largely rackets, such as Western medicine. With most people performing intrinsically worthless activities today, what will happen when such professions and industries disappear? Will everybody just lie around, watch TV, get fat, and egocentric hedonism becomes the dominant lifestyle? I doubt it. I do not have enough years in my lifetime to get my life list done. Many activities that are designed to relieve stress, cope with fear, and the like will vanish, and many less-obvious activities will also fade to oblivion. In the USA, most people work at useless jobs that they hate, and they go home, eat fattening "comfort food," imbibe alcohol and other drugs, and watch TV and engage in other mind-numbing behaviors, so that they can wake up in the morning and do it again, usually getting jolted out of their stupor by caffeine. They take stimulants in the morning and after lunch, and depressants in the evening. All of that will likely disappear in a world based on FE and abundance, where nobody performs worthless tasks that they hate, etc. Sources that I respect have described life in other star systems by more evolved beings, where time spent “working” is called “joy time,” as beings are fulfilled as they contribute to their civilizations in a meaningful way, they do it by using their particular talents, and there is no such thing as drudgery. They are soul-centric in their pursuits, not egocentric, which is again similar to Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Humans will leap an octave with the Fifth Epochal Event, just as they did for all previous epochal events, and in ways that are presently difficult to comprehend. Also, the idea of competition will likely vanish, as will the “entertainments” that enthrall so many today, such as sports, competitive games, beauty competitions, and the like. “Entertainment” with winners and losers will no longer be attractive, rooted as it is in ideas of scarcity, and celebrity culture and gossip will also be discarded. All such primitive behaviors and ideals will fade away, and they will not be missed."

I think it gets the point across.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Kind of as an addendum to my previous post, those who go deep on my essay will begin to really understand how civilizations work and how their energy practices formed the limits of their potential.

When the first stone tool was made, it enhanced the energy that could be extracted from food, but like all primates to that time, the australopiths who invented stone tools still had to sleep in trees until the next great innovation, the control of fire. Fire allowed the human line to leave the trees, and cooking led to many of the anatomical changes that led to humans. But humans could not stay in one place for long, as there were not enough food calories in an acre of wild land to support humans, so they continually moved, just like chimps and gorillas do today, but humans ranged farther and eventually blanketed the planet.

Not until plants were domesticated could people become sedentary, which led to civilization, which led to professions, writing, metallurgy, and other practices that we take for granted today. But it was all still based on muscle power, so coerced servitude institutions thrived all the way to the Industrial Revolution. Pre-industrial cities the world over all looked the same and worked the same, because of their energy limitations.

Once the energy of wind and water was harnessed by Europe on an unprecedented scale, its civilization began to change, and when machines were built on non-muscle power, the end of slavery began. When the energy of fossil fuels was tapped, the industrialized world came into being, and the changes were so radical that humans living before industrialization could not have imagined them.

But a fossil-fuel-driven civilization, like a pre-industrial civilization, was limited by its level of energy use, and all cities in industrial nations look the same and are limited by their energy practices. Also, no stage of the human journey has ever been sustainable, in harmony with nature, and abundant. If it was sustainable, it was austere. If it was seemingly abundant, it was not for long, as the energy source was exhausted. And none of them were in harmony with nature. The human journey is filled with brief "golden ages" as a new energy source was plundered, and the party soon ended, as the energy source was exhausted, whether the energy source was megafauna, forests, soils, whales, or fossil fuels. The fossil fuel party has been ending in the USA since the 1970s, when Peak Oil was reached. Peak Oil was reached globally in 2006, and the decline of industrial civilization has begun. As the ship has been slowly sinking, in the USA, the capital class has been rigging the game to get their disproportionate share of the shrinking pie, and these serial bubbles are part of that plan:

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

But all that is doing is rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

We have to raise our games far higher than they are being played today, if we are going to turn the corner. FE is the Fifth Epochal Event, and the technology to make it happen has been around longer than I have been alive, but it will make elites obsolete, and they understand that. Hence, the organized suppression. Elites will go the way of slaves, but did all the slaves die out when slavery ended? The elite fears are irrational and spiritually degenerate, and I am not asking for their permission to end the game. Nobody put them in charge, although humanity's joint abdication of their personal responsibility is what gave elites their "opportunity." With FE, the elite become obsolete, and they are reacting just like all people are. FE means the end of the world as we know it and it scares them, as they carved out their niche of hell and will not budge.

It is time for a different game.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Mac]

Hi Wade you say
" Also, the idea of competition will likely vanish, as will the “entertainments” that enthrall so many today, such as sports, competitive games, beauty competitions, and the like. “Entertainment” with winners and losers will no longer be attractive,"

Would it be better to say that competitive sport would dissipate, and not the blanket "sport"

Not every person who does sport is ego driven competitive.Some people have experienced the universal "oneness" through their pursuit of personal excellence within" sport". Running and martial arts spring to mind,but anyone say getting into martial arts with the wrong mindset never actually receive what it has the potential to deliver.
You keep saying that it is going to be hard for people to fully comprehend all that your saying.I know quite a few people who have had the same realisation you have had but different paths.The common conclusion seems to be for it to work the majority have to realise it for themselves... as the masses will not buy it (be told),and understandably so.I'm guessing because of your attention to detail you have covered this somewhere and would love to read how you think the masses could be made to go through the physical process that they need to for it to work on a mass scale.I suppose we could hope that those pulling the strings could be hit by a mass wave that tunes them right but it's not very likely.
None of this is criticism by the way as imo you are by far one of the most interesting posters on here and I'm on board with the majority of what you say.
peace
ps even if there was a magic wand waved and abundance is delivered i think you're still going to have a planet of "wanters" their dis ease would still manifest.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Tooloud Ferme:

If you know a "sport" that is not competitive, I can add "competitive," but I think that my meaning is clear. Examples such as martial arts are exactly what will disappear, as martial arts are about violence, which has always been rooted in scarcity, from chimpanzees onward. All competitive behaviors are born of scarcity, and will make no sense in a world of abundance. There will be plenty of physical activity, but it will not be about competing with others to hone our "talents." There will not be target ranges and the like, because people will not see the point, not because they will be banned.

The "masses" will not begin to understand my message until abundance is delivered into their lives. I do not seek to engage the masses, but the tiny fraction of humanity that will be able to imagine abundance before it is delivered to them. All I need to reach is 0.0001% of humanity for my idea to work. I like those odds, and the tool of the Internet to help me find them.

The idea is not that some people will not be able to find scarcity and nurture greed in a world of abundance, but they will no longer run the show like they do today. Such people will be seen as sick and in need of help, not celebrated as the epitome of human achievement.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

I see debate on what "sport" means:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport#Competition

but I doubt that I will widen how I view sport as any physical activity, but I revised it to read "such as competitive sports and games."

So thanks. :)

[Mac]

For me martial arts seem to be about movement in time and space and the primary is not violence.I've known a few experienced practitioners who were pacifists.Understand your personal concern though.Thanks for the reply 8)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

In every area of human endeavor, people try to make the best of it, or use the existing structures how they can, where they find a little light in the darkness. If a person is a server (a la Michael), I have seen them join various ministries, trying to serve, but the organizations that they belong to are all corrupt, as their primary purpose is survival. I get to hear their stories, and how they tried to do some good in a fundamentally corrupt environment.

A world of scarcity is no place for idealists. As Bucky said, all the Utopias that have been proposed have been based on shared austerity:

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

In the Utopias that the Ancient Greeks dreamed up, I think that they planned to treat their slaves well. :)

For instance, after the USA's Civil War, there were early anthropologists who interviewed former slaves, and some reminisced about their days of slavery. Those reminiscences were used by the KKK and others to say how slavery could not have been so bad, if slaves reminisced about it. In 1946, there was a Disney movie that painted a happy face on the post-slavery days that were also pretty grim:

http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/01/song_of_the_south_disney_s_most_notorious_film_by_jason_sperb_reviewed.html

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

Fortunately, that movie does not get seen much anymore. People always try to make the best of things. I clearly recall, as I had been sentenced to life in LA, when I did everything I could to avoid it:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=319133&viewfull=1#post319133

that I made the best of it in my mind as I was about to descend into it, but those were easily the unhappiest years of my life, as I lived in hell. I have written about the anecdote about the Jewish Holocaust that has stayed with me the longest, and how people adapt to their situations:

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

and they could reminisce about earlier days in the camp, when life was "better." So, in all niches of hell, people can somehow find the ray of light, but that does not make hell a nice place to live. Because scarcity is all that people have ever known, even in history's richest society, they defend their little niches of hell, and find solace and even meaning in the darkest corners, whether it is their profession, recreation, city, nation, religion, etc. But abundance means the end of all of that, and that is what almost nobody will begin to comprehend until they can experience it. And that is OK, but I am looking for people who can begin to.

The Fifth Epochal Event will dwarf the four that came before it. The end of scarcity, the end of elites, the end of working for a living, and so on. It is a paradigm shift that changes everything. Again, the world as we know it will end, and if people look back much at today, it will not be much different than those former slaves looking back, or that man who recalled his shame of Bergen Belsen. We will be glad that these days are behind us and be amazed at how we adapted to them, thinking that we were happy and healthy. We do not even know what it means, and will not appreciate our lack of understanding until we look backward at today's world from an epoch of abundance. It was like that for all of the previous epochal events, but it will be far more dramatic for the greatest one of all.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Reading the last posts on this thread I recalled a couple of quotes from books and movies where worker unions would try to ban technology because it would create unemployment.

I think that is a clear example of someone defending their niche in hell. Slavery ended not because of some great liberation revolution, but because it no longer made sense from an economic point of view. That happened first (it become economically obsolete) and then "the owners" grew a conscience and realized: "Hey... we may be treating these slaves a bit to badly... especially now when we don't need them as much".

Here is a quote from "I, Robot" (2004):


Detective Del Spooner: [to the head of USR] Um, look, this isn't what I do, but I've got an idea for one of your commercials. You see... a carpenter, making a beautiful chair. And then one of your robots comes in and makes a better chair twice as fast. And then you superimpose on the screen, "USR: ****tin' on the Little Guy". That would be the fade-out.

There is always the argument that better technology will be the downfall of man. And these arguments are not usually made from people living in caves, sculpting their wisdom in stone, but rather online, from the comfort and security of ones home. Looking at our history it is true that we have used technology to trash the planet and enslave parts of humanity (and other beings) but it is also true that the life style has improved dramatically (at least for those at the receiving end of the energy surplus). Going backwards is not the solution. We need to push forward, but now with higher awareness and a higher understanding of how our energy practices will make or break this civilization.

In a F.E. world is likely that martial arts and sports will be replaced with dancing: a celebration of the human body and it's movements through time and space. Everybody will be healthy and fit due to the life style standards: good food, fresh water, clean air and true medicine. So dancing will likely be "keeper" in that world. Or some "body moving art form" that we cannot even imagine today :).

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

Yes indeed, dancing and other non-competitive athletics will survive, and yes, we can have a hard time imagining ones that do not involved competition and winners and losers, and new ones obviously await that we have not yet imagined.

On the slavery issue, just in recent weeks I read of a plan to replace workers with robots in high tech factories in China, as a response to all of that "bad press" and cost of workers committing suicide, striking, and the like, and observers have lamented the unemployment. I understand the capitalist reason for it, but people will be better off in the long-run. While lamenting the capitalist reason for it, people may be able to recognize that eliminating human drudgery could be a far more powerful motivation rather than profit, especially in a world based on FE. Making humans do monkey work is not a salubrious practice, even if it keeps them employed. The same argument could have been trotted out for slavery.

Bucky Fuller helped invent a brick that was superior to normal bricks and was lightweight, which would eliminate a lot of the drudgery from construction, but the labor unions shot it down, and Fuller nearly killed himself in the aftermath:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller#Depression_and_epiphany

Do I ever know that kind of feeling:

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

Fuller then had his first divine intervention, which was similar to my first one:

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

Dennis's:

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

and others of fellow travelers. Soon after I joined Avalon, a seeker asked me how I was able to "summon" that voice, and my reply was "pure desperation." For my fellow travelers and others I have known, it was usually at a desperate moment when that voice came through. I cannot recommend that way to discover that voice. :) However, it often comes through only when people are desperate, as that seems to be one of the "rules of the game" on Earth.

Best,

Wade

[Mac]

Hi Ilie 8) you typed "I recalled a couple of quotes from books and movies where worker unions would try to ban technology because it would create unemployment.

I think that is a clear example of someone defending their niche in hell. Slavery ended not because of some great liberation revolution, but because it no longer made sense from an economic point of view. That happened first (it become economically obsolete) and then "the owners" grew a conscience and realized: "Hey... we may be treating these slaves a bit to badly... especially now when we don't need them as much"...
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So wait until they are done with us then we will be liberated, what i suggest is you can liberate yourself now.You don't need to wait on any external to change we have the power to liberate ourselves now.
What Wade suggests is that FE is the answer that will liberate us and of course he is right it would liberate us in wonderfull ways.
What i suggest is that we need to understand true liberation first,which is a physical process the human body goes through, if we are to have the ideal society Wade is talking about.
We both are probably right 8) only time will tell.The world and its societies are constantly evolving and you can see the old crumbling making final stands and the majority don't buy it anymore. All the vile sickness in the world is in plain sight for all to see and not able to be spun to be made palatable.We are starting to exercise the demons so lots of room for hope if we stay on track.
Re the martial arts I'm no expert and once saw it as you until it was spelled out to me.It's about chi and energy as much as it is about movement, time and space.You will not generate chi if your mind body and soul are not in the right place.You indulge petty ego or disrespect it..it won't flow.Alot of these masters have risen their kundalini and are in touch with their higher self,though some call it their ancestors,masters etc.
Wade has put a few links up that i would love to expand on but won't in this thread as that's me done.Don't want to clutter it as a lot of this is besides the point,and not where Wade wants the thread to go i would guess.
Probably will take it to a relevant thread tomorrow and generalise it when less tired and more quiet time my end.Regards

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Thanks Tooloud Ferme. Yes, a martial arts and energy conversation is probably best done on another thread, but I will only say that with all energy issues, and all life issues, intention is everything. The concept of karma is that all energy moves in a circle, if you will, in that what you put out there comes back, which is how our souls learn. On the astral plane, it happens "instantly," like that Lennon song. On the physical plane, sowing and reaping take place across lifetimes.

With FE, it is kind of the same thing. There is a vast pool of energy that can be tapped, and nobody except Godzilla gets any for right now. What a bizarre paradox, in that the most power-hungry people on the planet control humanity's access to it. Readers of this thread have seen it in a chapter draft of my upcoming essay, but I will repeat it here:


"Many years ago, after surviving my FE adventures, beginning to understand the milieu, and trading notes with fellow travelers, I began to suspect that what I had experienced on the mundane level of discovering that personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity was only a hint of something far more vast, even putting aside my numerous paranormal experiences. I got the sense that the zero-point field was divine in nature, and that if an intelligent species did not approach the issue with sufficient divine intention, then they could not access the field or access it for long. The GCs might be doing humanity a favor by acting as some kind of integrity threshold that humanity must clear before the path to FE will open. Ten like Dennis or a hundred like Brian combining their efforts and humanity would have had FE by now, but there are probably not that many like them on Earth. I began to suspect that the problem was really a lack of integrity and enlightenment, in ways that go far beyond practical notions of those issues. I have consequently been trying to walk and advocate the enlightenment route. Mine is more from an activist/academic perspective, not a messianic or mystical master approach, or the hero’s journey. But the masters’ teachings, at least those that the priesthoods have not distorted, I believe can be highly relevant. Some kind of spiritual grounding is probably necessary to pursue FE, but I would not advocate receiving it through organized religions. If love is understood as the best of all possible feelings, and acts from the heart are recognized as the most powerful that we can achieve, that is probably sufficient spiritual understanding, and achieving some mystical experiences may be critical for awakening the aspirant. Anything less than a divinely intended approach toward FE may not work, for reasons that go far beyond organized suppression or the public’s inertia. That is just an impression that slowly dawned on me, which I cannot prove to anybody, but it guides my thinking and efforts. Also, sources that I respect have stated that the means become the ends, which is consistent with what I learned during my adventures and guided me from the beginning."


The test to see if humanity is ready for FE may be if an effort can overcome the obstacles. Only an effort with impeccable integrity is going to have a chance. This gets into the conundrum. I will not name names, but I have been repeatedly informed of a recent Level 5 article:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5

that makes the case that humanity is not ready for FE. So, are humans ready for the Sixth Mass Extinction that takes us with it? For none of the epochal previous events was anybody asked if they were ready for it, and even asking them would have been pointless. I have found Level 5 fears to be projections of fear and scarcity onto a situation of abundance, which is begging the question. I advocate intermediate measures to ensure that FE is not misused, but that is no different than standards of wiring a home for electricity to prevent electrocution or speed limits on roads. I do not know what it is about people thinking that all we would do is strip-mine the planet with FE or start a big war, when both are based in energy scarcity. Again, I have found such fears to really be irrational, and those advocates seem to want to embrace doom rather than have a chance at heaven on Earth. I have seen it in medicine many times:

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

It is like Fuller's "addiction to failure" observation:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#scarcity2

and is similar to my "hooked on scarcity" observation:

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

with Ruppert's suicide apropos to those who just can't seem to be willing to relinquish their outlook of doom:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=823147&viewfull=1#post823147

Maybe that is what they need to do, but I think that they will wake up when the means of abundance are delivered to them, as Machiavelli noted:

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

Back to chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Oh boy, I am doing it. I am revising my war essay this week:

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

I do not plan to add a great deal of new material, but will be referring to my upcoming essay, which deals with war a bit. This is going to be a heavy lift, and I do not know if I will post more than normal here while I do it, or less. We will see.

That is the last big revision to my site, and then it will pretty much be aligned with my upcoming essay, and I will not plan too many more site revisions, but my work will be around the big essay and recruiting and training the choir.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, it looks like the essay will not be published until the first half of August, as I wait for others in the editorial process, but it also gives me quality time to play editor. Comments are streaming in, and it is all good. In one response today, the reviewer (with scientific training) confessed to taking it pretty slowly, as the material demanded deep thought and reflection. That is exactly what I am looking for. The slower, the better, as it will take a lot of time to sink in. Those who take the time and go deep are whom I am looking for. I spent much of the day doing admin work on the war essay, getting it in shape for the editorial process, which will begin tomorrow. Boy, my style has changed a bit since 2002, for the good, I think. I wrote professionally for ten years after completing my site in 2002, writing technical business documents which were subject to about twenty people reviewing them before publication, and that is a great process for honing one's craft.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am taking a quick break from editing the war essay. One thing that studies of warfare, going all the way back to chimpanzees, show is that it has always been an economic undertaking, born of scarcity. Religion began with warfare, as a way to develop social cohesion in the face of a warring neighbor. People would craft their religions around warfare, and most of them likely even believed in the religious reasons for their warfare, but it was really economic at its root. I added this text to my war essay this morning:


"While pre-civilized human warfare has seemed ineffectual and ritualistic to modern observers, its death rate as a proportion of the population is about twenty times greater. In the preliterate Maring culture in the mountains of New Guinea, they have had a religious cycle of warfare for thousands of years. Their cycle approximates ten years, with the warfare pattern beginning when the pigs they raise and the human population reach the land's carrying capacity. Then they have a ritualistic war that brings both the human and pig populations back to within the land's carrying capacity. Then their societies are peaceful for another decade or so, when the carrying capacity is again reached and they renew the cycle of warfare. R. Buckminster Fuller noted that economic scarcity has always been the motivation of all soldiers, and Hermann Goering observed that the method to mobilize the men in any nation for warfare was to make them believe that their nation was under attack.

"Anthropologists have long speculated that warfare between hunter-gather bands kept populations in balance with the land's carrying capacity before the development of agriculture, in a Malthusian population check. As humanity expanded across the planet from Africa, driving all other human species and most of the megafauna to extinction, it was a peaceful expansion, as simply moving to the next uninhabited valley was a "cheap" way to resolve the conflict. But as behaviorally modern humans filled Earth's inhabitable lands and the easy food was gone, then warfare began in earnest, and when Europeans "discovered" Australia, for instance, they found the isolated natives in a state of almost constant warfare."


With FE, the economic motivation for warfare disappears, which is one major reason why people fearing some global war if FE makes its appearance really have little understanding of warfare, and are only projecting their deeply baked, irrational fears.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am on a roll, but am taking breaks from editing that heavy essay. I just dashed off the below on a little break. We will see what the final version looks like.

Back to work,

Wade




Introduction to this Site's Forum

By Wade Frazier
August 2014

Welcome to this site's forum. You can directly access the forum's content at this link. The forum's content is freely available to all of humanity, and is intended to discuss this site and my big essay that was first published in August 2014.

My immediate goal is for my readers to develop a comprehensive perspective of the journey of life on Earth, which includes the human journey. I seek to help readers develop an epochal perspective, and to particularly understand what the potential of abundant and harmlessly produced energy can be for humanity and the health of Earth's ecosystems. The world as we know it can end, and an unprecedented epoch of abundance, peace, and Earth healing can commence. That has been my life's work since I was 16 years old, and will still be my life's work when I take my last breath in this lifetime.

This site's forum is not like any other that I have seen, and it needs to be different to stand a chance of attaining the goals that I have for it. There are no anonymous participants, and they, at minimum, have read and digested my essay on energy and human journey, and ideally will have read my entire site. The conversation that I plan for this forum to initiate and sustain will be at a far higher level of sophistication than in any other forum that I have yet encountered. However, while it will deal with many difficult ideas, it will avoid the jargon of specialists.

This forum is not intended to host an arcane discussion, but an accessible one on what may be the most important topic on Earth today. It will approach the subject from a comprehensive perspective, and the forum's members will be attempting to achieve an abundance-based orientation to the issues. I have yet to see such an approach mounted on Earth, particularly one that is scientifically grounded and has an understanding of how the world really works, or at least one that is far closer to reality than what our indoctrination systems depict.

If you read my big essay and are interested in joining this forum, please realize that it is a forum of public writers, and if you write about this essay on the Internet and link to my essay, and there is a way to publicly contact you, then you may be invited into the forum. The forum is intended to reach several thousand members one day, who will be singing the song of abundance. That "choir" is intended to attract around 100,000 people who will absorb the ideas and help mount a transparent effort to develop a free energy device that can be given to the world and mass produced, so that every human directly benefits from it.

It will not happen overnight, and the choir may even create "harmonic" effects to help free energy technology manifest (which has been on Earth for longer than I have been alive), and that action by the 100,000 will not be required for manifesting free energy, but will likely play an important role in its enlightened implementation.

That is my goal as of August 2014. Impatience is my Achilles heel, and time is short to avoid a global catastrophe, but my path has been teaching me patience. I will resist any efforts to take short cuts. I have watched short-cut attempts many times, and they all ended in disaster, so I am taking a different approach that is intended form a solid foundation, to then build on it.

Happy reading, or singing,

Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

On a roll...

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

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am more than halfway through the heavy lift of revising the war essay. It is getting heavy, so I am taking a short break. I plan to have the revision finished by the weekend, and then I will have done all the heavy lifting of revising my site (essays written after 2002 will not get much revision, if any), with only a few odds and ends remaining. I did not think that I would get there, and it is a huge relief to.

To my earlier post on the forum that I plan to mount, it will begin very slowly, as I am looking for people who have done the work and are hitting the notes, and there are very few of those on Earth today, especially those that I am aware of. The upcoming essay will be "bait" that I will use to look for those needles in haystacks. When some pals say that they are going deep and won't come up for air for months, that is just what I am looking for, because only those who go deep are going to have a chance of shedding their conditioning and refraining from advocating all of the short-cut ideas that newbies invariably suggest, which have been all tried innumerable times with no success. People need to shed their naïveté and scarcity-based conditioning in order to be able sing the song of abundance, and that takes hard work and some kind of awakening experience. There is no group on Earth that remotely has what I am looking for, so I will have to roll my own. Within the groups that are the usual suspects that newbies think might have the right stuff:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#audience

there will be the stray member who will go deep and get it, but they will be very few and far between. And by that, I mean those who reach Level 12:

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

or are getting close. And if they reach Level 12, they will no longer be fit for belonging to the organizations they were part of when they encountered my work. That is a very real hazard, and making my work so difficult, not mentally as much as emotionally, is intended to keep those safe in their slots, as Level 12 can be a pretty scary and lonely place to be. It is similar to cautioning a scientist from taking Silva, for instance, as scientific careers have ended when the blinders come off, as they did for Brian:

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

I have tried to dissuade newbies from making gung-ho moves that jeopardize their careers and lives, and I do not mean prematurely dying, although that happens, but people damaging friendships, family relationships, and the like. That is a standard outcome of walking the FE high road, so I try to keep people off of it who encounter my work, as reading is nothing like being there. That is a hazard of what I am doing where, like those 18-year-old boys hankering for battle, newbies think they can dance through the minefields to the goal without a scratch. I am trying to avoid newbies encountering my work experiencing that fate almost more than anything else. The high road is like entering a hall of mirrors where wrong turns can mean lost limbs and painful deaths.

Level 12 is all that I am interested in, as no effort launched from the other levels ever had a prayer, I am sorry to say. Level 10 definitely does not work, but that is where enthusiastic newbies usually end up, if they do not get stuck in Levels 6 or 7. Those in levels 8, 9, and 11 are also useless for what I have in mind. My site is already meaty, and that essay will make it a meal that few will be willing or able to digest, and that is intentional, as only those who do the work are going to have a chance of reaching Level 12.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, that was agonizing:

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

I spent the most time on the decision to drop the atom bombs:

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

I hope that I do not need to update that essay again in this lifetime.

I also revised my Ralph McGehee:

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

and vegetarian essays:

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

There is not much left on my site that I plan to update. I will be spending my time in the next month getting my big essay up to snuff, and building the skeleton of that forum.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

With this one now down:

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

there is not much left that I plan to revise on my site. Whew!

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I rewarded revising that war essay by revising one that was a little more fun to update:

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

The visions part of that essay will superseded by the section in my upcoming essay, but I did not want to completely discard it. It did not have to revise it much at all to conform to my upcoming essay, and the biggest change was likely drawing on Brian O's work on asteroid mining. When I wrote that essay in 2001-2002, Brian was not in my life like he was when he asked me to help found the New Energy Movement:

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

I made original my sites in 1996 to 2002, which were three basic sites, with the final version forming the bulk of my site today. The second version (built in 1998-1999) looked largely like the 2002 version, but before I hired a professional editor, which was the learning experience of my writing career. The web mastering process was very time-consuming for those sites, as I did it all by myself, using a 1990s version of Dreamweaver and Front Page 2000. I still use them today, but a gracious Avalonian built me some tools so that it is now a snap to master my essays. I also use Microsoft's Web Expression, which is essentially a next-generation version of Front Page. So, what used to take me a day to revise now takes maybe an hour, which is making the chore of revising those essays almost fun.

My site is a writer's site, not eye-candy, but I wanted to make the reading experience as easy as I could. The ideas and emotions that can come up when reading it are hard enough. However, for the upcoming big essay, I added a bunch of pictures, which were mostly to make the ideas and information easier to digest.

I keep adding to the essays that I am revising, and might revise a few more. We'll see.

Time for chores and play.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The closer that I get to publishing my big essay, and the more that I get my current site revised to align with that essay, the greater the sense of relief and satisfaction, and the idea grows that maybe what I will attempt can make a dent.

I have written plenty about it on this thread, on my site, and in my upcoming essay, but I cannot overemphasize that women will need to step up if my idea has a prayer. The FE field is largely a Boys' Club, and that is part of why it is in arrested development, with scientists and inventors dominating, with many trying to be heroes and messiahs, seeking riches, and the like.

Back in the 1990s, I read plenty of feminist literature, and saw how the male-based paradigms were disasters:

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

but I had a long ways to go to really understand what was happening, and my upcoming essay goes into the issue in some depth. I knew that the matrilineal societies of the Eastern Woodlands had great appeal to the invading Europeans, which is why so many ran off and went native. But it was only as I began to really study the issue, as I prepared for writing my essay, that I really began to see the big picture. While I read the feminist literature, I also read the critiques of their work, and I wondered if feminist writers were overplaying their hand, and even when reading formidable works such as Wrangham and Peterson's Demonic Males, I wondered if they were all exaggerating the dynamics.

But as I studied primates, early civilizations, warfare, and the like, it became evident that the feminists were right, but not always for the reasons that they thought. In the end, the subjugation of women was only a continuation of how great ape females were treated, and monkeys also could behave similarly (even though monkey societies are matrilineal), so the pattern is likely at least 40 million years old. That is a lot of inertia to overcome.

But it turned out that the feminists were right in that there was a brief period of village existence when women had relative equality with men. The first pristine civilizations (Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, and Peru) all began peacefully, as women did the first farming, and their relatively high economic contribution to the society created a change that was a human first, where societies became matrilineal, where men left the societies to procreate. Only about 30% of preliterate societies were matrilineal, and they were like that when women had high proportional economic contributions. Similar to bonobo society, when female status rose (a male bonobo's status is related to his mother's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonobo#Social_behavior) those societies became far gentler. As those pristine societies grew into states, men regained their primacy, and women's status universally declined with the advent of civilization. Their status did not begin to recover it until the Industrial Revolution, and the reason was hard labor. When agriculture became masculinized, such as in the Fertile Crescent, when agriculture became the province of draft animals and plows, as well as deforestation and transporting wood, the physical strength of men became more economically important, and that was when women began declining in status. Those Eastern Woodlands societies had horticultural economies, and they were in their Stone Age with no draft animals, and that is why they were matrilineal, as woman made substantial economic contributions. In agricultural civilizations, with cities, which again put a premium on strength, and also as city-states began to war with one another over their energy supplies, women became good for bearing children and getting meals ready for their husbands after a hard day at work in the fields.

Once the machines of the Industrial Revolution removed most of the need for strong backs, not only were slaves liberated, women no longer needed to be baby factories, and that also began their liberation. Also the standard of living increase, which includes rising life expectancy, meant that pumping out endless babies no longer made economic sense. The demographic transition began, and societies went from short-lived (with high infant mortality rates), uneducated people to long-lived and educated ones, and the physical demands of living were greatly reduced. It was all about economics, and bonobos overcame male dominance via economics, too:

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

While scientists seem to be most impressed so far with the journey of life on Earth part of my essay, which is nearly half of it, the lay audience is having a hard time paying attention. But, for the points I am making, and the paradigm that I am trying to sketch, that part of the essay is vitally important, and one aspect is giving readers a sense of perspective. It is easy to get swept up in current events, caught up in the struggle to survive, or the million distractions that do not amount to anything, as far as their importance goes, and fail to see the bigger picture. I am still reading and tweaking my essay, as I wait to hear back from editors, and one book I am finishing is titled The Gap, which explores what makes human minds different from those of other animals.

If we answer Brian O's question:

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

in the affirmative, that humans are a sentient species, it obviously has not been for long, geologically speaking. I think that humanity is in the early stages of becoming a sentient species, and I call us semi-sentient. Studying the long view of the journey of life on Earth makes that clear, which is one purpose for my essay.

Even if we are sentient, women are only beginning to really take their rightful place, and women as a whole need to become far more scientifically literate than they are today. And it is not just about science, but the discriminating mindset that typifies the scientific pursuit. Also, mainstream science has a "shark tank" environment that is partly because men dominate it. Women are greatly needed, and overthrowing the male-based paradigm in Western medicine, for instance, is long overdue.

While my essay is not really intended for women, it is intended for non-scientists, so that they can begin to develop comprehensive perspectives without having scientific training and IQs of 150. If my choir is a hall of nerds, it likely will not work. If it becomes a soft-headed New Age effort, where male leaders build their harems:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage

and make a pile of money at the expense of their housewifely followers, it also will not stand a chance. There are many ways that the effort can fall off the rails, and being male-dominated is part of the problem.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On the big essay, one goal that I have for it is that when readers begin to develop a comprehensive perspective about the energy issue, they will understand that "liking" the FE idea or not is irrelevant. In the commerce of ideas in today's world, there are fashions, flavors of the day, and schools of thought that rise and fall.

Take religion, for instance. The first religion was about singing and dancing marathons that lasted all night, to develop "social cohesion," which was likely a response to violent inter-group conflict (AKA warfare). When all the easy meat was rendered extinct, the Domestication Revolution began, and it was initially peaceful, with women having high status, and the religions also had prominent goddess influence. Then that "golden age" ended, men rose to dominance once again, and civilization began.

With the first cities came professions, and the professional priesthood changed the religions, where singing and dancing were banned (or restricted to controlled choirs), the religions became a matter of belief, not experience, and male-based religions dominated as men did, and the new elites were deified.

With industrialization, religions no longer had much utility for social control, and they have been on the wane for centuries in industrialized nations. In places such as the USA, it has been a free-for-all as different religions have vied for dominance, including New Age versions, but they are all on the wane. But religions had nothing whatsoever to do with whether a nation used fire, or raised crops, or burned hydrocarbons. Religions and politics were the tail, not the dog. The so-called religions were dependent on the energy practices, and nobody says, "Fire? Nah, we do not like the idea." If you "asked" a bunch of australopiths what they thought of fire before controlled fire was invented, the response would have been one of fear. Until they experienced the reality of a campfire, they would have had the primordial fear of fire that all animals have.

Fear would not have always been the immediate response to the new energy regime. For the Domestication Revolution, if you had asked a hunter-gatherer of 10,000 years ago what he thought of raising crops and animals and living in huts, he would have stared at you without comprehension. He would have had no idea of what you were talking about. The idea of a city was so far outside his universe of the possible that you could not have explained any of it to him. Fear might have been the primary response, for a number of reasons, one of which was that any large group of strange people would be a deadly threat, so the idea of large groups of strange people might be been frightening. Similarly, if you had tried to explain today's world to an English peasant of 1500, you would have received similar incomprehension. How much of it would have been fearful, as you tried to explain today's world to them? Maybe a lot of it. For none of the epochal events, which were energy events, would those living before the event have had any comprehension of what the event would mean to their world:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=827022&viewfull=1#post827022

But asking them if they wanted it or not would have been a pointless exercise. People fear change, as in a world of scarcity, change means winners and losers. In a world of abundance, those fears would be meaningless, and it is another reason why asking humanity if they like the idea of FE or not is pointless (Brian wanted to do that, but I had my doubts about it, and today, I realize how hopeless that exercise would be http://www.brianoleary.info/Impacts.html ). Only when FE is delivered into their lives will they even begin to comprehend what it means. It is like what Machiavelli said:

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

and he lived when those English peasants did, and he would have had no idea what industrialization would mean. FE is not like a new religion, a new political system, a new economic idea, or a fashion of the day. FE means the end of the world as we know it, just like with the other epochal events. That is what I mean by thinking epochally. Fortunately, for the first time ever, we have some dim idea of how the next epochal event can change our world:

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

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748

For no previous change were any glimmers available. Some like Jules Verne and H.G. Wells had some glimpses, but they were generally not of the fifth epochal event, but just more of what the fourth had in store, although time travel may be fifth-ish.

So, when I can get readers thinking epochally, they will begin to understand why FE is not something that they can tell their friends and neighbors about, as if it was another flavor-of-the-day, a business opportunity, a new religion, and the like. It took me a long time to understand why Dennis's business approach to FE was not going to work, and even laying aside the organized suppression. FE is the biggest event in the human journey, and when people approach it as a way to get rich, to save money, and the like, it is like they are one of those blind men approaching that elephant and grabbing ahold of the tail or tusk and thinking that they have it all figured out. FE is far larger than any of today's ideas of politics, economics, religion, the social chatter, and so on. Even so-called "enlightened" groups such as environmentalists have no idea of what FE means, as they project their fears onto it:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists

All of that is like discussing the best brand of buggy whip before the car was invented, the most benign form of slavery before the rise of machines, or the best way to sleep in trees before campfires made ground-sleeping possible.

The choir will be comprised of people who understand the epochal nature of FE, and they know that they cannot help educate those around them. That will not be the choir's purpose. The choir's purpose will be helping the Fifth Epochal Event become comprehensible to other needles in haystacks, and when enough of us know the song, it will be time to make FE happen. Only when a critical mass is reached will an FE effort be able to override the organized suppression and the masses' inertia. Those who just have to go tell their friends, families, and neighbors the "good news" about FE are not in my target audience. That is the level 10 approach:

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

and it will not work. My target audience will comprehend the epochal nature of FE, and will realize that only an epochal approach has a chance of working.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Briefly, I found myself thinking of that DOE proposal that I helped Brian write five years ago:

http://www.brianoleary.info/Impacts.html

(I wrote the "Big Picture" part of that essay, and most of the "Obstacles" part)

or my essay preview of four years ago:

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

or my first energy essay, written in about 2001:

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

and readers will see bits and pieces of them in my upcoming essay, which fleshes out those ideas in a big way. The big essay is the flowering of those ideas. I see myself revising that big essay every so many years, like editions of a college textbook, but the framework will likely not change, at least until FE is delivered to the world.

As I have mentioned, the over-50-crowd keeps lamenting that I am not publishing a book, but my essay is not designed to be read like a book. It is a next-generation resource, specifically designed for the Internet, and my target audience will likely be today's youth, whose minds have yet to ossify into the dominant paradigms:

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

Those who lament that it is not a book have also not really comprehended what the essay's purpose is.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Ah, I can't help myself. I am revising what I consider to be my most important essays written since 2002, and the first was the one that brought Brian back into my life, and where I first described the FE awareness levels:

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

The section that I revised the most was this one:

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

where I added in ecosystem collapses. Most of my revised essays have links to the big essay that is not yet published, but the links will work when the essay is published.

The Heinberg essay will also get a little makeover:

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

but as I look at those essays, I may only do one or two more, but we will see.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

"The choir will be comprised of people who understand the epochal nature of FE, and they know that they cannot help educate those around them."

This begs an interesting question: how come some will grasp the magnitude of the Fifth Epochal event and some will not, if people cannot be be educated about it :)? It looks like you have to come here with some "pre-work" done elsewhere (perhaps in a civilization that already has Free Energy?).

Without turning this into a chicken and egg problem, how did the first "Tesla" come to be? The more I think about this the more I'd have to bring consciousness into the discussion and perhaps some form of ever evolving universal intelligence :)

[ulli]

"The choir will be comprised of people who understand the epochal nature of FE, and they know that they cannot help educate those around them."

This begs an interesting question: how come some will grasp the magnitude of the Fifth Epochal event and some will not, if people cannot be be educated about it :)? It looks like you have to come here with some "pre-work" done elsewhere (perhaps in a civilization that already has Free Energy?).

Without turning this into a chicken and egg problem, how did the first "Tesla" come to be? The more I think about this the more I'd have to bring consciousness into the discussion and perhaps some form of ever evolving universal intelligence :)

People have to try and suspend all linear thinking, just for brief moments, and then it can happen.
The worlds which lie beyond the 3 dimensional realms are the true source
of genius flashes, of intuition, of inspiration, of insights.

And some of those worlds are advanced, and more developed, and some are way behind us. And humans get thoughts from all kinds of worlds, via telepathy. The real art of living is to take the best of what's out there, and make it one's own, and present it to others, again and again, until they click and see that it is a worthwhile proposal.

And who is to say that Tesla was a greater genius than whoever figured out how to domesticate animals?
I can just imagine what challenges that person had in their time.
Yet we now take farm animals for granted, and even abuse them, to the point that I find sickening.
While I would love to live in a world where there is no material scarcity paradigm I'm still wondering whether such a world would have found solutions for people who feel driven to invade others without their consent, to get their sexual satisfaction.

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Illie, i see that "conundrum" this way: nobody can "force" other people to educate themselves about FE and implications coming with it, it's against free will directive (or non interference). But anybody can "force" her(him)self to do this, and it's in full compliance withe the directive. Those willing to do this to themselves are the first to be educated. Self-educated. You can "radiate" your knowledge/experience without imparting it forcefully onto others. Wade does it very well imho ;) He does not seek audience or publicity. He waits and rather prefers the audience to find him instead. Those unwilling to educate themselves will not look for what Wade has to say about FE. But those craving for knowledge will. Any time we feel deep inside of us w need to know something, just start looking around and you will inevitably stumble onto it :)

I can share fun fact from my life about the above principle :) Before i joined PA, i've read transcript of Kerry's and Bill's interview with Wade. Back then i was hardcore level 10 on Wade's FE personality scale. I was angry with what he said back then. Particularly on satellite surveillance network to track FE inventors. I felt so helpless because of that. I felt helpless because of many things back then i was a victim for sure ;) And i started to read his website. Couple of month later GE announced "GE Ecomagination Challenge" and i wanted to contact Wade and tell him about it (good i didn't ;)). He has no email contact listed on his website. He started to post on PA so i started to read this thread. After i finished reading "Magical Child" i wanted to contact Wade again and tell him about ideas from that book. So i decided to join PA and post to this thread. I don't say that Wade joined PA because i wanted to contact him. Maybe it was the other way i joined because he too wanted to be contacted by people from around the world, who want to know and are willing to educate themselves :)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie and Ulli:

As I recall, I have been able to make that musical greeting before at Avalon. :)

The issue of educating people has been addressed in my work, and I recently discovered another instance of the numbers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#rotblat). The issue of people who can imagine abundance before it is delivered to them, and the issue of people who have the personal integrity to do the right thing, even when there is no immediate material reward for doing it:

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

is one in thousands, and they are related and might be identical populations, and the reason why they are so rare is scarcity and fear. The vast majority of humanity is focused on survival and lives in fear, which encourages them to be egocentric. Egocentric people do not see past their immediate self-interest. Again, that was the most important lesson of my journey, and is also why a Level 10 effort:

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

will not work, because Godzilla easily manipulates the masses by using his carrots and sticks. However, the herd is also so accomplished at keeping people "in line" with the social conditioning that few will stray beyond the program that the social managers have designed.

The reason why Brian had all of those crazed reactions to the idea of FE, to eventually wonder if humanity was a sentient species:

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

was also the integrity issue, but it gets camouflaged in many ways, such as a blind allegiance to the "laws of physics." But it is really people finding their niche of hell that feeds them, and they will not budge from it. So, when I refer to people around you being able to be educated, it is really more about the integrity issue than it is a lack of imagination, although they are related. Whether we want to call it a lack of integrity, or an inability to imagine abundance on a world of scarcity, the proportion of the population today who can "get it" is on the order of one in thousands. Is it "as good" as one-in-2,000, or is it as rare as one-in-100,000? It can be as rare as one-in-1,000,000 for my idea to work, but for what I am asking of people, I think that it can be as "much" as one-in-1,000. I know of only one person on Earth who meets these qualifications:

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

so he is one in billions. That is why the hundred heroes approach will not work, because there are not a hundred to find. And even if the numbers are as good as one-in-1,000, the average person does not have a social circle of much more than about two hundred, so if one of those needles "gets it," the odds are long that they will have anybody in their social circle who will. Those are just the numbers, and is why the choir will not be able to educate those around them. The target audience of the choir will not be people in their social circles, but other needles.

Another way to look at it is how many people could imagine the epochal event before it happened, and the answer is almost nobody:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=827022&viewfull=1#post827022

I will now segue to Ulli's query. One key finding of the study for my upcoming essay was how "higher" primates regard those outside their societies. They were almost always enemies, and were all fair game. This goes back to monkeys, and is also pronounced in apes, especially chimpanzees. Chimps arguably have the highest cognitive abilities of any animal outside of humans, and are the only animals besides humans who form ranked hunting groups and who also engage in genocide in planned raids on their neighbors. Basically, anybody in the out-group was fair game.

But biological imperatives also impacted the dynamics. All sexually-reproducing organisms have a method to prevent in-breeding, and it is baked deeply into their biology, and is the root of the human incest taboo, for instance. In monkeys, males leave the society to breed, and in apes, females leave the societies. Monkeys and apes are dimorphic, where strong males protect the territorial perimeter (as they primarily protect their food supply), and females live in the core areas with the offspring. Where males leave the society to mate, females dominate socially, although males, with their superior physical strength, still "get their way," and one of them is killing any infants that they did not father, when they have a chance. Females have also killed infants not their own, as they vied for power.

In the human line, because of their great ape heritage, until the beginnings of agriculture, their societies were always patrilocal, where females left the society to mate. What that meant was that males formed the cohesive social organizations. They were boys' clubs, and they were violent. Males constantly vie for power, with Machiavellian plotting that often turns violent. Patrilineal (or patrilocal, which is a similar concept) societies are the most violent, and the out-group was always fair game. This likely extended to the entire human line, including Neanderthals, for instance.

The first religions were singing and dancing marathons that lasted all-night-long, to form social cohesion, largely so that young men would expend their lives warring against their neighbors, as they fought over territory (AKA their food (AKA energy) supply).

Today, anthropologists have identified a long period of the human journey when they did not do that, and it likely goes back to the first of the human line to leave Africa, australopiths and Homo erectus (the "hobbits" appear to have been habilines or australopiths), and it is thought that they left Africa due to population pressures, and because they had a limited toolset and cognitive ability, they were not able to blanket the lands in their progeny, so the human population was pretty small until that founder group left Africa about 60,000 years ago, and that instance was also likely due to population pressures. But when that group left Africa (about 300 people, and likely not coincidentally, around the maximum social circle that humans can maintain), they spread across Eurasia, and Australia and the Americas. The drove all other human species in Africa and Eurasia to extinction, as well as the vulnerable megafauna (with no experience around humans, such as wooly mammoths), and they quickly drove all of the big animals in Australia and the Americas to extinction, in what I call the Golden Age of the Hunter-Gatherer. There is little evidence of violent inter-human conflict during that two-million-year period, and the leading hypothesis today is that it was a cost/benefit decision. Any population pressures had a ready remedy: simply move on to the next uninhabited valley. While there were wide-open spaces, with easily killed animals roaming, there was no "need" for human violence. A short-lived economic "abundance" allowed for a peaceful interlude in the human journey.

But once all the easy meat was killed off and humans began to defend their territories from their neighbors, just like chimps and gorillas do today, human violence rose again, and out-groups were fair game, and that was the beginning of human warfare. Slaughtering the entire band was typical behavior, although stealing the women was common enough. The out-group was always fair game. Even the Ten Commandments, with its "Thou shalt not kill," is popularly interpreted to mean that it only applied to the in-group, and anybody in the out-group was fair game.

I mentioned it in a recent post:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=856769&viewfull=1#post856769

where if you dropped a hunter-gather of 10,000 years ago into a city, not only would he have been stupefied at almost everything about a city, but all of those people would have been in the out-group, so he would have been terrified, because he would have seen himself as "fair game." People in a city, who did not know each other and did not kill each other when the opportunity presented itself, would have been incomprehensible to that hunter-gatherer.

And if you studied early civilization, such as in Sumer, or the early societies depicted in the Old Testament, how brutal they were, and the standard operating procedure after conquering a neighbor was killing everybody, especially all the men, while some women and children might be spared and used as concubines and slaves. The out-group was still fair game, but the in-group was larger. Most of humanity's "progress" over the past 10,000 years, and particularly during the industrial revolution, has been to continually expand that in-group, as rising living standards allowed for the development of human conscience to levels previously unimaginable. This is where Brian and I saw the social and cognitive changes of FE being as dramatic or more so than the economic ones, and my upcoming essay will take those ideas much further than we ever did, and further than I have seen anybody else do before.

To Ulli's rape question, all females in all ape societies were subject to rape when the societies were patrilineal. About 70% of preliterate human societies were patrilineal, and those were dominated by male gangs, and they were the most violent societies and all women in them were subject to rape. But that was really no different than chimps and gorillas. As I mentioned in a previous post:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=856549&viewfull=1#post856549

the matrilineal societies became that way because the economy allowed for an increased contribution from women, and they were always the most peaceful preliterate societies. In those societies, women were not fair game for rape. When the Indians of the Eastern Woodlands captured whites, they never raped white women, which Europeans found nearly incomprehensible, as raping women captives was a European pastime. That respect for women reflected the matrilineal societies of the Eastern Woodlands, with their horticultural societies where women's contribution was large enough to where they became matrilineal. When women are prominent, the societies are much gentler, for obvious reasons. When agriculture began to need the strength of men to handle draft animals for plowing and playing lumberjacks, and the feats of strength needed to build cities, women's status universally declined, and did not rise again until industrialization, and brute strength was no longer as valued.

But Europeans and Americans always raped native women clear up to the 20th century, as all "out-group" women were fair game:

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

With industrialization, the out-group has kept growing, and fewer people are considered "fair game." It was an economic phenomenon above all else. Only when their economic existences improved did people develop consciences, which leads to Brian's question of whether humans are really a sentient species.

So, FE and abundance has the potential to awaken the human conscience to previously unimaginable levels, and all life on Earth can become the "in-group." Now, some will be able to see all life on Earth as their in-group before their economic circumstances make it inevitable, and those are the people that I am looking for. But I also know that they will be rare, so rare that they will not know anybody in their social circles who will also be of that level of conscience. Those are just the numbers, and whenever I see anybody deny those numbers, they have obviously never been on the high road to FE, for instance, and have seen how people act when facing the perils and temptations of the FE pursuit.

To address Ulli's rape question, bonobos overcame it as their societies became one big orgy, but economics also created the foundation for it, as they lived in a region with a food supply double that of other chimps, because the gorillas were gone.

Now, I know that a lot of men would think that they had died and gone to heaven in a society where it was one big orgy, but it likely won't be quite that way in a world based on FE, although the nuclear family and unwanted children will likely disappear, and be replaced with something far more enlightened. I do not mean that a man and woman would not commit to each other and raise children together, but that "sacred" institution is based on economics. Marriage was an economic institution above all, and in a world based on FE, many social institutions will become obsolete, and the nuclear family will likely be one of them. And in our high-tech world, horny men will be able to go to holographic whorehouses if they wish (this is already being bandied about, and the technology is not far off), but sexuality will be very different than today's. There will probably be a lot of sex, but rape will become a thing of the past, like slavery, like killing everybody in the out-group, etc. For those who have a hard time imagining that, they are merely projecting their own fears and thinking that what is familiar is "normal."

A big purpose of my essay is so that readers can expand their minds and recognize that many aspects of what is called "human nature" is really just the human condition, and that can change. And even aspects that can be called nature, such as a male's relationship to a female, where insemination and provisioning/protection services were all that females really "needed" from males, can change as humans truly become a sentient species.

These are obviously big subjects, and the forum that I plan to mount is going to go deeply on them, with people who have done their homework.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Robert:

Although I wrote my previous post before I saw yours, I think it answers it. Level 10 will not work, just because of the numbers. Not enough people in today's world care about anything other than their immediate self-interest (their "in-group" may extend to their immediate family, but that is about it) for Level 10 to work. It also goes back to what Roads's mentor said:

“If you choose love, then love is your reality. If you do not choose love, then your conditioning will determine your reality.”

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748

It is all about love, and is why I say that love and FE are joined at the hip, in both mystical and practical ways. But those with love in their hearts (AKA "those who care") are needles in haystacks in today's world. It is just what it is.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On the in-group and integrity issue, I am trying to find a way to state it that makes it clearer. How about this?

Worshipping the flag was one way that social managers tried to expand the American in-group:

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

but all out-groups were fair game. With the Indians exterminated and their land stolen by the time that flag-worship was instituted, the out-group became people beyond North America, especially dark-skinned people, and killing them by the millions does not even register in American awareness:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#toll1

Loyalty to one's perceived in-group is lauded in almost all social circles, but that is a very low standard to meet. Even monkeys and apes do that. Caring about people in the out-group is where integrity worth something begins to manifest (as in Jesus's "love the enemy"). People feign caring about those out-group people, but almost nobody really does. The acts of integrity that will save the human species are those where people can expand their notions of the in-group to not only encompass all of humanity, but all life on Earth. When humanity can do that, it will finally become a sentient species. But it will be up to those needles in haystacks to lead the way and help manifest the means of abundance, and then scarcity and fear will no longer be humanity's primary organizing principles.

Back to chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I take a little break from work, the Universal People (the 5,000 people that all of humanity is descended from, and non-Africans only have about 300 direct ancestors from that founder group) have a penchant for judging people by their own standards, having beliefs that are demonstrably false, and projecting their motivations onto others. That is why Joe Average cannot distinguish the saints from the psychopaths, and why Jesus said "by their fruits you will know them," which meant to look beyond their words to their actions.

You could not have convinced me in 1985 that the masses would cheer as the psychopaths crucified the saints, but when I began to see it happen during my days with Dennis:

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

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#salient3

the truth of the "Give us Barabbas!" parable became clear to me. Hitler also understood, knowing that almost everybody would be gulled by the Big Lies:

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

as everybody told each other little lies, and that was what they expected from others. That is partly why I will not be having any social gatherings anytime soon on the FE issue, as people largely do that to get their social needs met, and the silver-tongued psychopaths will swarm to something like that, and the naïve will be hived off, as well as me risking my life. I have repeatedly watched it happen.

For what I will be attempting, there will be no need for social gatherings for a long time, and the choir should be comprised of people who are more worldly and live at higher integrity levels so that the psychopaths cannot seduce them. The slick-talking psychopaths operate by using carrots and sticks, and the masses easily fall for it:

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

My game is a different one, and I am designing my effort to limit its susceptibility to such activities, either by free-lance psychopaths or those on Godzilla's payroll.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Dennis Leahy]

I'm convinced that it is not repetition that causes breakthroughs in learning, but rather repeated exposure to variations on a theme that cause breakthroughs in learning.

I so admire your patience, Wade. My own conditioning into the scarcity paradigm has gone from the state where I was oblivious to it, to the place where its façade is cracking apart bit by bit. I can't even pinpoint what in your answer to Ulli formed yet another crack, but it did for me.

Thanks!

http://paigebradley.com/images/sculptures/expansion-3.jpg

Dennis

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Dennis:

You are especially one of those whom I do this for. Thanks for the message. It really is important to me to read stuff like that. Also, it is how I learned a lot of what I know, as I took different approaches to issues, put information together in different ways, and things began to become clearer. But if I not had my wild ride with Dennis (the other Dennis), there are all sorts of horizons of awareness that I would have never approached.

As I have written, I was a "seat-of-the-britches" comprehensivist, and encountering Fuller's work was revelatory:

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

and there are still times, even today and while writing my big essay, when I would get an aha moment, and say, "Ah, that was what Bucky was referring to."

So, I can appreciate how it can take a very long time for it to sink in, and scarcity is so deeply baked into human awareness that it can be as invisible as the air we breathe.

And writing that response to Ulli even made me think about my essay, and I tweaked it a little, to make sure that my message was clear.

Back to work.

Love,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Briefly, Orwell's observation:

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

was really about how the intellectuals of the in-group justify the in-group's crimes against the out-group, whether the out-group was of a different race, gender, nation, class, ideology, ethnicity, profession, or species. The same actions committed against the in-group are universally recognized as crimes by the in-group, but become heroic deeds when committed against the out-group. Orwell was very clear about that in his 1984:

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

But there is a level of the game that even prevents dealing with the crimes: pretending that they never happened, as Orwell noted about nationalists:

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

That is the kind of dynamic regarding George Washington, where his greatest achievement/crime is swept under the carpet as if it never happened:

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

and instead, his honesty was extolled in literal fairy tales:

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

That he helped secure a continent for his in-group (while consequently becoming the richest man in his in-group), is the stuff that "fathers of the country" are made from, or Columbus's genocidal deeds:

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

or the USA's "life-saving" nuking of Japan:

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

and so on. That is exactly the kind of behavior that Jesus remarked on when he said that what we did to the least of us, we did to him. That was a master speaking, but Christians almost never really understood, as they justified the most heinous acts against non-Christians, and even each other. Nobody has been more murderous to Christians than Christians.

While I live in a rainforest, during the past year, when I have not been drawing a paycheck, I have only hiked in nice weather, but those fairy tale days will likely end soon, and today I will hike in the rain. While nice weather is nice, there is also a certain charm about hiking in a rainforest in the rain, and I need to get used to it again, as I am about to become a weekend warrior again, and hiking come rain or shine will be my future.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

I don't know if Dennis did it on purpose but the attached picture of sculpture named Expansion is by the artist Paige Bradley who through her art wants us to remember of lost feminine element and to bring it back into society to achieve harmony.
http://paigebradley.com/sculpture/goddess/the-visionary-column/
Thanks :)

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

I came up with something that i can't comprehend and it regards women. Please don't laugh... Why on Earth USA gov appoints women as their spokespersons to lie it's way out of hot situations in front of journalist crowds eager to grill them (at least some of them)? What's up with them (spokespersons)? Can't they see through the lies they help to sweep under the carpet? Are they so brainwashed to actually believe what they say? And newspapers in my country repeat what they say as truth proven beyond all doubt...

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Robert:

What, you think that lying is the exclusive province of men? :)

I have written the book on how the media operates:

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

The media is run by a global oligarchy, and it is one of seven global cartels that run the global economy:

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

In all nations that are "democratic," disinformation is a primary governance mechanism. The UK and the USA have long honed their propaganda methods, and if eye-candy mouthpieces can spout the lies, then so much the better.

Yes, most are so brainwashed that they believe what they say. Not all are, but most are. It is like that in all areas, such as medicine:

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

and that is another area where women have been used for their looks. The sales reps for biomedical companies generally have fashion model looks, so they get the attention of the doctors who are essentially marketing conduits for the drug companies. I do not know if you would call them hookers, but it is close.

In all the rackets, people have sold their souls, at varying levels of awareness that they are selling them. But without the public giving its power away and being easily deceived/herded, the rackets would not work. I work more on our end, of not buying the garbage, instead of assailing those who purvey it. I never watch the "news," so my blood pressure does not go up watching the lies.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another essay revised:

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

and a couple observations that I have made before….

The same "progressive" and "environmental" organizations that could get enough of Heinberg's dirge of doom completely shut out Brian O in those days of 2003-2004. Also, that drumbeat of doom likely contributed to Ruppert shooting himself in the head earlier this year.

That focus on doom while simultaneously denying solutions has been one of the more bizarre upshots of my journey. When I saw Heinberg and Ruppert do it, I then began my "hooked on scarcity" writings.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another revision is finished:

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

I am really starting to get down there, to where there is not much left that I want to revise.

I am just now getting the forum on my site developed, and I may launch it before the essay is published, but only a little before. The material in the upcoming essay will be the forum's primary focus, but the territory that the essay covers is so vast that it definitely will not be a one-note choir.

Ever since I realized that all-comers forums were a dead-end for work like mine:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll1

I decided that I needed to make my own forum, and that was my plan, until I saw Bill start this one. This one is well along the way to what I was looking for: a forum where trolls did not reign. But my forum will be more focused than this one, and my goal is developing that choir, and that will take hard work, both for me and the choir.

As I have stated before, I may post to this forum and that one, but time will tell. I will be resuming my career soon (I hope!), and my time will be limited. Writing that essay may be the last time for many years that I can devote so much concentrated effort to my life's work. From here on out, most of the work will be done by those in the choir, and those who listen to it. None of it will be easy, but I do not need money to do it. This will be a totally volunteer effort.

I have had ideas over the years of just what that forum will look like and what topics it will discuss, but I do not know just how it will turn out. But what I do know is that the early days in particular are about hitting the notes, not the numbers, so it will go very slowly to begin with.

The kinds of writings that I want the choir to make will be deeply thoughtful, and two examples that come to mind are what David posted here last year:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=749983&viewfull=1#post749983

and what Melinda posted in a new thread recently:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?72955-Free-Energy----healing-our-fears-and-the-path-to-creativity&p=853278&viewfull=1#post853278

That kind of deep thought is what I am looking for, and Melinda did it from the poets' side of the house, so it definitely does not need to be all scientific stuff, but energy needs to be front and center, because that is what it all rides on.

I will have a visions thread, for instance, like we have here at Avalon:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth

and I will likely retread my writings on that subject in my forum, too.

Some scientific literacy is required for those in the choir, however, as only those who have some can really begin to understand how the world really works. The mindset that allows for scientific literacy is also one that can begin to distinguish ultimate and proximate causes. For instance, oil is the primary cause for everything that is happening in today's Middle East. Everything else is only a side-show:

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

and it has been that way since at least 1911, when Winston Churchill changed the fuel for the British Navy from coal to oil. When people begin to debate ethnic and religious tensions there, and think that they are very causative, they are losing sight of the big picture, which has always been and always will be based on economics, which has always been and always will be based on the level of energy usage. If there is any "law" of the journey of life on Earth and the human journey, it is that one. And that is what my upcoming essay is intended to make clear, and those who do the work, even if they are poets, will gain enough scientific literacy to understand.

When Brian O taught at universities, especially at Princeton, he taught "physics for poets." My upcoming essay might be called "comprehensive thinking for poets." :)

If I did not think that poets could develop some of the required understanding from reading my essay, I would not have written it. Scientists have been the most impressed by my essay so far, but they cannot be my only audience. I need poets, too. As I have also written, I will need women, in particular. The FE field is a boys' club today, and that is partly why the field has been in a state of arrested development for longer than I have been alive, even while FE technology has been around for longer than I have been alive:

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

In general, my forum's members will not be posting the latest YouTube video, but a link to the latest scientific paper. It has to be a high level conversation that is focused on the issues that the essay explores, not some New Age or conspiracist venue. There are already enough of those in the Internet. My forum will be something different, and we will see if it can make a dent.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I get close to the end of revising another essay, I am reminded what kind of "visionaries" dominate today's world. All of them that I have seen, to one extent or another, are trying to be a "visionaries" within a paradigm of energy scarcity. I have yet to see a vision within an energy scarcity paradigm that I wanted to witness come to fruition. Fuller noted that all previous Utopias were based on a vision of shared austerity, which is why they never worked:

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

More than one reader has contacted me over the years, stating that they searched the world for many years, and the only visionary who had an abundance-based vision was me. Well, any visionary who really groks FE is going to be an abundance-based visionary. But almost every pursuing FE today is still rooted within the scarcity paradigm. So, if even the people thinking about FE everyday cannot shake scarcity, what kind of chance does an FE newbie have? Not much, and that is partly why I say that those needles in haystacks that will form the choir will have to go deeply, and have a radical reorientation, in order to really understand my message. It is not easy, as scarcity is so deeply baked that it is like the air we breathe. If enough of us can simply imagine abundance, it will be a great help in manifesting it. Again, Godzilla's greatest triumph is making a world based on abundance unimaginable, and my goal is making it imaginable. Seems like it would be easy, right? There might not be a more difficult task on Earth.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another one down:

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

As an addendum to my previous post, so-called "visionaries" within the energy scarcity paradigm can become suicidal, like Ruppert did:

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

That is the kind of "visionary" stuff that we can do without.

Time for some chores.

Best,

Wade

[Melinda]

Post 3846 : “I never watch the "news," so my blood pressure does not go up watching the lies.”

I second that. Reading the news leaves a lot more room for more subtle levels of consciousness to consider the info.


Post 3848 : “I will have a visions thread, for instance, like we have here at Avalon”

I’m really pleased - knowing that’s in your plans. It’s inspiring to think of the different facets of the topic being gathered in one venue – creating multiple harmonies.

~

It’s been so wonderful journeying through this thread – I lost count of the number of times I’ve been uplifted by the varied voices here.

Posts from David, Dennis, Ilie, Kudzy, Limor, Robert, Sandy and other contributors... weaving through and merging the creative and analytical.

I’m especially inspired when I read people sharing heartfelt explorations in a language that isn’t even their first.

A place for poets and scientists – scientists honouring their poetic souls, and poets galvanized by scientific insight - each a visionary and a healer, looking for ways to mend our path.

Lots of goodness here. Thank you Wade.


T h a n k s t o a l l ...

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Melinda:

In the end, my work is almost all about "visions." Most of my work is to get people to realize that almost all visions on Earth today are based on scarcity, and that is no vision at all, not when I know that FE is already here.

I also have too much real world experience in trying to make abundance happen, and am also here to dissuade the many "bright ideas" that people have, that are often mired in scarcity, but often subtly. Inexperience and naiveté in the FE pursuit can be fatal, and I am here to help prevent those fates.

As I said in Bill and Kerry's Camelot interview:

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

all I am really trying to do is get people to imagine abundance. I meant it. :)

Off to chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

On a roll…

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

As I have been revising these essays from a decade ago, a few things are striking me. One is that my understanding and approach has really not changed much in the past decade. It was more about finding the proper audience, the strategy that might work, and those last few essays that I revised were written in the depths of my midlife crisis, and as I review those essays, I have to admit that I can't see much of my midlife crisis in them. In fact, what readers long said was my most uplifting essay:

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

was actually written in the darkest days of my midlife crisis, to finally come to a head when Dennis invited me to the White House a few months later.

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

So, I think that writing back then was a form of therapy for me, to keep me "up." So, if I could that when I was in that much agony, I think that I can handle my upcoming effort, but we will see.

To the essay that I just revised, I added this paragraph:

"In 2014, as a result of my studies that led to my big essay, I think that I have an answer to that question above. For each event in the human journey where a significant new energy source tapped, they led to the changes that humanity then experienced. Indeed, the first one may have led to the evolution of humanity, and others led to civilization, the end of slavery, and the liberation of women. Each time, only a relative handful of people harnessed the new energy source, and that increase in energy propelled the next epoch of the human journey, and it changed humanity in ways that were unimaginable to those living before the new energy source was harnessed. If nothing else, it leads me to believe that I am heading in a direction that at least is consistent with how the previous energy breakthroughs were attained. For humanity's masses, it will be energy first, and enlightenment later."

That was my most significant revision.

Maybe I will try to knock off another before the day is done.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another one down:

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

It is one heck of a lot easier to revise my more recent essays, partly because they are relatively short, but also because they are closer to my style today, and the pages are close to the format that I publish in.

Maybe I will get one more done today.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One more down:

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

There is really not much left to revise. One reviewer suggested that I make a new section in my big essay, to show more clearly the connection between energy and economics, and what running out of energy looks like. I decided to add it, but it will not take too long, as the pieces of it are scattered across the essay (and the rest of my site deals with various aspects of it). It will be more like a summary than much new material.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Hi, me again...

This time WiReD reports on gender bias in the tech start-ups fundrising campaigns:
WiReD: This Is What Tech’s Ugly Gender Problem Really Looks Like (http://www.wired.com/2014/07/gender-gap/)
Wade writes regularly about not enough women involved in technology. Judging by the above, there is another conundrum in there :( And it's men who make rules. At least as for today. Thankfully, the report gives some hope :)

More tech & design reports by the author, Issie Lapowski (http://www.inc.com/author/issie-lapowsky)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I drafted that new, short chapter.

We will see what the final edition looks like.

Best,

Wade


What Running out of Energy Looks Like

During the eon of complex life, when ecosystems had their energy supplies disrupted, they collapsed and mass extinctions resulted. The oceanic mass extinctions before the appearance of humans were due to anoxia, temperature change, hydrogen sulfide events, and other physical events. An asteroidal "winter" helped drive dinosaurs to extinction. When that asteroid(s?)-induced global "winter" blocked sunlight, the ecosystems had an energy shortage at their base, as photosynthesis was interrupted, both on land and in water. That dinosaur-destroying asteroid(s?) also incinerated land-based ecosystems. Probably no pre-human mass extinctions were caused by disruptions at the food chains' tops, but near their base. Human-caused extinctions had different dynamics.

The Sixth Mass Extinction began with humans hunting large herbivores to extinction, which in turn drove their predators to extinction, which also had cascading ecosystem effects, particularly for keystone species such as proboscideans. The so-called trophic cascades that scientists have been studying have been all human-induced, as humans removed predators, who were their energetic competitors. Driving the world's large animals to extinction was likely the impetus behind the Domestication Revolution, and agriculture led to the first civilizations. The first civilizations, located in the Fertile Crescent, also impaired their energy supplies through unsustainable practices such as deforestation and plow agriculture. Those civilizations all collapsed, and the death knell was always starvation, which is running out of the energy needed to fuel human bodies.

There was an exodus from Mesopotamia and vicinity to lands yet to be despoiled by civilization, and that is how Jews and other peoples ended up on the Mediterranean's periphery. In their turn, those Mediterranean civilizations repeated the dynamic of deforestation and agriculture, and they all eventually collapsed, from Minoan to Mycenaean to Classic Greek to Roman. In those examples, the trajectory was generally one of profligate deforestation and agriculture on exposed forest soils, to a decline in yields due to soil depletion and desertification, to a belated attempt at conservation and attempts to boost the energy supply, to a final collapse. Conquering and plundering one's neighbors was one way to temporarily boost the energy supply, which Rome refined to a science, as it drove species and peoples to extinction. As Rome's EROI declined, it had to plunder from farther and farther abroad, which further reduced its EROI. Those practices were anything but sustainable, and when each civilization collapsed, the region went moribund for centuries as ecosystems recovered to the point where they could sustain civilization again. However, those practices eventually turned verdant forests into deserts, as any visitor to the Mediterranean can easily see. The energy provided by wood and soils was depleted by all early civilizations, and their collapses were energy crises above all else.

As industrial civilization has been declining, those hundreds of billions of energy slaves have been the first to starve, and the USA's first taste was the crisis of 1973-1974; cars sat in gas lines, waiting their turn to get their energy, which happened a few years after American oil production peaked. The USA has largely been spared it as of 2014, but other industrial nations, or those beginning to industrialize, have suffered brownouts, where the electricity supply is temporarily diminished. That can make cities grind to a halt. Those are effects of a declining energy supply in industrialized nations. While energy slaves are the first to feel the effects, they suffer in silence. Food shortages are when energy shortages really begin to hurt, literally, as people go hungry, and few suffer that deprivation with equanimity. In the USA in 2014, tens of millions of people, in history's richest and most powerful nation, have difficulty staving off hunger.

That is all a result of not only the total available energy declining, but also declining EROI. In the end, energy surplus is the most meaningful standard of living measure. Declining total available energy and EROI contribute to a declining energy surplus. Most people have some understanding of hunger, and if they have experienced blackouts, brownouts, or gas shortages, the loss of energy has been keenly felt. But the decline of industrial civilization has many other signs that comfortable Westerns can have difficulty grasping, and the following examples are intended to make it clearer.

As previously stated, shale oil and tar sands have abysmally low EROIs, which are likely too low to sustain industrial civilization, but they are being presented today as some kind of magic answer to the USA's energy problems. But, what does that mean, as far as what a person could witness in such a declining civilization? The impact of Canada's tar sands operations can provide a preview. Not only do Canada's tar sands operations remind visitors of Tolkien's Mordor (Source: Wikimedia Commons – google "tar sands Mordor" and view the image results):

but the pollution will inflict an awesome price on Canada, with the tar sands region being a "national sacrifice zone." But that low EROI reflects highly practical impacts. A huge proportion of Canada's natural gas supply will be needed for extracting and processing the tar sands, and multi-billion-dollar pipelines and other infrastructure projects are proceeding. Beleaguered Native American nations are being overwhelmed with the industrial initiatives, which are already creating economic and environmental havoc. I am hearing from local friends in the summer of 2014 that the projected pipeline to the nearby waters of British Columbia will present great environmental risk, and the only question is not if disastrous oil spills will happen, but how many and how large they will be. One of Earth's most diverse aquatic ecosystems will be put at risk (Puget Sound is in second place to the Great Barrier Reef). The Fukushima and Gulf Horizon energy disasters may only be a preview of future events. The USA's invasion of Iraq and its military presence in the Middle East is all about controlling Earth's remaining high-EROI oil. Everything else pales into insignificance. Ever since the UK's navy converted to oil from coal in 1911, the West has been invading and meddling in the oil-rich Middle East. The USA's Persian Gulf War of 1991 and invasion of Iraq in 2003 may be seen by future historians, if there are any, as the first salvos of World War III.

I try to avoid using the terminology and ideology of the largely meaningless financial economy, as it is an accounting fiction with little relevance to the real world, but discussing a few financial terms can make it clearer to some readers. The USA's real wages per hour peaked in 1973, when its first oil crisis began, and history's greatest era of economic prosperity ended. American energy consumption per capita also peaked then, as the dramatic rise in energy consumption that powered the Industrial Revolution ended, and the average American's energy consumption and real wages have subsequently declined by about the same proportion.

This essay is intended to help people understand what is really happening, and the decline in real wages per hour is only a financial measure of the decline in energy consumption. Energy is the basis for all of this world's wealth. That is why all financial strategies to "make America great again" (Ronald Reagan's rallying cry) are meaningless. To American workers who often only think in terms of money, as that is how they buy what they eat, declining energy consumption not only meant reduced paychecks, but social goods such as a low-cost college education, which I received virtually for free in the late 1970s and early 1980s, has been replaced with crippling debt as each student's "graduation present" in 2014, unless the student had parents from the affluent class. Since the 1930s, the American government's budget has been overwhelmingly devoted to warfare, which is simply robbery, on several levels. An American president who was a former general even admitted it, as did one of the USA's most beloved military leaders. If they can even hold their marriages together, both parents in American households work outside of their homes today, when only one did during the postwar boom.

The deindustrialization and financialization of the USA's economy since the energy crisis of 1973-1974 has essentially been class warfare by the global capitalist class against the global working class, in what has been called the "Race to the Bottom." But class warfare and other such strategies are doomed ways to maintain or enhance one's economic position, which Fuller noted are like rearranging the proverbial deck chairs on the Titanic. The banks have been blowing serial asset price bubbles, which further enrich the rich at the expense of the lower classes. If the American dollar loses its reserve status, another subsidy to the American economy will disappear, which will further mark the decline of the USA as an imperial power. There are no political or social solutions to running out of energy, other than for people to get out of the way and stop suppressing FE and its attendant technologies, either consciously, as the GCs and lower-level energy interests do, or mindlessly, as when the masses help crucify those trying to prevent Spaceship Earth from crashing.

At the family budget level, energy (gasoline, food, etc.), housing, medicine, and the like cost more, and wages are lower for those fortunate enough to keep their jobs, social goods such as education are prohibitively more expensive, and less money is available for anything beyond survival. The idea of discretionary income is probably the financial economy's closest concept to energy surplus, and as the American middle class has been shrinking, discretionary income has been vanishing. That dynamic happened in history's richest and most powerful nation during the 40 years since energy consumption began declining. Global oil production peaked in 2006, and the rest of the world's nations will decline like the USA has, but from a far lower initial plateau. Those are the important measures, not financial ones. In a world of scarcity, the exchange function of economics assumes great importance at the social level, as people scrap for their piece of the scarce economic pie. But fighting over slices does not help grow the pie. In a world of abundance, money and financial concepts truly become meaningless.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Robert:

And high-tech is the "enlightened" sector of the USA's economy.

Capitalism is still a boy's club, I am sorry to say, and probably always will be, as it sanctifies greed. All of today's "isms" will quickly become dinosaurs when FE makes its appearance, and boys' club stuff will join them.

Best,

Wade

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

I can't help myself ;) Last week i stumbled at littleBits company. It's founder, Ayah Bdeir (http://littlebits.cc/bio) is a woman :) The company sells DIY kits for kids (http://littlebits.cc/about) (and grown-ups too!) introducing electronic modular components, that you just snap together with built in magnet sockets. It allows anybody to make proof of concept prototypes or test ideas in "no time". Here is a link to the interview with Ayah, featuring some lB kits in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H91YN8Wg1o (~8 minutes long)

There is still hope for more women in tech :)

Best part (imho), is where the littleBits' users are exposed to constant need for energy to power up their creations ;) This is also somewhat "dangerous", for the company and for the users, as "Necessity is the mother of invention"... Do you know what i mean? Despite this, I wish all well for them :)


And this week, NewScientis writes about US gov coming up with computer chatbot system for assessing employees' personality weaknesses (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25951-us-government-chatbot-gets-you-to-tell-all.html). It turns up people will tell all their "dirty secrets", they would "normally" omit in their questionnaires, to the chatbot :confused: I wonder if such a system could keep psychopaths at bay? I guess they would still lie but their "lie signature" must be different from "regular liars" in particular situations.


EDIT:
Some time ago I'd read another article in NewScientist on people's truthfulness regarding electronic communications (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn4663-people-lie-more-on-the-phone-than-by-email.html). It turns out the phone calls are most prone to lying, next comes face-to-face and least prone to lying are emails. There is less chance of lying if speakers assume the conversation is being recorded.

EDIT#2:
I really can't explain it, but today WiReD posted a piece (http://www.wired.com/2014/07/virtual-unreality-the-online-sockpuppets-that-trick-us-all/) about "art" of internet sockpupetry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_(Internet)) to deceive people. Don't freak out :) Turn your integrity on :) As you can see Wade has sound reasons to protect his website from predators...

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Robert:

I have been in high-tech since the 1990s and, believe me, it is leaps and bounds ahead of other industries in how it treats women, varied sexual orientations, people of color, and so on. But as that article that you posted shows, it still has a long way to go.

OK, this will be a psychopath post.

On psychopaths, there are tests for them:

https://suite.io/tami-port/c0g2m4

But I will not be administering them. :)

However, I will kind of have my own tests, where people are going to have to be singing publicly, like those examples that I recently listed:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=857977&viewfull=1#post857977

or the kind of comments that Ilie makes, over years. I am no rush to recruit anybody to the choir. Ilie is my gold standard of what I am looking for. Can a psychopath appear to be like Ilie (or Dennis Leahy) for very long? That is kind of doubtful. I have been around quite a few psychopaths, I am sorry to say, and others with diagnosable conditions such as Borderline Personality Disorder. I have gotten pretty good at spotting them, especially when their masks slip a little. I have seen where it slipped and they could not tell that it did – psychopaths cannot really hide who they are for all that long - if you are around them long enough, you can see the slips, as they really do not think like Boy Scouts, even though try to appear like they do. I will also have to be wary of borderlines who will see me as some kind of hero that is going to save the world, who will then see me as the devil when I do not measure up to their fantasy of what they want me to be.

However, I am designing what I do so that my efforts will not be very susceptible to them, even when they wiggle their way into what I am doing. For one thing, I am not proposing anything heroic, so putting me into the hero mold is not going to work. Also, psychopaths thrive in the anonymous Internet culture, and there will not be any anonymity in what I will be doing. There will be no anonymity, no secrets, no money involved, and that is going to kind of drain the swamp, as far as psychopaths are concerned, as it will remove their tools and even their incentive to be involved (at least the free-lancers). FE means realities beyond the dreams of avarice:

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

if it was going to be done in capitalist style, but my effort will be open-sourced and given away. Not even "normal" people can resist the lure of greed for long, and the psychopaths flock to things like capitalistic FE efforts. Not only is the potential mind-boggling for FE, but Godzilla's sledgehammer engenders plenty of fear. When the authorities come knocking, or the media mounts its smear campaigns, to where your own mother saves the clippings about you and campaigns to your friends, family, and business associates about what a criminal you are:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=300436&highlight=treasure#post300436

that becomes a golden opportunity for psychopaths to work their magic. Average people, whose motivations are all fear-based (greed is the fear of never having enough), are putty in their hands, and they can easily get the masses to cheer at the public execution of the saints. The first time that I witnessed it, it was one of my awakening moments:

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

and I would witness many such events over the years, where the masses cannot tell the difference between the psychopaths and the saints. I have encountered psychopaths on Godzilla's payroll:

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

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

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

many free-lancers, and some that I am not sure about:

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

But it is really not too important whether the psychopaths are doing it because it is their job or they are just exploiting "opportunities," as the results of their activities are the same.

Years after Mr. Engineer had his harsh experience of going to work for Mr. Texas:

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

he admitted to Mr. Researcher that they were a couple of saps, and they were far older than I was, with Mr. Engineer nearly 70, and he once ran the world's biggest factory. What made what Mr. Engineer did incredible to me was that he saw what happened in Seattle. That woman who Bill the Hit Man's activities killed worked for Mr. Engineer:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#death

At Avalon, for instance, even though it is largely a conspiracist forum, I regularly see a great deal of naïveté, and the general public, particularly Americans, are deeply naïve. Again, naïveté is no crime. I began my journey naively:

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

and everybody that I respected in the FE and other fields began their journeys naively, usually as overgrown Boy Scouts:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts

Try as I might, there are going to be naïve people in my effort. I am almost more concerned about letting in the naïve than I am the psychopaths. That is partly why I have designed what I am doing so that the psychopaths will have a difficult time preying on the naïve. Anybody who starts openly wondering how we can make money at it and other self-serving goals, will either be the weak links or the psychopaths, so self-serving talk will immediately identify them. I hope that my screening process is good enough so that I do not have to weed many out of my effort, but some will definitely get the boot, but since they will have nothing invested, they really cannot cry foul and realistically mount some kind of effort to destroy what I will be doing. Again, the free-lance psychopaths will really not have much incentive to infiltrate, and the structure will make it hard for Godzilla's psychopaths to work too much mischief. And my process of finding needles in haystacks is going to go a long way toward keeping them out.

The people that I will be looking for will recognize my work as something different, will dive in, and not come up for air for months or years, but when they do, they will be singing. Almost nobody is even willing to attempt something like that. That is why I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks, but only those needles are really going to be helpful for my effort.

No anonymity will eliminate a great deal of psychopathic opportunity, and not having any money involved will be the greatest protection against the psychopaths and those who employ them. If people do not have the lure of money in front of them, they will be very hard to seduce, especially via playing to greed. Also, the establishment uses money changing hands as its primary avenue for wiping out efforts, using consumer "protection" laws. Also, my effort will not be a conspiracist effort, and conspiracists suffer from paranoia and other delusions, but probably most importantly, they think like victims:

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

as does nearly everybody, and my work will likely not be attractive to them.

So, an effort with no anonymity, where nobody makes any money, and what they eventually come up with, the most lucrative technology in history, will be given away, where the effort strives to achieve a creator's perspective, not a victim's - that is not going to be easy to stop. The hard part will be getting it going, but that structure also is going to greatly increase the odds that I am going to attract the kind of people that I am looking for: those with that heart-centered sentience. If Brian was around to see it, he would see elements of his efforts in mine. Brian was looking for altruistic zillionaires. As I have been writing, and in my essay particularly, "rich philanthropist" is an oxymoron. But the idea of using benevolent intent has been there from the beginning, and was what Dennis always sought. He almost never found it, but he always looked for it. Dennis put his heat pumps on people's homes for free:

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

so, he would see his idea taken to the next level in what I am attempting. I began this post with a high-tech comment, and I will finish with one. The open-source movement reflects the innocence of high-tech. That "don't be evil" slogan of Google's shows how they are at least trying to not be openly capitalist sharks. Also, at one company that I worked for, they were the company's biggest customer, and I could see how they struggled with the capitalist imperative, not always successfully, but they were at least trying. While I am no Bill Gates fan, that he lives the kind of unassuming life that he does:

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

is actually pretty standard for West Coast high-tech. I know lots of rich people in high-tech, and they are surprisingly down-to-Earth (Paul Allen, Larry Ellison, and Steve Ballmer are exceptions; more from the standard capitalist mold). What I will be attempting will be using the innocence and idealism of high-tech.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I play editor on one more part of my site (I only have a few left), here is a little more on naïveté, and this is about what Fuller noted, about how naïve scientists are:

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

I have yet to see one of them, who publishes in the mainstream, even acknowledge that black ops exist, or to the extent that they do, they think that what has been declassified tells us everything that really happened. That is not only incredibly naïve, it is also incredibly misinformed. You cannot snoop into an issue for long, where "national security" games are being played, to realize that what has been declassified is only the tip of the iceberg.

Although the State Department and other hacks tried to discredit John Perkins, for instance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Perkins_%28author%29#Controversy

The documentation is about as solid as you can get for activities like his:

http://www.economichitman.com/pix/veracitymemo.pdf

and Perkins was very frank about how privatized covert action became an American specialty since the USA overthrew the Iranian government in 1953:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

on behalf of Western oil companies. If you look into something as "tame" as fluoridation, you find World War II documents that are still classified, and what was declassified shows how badly the government was lying:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#study

I know and have known covert action operatives. Some were from the privatized side of the fence, while some were on the government side, and the operations they were involved with remain classified 50 years later and probably ended up in the realm where it will never be declassified. There is incredibly dark stuff in that milieu, but I have yet to see a mainstream scientist really even sniff it, if they even make it as far as the declassified documents.

The privatized end is where the deep darkness is, and it will never be subject to being declassified. The operations that Godzilla mounted against us will never have a paper trail that academics can peruse, so they pretend that such operations do not exist. Now, that is not all of them by any means, as some of my best buds in what I do are scientists and academics, but they are the all-too-few hip ones. They woke up somehow, usually by some kind of direct personal experience, such as the remote viewing and NDE that Brian had:

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

Many end up like Brian, where they just can't drink the Kool-Aid anymore, and they leave their soft berths in academia or corporate America. Some quietly keep their heads down, have tenure, etc., and keep their careers going, but it can be risky business.

What spurred this post is when I have been reading academics and scientists writing about science and consciousness, where they concluded that ESP does not exist, partly because declassified documents have shown the American government researching it, and they came up empty. Now naïve. Or they listen to the psychopathic "skeptics" and take their word for it, that there is no evidence of the paranormal:

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

When I study works such as The Gap or The Blank Slate, I always have to realize the naïve and blind orientation of those authors, and assess the merit of their work accordingly.

Brian was a staunch advocate of scientific testing of paranormal phenomena:

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

but he was a voice in the wilderness and nearly lost his life at the hands of the American military when he snooped into UFOs:

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

I have yet to see a mainstream scientist (who does not work in "national security") even begin to productively engage such issues, as they hide behind a shield of naiveté, denial, and ignorance. Today's mainstream science can be immensely useful, when its limitations are acknowledged, but it is far too often treated like a religion. That is one of the minefields that I have had to negotiate in my work.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

For all of you aspiring writers out there, below is a result of editing help on what I drafted Monday.

Back to work,

Wade


What Running out of Energy Looks Like

During the eon of complex life, when ecosystems had their energy supplies disrupted, they collapsed and mass extinctions resulted. The oceanic mass extinctions before the appearance of humans were likely caused by anoxia, temperature change, hydrogen sulfide, and other physical events. An asteroid "winter" helped drive dinosaurs to extinction. When that asteroid-induced global "winter" blocked sunlight, the ecosystems had an energy shortage at their base, as photosynthesis was interrupted, both on land and in water. That dinosaur-destroying asteroid also incinerated land-based ecosystems. It is doubtful that any pre-human mass extinction was caused by a disruption at the food chains' tops, but near their base. Human-caused extinctions had different dynamics.

Human-caused extinctions began with humans hunting large herbivores to extinction, which in turn drove their predators to extinction and had cascading ecosystem effects, particularly for keystone species such as proboscideans. The so-called trophic cascades that scientists have been studying have been all human-induced, as humans eliminated predators, who were their energetic competitors. Driving the world's large animals to extinction was likely the impetus behind the Domestication Revolution, and agriculture led to the first civilizations. The first civilizations, located in the Fertile Crescent, also impaired their energy supplies through unsustainable practices such as deforestation and plow agriculture. Those civilizations all collapsed, and the death knell was always starvation, which is running out of the energy (i.e., food) needed to fuel human bodies.

There was an exodus from Mesopotamia and vicinity to lands yet to be despoiled by civilization, and that is how Jews and other peoples ended up on the Mediterranean's periphery. In their turn, those Mediterranean civilizations repeated the dynamic of deforestation and agriculture, and they all eventually collapsed, from Minoan to Mycenaean to Classic Greek to Roman. In those examples, the trajectory was generally one of profligate deforestation and agriculture on newly exposed forest soils, to a decline in yields due to soil depletion and desertification, to belated attempts at conservation and attempts to boost the energy supply, to a final collapse. Conquering and plundering one's neighbors was one way to temporarily boost the energy supply, which Rome refined to a science, as it drove species and peoples to extinction. As Rome's EROI declined, it had to plunder from farther and farther abroad, which further reduced its EROI. Those practices were anything but sustainable, and when each civilization collapsed, the region went moribund for centuries as ecosystems recovered to the point where they could sustain civilization again. However, those practices eventually turned verdant forests into deserts, as any visitor to the Mediterranean can easily see. The energy provided by wood and soils was depleted by all early civilizations, and their collapses were energy crises above all else.

As industrial civilization has been declining, those hundreds of billions of energy slaves have been the first to starve, and the USA's first taste was the crisis of 1973-1974, as cars sat in gas lines, waiting their turn to get their energy, which happened a few years after American oil production peaked. As of 2014, the USA has largely been spared it, but other industrial nations, or those beginning to industrialize, have suffered brownouts, where the electricity supply is temporarily diminished. That can make cities grind to a halt. Those are effects of a declining energy supply in industrialized nations. While energy slaves are the first to feel the effects, they suffer in silence. Food shortages are when energy shortages really begin to hurt, literally, as people go hungry, and few suffer that deprivation with equanimity. In the USA in 2014, tens of millions of people, in history's richest and most powerful nation, have difficulty staving off hunger.

I try to avoid using the terminology and ideology of the financial economy, as it is an accounting fiction with little relevance to the real world, but discussing a few financial terms can make it clearer to some readers. The USA's real wages per hour peaked in 1973, when its first oil crisis began, and history's greatest era of economic prosperity ended. American energy consumption per capita also peaked then, as the dramatic rise in energy consumption that powered the Industrial Revolution ended, and the average American's energy consumption and real wages have subsequently declined by about the same proportion. As an example, in my early years during the 1960s, one could buy a gallon of gasoline for around $0.19. Today in 2014, the price of gasoline is around $4.00 per gallon, which reflects a 2,000% increase over the previous 50 years. Similarly, our family home was purchased in 1967 for about $20,000, and that house costs $400,000 today. In the late 1960s, my middle-class father earned about $20,000 per year, so in today’s dollars I would need to earn around $400,000 per year to enjoy his standard of living, but the median American family income is around $50,000 per year. Those easy-living days of the 1960s' USA are long gone.

The decline in real wages per hour and attendant rise in real prices for gasoline and homes is only a financial measure of the decline in energy resources and consumption. At the family budget level, as energy prices increase, all goods needing energy to produce such as gasoline, food, housing, medicine, and the like cost more. If they can even hold their marriages together, both parents in American households work outside of their homes today, when only one did during the postwar boom. As businesses try to remain competitive, wages are lower for those fortunate enough to keep their jobs, social goods such as education are prohibitively more expensive, and less money is available for anything beyond survival. For example, in the late 1970s and early 1980s I received a nearly free college education. In 2014, a college education comes with crippling debt as each student's "graduation present," unless the student had parents from the affluent class.

The idea of discretionary income is probably the financial economy's closest concept to energy surplus, and as the American middle class has been shrinking, discretionary income has been vanishing. That dynamic happened in history's richest and most powerful nation during the 40 years since energy consumption began declining. Global oil production peaked in 2006, and the rest of the world's nations will decline like the USA has, but from a far lower initial plateau. Those are the important measures, not financial ones. In a world of scarcity, the exchange function of economics assumes great importance at the social level, as people scrap for their piece of the scarce economic pie. But fighting over slices does not help grow the pie. In a world of abundance, money and financial concepts truly become meaningless.

The deindustrialization and financialization of the USA's economy since the energy crisis of 1973-1974 has also been class warfare by the global capitalist class against the global working class, in what has been called the "Race to the Bottom." But class warfare and other such strategies are doomed ways to maintain or enhance one's economic position, as energy is the basis for all of the world’s wealth. The banks have been blowing serial asset price bubbles in the past generation, which further enrich the rich at the expense of the lower classes. If the American dollar loses its reserve status, another subsidy to the American economy will disappear, which will further mark the decline of the USA as an imperial power. There are no financial, political, or social solutions to running out of energy, other than for people to get out of the way and stop suppressing FE and its attendant technologies, either consciously, as the GCs and lower-level energy interests do, or mindlessly, as when the masses help crucify those trying to introduce FE and preventing Spaceship Earth from crashing, or do not pay attention to the situation unless there is immediate person gain for doing so.

In the end, energy surplus is the most meaningful standard of living measure. Declining total available energy and declining EROI contribute to a declining energy surplus. Most people have some understanding of hunger, and if they have experienced blackouts, brownouts, or gas shortages, they have keenly felt the loss of energy. But the decline of industrial civilization has many other signs that comfortable Westerners can have difficulty grasping, and the following examples are intended to make it clearer.

As previously stated, shale oil and tar sands have abysmally low EROIs, which are likely too low to sustain industrial civilization, but they are being presented today as some kind of magic answer to the USA's energy problems. But, what does that mean, as far as what a person could witness in such a declining civilization? The impact of Canada's tar sands operations can provide a preview. Not only do Canada's tar sands operations remind visitors of Tolkien's Mordor (Source: Wikimedia Commons – google "tar sands Mordor" and view the image results)

but the pollution will inflict an awesome price on Canada, with the tar sands region becoming a "national sacrifice zone." That low EROI reflects highly detrimental impacts. A huge proportion of Canada's natural gas supply will be needed for extracting and processing the tar sands, and multi-billion-dollar pipelines and other infrastructure projects are proceeding. Beleaguered Canadian Native American nations are overwhelmed with the industrial initiatives, which are already inflicting economic and environmental havoc. I am hearing from local friends in the summer of 2014 that the projected pipeline to the nearby waters of British Columbia will present great environmental risk, and the only question is not if disastrous oil spills will happen, but how many and how large they will be. One of Earth's most diverse aquatic ecosystems will be put at risk (Puget Sound is in second place to the Great Barrier Reef). The Fukushima and Gulf Horizon energy disasters may only be previews of future events. The USA's invasion of Iraq and its military presence in the Middle East is all about controlling Earth's remaining high-EROI oil. Everything else pales in significance. Ever since the UK's navy converted to oil from coal in 1911, the West has been invading and meddling in the oil-rich Middle East. The USA's Persian Gulf War of 1991 and invasion of Iraq in 2003 may be seen by future historians, if there are any, as the first salvos of World War III, as humanity fights over Earth's last remaining high-EROI energy resources.

The irony of all this is that FE technologies already exist and humanity does not have to head down this path where conventional energy prices continue to increase as we deplete the last remaining resources. The choice is really ours; do we continue down this path of declining living standards for the majority of humanity or move into a world of energy abundance for all on Earth?

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is the last major revision to a web page before I publish the essay:

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

I am really happy that that is behind me. Sometimes, this task gets overwhelming, and I was kind of feeling that way while I revised the timeline.

Most of the essays on my site now have links to that phantom essay that has yet to be published, but they will work when it is.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am likely going to be pretty quiet for the next several days, for various social/hiking reasons. It came up today what the price of my journey has been. I lost all of my immediate family. I had to forego "frills" like being a parent and owning my own home. On five different occasions, my FE path saw me pass up the opportunity for at least $1 million, and some of those were many millions. I lost friendships, I lost my health, and I buried a saint whose life was wrecked and shortened by being involved with me.

But I do not regret any of it. If I had gone after the money instead of what I did, I would not be where I am today. Even if my essay and subsequent work seems to go nowhere (I doubt that, but it might happen), I still cannot regret what I did. I do not know of anything more worthwhile on Earth to pursue.

I sometimes shudder to think what my life would have been like if I had joined Microsoft in 1986 instead of meeting Dennis. I would have been rich, naïve, and useless, and that midlife crisis would have been an agony of another sort, of wondering what I might have done if I had chased my dreams.

Best,

Wade

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Hi, I wanted to share with you another (limited hangout?) story posted today in NewScientist. It's about research paper by Yakir Aharonov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakir_Aharonov) et.al. into non-locality of all particles in the Whole Universe :) Ie. "white science" admits all matter might be connected no matter how far separated :) And this time this is something different and bigger from "boring" quantum entanglement we used to know (and use!) for some time :) Sweet :)

PARTICLES on opposite ends of the universe can link quantum mechanical hands. The phenomenon hints at an entirely new aspect of the quantum reality underlying all matter.

The effect is a sort of inversion of one of the most famous and profound quantum properties, called entanglement. Two entangled particles share a single quantum state: they behave as one and cannot be described individually. Measuring one instantaneously affects the other, no matter how far apart they become, an oddity that prompted Einstein to describe entanglement as "spooky action at a distance".

However, for this to happen the particles must have interacted in some way when they came into existence, which may mean only a small fraction of the particles in the universe are entangled at any given time. Cosmic connections make no such demands. "They have no interaction, they have no idea that the other particle even existed," says Jeff Tollaksen of Chapman University in Orange, California.

The effect is based on work by Yakir Aharonov, also at Chapman University, in the 1960s. He and his colleagues showed that, mathematically speaking, a system's properties can be influenced by measurements made in the future. Aharonov has been studying the strange consequences of(...) (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329802.300-pigeon-paradox-reveals-quantum-cosmic-connections.html?full=true)

The original paper by Y. Aharonov, F. Colombo, S. Popescu, I. Sabadini, D.C.Struppa, J. Tollaksen, can be viewed here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1407.3194v1.pdf

Yakir Aharonov (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakir_Aharonov) is also known for sc. Aharonov-Bohm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov%E2%80%93Bohm_effect) effect (acknowledged by white science), regarded as a foundation for FE physics. And David Bohm (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bohm) is often quoted for calculating the energy density of quantum vacuum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_energy). Which is estimated at 10^113 J/m3 (or 10^107 J/cm3)... The FE device could be of very low conversion efficiency and still deliver usable amount of energy :)

PS
Wade, if you want me to stop posting news of the above kind into this thread, please let me know. I just see them as little signs of the forthcoming spring and wanted to share my joy with you all. But i am aware it could also turn up as a fleeting thaw before the next freeze :(

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Robert:

I almost want those posts to go on the FE physics thread:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?14129-Free-Energy-Physics&p=138564&viewfull=1#post138564

but it is OK for now. It may help some readers understand that FE is by no means "impossible," "contrary to the laws of physics," and the like. But theory is theory, and working devices are the only things that will really open eyes, and that is part of the conundrum. Until somebody does what Sparky Sweet did:

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

publicly and transparently, with no "proprietary technology" secrecy games, the "give me a billion dollars" games, and the like, it is all just theory and efforts that Godzilla easily defeats.

I woke up earlier than normal (a lot going on in my head these days :) ), and decided to revise another essay:

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

After that timeline that I revised yesterday, there is only very small stuff left on my site to revise. Several years ago, as I began to envision the essay that I plan to publish in August, I also wanted to revise my entire site and get the essays in line with how I write today. Well, it took me a year, but I was able to write that essay and revise my site, which I am very happy about. Those two efforts will likely not be repeated in my lifetime. I plan to revise my big essay every few years, for new scientific findings, other events, and revising some sections when I have the time to do a more thorough job, and run my "choir" forum, and maybe post at Avalon, too, but that is about all that I plan to do, if I even have time for that, as I resume my career.

Back to bed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I knocked off another essay revision in about an hour:

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

Those most recent essays are getting little more than grammar changes.

One thing that the choir will not be doing is bringing up "news" of the latest inventor of the hour, the TED speaker who seems to be dealing with energy like I do (that has never happened and likely never will), and those approaches that are really little more than gossip, where YouTube surfers throw something that they stumbled into in my lap, to see what I think about it. I get that all the time today, and it is not helpful, for either the surfer or me.

The choir is going to be about my work, and the analyses, understandings, and discussion will be about my work and the related subject matter, not what people saw on the news, YouTube, or TED. My essay's subject matter goes far, far beyond the news of the day. About the only current events that will be relevant to my work will be new scientific papers on the subjects that my work addresses, or if somebody gives away working FE devices that can immediately power somebody's home. If anybody does that any time soon, my work will largely be finished (or just beginning, if I am lucky), and I will get in line with everybody else for my FE machine. But I am not counting on that happening any time soon. Recent efforts by newbies to make FE happen on their lunch hours ("Here are the blueprints for you to go tinker!") I have absolutely no interest in, but I am continually bombarded with stuff like that by people around me, who are all scientifically illiterate, who think that I am interested in distractions like that.

If there is somebody out there who seems to have a message like mine, the ball will be in their court to become familiar with my work, and then write about it in an intelligent way, so that they can demonstrate their understanding of it. If it is keen enough, I will invite them into the choir. I am looking for nothing less, which is also why building the choir is going to be slow process.

I have constantly received that gossipy, "Hey, look at this YouTube video, it is just like what you are doing!", but I doubt that I have ever encountered one that did. To one degree or another, they have all been mired in the scarcity paradigm, which is generally the opposite of what I am doing. People have to gain understandings far deeper than "Hey Wade, he is talking about energy just like you are!" if they are going to be of any use for what I will be attempting. The good news is that I have made the curriculum for study, and anybody whom I will seek to invite into the choir will not come up for air for months or years. And that is fine. The biggest event in the human journey will not manifest by people surfing the Internet, watching YouTube, and thinking that they have it all figured out. If my work is too hard to digest, then that person is not suited for what I am doing, and that is fine, as I am looking for needles in haystacks. I will not be looking for all the people who will not comprehend my work, but the few who will. I am meeting my readers far more than halfway, and they will have to do the work if they will become useful for what I am attempting, and it will be good for far more than "merely" helping FE manifest in the public sphere. Raising one's awareness is never a waste of time.

I caught an unanticipated little break in the social/hiking hurricane of these several days, but I will likely be fairly quiet until next week.

Yesterday, I returned to Cascade Pass for the first time since 1997, and that is where I came the closest to dying, in my stupid youth:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=196769&viewfull=1#post196769

I attached a second picture to do it justice, and I was kind of shocked to see how much that glacier has shrunken since I was last there. It used to wrap around that rock outcrop that it now sits above:

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

That is why likely it was called "yawning" (and I climbed into its "mouth" in 1990), but it no longer yawns. (this picture from 2007, at the bottom of the page, I believe, shows how much its snout as receded http://dougs.smugmug.com/Northwest-Hiking-Trails/Cascade-Pass-Trail-North/1744386_RLkmfC/86359598_TXkf3Pb )

It is not as dramatic as this:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lyman3.jpg

but it was still a sobering moment. Where I am sitting in those images was where a glacier sat a century ago, and it is completely gone.

http://www.easternsnow.org/proceedings/2009/pelto.pdf

Anybody who denies that there is global warming has a conflict of interest or is scientifically illiterate.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Here is the essay draft:

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

I am still in the middle of the editorial process, but the essay is in good enough shape to put before the public. I invite Avalonians to PM me comments, and I am particularly looking for mistakes of fact or interpretation. The final published version (version 1.0) will likely be published in August, but it might stretch into September, but I do not expect any dramatic changes between this draft and my final version. Anybody who wants to tell anybody about the essay draft is welcome to.

Unless I somehow come into a pile of money, that will be the last essay like it in my lifetime (and even then, I will likely only update that essay, like college textbooks editions, and I am probably finished with writing big essays). My future writings will likely be confined to discussions of that essay and my site, as I build the choir. I also have begun my own forum:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/forum1.htm

But Avalonians probably do not need to pay much attention to it, as most of my posts there I will also post here. I put up that draft so that my forum posts can refer the big essay. I will not be "poaching" Avalonians for my forum. A few Avalonians will likely be members of my forum, but I expect it to only be a few. I do not expect to have my forum cooking much before the year's end. Those in the "choir" will spend months studying my essay and site before they will have anything to say.

The published version will have several formats, for ease of reading, but the essay is designed to be read in the version that I have put on my site, as the essay is intended to be an online textbook, and anybody in the choir will have to go deep on the links to develop the comprehensive perspective that I am looking for.

Thanks to all Avalonians for their inputs. Being at Avalon was definitely part of my process for writing that essay and deciding to try to build a choir.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I spent the previous weekend with dear friends from my college days. My essay's subject matter was prominent, but as my friends discussed their lives, and those around me were also engaged in conversations in public places, it really struck me how almost all topics were, at their root, about coping with scarcity. Whether it was household issues, the news, national and international events, all of the conversations revolved around scarcity. I doubt that any of the participants thought of it that way, but they all sang the song of scarcity.

All of today's dominant ideologies are rooted in scarcity:

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

and those scarcity-based frameworks are largely invisible to their adherents.

The purpose of my essay and subsequent writing will be to amass a "choir" that sings the song of abundance as a way to help abundance manifest. Ultimately, my efforts are directed towards manifesting technology in the public sphere that produces both harmless and abundant energy:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5

which will be the human journey's biggest event. But those in the choir will have to do the work to recognize all the ways that scarcity manifests in thought and action, and be able to at least imagine what a world rooted in abundance can look like. That is going to be a task far easier said than done, but the work now begins.

Some will sing, some will listen, and some will ultimately take action. All are going to be necessary roles, so being in the choir is far from the only way to contribute, but deep thinking will be common to all participants that will help this effort bear fruit.

Best wishes in helping manifest a world of abundance,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am making a post for each chapter in the big essay, to begin the discussion, and the first is the summary and purpose:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#summary

It was one of the last chapters written, as part of making the essay more user-friendly. I was not only trained to become what I am, but I also had that voice in my head pipe up when asked, at the critical junctures of choosing my career and beginning my odyssey with Dennis Lee. As I relived those days repeatedly when I wrote about them, there have been times when I marveled over those events and wondered if they really happened, and I lived them. It is therefore understandable when readers have "skepticism" regarding my journey's events, which is one reason why I have documented them as thoroughly as I have, particularly my days with Dennis:

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

Also, anybody who does their homework will quickly realize that my story is far larger than I publicly admit.

My days with Dennis were far more than a life-wrecking adventure, but we gave the Global Controllers (AKA GCs, Godzilla, Big Boys) some interesting days at the office. Dennis gave them interesting days clear until they ran him out of the USA:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#ftc

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&highlight=wirec#post694872

Without the radicalization provided by those adventures, I likely would not be writing today. I was a science prodigy who left the academic path behind in college, but I resumed it after my radicalization. I vividly recall my energy dreams as a teenager, but I did not have any idea what I could do about them then. But I nurtured that dream during the next decade, with that voice changing my studies from science to business in college and landing me in the middle of Dennis's company after several disillusioning years in the post-graduate world. Without the radicalization of the next four years, I not only would not have had much worth saying, I also would not have had much motivation to say it.

Understanding the central role of energy on Earth was a long time in coming for me. As I have written, the energy crisis of 1973-1974 is what got many of us in the free energy (FE) field into our pursuits:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#journeys

and while I could see the big benefits that alternative energy could provide humanity (I had no awareness of FE until my days with Dennis http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#chasing ), I recall thinking more in financial than energy terms. As I attended business school and received my capitalistic indoctrination, it actively obscured the real economy with supply-and-demand curves and other artificial and often worthless ways of viewing economic activity. It was not until I wrote my big essay that the fictional nature of neoclassical economics really became clear to me:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#neoclassical

and it dominates economic theory today. It does not deal with the real world, but almost everybody that I know of focuses on the financial economy and thinks it is real, when it is only an accounting fiction with about zero macroeconomic relevance. The central banks have been merely printing money for the past several years:

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

which is a strategy that goes back at least as far as Rome, with its debasement of its Denarius:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#debase

Printing money solves no problems and is part of class warfare, which in the 2014 incarnation benefits Wall Street and the banks at the expense of the middle and poor classes, and those with fixed incomes, such as the elderly. It will end badly, just as with all previous orgies of money printing.

Understanding how fictional accounting measures can be was part of my awakening process, and when I studied Peak Oiler literature, beginning in 2003:

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

soon after encountering Bucky Fuller's work:

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

the path to writing my big essay began. Scientists had no respect for economists, and while I also had little respect for them, as I studied the journey of life on Earth and the human journey, the delusions of economists continued to become clearer. Although I had already suspected it, it also became clear that economists were simply intellectual warriors for the capital class:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#smith

and it was up to people like Marx to eventually point that out:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#marx1

Classical economists were more like court historians than dispassionate academics who took a scientific approach to their studies. They really were about creating an egocentric view of economic activity, and if people's perspectives could be kept at that level, then they were easily deceived and manipulated. That was really the point of the economics profession: class management. They were really little different than the priesthood that deified elites:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#divinity

If anybody wants to understand how the world really works, they need to throw away almost everything that economists have concocted over the centuries. But that is far from the only ideological crutch that needs to be discarded; all of the dominant ideologies have an egocentric, scarcity-based foundation:

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

and they all have to be discarded if somebody wants to understand how the world really works. The approach of mainstream science also suffers from its assumptions:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle

It was not until I traded notes with Brian O'Leary:

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

and encountered the Peak Oilers and related academics and scientists that I began to suspect that we were seeing a generalized addiction to scarcity, or more accurately, an addiction to their ideological frameworks that allowed them to survive in a world of scarcity. That was one of my original contributions to the milieu, but it took many years for me to realize what we were seeing.

During my adventures and note-trading sessions with fellow travelers, several of whom became close associates, I came to understand that FE, antigravity, and other epochal technologies have been on Earth for longer than I have been alive:

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

So, we were not chasing unicorns, but we had stumbled into realities that are far beyond the imagination of Joe Average.

As I resumed my science studies, the role of energy, from the beginnings of the universe, became clear, and there is great continuity between the journey of life on Earth and the human journey. In all cases, when the energy runs out, it all collapses:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#running

and humanity is headed towards a collapse of truly epochal proportions. Scientists and academics realize that unless we develop new energy sources, and pronto, that civilization is doomed. Bizarrely, they are also the groups most impervious to the idea of FE. Trading notes with Brian finally made that clear to me:

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

Everybody has a reason why they do not want FE in their lives, and the basic reaction is that they all know that the world as they know it will end, and everybody fears change, because change always means losers, and they do not want to be one. What none of them can seem to understand, or be willing to, is that FE means, for the first time ever, a world of abundance:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5

and in a world of abundance, everybody can win. But virtually nobody can see beyond their immediate self-interest (that egocentric awareness, reinforced by scarcity), and even those whom you might think would not feel threatened, the elites, are the most threatened of all, because elites become obsolete in a world of abundance:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear

They can't see that they would trade in their elite status in a world of scarcity for being a regular member of something that looks like heaven on Earth (AKA rule in hell rather than serve in heaven). A spiritual perspective can help people understand that twisted mentality:

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

Some of that mentality is so dark that it can damage "normal" people to consider it for long. I have dealt with the affable psychopaths that have been sicced on Dennis over the years:

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

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#tale

(and some may be free-lancers http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#libel ; http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#libel) and it was educational to see how easily average people fell under their spell. Naïveté, gullibility, and a self-serving orientation can be deadly in the FE field.

After witnessing mind-boggling and life-shortening heroism, and witnessing its futility, I decided on a different approach, which has informed my efforts since 2004. I have called it the lamb's path, and I plan to build a "choir" whose members can sing the abundance song before FE devices are delivered to their homes. Those people are going to be needles in haystacks, at somewhere less than one-in-a-thousand in the general population:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle

Consequently, the social movement approach:

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

will not work for what I am attempting, but the unprecedented tool of the Internet gives me a global reach, and I can search for those needles. If I can get a choir going, those whom I seek will be attracted to a song that they have longed for for their entire lives. They can be as few as one-in-a-million for my plan to work. From my experiences in this milieu, and seeing related milieus:

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

I think that I am likely looking for people who are around one-in-5,000 to one-in-10,000 people, so more than 100 times as many probably exist as I need, so I like those odds. Nobody has ever tried anything remotely like what I am embarking on with the publication of my essay and beginning my forum. I know it will not be easy, but I also designed my effort so that I do not need money to do it, and I can do it for the rest of my life, or until my brain finally fails.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I write my forum posts, I think about my essay draft and can tweak it a little. I just added the second paragraph below to my essay:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patent1

"Most Americans have no awareness of the issue, but the USA’s federal government has classified thousands of patents, largely energy-related patents, according to credible sources. The 1971 guide for classifying patented technologies extended to photovoltaics that had efficiencies of greater than 10% or any energy conversion technology that achieved greater than 70-80% efficiency. FE devices are often called “over-unity” because they produce more energy than it takes to run them. Consequently, any over-unity device was subject to being classified.

"There are many areas like that, where the rationale for suppression is at least plausible, but it is then abused by evil-minded people as they protect the rackets, and the theoretical spirit of the law and its enforcement are as different as night and day. I saw it many times during my journey with Dennis, and saw it many times in the medical racket. Protecting the public is the greatest protection racket on Earth, which extends to consumer protection laws and national security."

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another essay tweaked:

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

Back to work,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just revised the public interaction page of my site:

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

and that may be the last part of my site that I update for now, as I focus on getting the final version of the big essay ready, and get my forum ready.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This post is on the second chapter of my essay, on energy and the industrialized world:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#industrialized

It was oriented around a typical day in my life, and the role that energy plays. Later in the essay, I asked readers to imagine their daily lives and the role that energy plays:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagineenergy

That can be a great way for people to begin to understand just how important energy is in their lives. I also noted that the world's children in the poor parts of today's world have access to less than 1% of the energy that I do, and I asked how that came to be. Near the essay's end, I noted how the essay answered that question:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#poor

Essentially, those poor children all live in parts of the world that the West conquered and subjugated, and those children still live in a world dominated by the West, where those children will never have access to the kind of energy that I do, as long as the world economy is based on hydrocarbon energy, and particularly since Peak Oil was reached in 2006:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil

Abundant energy is the only hope for those children, and even the West has been declining, ever since the first oil crisis of 1973-1974:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hubbert

Energy sustains my lifestyle today, and running out of energy will mean the end of it. FE means a new epoch of the human journey:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5

and one that almost nobody today can even imagine. Making it imaginable is really the point of my work:

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This post is about the third chapter of my essay, on the toolset of mainstream science:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#toolset

Humans are Earth's leading tool-using species, and our tools made us. Stone tools and the control of fire allowed for the appearance of humans, and were the first epochal events in the human journey:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1

Out tools separated us from all other species, and the human journey has been on of increasing technical prowess and social organization, which allowed us to tap new energy sources and has culminated today in our industrialized world. The toolset of mainstream science is quite impressive, particularly when compared to 300 years ago, before the Industrial Revolution. Terms such Domestication Revolution, Industrial Revolution, and Scientific Revolution have been challenged in various corners as really being revolutions. Those challengers, in my opinion, think in terms of political or social revolutions, where people consciously and violently overthrew the previous political or social order. But that is only one definition of a revolution. Another definition is the "a sudden, complete, or marked change in something," which is the sense that those are called revolutions. The Domestication, Industrial, and Scientific Revolutions were all radical departures from previous practices, never before seen on Earth, and they all had deeply profound implications not only for humanity, but for all life on Earth, and while humans have benefitted, Earth's other denizens often suffered greatly, even to the point of extinction:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth1

Humanity stopped acting in harmony with nature, whatever harmony really means, when they learned to control fire:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1

Fire literally destroyed the local environments, and while humans first used fire to leave the trees and spread across the planet, they eventually used it to transform ecosystems into human-friendly environments, beginning about 50,000 years ago:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fires

Stone tools increased in sophistication over millions of years:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oldowan

and today's scientific tools can be incredible in their precision, with space telescopes, electron microscopes, mass spectrometers, atomic clocks, supercolliders, and other tools. Science is also emerging from its over-specialization, and scientific efforts are increasingly becoming multi-disciplinary.

Those increasingly sophisticated tools are being used in the process of discovery and analysis like never before. Of course, compared to the technologies that are being kept under wraps in the Above-Top-Secret world:

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

today's mainstream scientific tools resemble cavemen's clubs, but what is being used today by mainstream science is orders of magnitude more sophisticated than what Isaac Newton had available to him when he wrote the most influential scientific work in history:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica

In areas where investigation does not threaten vested interests, the tools are used fairly freely, and for most of my big essay's subject matter, the vested interests do not care about debates over dinosaurs and ancient mass extinctions, so they have not impacted the process very much. Most of my essay's subject matter deals with scientific findings in White Science, which also called mainstream, peer-reviewed science, and today's tools, used in increasingly sophisticated ways, have been radically changing how scientists view many dynamics of Earth's past and present, including how ecosystems function. Those findings are far from complete, if they ever will be, and my essay is intended to be an online textbook. I envision periodic revisions, like textbook editions, which will be partly to reflect new findings and controversies, as well as some deeper dives into various subjects, as there was only so much that a one-man show could accomplish in writing that essay.

I plan to follow the controversies and cutting edge findings that the essay covers, and I hope that a significant aspect of my future public work will be to discuss those new findings and controversies. I doubt that we will attempt to adjudicate any of those issues, but become aware of them, and be willing to revise our views as more is known. That is the ideal process of science, and sometimes it leads to a revolution, in the Kuhnian sense:

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

Of course, when FE, antigravity, and related technologies escape past the wall erected by organized suppression, the biggest scientific revolution of all will likely be at hand, and the science of consciousness may be the greatest science of all. I hope that I live to see it come to pass, and the point of my work is helping it come to pass.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Pals are weighing in with edits and other observations, and as I write these chapter posts, I go back and revise the essay. For instance, I just added the second paragraph below to the essay. I had wanted to write about it recently, and the opportunity came as I was thinking about the post on the chapter on the orthodox framework and its limitations:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#orthodox

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

Although the greatest physicists were arguably 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 falsifies the materialistic theories of consciousness. Millions of people had similar experiences during the last decades of the 20th century when performing such exercises. 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 greatly abuse when attacking ideas and phenomena outside of their ability to investigate or that conflict with their materialistic assumptions. In reality, those “skeptics” are anti-scientists, as they try to deny that such abilities of consciousness are even worthy of being scientifically investigated. That they defend materialism with flawed logic, dishonesty, and dirty tricks is one thing, but all too often, as I performed the studies that led to this essay, I saw mainstream scientists trust the “skeptics” for their pronouncements on the validity of “paranormal” phenomena. That would be like asking a Wall Street executive in the 1950s what his opinion of communism was.

I was also regularly dismayed by orthodox scientific and academic works that dealt with the human brain, consciousness, human nature, UFOs, FE technology, and the like, where the authors accepted declassified government documents at face value (as in not wondering what else remained classified, for starters) or looked no further than 19th century investigations. Direct personal experience is far more valuable than all of the experimental evidence that can be amassed; there is no substitute for it, as that is where knowledge comes from. Armchair scientists who accept the skeptics' word for it have taken the easy way out and rely on highly unreliable "investigators" to tell them about the nature of reality. They consequently do not have informed opinions, or perhaps more accurately, they have disinformed opinions. The holy warriors’ efforts aside, the scientific data is impressive regarding what has been called “psi” and other terms, which clearly demonstrated abilities of consciousness that are still denied and neglected by mainstream science. Brian O'Leary advocated scientific testing of paranormal phenomena, but he was a voice in the wilderness.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another example of an addition to the essay draft:


"Jared Diamond noted that Eurasia was spread along an east-west axis, while Africa and the Americas were north-south. Similar to the migration of Asian mammals into Europe, or the exchange when Africa collided with Eurasia, it was easier for cultural innovations to spread along the same latitude, as they would move through similar biomes. North-south diffusion is far more difficult, as it moves through different biomes, such as tropical forests and temperate deserts. Eurasia's geography was more conducive to communicating innovations, which made it more cosmopolitan than sub-Saharan Africa or the Americas, which helped them technologically advance at a faster pace. Isolated peoples are usually culturally and technologically backward compared to nearby peoples who are more cosmopolitan, and people isolated by mountainous geography, such as the Scottish Highlands, the Balkans, Appalachia, and Southeast Asia were relatively primitive compared to those around them. Negritos and aboriginal Australians are classic instances of isolated peoples keeping their cultures intact, which provided a window into the human past, but their cultures also did not "progress," which included their technology."


Most of my additions now are not new concepts in the essay, but combining ideas already presented, to make the patterns and relationships clearer.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The gradual rollout of my essay and building my forum is a good thing. I am in no rush. As I expected, the leading candidates for my choir all modestly say that they may not have what I am looking for. However, I have seen them all singing already, and very close to the song that the choir will be singing. Those who will think that they are the most qualified will often be the least qualified. People having their hearts in the right place is my number one qualification with a bullet. Next to that, nothing else really matters:

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

My work is obviously not just some feel good exercise, but the choir needs to achieve the comprehensive perspective that Bucky wrote about:

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

I have a highly specific intention for my work, and probably nobody today can really comprehend it, and that is OK. But, I need to get the choir trained on it in the early stages. My current approach was forged by a 40-year journey, with much of it being events that I probably should not have survived. I have plenty of fellow travelers who came to untimely ends and wrecked lives that they never recovered from, directly due to their adventures. Dennis should be dead dozens of times over. Without my spiritual training and overgrown Boy Scout attributes:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts

I would not have walked my path very far, but would have fallen by the wayside almost immediately.

I carried Dennis's and Brian's spears for several Level 10 efforts:

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

and Level 10 efforts have never come close to working, but almost everybody who glimpses FE's potential immediately wants to mount some kind of Level 10 effort, and I can tell that what I have written about has not yet sunk in with them.

Part of this post will make it into my site, as a lead-in to my forum work. My goal is bringing FE technology to the public. As I make very clear in my essay, tapping the new energy source was the epochal event:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyevent

Everything followed from that. When I was with Dennis, mounting our efforts, what I often saw was people who immediately began thinking down the road a ways, and they foresaw problems with the "gold rush" that would happen, and they wanted to plan around events that never happened. I do not like war analogies that much, but two axioms of war are that generals are always ready to fight the previous war, and all battle plans look great until the first shot is fired. Here is way to help people understand what my approach is.

Almost nobody on Earth today has the slightest idea what abundance means, and when they think of FE, they immediately try to stuff it into their scarcity-based framework. And that is for the very few people who get past outright denial of FE:

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

The view from here into the future is so scary that most people refuse to glimpse it, although we have plenty of post-apocalyptic movies that depict what it could look like when it hits the fan. The Peak Oilers:

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

have been beating the drums of doom for the past decade, and the "progressives" feted them while Brian and his message of abundance was completely shut out from the same venues. Those kinds of reactions were what caused Brian to wonder if humanity was really a sentient species:

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

When almost anybody looks forward from today, fear predominates, and even when they glimpse FE, they cannot see past the framework of scarcity that exists today, and I see them getting all wrapped up in stuff that would truly be meaningless with the arrival of FE. Detailed battle plans and the like are not important today. The first order of business is people simply imagining abundance:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5

Almost nobody on Earth today is capable of even that, and 99.99% of them will not begin to understand until FE is delivered into their lives. That was also the case with the previous epochal events. Nobody could imagine it before it happened:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine

FE will be the biggest wild card in the human journey, and the choir's first task is to mentally go forward and see what the world based on abundance can look like:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748

and if they can live there often enough, instead of looking ahead from a world of scarcity, and wondering how the hell we can get there from here, they will be looking backward to today (and further, to the Sun's birth) from a place of abundance. When enough people can do that, then the choir will be cooking. They will understand the principles of abundance and have the vision, and that will guide their actions, not the murky view forward that most are trapped in today, as they are mired in scarcity.

That is not going to be an easy trick, and is why I am looking for needles in haystacks.

Back to chores.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Originally posted by Wade Frazier : "Although the greatest physicists were arguably mystical in their orientation, they rarely explored the nature of consciousness in the way that modern human potential efforts have."


"..it was demonstrated to me, very dramatically, that everybody inherently possesses psychic abilities, which falsifies the materialistic theories of consciousness."


"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 greatly abuse when attacking ideas and phenomena outside of their ability to investigate or that conflict with their materialistic assumptions."


Hello Wade,


While reading your above post #3786 I felt the great need to share something here -

About two weeks ago I had the urge to follow a google search under the words - "the Study of consciousness" in Hebrew, and immediatly encountered this website- http://www.hamataraemet.org/


It was a profound surprise for me to find this new establishment fonded in Israel just a few weeks before.

Hamatara - Emet (purpose = Truth)
"The Interdisciplinary institute for Science and Consciousnes."

"This is a gathering of dozens of researchers from various disciplines and from different sectors. Physicists and psychologists, chemists and philosophers, biologists and sociologists, mathematicians and educators, clinicians and consultants from diverse backgrounds. Who responded to the calling voice and joined together to create a Centre that will enable, encourage and foster research in the bold areas that are between science and consciousness, matter and spirit. This knowledge is based on the personal experience of the majority, and the understanding that the Academy in its current format has difficulty accepting research in these areas, even if they are made in accordance with the scientific method."



"The Institute Vision

We stand at a historic crossroads of our time in the chronology of science. More and more researchers from all fields of science are beginning to speak openly about the possibility of the existence of a reality that can not be absorbed in the five senses. Reality that is above time and space and is not a derivative of the thing or things to do with the limitations and impossibilities of absorption. This turning point may be due to surface paradigm shift. The paradigm shift is not reflected in a change in the scientific method itself but rather in the willingness to explore and openly discuss things, who so far remained outside the conventional scientific discussion. The change is openly expressed scientifically, in an expanded areas of research and with the experience of more efficient integration between the classical branches of scientific knowledge and other fields of knowledge."


I have not yet dive deep into the research and material published so far due to lack of time, but by scanning the website, the articles, the projects and the participants, there seem to be a surprising amount of openess despite the wide range of 'states of wakefulnes'.
The English translation of the website seems to be still in it's diapers
http://www.en.hamataraemet.org/
I sent them a short message and already recieved a fast reply to contact them with a phone number.


There are about 22 writers of scientific and research articles, between them Immanuel Velikovsky's daughter who is devoted to perpetuating her father's work (to all the upheaval it caused).
Free energy was already mentioned and put on the table as a subject of validity, but no doubt that there is still a long way to go until any grasp of even part or the majority of the understanding derived from your essey, Wade.

But with the concept of what you wrote above, this may be an encouraging harbinger, despite some red dots here and there, and who knows, maybe an exposure to your essey, may contribute somehow.

Many Blessings to you, my prayers and support for the gathering of the choir, all will work out at the right time and in the right divine order.


Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Limor:

I met Brian O at a national conference for one of those kinds of organizations:

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

There have been many attempts to bridge science and religion, science and consciousness, and the like. Many such efforts have been very worthy. It is related to the increasing multi-disciplinary efforts that we see in science and academia. The walls have been slowly coming down. The Silva course was a scientific approach to meditation:

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

Yogananda purposefully tried to help bridge the East and West. Heck, if the works on Jesus's lost years are credited, he gained a lot of his enlightenment in the East, while hanging out with Tibetan masters. Attempts to bridge the right and left, East and West, science and consciousness, male and female, have been around for a while. :)

Yes, scientists who have mystical awakenings are often open to the idea of FE. My FE fellow travelers were mostly scientists who had their mystical awakening, and all roads then lead to FE. :)

While those perspectives can be immensely helpful, they have rarely created a unified focus on the leverage points, and energy is the Big One. It dwarfs everything else happening on the planet today. If they want to read my work and then write about it, I will see if any of them might sing with me. :)

Thanks for being out there.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This chapter, on the orthodox framework and its limitations:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#orthodox

will be controversial. Like all ideals, the ideal of science may not be attainable, although, as with all ideals, it is likely worth striving for. The rough application of the scientific method has been responsible for great improvements in humanity's standard of living. However, it has also been put to evil use, such as building nuclear weapons and vivisection, which was sometimes performed on humans, such as in the Nazi death camps, and some of those scientists then became heroes who entertained and educated American children:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nazicia

The tensions between specialists, generalists, and inventors have been critical to the "progress" of science:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#specialists

but much of mainstream science has been rendered irrelevant to solving the big problems that face humanity, and energy most importantly:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf1

The zero-point field has gone by many names:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#manning

and that is the field that provides free energy ("FE"), but the Global Controllers have the lid tightly on that situation.

There have been numerous philosophers of science, including Popper, Kuhn, and Sagan, but as the quantum enigma shows us, there may well be no such thing as objectivity:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann

That ventures into the unprovable assumptions of materialism, and there is a great deal of evidence that materialism sits on a false foundation. There are no "laws" of physics; only theories:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oleary

The greatest physicists were keenly aware of the limits of science:

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

and most of my fellow travelers in the FE field were scientists who had their mystical awakening, which can end careers, as those scientists no longer "drink the Kool-Aid" of materialism, which is essentially a working hypothesis that mainstream science operates under.

In the end, it pays to recognize the benefits of the scientific framework (AKA paradigm), while also recognizing its limitations. That chapter is partly intended as a caveat for the rest of the essay. Mainstream ("white") science has been immensely useful, and tracing the history of Earth to the Industrial Revolution is the province of mainstream science, and I think that it has done a good job of investigating that history, and the investigation is far from finished, and in many ways has barely begun.

Even if people do not agree with mainstream science's findings, it is important to know what those findings are. I have found that those who reject evolutionary theory are almost without exception scientifically illiterate. The essay is largely intended to help non-scientists gain enough scientific literacy to understand the role of energy in the journey of life on Earth, the epochal importance of humanity's tapping new energy sources, and what FE's potential is. If readers can achieve that, my work is largely finished.

Best,

Wade

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[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This chapter, on energy and chemistry:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chemistry

is trying to get a few important concepts across, and the primary one was that energy is stored in electron bonds. The fossil fuels that power the world are comprised of electron energy that came from captured photon energy from the Sun. Sunlight was captured many millions of years ago, and 99.99+% of the energy captured by photosynthesis was released, and a tiny fraction was retained that geological processes turned into oil.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oilformation

Nearly all oil ever created leaked back into the oceans, and what humanity is mining with abandon today is the tiny remnant that got trapped.

The way that energy is absorbed and released between atoms is the basis for chemistry. Temperature, activation energy, quantum leaping, and other ideas are introduced in that chapter that make the essay easier to digest. I was a chemistry prodigy in school, and I always tried to think molecularly about many issues, particularly regarding energy.

Another important concept in that chapter was chemical reactions that absorb energy, and those that release it:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#budget

The primary energy absorbing reaction on Earth is photosynthesis. For all ecosystems (except for some chemosynthetic extremophile communities), that is the primary energy that runs the show, and all organisms have a "budget" decision of whether they use their energy to build themselves (anabolic) or run themselves (catabolic). Civilizations face the same decisions, and in Economics 101 classes, it is called the "guns or butter" decision.

I tried to make that chapter short, to cover only the important rudiments so that the essay was better understood, but it can take a great deal of study for those concepts to sink in. I skimmed over huge chunks of the corpus of science in a few pages, but those chunks are vitally important for understanding how energy runs the show and always has.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am going to be quiet for a few days. I just put up my first movie! :)

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enzyme

if I start to have bandwidth problems, I may remove it, but it was one that I kept thinking would help readers, even though one click from my essay took them to it.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have some unexpected time, and will make another chapter post, on the formation and early development of the Sun and Earth:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#formation

The subject matter in the essay is all interesting and important to me, and the reasons I think become clear as the essay progresses, but this chapter I think touches on stories that more people find interesting.

The universe appearing in an instant, called the Big Bang, sure can seem like Genesis warmed over. The formation of the Sun and the planets from an accretion disk that was made of the debris of earlier stars is also part of mainstream science's creation story. It is accurate? There seems to be plenty of evidence that supports that story, and it really says nothing about consciousness. There are only two things that scientists are sure exists: energy and consciousness; but scientists do not know what either of them is.

How life was able to self-organize from a jumble of chemicals is one of the most improbable stories in all of science, but may be true. Even if true, it still says nothing about a creator or lack of one, and scientists that I consider enlightened say as much. Einstein was astonished at the universe's order, which revealed an intelligence that makes all human thought utterly insignificant:

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

Even if the materialistic tale told by science is far from the whole picture, what it has to say within its framework is highly important. There is no consensus in mainstream science regarding how life came to be on Earth. But what scientists have persuasively demonstrated, at least to me, is that all life on Earth today descended from one bacterium ("LUCA") more than three billion years ago:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#luca

LUCA has so many traits that are so complex that it leads to the idea that plenty of evolution happened before LUCA appeared, which for all science knows was seeded here by ETs and then left to evolve. The theories of what existed before LUCA barely even reach the hypothesis level, but are more like wild guesses.

But after LUCA, the story of life on Earth marched onward, and there are not many large gaps in the data that tell how life evolved over the eons. Scientists are continually making discoveries that shorten the gaps, and the primary upshot of Darwin's work was descent with modification, and more than 150 years later, that idea is still the one that all scientists use, and I know of no exceptions. Even if ETs intervened somewhere along the way, descent with modification is how life on Earth works, and likely worked since LUCA.

That does not mean that scientists have it all figured out, and battles of the hypotheses are striking aspects of mainstream science. Any scientist with a hypothesis considered important enough can expect that it will be attacked, and attempts will be made to falsify it. That is the nature of the profession.

As a prelude to that chapter, I present a table of significant energy events in Earth's history:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyevents

an abbreviated scale of geologic time:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#geologictime1

and an early Earth timeline before the rise of complex life less than 600 million years ago:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#keyevents1

The eon of complex life is a recent development, as far as Earth's age goes, and scientists do not expect it to last all that much longer, with most estimates having it ending within a billion years, and as few as 500 million years.

Thinking in terms of "deep time" can be very challenging. A joke in scientific circles is a scientist telling a lay audience that the Sun will wipe out Earth in five billion years, and a woman in the audience had a fit. When they finally calmed her down, she said that she thought that he said five million years. After she realized her folly, she was comforted to know that it would billions instead of millions.

Many interacting dynamics have impacted life on Earth:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dynamics

and life processes have dramatically impacted Earth's physical and chemical processes, with the most important being how photosynthesis generated the atmospheric oxygen and ozone layer that protected Earth's ocean from being lost to space, and prevented Earth from becoming a lifeless rock like Mars:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hydrogen

So, life saved life in that instance. Without the oceans, there would not have been plate tectonics. Tectonic du hydrated rocks and led to the continents, which are made of lighter granitic rock that floats on the denser basaltic crust. Those are big, big subjects that the essay can only skim, but gaining a basic understanding of them is important for understanding the journey of life on Earth. I hope that the discussion of that chapter's material is wide-ranging.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Hi Wade,

Very interesting discussion for examination and observation, my below response relates only to the reliance of mainstream science on the accaptable basic assumption of the formation and early development of the Sun and Earth.

The awarness of the acceptable science today does not recognise or allow to include the exsistance of inteligent life outside of earth, (said in an understatement, the implications are beyond conception at this stage), and since we do know that life from outside do not only exist, but also bring with it many different physical laws and cosmic probabilities that are different from the known, then It is more than possible that the scientific establishments when it comes to the hypothesis of evolution of celestial bodies and in particular our earth and the objects in the galaxy, has picked up the ball and ran with it to the wrong direction. It is quite an uncomfortable thought since quite a lot of 'time' and investment revolve around a permise such as the suggested evolution, and a lot is leaning against it. The creation of matter, may come in a very different method to that of the current accaptable norm on earth.

For now, until formal disclosure will be made and taken into consideration to it's really quite large extent (which may take many years.. Unless a more developed way of thinking enters into the equation), the great amount of 'missing data' and missing tools in the tool box makes most scientific hypotheses and conclusions with regards to the creative process of stars, planets and galaxies to be rather wobbly

It may be possible to claim that earthly science today has reached a good level of knowingness on what is the life processes and how they work, but maybe not yet when it comes to the primary cause of the operation, the catalyst of it, the 'hand' that is pushing the first domino cube.

All the best,

Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

Yes indeed, many processes are understood, at least in their rudiments, of how they operate today. And there is a great deal of robust evidence of how they operated in the past. Darwin's idea of descent with modification is pretty much unassailable. How it all began, however, is pretty mysterious, but scientists have tilted at that windmill, and have made some SWAGs, some with some evidence behind them. The Big Bang is another fantastic scenario of "The Beginning."

Also, the entire corpus of science says nothing at all about intent, such as creator kicking it all off. As I recently wrote, the materialism of mainstream science is one of its limitations, which has also led to great evils.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle

The greatest scientists were not too enamored with the corpus of science or even its ability to really explain the important stuff:

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

But that all does not make the fringe stuff valid, either, and I have waded through a great deal of fringe chaff over the years, as various people concoct their hypotheses. For instance, I am still on the fringes of the Velikovsky controversy. V's hypothesis does not hold up, for many reasons. His ideas of young planets, colliding planets, and the like are not persuasive. His literalist interpretations of ancient texts are also off-base, IMO. There is little evidence that Old Testament tales have much historical truth to them, being about 10% fact and 90% fiction:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tales

so literal interpretations of them are going to be exercises in fantasy. Likewise, catastrophists have been trying to explain the megafauna extinctions as being caused by celestial events.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#velikovsky

but their stuff does not add up.

So, seeking the truth amongst all the various players grinding their axes is not easy, but the approach of science, where doubt instead of faith is its guiding principle, is largely the reason for its successes. Nobody has to believe anything. At least, that is the ideal. As I have written, materialism is a faith, and the best scientists admitted it. The hack class, with members like Sagan, helped make it into a religion. Brian O was an advocate of scientific testing of paranormal phenomena:

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

I had many mind-blowing experiences, and performed some of my own experiments:

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

As I wrote earlier:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=861944&viewfull=1#post861944

the blithe dismissals of evidence that falsifies materialist theories of consciousness has been pretty maddening to witness, from otherwise intelligent scientists. All too often, they look to the "skeptics" for the truth of such matters, when they are about the most dishonest group that I have yet encountered:

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

and that is saying something. On the other end of things, did I ever get tired of the naïve, egocentric, impractical, pseudo-mystical New Age stuff:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage

To me, they are all variations of the primary lesson of my journey: personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity:

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

In a world of scarcity, people sell out their sentience for the promise of a full belly, and all actions committed against the "out-group" are justified. Monkeys do that, and human rationales for out-group treatment are only monkey talk. Orwell did not miss that:

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

Those kinds of behaviors are what led Brian to wonder if humanity is really a sentient species:

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

I will be out of touch for a few days starting soon, but I can put up another chapter post.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Here is another chapter post, on early life on Earth:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#life

While studying the eon of complex life has been the primary predilection of fossil hunters and many scientists who specialize in Earth's past, the three billion years of life on Earth before the rise of complex life has been the subject of increasing investigation, and while the results will always be subject to challenge, just as with all science, the further back we go, the sketchier the evidence can be. However, the ever-expanding scientific toolset, and ingenious ways to use them, have been rolling back the frontiers of investigation of those times. The findings have often been enthralling, and many processes, including life processes and geophysical and geochemical processes, have been explored.

Many of the most important events in the journey of life on Earth happened long before complex life arose on Earth. As mentioned previously, oxygenic photosynthesis saved the global ocean:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hydrogen

and hence all life on Earth. Earth's surface would look like a cross between Venus's and Mars's if not for oxygenic photosynthesis.

Above all else, life is an energetic process:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lifeenergy

Without life's ability to capture energy, Earth would be sterile.

LUCA had all the features that made life work:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#luca

All life runs on ATP:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#atp

and enzymes were life's greatest energy innovations:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enzyme

Many key biological innovations in the journey of life on Earth likely happened only once, and all life with those features had a single common ancestor. More than two billion years ago, the key to the rise of complex life was when an archaean enveloped a bacterium and both lived. The complex cell was thus born:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mitochondria

That first mitochondria probably produced hydrogen:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#complex

All complex life on Earth descended from that event. Another breakthrough was when complex cells learned to use oxygen to respire with:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#aerobic

Aerobic respiration led to food chains. There is great controversy today over the role of oxygen in the rise of complex life. In one way or another, life removed the iron from the oceans and formed the iron deposits that humanity mines today:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bif

The first ice age may have coincided with the first oxygenation of the atmosphere:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#huronian

and oxygenation may have been the ultimate cause of that ice age.

The continents began forming early on:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#glacier1

and there have been several supercontinents in Earth's history:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#supercontinents

Supercontinents may well have led to the most momentous events in the history of complex life. Supercontinents were related to the greatest ice age in Earth's history:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cryogenian1

and the greatest mass extinction:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction

When that greatest ice age ended, the oceans were oxygenated and complex life arose, but that is a subject for the next chapter. About a billion years ago, grazing began:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#grazing

and predation pressures may have accelerated evolution, in its first "arms race":

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#predation1

Sexual reproduction also appeared around the same time, again as a way to quicken evolutionary adaptation:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sex

Plants appeared before animals did:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chloroplast

and plants colonized land before animals did, to form the base of the food chain. The split of plants and animals was how different cousins decided to play the energy game, and their paths were one-way. Trees would never become Ents, as their path precluded muscles and other attributes of animals:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#path1

The "decisions" of life were one-way tickets, where much success down one evolutionary path precluded taking others. That will become more evident later in the story.

The energy production methods of complex cells also lead to their demise, and cell aging and death seem to be related to how mitochondria age:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#freeradicals

All biological "machines" wear out and are continually being replaced, and aging is the inability to perfectly replace the machinery, as each version is a little less effective.

Life's basics were developed long before the rise of complex life. I find those "boring" billions of years quite fascinating, and those investigations are in their early stages.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Here is the last chapter post before I go quiet for a few days, on the biggest ice age ever, and the nature of scientific controversies:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cryogenian1

The idea of an ice age is only a few hundred years old, similar to the idea of a galaxy. An ice age as a scientific hypothesis first appeared in 1837, and by 150 years ago, the idea of an ice age was accepted, based on the evidence, but nobody knew why. Not until about century ago was a cause accepted:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#milankovitch

but we now know that Milankovitch's theory only identified a proximate cause, not the ultimate one. The ultimate cause of the current ice age is falling carbon dioxide levels:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#volcanism3

which the current age of fossil fuels is reversing:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proximate1

Only in my lifetime was the concept of plate tectonics accepted,

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wegener

and when it was, many advances were made in geophysics, and before long, the idea of a great ice age just before complex life arose was proposed, and runaway effects have been proposed for the dynamics that led to that great ice age, also called "Snowball Earth":

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gaia

I decided to use the Snowball Earth issue as an example of how hypothesis are posited and treated, and while the idea of a huge ice age back then is likely here to stay, many other hypotheses have been proposed to explain the evidence:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#challenges

This is an area of rich controversy that has really only been ignited in the past generation, and intensive research is ongoing. This is one of many areas that I look forward to watching develop. That is one reason why I expect to update my essay periodically: to incorporate new scientific findings.

Soon after that Snowball Earth period ended, the greatest isotopic anomaly in Earth's history happened:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#shuram

I will be very surprised that anomaly had nothing to do with what happened next: the rise of complex life. We have fossils of individual bacteria that go back about 1.5 billion years:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fossil

and around a billion years of fossils here and there give sporadic evidence of what was happening in that microscopic world. We have algae fossils at about 1.2 billion years ago:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#algae1

and the first fossils of what we can call animals, which were sponges, appeared around 750 million years ago:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#animals

The long ramp to the Cambrian Explosion has been investigated enough so far that the "explosion" that so vexed Darwin was not so explosive after all. And before the Cambrian Explosion was a period that is the last one to be investigated by science, and some of the most bizarre creatures to modern eyes lived then, in what is today called the Ediacaran Period:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ediacaran

and the first animals visible to the naked eye appeared then. Today, it is hard to even call them animals, but few people would call sponges animals, either. For nearly 30 million years, the Ediacaran fauna "ruled" the oceans, and then all disappeared in the first mass extinction of the eon of complex life. Today, the Ediacaran fauna are generally seen as early experiments with complex life, and key aspects of them became the template for complex life afterward, such as bilateral symmetry:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#keyevents2

Some Ediacaran fauna became the ancestors of today's complex life, including us humans, while most died out completely and left no descendants. This is another fascinating chapter in the history of life on Earth, and I look forward to future findings.

I am signing off now for a few days,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Ah, I could not help myself…

The USA is bombing Iraq again. How familiar. Oil will always be the ultimate reason behind the West's actions in the Middle East:

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

The West's goals, just like a century ago, are to Balkanize the region and turn it into small states that can be easily dominated:

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

The USA's bombing on behalf Iraq's "government" is just more of the same, and anybody can be forgiven for suspecting that those "terrorists" in Iraq today are somehow on the USA's payroll, as usual.

OK, now to run off.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Hi Wade, I know you are signing off for a couple of days, I will simply leave this post here if that is okay, with no urgent need to relate to it.


Hi Limor:

Yes indeed, many processes are understood, at least in their rudiments, of how they operate today. And there is a great deal of robust evidence of how they operated in the past. Darwin's idea of descent with modification is pretty much unassailable. How it all began, however, is pretty mysterious, but scientists have tilted at that windmill, and have made some SWAGs, some with some evidence behind them. The Big Bang is another fantastic scenario of "The Beginning."

Also, the entire corpus of science says nothing at all about intent, such as creator kicking it all off. As I recently wrote, the materialism of mainstream science is one of its limitations, which has also led to great evils.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle

The greatest scientists were not too enamored with the corpus of science or even its ability to really explain the important stuff:

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

But that all does not make the fringe stuff valid, either, and I have waded through a great deal of fringe chaff over the years, as various people concoct their hypotheses. For instance, I am still on the fringes of the Velikovsky controversy. V's hypothesis does not hold up, for many reasons. His ideas of young planets, colliding planets, and the like are not persuasive. His literalist interpretations of ancient texts are also off-base, IMO. There is little evidence that Old Testament tales have much historical truth to them, being about 10% fact and 90% fiction:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tales

so literal interpretations of them are going to be exercises in fantasy. Likewise, catastrophists have been trying to explain the megafauna extinctions as being caused by celestial events.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#velikovsky

but their stuff does not add up.

So, seeking the truth amongst all the various players grinding their axes is not easy, but the approach of science, where doubt instead of faith is its guiding principle, is largely the reason for its successes. Nobody has to believe anything. At least, that is the ideal. As I have written, materialism is a faith, and the best scientists admitted it. The hack class, with members like Sagan, helped make it into a religion. Brian O was an advocate of scientific testing of paranormal phenomena:

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

I had many mind-blowing experiences, and performed some of my own experiments:

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

As I wrote earlier:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=861944&viewfull=1#post861944

the blithe dismissals of evidence that falsifies materialist theories of consciousness has been pretty maddening to witness, from otherwise intelligent scientists. All too often, they look to the "skeptics" for the truth of such matters, when they are about the most dishonest group that I have yet encountered:

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

and that is saying something. On the other end of things, did I ever get tired of the naïve, egocentric, impractical, pseudo-mystical New Age stuff:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage

To me, they are all variations of the primary lesson of my journey: personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity:

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

In a world of scarcity, people sell out their sentience for the promise of a full belly, and all actions committed against the "out-group" are justified. Monkeys do that, and human rationales for out-group treatment are only monkey talk. Orwell did not miss that:

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

Those kinds of behaviors are what led Brian to wonder if humanity is really a sentient species:

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

I will be out of touch for a few days starting soon, but I can put up another chapter post.

Best,

Wade


Thank you. It feels as if our transitioning world today requires a walk on a tightrope with a pole on the hand, not quite being within any one side of the rope, but also being present with both, taking a point of observation that may be slightly higher but enjoying the validity of the two 'sides'. Indeed not an easy task to keep the balance at any given time.

Thank you for the reference to Velikovsky, I read your objectives before and it greatly resonate. I can understand and accept the rational you present there. I especially appreciate this bottom line - "Promoting symbols and myths as literal reality is a major component of how modern populations are controlled. "

It seems that some ancient texts, when are backed with enough archeological context such as the Dead Sea Scrolls are hard to ignor, and others, like the Nag Hammadi scriptures which are more 'mythological' in nature can either stay under the genere of 'myth', or actually (certain specific parts of it) may be supported as being tangent to what some may view in our contemporary world today, certain understandings of our life to it's wider and less 'materalistic' aspect, do require this mystical experience you often talk about, or maybe an encouner with what is generally called as -' The supernatural', and it has to be a personal experience, there is no ability to transfer such 'evidence' between one person to another. Again, this simulates this walk on a tightrope while our world is going through a transition (Where knowledge will be able to be extracted in other various ways as well).

Researchers can be supporters of psychic phenomenon but even if they had excessive experiences during their life time, if they have not realized themselves to the fullest, the range of possibilities will still remain a mystery that requires a testing over and over again. Now, this last one I am not able to prove :) but I will leave it at that.

All the very best, take good care at your time off ~


Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

I am back. I respect the ideal of science: hypotheses and theories that can be falsified by reproducible evidence. That approach, both in practice and theory, relies on assumptions that are highly challengeable, such as the notion of objectivity, that evidence is not being suppressed in the name of profit and "national security," and other flies in the ointment. I'll take direct personal experience over any book, scroll, or theory any day.

Yes, trying to regard ancient texts as descriptions of literal truth is a highly dubious undertaking, especially as the basis for scientific hypotheses. Velikovsky was a fundamentalist in ways, and any investigation of his work needs to be read with that in mind.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This post will be on speciation, extinction, and mass extinction. That chapter has a prelude table of mass extinctions that have been discovered so far:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctiontable

Speciation, extinction, and evolution are controversial in numerous ways, but Darwin's idea of descent with modification has no exceptions that I know of. However, Darwin was influenced by the geologist Charles Lyell and rejected the idea of catastrophic extinctions, which created a taboo in science regarding studying mass extinctions that did not finally disappear until the 1980s, when the asteroid hypothesis for the dinosaurs' demise was posited:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#darwin

Although the science of genetics was developed after Darwin's theory was first posed, and Darwin went to his grave unaware of Gregor Mendel's work, speciation works about how Darwin thought it did, in that species become isolated from their fellow members, usually by geographic isolation, and they adapt to their environments and change from their ancestral population. If those populations were separated long enough, they would no longer be able to interbreed. There is not a bright line of speciation, but the general idea is that if two sexually reproducing organisms can produce fertile offspring, then they are of the same species.

As noted previously:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hydrogen

not only has the environment impacted the journey of life on Earth, but life has profoundly impacted Earth's geophysical and geochemical processes. Without oxygenic photosynthesis, there would be little or no water, no plate tectonics, and no life on Earth.

Speciation is a genetic event above all else, as that is all that is physically passed between generations. One way that genetic novelty has been introduced is by gene duplication, which is a "mistake" in duplication, and about 15% of the human genome arose from gene duplication events.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#geneduplication

Those isolated populations that can lead to new species can also be reduced to such an extent that a genetic "bottleneck" is created:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bottleneck

Humanity went through such a bottleneck less than 100,000 years ago, when Homo sapiens was reduced to perhaps about 5,000 people.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bedding

When a population gets bottlenecked, it faces a risk of extinction, and just about all extinct species became bottlenecked on the way to extinction, and extinction has been the fate of more than 99.9% of all species that have ever existed.

More than 95% of extinctions were the scenario where the species went out with a whimper and not a bang, where the last member of a species simply died, where the ecosystem did not miss its demise, as it was already rare. There is a "happy ending" "extinction where a species went extinct not because it died out, but because it changed enough so that it would not have been able to interbreed with its ancestor. Drawing the line between two species in that instance can seem rather arbitrary, and there is no way to directly test such an idea today, but scientists have observed interspecies matings in the wild, such as grizzly bears and polar bears, and have artificially mated many species, and scientists have drawn a pretty good picture on how fast a single species can diverge into new species, and now long species last. Mammal species last about one million years, and marine invertebrates last about 5-10 million years. A speciation event is currently thought to last about 15-20 thousand years:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#burial1

and we are witnessing incipient speciation in the development of human races:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#race

but the end of geographical isolation will likely end that trend and humanity will become a homogeneous population again, like it did when that founder group left Africa:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founders

In 1972, the "punctuated equilibrium" hypothesis was posed, which stated that evolution happens in spurts, where there is little evolutionary innovation when the environment is stable, but when the environment changes, or species migrate to new environments, then evolution happens more quickly, in order to adapt to the new environment:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gould

During the eon of complex life, for the vast majority of the time, the environment has been pretty stable, and species appeared and disappeared with regularity, with the ecosystems not missing a beat. However, there have been many mass extinction events, where the environment suddenly became hostile, and a large proportion of species went extinct. In five different events during the eon of complex life, 70% or more of Earth's species have gone extinct. Other than the asteroid that seems to have spelled the demise of the dinosaurs, nearly all other extinction events had an environmental cause, which could have been exacerbated by life. Sometimes, as with the extinction of most of South America's mammals three million years ago:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pliocene

it was caused by the invasion of animals with superior energy practices, and the previously isolated "losers" were quickly driven to extinction. Mass extinctions have had a rough periodicity to them, which caused speculation of a celestial cause, such as regular bolide events resulting from galactic or solar system dynamics, but the likely explanation is that as ecosystems of complex life evolve, and food chains attain their numerous levels, they become vulnerable to collapse, just like a child's tower of toy blocks wobbles as it grows higher:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#periodicity

When ecosystems collapse, the effects cascade throughout the food chains and only those at or near the bottom are spared, such as plants and grazers. Those dynamics also have striking similarities to how human civilizations have collapsed and an interesting alternative dynamic of how complex organisms self-destruct with degenerative disease:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cascade

After the ecosystems are scoured in a mass extinction event, the surviving creatures often have a "golden age" where they can reproduce with abandon and fill the ecosystems in what is called an adaptive radiation:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adaptive

Humans have had similar "golden ages":

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages

as they exploited new biomes and energy sources, often at the expense of the denizens of the "new" environment, including peoples living at a lower level of energy usage, such as what Europeans did the world beginning about 500 years ago, as they learned how to turn the global ocean into a low-energy transportation lane.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2

Humanity has been causing a mass extinction for the past 50,000 years, beginning when descendants from that founder group invaded Australia:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna

and humans are well on their way to causing a mass exaction that could rival or exceed the Permian Extinction:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth1

Or course, this essay is partly designed to halt that event:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fuller2

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This post will be on the beginning of the eon of complex life, which began about 542 million years ago:

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

with what is called the Cambrian Explosion:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ecosystem

which was when the first complex ecosystem appeared. The "sudden" appearance of complex life in the fossil record vexed Darwin, as it seemed to weigh against his theory. But scientists have filled in the gaps, as previously noted, and the three billion year "ramp up" to the appearance of complex life is understood fairly well, at least well enough so that the Cambrian Explosion is certainly not some kind of spontaneous appearance of life from a creation event.

Nevertheless, the Cambrian Explosion, as with all big events in the history of life on Earth, is the source of great controversy between scientists. Nevertheless, the causes of the Cambrian Explosion are gaining some consensus:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cambriancause

and oxygenating the seafloor is thought to have been a critical event, if not the critical event. But how it was oxygenated is the subject of debate today. First, the atmosphere had to have been oxygenated, and then it was somehow circulated into the ocean, and then down to the ocean floor. How much did animals create that oxygenation, and how much were they passive beneficiaries of it? Those two poles of debate are personified by Donald Canfield:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#canfield

and Nick Butterfield:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#butterfield

Peter Ward also weighed in with his oxygen-respiration hypotheses:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ward

and the controversy is ongoing. But what is not debatable is that almost all body plans for complex life appeared in the Cambrian Period and have not changed since then. There is an emerging consensus regarding why that was, and I provided an analogy to make it clearer:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#houseanalogy

The bottom line is that evolution is a one-way process, and once an evolutionary path is chosen, complex organisms are stuck with the basics of their structure, and only small incremental changes are possible after that, as the entire organism is adapted to its organization. A complex organism cannot decide to go from an external to internal skeleton and just do it, or decide that it will have a new organ. The basic structures and organs were chosen by the end of the Cambrian Period, and no great changes have happened since then.

Key genes for embryonic development were formed in the Cambrian and have not appreciably changed since then:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hox1

Complex life had to solve many problems of attaining the increased size that led to success:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#size3

and those basics are still today's basics. Complex life's arms race began in earnest with the Cambrian Explosion:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#size2

and arthropods were the first masters of the realm:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arthropod1

The Cambrian Period produced some extraordinary fossil beds:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#burgess

which have provided scientists with a rich record for ongoing investigations. Fossils are rare aspects of the geological record, with probably less than 1% of all species that ever existed producing a discovered fossil.

About 25 million years into the Cambrian Period, the first mass extinction of the eon of complex life happened:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#shellyextinction

which wiped out many of the early "experiments" with life forms. While Ediacaran forms are bizarre to modern eyes:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ediacaran
scientists suspect that some body plans (phyla) came and went without leaving a trace in the fossil record.

Even within the fossil record, many gaps are filled with "ghost ancestors," which are intermediary species that did not leave fossils found as of yet, and with genetic evidence becoming part of science's corpus, hunting for ghost ancestors has become an avenue of scientific investigation:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ghost

One of the most important concepts in evolutionary theory is that a body part that evolved for one purpose can be put to new use as the opportunity arises:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dualuse

Humanity's advanced cognitive abilities is an example.

About 40 million years into the Cambrian Period, another mass extinction happened:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dresbachian

and a mass extinction ended the Cambrian:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#endcambrian

and arthropods would never again be as dominant. Why arthropods rose to dominance, and why mass extinction began dotting the fossil record, has been a central concern of scientists for many years. The framework of investigation is always energy-based, and the concepts of efficiency and resilience are important:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#resilience

Becoming more efficient can reduce resilience. In today's economy, where everything is "optimized" to wring maximal profit from the system, the system becomes increasingly less resilient, so that relatively tame events can collapse the system. That only mimics how ecosystems collapse.

Arthropod anatomy allowed it to take advantage with limbs that performed the dual use of locomotion and respiration:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arthropod2

Cephalopods derived with a similar dual use solution:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cephalopod

and other immobile animals such as brachiopods used their motile parts for both respiration and feeding:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brachiopod1

All of the early mass extinction events in the eon of complex life had anoxia, or the ocean floor losing its oxygen, as the prime suspect, and all of those newly oxygen-dependent animals died when the oxygen ran out, which they used to respire:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctiontable

The loss of oxygen initiated an energy shortage. The essential dynamic of any species' survival is how much energy surplus it can generate:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nicheenergy

If a species loses its ability to generate surplus energy, it will go extinct, as its margin for "error" and surviving the vagaries of existence disappears, and relatively tame shocks can send it into oblivion. Today's financial concept that is closest to that idea is probably discretionary income:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#discretionary

and as the West's middle class has its discretionary income decline, as industrialized nations run out of energy:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil

that middle class is shrinking as more people are driven into poverty. That dynamic has been starkly evident in the USA since it hit Peak Oil in 1970, soon followed by the energy crisis that ended the postwar boom:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hubbert

I am sort of jumping ahead a little here, to help my readers gain some comprehension of the lessons of the Cambrian Explosion and subsequent mass extinctions that can provide important insight into today's industrial civilization and where we are headed. While I have already had readers "perk up" when the story of my essay reaches when humans enter the stage, the early chapters provide a framework to understand the human journey, in ways that have virtually never been discussed before. That is a major point of my essay, and subsequent chapters will make the connections even clearer, I hope.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am between chores and I see that this thread reached 600,000 views today. I have remarked on each 100,000 increment, and plan to continue to do so, as a kind of traffic metric.

I am about to go into the last heavy editorial rounds on the essay before I get it in its "final" state for the 1.0 version. It is time for tackling grammar and style, and finding any more errors of fact or interpretation, of which I have caught a few, but I doubt that I will find them all. :) I would like to think that the 2.0 version is years away.

Time for a little confession: writing does not come easily for me. From an inability to type by touch how you are supposed to (poor small motor control comes with my autism spectrum condition) to having a difficult time with grammar, becoming a writer has been anything but easy for me. I remember having an English composition test sprung on me when I took my SAT (college entrance exam), and I really did not even understand the test and guessed at about half of the answers.

Humans have a language "organ," and if a person will learn a language other than their mother tongue, they need to start learning it before they are five years old if they want to speak it like a native. The window closes for most people around age 12, which is when they begin to teach a second language in the USA. Real smart. I took three years of Spanish, beginning at age 12 and could barely string a sentence together. It was my worst academic performance, and I have had friends who can't believe that I could not readily master other languages. My brain would have likely had problems from the beginning, but not even beginning to study it until 12 doomed me. In the imperial USA, where you can cross a continent and speak one language, and even get by with it in most of the world, it was not easy to be exposed to other languages.

I tell friends with young children that before their kids are five, they should learn to swim, skate/ski (and other balance activities), and speak a second language. If they learn it by then, they will have the skill for life. If not, they will have a hard time ever learning it. That is not a hard and fast rule, but applies to most people.

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

I have this feeling that people comprehending abundance is going to have similar problems. As Fuller noted, college kids readily shed their in-group/out-group conditioning and see all people as Earthians:

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

I was fortunate to not receive heavy religious indoctrination while growing up, and my nationalistic indoctrination was relatively muted. I was raised racist, but largely discarded it within a few years of leaving home. I began questioning my capitalistic indoctrination right after college:

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

I was exposed to medical alternatives at age 12:

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

had my mystical awakening at age 16:

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

and by age 30, I was radicalized:

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

So, I had many experiences to walk my path by the time I was 30, but I really did not begin writing until then. So, the writing part has been hard for me to develop. What I have noticed is that almost nobody really even wants to comprehend abundance, because they would then have to throw away almost everything that they "know." When I have conversations about Wade's World with those close to me (arguably a foolish exercise, but I am a glutton for punishment :) ), I often get challenged, and they are simply regurgitating Fox News or their college textbooks, or when they even think they understand, they do not even begin to, as scarcity overwhelms their perspectives, in ways that they are not even aware of, and they do not like having it pointed out. And I am writing about some highly "intelligent" people, and that is just more of my primary lesson of personal integrity being the world's scarcest commodity, and until a person's heart is in the right place, the rest will not matter.

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

However, as much as I would like it if a person's heart being in the right place was enough (if enough could be found who had it enough, it would be enough), there needs to be some mental horsepower brought to bear on the subject matter that I deal with, if that choir is going to be built. I have stated that people need some scientific literacy to be able to sing in the choir, and I find myself wondering if it is too late for people over 40, for instance, who never had any scientific literacy, to develop it. Even though a world-famous scientific popularizer praised the scientific content and presentation in my essay, as have other scientists, will people with no scientific training or literacy be able to understand? This is where I may be blowing it, as far as amassing a choir primarily comprised of non-scientists who may be older.

However, if it turns out that scientifically illiterate people just cannot understand the essay and cannot make the connections in their minds regarding the role of energy in the journey of life on Earth and the human journey, and really begin to understand the epochal potential of free energy:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5

then they cannot be in the choir, as much as it would pain me to admit it. My work is designed for a certain kind of person. I know that enough of them exist on the planet for my idea to work. Finding them, or them finding me, will be the hard part. Ten people like Dennis:

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

or a hundred like Brian, or a thousand like Ilie, combining their efforts, and free energy would be a done deal. Maybe I can find a thousand like Ilie (I do not look for anybody like Dennis or Brian: Dennis is one in billions, and Brian was also unique), but I am trying to craft an approach where I "only" have to find 5,000-7,000 who can hit the notes well enough to amass that choir, to attract about 100,000 people who will "do something."

While I have been going through revisions of the essay draft since I first finished it at the end of April, it has been mostly adding material that made it user-friendlier. I have also received suggestions that have begun to cross the line into dumbing it down, and if I do that, what I am trying will not work. If a person reads my essay and still does not understand that money is a poor measure of economic activity and is meaningless by itself (money only has a social value; money has no intrinsic value – you can’t eat it, can't make something out of it (other than toilet paper :) ), and so on), then they are not going to have what it takes to join the choir. I constantly see people deny the central importance of energy, where they elevate all manner of meaningless activity. If a person reads my essay and does not understand the epochal importance of energy in the human journey, then I doubt that I can make it any easier for them, or at least if I do, I have dumbed it down so far that I could be on Oprah. That is not my goal, as that will not go anywhere.

Dumbing it down into a Level 10 approach will very likely not work. Been there done that:

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

I will likely cease my effort before I dumb it down. So, the pressure is really about the issue of time being short to prevent industrialized civilization from crashing and getting enough people to raise their awareness high enough so that what I have in mind can make a dent. It is really about the numbers. We will see what I find out in the coming years.

Back to work,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As an addendum to my previous post, for all of the scientifically trained out there, you had to learn calculus and beyond in the math curriculum. But if you are a practicing engineer or scientist, you virtually never use calculus in your professional life. However, the mental horsepower required for doing calculus is essential for a scientific career, especially for those who are more than plodders.

My essay is designed similarly. Readers do not have to memorize where rhynchosaurs

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carnianextinction

entered and exited Earth's grand stage of life, but understanding the processes that led to the rise and fall of rhynchosaurs requires the level of thinking that I think is necessary to understand the role of energy in the journey of life on Earth.

Over the years, I have found that almost nobody ever exercises any discernment, especially for the important issues. Virtually all people are passive consumers of information, or when they begin to get active in their thought processes, they are trapped by their assumptions, seize on meaningless aspects of the dynamics because they can understand those parts (or understanding those parts complements their self-interest, so their understanding goes no further), and the like. Such behaviors are not very thoughtful (AKA sentient), and coming to an understanding of abundance in a world of scarcity is extremely difficult work.

Almost nobody even wants to begin the thought process required to shed his/her conditioning (as there is no immediate reward for doing so (other than raising one's awareness)), and for those who do, they need to engage their mental equipment at a far higher level than being passive consumers or just scouring information sources for what supports their self-serving orientation.

I could give many examples, and two good ones are how people who have libeled Dennis have been embraced by the FE community. Mr. Skeptic is a criminal, and it initially boggled my mind that he was embraced or tolerated by people in the FE community:

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

and some of the same people who embraced Mr. Skeptic and his obvious lies, or made irrational excuses for them, turned around and attacked Dennis and Brian.

Similarly, another big name in the FE field also libeled Dennis:

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

and to this day, his libel is literally promoted by members of the FE field (or its commentators), or his libel is weakly defended/dismissed by members of the FE field who continue to quote that scientist as some kind of leading voice in the field. All disinformation has bits of truth in it, which is how it works, by seeming plausible to the uninitiated. All those who embrace those libelers or quote them are part of the disinformation effort against FE, either consciously, unwittingly, or naively. Those kinds of behaviors are why I do not want to have anything to do with todays' FE field. It is filled with the naïve, criminals, inventors trying to get rich and famous, who think they are the messiah, and so forth. The mental horsepower needed to be able to understand the meat of my essay is also needed for the kind of discernment required for navigating to a productive understanding of the FE milieu and becoming a singer in the abundance choir. My effort cannot allow fluffy New Age magical thinking, undiscerning thinking, the YouTube level of awareness, and the like.

If my effort does not aim high, it is not going anywhere. There is a highly specific intention behind how I wrote my big essay and the kind of discussion that I plan to mount. I am meeting my readers far more than halfway, and the ball is going to be in their court to demonstrate that they have learned the song and can begin to sing it. It will not happen quickly, and that is OK. Those who want to rush out and "do something" are not in my target audience, and I need deep thinkers with their hearts in the right place. They do not have to be grizzled veterans of the FE wars, but they need to have had some kind of awakening experience so that they question their conditioning:

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

That was my starting point for the study that became my public work today, and anybody who is going to be useful for this effort had to have some kind of experience where they began to recognize their conditioning, which begins in the cradle.

Until people go through the painstaking and often painful process of relinquishing their scarcity-based conditioning, they are not going to be able to understand the abundance song, much less sing it.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The next chapter is about the continued colonization of the global ocean and the eventual colonization of land (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#colonize1).

The end-Cambrian extinction might rank in the top five if there was a better fossil record, and it cleared the way for the first major adaptive radiation in the history of complex life on Earth. An adaptive radiation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ordovician) is one where species enter new biomes and niches and even help create them, and they adapt evolutionarily to the new environments. The Ordovician Period has been called the Cambrian Explosion, Part 2.

The atmospheric high carbon dioxide content in the early days of the eon of complex life led to hot oceans, and warmer water holds less oxygen than colder water, so although the warm water allowed for easily living in one way, the lower oxygen content provided challenges, and as mentioned previously, anoxia was the suspected culprit in all mass extinctions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctiontable) until the mid-Carboniferous extinction.

The first modern-looking reefs appeared in the Ordovician (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ordovicianreefs), but if you looked closely, the animals would have all looked strange, with seafloor-hugging, jawless armored fish, different kinds of corals than are familiar to us, and the apex predators were cephalopods, as compared to arthropods in the Cambrian. The Ordovician was the rise of the mollusks (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#giant1).

The first teeth appeared in the Ordovician, which concentrated the energy generated by muscles. Jaws came later, which was perhaps the most important vertebrate innovation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jaws).

As with the Cambrian, great size was an effective survival strategy that improved the chances of survival in life's arms war (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#island). The largest animals in Earth's history to that time were nautiloids (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nautiloids). Until the rise of humans, becoming huge was the path to dominance.

Although the fossil record is thin, and DNA studies suggest that it began as long as 600 million years ago, plants migrated to land and began to become plentiful there beginning about 470 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#landplants). The first ones were tiny and moss-like, but they formed the base of the coming land-based food chain.

About 443 million years ago, the first of the Big Five mass extinctions happened (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ordovicianextinction), and an ice age did it. Ice ages have ultimate and proximate causes, and the ultimate cause for that ice age seems to be a lowering in carbon dioxide content due to weathering a new mountain range created by volcanism. That mountain range is today known as the Appalachians (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#saharanice).

A proximate cause of all ice ages in the eon of complex life was a landmass near or at the South Pole, so that continental ice sheets could form. Forming ice sheets also lowered the global ocean, which played havoc with marine ecosystems. The Ordovician extinction came in two phases related to the growing and shrinking ice sheet at the South Pole, and when it was over, about 85% of all species went extinct.

The geologic periods in the eon of complex life are separated by the different kinds of fossils in them. Generally, a period ended with a mass extinction, and previously marginal species radiated into the scoured ecosystems and new biomes appeared. If you squinted, all reefs since the Ordovician would have looked similar, but if you focused your vision, you would have seen starkly different organisms inhabiting them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#reefguilds), which brings up the concept of ecological "guilds," where different classes of organisms develop similar solutions to environmental problems and can tend to look similar, in what is called convergent evolution (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#convergent).

The period succeeding the Ordovician is the "short" Silurian, which lasted "only" 24 million years. The first land animals appeared in the Silurian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#convergent).

The migration from water to land was momentous in many ways, and a concept related to that migration can help illuminate many later events. Whether it was the migration to land by animals, first arthropods and later fish (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tetrapods), or it when monkeys left trees for the ground (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lefttrees) and became apes, humanity's founder group left Africa (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founders), or Europeans invaded North America (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishinvasion), it seemed to always be that those who their homeland did not do so out of a sense of opportunity and adventure, but out of desperation as the losers of their milieu.

Reefs made a big comeback in the Silurian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#silurianreefs), but the ice age also caused a few minor extinction events (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#silurianextinctions). An extinction event ended the Silurian, and the prodigious Devonian Period began. To me, the Devonian is one of the most fascinating periods. The Devonian saw the first forests as well as the first vertebrate migrants to land (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tetrapods). In the oceans, the first bony fish appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonyfish), and the greatest reefs in Earth's history graced the Devonian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#devonianreefs).

It was the rare Silurian plant that reached knee-high, but a plant invention changed all that, and dramatically, with the development of lignin (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lignin), which is a polymer developed for plant vascular systems and was soon used to grow woody tissue, and the first trees appeared. As with the animals in the ocean, plants quickly became large, as soon as they could. Trees are by far Earth's largest organisms, and they dwarf animals. Most plants sexually reproduce like animals, as they have a common ancestor in protists, and early plants reproduced with spores. Spore-reproduction needs a moist environment, which is why plants such as ferns can only grow in wet environments.

One ice age ended in the Silurian, and the Devonian began in a warm period when oxygen levels were high. The first fish migrated to land then, and eventually became the first amphibians. Migrating to land was no easy trick (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#landmigration), and many phyla of animal never made the transition. Arthropods had a natural advantage and they were the first dominant land animals, such as scorpions, centipedes, spiders, and insects.

But oxygen levels began crashing in the Devonian, which burdened animals trying to breathe air, and crashing oxygen levels may well be a major reason why the vertebrate colonization of land failed twice (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lowoxygen), with the second failure coinciding with another Big Five mass extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hangenberg). Vertebrate colonization of land was not permanently successful until well into the Carboniferous Period (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tournasian).

Plants and forests formed the basis for land-based ecosystems, and could have radical effects. Plant roots created the rivers that are familiar to use today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#river1). Before the rise of plants, water ran off to the oceans in sheets or braided rivers. The first rainforests appeared in the Devonian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rainforest1). But the success of trees seems to have spelled the beginning of the next ice age (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carbonsequestering), as nothing could digest the lignin, so carbon began getting sequestered in dead forests, which is how Earth's coal deposits began forming (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lignin). Taking that carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and sequestering it in Earth began a global cooling into an ice age. Also, taking the carbon and releasing the oxygen created the greatest oxygen levels in Earth's history. Ice age climates are relatively dry (less evaporation from the ocean), and seed-reproducing plants appeared in the late Devonian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#seed1), and such plants did not need the moist conditions of spore-reproducing plants.

As with other extinction events, the Devonian Extinction was a series of events (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kellwasser), not just one, and it was the result of various dynamics, with the usual ocean anoxia being a suspect, and the organic runoff into the oceans from land-based ecosystems is thought to be a contributing factor. The Devonian Extinction tallied "only" about 70% of Earth's species, and it was the first big one on land. The 30-million year gap (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tournasian) in the land vertebrate fossil record coincides with low oxygen levels, and arthropods also did not migrate to land in that period. Scientists suspect that those events are related and are similar to anoxia devastating oceanic ecosystems.

Back to editing.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This will be on the chapter that covers the Carboniferous and Permian Periods (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carboniferous), which were also fascinating and momentous times in the journey of life on Earth.

The Devonian Extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#devonianextinction) coincided with low oxygen and high carbon dioxide levels. The land migrations of fish and arthropods were halted and did not begin again until 14 million years into the Carboniferous, quite possibly because of those low oxygen levels. The Carboniferous is so named because most of Earth's coal beds were then formed. As noted previously, nothing on Earth could digest lignin at the time, so the forests that began to appear in the Devonian and proliferated in the Carboniferous did not fully rot.

Rainforests proliferated in the Carboniferous and what are called coal swamps abounded. As those coal swamps buried trees, carbon dioxide was removed from the atmosphere and only oxygen returned, with the carbon bound in the lignin. The carbon dioxide levels plummeted and the oxygen levels soared to their highest ever, with estimates going as high as 35%, compared to today's 21%. At oxygen levels that high, everything that could burn did, and those Carboniferous swamps that hosted those forests may have been a waterlogged way to avoid fires.

However the rainforests' success spelled their demise, as that sequestered carbon reduced the atmosphere's carbon dioxide content and brought on another ice age, which lasted 100 million years (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#karoo2). Ice age climates are dryer, as there is less oceanic evaporation, and the ice age ultimately collapsed the rainforests. But before the rainforests collapsed, lowering sea levels and cooling climate due to the ice age caused a mass extinction that began about 325 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#serpukhovian). It ended what is called the Mississippian Epoch, and the Pennsylvanian Epoch began.

About 307 million years ago, the advancing ice age collapsed the remaining rainforests (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coal1). Those were the broad geophysical strokes, but what happened to the Carboniferous organisms, as they adapted to those changes, had profound significance.

The rising oxygen levels facilitated the ultimate success of the migration from water to land, especially for fish. Amphibians have their limbs splayed to the side, which presented them with breathing problems: it was hard to move and breathe at the same time. That limitation is today called Carrier's Constraint (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carriersconstraint). Also, amphibians were reliant on the moist rainforest environments of the Carboniferous. They laid their eggs in water and thus had to remain close to bodies of water. Similar to how trees developed seeds as a way to colonize dryer lands, some tetrapods developed eggs that did not need to be laid in water, and we call those animals amniotes today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#amniote), which includes humans. There is debate whether amniotes descended from amphibians or another class of fish that migrated from water, but amphibian descent is the leading idea today. Whatever the case was, the decline and collapse of the rainforests ended the reign of amphibians and led to the rise of reptiles.

But before those transitions were made, the Carboniferous's high oxygen levels may well have spurred the development of huge arthropods (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dragonfly), including a gigantic millipede and huge dragonflies. The largest freshwater fish ever also lived then. High oxygen levels would have meant easy breathing and a thicker atmosphere (the nitrogen did not go anywhere), and may well have been responsible for those huge animals, but there are also competing hypotheses. I am interested to see how the oxygen/respiration/gigantism debate ends, if it does end.

In the global ocean, the Carboniferous is called the Golden Age of Sharks (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sharks), and ray-finned fish also rose to prominence, which is thought to be due to their energy-efficient biology. Lobe-fined fish were outclassed by sharks and ray-fined fish, and one that fled to shore became humanity's ancestor. Today, the coelacanth is the only representative of those lobe-finned fish (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bottleneck) (lungfish are the closest living cousins) and is called a living fossil, as all of its close relatives are long gone.

About 290 million years ago white rot appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#whiterot), which was the first organism that could digest lignin, and coal was never again produced in such volumes.

After the rainforest collapsed and reptiles replaced amphibians as the masters of land, the Permian Period began about 299 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permian). Spore-reproducing rainforests gave way to seed-reproducing conifer forests (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#conifer). In the seas, a series of Tethyan oceans appeared and were eventually squeezed out of existence by moving continental plates. First was the Proto-Tethys (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#prototethys), which appeared in the Ediacaran, followed by the Paleo-Tethys (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#paleotethys), which appeared in the Ordovician, and the Tethys began forming in the late Permian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tethys). Those Tethyan oceans all came to the same end in the same vicinity, and anoxic events along the shallow margins of those oceans is where most of Earth's oil deposits (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oilformation) came from. Geological and life processes combined to make Earth's hydrocarbon deposits, which include oil, coal, and natural gas, and there has not been much produced for many millions of years. Coal will never be formed again in such amounts, and it is unlikely that oil will. Humanity is burning through those deposits a million times faster than they were made. That is a key understanding that I hope that my readers achieve.

The current shale oil and tar sands craze (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tarsands) is merely sucking the dregs of Earth's rapidly depleted hydrocarbon deposits. Those are not recently discovered energy sources – they have long been known - but their energetic quality is so poor that it was not economic to mine them. For instance, the cost of extracting and refining Iraqi oil is about $2 per barrel, and it is about $40 per barrel for the Canadian tar sands. That contrast completely explains why the USA bombed Iraq once again (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#ultimate) in the past week. The West has no plans to leave the oil-rich Middle East anytime soon.

As reptiles rose to dominance, there were winners and losers, as with most evolutionary events, and synapsids were the early winners (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#synapsid). As a child, I played with my Dimetrodon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimetrodon) toy. That big sail on its back likely served two functions. One was thermoregulation, as that sail was like a solar collector in the Sun (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimetrodon#Thermoregulatory_function), and the other was probably an early instance of "display (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimetrodon#Sexual_dimorphism)," where males attracted females by showing off their sails. Dimetrodon also had different-sized teeth, which was new and a trait ancestral to mammals.

Synapsids gave birth to therapsids (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#therapsid), which led to mammals (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cynodont), and one outcome of synapsid evolution was adopting a more upright posture, which helped breathing and increased their aerobic fitness.

Geologically, the greatest event was the continents crashing together in a supercontinent known today as Pangaea (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pangaeaforms). The formation of Pangaea triggered the greatest mass extinction in the history of complex life (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction). But, as with the previous big extinctions, the Permian Extinction came in phases, with the first extinction happening about 270 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#olsonsextinction). One reason was likely the plummeting oxygen levels. Oxygen went from about 30% at the beginning of the Permian to about 15% by its end. Animals without a highly efficient respiratory system (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#turbinal) were not going to make it. Earth's reefs began recovering from the Devonian Extinction in the late Permian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianreefs), to only be wiped out again in the Permian Extinction.

The formation of Pangaea also formed huge mountain ranges (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permian) as continents collided. Volcanism also vastly increased (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#siberiantraps) due to those tectonic events, and the carbon dioxide from those volcanic events warmed the atmosphere and ended the ice age (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianwarming). That warming may have also warmed methane hydrates on the ocean floor (another hydrocarbon deposit from life forms) to where they boiled away and accentuated the warming effect. That methane hydrate knock-on effect has many scientists terrified today that the current global warming induced by humanity may trigger that effect again, and Earth will quickly go from an Icehouse Earth to a Greenhouse Earth, and the end-Permian event is the only other one to give us an idea what that might be like. Shudder.

When a supercontinent forms, it can greatly alter oceanic currents, and one ocean dominated Earth, today called the Panthalassic, which became the Pacific. The Tethys Ocean was landlocked by Pangaea and became a huge lake (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hydrogensulfide). When oceans become still like that, the dynamic that pushes oxygen into their depths ceases, and the Tethys became anoxic, similar to today's Black Sea. Anoxic seas not only kill their aerobic denizens, but anaerobic organisms that were pushed to the margins by the Great Oxygenation Event (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oxygenation) could briefly regain what was once theirs. A class of those anaerobes produce hydrogen sulfide as a waste product, and a huge hydrogen sulfide event from the Tethys would have not only asphyxiated organisms near shore, but it could have also damaged the ozone later. There was a "perfect storm" of events hostile to complex life, and the Permian Extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction) wiped out between 90% and 96% of all species, both on land and at sea. There was nothing else like it, and the Permian Extinction stands in a class of its own. The Permian Extinction was so complete that it ended an era, and the Paleozoic gave way to the Mesozoic when the Permian ended. What arose from that catastrophe was radically different than what came before.

Back to chores and editing.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Briefly, as I am making posts to build the framework form my forum (the same posts that you see on this thread, and it will be that way for a while), I am now seeing the hits to my big essay growing pretty fast, and it will soon become the most read part of my site, which was my intent, obviously. The American Empire essay is still ahead:

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

But I expect the big essay to overtake the American Empire essay before next week. If that ever stops being the most read part of my site, then it will mean that my effort is failing, but I think it will make waves. How big they will ultimately be will be interesting to find out.

Back to editing and chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am taking another break to begin another chapter discussion, which will be about the reign of dinosaurs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dinosaurs1). Children's ears perk up at the mention of dinosaurs, which are the rock stars of animal fossils. Near where I live, a former Microsoft CTO, with more money than he knows what to do with, has a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in his house (http://seattle-mansions.blogspot.com/2010/02/nathan-myhrvolds-t-rex-house.html), which I have seen from a boat, as one of his neighbors (and my company's CEO) gave us a tour of the waterfront homes, including Bill Gates's.

Dinosaurs largely fascinate people due to their size, but there is so much important about them, and so much about that era that is important to today's world, that they were really only the center-stage actors of quite a play, which ended with a bang (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction).

But the story begins with the aftermath of the Permian Extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction). My beloved trilobites exited Earth's stage with that extinction, and the biomes of the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras hosted radically different organisms. In contrast to the 100-million-year ice age that preceded the Permian Extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#karoo2), the Mesozoic was a Greenhouse Earth period, caused by the era's volcanism (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#volcanism2). Forming Pangaea and breaking it up created great rents in Earth's crust where volcanoes appeared and spewed their carbon dioxide.

In the Permian Extinction's wake, a reptilian sheep (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lystrosaurus) dominated Earth's land masses like no other animal has done before or since, as it comprised 95% of all land animals. It somehow survived the Permian holocaust (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lystrosaurus2) when almost nothing else did, and its generalist feeder and burrowing nature not only allowed it to survive, but it fluorished after the Permian Extinction. That "sheep" – known as Lystrosaurus – is what paleobiologists call a disaster taxon, where they can thrive, at least for a while, in the devastated landscapes, until they are displaced by new organisms. Lystrosaurus dominated for about a million years before it was displaced (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lystrosaurus1). It took about ten million years for "normal" ecosystems to reappear (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianrecovery), 30 million years for land-based ecosystems to recover their former diversity, and it took the oceanic ecosystems 100 million years to recover.

The organisms that made the Paleozoic reefs disappeared forever, and the stony corals familiar to us today appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ammonoid3). The Tethys Ocean (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tethysgrows), that formed most of today's oil deposits, grew in the Triassic Period (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#triassic), which succeeded the Permian. Mesozoic oceans were often low-oxygen environments (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lowoxbivalves), and their periodic anoxic events formed the oil deposits.

Early on, some reptiles beat the heat and took advantage of scoured ecosystems and went aquatic. They were not just any old reptile, and the Triassic marked the end of therapsid dominance, and diapsids (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#diapsid) dominated, and archosaurs in particular (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lystrosaurus1). The famous flying "dinosaurs" (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pterosaur) (that were not really dinosaurs, as they are technically defined), crocodiles, oceanic "dinosaurs" (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ichthyosaurs) (again, not technically dinosaurs), and dinosaurs were all archosaurs, and their upright posture is today suspected to be a key reason for their dominance, as they overcame Carrier's Constraint (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carriersconstraint). About 231 million years ago, the first dinosaur appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dinosaur1).

A mass extinction event coincided with the dinosaurs' appearance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carnian), and a common issue regarding such close events is whether one caused the other. That extinction event was apparently caused by a climate change, perhaps caused by volcanism, that made Earth's climate more humid. Did dinosaurs outcompete other reptiles, particularly the diapsid rhynchosaurs, or did the rhynchosaurs go extinct because they lost their food source (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carnianextinction)? Today, the general thinking is that dinosaurs were more adaptable than the rhynchosaurs, and they ascended to dominance after that mass extinction of 230 million years ago. That extinction also nearly wiped out the therapsids, but a few bedraggled species survived as marginal creatures, and about 225 million years ago, some of them became the first mammals (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mammalsappear1). Dinosaurs were well on their way to dominance by then, and mammals were marginal animals, hiding in borrows and only feeding a night, while dinosaurs dominated the daylight hours on the ecological center-stage. That dominance spelled their doom 66 million years ago, when a bolide wiped out Earth's dominant animals, and only marginal ones survived. The most dominant animals to survive were crocodiles (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#crocodiles), which have dominated freshwater environments that were warm enough to host them for more than 200 million years. Their ambush-predator style has served them well.

In my lifetime, scientists' views on dinosaurs have radically changed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dinosaurviews). From being seen as stupid, slow, cold-blooded, lumbering animals, to quick, nimble, often-smart creatures that engaged in internal temperature regulation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#thermoregulation), as their ancestors may have begun doing in the Permian. The early Triassic was a period of low oxygen, and some dinosaurs developed the air-sac breathing system that birds have today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#airsac). It is superior to the mammalian breathing system. Not only is a bird's breathing system superior, but they live far longer than similarly-sized mammals, and it is likely because birds are high performance animals that rarely operate near capacity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#birdenergy), so their metabolism is usually "loafing."

Today, it is almost universally accepted among scientists that birds are dinosaurs, and are theropods, which was one of the three basic kinds of dinosaurs that existed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ornithischians). T-rex was a theropod. The other kinds were sauropods (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carnian), which were the largest land animals ever, by far, and ornithischians (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ornithischians), which were the dinosaurs that learned to chew.

Near the end of the Triassic, Pangaea began to break up, and when it did, another one of the Big Five mass extinctions happened (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#triassicextinction). Volcanism and climate change are the suspected culprits on land, and anoxia and sea level changes in the ocean. Scientists suspect that methane hydrate and hydrogen sulfide events may have accompanied the Triassic Extinction, which are dynamics that humanity is threatening to induce today, so the Triassic Extinction is getting plenty of scientific attention these days.

After the Triassic Extinction, dinosaurs became the unchallenged master of land-based ecosystems, and the succeeding Jurassic and Cretaceous Periods are considered the Golden Age of Dinosaurs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jurassic). There is still plenty of controversy over the dinosaurs' extinction, but it looks like dinosaurs did well all the way until that bolide event.

When dinosaurs rose to dominance, the plants that fed the sauropods were primarily ferns, cycads, and conifers. Sauropods were likely the only significant vertebrates that ever grazed on conifers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sauropods). Sauropods had huge guts that were probably fermentation factories for that relatively poor forage. As with later proboscideans, dinosaurs such as sauropods were likely keystone species that altered the ecosystems with their impact. Scientists have readily imagined sauropods grazing conifers with their long necks and using their prodigious size to knock trees over to get at their foliage. That must have been quite a scene.

Sauropods were so huge that scientists used to think that they could not support themselves and lived in water, where their weight was buoyed. That idea has generally been discarded, but crocodiles also grew to huge size, and almost certainly so that they could seize drinking sauropods at shoreline by their necks and hold their heads under until they drowned. Again, the spectacle is almost unimaginable to today's humans. The ultimate battle was likely a T-Rex against a triceratops, which would have been a Cretaceous blood match, not something from the Jurassic, although the allosaurs against stegosaurs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stegosaurus) with their thagomizers (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer#Etymology) ( :) Gary Larson is now immortal) being the Jurassic battle that many people would pay to see.

The Jurassic ended 145 million years ago with a minor extinction event (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tithonian), but before it ended, some major biological events transpired. Birds first appeared about 160 million years ago, and feathers were used for flying long after they garbed dinosaurs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#feathers). The bigger event, however, was a change in strategy by plants. Until 160 million years ago, all plants had some kind of defensive strategy for avoiding grazing, with bark being an early innovation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bark). The reproductive strategy of generating huge numbers of seeds and spores, to scatter to where a lucky one might grow into an offspring, was changed by some plants when they enticed animals to help, and flowering plants were born (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#flowers). It is the greatest symbiosis among the kingdoms of life since an archaean enveloped a bacterium and both lived (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#complex). Plants used animals like a reproductive enzyme to reduce the energetic cost of reproduction. That partnership exists to the present day. Today, it is suspected that dinosaurian grazing pressure may have led to that new plant strategy. Flowering plants generally grow faster and mature earlier than seed-reproducing plants such as conifers.

Territoriality is a very old energy game, and mammals and birds, in particular, play it today. There is plenty of evidence that dinosaurs were social animals, and they may have begun playing the territoriality game on a large scale (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#territoriality). In the dinosaurian arms race, armored dinosaurs appeared in the late Jurassic (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#armored), which were ornithischians.

As Pangaea broke up, the Atlantic Ocean appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#atlantic), and numerous geological events, with their attendant volcanism, continued throughout the Mesozoic. In the mid-Jurassic, a series of anoxic events began that formed most of the world's oil deposits (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#anoxicoil). Reefs slowly made a comeback in the Jurassic (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jurassicreefs), and the first crabs appeared, with their shell-cracking claws. The Indian Ocean began developing in the late Jurassic (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#indianocean).

The Cretaceous began 145 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceous), and that period saw the most dramatic rise in sea level in the eon of complex life. Consequently, the land mass above sea level was only about two-thirds of today's, and no land was all that far from the oceans, so the lands were humid. By the late Cretaceous, the Tethys and Pacific oceans connected and a world-circling current at the equator formed, which gentled and warmed Earth's climate (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tethyscurrent) and contributed to anoxic events. One of the more fascinating Cretaceous developments was forests and dinosaurs near the poles (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#polarcretaceous).

Shellfish use calcium carbonate to form their shells, and it comes in two kinds: aragonite and calcite (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#aragonite). In ice age waters, such as today, shellfish use aragonite, and in Greenhouse Earth waters, they use calcite. Calcite seas form carbonate hardgrounds (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate_hardgrounds), which hosts different ecosystems than aragonite seas do. Aragonite is not as stable as calcite, and today's global warming and oceanic acidification threatens shellfish that use aragonite. The situation is not simply a specter of environmentalist nightmares, but is a measureable effect today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#acid).

Rudist bivalves (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousreefs), which lived on carbonate hardgrounds, began displacing stony coral reefs in the Cretaceous, and they seem to have thrived all the way to the bolide event that took out the dinosaurs. Lobsters appeared in the early Cretaceous, and by the late Cretaceous, the 150-million-year existence of reptilian "dolphins," the ichthyosaurs, ended with a whimper, not a bang.

At 116 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#aptianextinction) and 93 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cenomanian) million years ago, minor extinction events hit the oceans hard and impacted the terrestrial biomes. The second one was part of a global cooling trend.

The rise of flowering plants likely led to the rise of ornithischians (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#flowers2), and insects, birds, and mammals also dramatically diversified to take advantage of game-changing flowering plants.

The greatest controversy in the history of paleobiology is the Cretaceous Extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction), which removed dinosaurs and paved the way for the rise of mammals. While recent research suggests that maybe dinosaurs were declining when the bolide(s?) hit, due to a cooling climate, the pattern of what died and what survived strongly supports the idea that a bolide(s?) hit, which caused a global conflagration and probable flooding of many coastal areas, and a bolide "winter" wiped out photosynthesizers and their dependent food chains. What survived were animals that lived in swamps and burrows (marginal environments) and could live on the detritus of the wreckage, and the survivors - crocodiles, birds, mammals, turtles, and various kinds of fish – fit the bill, while the dinosaurs and marine and flying archosaurs died of starvation, for those that survived the original holocaust.

That set the stage for what came next: the rise of mammals.

Back to chores and editing.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I was writing a post that I turned into a chapter draft:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#midpoint

We will see if it survives the editorial process.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This tale now reaches the stage where the dinosaurs were gone, except for birds, and mammals then began their rise to dominance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cenozoic). Because the Cretaceous Extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction) was mainly a physical event and not a chemical one, the ecosystems did not have the immense recovery time needed after the Permian Extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction). Seeds survived the holocaust to begin growing into plants, animal survivors crept from their refuges, and birds and mammals began to fill the ecological niches that dinosaurs left behind.

A little review of mammalian development (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mammalsdevelop) is now in order. They appeared on the evolutionary scene only about six million years after dinosaurs did, but they were marginal animals for the next 160 million years. Dominant animals get daytime hours and open spaces to live in, while marginal animals are nocturnal and live in burrows, in trees, and other refuges from dominant animals.

Mammals had many key traits that are evident today and allowed humans to appear. Like ornithischians, mammals had teeth that meshed together and allowed for thorough chewing, with liberated more caloric energy from food, which was important for marginal animals that did not get to pick the best foods. For survival reasons, early mammals developed keen senses of touch, hearing, and smell, and those enhanced senses required a larger brain to process the stimuli, and mammals had relatively large brains from the beginning. Mammals are the only animals with cerebral cortexes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#neocortex), which became highly developed in humans. There are also anatomical features that suggest that early mammals were warm-blooded.

Early mammals laid eggs like their reptilian ancestors, and monotremes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotreme) still lay eggs. Early mammals had fur and nursed their young (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nurse), resembled rats, and lived like them. The largest mammal during the dinosaurs' reign was about the size of a raccoon. Mammals had internal temperature regulation from the beginning (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#endothermy2), but it was likely far more modest than practiced today, with most mammals likely going into daily "hibernation" during daylight hours, to conserve energy. Mammals, like dinosaurs, evolved an erect posture that overcame Carriers' Constraint (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carriersconstraint). About 160 million years ago, just as flowering plants first appeared, placental and marsupial mammal lines diverged. Placental mammals have far more invested in their offspring than marsupials or birds do, so they are far less likely to abandon their offspring (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#marsupial1). Marsupials had advantages in some environments, while placentals had advantages in others. In Australia, marsupials drove placentals to extinction, while the opposite happened in Eurasia and North America. Africa never had any marsupials, and they co-existed in South America.

The longest-lived mammalian line ever was like a monotreme rodent (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#multituberculate), and was probably outcompeted by rodents and went extinct about 35 million years ago. They were likely responsible for the initial coevolution between nut trees and mammals.

When dinosaurs disappeared with the cataclysm that ended the Mesozoic Era, the Cenozoic Era began, and mammals and birds quickly began to fill the niches that dinosaurs left behind. The mammalian expansion was not an adaptive radiation, as virtually all mammalian orders existed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#orders) when the dinosaurs met their demise. But mammals, like birds, now had the pick of the cream of the ecosystems, and they grew in size to dominance, and although I mentioned it previously, here the concept of ecological guilds deserves more attention. Guilds are assemblages of animals that exploit ecosystem opportunities in similar fashion. I previously mentioned how all reef systems looked similar, and the woodpecker guild is a good example of how birds and mammals adapted to preying on insects in wood (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#guild).

As mammals began filling niches left behind by dinosaurs, they could look remarkably similar to what they replaced, in instances convergent evolution. Ornithischians were five-to-seven ton browsers, and within 25 million years (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mammalsize), mammalian browsers achieved that size and even larger (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#paraceratherium), and stayed ornithischian size until the arrival of humans (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna). The similarity between the ornithischian ankylosaur and the mammalian glyptodont was kind of eerie (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#glyptodont), as mammals replaced dinosaurs in that guild.

Two styles of digestion among mammalian browsers reflected an energy tradeoff. Hindgut fermenters attained the largest size among mammals, even though hindgut digestion is less energy efficient. But what they lacked in efficiency they more than made up in volume (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hindgut). Hindgut fermenters gain the advantage with low-quality forage, but it can also be a disadvantage. A foregut fermenter, the cow, can eat dead grass and make it through a harsh winter better than a hindgut-fermenting horse can (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cow), which was a tradeoff in pastoral societies.

Primates appeared about 85 million years ago and lived in trees (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#primate1), which were a marginal environment that dinosaurs did not exploit. If dinosaurs were not living the good life as the dominant terrestrial animals, there could have been rat-sized dinosaurs that would have easily outcompeted early mammals to extinction. All primates until the human line slept in trees to avoid predation.

Flowering plants began becoming plentiful in the Cretaceous, which coincided with the rise of ornithischians, but they did not overtake seed-reproducing plants until the Cenozoic. Today, flowering plants dominate the best environments, with their symbiosis with animals, and conifer forests, for instance, have been pushed to the margins. The only endemic tropical and semi-tropical conifers lived on isolated islands in the South Pacific (1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cook_pine), 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_heterophylla)).

The first ten million years of the Cenozoic Era is called the Paleocene Epoch (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#paleocene). At this stage of the narrative of life's history on Earth, I am adopting a finer time resolution and use epochs instead of periods (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_time_scale#Table_of_geologic_time). The Paleocene saw the great radiations of birds, mammals, and other Cretaceous survivors into empty archosaur niches. Crocodiles still did well in their aquatic environments, but they had competition from the largest snakes in Earth's history (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#turtle), and turtles and birds became apex predators in various environments during those early years after the dinosaurs disappeared.

Grasses are flowering plants and did not begin to become plentiful until the late Cretaceous (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#grass1), but today's grasslands did not yet exist. Browsing was still the predominant form of herbivorous eating until Icehouse Earth began developing. But before the end of a 200-million-year Greenhouse Earth phase, the highest temperatures during that entire 200-million-year period may have been achieved and it initiated a Golden Age of Life on Earth, and perhaps the greatest biological diversity ever known on Earth. The temperature spike that initiated the Eocene Epoch (and caused a mass extinction) is another controversial event that is subjected to a great deal of research today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#petm) because it may resemble what humanity may soon induce, which is a methane hydrate event, where warming oceans boil them off into the atmosphere and create a super-greenhouse event.

In the Eocene Period that that event initiated, forests grew back to the poles like they did in the Cretaceous (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#polareocene) and alligators lived in Greenland. About 50 million years ago, like the archosaurs did, some mammals beat the heat and took advantage of bountiful marine ecosystems, and whales began evolving (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#whale1). It took whales about ten million years to become fully aquatic, and sharks, which ruled the oceans after the Cretaceous Extinction, began an arms race with whales, and the most fearsome predator in Earth's history roamed the oceans (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#megalodon). It could have swallowed a great white shark whole.

Because of those arctic forests, migrating between Europe, Asia, North America, and Greenland was easy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#horse1), and inter-continental migrations began to become important evolutionary events, as we shall see. The diverse mammalian distributions were due to continents becoming isolated as the former Pangaea continued to break up, and when they crashed back together, massive migrations and extinction events followed, where the more cosmopolitan animals usually displaced the more isolated ones. That dynamic was also evident in human migrations, particularly Europe's conquest of the world (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2). By the mid-Eocene many animals familiar to use today had appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rodents).

About 50 million years ago, India began its epic collision with Asia (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#alpide), which formed the world's highest mountains, and was part of massive collisions all along southern Eurasia that built great mountain ranges and ultimately squeezed the Tethys Ocean out existence. As mentioned previously, those vanished Tethyan oceans formed most of Earth's oil deposits, and geological processes then made oil (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oilformation).

During that halcyon time in the Eocene, modern orders of most mammals appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#orders1), but there were also animals that would have seemed bizarre, such as what looked like wolves and crocodiles with hooves.

New Zealand was already well separated from all other landmasses when that asteroid hit, and it was repopulated with birds that could fly there, and one of Earth's most beguiling ecosystems evolved (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#newzealand), where birds filled all niches filled with mammals and others animals elsewhere. It reminds me of a Dr. Seuss scene. That bird-based ecosystem remained intact for more than 60 million years until the Maoris arrived, and within a century, all the big birds were extinct.

Beginning about 50 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mideocene), a 12-million-year gradual cooling ended the 200-million-year hothouse phase, and by about 37-38 million years ago, all warm climate animals had migrated to the greatly shrunken tropics or went extinct. It was the greatest mass extinction episode since the dinosaurs, but humans are well on their way to exceeding it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth1).

At the Eocene's end was a mass extinction confined the Europe, and Asian species dominated Europe afterward (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#endeocene). Greenhouse Earth was over and Icehouse Earth began, and first Icehouse epoch is the Oligocene, which began 34 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oligocene), and the Antarctic ice sheet began forming at the same time. What lived on the Oligocene was adapted to Icehouse Earth conditions, and there were no more great mass extinctions, at least caused by climate change, until humans conquered Earth.

About 40 million years ago, today's current around Antarctica began developing, and the ocean began to cool. By 35 million years ago, all the original whales had gone extinct and were replaced with the kinds known today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#whaleextinction), which were adapted to Icehouse Earth currents and conditions.

Africa was isolated from all other continents in those times, and proboscideans evolved in Africa beginning about 60 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elephants), which were the ancestors to today's elephants. Proboscideans were intelligent, huge, and their prehensile trunks and opportunistic feeding habits made them Earth's most successful animal as of 100,000 years ago.

It is a subject for a later chapter (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#path), but monkeys may have first appeared in Asia (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#monkey1) in the Eocene, and migrated to Africa. Africa quickly became the heart of monkey evolution, and about 35-33 million years ago, monkeys made another transoceanic migration to South America (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#monkeys), where they still abound.

In the late Eocene and early Oligocene, many mammals familiar to us today first appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bear). Most modern observers would be surprised to know that camels, horses (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#horse1), and rhinos (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rhinos) evolved in North America. Horses and camels lived there for tens of millions of years before humans drove them to extinction in their homeland (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#clovis).

The Oligocene ended 23 million years ago with a warming trend (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#miocene), and the Miocene began. While nowhere near as warm as the Greenhouse Earth phase that ended tens of millions of years earlier, the early Miocene has been called a Golden Age of Mammals. England had palm trees again, and a tropical forest spread across Eurasia. Migration from Eurasia to North America was feasible again, and North American bore the brunt of the more cosmopolitan Eurasian animals coming (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#asianmigration), and North America's first cat arrived. But that collision of continental fauna was tame compared to when Africa began colliding with Asia about 24 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#africanmigration). The iconic fauna of the African plains are mostly from Asia. The significant exception is elephants, which have continuously lived in Africa for 60 million years. By 18 million years ago, proboscideans had migrated to Asia, and by 16.5 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elephantsuccess), they made it to North America, and as soon as they could, they migrated to South America. Humans quickly drove proboscideans to extinction everywhere they lived, except in Africa and Asia, where they learned to avoid those bipedal predators.

While Africa, Eurasia, and North America had fauna exchanges, where winners prevailed over losers that went extinct, South America and Australia were evolving in isolation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#southamerica2), and both continents were marsupial havens. The biggest flying bird ever lived in South America, as did the largest turtle ever. Those gigantic glyptodonts lived in South America, as well as huge sloths, were Earth's largest land animals for a time. The Australian megafauna were a little smaller than elsewhere, probably due to the limitations of marsupials, but they still grew huge by today's standards. Australia reproduced the large-herbivores-and-their-predators guild, and when humans arrived, a three-ton browser lived with marsupial "lions." (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna)

Icehouse Earth temperatures are more variable than Greenhouse Earth temperatures. The main variation is not near the equator but near the poles. That is why the current ice age is characterized by advancing and retreating ice sheets. Deserts are largely an Icehouse Earth phenomenon, not a Greenhouse Earth one, because Icehouse Earths are dryer due to less oceanic evaporation.

As a future chapter will discuss (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#apemigration), apes evolved in Africa in the Oligocene and spread across Eurasia in the Miocene in those tropical forests. That Golden Age of Mammals ended about 15 million years ago, as the global temperature slide to the current ice age began, and warm climate animals either migrated back to the shrinking tropics or went extinct (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#miocenecooling). Reefs spread to beyond fifty degrees latitude in the warm periods since the dinosaurs' demise, to only get beaten back to the tropics when it turned cold. Earth's basic fauna has not changed much for 30 million years, but its distribution has with climate changes.

While the declining carbon dioxide levels are the ultimate cause of the Icehouse Earth conditions that currently prevail, changes in continental configurations and oceanic currents are largely responsible for those fluctuations represented in those epochs, and geological events such as the mountain building of Africa and India colliding with Eurasia are also possible causes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#miocenecoolingcause), but from a carbon dioxide perspective. The mountains that regularly hike in began erupting in the Miocene (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cascades).

The mid-Miocene cooling was also when grasslands first appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#grass2). The lowering of atmospheric carbon dioxide also resulted in a more carbon-efficient photosynthesis, (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#grass1) today called C4, which appeared in the Oligocene. Icehouse Earth plants are tougher than Greenhouse Earth plants (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#silica), and there were mammal extinctions in the late Miocene of those that could not adapt to the tougher forage, and tougher teeth were a critical aspect of those changes.

The Tethys Ocean finally disappeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tethysend) at the end of the Miocene, as Africa and the Arabian Peninsula finished crashing into Eurasia. But it did not go quietly, with some of the greatest floods in Earth's history accompanying its exit.

The Pliocene Epoch was next (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pliocene), which began 5.3 million years ago. Earth kept lurching toward today's ice age, and the event that triggered the ice age was very likely the closure of the gap between North and South America. Today's ice age began in the North Atlantic, with Greenland as its epicenter and the greatest ice sheet outside of Antarctica. Ironically, the dynamics that formed the Gulf Stream triggered today's ice age (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#atlanticextinction). The closure of the gap between the Americas also triggered one of the most spectacular extinctions ever, where a cosmopolitan assemblage nearly entirely obliterated the isolated one. Most of South America's mammal species quickly went extinct (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#interchange) when North American mammals invaded. South America also had the largest rodent ever, which weighed one ton (!). When another cosmopolitan animal, behaviorally modern humans, invaded South America three million years later, the endemic species had a similar decimation rate (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#clovis). When the Spaniards invaded South America about ten thousand years later, the native peoples had a similar decimate rate (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide).

Then today's ice age began.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

While I was making these chapter posts, editing the essay, and interacting with people, I decided to add a new chapter to the essay, as a kind of mid-essay breather (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#midpoint), where I discussed why half of the essay dealt with life on Earth before humans appeared. Hey, humanity got half of the essay! :)

This opening post will be brief, but I can see me making more posts on the chapter's topic, of why I spent half of the essay on times before humans. For now, that chapter will speak for itself.
Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This chapter deals with the developments that led to the human line (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#path). When the Eocene cooling (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stonetool1) began, Africa became the primary monkey refuge (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#africarefuge). About 35 million years ago, some monkeys made it to South America, probably by a vegetation raft, and New World monkeys split from Old World monkeys (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#monkeysplit) and evolved in isolation ever since, and never became apes. When monkeys appeared, they marginalized other primates (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#africarefuge), known today as prosimians, which are usually solitary and nocturnal. The most social prosimians are lemurs that live in daylight, which have societies of up to 20 (lemurs are confined to Madagascar, where no monkeys lived). Monkeys have larger societies, with about 50 members being common. Monkeys have crude versions of human politics, and they have what has been called Machiavellian intelligence (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071024144314.htm).

Sometime after 35 million years ago, some African monkeys began evolving into apes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proconsul), and Proconsul, which lived about 25 million years ago, was a fruit-eating transition between monkeys and apes. What became apes were likely losers or arboreal life, and they spent more time on the ground. In that cool Oligocene Epoch, leaves became coarser, fruit became rarer, and apes evolved thicker enamel to eat the poorer food. About 22 million years ago in the early Miocene, gibbons split from the ape line, and developed their unique ability to swing through the trees. By 20-17 million years ago, some apes became rather large and looked like gorillas. Ape species outnumbered monkey species in the early Miocene, and when Africa finally crashed into Eurasia, African apes took advantage and spread throughout Eurasia beginning about 16.5 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#apemigration). It was a spectacular adaptive radiation, with about 20 ape species identified so far. About 14 million years ago, as the Miocene began to cool off (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#miocenecooling), the ancestors of great apes appeared in Africa, and the ancestor of orangutans appeared about 12.5 million years ago in India. The cooling Miocene began fragmenting those tropical forests and the orangutan line became isolated from the African apes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#orangutansplit). A member of the orangutan line became the largest primate ever (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#blacki) and lived for nine millions years, and disappeared about when modern humans arrived (likely killed off by humans), and are speculated to be the source of Yeti legends.

As the Miocene's tropical forests disappeared with the cooling, those apes that could migrated back to Africa between nine and ten million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#migratehome), with most others going extinct. Somewhere between seven and ten million years ago, the gorilla line split from the line that became humans. Not only does the fossil and geological evidence support those split chronologies for orangutans and gorillas, but so does the genetic evidence amassed in the early 21st century. Orangutans are the most arboreal great ape. Gorillas ruled Africa's' rainforests (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gorilla), and some silverback males likely became the first primates to sleep on the ground (and that huge ape probably also did), as their primary predator, the leopard, would often lose a fight with a silverback and avoided them. All other gorillas still slept in trees. Lowland gorillas got the pick of the fruit and leaves, and they ate more leaves than any other great ape, which were more readily available than fruit. Gorillas are hindgut fermenters (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gorillahindgut), and have huge guts to digest their forage. Because their food is plentiful and nearby, gorillas have a relatively limited range compared to their smaller cousins that were pushed to the rainforest's periphery: chimpanzees. The chimp and human line split between seven and 4.6 million years ago, and that split was similar to the gorilla/chimp split in that a loser ape was pushed further to the margins (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpsplit), and our direct ancestors were pushed out of the rainforest to the woodland fringes.

Fossils finds of possible direct human ancestors (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#orrorin) from six-to-seven million years ago show that they had abandoned the rainforest diet for a tougher woodlands diet, which included roots. Chimps walk on their knuckles several kilometers a day to find their staple, fruit, and those woodland human ancestors would have had to walk even further. A key issue debated these days is when the human line became bipedal (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bipedskull). The famous Ardi fossil is around four million years old (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ardi), and may be a human ancestor, but it is still unsure whether Ardi was a biped. The even more famous Lucy fossil is about 3.2 million years old and an australopith (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lucy), which first appeared about four million years ago, which was undoubtedly a biped. Although a biped, australopiths, just like almost all other primates, still slept in trees.

Primates had larger brains than other mammals from the beginning, and it is thought to be because they had to rely on vision more than other mammals in order to live in trees. The monkey/ape line became increasingly encephalized, and a prominent hypothesis today is that increasing monkey/ape encephalization was used to navigate more complex social environments. This is an area of huge controversy today, with obvious human implications. All great apes can pass the mirror test (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#intelligence), which is considered a key threshold of intelligence, and somewhere around what might be called sentient.

Because I am no materialist (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#how) and my work could be considered part of the fringe corpus, I will say this: although we are not alone in the universe (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack) and Earth has most likely been visited by extraterrestrial civilizations that are humanoid for reasons uncertain, scientists have not reached any point in the evolution of humans where they needed to invoke some kind of intervention, either divine or extraterrestrial, although religionists and fringe theorists allege genetic or divine intervention. While it may have happened, it certainly does not need to be invoked to explain anything in human evolution, as far as I have seen. Again, I am no materialist, but no interventionist ideas have needed to be yet invoked to explain how humans arrived on the evolutionary scene. Creation stories are likely just that: stories.

Monkeys and apes are dimorphic, which developed through sexual selection, which is how females choose a mate. Males are bigger and stronger, to protect the societies (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dimorphism). As noted previously, mammals have more investment in their offspring (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nursing), particularly placental mammals, and mothers bearing and nursing their offspring create the closest bonds among all animals. The primary social unit in monkey, ape, and human societies is females and their offspring. In monkey societies, females and their young live in the territorial core where the food is, and males protect the perimeter. In monkey societies, inbreeding is prevented by males leaving their societies (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#inbreeding), so female social organization dominates monkey societies. That got reversed with gorillas and chimps, with females leaving the societies. That radically changed their social organization. Gorillas have a patriarch/harem social organization, and chimp societies are run by male gangs. Females are very vulnerable to male violence in those great ape societies, as well as losing their infants to murder (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#infanticide1). Those dynamics are also part of the human heritage. As a future chapter covers, chimps engage in coalitionary killing (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coalitionary) when the benefits seem to outweigh the risks, and that is also part of the human heritage.

In monkey and ape societies, the primary social activity is grooming (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#grooming). In chimp societies, it takes up about 20% of their day. Humans seem to have developed conversation (AKA gossip) as a replacement for grooming, and humans spend about 20% of their day talking.

In general, traits that humans share with chimps and gorillas are thought to be shared among all members of the evolutionary line to humans, with some exceptions. Our woodland ancestors may have been organized more like macaques than chimps (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rhesus1), as their environment may have required it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#macaque1). But because chimps engaged in coalitionary killing of neighboring bands, it is considered likely that the human line from chimps did, and especially because the human line's brain began expanding after chimps (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpbrain), as coalitionary killing required advanced cognitive abilities.

Throughout the journey of life on Earth, there were always three imperatives (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#liferequirements): obtain food (energy), avoid becoming food, and engaging in both activities long enough to produce viable offspring. Humans had to follow those same rules.

When the human line became bipedal, probably between four-and-five million years ago, it provided key benefits that led to humans (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hand). Human locomotion requires only a quarter of the energy that chimp locomotion does (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bipedalhypothesis), which allowed bipeds to range farther in search of food. Becoming bipedal also freed hands for other uses, and from chimps to humans, fingers shrank and thumbs grew (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hand), which made the human line's hands much more nimble.

In my lifetime, as intrepid fossil hunters have scoured Africa for human-line fossils, and often dreaming of stumbling into the ultimate find, the new fossils have demonstrated that the great ape and human-line milieu was quite branchy, with numerous species inhabiting the same times. Australopiths had both gracile and robust members, and about 2.5-2.6 million years ago, just as today's ice age was beginning, a gracile australopith invented the first stone tool (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stonetool1). By itself, it was not an extraordinary development, at least compared to what it allowed apes to do compared to its competition. I would not want to take on a lion with a rock, but it probably allowed for easier food processing abilities, and likely allowed our ape ancestors to more effectively scavenge predator kills. Nevertheless, the invention of making stone tools led to all that followed, and the rise to humanity thus began, which the next chapter will explore.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The next chapter discusses the rise of humans after the first stone tool was made (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1). As the story of life on Earth reaches its human chapters, the controversies become more heated, as the human ego can have reactions that pre-human discussions do not elicit, and objectively investigating the human past is a difficult undertaking.

As noted previously, the human line after the split with chimps may have had social organization more like macaques than chimps (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rhesus1), which reflected their different environment, but it was likely still male-dominated. Chimps and orangutans are the most intelligent apes, and they definitely have cultural learning (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpculture2). Even capuchins have cultural learning. So, the expanded brain of australopiths (about a quarter larger than chimps) likely enabled even more sophisticated cultural learning, and stone tool technology spread, perhaps even to other species, who learned by observation, although there may have even been some direct training involved, such as from mother to offspring. It may well have been a female who invented the first stone tool, as chimp females use tools more often than males do (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpancestor). Whether brains grew for reasons of social navigation and inventing stone tools was just another instance of using an evolutionary adaptation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#macaquewar) for a new use is one of the intriguing questions being asked today. Whatever the case was, stone tools enhanced the energy supply of animals using them, and thus provided an evolutionary advantage.

Like any other evolutionary adaptation, larger brains had to confer some immediate advantage or else they would have not grown as they did. Brains are also energy hogs, and where the energy came from to fund the human line's growing brain (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#braingrowth1) is one of today's hotter controversies. One hypothesis is that the energy saved by bipedal walking funded the growth. Another hypothesis is that those stone tools allowed for better scavenging and more meat, and also more plants could be processed and eaten. However, I find another recent hypothesis very intriguing. In my big essay, I do not weigh in very often with my own opinion on scientific controversies, but this is one area where I do. I find Richard Wrangham's cooking hypothesis (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cooking) compelling, as it not only explains where the energy came from to fund the brain's growth, but it also provides persuasive explanations for several other key developments in the rise of humans.

The primary controversy around Wrangham's hypothesis is when the human line began to control fire. Darwin called the control of fire humanity's greatest feat, along with the development of language. Before the 21st century, when Wrangham began to develop his cooking hypothesis, the generally accepted earliest date for controlled fire was about 800,000 years ago, in a cave in Israel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bnot_Ya%27akov_Bridge). Wrangham, however, made a multidisciplinary case for fire being controlled more like two million years ago, and his original evidence was mainly anatomical.

Chimps and gorillas have huge guts compared to humans (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpdigestion), to digest their food, and their rib cages flare outward, from top-to-bottom, to accommodate those large guts. Great apes spend about half of their day chewing, and chimps are poor chewers of meat (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpchewing). Apes are primarily fruit eaters, and none are suited for a meat diet.

Homo habilis, discovered by Richard Leakey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#habilis), appeared about a quarter million years after the first stone tool was made, and is arguably the first species of the human genus, although that is still controversial. Homo habilis had a brain nearly 50% larger than its likely australopith ancestor, and the current thinking is that those advanced tools allowed for a richer food supply that grew their brains. Also, there were positive feedbacks with intelligence, where the increasing cognitive abilities allowed for enhanced survival. Just what all those new habiline behaviors might have been is unknown, but a key suspicion that Wrangham began is that habilines may have first controlled fire about two million years ago. It was a stunning hypothesis when first posited, but it explained a great deal of anatomical evidence, and some follows.

First and foremost, the control of fire can explain the dramatic changes reflected in the anatomy of Homo erectus, and there is no doubt that it is humanity's ancestor. Homo erectus is the first primate adapted for sleeping on the ground, and its anatomy was radically different than its ancestors, which included barrel-shaped ribs instead of flared ribs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#turkanaboy), which reflected a shrinking gut. Homo erectus's jaws and teeth also shrank dramatically, which meant chewing softer food. How did Homo erectus get softer food to chew? Until Wrangham's hypothesis, it was thought that it was by killing and getting softer organ meats (which all predators eat first (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#meatpreference)), and using stones to pound the meat to softness. Wrangham proposed that the softer food was made by cooking it. Homo erectus is really the only member of the human line that shows dramatic anatomical changes due to dietary changes, which were mainly about softer and easier-to-digest food. Wrangham made the case that Homo erectus cooked its food (and maybe even habilines), and a leading hypothesis for how fire was controlled was that sparks given off by banging stones together may have given those ancestors to humanity the idea of making for in the first place. Even Darwin suggested it.

The other key anatomical Homo erectus change that I find highly persuasive is that they no longer were adapted for sleeping in trees, which meant sleeping on the ground. Homo erectus also soon migrated across Asia, and could not have done it by sleeping in trees. How could Homo erectus sleep on the ground (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#groundsleeping2) when no other primate ever had? Rocks? Again, there is no way that I would want to sleep on the ground on the African plain with some rock for protection. Homo erectus likely slept on the ground just like today's hunter-gatherers in Africa do (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#campfire1): sleeping around a campfire, and they are safer at night than in the daytime, as all animals fear fire.

The other main line of evidence that Wrangham used for his cooking hypothesis is that cooking increases digestible calories, and no human cultures have ever been able to subsist solely on raw food, so cooked food would have provided the energy to fuel that growing brain, allowed the human-line digestive system to shrink, and that also reduced the energy output, which could be used to fund the growing brain, and reduced chewing time from eight hours a day to one, which freed up the human brain for new activities. My essay and this post cannot do justice to Wrangham's hypothesis, but I summarize it here (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cooking1).

It all fit together remarkably well, except for evidence of campfires two million years ago. Wrangham was ridiculed by his colleagues for years after posing his hypothesis, until evidence was adduced for fires a million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire4), and the techniques used to find it are being used on evidence for fires 1.5-1.7 million years ago that was previously considered equivocal. Wrangham's colleagues are no longer chortling so loudly. There is other evidence for his hypothesis (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#honeyguide), which has a great deal going for it. I consider it likely that when Homo erectus left Africa nearly two million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#migrate1), that it controlled fire.

With the appearance of Homo erectus and another leap in brain size, the first artefacts of what could call craftsmanship were produced, which were the "hand axes" (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#acheulean), and are considered the basis of the second tool culture of the human line. That "hand ax" is the longest-lived artefact in the human line, which did not change much for more than a million years, which likely reflected a stagnant culture (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#boring1), too. Those far-flung Homo erecti, scattered across Asia, became isolated and their cultural engines stagnated. They lived the same way for about 1.5 million years, until they disappeared about when modern humans arrived. As with other disappearances in the human line that coincided with the arrival of modern humans, a leading suspicion is that humans drove them to extinction while also mating with some of them. That evidence is in human DNA (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#africamegafauna). The fossil evidence for early humans is thin, although they left behind a rich record of artefacts. The human-line family tree is likely "branchier" than currently depicted (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#humantree), which today's anthropologists anticipate as the fossil hunt continues.

Because fire may well have been controlled two million years ago, the title of that chapter reflects my question of whether the first stone tools and the control of fire should be considered related events, and maybe separated by only a few hundred thousand years. They are both key innovations in the human line and provided the technological basis for the rise of humans, and both were energy innovations, with fire being the greatest of the two (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire2), which was an unprecedented innovation in the history of life on Earth. To this day, the control of fire is the basis for human civilization. I call stone tools and fire humanity's first epochal events or event, and I mean it differently than geologists do (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaldefinition). For each epochal event that I identify in my essay, and there have only been four in the human journey so far, what the epochal event led to was unimaginable to the human-line members living before the event (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine). The australopith who banged the first stone tools together could not have imagined the existence of an upright giant that we call Homo erectus, which slept on the ground around a fire, had tools that that australopith could barely imagine, and had a mental life that was likely unfathomable to that australopith. The campfire became the human line's social hub long ago.

Fire was also the first great ecosystem robbery by the human line (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire3). Instead of wood feeding the ecosystems, it fed campfires. Somewhere during Homo erectus's journey, it turned from hunted into hunter (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hunter1), and the control of fire was certainly the greatest protection against predation that the human line ever had. The climate and ecological changes wrought by the advancing and retreating ice sheets must have had profound effects on the human journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#iceageeurope1).

An even larger controversy over when fire was controlled was the invention of language. Apes can make meaningful vocalizations, but they are better at gestural language, and human language likely arose from gestures (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language1), with speech coming later. The human mastery of language (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language) is what scientists strongly suspect was the key change that led to the appearance of behaviorally modern humans.

The migration of Homo erectus past Africa is suspected to have the same reason as other migrations past an animal's home range: necessity. Moving away reduced population pressures, and was a safer alternative than coalitionary killing. A recent and compelling hypothesis is that Homo erectus and the human line since then, up until the waning of the last glacial period, calculated that moving on was a cheaper alternative to fighting (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#migrationpattern), so that intra-species violence was muted for more than a million years. Only when all the easy meat began disappearing and people fought over their dwindling energy supplies did human violence increase.

Of all the great ape species, including humans, one was able to overcome male violence against females: bonobos (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1). The underlying dynamic was that an ice-age-caused drought shrank the rainforest south the Congo River, gorillas left and never returned, and the remaining chimps had their food supply double in the absence of gorillas and their foraging parties could grow. Females and males then ganged up against the dominant males, and bonobos had the first ape society where females were not at the mercy of male violence. Instead of setting disputes with violence, bonobos engage in endless orgies. While females still leave the society to mate, female-on-female sex creates female bonds and a male's status is dependent on his mother's. In a lesson that will resurface many times in the essay, the series of events was: first the economic situation improved, and the social situation improved as a reaction to it.

The nexus of Africa, Asia, and Europe (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nexus) was a fertile zone for evolutionary innovation for millions of years, and it was no different in the evolution of humans. Somewhere between 1.3 million years ago and 600,000 years ago (that wide range reflects the paucity of fossil evidence), the next big species in the human line appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#heidelbergensis): Homo heidelbergensis, in that vicinity and likely in East Africa, where so many members of humanity's ancestors hailed from. The human line's toolset began improving from that stagnant toolset about 500,000 years ago, with Homo heidelbergensis being the likely inventor. Its brain was nearly as large as a modern human's. Homo heidelbergensis may have even invented the stone-tipped spear. About 500,000 years ago, Neanderthals (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#neanderthalsplit) descended from Homo heidelbergensis in Europe, and they invented the third stone tool culture (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mousterian). About 200,000 years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sapiens), Homo sapiens descended from Homo heidelbergensis in Africa, again likely in East Africa. The advancing and retreating sheets had major impacts (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#milankovitch2) on the development of Homo sapiens, and the first Homo sapiens migrated past Africa (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#interglacial1) during the previous interglacial interval of 130,000-114,000 years ago. There is plenty of speculation about those people. Did they interbreed with Neanderthals? Did Neanderthals wipe them out? Did those humans migrate across Asia and precipitate some extinctions, such as that largest primate and Homo erectus? There was another descendant from Homo heidelbergensis alive then, today called Denisovans, and maybe they drove some of those species to extinction. Those "hobbits" discovered recently (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hobbit) seem to have been habilines or even australopiths, and scientists think that the history of human species in Africa and Eurasia might be quite a rousing tale, if it is ever fully told.

DNA and other evidence has been drawing a highly impressive picture of human development in the past 100,000 years, and increasing technological prowess and the likely mastery of language led to what scientists today call behaviorally modern humans, and today's best evidence seems to zero in on a period around 60,000 years ago, and perhaps as few as 50,000 years ago, when a few hundred members of Homo sapiens, soon after passing through a bottleneck that reduced the species to as few as 5,000 people, left Africa via the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dna2). That group, like other migrants, may well have left due to population pressures, and those "losers" of East African life then conquered the world. That is a subject for the next chapter.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The previous chapter showed how the invention of stone tools and controlled fire led to humans appearing on the evolutionary scene, and they were the first two epochal events, which may have happened so close together, in the evolutionary time scale, that they were aspects of the same energy event. The next chapter shows what happened (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2) when the founder group left Africa around 60,000 years ago, with language and their advanced toolset: they conquered Earth.

Only about 30,000 years after Homo sapiens appeared, they were exploiting the seashore biome (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnacle_Point), and about 100,000 years ago, what has been called the Great Leap Forward began, as technological innovation accelerated. Somewhere between 100,000 and 60,000 years ago, humans mastered language and developed many features common to all people today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up). Bedding, needles, and maybe even arrows were invented by 60,000 years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bedding), soon after the human population may have declined to only several thousand people (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory), which may have been related to the largest volcanic eruption in many millions of years. Whatever the case was, the genetic and other evidence is strong that between 70,000 and 50,000 years ago, a group of a few hundred behaviorally modern humans left East Africa. By 10,000 years ago, the descendants of that founder group had conquered all continents besides Antarctica in what I have called the Second Epochal Event. In doing so, they drove all other human species to extinction, as well as all of the easily hunted big animals, which included all big animals on the continents that had never before encountered humans, which are Australia (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna), North America, and South America (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#clovis). The world's easy meat fueled the human expansion and the thousand-fold growth in its population. As with the previous event, if you could have shown some of those founders what their act of rafting across the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula led to by 10,000 years ago, they would not have comprehended what you showed them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine2), because the changes were so radical. This chapter sketches those changes.

As previously noted, around 99% of all species that ever lived did not produce fossils yet collected by humans and, for instance, scientists have not discovered any gorilla fossils, as their rainforest environment is not conducive to preserving any. The fossil evidence is similarly thin for early humans (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#evidence), even though there is a great deal of avid hunting for human fossils. So, the evidence of early human movements is often circumstantial, and one piece of evidence is the sudden extinction of animals and competing human species, most of which had survived for millions of years, and they went extinct close to the time when Homo sapiens are thought to have arrived (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#evidence). Although some of those early extinctions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#flores) are equivocal as to human agency being involved, later extinctions left no doubt of human agency, and humans were likely solely responsible for nearly all of the late extinctions. Never before had such a scourge been unleashed on Earth's ecosystems that was not some geophysical or geochemical catastrophe. The only animals that survived that onslaught were those of Africa and Eurasia that evolved around humans and learned to avoid them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#africamegafauna), and were in position to. Those that lived in Eurasian ice age biomes did not have a prayer in their shrinking range.

The litany of species extinctions that coincided with the human expansion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event) is horrifically impressive, but what may be the most "impressive" was the almost complete extinction of the most successful mammals ever (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elephantsuccess) before the rise of humans: proboscideans. Their huge size, intelligence, opportunistic feeding habits, and prehensile trunks saw them thrive in all biomes that they could reach. From tundra to tropical rainforest, proboscideans succeeded. Other than in Africa and Southern Eurasia, where those proboscideans had lived around human hunters for more than a million years, all proboscideans quickly went extinct soon after modern humans arrived.

What set humans apart from all other dominant animals in Earth's history were their high intelligence and resultant toolset. Human consciousness was the wild card (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wildcard), and combined with their hands made them into an irresistible force. But, for all of their cleverness and ability to manipulate their environment, humans had the same basic requirements of all organisms (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#basics): the acquisition, preservation, and consumption of energy. The basics never changed and never will: if an organism does not solve those problems, the rest does not matter.

What became clear in the studies for writing the big essay was how right Darwin was (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#darwin1). His stature among the scientists of history is well deserved. His idea of descent with modification is the bedrock finding of scientists who have studied the history of life on Earth. There is not an exception that I am aware of.

Anthropologists have discovered scores of traits common to every human society ever studied, and they are called human universals today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up1). The idea of descent with modification and convergent evolution has also been profitably applied to studying human culture, including language, and the prevailing idea is that all of those universal human traits were possessed by that founder group that left Africa between 70,000 and 50,000 years ago, with about 60,000 years seeming to be the most likely timeframe.

The human mastery of language (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language) is thought to be the key trait of that founder group that allowed them to conquer Earth. Language allowed for a quick dissemination of ideas, including technology, which no other animal had ever achieved, including those previous human groups, many of which still existed when that founder group left Africa.

The impact of evolution on brain development is one of the frontiers of science, and human brain development and mental abilities (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky) are closely linked. Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate surveyed the state of the science a decade ago on brain structure and its function, and the structural basis of human cognition is well established. Again, I am not materialist, but the relationship between the human brain and the consciousness that it hosts is undeniable, although materialist attempts to banish the "ghost in the machine" are less than convincing for those of us who have had easily reproducible experiences (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#how) that falsified materialist theories of consciousness.

What some scientists have called The Great Leap Forward (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap) had a longer "ramping up" period than was previously supposed, and there really are not any "missing links" in human evolution, especially of the kind where scientists throw up their hands and say, "Here is where magic (or divine or extraterrestrial intervention) happens." While the fossil record is thin, the artifactual record is not, and new tools such as DNA testing have made "missing links" into "missing linklets," and scientists are confident that the gaps will continue to be filled as more evidence is amassed.

DNA testing has established the founder group's migrations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit), and when I studied them, they neatly coincided with the megafauna extinctions, and that alignment removed any lingering doubt that I had about something other than humans being primarily responsible for those sudden and massive extinctions. To better understand why humans would have gone after all of those big animals, the concept of energy return on investment, abbreviated as "EROI," can be valuable. The concept is how much energy is invested for how much energy is returned. For early humans, the EROI was based on how much human metabolic energy was invested in procuring food, versus how much caloric energy was acquired. Big animals had EROIs of well more than 100, which dwarfed all other foods (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#meateroi). For a proboscidean, especially those that had never before encountered humans and did not try to defend themselves, it could have been more than 1,000, compared to around ten for seeds, nuts, and birds. Earlier humans had brains larger than humans have today, and were not all that uncalculating, even if the science of energy was not developed until tens of thousands of years into their future. They would go after something with an EROI of 1,000 long before they deigned to go after something with an EROI of a hundredth as much. That cliché of the honored hunters arriving at camp, carrying the carcass of a big animal, is not rooted in fiction. The world's megafauna had never before faced the threat that behaviorally modern humans presented (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#humandifference), and they never stood a chance.

There is little evidence that any human society ever practiced conservation of any energy resource until it was too late and the energy resource was plundered to exhaustion, and particularly for hunters (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bison). While some tribal people developed taboos and other practices to limit the kill (seasons, letting the first salmon go past the village), it was long after the easy meat had been rendered extinct. When humanity became civilized, that dynamic was even more evident, as local ecosystems were plundered with deforestation and agricultural methods that were not sustainable, and the civilization collapsed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#earlycivilizations), but that is a subject for the next chapter.

There has been a great deal of opposition to the idea of human agency in megafauna extinctions, but every instance of opposition that I have seen was either obviously or suspiciously rooted in an ideological opposition, even in works that at least seemed scientific (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climatechange2). A great deal of that opposition seems rooted in the "peaceful savage" myth, which is the Rousseauian fantasy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hobbes) of primeval humans who lived in peace and harmony with nature. That became a dominant meme among anthropologists after World War II and the horrors that industrial civilization was capable of. However, the evidence eventually overturned that fantasy. Humans have not lived in harmony with nature since they learned to control fire, and preliterate humans are vastly more violent, proportionally, than civilizes ones.

What the evidence supports is that once the founder group left Africa, their migrations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#migrationpattern) were fueled by the easy meat the led to the Golden Age of the Hunter-Gatherer, where large animals with no previous experience of human hunters were easily hunted to extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#huntergatherer). While there were entire continents just waiting to be shorn of their large animals, that human practice was enacted of simply moving on to more "virgin" territory (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#migrationpattern) rather than fighting each other as the energy supply dwindled, and for a brief time, there was relative peace and plenty during the human journey. As humans learned to tap each new energy source, there was also a brief period of peace and plenty (a "golden age") until the new energy resource was exhausted, whether it was megafauna, forests, intact soils, or hydrocarbon fuels. It was only after the megafauna went extinct (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warfare1) that humans began to engage in warfare. The tools of hunting are more than a million years old, and human-on-human violence certainly accompanied the rise of hunting technology, but the cost/benefit of organized violence did not make sense when there was easy meat to be had. That founder group that left Africa likely left due to competition with their neighbors and warfare, and the first religions seem to have been a reaction to warfare, and DNA testing has borne out that universal human behavior.

Anthropologists have long studied "primitive" peoples, and the hunter-gatherers of sub-Saharan Africa, Australia, New Guinea, and vicinity had many cultural similarities, and when DNA testing established that they were all relict populations of the original founder group migration from Africa, their similarities took on a profound new significance. One of which was that their religious ceremonies were all singing and dancing rituals that could last all night (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing), with some rituals lasting for months. The purpose of those rituals was forming in-group "cohesion," and particularly to condition young men into risking their lives in warfare with neighboring groups. The earliest religions are now seen as a reaction to warfare and survival needs. In early warfare, killing off entire rival tribes was "normal," (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#deathrate) and that kind of genocidal practice was also seen in early civilizations. The Old Testament is filled with tales of genocide, where, "Kill them all" was "God's" instruction to his faithful.

To this very day, perhaps the darkest aspect of human "nature" is the tendency to form in-group "cohesion" at the expense of all out-groups (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup1), where the out-group was made subhuman and thus became expendable, like an animal to hunt. Those singing and dancing rituals essentially bypassed the neocortex and rooted tribal beliefs into the emotional limbic system (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#limbic1), and when rational thought encounters fear-based emotions of survival, emotions always win. Those rituals were designed to overcome a young man's instincts for survival so that he would risk his life for his in-group. To this day, that is how all soldiers are conditioned, and painful rights of initiation, from those young warrior rituals in those relict populations to boot camp in today's military organizations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#method), are the norm. And today's mainstream intellectuals can always be counted on to minimize or ignore the crimes of their in-group (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup), while focusing on and even fabricating crimes of the out-group, in order to justify their society's treatment of the out-group. That kind of "logic" is what Jesus remarked on, where he noted that people always looked for splinters in their neighbors' eyes while ignoring the logs in their own, and Jesus was one who delivered the most enlightened message that humanity ever received when he said to "love the enemy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enemy)" (AKA out-group). Humanity has yet to learn that lesson, and when humanity does, it may finally become a truly sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egocentric), and become soul-centric instead of egocentric.

Since energy scarcity has defined all organisms for all time, with some few exceptions for "golden ages (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages)," energy scarcity is deeply baked into human awareness. One universal trait of humanity is to identity and punish economic cheaters (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cheaters) as another way to enhance societal "cohesion."

Wherever behaviorally modern humans arrived, all the easy meat went extinct, as well as all other human groups, and one of the more prominent was the extinction of Neanderthals. With Neanderthals, just as with the megafauna, there is a faction of scientists with an in-group/out-group conflict of interest, and their in-group is Homo sapiens. Those scientists generally attribute climate change (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climateneanderthal), not the arrival of behaviorally modern humans, to those sudden extinctions. I have noted that pattern with all other human species and all megafaunal extinctions. The only extinctions that I have not seen scientists propose climate change explanations for are the recent extinctions on island populations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary_extinction_event#Later_extinctions), where the extinction was so sudden and total that nobody can take the climate change explanation seriously, such as what happened to the birds of New Zealand (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#newzealand). Of the continental extinctions, the one that has absolutely no credible climate change explanation is that of the Australian megafauna (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna), but there is a contingent of scientists who reliably churn out paper after paper that "proves" that climate change, not humans, did it. I do not have much respect for their intellectual gymnastics (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#context), but I have seen similar reasoning and evidence presented for all other extinctions. Similarly, the vast genocide of the Western Hemisphere's natives due to the European invasion has had similar apologists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide) who blame disease and "inferior" culture, not European intentions: they saw easy plunder and land for the taking, and took it. I am a beneficiary of that monstrous crime, as I am a white man who lives in North America.

Neanderthals were not easy for Cro-Magnons to defeat, and it took a while. There was even a new stone tool technology (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chatelperronian) that arose at the meeting of those cultures, and was succeeded not long afterward by the fourth stone tool technology (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#augnarician). But behaviorally modern humans had the upper hand, and a "range war" of several thousand years saw Neanderthals go extinct (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#europeinvasion). The Denisovans were likely driven to extinction in similar fashion thousands of years earlier, and with the demise of Neanderthals, the only other human species was the "hobbits (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hobbits)," who also disappeared about when behaviorally modern humans arrived. If humans did spread across Asia in the previous interglacial interval of 130,000 to 114,000 years ago, they met the same fate as those other extinct human populations. These are not easy facts to face, but they are our heritage. Denying our past is certainly not on any kind of path to enlightenment.

As Neanderthals were being driven to extinction, the mammoths and other tundra inhabitants of Eurasia were driven to extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gravettian) by those humans with their new toolset that allowed them to live in frigid environments. Not long afterward, as the ice sheets retreated, humans migrated to the Western Hemisphere (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#americanmigration) and the same pattern was repeated, and, once again, all sorts of climate change and other reasons have been proffered (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#westernmegafauna), but they increasingly lack credibility as more evidence is amassed. The only credible hypothesis, in my opinion, is human agency, which accompanied that founder group's descendants wherever they arrived. As those humans conquered the land-based ecosystems, they also began exploiting the aquatic ecosystems, and the first fishermen appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fishing1).

Technology kept advancing, and within the last few thousand years before the rise of agriculture, the final stone tool technology was invented (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#solutrean), today called microlith.

As all the easy meat was rendered extinct, and all other human species were subdued, then humans began fighting each other (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#violence1) when that the Golden Age of Easy Energy had ended. Many Stone Age graves bear mute evidence that spears and arrows were used on each other, with not even children being spared. Sealing the case for human agency in the mammoth extinctions, some survived on isolated islands for thousands of years (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#islandrefuges), until humans arrived.

All relict populations encountered in recent history by Europeans were without exception highly warlike (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#violence2), and DNA evidence has shown that once humans populated all the continents and moved northward in Eurasia and North America once the ice sheets melted, mass migrations were extremely rare (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#genetictesting). What did migrate were new energy practices, such as agriculture, smelting metal, and the toolset of civilization.

At its root, all warfare has an ultimate economic motivation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warreason1), from hunter-gatherers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#density) to nation-states, which has always primary been resource-based.

The melting of the continental ice sheets had dramatic climactic effects (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icesheetsmelt), and about 12 thousand years ago, the Younger Dryas happened (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas), and what is called the Holocene Epoch began (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#holocene). By that time, all continental megafauna that could be killed had been, particularly everywhere outside of the Americas, which were still in the process of being "settled." One of the earliest mass slaughters yet discovered was on the shores of the Nile (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egypt1) that happened about 13 thousand years ago, and cave paintings depict torture and other bloody deeds.

All social animals are social (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialreason) because living in a society provided better survival prospects for its members, and chimp and gorilla social organization was humanity's inheritance, and 70% of preliterate human civilizations were patrilineal (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1) (or patrilocal), and have always been the most violent societies on Earth, as they are ruled by rival male gangs. Neanderthals were probably patrilineal, as were australopiths. For that 30% that was not patrilineal but matrilineal (or matrilocal), it was because women contributed more calories to the society, usually by horticulture or highly successful gathering in areas where hunting was poor. Wherever women had that high status because of their economic contribution, those were always the most peaceful societies. In four places on Earth, women took it further, and their gathering abilities led to agriculture. Those four "pristine" instances (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacefulagriculture) of societies based on domesticated plants were all peaceful in their early "village" phases, and those four (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1) were the Fertile Crescent, first and foremost, and China, Mesoamerica, and Peru. Only in the Fertile Crescent and Mesoamerica were the beginnings of agriculture certainly not influenced by other agricultural civilizations.

Dogs were the first domestic animals, domesticated from wolves more than 30,000 years ago, but today's dogs were domesticated about 15,000 years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dogs). Again, if a member of that founder group could have toured the world 50,000 years later, and witnessed ten thousand times as many descendants as left in that group, living in vastly different biomes with a greatly enhanced toolset, and with companions such as dogs and people beginning to raise plants for eating, it would have all been bizarrely incomprehensible (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine2). That second Epochal Event only took about a tenth of the time that the first one did, and the Epochal Events would continue to shrink in duration as the energy levels that they exploited leapt up by an order of magnitude or more each time.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I recently made a post about the song of scarcity (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=861308&viewfull=1#post861308), which has really been the only song that humanity has known. For the previous Epochal Events, they each initiated radical changes in the human journey, and in each of them, there was an "advance" in human welfare that was dependent on the new level of energy used, and they all had brief "golden ages (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages)," until the energy sources were depleted. Often, a people at one Epochal Stage invaded people of a previous one, and those living at lower energy levels never stood a chance, although the invaders experienced another brief "golden age," at least until the local energy supply was once again depleted. If there is a constant to the human journey so far, it is that.

True abundance has never been experienced by humanity before. I wrote this a few hours after I just finished writing the summary for the chapter on Humanity’s Second Epochal Event, which was The Super-Predator Revolution (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=865540&viewfull=1#post865540). As the essay gets closer to today's world, I can see the pieces coming together, and readers who do the work will see a comprehensive whole by the essay's end. But what "whole" is that? My purpose is to not only show how energy has always been the basis for all ecosystems and civilizations, but to also show what abundance looks like, or sounds like, if I honor the "song" analogy. The abundance song has never been heard on Earth before in chorus, mainly because almost nobody knows the song. What has passed for an abundance song over the human journey has virtually always been counterfeit. Except for some spiritual masters (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enemy) whose messages are still largely incomprehensible to almost everybody on Earth, to the extent that somebody thought that they were singing the song of abundance, they were invariably, at best, only singing a song of relative abundance in a world of scarcity, specifically for the in-group that the singer belonged to (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup). And those chained to in-group ideologies always failed to sing to the out-group, because there was not enough to go around. Sure, there has been proselytizing, from Christianity to capitalism to American nationalism, but it was never a song of abundance, and all such songs were forms of coercion in practice, usually accompanied by violence by the in-group against the out-group, who usually possessed resources that the in-group coveted. So, fair words accompanied heinous deeds, and people called plunder abundance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#carl).

Scientists have ably shown modern economic ideology for what it is, which is little more than intellectual justification for the wide disparity in wealth amongst humanity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists), as those intellectuals worked on behalf of the rich, and an institution primarily responsible for such chicanery in the past century was funded by history's richest human (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chicagoschool). However, scientists and other intellectuals who have seen past the smoke-and-mirrors games played by the capital class's intellectual warriors have also failed to understand what abundance is. Exuberance is not abundance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#exuberance), and neither is "sustainable." (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#sustainable) Abundance is a horse of a very different color (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), and a primary aspect of my work is helping people recognize it.

I have presented my own (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) visions of what a world based on abundance looks like, but I consider them a poor substitute for a vision that I encountered long ago that I do not consider to be fantasy (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748).

Those are worlds founded on abundance, and specifically energy abundance. My spiritual training also taught me that the steps toward any goal need to be consistent with that goal (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#idealist), and I believe that a world of abundance can only be brought into being by an effort based in love (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest). Love is the power of creation, and only a love-based effort will successfully tap that energy source that humanity can ride to a world based on abundance.

The song that I will attempt to recruit people to learn to sing will be available for the world to hear, but only those with ears to hear will understand it, and not many of them walk on Earth today. In a world of scarcity and fear, a song of abundance and love is largely incomprehensible. However, if the means to abundance are delivered into people's lives, they will begin to understand, and that was true of every previous epochal event: the energy technology was delivered first, and the new level of awareness came later. I do not expect it to be different this time, but with one difference: I am trying to get a sizeable group to understand where we can go before we go there, so we can aim in the goal's direction. For the previous epochal events, nobody had any idea what lied ahead (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine).

The entire purpose of my site is to help those who are willing and able to release scarcity, at least from their minds, long enough so that they can simply imagine abundance. When enough can do that and sing the song, it will be time to take action (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). So, who wants to sing? :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This chapter summary is about the Domestication Revolution and civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3). Moving beyond the tropical rainforests and woodlands (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#seasonal1) required increasingly profound dietary changes. The rise of the human line was accompanied by a dietary decrease in fruit and leaves and an increase in meat, roots, and seeds. As the previous chapter surveyed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2), the meat from the world's large animals fueled humanity's expansion across Earth. As humans drove the big animals to extinction, they turned to gathering nuts and seeds, and the first permanent settlements relied on those staples, beginning less than 14 thousand years ago in the Fertile Crescent (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran), in today's Syria and Israel. Also, at about the same time, a village was established along a gazelle migration route in today's Syria (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#natufian), and they also harvested wild "gardens" of wheat and rye.

In four places on Earth civilization independently arose: the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, and Peru (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1), and they all began where candidates for domestic plants lived and where hunters went hungry. Humanity turned to agriculture when the easy meat was gone, which is thought to have been a coercive Malthusian event, not one of "progress."

Hungry hunters would have plundered early farmers, so civilization did not develop where there hunting dominated. Women did the horticulture and had high status due to their high economic contribution, and those four pristine civilizations all began peacefully, just as feminists have been writing about for generations. Where agriculture began, civilization came behind it a few thousand years later (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#agciv). Earth's human population was a thousand times greater when the Domestication Revolution began than when that founder group left Africa (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founder). Earth's carrying capacity rose (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#population1) by a factor of about 200 when agriculture was invented and spread. Farming was not attractive to hunter-gathers, as farming became a life of drudgery and people became smaller an unhealthier when they initially adopted farming. But the easy meat was gone and the land could support 200 times as many people under farming as hunting and gathering. A supremely talented hunter-warrior was no match for 200 peasants armed with hoes.

The idea of group selection (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#groupselection) could apply to the transition: those groups that adopted the new energy regime grew, while those who stayed with the previous one were several disadvantaged and could go "extinct" or became confined to the hills, like those relict populations called Negritos (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#negrito).

A little less than 10,000 years ago, a famous settlement began in today's Turkey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#catalhoyuk), called Çatal Höyük (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalhoyuk) today. It was a large, peaceful village that reached a population of several thousand. It was abandoned a couple thousand years later during a period of climate cooling (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climatechange3), but it is also thought that two millennia of deforestation and farming made the local environments more arid and wrecked the local environment. That dynamic became a common one over the next several thousand years of civilizations rising and falling across Earth.

A contemporary village not far from Çatal Höyük (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cayonu) displayed early signs of a class system, and men and women had different diets. Pigs and cattle were also domesticated in the vicinity, and the practice of livestock manure providing fertilizer for crops began early. Crops planted on deforested land provided good yields for a time, but crops depleted the soil of nutrients, which livestock dung helped replenish. However, exposed soils for crops also washed and blew away as they were exposed to rain and wind. Any civilization reliant on deforestation and agriculture would not last, as the local environments would eventually be devastated.

Just as growing large, which had been an animal strategy for more than 500 million years (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#size2), backfired on the megafauna when humans arrived, growing large also backfired on trees (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#treesenergy) when humans began to deforest Earth in earnest. About 8,000 years ago, people began to smelt metal (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#plow), which was another energy-intensive practice that decimated forests. That smelted metal made plows possible, and further decimated the soils for short-term agricultural yield. Those dynamics meant the end of all early Fertile Crescent civilizations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#earlycivilizations).

China was behind the Fertile Crescent by a couple thousand years, but they may have domesticated pigs independently (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goat). China was also quickly deforested by civilization.

Early on, humans realized the energy benefits of water transportation, which used only about 1-2% of the energy needed to move something overland (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watertravel). Cities are huge energy concentrating devices, and all cities are situated on low-energy transportation lanes, which were usually rivers, especially in civilizations around the Fertile Crescent. The so-called tyranny of distance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tyranny1) limited the size of the hinterland that could serve a city, and hence constrained a city's size. The key feature of cities was that they allowed for the development of professions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#professions), where some people could be relieved of food procurement duties and develop other skills. The ease of communication of ideas and technologies in cities provided great benefits to people, and cities always held an attraction to people from the hinterlands.

The world's first true city, Eridu (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer), was founded about 5400 BCE near the mouth of the Euphrates River. The first civilization, Sumer (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer), developed between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, and the Greeks called the region Mesopotamia. It was not long before inventors in Sumer developed a way to take advantage of wind energy, and the sailboat was born (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat1).

Sumer was situated on the southern end of Mesopotamia, near where those rivers emptied into the Persian Gulf, and the region was arid, but they used irrigation. A little over 5,000 years ago, smelters learned to add tin to copper, and the first Bronze Age began (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bronze), in the Fertile Crescent. Civilizations arose in the Indus and Nile river valleys around that time, and inventions such as the wheel (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wheel) and writing (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#writing) soon spread. Going back to the origins of religion with warfare, civilization saw the rise professional priests and soldiers. Early civilized warfare was exceedingly brutal, and wars between city-states in Sumer meant the complete decimation of the losers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warfare), with the men all killed or maimed and the women and children enslaved. The new professional priesthood waged a war against the singing and dancing rituals of early religion (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing1), and replaced it with idol worship and building grand temples. Slaves also appeared with civilization, as the institution only made economic sense for sedentary populations.

Not far behind the rise of the urban priesthood was another new class: elites (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear). Elites became elites by controlling the new urban markets and skimming them to acquire their wealth. They were not endemic features of cities, but more like a rural dynamic that invaded and conquered. The original palaces in Sumer did not serve state functions but were mansions of the early "winners" of civilization. Early elites entered into a Faustian bargain with the priesthood, where the priesthood conferred divine status to elites (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#divinity). Then the elites created states that they controlled. All "pristine" states began with no legitimacy, but they fabricated it with draconian measures designed to terrorize the populace into submission (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#legitimacy). That was common to all pristine states, and they all had features with suggested a kind of convergent evolution (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#convergent), where the dynamics of people and their environments derived similar practices. Divine elites (always men) that controlled urban markets, with perks such as harems and monumental architecture that aggrandized the elite, professional priests, soldiers, and slaves, some kind of accounting developed for the elite plunder, usually a form of writing, were common to all pristine civilizations.

While slaves disappeared with industrialization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend) and the priesthoods declined in power, elites are still with us, and global elites are by no means the only ones behind the suppression of free energy, antigravity, and other exotic technologies (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), but they are the most sophisticated players with the most resources (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make). The primary reason why they suppress such technologies is that they realize that with their advent, elites will become as obsolete as slaves, so they see it as a matter of survival, even if their organized suppression makes Earth uninhabitable (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mars), although cooler heads may prevail.

Religious indoctrination into beliefs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#indoctrination1), with their attendant "sacred" texts, replaced the direct experience of early religion, and using indoctrinated abstract symbology and manipulating it for elite benefit (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#indoctrination2) is characteristic of all dominant ideologies today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant).

Writing was originally elite accounting and was eventually used for other purposes, and one was tales that aggrandized the elite. The Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the earliest stories committed to writing, and it reflected key issues of Sumer. Gilgamesh was a demi-god who slept with the virgins, tried to become immortal, and specifically waged war against the forests upstream from Uruk (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gilgamesh), and specifically Lebanon's cedar forests. Uruk was the first large city ever built, which Gilgamesh ruled. Noah's flood in the Old Testament came from Gilgamesh's tale. The flooding was likely caused by upriver deforestation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#floods), and Sumer's practices doomed it, as the soils salinated from being waterlogged (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#salination1) and the rivers and canals silted up from upriver erosion due to settlements. Wheat yields began declining from salination about 3500 BCE, and by 2100 BCE, wheat comprised only 2% of Sumerian crops. The yields of salt-resistant barley also plummeted, and people began migrating away from Sumer due to hunger, and one of them was Abraham of Biblical lore (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tales). As Sumer declined, it was conquered by an upriver kingdom called Akkad, and that Sumerian conquest made Akkad the world's first empire (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#akkadian). The pattern ever since has been one of rising and falling empires, and they always collapsed when they ran out of energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#collapse), which in preindustrial civilizations meant food and wood.

Another feature of cities was that the clan mode of social organization became obsolete in cities (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#clans), and organization along professional lines became prominent. The dynamics of agriculture leading to cities with their common traits was similar for all pristine civilizations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domestication). The basics of all civilizations have always been the same (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#civilizationbasics).

My work departs from orthodoxy in a number of respects, but mainly because I have had experiences that have shown me that the orthodox position is false in key ways, and two in particular. The first is that the materialism that guides mainstream science and related ideologies is false (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#orthodoxy), which I had dramatically demonstrated to me when I was 16. The other is that I know that free energy, antigravity and other technologies exists, but have been developed and sequestered by ultra-elites (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). While getting your own underground technology show is not a likely event (only those risking their lives in the high road to free energy and similar undertakings are candidates), it is pretty easy to demonstrate that the materialistic models of consciousness are false. Brian O'Leary had his awakening moment while performing the same exercise that I did (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#remote). Scientists can be ruined after having their eyes opened that way, as they no longer drink the Kool-Aid of mainstream science, and all of my fellow travelers in the free energy field had some kind of awakening experience like that, and they usually began their journeys as mainstream scientists.

Similarly, mainstream intellectuals also drink the materialist Kool-Aid, and their two primary objections to the idea of free energy are that it defies the "laws of physics (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3)" and that tales of organized suppression are "conspiracy theories" and can therefore be disregarded. What initially blew me away was how wedded those so-called smart people were to their ideological convictions that denied reality. In their way, they were no different than religious fundamentalists. Their faith was just a little more sophisticated, but was just as disconnected from reality, and at least a religious fundamentalist is not a materialist. In ways, I found the religious fundamentalists more in touch with reality than the materialists, although both substituted ideology for reality, and were both deluded in ways that made them largely useless for the free energy pursuit. Conspiracists and structuralists are united in thinking like victims (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness), so they operate from fear, not love, and that is their primary limitation: they are both addicted to scarcity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#misinformation), but that addiction is often subtly reflected in their ideological assumptions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#scarcity1).

While early civilization conferred undoubted benefits (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#conflict), which were economic and social (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cityadvantages), they were also death traps for those moving there from the hinterland. Urban life expectancy did not reach hinterland life expectancy until the twentieth century. Energy surplus is the primary determinant of species and civilization viability (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energysurplus), and the practices of early civilization did not provide much to support the professions and the elite, so about 90% of early civilization's workforce was devoted to food production. That proportion did not appreciably drop until industrialization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishworkforce).

The evidence today is that not only did early civilizations not only destroy their means of sustenance by wiping out the forests and soils, but they also began having atmospheric effects as long as early as 8,000 years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#atmosphere), as carbon dioxide levels began rising. Methane also began increasing about 5,000 years ago, when the rice paddy system developed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#paddy1).

Something happened in Sumer which almost all subsequent civilizations engaged in: when the coming collapse was obvious, civilizations then began to engage in conservation efforts, but they were always too little and too late (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#conservation). The inertia of civilization spelled its doom.

The kingdoms of Israel and Judah were wedged between the Assyrians and the Egyptians, and the Old Testament is a political document that attempted to create united a national mythology, really not too different than tales of George Washington (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#weems) and Christopher Columbus (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#irving). Very few events in the Old Testament can be confirmed by historical or archeological investigation, and similar to the tale of Gilgamesh, early documents such as the Old Testament, were probably about 10% fact and 90% fantasy designed to indoctrinate the masses into accepting a national identity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#assyria), led by elite rule.

The reason why Egypt was such a potent force in the ancient world was that it had the Old World's most stable food supply (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nile1), as the flooding Nile fertilized the fields with silt without the salination that plagued Sumer. But the rise of Egypt meant the extinction of the Nile's megafauna, which was likely the first mass extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nilefauna) event since the world's megafauna was killed off (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna). The Nile extinction was similar to the island extinctions in that the megafauna literally had no place to escape to, so they were quickly driven to extinction.

As with Sumer, early Egyptian elites claimed divine status, abetted by the priesthood, and the "job" of the early pharaohs was "controlling" the Nile's flood (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nileflood). The Nile cooperated for a time, and the greatest monuments to aggrandize the elite were built: the necropolis at Giza (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egyptold), which used up all the surplus energy that Egypt generated for the century that the necropolis was built. But the Nile did not always cooperate, and a series of low floods doomed the Old Kingdom, and by the Middle Kingdom, the divine luster left the pharaohs, and they were seen more as "normal" elites.

At the beginning of the Holocene, people drove the Mediterranean islands' megafauna to extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hippo1), which included hippos and island-dwarfed elephants. When humans fled the deforested and desertifying Fertile Crescent (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#woodconserve1) and Egypt's Old Kingdom collapsed, civilizations began growing along the Mediterranean's periphery. Minoan civilization on Crete (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#crete1) and Mycenaean civilization in Greece (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mycenaean1) rose, flourished, and collapsed due to their practices of deforestation and agriculture on steeper lands than existed in Mesopotamia or the Nile valley. Beginning about 1300 BCE, Cyprus rose to dominance with its intact forests and copper ore. In less than three centuries, Cyprus was completely deforested and its civilization collapsed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cyprus1). The harbors of port cities quickly filled with silt from upland deforestation, and what came to Mesopotamia over millennia came swiftly to the steeper lands along the Mediterranean's periphery, and a pattern was repeated all the way to the Roman collapse nearly two millennia later, of deforestation, desertification, siltation, and societal collapse. Famous ancient cities such as Troy were buried under several meters of silt (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#trojan).

About 1150 BCE, there was a collapse of nearly all civilizations on the Mediterranean's east end (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#collapse2), and Phoenician civilization saw its brief golden age (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#phoenician). Mesopotamia's Iron Age began about 1300 BCE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ironage), but it did not really begin to become widespread until less than 1000 BCE. Iron could not be smelted until the blast furnace was invented, as iron had a much higher melting point than copper and tin. Greece's forests recovered for centuries before civilization began to rise again there, and the society that arose there, beginning in about 700 BCE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#greece), had the pioneering spirit that the USA eventually had. It was an Iron Age civilization, and steel held an edge and made great swords, axes, and plows, and Iron Age civilizations were much "better" at violence and ravaging the environments. In less than two centuries, the Greek countryside had been so badly eroded that olive trees were the only crop that could grow, and that is why Greece is known for its olives today. I visited the Mediterranean's periphery in 1974, which included the Greek islands and the Balkans (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#deforestation1). You could not have convinced me that the austere moonscapes that greeted me had once been heavily forested. Civilization eradicated more than 90% of the forest that once ran from Morocco to Afghanistan, and much of it is desert today.

Around 500 BCE, Athens entered its classical period (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#classicgreece), which was a peak of human thought, where the beginnings of a scientific approach could be seen. Greeks proposed the first Utopia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia#Varieties), but it had slaves, as nobody could imagine a civilization without slaves. Greeks had wars with Persia (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#persia), followed by wars with Sparta (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sparta), and Athens collapsed within a century of entering its classic phase, with its hinterland a desert (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#athenshinterland), and never again rose to prominence. During its wars with Sparta, Athens made the disastrous gamble to seize Sicily (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sicily1), which still had thick forests, and that failure meant the end of Athens as a regional power. As with other collapsed civilizations, Greeks discovered the idea of conservation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#greekconservation), but too late. Not long after Athens's collapses, Alexander the Great made his play and conquered most Fertile Crescent civilizations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#alexander), conquering all the way to India, and his warfare practices were the most successful of any preindustrial general.

While Alexander was conquering to the east, Rome eventually conquered to the west (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#romefounded). As with the civilizations to the east, the Italian Peninsula originally had thick forests (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ciminian). Rome became a republic (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#romerepublic) when Athens entered its classic phase, and successfully battled its neighbors. After a series of wars with Carthage (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carthage1), and subduing Corinth, and eventually Egypt, Rome controlled the entire Mediterranean, which was an unprecedented feat, and the entire basin was turned into a low energy transportation lane to feed Rome (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tenochtitlan1), which was the greatest urban parasite of all time. Ultimately, about 50 million people were subjugated to feed Rome's one million people and provide then the good life. At Rome ascended to dominance, it began fragmenting and civil wars raged (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#romancivil). When they ended, Rome became an empire (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cleopatra).

All early civilizations were brutal and rapacious, but Rome was in a class of its own, and a million people or more were forced to murder each other to entertain Rome's masses (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gladiators), and the Roman hinterland was devastated like no other civilization ever had. By the days of the Roman Empire, people were astonished to discover that the Italian Peninsula had been heavily forested just a few centuries earlier. As with the previous civilizations, late in the game, the Romans began to discover conversation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#romanconservation), but too late. Rome's economy was almost solely based on rape and plunder (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#underdeveloped), with Roman armies going forth, conquering and plundering its neighbors, with the loot flowing toward Rome. Such an evil system could not last forever, and when Rome finally collapsed, Western Europe and the Mediterranean did not recover for centuries, in what are today called the Dark Ages. Rome invaded all the way to the British Isles, and established a short-lived iron industry (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#romaniron) there until the area was deforested. Cyprus recovered its forests for the millennium after its first collapse, but then Rome conquered it and used it for bronze operations, which completely deforested Cyprus again (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cyprus2). Rome had a bath fleet that scoured the Mediterranean for wood (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#woodfleet), in history's only instance that I know of when firewood became seagoing freight. Many Roman citizens received free food, and the Italian Peninsula no longer supported enough agriculture, so Rome became heavily dependent on Egyptian and Northern African wheat, with the wheat fleet anxiously awaited each year (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wheatfleet).

Rome was just a large-scale and extreme example of the unsustainability of early civilizations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#unsustainable). Athens had the first monetized economy, and Rome adopted many Greek practices. Rome's debasement of its currency (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#debase) is an early instance of what the Federal Reserve is doing today in 2014 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#coming) and mimicked by the world's central banks. Printing money or debasing coinage is only manipulating the economic yardsticks as an "easy way out" of economic decline (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#yardsticks). It never works, and all declining and collapsing civilizations played that game, and every fiat currency has been ruined by those with control over creating money.

Two centuries of Roman "peace" saw the continual decline of Rome's EROI (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peaceofrome) as it depleted its energy supplies. It eventually declined to disruptive levels and Rome collapsed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#antonine). Energy is the meaningful measure of economic health (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energymeasure), not money. Declining EROI (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eroidecline) and the resultant decline in energy surplus (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nicheenergy) is the signal event in a civilization's decline and collapse. Similar to scientists and others making the climate change argument for the megafauna extinctions, scholars try to blame climate for civilization collapses, but they were only proximate causes at most, and those practices also changed the local climate by making it more arid. The ultimate cause was the unsustainable energy practices of the civilizations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climate1), and deforestation and agriculture on denuded soils was never sustainable (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#unsustainable1).

China was a couple thousand years behind the Fertile Crescent in its development, but the civilization that arose took little bit different trajectory. It still had its divine elite men with their harems, but China presented different geographical challenges. The upriver deforestation of China's big rivers was standard, which led to flooding and siltation just as in Sumer and elsewhere, but the floods there were so regular and catastrophic that flood control was the key to imperial greatness. Also, because China had few geographical obstacles, it was unified politically before Jesus was born, and has been so almost continuously ever since.

Draft animals were not used as much in China, with potential food calories reserved for people, so human waste was used as fertilizer early on, and anything non-human that moved was potential food. The rice paddy was history's most sophisticated pre-industrial agricultural system. The Chinese made many inventions of global significance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#china2), such as paper, gunpowder, and the horse collar.

The Chinese, like the people of the Fertile Crescent, often suffered from pastoral invaders (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kurgan) who often set themselves up as the new elite, and the controversial Kurgan Invasion (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis) has plenty of evidence to support it, where pastoral invaders spread the Indo-European languages. The primary upshot of the original Kurgan Hypothesis was the decline in women's status. Women's status universally declined with the advent of civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#womenstatus1), and it appears to be because the brute force of men became more economically valuable than women's contributions when draft animals for plowing became prominent and professional soldiers and farmers became primarily men due to the physical demands. Women became good for giving birth to the workforce comprised of peasants and slaves, and their status remained low until the industrial Revolution, when machines made strong backs far less valuable. The same dynamic that liberated women also freed the slaves.

About 3500 BCE, there is evidence of a great increase in violence in Europe (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#europeviolence), which is part of the Kurgan Invasion hypothesis, although the violent did not seem to be on horseback. It is the same time that Sumer became highly warlike, and I am not sure that we need to blame outside influences. Economic scarcity, once again, where it was not easy to just more away to more fertile lands, I think was the likely determinant. As people suffer from privation, and hunger in particular, it can get violent.

In those early days of the Domestication Revolution, white skin, blond hair, and blue eyes appeared in Northern Europe (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#blueeyes), which was an adaptation to the reduced sunlight that humans need to manufacture vitamin D.

About 1000 BCE, agriculture and iron-making made their appearance in sub-Saharan Africa, and is called the Bantu Expansion today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bantu), where Africa's hunter-gatherers were displaced/absorbed by the invaders.

Meanwhile in the Western Hemisphere, scientists have documented a 7,000-year progression in Mesoamerica (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mesoamerica) from hunter-gatherers to peaceful domestication to an elite dominated society to a pristine state. Again, divine elites (with their harems) controlled the markets, monumental architecture that aggrandized the elites, a professional priesthood that suppressed singing and dancing – there was plenty that familiar to the Spanish mercenaries that conquered the Aztecs.

Partly because the Western Hemisphere's natives did not have draft animals of significance and they were still largely in their Stone Age (the Incas made some bronze), they did not inflict nearly the environmental damage to their lands that Old World peoples did (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stoneage1). However, they also could overtax their environments, and the collapses of the Mayans, Anasazi, Cahokia, and elsewhere were likely cases of an overtaxed environment collapsing. However, for almost all of North America, the Amazon, the Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere, the environments were pretty intact, largely because the natives did not engage in widespread deforestation and agriculture on denuded lands. Milpa farming has been sustainable in Mesoamerica for thousands of years. The native practices in the Eastern Woodlands, Great Plains, Pacific Northwest, Amazon and other economies were relatively environmentally gentle, where the forests and soils were largely undisturbed (on the plains and woodlands, annual burning made the biomes conducive to animals that the Indians could hunt). The Amazon economy was largely based on fruit trees and terraformed super-soils. There is a great deal about the pre-Columbian Western Hemisphere that is very intriguing to modern scientists, and all the specialists whom Charles Mann asked would have rather been an Iroquoian in 1941 than a European (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#mann).

As previously mentioned, 70% of preliterate societies were patrilocal, and they were the most violent societies. Unfortunately, when Europe began conquering the world, natives all-too-often obtained European weapons and used them on their neighbors (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nativewar), which led to slavery and extinctions.

As I did for the previous Epochal Events, a hunter-gatherer of 10,000 years ago would have been stupefied if he could have been dropped into Rome in 100 CE, for instance. He could not have imagined the changes that came from domesticating plants and animals (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine3).

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This chapter summary is on the rise of Europe (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal35). I have called it Epochal Event 3.5, as it was an energy event, or series of them, that allowed Europe to conquer the world. Europe's path was greatly influenced by Rome. Rome's EROI had been declining since it deforested and wrecked the Italian Peninsula's soils so that it had to begin importing food from places such as Africa. Turning the entire Mediterranean Sea into a low energy transportation lane helped keep the EROI relatively low, but empires built and held together by violence never last. Around 300 CE, after a hundred years of chaos and strife following the end of The Peace of Rome, Emperor Constantine tried some gambits to hold the empire together (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gambits), and one was moving the imperial seat from Rome to Byzantium (renamed Constantinople, and today it is called Istanbul), and the other was creating a state religion: Christianity. Those moves did not save Rome, which officially fell in 476 CE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#romefalls). Europe then fell into a Dark Age, as the devastated environments began to recover. Germanic tribes conquered Western Europe with the fall of Rome. In the 600s, Islam rose, and Islamic Moors conquered the Iberian Peninsula. While the Catholic Church burned books that it did not approve of, including all the "pagan" Classic Greek works, Islam promoted learning.

Around 800, Europe came out of centuries of coolness, the forests had largely recovered, and Charlemagne tried to revive the Western Roman Empire (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wmp1), and the Holy Roman Empire lasted for a thousand years. Vikings began invading Europe and elsewhere around 800, and the Medieval Warm Period began in the 900s and led to the High Middle Ages (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hma), which began around 1000. It was a time of city-building and deforestation in Europe, with about 75% of Central and Northern Europe's forests razed, with the attendant expansion of agriculture and cities.

Although the Church had burned the Greek works, they did not ban Greek technology, and the watermill saw a great increase in use during the High Middle Ages (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill2), and performed the work of millions of people in Europe. It was history's greatest energy innovation to that time (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill1). The rise of the watermill coincided with the abolishment of slavery in Europe. Also, the Chinese horse collar was introduced, and teams of horses could plow the heavy ice age soils of Northern Europe.

When Islamic armies conquered the Iberian Peninsula, it did not take long for the Christians to begin fighting back, and the High Middle Ages saw the fight begin in earnest, and the conquest of Toledo in 1085 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#toledo) became a seminal event in the rise of Europe. The Islamic library at Toledo held the Classic Greek works, and for a wonder, the Christians did not burn the library, but instead a Christian team began translating those works, they spread throughout Europe, and that set the stage for the rise of science and reason to triumph over dogma.

The reenergized Christian Reconquest of Iberia was soon followed by another Christian military offensive known as the Crusades (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#crusades), and the first one was mounted in 1096 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#crusade). Christians also began slaughtering Jews, which eventually resulted in the Holocaust of World War II (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#toward).

Around 1200, Islamic peoples had the world's highest standard of living. The High Middle Ages not only warmed up Europe, but it created epic droughts that collapsed many civilizations, and may well have led to the greatest human-inflicted catastrophe since Rome: the Mongol Invasions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mongol). Begun by Genghis Khan, the Mongol scourge depopulated entire regions. About 90% of Persia was killed off, about half of places such as China, Russia, and Hungary, and the leading city of Islam, Baghdad, was completely destroyed by the Mongols, with its residents slaughtered, and Islam never fully recovered. The Mongols slaughtered so many people that the forests recovered and began absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and this may have helped bring the Medieval Warm Period to an end.

For all the evils of the Crusades, Jew slaughters and expulsions, and suppression of Christian sects such as the Cathars (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#cathar) and Waldensians (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#waldo), the High Middle Ages saw the troubadour phenomenon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubadour), with the themes of courtly love. By 1300, however, the Medieval Warming Period was over and a series of famines began (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#famines), followed by wars, and then came the Black Death, which killed off around half of Europe. The troubadours then died out and the Danse Macabre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danse_Macabre) became an art form. Europe had all those watermills that performed the work of millions of people, but wages soared in a depopulated Europe and the forests once again began to recover.

What the Toledo library began flowered in northern Italy's city-states, and the Renaissance began in the late 1300s (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#renaissance). Venice obtained a spice monopoly in Europe (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spice) when it redirected the Fourth Crusade into sacking its "ally" Constantinople in 1204, which never recovered from that event. Venice's good times ended, however, when Turks conquered the weakened Byzantines in 1453. European maritime powers had been trying to find a way to bypass their hated Islamic rivals since the 1200s, and Portugal began sailing the Atlantic in the early 1400s, and began sailing down the African coast (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#portugal). While Portugal's goal was finding a way to the spice trade, as it sailed down Africa it found slaves and gold to be diverting and profitable pastimes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slavery1), and the most devastating period of slavery soon began. The pursuit of slaves and gold characterized Europe's interaction with three continents in the 1500s, which was history's greatest demographic catastrophe (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic1), but the African-Atlantic slave trade did not peak until the 1700s.

Soon it was an imperial free-for-all, as several European nations competed in plundering the world, as they achieved the unprecedented technical feat of turning the global ocean into a low-energy transportation lane (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2). European early oceanic sailing ships generated several hundred horsepower when under sail, which was by far the greatest energy technology yet invented. The Spanish and Portuguese dominated the 1500s, the English, Dutch, and French dominated the 1600s, and by the 1700s, the English and French were virtually alone in competing in plundering Earth's peoples (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#french).

England was a tiny island nation. How did they end up with Earth's greatest empire? In a word: energy. England had been almost completely deforested by 1000 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday), and competitors such as bears and wolves were driven to extinction on the British Isles. England and France depended on watermills more than any other nations, and both had ready access to the oceans when the technology was developed to make ocean-going sailing ships. England was originally behind its Dutch neighbors on the industrialization curve, but Henry the Eighth began England's rise to industrialization. His first step in that direction was seizing the Church's English assets, including its coal mines, and in 1543, Henry revived the iron industry in the same place where the Romans had: on the south end of the island of Great Britain (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sussex). Ironworks quickly deforested the surrounding land, and there were peasant riots regarding the deforestation within a few years, but the Crown suppressed them and England began playing catch-up with its European neighbors.

Deforested England began turning to coal in the High Middle Ages (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eleanor). Coal smoke was noxious and nobody would burn it in their homes if they could avoid it, but it was used in England's rising industries. Try as he might, Henry could never sire a male heir, and Elizabeth came to the throne in 1558 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_I). Spain was busy plundering the New World, and England and France were initially confined to harrying Spanish ships returning with silver and gold. A pirate became England's richest private citizen (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#drake) in those days by plundering Spain's Pacific ports. Deforested England needed wood, and especially good timber, to build its fleets, and it soon invaded Ireland and completed its deforestation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ireland1). Ireland has yet to recover its forests. By the early 1600s, England established imperial beachheads in Ireland and North America (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishinvasion).

Beginning with William the Conqueror (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_the_Conqueror), who was descended from Vikings, the dispossession of English peasants began, initially with Game Laws and later with Enclosure. The peasant's feudal rights to the land to feed them gave way to proto-capitalist greed, as they were kicked off the land. Those dispossessed peasants often became coal miners (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coaltowns), and England's pronounced class system took shape. Those dispossessed peasants became the workforce that began the Industrial Revolution (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gamelaw). The dispossessed peasantry also became the cannon fodder for England's imperial aspirations, and those cheap lives were first used to "colonize" Ireland and North America.

The key component on history's greatest energy technology to that time was the sailing ship's mast (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mastwood). Masts in one piece were superior to masts assembled from pieces, so tall, straight trees became a coveted resource, and especially for England's growing navy. There was a struggle between the imperial rivals for mast wood (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sweden) in those early days of global conquest. The Baltic States, especially Sweden, provided timber for ships for a deforested Europe, which ultimately deforested Sweden and led to my ancestors migrating to the USA in the late 1800s. England's first visit to New England was made in 1602, and the timber for mast wood was noted. By 1634, mast wood was being shipped from New England to England (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mastwood1), and by 1700, all ships of the British Navy used New England's mast wood. The arrival of the mast wood fleet was anticipated with almost as much anxiety as Rome's wheat fleet, as England's imperial rivals tried to interdict the shipments.

By the early 1700s, England was Earth's leading maritime power, but an empire built on wind and water power soon gave way to the energy provided by fossil fuels, which was humanity's greatest Epochal Event so far, but that is a subject for the next chapter.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Putting up those chapter summaries to initiate discussions has been a good exercise for me, if nobody else, as I have had to revisit those areas and think about them. The paradigmatic view that my essay seeks to help build in its readers is still sinking in with me, too. I am also finding little errors here and there that I am fixing. This is all a prelude to the final editorial scrubbing of my essay, which will be complete in September, and I hope by early September.

I also think through some of the issues, and try to frame them in different ways, so that for at least one of them, I will break through to readers so that they better understand. Just now, I revised these paragraphs, which are in this part of my essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3):


"Those levels of awareness have either no knowledge or gain only a superficial understanding of the issues before succumbing to their conditioning and trusting various authorities. The next level of denial (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3) is the most sophisticated one and includes recognized experts in their fields, and most scientists and academics have their FE awareness at that level, if they are aware at all. They are often those whom those thoughtful progressives asked for their opinion on FE. Their responses include invoking the “laws of physics” and other reasons why FE is “impossible,” and they irrationally dismiss (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#naive) evidence of organized suppression as a “conspiracy theory” as a way to dismiss the entire issue. Many breakthroughs in science and technology were often called “impossible,” even after they were achieved, with the reception afforded the Wright brothers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wright) actually open-minded compared to how the idea of FE is received today in such circles. I finally realized that such scientists were trapped by the seductions of their materialistic faith that worships the senses and the intellect (scientists are considered "smart," but that "intelligence" can be a trap). Conscious manipulation of the world economy by the GCs, or the idea that consciousness is not dependent on material reality (and it may be the other way around), and that the so-called "laws of physics" might be woefully inadequate ideas of how the universe really operates, is beyond their willingness and sometimes even their ability to contemplate.

"Brian tried interacting with those scientists and academics, and became extremely dismayed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1). I also tried for many years, and their naïveté (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#naive) and circular reasoning (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#circular) were probably the most frustrating aspects of their responses (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#naive). When I approached one academic who at least mentioned FE as a possibility, and who cited situations that I had been involved with, his reaction was stunning (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#invite). That group, as a whole, might be the last to accept FE’s reality, which is similar to what the Brookings Institute warned NASA (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#brookings) about regarding the UFO/ET issue. Those with reflexive (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1) or sophisticated (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3) objections to the idea of FE are defending the scarcity-based ideologies that they gave their allegiance to, as they provided them with material and egocentric rewards."


In the final scrub, I will attempt once again to reduce the repetition.

Back to chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This chapter summary is on the Industrial Revolution (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4), up until the rise of oil and electricity. I would like to start the summary with an observation regarding historical hindsight. Competent historians are constantly on guard against falling into presentism, which is judging actions in the past by the standards of the present (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#objectivity). But there are other ways to misread the past, and one needs to be vigilant to not misread the purpose of others in their reconstructions.

I have asked the question, not entirely rhetorically, if there was love among the trilobites (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#trilobite1). Could even a mystic know for sure? If the behaviors of animals today are any guide, we would not call what happens between crabs, for instance, very loving, but it sure looks like a struggle for survival, and the relationship between crabs and those above and below them in the food chain sure seems to be pure business. Scientists today have pieced together mass extinction events, but they usually happened over millions of years. Could any creatures alive then have understood that they lived during a mass extinction event? Would the survivors and disaster taxa (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#disastertaxa) have rejoiced over their good fortune that led to a golden age for them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages)? I think that anybody would be hard-pressed to make the case that any of those creatures had much "big picture" awareness of their situation.

The same goes for humanity's Epochal Events. The handful of proto-humans who made the first stone tools and perhaps controlled fire surely had no idea what it would lead to (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine1), nor did the founder group that left Africa have any idea what their act (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine2), probably of desperation, would lead to. Similarly for those who began to domesticate plants and animals, they had no idea what it would lead to (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine3). The first Epochal Event was likely serendipitous invention, the second more calculating, the third far more deliberate, and the fourth, the Industrial Revolution, had no grand plan behind it, but the fathers of it were largely just trying to seize business opportunities, survive, and the like. Some have made the case that when coal was used for smelting metal in England, which was the seminal event in the Industrial Revolution, it was not a reaction to a severe crisis that alarmed England, but that is a misleading way to view it, in my opinion.

England had long since been deforested, and when Henry VIII initiated ironworks in England again (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sussex), after more than a millennium after Romans ceased their operations, it quickly denuded the remaining forests of Sussex and riots ensued. During the 1600s, coal was used so much in industrial applications that London had by far history's worst air quality to that time (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mdaq.htm#london). Nobody used coal in homes as the smoke was so noxious (sulfur compounds were in it), and it could not be used for smelting metal because sulfur wrecked the process.

Some historians made the case that the coppiced wood (wood raised as a crop for burning) provided England with plenty of wood, but I am not sure what case the authors were trying to make. The people of the day could not imagine what cheap energy would do for them, and since the science of energy was centuries off in the 1600s, they really had no framework to understand the issues. What happened, however, was that wood was expensive in England, ironworks regularly shut down for a lack of wood, and England imported a sizeable fraction of its iron from Sweden, which razed its forests with abandon to support its export industries.

The Chinese used coal to smelt metal in 1000 BCE, but the industrial applications of coal were pioneered by a deforested England out of necessity and opportunity. In 1709, a young entrepreneur, who had used coal that had its impurities baked out of it for use in breweries, set up business in the heart of England's ironworks region. Charcoal was the fuel used in the blast furnaces used to smelt iron, but it was expensive and could not be transported far, as it readily fell apart. So, the entrepreneur gambled with the low-sulfur coal that was mined locally, and made coke out of it to smelt iron (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coke). It worked. The economics of using coal instead of charcoal meant that Darby could sell his iron goods not only more cheaply than his competitors, but he could also produce more, and his iron goods were so cheap that they became the world's first iron goods (kettles, pots, and stoves) that could be marketed to households.

The next year, 1710, the first commercial steam engine was put into service (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#biomass1), in England, and the first applications were pumping water out of coal mines that had dug below the water table. The synergies of coal and iron became the seminal event in the Industrial Revolution: coal could smelt iron, and coal could power machines made from iron. The next most important event was inventing machines that could replace humans, and the first machines were spinning machines, first made in England in the 1740s (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spinning). Those inventions led to a great diminishment in the value of human labor, and it was no coincidence that the end of slavery soon followed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend). Slavery did not make economic sense when machines could do the work of people, especially the kind of drudgery that characterized slave work. English farming was also well on its way to being mechanized by then.

The changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution were, once again, epochal. An English peasant of 1500 would have not comprehended London in 2014 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishpeasant). Also, the lessons of the each Epochal Event, as I came to learn them, were that tapping the new energy source was the event. The anatomical, cognitive, and social changes came later, and were dependent on the energy event (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive1). Slavery began when it made economic sense, and ended when it no longer made economic sense. It was not some bout of conscience that overcame everybody, and there was probably no clearer example of the relationship of slavery and the pre-industrial (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#contrast) economy than the USA at the brink of its Civil War (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryusa).

The rise of science (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sciencerise) in Europe began with the reintroduction of Greek teachings, but it was a fitful process, and really cannot be separated from the political-economic dynamics of the time. Science rose while Europe was riding the greatest energy technology to that time to global conquest. Elites appeared with the first civilizations, and they were always economic elites above all else, who controlled and skimmed the markets (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#skim1). Early elites were tied to the civilizations that they exploited, but I think that as Europe began conquering the world, elites began to think in global terms for the first time.

When Europe began conquering the world, economic thought was not very sophisticated. Gold and silver became used as money because they were scarce, and that precipitated gold rushes as Europe began conquering the world, with the nascent imperial powers thinking that importing boatloads of gold and silver somehow made them wealthy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldrush). That primitive notion eventually gave way to mercantilist practice (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mercantile), where the goal was subjugating foreign peoples and forcing them to raise or mine raw materials for export back to the imperial domains, and because the overlords set the terms of exchange, they could economically milk the subject peoples. That became Europe's formula, when it was not simply pure enslavement and plunder.

When elites appeared, the priesthood engaged in a subterfuge whereby the elites were either divine beings or had divine sanction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#divinity) for their position bestride society. When historians appeared on the professional scene, the phenomenon of the court historian arose, where the elite might not be divine, but their rise to power was a series of heroic feats. That kind of groveling to economic and political power characterized every civilization. As the capital class arose, which was new and befitted the new epochal phase of the human journey, economists appeared, and their function was similar to the priesthood and court historians, and the classical economists turned the triumph of the new capital class into a heroic tale of efficiency (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists), not a crime where they seized, as Karl Marx called it, the means of production, in what he called "primitive accumulation."

For the rising British, with their century-long head start of industrialization over their imperial rivals, classical economists created a new dogma called "free trade," but so-called free trade was only allowed where the capitalists controlled the situation by either controlling the means of production or controlling their path to the market. There has never been a free market in world history, and Great Britain waged a "free trade" war against China (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#opium), so that enslaved and starving conquered peoples in India could grow addictive opium that would be forced on China. Some free trade. It was not until Marx that how the capitalists became successful was honestly described (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#marx1). As Bucky Fuller stated, all political actors are "stooges" of the economic interests (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#retailpolitics), which is blatantly obvious in the West in the 21st century. That "stoogeness" has a long history.

In the early 1700s, perhaps influenced by Earth's most democratic societies, the tribes of North America's Eastern Woodlands (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#voltaire), a movement known as the Enlightenment began (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#voltaire), in France. But even in the early days of the Enlightenment, in 1720 there was no stigma at all regarding slavery, and the world's most accomplished intellectual of the day, Isaac Newton, lost his life's fortune speculating in the slave trade (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#southseas).

As noted previously, all wars ultimately have an economic rationale (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warreason1), and as humanity gained higher levels of energy use and new energy sources, they became both the cause and the basis for waging wars. Great naval battles characterized the imperial wars, and by the World Wars of the 20th century, control of oil became both the motivation and strategy for the wars (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#worldwaroil).

When England and the Netherlands began their imperial ventures in the early 1600s, they both chartered corporations as the legal vehicle for their enterprises (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#corporations). They were commercial entities with powers of the state, and were forerunners of modern corporations. In the theories of the classical economists of the next century, and the neoclassical economists of the one after that, fear and greed became enshrined as key economic principles, and "greed is good (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#greed)" became Wall Street's motto.

Europe's conquest of the world had variation in their execution among the imperial rivals, but the end result was the same: the conquest and either extermination or subjugation of the conquered peoples. The Portuguese (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#portugal) had commercial aspirations, and controlling the spice trade and running the slave trade were its principle practices. The Spanish sought gold above all else (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#gold), and used the conquered Indians to mine gold and silver, and presided over history's greatest demographic catastrophe (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide). When the English and Dutch arrived on the imperial scene, their commercial aspirations were more sophisticated, reflected in their corporations, and England in particular coveted the natural resources of North America (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nainvasion). While the Spanish considered the natives of the Western Hemisphere inferior and only good for being raped and enslaved, the English wanted to exterminate them. There was no native advocate among the English like the Spanish priests (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#montesinos). While the Spanish wanted slaves to do the work, the English just wanted their land, and they got it, primarily due to their superiority of violence and industrial capacity. Horticultural and hunter-gatherer peoples were no match for an industrializing Europe. The English and their descendants, the Americans, stole Earth's richest continent from its inhabitants (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nainvasion).

North America's Eastern Woodlands and their horticultural economies were dominated by relatively gentle matrilineal societies, and an epidemic problem for the invading English was their "settlers" running off and "going native (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#native)." The American form of government was deeply influenced by the Iroquoian form of government (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#iroquois), which was Earth's only functioning democracy at the time.

Along with the rise of the corporation and capitalist ideology came the domination of information dissemination. An axiom is that history is written by the winners, but the "news (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big)" is considered history's first draft. So, control of the press by the same powers was an early goal. In England, with its subjugated workforce of dispossessed peasants (who became the vanguard of imperial invasions, particularly in North America), the working class had its own press for a time, before "market forces" drove it out of business. There was never a working class press in North America, however; the capitalists controlled the press from the beginning (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#capitalistpress). Controlling information was key for controlling the populace. With the English Civil Wars in the 1600s, the state lost its ability to militarily coerce its domestic subjects, so controlling what people thought was the chief means of elite control of English and American society, and propaganda and mind control techniques reached their zenith in those societies (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bernays).

Even though slavery ended with the rise of machines, and a spinning machine of 1800 could do the work of 150 people (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spinning), the working conditions in industrializing England were hellish (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dickens) and became grist for writings such as Charles Dickens's. English slavery did not disappear quickly, and took new, more "benign" forms, such as indentured servitude, which was contractual slavery of white people that often lasted a lifetime.

The dispossessed peasantry of England and Scotland soon became the cannon fodder for imperial invasions and "settling" the lands of North America, and their invasions were openly genocidal affairs from the beginnings of the first colonies in Virginia and New England (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#virginia).

Race is something fairly new on the human evolutionary scene, as descendants of that founder group (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founders) began the process of speciation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mendel) as they adapted to new environments in isolation. Europe's conquest of the world began to end that isolation, and a new phenomenon happened with Europe's sailing ships: a person could get on a ship and disembark some months later and encounter people who looked starkly different, especially in skin color, and that variation was largely due to how close they lived to the equator. Racism was not entirely new before Europe began conquering the world, but it took on new significance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#racism), where entire races of people were slated for slavery, extermination, or subjugation. History's greatest era of racism accompanied Europe's conquest of the world, and in scale, intensity, and duration, the USA is history's most racist nation. As I write this, race riots are happening in Missouri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ferguson_unrest), which is an American tradition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_racial_violence_in_the_United_States).

Not only did the English/American invaders exterminate North America's natives, they also engaged in history's most spectacular deforestation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#woodlands), of the Eastern Woodlands, and engaged in the most spectacular extinction and near-extinction events since the megafauna extinctions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna). The passenger pigeon flew in what were likely the greatest flocks in Earth's history, and the invaders drove them to extinction in little more than a century. The American bison was also driven to the brink of extinction, from a pre-holocaust population of tens of millions.

In England, they kept the peace by summarily deporting anybody who did not submit to authority, and North America and later Australia and Tasmania (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tasmania) were where the British dumped their "criminals." The British, riding the wave of industrialization, became history's most successful imperial power (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imperial), and one boast was that the Sun never set on the British Empire. Excess deaths under two centuries of British rule in India were nearly two billion people, and were just one of many demographic catastrophes that Europe inflicted onto humanity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic2). Wherever the British ruled, their subjects were either exterminated or starved, and the British even did it to the white people of Ireland (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ireland), which precipitated another wave of migration to North America, where Europe's "surplus population" went for centuries.

Europeans encountered many problems in their global conquest, and two were scurvy and malaria (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#quinine). Europeans ignored and derided scurvy cures for centuries (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#scurvy) while millions of sailors died, and the development of quinine allowed Europeans to successfully invade tropical regions.

Such rapaciousness in Europe's global conquest was often on par with the Romans and Mongols, but all elites for all time have played the game that their self-interested efforts were made on behalf of the common good. In the industrial phase of the elite games, they began to become "philanthropists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy1)" instead of deific figures (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#divinity), and it became another successful rubric to obscure greed and rapacity, and that game is played to this very day.

The American version of "philanthropy" was accompanied by the rise of public relations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ludlow), which sought to heroify some of history's greediest and rapacious people. Even today, the world's poor ship food to the world's rich nations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#worldpoor). The game is still the same, but comes in novel guises. Once in a great while, an insider, usually one of the managers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#perkins) or muscle (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#butler) in the imperial effort, comes forward and admits the real game being played. Some imperial mouthpieces actually believed their lies, to sometimes sobering effect (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kipling), but the elite regarded them as useful, if expendable, tools. The entire point of imperialism was plunder and subjugation. But, heavy indoctrination disguised as education has accompanied modern imperial efforts, and that is a primary reason why free energy and a world based on abundance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#feimaginable) are unimaginable to the world's masses.

The damage that the British and Americans have inflicted on humanity and Earth has been prodigious (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#damage), and are dominant forces that are quickly making Earth uninhabitable. Just as growing large backfired on Earth's terrestrial megafauna and trees, when Europe began sailing the oceans, the oceanic megafauna, whales, were quickly driven to the brink of extinction, and the USA led the way (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#whaling) until oil was commercially mined.

While the Industrial Revolution began in England, it quickly spread to its most successful colonies in North America, and when those colonies achieved their independence, they leveraged the natural wealth of an unplundered continent (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#richness) to quickly becoming history's richest and most powerful nation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#usarise).

Similar to the historical observations made at this post's beginning, various historians have questioned whether the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions were really revolutions at all, just as some have challenged the idea that the Domestication Revolution was a revolution at all. In all such cases, I consider such arguments a kind of inversion of the presentism argument and focusing on the wrong definition of "revolution," where they compare them to political revolutions where there was a conscious overthrow of the prevailing political order. In none of those challenged "revolutions" was there a notion of overthrowing the established order, although confrontations of the Old Guard with the New Guard, such as The Inquisition's antics with Galileo and others (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#galileo), makes it clear that some had an understanding of the stakes of the game. The sense that those Epochal revolutions were really revolutions was this dictionary definition:

"A sudden, complete or marked change in something."

Those non-political "revolutions" marked radical shifts in the human journey, even if nobody saw all that much change in their lifetime, although the changes from my grandfather's life to mine (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sodhut) have to be considered radical.

The British invaders quickly deforested New England (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#newengland), and only when the forests were gone did they turn to coal, just as England did. While tapping the energy of fossil fuels was the seminal event, it was not immediately recognized as such, and it took more than a century for coal power to overtake wind and water power in North America and the British Isles (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#windwater).

The dispossession of English peasants, who comprised the Industrial Revolution's first workforce, created a new class of people, and as the capitalist mode of production was inflicted on the world's people via imperial violence, it was not lost on observers that a new class of human was being created (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proletariat), which Marx eventually called the proletariat.

In modern investigations of human consciousness and human "nature," it has been found that the best liars often believe their lies, so self-deception is a highly effective form of deception. While the elites rarely believed the lies purveyed for consumption for the masses (such as they knew that they really did not have a direct line to "god," but had to act like they did), the masses often eagerly lapped up the indoctrination, because believing it meant that they would get fed. In the USA, the mythology of American "pioneers" (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pioneers1) is one of those self-deceptions that the USA's lower classes have engaged in. Those so-called pioneers were a desperate, greedy, and rapacious lot who were only too happy to exterminate the natives and steal their land (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishinvasion). Those pioneer delusions are also part of my family heritage.

While the USA rapidly industrialized, it was also in the midst of history's greatest theft (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint), of Earth's richest continent, so even today the USA has a predominantly rural character and agrarian culture outside of the large industrial cities, and the USA hence embraced slavery long after Europe abolished it, and long before the USA's Civil War, the USA was an embarrassing anachronism (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryusa), with its parade of slave-owning presidents traipsing through the White House.

As science rose with industry, with them stimulating each other, imperial and capitalist interests ended up largely controlling it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sciencerise1), which it does today, and we have the phenomenon of Black Science (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#consciousness2), where mind-boggling and Earth-saving technologies (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) have been carefully sequestered by the global elite for reasons of earthly power.

With the rise of the nation-state, elite propaganda no longer could directly attribute divine sanction to elite rule, so propagandists portrayed the elites as heroic icons and unabashedly concocted outright fairy tales about the USA's so-called Founding Fathers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#explorers).

The rise of science happened during an era of global conquest and ideologies that turned vices into virtues (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#vices), and the quest for riches and fame badly marred the scientific process, where economic empires were quickly built on scientific discoveries, but stealing and appropriating such discoveries became standard practice, and such practices led to entire scientific paradigms sitting on arguably false foundations as the quest for wealth and power trumped the quest for truth (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pasteur1). We are living with those results even today, where false foundations were laid more than a century ago, and are defended literally to the death by the foot soldiers of the rackets erected on those foundations. I discovered that the hard way during my adventures (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#introduction).

While the energy of fossil fuels led to the greatest increase in humanity's standard of living ever (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic), and many undoubted benefits to humanity, it has also led to history's' greatest wars, easily measureable atmospheric effects that could become catastrophic (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#globalwarming), and other devastations of Earth's environment (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mixed). Spaceship Earth is crashing (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth).

Just as coal began overtaking water and wind power, the imperial rivals engaged in the first industrial war (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#crimean), and warfare became far more horrific, and culminated in the wonders of the World Wars of the 20th century, and the last is called a "good war (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#good)" in the nation that came out on top with unprecedented wealth and global hegemony.

History's richest human became that way by quickly dominating history's greatest energy resource (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rockefeller1), oil, and he also funded the economic institution that exalted money and obscured the role of energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chicagoschool), and that nonsensical state of affairs continues today. The real world runs on energy, not money (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economy2). The rise of oil is a subject for the next chapter, however.

Best,

Wade

[sdv]

Thank you so much for sharing your work on this forum Wade.

Is it just a negative space I am in, or am I seeing evidence every day (I first saw this as a teacher in the past when I saw that most kids are below the 40% achievement level, and I live in the a country where the pass mark in schools has been downgraded to 30% and then has been adjusted to make the actual pass mark 25%) that the majority of human beings function from an unthinking 'low' level 'kill or be killed, self enrich at the expense of others or become a victim ...' energy?

I think I am beginning to understand your thought processes in trying to build a choir of critical mass that has the capability to introduce a higher level thinking among humanity that is significant enough to kick human beings into breaking out of a cycle and evolve into truly self-sustaining, loving, self-sufficient beings that can be truly creative not only on this planet but beyond.

Maybe I do not understand your work at all, but thank you for sharing and trying anyway!

[Wade Frazier]

Hi sdv:

Your post is timely, and thank you. I was planning on a short post before it was time for chores, and your response fits nicely with what I was going to write about.

As I learned by studying the Epochal Events, both the times leading up to them and the events that came afterward, the introduction of the new energy technology was the event. The anatomical, political, and social changes all came from the economic change that the new energy technology made possible. It was that way for the previous four events, and I see no reason why it will not be the case with the fifth (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), if we do not crash human civilization and Earth's ecosystems before then (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth), as we plunder the energy sources that powered the Fourth Epochal Event to exhaustion and fight over the remnants and maybe have Einstein's World War III (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wwIII) that puts the few bedraggled survivors back into the Stone Age.

Probably the most important idea that I am trying to get across in my work is that FE is an epochal technology, and only an epochal approach will work (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). My work is really entirely devoted to amassing a critical mass of awareness in a tiny fraction of humanity, and together, we can overcome the organized suppression and humanity's inertia and bring FE to the world. The usual approaches that people use for "activism" and business will not work for bringing FE to the world. I have described all of those unsuccessful approaches at length (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#worked), and will not belabor them here.

The social movement approach (which I have also called Level 10 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10)) will not work because it caters to people's scarcity-based delusions from the start, to develop "cohesion." There is too much self-serving motivation and allegiance to scarcity-based delusions in the general populace for that approach to work. What you have encountered, with an increasingly dumbed-down population, is a symptom of what I am referring to, and as sad as it is to admit, that is partly by hyper-elite design. To just name one example of many, fluoridating toothpaste and the water supplies of English-speaking nations may well be part of a mind-control program (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fluoride). It sure is hell is not "medicine."

I am not looking for ten like Dennis (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany), or a hundred like Brian and Mr. Professor (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#heroes), but a thousand like Ilie or 5000-to-10,000 who are going to do the work to learn the hymnal and sing the song well enough in chorus that it will reach a "critical mass" stage where FE can no longer be suppressed, as too many people will have done the work and raised their awareness high enough so that they can "do something" that cannot be stopped.

Just this morning, as I was finishing that Industrial Revolution chapter summary (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=866808&viewfull=1#post866808), I had an "oh sh*t" reaction, as I realize that if 5,000 people really learn what I have to teach, it is game over for Godzilla, and he knows it. Some days, I wonder why he has not overtly intervened yet. As anybody in my shoes knows, it is almost never Godzilla that takes you out, but your friends, family, and allies, and it has been no different for me as I studied for the essay and wrote it. When I saw Dennis last year, he admitted that to me (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#allies). He also admitted that I am on Godzilla's radar, if lower than him ("They have ten people on me, and one on you."). I have long placed where I hope my efforts are on Godzilla's radar (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#graphic), but if this choir effort gathers any steam, it will go higher. But I am purposely designing my effort to avoid the many vulnerabilities that have sunk other efforts, and I was on more than one of those ships as they went down. No fun.

Thanks again for writing.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am not making all of my other forum posts here, as they have already been discussed here or may not be appropriate for this forum, but here is one that covers a little new ground.

Best,

Wade

The greatest lesson of my journey is that personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn), and I resisted it every step of the way, until I had it beaten into my head in no uncertain terms. Dennis also slowly learned that lesson. In 1987, when we began our free energy ("FE") efforts, Dennis said that people really cared, but did not have anything worth caring about. In my inexperience, I believed him. By the end of 1988, I realized that that notion was false. In 1996, when I was briefly back with Dennis again (and nearly went to prison for my trouble (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting)), he admitted that almost nobody really cared, but leading mass movements seems to be his calling. When I saw him in 2013, he admitted to me what I had long known: his allies hurt him more than his enemies did (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#allies). I saw similar dynamics with Brian O'Leary's journey, where he was booted out of organizations that he helped found. Both Dennis and Brian said that I was about the only person outside of their immediate families that they trusted, and both have tried to get me back into the saddle with them, but I had to go my own way and pursue what seemed to be my calling, and my website and this forum will likely be my final effort in this lifetime to manifest the biggest event in the human journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). Maybe I will live to see it pass, and maybe not. If I do not, I hope that we are close when I pass, or humanity is likely going to be in a dire state, where it may face self-extinction. If humanity faces that, it will primarily because humanity could not muster enough collective personal integrity to turn the corner. It is common enough with ensouled species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#focus), and may be humanity's fate. If that is the case, I surely hope that I do not live to see that pass. I could do without watching that movie.

On one hand, acknowledging that humans have a very low level of collective personal integrity might seem damning of our species or excessively negative, but I found it to be very liberating, and that fact has informed my efforts and led to my site and forum. People living their integrity at Dennis's levels virtually do not exist on the planet. Ten like Dennis (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany), combining their efforts, and FE would be a done deal, or a hundred like Mr. Professor and Brian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#heroes). But I am "only" looking for a thousand like Ilie (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/4-The-Song-of-Scarcity?p=13&viewfull=1#post13), who will be part of the 5,000-to-7,000 people that I think will be needed to create that critical mass of integrity and sentience that can form the "ballast" for a successful technical effort to bring FE to the world. We do not need any heroic acts to make FE happen. And there will not be anything in it for the "choir" (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), at least from a worldly perspective. My approach requires a minimal level of integrity to even get in the front door, so it will not attract many of the psychopaths that I regularly encountered on my FE journey, both those on the payroll of organized suppression and free-lance opportunists. My approach will easily identify those who make it past the front door but who do not belong there. As soon as people begin to talk about how they can profit from FE, how they can raise money and the like, they will have identified themselves as unsuitable for what I am attempting to do. There are other ways to go after FE, but all previous attempts with any promise (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) ended in disaster, but people are welcome to go elsewhere and try different ways. I am doing something different.

While people today have low levels of integrity, it used to be far lower. Chimps and gorillas provide us a glimpse into our heritage. Chimp (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coalitionary) and gorilla societies are stunningly brutal (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#infanticide1). Scientists say that it is just the dynamics that Darwin identified at work, but when some chimps had their food supply double, they became peaceful and even had more equality between the sexes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1) than humanity does today. As I make the case in my essay, when their economic condition improved, humans became more humane. When all the easy meat on Earth was rendered extinct (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna), human-on-human violence greatly escalated, and all wars for all time ultimately had an economic basis (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warreason1). When humans tapped a new energy source, whether it was the easy meat that fueled humanity's expansion across the planet (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#meateroi), or the first crops and virgin forests that fueled the first civilizations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1), or "new" continents ready to be "settled" (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2) (once the pesky natives were eliminated (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishinvasion)), or America's prosperity in the postwar boom (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#postwar), big economic windfalls, born of dramatically increased energy consumption, led to brief "golden ages" of peace and plenty. The energy sources were always plundered to exhaustion, and the golden age soon gave way to increased competition and fighting, and an eventual collapse as the energy ran out. It is happening to industrialized civilization today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#industrialdecline), and has been since the West's first oil crisis in 1973-1974 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hubbert), which ended the postwar boom, which was the most prosperous era in world history.

I recall a Star Trek, Deep Space Nine episode, where Quark was schooling his nephew on humans, and how people seemed nice until scarcity reared its head, and then they became vicious animals. That was an interesting perspective that Star Trek's writers had. :) The fact is that when energy-driven machines made their appearance, slavery ended because it was no longer economical (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend), not because people suddenly grew consciences. Two millennia ago, watching people being forced to murder (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gladiators) each other was considered the height of entertainment. We have raised our awareness somewhat, as our economic condition improved.

On one hand, I understand people wanting the egocentric masses to become enlightened before they get the blessing of FE and abundance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), but as I discovered as I studied the previous Epochal Events, the energy event was first, and the social and political, and even the cognitive and anatomical changes, came later, as a result of the increased energy consumption. Free energy will help people become enlightened. I am sympathetic to fears of the misuse of FE, and advocate interim measures (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping) to ensure the safe implementation of FE. But, what I eventually discovered was that all the fearful reactions to the idea that I encountered (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5) were not really rational fears of misuse, but an addiction to scarcity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#misinformation), or perhaps more accurately, an addiction to the scarcity-based ideologies that those people gave their allegiance to (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant), that seemed to prevent them from becoming truly sentient beings. Even the least intelligent among us do not have to ponder FE for long before they realize that the world as they know it will end, and that scares them, as they carved out their survival niche in hell, and the prospect of heaven scares them.

Brian O'Leary had similar crazed reactions from world-renowned scientists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions), and Brian began openly wondering if humanity was a sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience). Einstein also had interesting things to say about sentience (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#sentience). I call humanity a semi-sentient species; the potential is there, but is rarely used. I see humanity's collective egocentrism and semi-sentience as relates issues, and it is because of fear and scarcity (fear arises from scarcity). When fear and scarcity are replaced by love and abundance as human civilization's organizing principles, then we might become a fully sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egocentric). Until then, the world's intellectuals labor on behalf of their paymasters to exalt their in-group and justify evil crimes committed against the out-group (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup). Such behaviors are not acts of integrity. Voices of conscience in today's world are voices in the wilderness, as they have always been in a world of scarcity, where the zero-sum game prevails (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#zero).

Masters such as Jesus, with his "love the enemy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enemy)," understood, but Christians are history's most murderous people. The great lesson that humanity has yet to learn is the lesson of integrity, and it will be much easier to learn in a world of abundance than in a world of scarcity. Some may argue that people need to learn the lessons before they get FE and what can come with it, but if we do not get FE, and soon, our species may not survive (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). It is more than some ideal of what humans should do. Humanity has plenty to answer for, and it will be in far better position to pay its debts from a place of abundance than a place of scarcity. I am not too interested in so-called mystical debates on what is supposed to happen, but I am interested in what we can make happen.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This chapter summary is on what has understandably been called the Second Industrial Revolution, which was propelled by oil and electricity. I am calling it Epochal Event 4.5 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal45). American whaling peaked in 1847 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#moby), and the next year, the USA completed its theft of more than half of Mexico. The whale oil shortage helped lead to the first commercial oil well (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oilwell) being drilled in Pennsylvania in 1859. The USA's Civil War began in 1861, and the North's Pacific whaling fleet was sunk by the South. The USA's Civil War was humanity's second industrial war, after the Crimean War (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#crimean), and that war is where many American robber barons began to build their fortunes, including the greatest of them all: John D. Rockefeller (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rockefeller1), who is considered history's richest human (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wealthiest_historical_figures). The USA was a plutocracy from the beginning (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#plutocracy), and became even more so during the Gilded Age. As the American plutocracy really began ascending, assassinating American presidents became a sport, and I wonder if any assassination attempt made on an American president was really performed by a "lone nut."

This part of the essay is when it begins having immediate relevancy to my efforts. We ran into Rockefeller machinations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rockyfe) during our alternative and free energy efforts more than once, and many of the various "conspiracy theories" about the Rockefellers may well be true. Even today, the Rockefeller Empire is not idly counting it plunder, but is actively mischievous. American presidents became expendable commodities (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#names) in robber baron and Global Controller (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) circles, and John Kennedy was the last president who thought that he could influence the big issues, was rudely disabused of that notion (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jfk), and every American president since then has been firmly in the pocket of vested interests and are essentially actors. Elites have been playing the same basic games since the beginnings of civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitegames), and just have a larger field of play today. I have encountered some of the psychopaths (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#psychopaths) that the elite use for to defend their interests, and it was a highly educational experience. Alternative energy technology has been subjected to organized suppression (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#suppression1) probably since Tesla.

Robber barons influenced many facets of American society, and fluoridation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fluoride) is one issue where robber baron and other industrial interests, such as the nuclear industry (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nukesfluoride), were served. With fluoridation, a highly toxic industrial waste became branded as "medicine" and has been force-fed to the American public for longer than I have been alive.

The first uses of electricity were in the early 1800s (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#electricity), but it was not until Edison perfected incandescent lighting in 1879 that electricity production became industrialized. Edison lost the "War of Currents" against his erstwhile employee Nikola Tesla, whose alternating current technology prevailed over Edison's direct current. J.P. Morgan was a highly influential robber baron (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#morgan) who financed both sides of that war, and he pulled the rug out from under Tesla when he began pursuing FE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#teslatower). For all of that, electricity radically transformed civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#electricity2), as one of many interacting dynamics (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#interacting), but the levels of energy use always triggered the changes. When energy-driven machines made their appearance, slavery ended (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaverymorality). Economics came first, and conscience and morality later, as a side-effect.

Between 1871 and World War I, Europe lived in a kind of golden age (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#belle), as its imperial subjects were ruthlessly exploited. As the imperial subjects starved, they sent food to Europe, and obesity was no longer just an elite "pursuit."

A liquid is a far more effective fuel than a solid (coal) or gas (natural gas), and while oil was first used to replace whale oil, it began being used in transportation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oilindustry) in the late 19th century, and when Winston Churchill converted the British Navy to oil in 1911 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#churchill1), the Middle East's fate was sealed. The primary geopolitical outcomes of World War I were blunting the ambition of imperial newcomer Germany and carving up the oil-rich Ottoman Empire (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#iraq1) in the service of Western interests. A century after the West began carving up the oil-rich Middle East, the West is still there, with the USA bombing Iraq just last week, after a generation of genocide (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading) to secure the world's last easy oil on West's behalf.

John D. Rockefeller began diversifying early on and was perhaps history's leading fake philanthropist (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy1). Classical economists worked before the science of energy was established (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists), and their work suffered from that limitation. But by the late 19th century, the science of energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#industrial) was well on its way. Rockefeller began to fund the University of Chicago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chicagoschool), where neoclassical economics was born (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_economics#Overview). Neoclassical economics, far from incorporating the new information emerging from energy and other sciences, followed in the footsteps of earlier economists and saw economics as a purely social phenomenon, and it was divorced from the real world of matter and energy and even human behavior. Supply and demand curves, which sanctified greed, came from neoclassical economics. Fear and greed thereby became the cornerstones of modern economic theory (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fear). Modern economics tries to pass itself off as a science (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#neoclassical1), but it only adopted the trappings of science, not its process.

Beginning in 2003, after I finished my site and studied the Peak Oiler work and the scientific approach to economics, I soon saw the distain that scientists held for economists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil1). I cannot help but think how providential it was that history's richest man and greatest energy baron funded the institution that prevented energy and the real world from entering economic theory.

During my studies, I came upon so many instances of professional and industrial racketeering that the "formula" became very familiar. Energy and medicine were the two that I am most familiar with (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#racket), but the seven cartels that control the world economy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) all use similar methods. Calling them "evil" is often appropriate. After energy, Rockefeller influence, along with other robber barons, in the medical racket is arguably the most pronounced (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#medicine).

American nationalism reached orgiastic dimensions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#crescendo) as the USA finished stealing a continent, and to this day, American schoolchildren are forced to worship a flag (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#flag), which the rest of the world considers bizarre and up there with Maoist indoctrination. When the fascist regimes in Germany and Italy adopted the salute that American children performed to the flag, then the USA put their hands over their hearts and soon added nakedly religious terminology to their pledge of allegiance. The USA invaded Japan in 1853 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#perry) and forced it into the international arena. Not wanting to end up like other imperial subjects, Japan played catch-up with the West, which ultimately led to the situation in World War II.

Just as all wars have always had an economic motivation at their root (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warreason1), the World Wars were nakedly economic events. Germany and Japan adopted the USA's Manifest Destiny ideology (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lebensraum), with Germany focusing on Eastern Europe and Japan focusing on East Asia, and China in particular. On the eve of World War I, the greatest imperial raping on Earth was the UK's pillage of India (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#balance). India suffered nearly two billion excess deaths while under British rule (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic2), and is still recovering. Germany also played catch-up with the West, and became the heart of science by the late 19th century, and that status lasted until Hitler came to power (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nitrogen2). Ashkenazy Jewish intellectual achievement is unequalled in history, and may have been due to their genetic insularity and being confined to business activities for nearly a millennium (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jewish). When Hitler came to power, Germany had a Jewish brain drain, with Einstein's exit to the USA being its most famous instance. American industrialists such as Ford and Rockefeller avidly supported Hitler's regime (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hitler1), with the Rockefeller Empire assisting the Nazis during World War II, and a third of German trucks made in World War II were Ford's. Hitler's anti-Jewish ideology came directly from Henry Ford (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#racism1), whom the Nazis gave a medal to in 1938.

In studying the belligerents of World War II, what is very evident was how childish the nationalistic ideologies were for all of them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ww2) except for the Soviet Union, which had a regime that ruled by violence, but it also had a crazed ideological project inspired by Marx. None of the players of World War II have any reason to hold their heads high, although that war is called the "good (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#good)" one in the USA, and for every war since then, American politicians have conjured Hitler-ian rhetoric as the USA slaughtered millions of peasants (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#toll1).

Classical and neoclassical economics aside, the Industrial Revolution had the vast energy of fossil fuels to thank (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyeconomy). Energy-powered machines made slavery economically obsolete, and today the West rides on the backs of energy slaves that do the work of about a trillion human slaves (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyslave), but most of those tasks humans could not perform in any case, such as moving automobiles, airplanes, and spaceships.

Bucky Fuller said that if oil was priced at the true benefit that humanity derived from it, a barrel of oil should cost a million dollars (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fuller), and that number is not far from the mark. A Peak Oiler suggested an exercise (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagineenergy) that I have been doing since I was a teenager, which is imagining all the ways that energy is used in our daily lives. It is a good one for people to being understanding how the world really works, not how armchair academics and other ideologists say it does.

Not only have societies continually tapped new energy sources that dwarfed the previous ones, usually by an order of magnitude or two, but they also became more efficient in using that energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#efficiency2). The most dramatic rise in energy consumption in world history (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rise) is tapping the fossil fuels that powered the Industrial Revolution. It has even been dramatic in the 20th century, where the USA's oil consumption in 2013 was equal to what the entire world consumed during World War II.

Capitalism gave rise to a new class of people: the ownership class. Forcibly severing the English peasants from the land created the Industrial Revolution's first workforce (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gamelaw), and the capital and working classes were new in the human journey. Marx was one of the first to honestly describe those classes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ownership) and the processes that created them. Not long after the English and Dutch East India companies were established, speculative frenzies began breaking out (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eastindia). The Dutch had their tulip-mania in the early 1600s (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#speculation), and the British had a mania in slave-trade speculation, where the world's most accomplished intellectual lost his life's fortune. The Spanish gold rush of the 16th century (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#biggest) was a far more primitive version of what the English and Dutch did, but the West engaged in gold rushes until the 20th century, and there are even gold rushes happening today in poor nations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_rush#Rushes_of_the_2000s).

Hitler's greatest mistake was the same one that Napoleon made: invading Eastern Europe (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hitler). History's greatest battles were between the German and Soviet armies. The Soviets defeated the Germans, not the USA and the UK. At war's end, the USA scrambled to get as many useful Nazis as possible, and the CIA (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#gehlen) and American and Soviet space programs were built with those Nazis, many of whom worked in death camps and performed human experiments on prisoners, to become American heroes on children's TV shows (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nazicia). Truth is truly stranger than fiction.

World War II ended with the first application of a new energy source: nuclear energy. The USA gratuitously used it on defenseless Japanese cities (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nukes1), and lies to itself today about the entire affair, as Americans still justify it. By vaporizing cities with new energy technology, human civilization reached an ominous phase where the inhabitability of Earth became threatened, and that state of affairs continues to this day. However, the great increase in non-nuclear energy led to the greatest era of prosperity in world history, and I was born in the midst of it, but that is a subject for the next chapter.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:


This is a slightly revised post from my forum, tailored for Avalon.

Best,

Wade

My big essay's first half (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#midpoint) was about the energetic journey of life on Earth before humans arrived in the scene.

The dictionary definition of economics relevant to my work, is:

"Of or relating to the production, development, and management of material wealth, as of a country, household, or business enterprise."

In other words, economics is the study of humanity's material wellbeing. It really is only an extension of the material wellbeing of life in general. The most important measure of any organism's wellbeing is the surplus energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nicheenergy) that it can acquire and preserve. Virtually all other measures become meaningless in the face of that one. If a creature cannot acquire and store enough surplus energy to successfully meet the vagaries of existence, it will not survive. That issue is likely why human infants are fat (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#infantfat). The same dynamic applies to species and civilizations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#collapse1), with the energy dynamic underlying a civilization's health being a recent concept that had to wait until scientists studied the rise and fall of civilizations, and until their insights superseded the reasons offered by historians and economists, who did not approach the issue scientifically, partly because their work preceded the invention of the scientific method.

The closest financial concepts in modern economics to acquiring and storing surplus energy are discretionary income (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#discretionary) and savings. However, discretionary income and savings are accounting fictions, and are not real. They only have relevance in determining who gets how much of humanity's economic pie, and that is best presented in terms of energy, not money. Money only has an exchange function, not a production function. Money never made anything happen: energy did.

I am constantly encountering people who think that money runs economies, when it does nothing of the sort. Even worse, few on Earth today see the connection between energy and the economy in any meaningful way. My big essay is partly intended to help people overcome those gaps in their understanding.

The financial economy is what I call the egocentric economy, as people use money to meet their immediate needs. They understand money from an individual or household budget perspective, but their understanding does not progress much beyond that. They often have little or no idea where their food comes from, where their household energy comes from, including their electricity, fuel for transportation, and other energy-delivered goods and services.

Many Westerners regard what arrives at their households to almost be a kind of magic, as their understanding is so limited. Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma documented an American's attempt to find out where the food that he ate came from, how it was produced and processed, and how it got to his home. For some processes, the agribusiness firms (huge corporate oligopolies) that control those processes would not let him observe them, so he was reduced to finding somewhat similar processes and imagining what the ones looked like that fed him.

What I call the anthropocentric economy is based on matter and energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economy2), and it is also called the real economy, and it is only concerned with human welfare. Indigenous people often have a better grasp of the real economy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eatmoney) than "educated" members of industrial civilization, as they are not so far removed from the production that sustains them.

In a world based on true economic abundance, what I call the soul-centric economy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egocentric) can come into being where the welfare of all life on Earth becomes important. Without abundant energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#necessity), that so-called soul-centric economy cannot come into being. Only people who have graduated beyond the frameworks of egocentric and anthropocentric economies can glimpse what a soul-centric economy can look like and how it can come into being. To be able to see it before being able to experience it is one of the hardest tricks of all, but those in the choir (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) will have accomplished it, and the vision of a soul-centric economy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate) will help sustain them.

Several energy concepts (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyconcepts) can help people begin to understand how the world really works, and what energy's role is. One of the essay's chapters (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#running) was written to partly address not only how energy runs the world's ecosystems and economies, but also what running out of energy looks like. Financial measures can only dimly reflect reality (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#realeconomy), but I added some to help people begin to understand.

This could become one of the more important discussions relating to my work, and we will see how it goes.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is the chapter on the postwar boom, Peak Oil, and the decline of industrial civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#boom). Europe has a great deal to answer for. When it learned to turn the global ocean into a low-energy transportation lane (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2) and conquered the world, it unleashed demographic catastrophes onto all other peoples that it encountered (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic2). The peoples of the Western Hemisphere and Australia suffered a genocidal invasion that eliminated at least 70%, and probably more than 90%, of the population level that encountered the European invaders. Europe inflicted similar devastation onto Africa and Asia, but as those locals did not die off of disease as readily as the indigenous peoples of those other continents, the African and Asian experience was more like being conquered, enslaved, starved, and worked to death. The only significant exceptions are China and Japan, as they knew the imperial game and kept Europeans out of their countries for as long as possible.

England became the first nation to industrialize, in the midst of its imperial ventures, and wherever the English/British appeared around the world for the next few centuries, genocide, slavery, and famine followed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imperial). The exploitation of its imperial subjects was partly how the British people became history's richest, until they were supplanted by the offspring, rival, and eventual "big brother" the USA. For the British and every empire in world history, the primary motive was always rape and plunder, and the USA has been no different. But all imperial peoples for all time have constructed involved ideologies to justify the bloodshed and exploitation, and all empires eventually collapse, partly because they are fundamentally evil.

However, for all of the evils that Europe and its descendants inflicted on humanity and Earth's ecosystems, the increased energy usage that powered industrialization initiated what is called the demographic transition (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic). Preindustrial peoples were short-lived and uneducated, children were exploited as "the peasant's road to wealth," forced servitude institutions were nearly universal, and women had low status. As peoples industrialized, they became educated and long-lived, children became family liabilities instead of assets, forced servitude became economically obsolete as machines replaced people, and women's status became the highest ever.

Industrialization allowed the demographic transition to happen, and for that, there was a bright side to the rise of Europe and industrialization, although it was not a very intentional outcome. Almost nowhere in the annals of Europe's and the USA's conquest of humanity is there much evidence, if any, of benevolent regard toward the conquered and subjugated peoples. Western apologists have often invoked the "the genocide was unintentional" excuse for Europe's activities, but that is inaccurate and usually reflects the ethical bankruptcy of imperial apologists.

Spain had a gold rush that lasted for a century, which coincided with history's greatest demographic catastrophe. In the first Spanish gold rush in the Caribbean, the Spaniards treated the enslaved natives as expendable (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldrush), and that treatment was reproduced in mining and plantation activities across the Western Hemisphere, and even the mission systems were instruments of genocide (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#mission). The Portuguese had similar practices in Brazil (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#brazil), and began importing captured Africans (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slavery1) as the natives went extinct. When the English arrived in North America in the next century, seizing rich lands was their primary motivation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishinvasion), and their genocidal intentions toward the natives were evident from the beginning. When they became American instead of British "settlers," the USA's first president crafted the strategy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint) to steal North America from its "subhuman" inhabitants. It worked brilliantly, and the USA never honored even one "treaty" that it forced on the natives. The English/American intent was always genocidal toward the natives (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#debate).

The advantages of cities are why they appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cityadvantages), which were energy-driven and allowed a proportion of the populace to be relieved from food-acquisition activities, and professions appeared. Communication became easier, and cities hosted markets. The first elites appeared by controlling and skimming those markets (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear), in a dynamic that lasts to this day. There has never been a "free market."

The energy surplus provided by pre-industrial agriculture was always small and could only support a small elite and professional class (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishworkforce), and food security was the primary preoccupation of all civilizations until the Industrial Revolution. During the High Middle Ages, 80% of Europe's workforce was devoted to food production, and in 1870, so was 70% of the USA's workforce. By 1800, however, only 40% of English workforce was devoted to agriculture. Today, less than 2% of the USA's workforce is devoted to agriculture.

When an industrial city reaches a population of 100,000-to-200,000, the disadvantages of cities begin outweighing the advantages (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#citydisadvantages), and when city populations reach a million and more, extraordinary measures become necessary to keep cities inhabitable.

With the rise of industry and new classes of people, the robber barons simply rebranded the fake "philanthropy" of the imperial powers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fakeglobal) and took that game global (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#neocolonialist). Studying the "structural" aspects of that situation is good work (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#structuralist1) and can serve to make the dynamics easier to discern. At World War II's end, the USA had unprecedented global hegemony and the national security state was born (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dulles). Declassified documents make it clear that the USA's government was primarily interested in maintaining its position (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kennan) and enslaving the planet to American benefit. In essence, it was no different (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#progress) than Rome's imperial approach (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#freefood). While the structural aspects are important, so are the "conspiratorial (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism)" aspects. Either one, in isolation, leads to a lopsided perspective, and both share a victim-oriented perspective (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness), not a creator's.

However, the industrialized world in general recovered from World War II and had its greatest period of prosperity in history as it rode on the back of cheap energy. The USA's energy consumption per capita doubled during the postwar boom. During the postwar boom, the USA picked a fight with the Soviet Union and brought humanity to the brink of a nuclear holocaust. The sitting American president helped prevent the holocaust and then sought to end the Cold War, and that may well have been why he was murdered (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cuba). Every president since then has been reliably imperialistic.

Geopolitics has always been rooted in economics, which has always been rooted in energy. Several energy concepts (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyconcepts) can help people understand energy's role in today's world. The fact is that, with some Stone Age exceptions, no human societies have ever been energetically sustainable, and the human journey has primarily been a story of plundering one energy source to exhaustion and the society collapsed. The Epochal Events of the human journey were about finding new energy resources to exploit, but then humans plundered the new energy resources to exhaustion, whether they were megafauna, forests or soils, and it has been no different for hydrocarbons. Coal was the first one to be plundered and will be the last one, as it is the most plentiful and least desirable (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coal1). Oil is by far the most coveted, and the West has been meddling in and invading the oil-rich Middle East for the past century (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#churchill1), and is entrenched there today as it has caused the deaths of millions of people (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading).

In the 1950s, an American geologist predicted that the USA would reach peak oil extraction rates (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil) no later then 1970, and he was right (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hubbert). A few years later, the oil-producing nations reacted to Western meddling in the Middle East by forming a cartel and an embargo ended the postwar boom in 1973-1974. American real wages per hour peaked in 1974 along with energy consumption per capita, and both have declined since then by similar amounts, as the American standard of living has slowly declined.

A key energy concept to understand the real economy is energy return on investment (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eroi1) ("EROI"), and it has been steadily declining for American oil for the past century, from more than 100 in the 1920s for East Texas oil to less than 20 in 2010. It will decline to less than 10 perhaps within a decade. The scholars who developed the EROI concept think that an EROI much below 10 is likely too low to sustain a modern civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eroimin). The shale oil and tar sands that have been touted in recent years as some kind of bonanza for the USA have EROIs of less than five and as low as two. Those energy resources are not new. They represent the dregs of the Earth's hydrocarbon deposits, and they only have become mined as the high-EROI sources have disappeared. Global EROI for oil and gas fell from about 30 in 1990 to less than 20 today, and will fall to 10 perhaps as early as 2020 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eroidecline2). Global peak oil was reached in 2005-2006. We are fast reaching the EROI where industrial civilization will not be able to survive, and phenomenon such as the rapid disappearance of the American middle class is a direct reflection of the decline in energy consumption (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hubbert).

So-called alternative energy is low in available energy and low in EROI (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#alternatives). In the 1970s, when Brian was politically active in the energy field, he advocated traditional alternatives, but eventually realized that they were too little and too late (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brian1). Today, nearly forty years after Jimmy Carter's declaration of "war" on energy, alternative energy is still less than 1% of American production. As I discovered the hard way, the reason for the reliance on the fast-dwindling hydrocarbon fuels is not because no alternatives exist, but because they have been ruthlessly suppressed as the result of a global effort (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make).

To revisit a question early in my essay, about why the world's poor are poor, it is because of imperial exploitation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#poor) that continues to this day. Not only are the world's poor being kept in various forms of bondage, and the hydrocarbon energy that sustains industrial civilization is quickly being depleted, but humanity has been inflicting the greatest mass extinction since the dinosaurs' demise onto Earth's ecosystems. We are living through the Sixth Mass Extinction today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth), which might reach Permian levels (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction) before it is over. Climate scientists, biologists, and others who professionally investigate the current situation are terrified by current trends, and we are currently in a "race of the catastrophes" scenario. Will World War III over the dwindling oil supplies (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oilgenocide) do humanity in, in Einstein's famous World War III scenario (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wwIII)? Or will Global Warming and humanity's other environmental impacts make Earth increasingly uninhabitable? The smart money is being placed on World War III happening first, and one contingency plan of the Global Controllers is terraforming Mars (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#underground1) as their ultimate survival enclave if the Four Horsemen begin riding soon. The insanity of the elite, the obliviousness of the masses, and the entrenched denial of scientists and academics regarding what is happening are behind Brian's question of whether humanity is a sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience).

Humanity is at the brink of abyss, and few seem to know or care. That is a key part of the conundrum that we face.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I added a late chapter to the essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#running) due to a reader's desire to make the real-world effects of energy clearer to people. The vast majority of people do not understand the connection between energy and the economy. That is partly due to the obfuscations and delusions of economists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists), especially neoclassical economists. Economic theory does not deal with the real world, which scientists can easily see (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil1). The concept of energy slaves (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#running) can make the concept clearer. Humans perform a tiny fraction of 1% of the work performed in industrialized nations. Those energy slaves perform the rest. That is why the average American lives richer than Earth's richest human of three centuries ago.

I decided to write the chapter oriented around what running out of energy looks like. During the eon of complex life, the mass extinctions were energy events, where the food chains collapsed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#prehuman), with the disruption at the base. The human-caused extinctions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#prehuman) were extinctions caused by disruptions at the top, and humans became Earth's most successful predator ever. Early civilizations collapsed when they ran out of energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#earlycollapses). That was always the ultimate cause, with proximate causes the stuff that historians and scholars argue about. When scientists began to study the collapse of civilizations, running out of energy has always been seen as the ultimate cause, whether academics argue over human-caused environmental collapse or an energy event beyond their control, such as climate. In each case, the civilization ran out of energy. The ultimate energy for all civilizations is food, and running out of food was how preindustrial civilizations collapsed, as hungry city-dwellers fled in search of food security.

As energy consumption has been declining in the USA first (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#industrialdecline), with the rest of the world not far behind, the obvious signs of running out of energy are gas lines, skyrocketing energy prices (including food), brownouts of cities, and the decline of social services. The aspects of civilization considered "frills" go first, such as the arts.

Although I dislike using financial measures because they can be very misleading, I make a few comparisons using financial measures to show how the USA's standard of living has drastically declined since the 1960s (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#realeconomy). When people think in terms of money and other financial measures instead of energy, they are deluded and will not be able to see the forest for the trees. I make some other analogies so that people can see the connection between financial concepts and the real world, and one is surplus energy and discretionary income (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#discretionary). But surplus energy is the meaningful measure, with discretionary income only an accounting approximation of surplus energy, although most people do not see it that way, preferring to use the fictional measure rather than the real one.

Once energy began to run out and the "Titanic" began to sink, the capital class began to wage war against the working class, and the past forty years has seen the "race to the bottom (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#racetobottom)," where the global capital class has been pitting workers and even nations against each other, as they wring all the profit that they can from the sinking ship.

I presented Canada's tar sands operations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tarsands) as an example of what using low-EROI energy sources looks like, and it is just one of a number of recent, continuing, and looming disasters that our energy methods have been inflicting (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#catastrophes), as all of Earth's easy energy is gone and we are mining the dregs.

The crazy part of all of this is that FE technology is older than I am (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#unnecessary), and all of the looming threat to humanity and Earth can vanish almost overnight with the wise implementation of FE and related technologies.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Now the essay gets to what will likely be the most interesting chapters to casual readers, but the choir needs to be conversation with all of the essay's material, not just the essay's final chapters, beginning with the chapter on my adventures (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures), and those of my fellow travelers, such as Dennis and Brian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#journeys). Most of my fellow travelers got into the alternative energy field because of the 1973-1974 energy crisis, including Dennis and Brian. Dennis's first business was wiped out by the energy crisis, and he developed ingenious business strategies (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dennis), although he had no business training. I write about his adventures (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#dennis) plenty elsewhere, so I will not belabor them here.
I write about my early adventures elsewhere (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm), too, so will not spend much time on them. When that voice brought me into Dennis's company, he could not get rid of me, as I saw my teenage dream come alive (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#introduction). Soon after I became his partner in Boston, the Global Controllers ("GCs") offered us $10 million to go away, and it became $1 billion a year later (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#offers), before they lowered the boom on us. When I staggered out of my home town in 1990, I was radicalized, and began the studies that resulted in my website (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#books). When we pursued FE in Boston and Ventura, we were woefully ignorant of the FE field's history (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ignorance). I am not sure if we even knew who Tesla was back then. But we began learning fast during our trials by fire, and one close associate received an underground exotic technology demonstration (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#underground1) back in those days, and the wares displayed included FE and antigravity technologies. I since discovered that those technologies are likely older than I am.

Brian was a leading voice in asteroid mining and space colonies in the 1970s and 1980s (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#asteroidmining), as he advocated a kind of space-based Utopia. Dennis had his mystical awakening with the barrel of his shotgun in his mouth (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#voice), I had mine a few years later (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown), which was a little less dramatic, and Brian had his five years later, while performing the same exercise that I did (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#oleary). Those kinds of awakenings can wreck scientific careers, as the experiencer knows that the materialistic models of consciousness that dominate mainstream science are false. It was no different with Brian, and that mystical awakening was the beginning of the end of his career in the scientific establishment. Many years later, he began investigating the UFO issue and nearly died immediately after refusing an "offer" from the USA's military to do classified UFO work (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo3). The incident wrecked his health and shortened his life. Several years later, he began to play the Paul Revere of FE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#revere), after spending several years investigating it. I was his biggest fan back then and eventually carried his spears.

Soon before 9/11, I stood in the California governor's office with Brian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#governor), as he was trying to interest the governor's energy advisors in FE. We were nearly run out of town for our trouble, and that day, Brian told me about his ride as the Paul Revere of FE. After he recounted the crazed reactions that he received (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions) from all manner of scientist and academic for the past several years, some of whom were at the top of the world's most prestigious institutions, he openly wondered if humanity was a sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1). I sadly understood his query.

Over the years, I slowly became aware of fellow travelers in the FE field, and when I traded notes with them, they all had similar experiences (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#experiences), for those that survived them. Just as with the mystical field, for every real person in the FE field there are a hundred pretenders and dabblers, and I became increasingly dismayed over the years at how people in the FE field shamelessly lied about Dennis as a way to attack him (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#libel). Not only were the assailants criminals, but I was also amazed at how others in the FE field embraced the liars and attacked Dennis. They did similar things to Brian, and years of witnessing such behavior is why I want almost nothing to do with the FE field today: almost nobody in the field has the right stuff. Dennis and Brian should be the field's patron saints, and instead were largely treated like pariahs and both were run out of the USA, the Land of the Free.

I respected Dennis and Brian the most in the FE field, and their great hearts attracted me to them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#attracted), not their talent, genius, or fame. I cannot relate all that I learned from my adventures in anything less than months or years of conversation, but I can say that my views and approach changed over the years (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#views), as I learned from my experiences and kept my eyes open. In ways, my current approach can be seen as an extension of Dennis's and Brian's work, but it is also different in ways.

The primary lesson of my journey was that personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn), and the enemy is us. We make the GCs' work pretty easy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#easy) for them. I watched Dennis try almost every way that he could think of to make FE happen (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patriot), but they were always doomed because of the low integrity of his "allies" and the organized suppression, which became very pronounced at times. Dennis should be dead dozens of times over during his journey, and I regard his survival as something of a miracle.

There are many hazards facing FE aspirants, and most revolve around the human ego (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah). Egocentric people are effortlessly defeated by organized suppression, if they do not defeat themselves first. While my days with Dennis comprised the learning experience of my life, when I hit the books, beginning in 1990, I was influenced by the writings of some truly great human beings (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#herman), and they all helped me reach the understandings (or delusions :) ) that I have today.

In the end, however, knowledge comes from direct personal experience, not books and the Internet, and Brian advocated scientific testing of paranormal phenomena (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#paranormal). I wrote about my views on the ET/UFO issue (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2), and they are related to the FE and antigravity issue (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spacemining).

There have been thousands of failed attempts to bring disruptive energy technology to the public (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tesla2), and any that showed promise were subjected to the wide array of tactics (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#graphic) used in organized suppression.

Eventually, I came to realize that the greatest triumph of the GCs was making FE and what can come with it unimaginable, but for each Epochal Event, what came with the event (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hints) would have been unimaginable to the masses, so FE has two strikes against it: even if there was not organized suppression, almost nobody on Earth will believe that FE is even possible until it is delivered into their lives (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli). That is a key aspect of the conundrum.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This post is on the chapter that most people seem to be interested in, which is what kind of world FE makes possible (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). The technology to do it has existed for longer than I have been alive (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), and a solid-state device like what Sparky Sweet (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal) had would be the likely winner in an FE device contest. I will assume that some of the "toxic field" effects that I have heard of have been solved, either through shielding or tapping the zero-point field ("ZPF") harmlessly. I am also aware of antigravity technology and exotic materials that would blow observers' minds, as well as many technologies that would make almost all of Earth's present industries obsolete almost overnight. The vision of this chapter assumes that organized suppression ended and those technologies were allowed to flourish. If that happened, what kind of world could await us?

Immediate material changes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate) will include the end of combustion to generate energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#combustion), from cook fires to coal-fired power plants. Combustion produces almost all of today's air pollution, so air pollution will also disappear (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pollution). It would even be easy to bring atmospheric carbon dioxide levels down to their preindustrial levels (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#greenhouse), and also remove other manmade pollutants from the atmosphere. Mining Earth's water tables would also disappear (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#water). People would not get their water by drilling wells, diverting rivers, and the like, and everybody on Earth would have ready access to as much pure water as they wanted. Not only would mining water end, but also mining Earth for metals and other elements (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mining) would become obsolete. Not only would asteroids and the other planets provide for all of humanity's needs (one asteroid could do it), but if there was ever any need to mine Earth, it would be done cleanly, with no damage to Earth's ecosystems, no mine tailings, etc. Wood would no longer be used for anything (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wooduse). Forests could grow back (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#forest2). Exploiting Earth's ecosystems for human benefit would end (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#indoor). The catastrophic accidents that result from humanity's current energy practices would end (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spills).

Those material changes are no-brainers and would be easily achieved with free energy ("FE") and related technologies that I know exist but are kept under wraps by a power-addicted ultra-elite that regards humanity and Earth as expendable. Those technologies are not being kept under wraps due to some benevolent concern about misuse. What Brian and I were always most interested in were the economic, cognitive, and social changes that would come with FE. As my studies of the previous Epochal Events showed me, the energy event was the Epochal Event, and with the geometric rise in energy use came radical changes in the human journey, and the economic changes drove the social and cognitive changes. What follows are some of cognitive and social changes that FE and abundance can produce (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive).

Just as today's average American lives a richer life than Earth's richest human of three centuries ago, as they each ride atop hundreds of energy slaves (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyslave), Earth's average person under and FE-based economy would make Bill Gates seem like a pauper. Human economic desperation would quickly end for all peoples for all time (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#desperation). Poverty would quickly go the way of slavery, the oppression of women, and other grim human practices that became economically obsolete. All dominant ideologies today are based on a framework of scarcity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant), and a framework of abundance will make them meaningless, and one example of countless ones will be concepts of environmental impact such as "carbon footprint (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#footprint)."

Scarcity has been the root (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warreason1) of all wars, and the end of scarcity means the end of war (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping). While almost everybody who hears of FE and does not deny its reality or possibility reacts in fear (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5), as they let their imaginations go into orgies of negativity and fantasize about all that could go wrong with FE's implementation, there are transitional strategies to help ensure an enlightened implementation of FE, and I advocate a global peacekeeping force staffed with grandmothers, and they will be empowered to detect the weaponization of FE (that technology probably already exists) and take the toys away from the boys who cannot play nicely, until the utter stupidity and obsolescence of such behavior becomes obvious even to infants (such genes may end up being culled from the human genome (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#culled), as has likely already been happening over history), and nobody will need to be reminded anymore. Invading others is part of the warfare paradigm (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#invader), and that will also quickly become obsolete.

All organized religions are used for social control, economic exploitation by the priest class, and the like. Religions have their roots in warfare (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing), and all religions will become obsolete with abundance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#religion), just as with almost all other societal structures, such as class. Elites will become as obsolete as the poor (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#class) (which is why they are suppressing FE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make)). Much of today's "education" is indoctrination into scarcity-based ways of "thinking," and elite control of the populace is a key motivation behind "education." When real education begins (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#education), people are going to leap up an octave or two in sentience, and will not be dumbed down as they are today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#gatto). Slaves appeared with civilization and disappeared with industrialization, and while elites appeared (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear) with the first cities, they will disappear with FE and abundance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear).

Cities are energy-concentrating devices in a world of scarcity, and virtually all reasons for having cities will disappear (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cities). All urban areas on Earth can be remediated back to their natural state. There will still be humans living on Earth, but they will not exploit and wipe out Earth's ecosystems to do it.

With FE and attendant suppressed technologies, and even using many technologies that exist today but have not been put into the service of abundance, the average "workday" of humanity will be an hour or two (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#workday), and all humans will live at a standard of living that makes Bill Gates appear like a cave man. One obvious outcome will be the obsolescence of money, exchange-related professions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange), and the like. Today's egocentric and anthropocentric economics will be replaced by a soul-centric economics (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egocentric) that considers the wellbeing of all life on Earth.

Similar to cities, political jurisdictions are dependent on energy and are little more than ape territoriality writ large. Concept such as nations, ethnic groups, different languages, and even race (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#race) will quickly disappear, as geographic isolation will end (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nations).

In short, scarcity and fear will no longer be humanity's organizing principles, and when the constant hum of fear is no longer heard by all, the human heart will open in ways (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#desperation1) that are currently incomprehensible to the vast majority of humanity. That idea leads to many long-term changes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#longer) that become feasible, and some follow.

The reproduction of intelligence (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#computer) is in its infancy with the current computer revolution. I am also aware that in the ultra-elite enclaves this has been developed far beyond what is on the market today, and in ways that can seem magical. When those technologies overcome their sequestering, the potential begins becoming hard to imagine.

Along with cleaning up our space junk, humanity will domesticate the solar system (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spacejunk). There will not be a pebble on a collision course with Earth. The raw materials in the Kuiper Belt alone can provide humanity with unlimited material wealth, humans will live all over the solar system (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#solarsystem), and we will become a space-faring species. No craft will be human-piloted, but computer-controlled (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#autopilot), so transportation accidents will become obsolete.

New paradigms will appear in all human endeavors, and today's greed-based chemistry will give way to something far more enlightened and harmless (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chemistry1). A huge reconnection with nature will happen, and people will raise their own food in ideal environments (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#food).

Those are all easily-foreseen outcomes with FE and its attendant abundance. Without FE, probably none of it can happen (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#necessity). Much of my work is to help people see the insidious nature of scarcity and how it pervades all thought. Many schools of thought are literally enslaved to capitalist interests today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#capitalistdistortions), and when capitalist distortions disappear, what will replace it will be unrecognizable to people mired in scarcity, but will become obvious to people living in abundance.

The nuclear family is a recent human invention, and social organization will radically change, as will family structures. Certainly, women will not be subject to paternalistic systems that turn them into broodmares, and while I can imagine many ways that the social unit known as the family will change, whatever it ends up being will reflect the economic reality, and it will be infinitely superior to what we see today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#family).

Humanity has been altering ecosystems and evolution for millions of years (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#culled), and scientists are playing with DNA. Genetic engineering in the service of greed is a scary concept, but genetic engineering in the service of love and abundance will not look anything like today's practice (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#selection).

What can boggle people's minds who glimpse the vision presented in this post and essay chapter is how people almost universally react with fear, not enthusiasm. Fear is the enemy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fearenemy), and love is the answer, in both practical and mystical ways. People in fear cannot be talked into love and abundance, but must be shown it. Nobody who truly understands this post is going to talk anybody they know into also understanding it, which is part of the conundrum and the reason for my strategy. People who truly understand or want to understand are far less than one-in-a-thousand in today's general population.

Every Golden Age of Life on Earth (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages), and each golden age of the human journey, was based on relative energy abundance, but eventual competition and exhausting the energy sources ended those golden ages. FE promises to make a Golden Age whose end is hard to foresee. With FE and abundance, implemented in enlightened fashion, we will likely be welcomed into the galactic community (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#et). We will be prevented from becoming a space-faring species until we have given up our violent ways.

It all hinges on FE, and most of the visions presented here are just the result of living with the idea of FE since 1987. However, the visions presented in Star Trek, or Michael Roads's astounding visits to an Earth 300 years into our future where they embraced love (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#visions), can make my vision seem like more than idle fantasizing.

I know that the tools to make that world presented above come to fruition are already here. But how to make it happen? That is my essay's final chapter, but the next chapter is the choice that we have today, as an allegedly sentient species.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This chapter is on the choice facing humanity today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth). As Bucky Fuller said (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fuller2), we are facing Utopia or oblivion (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller). I began that chapter with some basic questions, such as what nature is (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nature), and what human nature is (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#humannature). Does human nature matter? Can we change it? Do we want to? We can call chimp "nature" the violent domination of females, males murdering infants that they did not father (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#infanticide1), and genocidal invasions of their neighbors, but when bonobos suddenly found that their food supply doubled, they did away with those practices (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1), and they seem to be part of bonobo "nature" today. If bonobos could do that, why can't humans change or overcome their so-called nature?

Similarly, today's human male infants seem hardwired for rough-and-tumble play that prepares them for fighting, and Earth's most violent humans are toddlers, who bite and otherwise assault others. So, is that human "nature"? Even if it is, it can change. Nurture becomes nature, as can be seen with bonobos, domestication (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#culled), possibly the high IQs of Ashkenazy Jews (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jewish), and the reduction of violent men in industrialized civilizations. Arguments that humans are inherently violent and will never change are at variance with the evidence. Again, are we a sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience)?

Humans have been driving Earth's species to extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth1) ever since the founder group left Africa some 60,000 years ago. Human devastation of Earth's environments began to escalate with the development of civilization, and in ways have increased exponentially with industrialization, while in other ways it has declined. Industrialized nations have not had to raze their forests for energy like poor nations are doing today. Industrial nations could begin to engage in conservation with their abundant energy that was not acquired by raping the environment all that much.

But humanity is at a crossroads, where two radically divergent futures wait to be chosen, and the longer that we fail to decide, the less likely some "muddle through" middle ground will be feasible. As the world runs out of fossil fuels, World War III over the remaining easy oil (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wwIII), mostly in the Middle East, is becoming increasingly likely. As stated in the previous chapter, without FE, none of the positive visions that I related are feasible (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#manifest), but with FE, a future that a Disney cartoon could not begin to depict can beckon. Bucky might think that humanity is heading toward oblivion more than Utopia today, but that is partly because for 99.99% of today's humanity, they cannot even imagine (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#unimaginable) the world that I have envisioned (or even want to), and that is the greatest triumph of the Global Controllers. I seek to upset their plans. :)

While the blind and uncaring masses may seem to not be choosing what their future will be, they are, and they abdicated their sentience for security. The great question that humanity faces today is this: will we carry through with the Sixth Mass Extinction that may take us with it, or will we have the Fifth Epochal Event of the human journey? The choice is ours (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choice).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is on the essay's final chapter, which is how to make a world based on FE and abundance come into being (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#worked), and banish the world based on scarcity and fear. It is probably my essay's most important chapter. It is about bringing FE technology to the world and covers what has not worked, what is not likely to work, and what I am doing with the hope that it will work.

I discovered most of what does not work the hard way, by life-risking and life-wrecking trial and error. I also traded notes with fellow travelers and heard plenty of tales second-hand, to the point where I do not want to hear them anymore. The single biggest risk to my effort is not organized suppression. Also, that greatest risk likely will not be free-lance opportunists trying to steal or exploit my effort, but naïve newcomers with their bright ideas, which are all variations on the approaches that have not worked, are not likely to, and can risk the lives of the participants. Gung-ho men, usually young ones, who want to rush out and "do something," are the greatest risk to my efforts, and not because they will wreck what I am doing, but because they will wreck their lives trying to play the hero (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business), and they will also put the lives of their allies at risk. So, the risk is not primarily from organized suppression, but the risk of disaster that accompanies all such efforts. The organized suppression, however, can turn a relatively harmless and delusional attempt to scale the ramparts by a naïve newcomer into a conflagration that can ruin lives far and wide. It will not do what I am doing any favors, but it is also needlessly suicidal, and that is what has been hard for me to bear.

I am writing from woeful experience, and disabusing newcomers of their bright ideas is partly that chapter's point, while also showing how I arrived at my current approach. I am not interested in hearing suggestions that avoid the hard work required to shed one's scarcity-based orientation and comprehend abundance. Virtually all newcomers understandably want some kind of quick and easy fix. There are not any. The appearance of FE technology will be the human journey's biggest event, by far, and there will not be anything easy about making it happen. Ultimately, it is about delivering technology, but that will be the end result of a very long process that will require keen and consistent focus on what is important. If the people that I hope to attract are distracted by the FE aspirant of the hour, the latest "activism," chatter on the Internet, and YouTube videos, my attempt will not have a prayer of success. Maybe, just maybe, the people sitting on the technology today will be influenced by efforts like mine to release what they have long held in their Golden Hoard, but I am not counting on it. If that happens, it does, and there is little else more likely to inspire such an act as thousands of people singing the song that I hope to teach them. I hope that others will eventually sing it better than I can, but for now, I am about the only person who knows the song.

My website is intended as a self-study course for learning the song (with some instructor participation), and my forum is intended for those in the choir to not only learn about hitting the highest notes, but to also create a harmony of a chorus, which has never been heard on Earth before. In this field, people such as Brian and Dennis were voices in the wilderness who were disparaged far more than hailed. So it is, in a world of scarcity, where the masses cannot even comprehend the song of abundance and cannot even distinguish the saints from the psychopaths. The chorus that I intend for my forum to become is not designed to reach the masses; they will only be reached by FE delivered into their lives (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli). My work is intended to only reach a tiny fraction of humanity who will be able to understand the song and at least hum it. Most of them have been pining for that song for their entire lives, and those are whom I seek. They will be needles in haystacks, but the unprecedented technology called the Internet can help me hunt for them, and will make it easier for them to find and hear the song of abundance.

I am quite confident that my approach will work, if I can find enough people willing and able to do the work. My work is about finding the right people and training them, not concocting another, seemingly easier, approach. Mine has never been tried before, and I have devoted a big piece of my life to seeing if it might make a dent, and I have to see it through. I would rather have a choir of five that hit the notes instead of a choir of ten thousand that did not.

I began the chapter by presenting a summary of problems that FE efforts have encountered (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hurdles), from no funding to deficiencies in the aspirants to no public support to the betrayals of their allies to organized suppression. That constellation of issues has ensured that no FE effort mounted from the public sector has been successful.

I then discussed the levels of FE awareness and orientation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels). I have discussed that many times in the past, and do not need to belabor it. The most dangerous level for what I am doing is Level 10 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10), where newcomers think that the social movement approach will work. The levels are not mutually exclusive, and Level 10 attempts are often led by some would-be hero, with the masses following them. I was involved with several Level 10 efforts and finally understood their futility, which is what largely led to the approach that I am trying today. The abysmally low level of personal integrity in the general population (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn), combined with organized suppression, has ensured that all Level 10 efforts have resulted in futility or disaster.

I then presented the numerous approaches to FE that have failed and why (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn). They are all variations of pouring the old wine into the new skins. The approaches have not been epochal enough in nature to work. They have usually been centered around business efforts of the capitalist variety, attempts to get a stampede going, or trying to get the rich and famous to save the day. They do not stand a chance, but virtually all newcomers advocate them.

I then presented the current FE field and its state of arrested development (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fefield). It is largely a boys' club, dominated by scientists, inventors, and would-be heroes/messiahs, and there is virtually nobody in the field today with the right stuff. I do not recommend that newcomers immerse themselves in that milieu.

After many years in the milieu, and seeing all the failures, I came to suspect that the zero-point field ("ZPF") might be divine in nature (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#divine), and only a divinely intended effort had a prayer of success (which I call Level 12 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12)).

Around the time that my midlife crisis ended in late 2006 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#midlife), I began to come out of my seclusion, engage the public again, and began to develop the epochal approach that I advocate today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#paradigm).

Directly related to the low personal integrity of the general population is its fear-oriented perspective. Only a loving approach is going to work, and a loving approach will not fixate on the Global Controllers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) and organized suppression (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make) (the conspiracist approach (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism); the structuralist/materialist approach denies that organized suppression even exists, and both approaches are fear-based and delusional (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness)), but will acknowledge it as part of the terrain. However, the focus will be on combined positive intention (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus), not the "evil ones." If the focus is around evil and how to defeat it, the effort will fail. Evil needs to be treated as force of nature, and not something that can be defeated.

I presented why I am taking my approach and the people I seek (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#why). I do not kid myself that they will be on every street corner; they are less than one-in-a-thousand in the general population, but this new technology called the Internet will allow me to seek those needles in haystacks. I will be asking plenty of them, but I will not be asking them to risk their lives (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir).

I presented my goals for my effort (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers), including how many I think will be needed to overcome humanity's inertia and the organized suppression, and I reiterated that the social circle approach will not work for what I am doing (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). Those in the "choir" will have relinquished their need to enlighten their family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues on the FE and abundance issue. For those who just cannot help themselves, they can just send those people a link to my big essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm) and stand back. If those readers do not demonstrate any comprehension and instead fly off into the numerous kinds of irrational, fearful, and egocentric reactions to my work (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm) that I have encountered over the years, my advice is to not engage them on my material and find something else to discuss. Engaging them will only result in ruined relationships, and I have seen plenty of threats and retaliation for sharing my work and the idea of FE. I have seen relationships end and even lives get wrecked. If you think that you can share my work with your social circle, and their eyes will light up in recognition, you probably have some dangerous and hard lessons ahead of you. Those who continue to think that my message will reach the masses do not yet understand it. Only those who understand it, or are very close to understanding it, and only need a little help from me, will be invited into the choir.

One of the biggest traps with coming to understand the message in the above paragraph is to fall into judging people (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) that will not and cannot comprehend abundance until it is delivered into their lives. It is just where they are. For every Epochal Event in the human journey, nobody could even imagine it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine) before it happened, even the innovators, and that is the situation today with FE and abundance. Those in the choir have to accept that situation and stop trying to drag people along to abundance. It will not work, and it is dangerous. When the means of abundance are delivered into people's lives, only then will they begin to understand, as with the previous Epochal Events. The masses will not awaken with talk (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink), but by experience. I am looking for that tiny fraction of humanity that can envision the next Epochal Event before it happens, and can use that vision to help it manifest. That is no easy trick.

So, will it be Utopia or oblivion (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#utopia)? Which will humanity choose? The path of heart-centered sentience is toward Utopia, and the path of self-centered fear and minds mired in scarcity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) will lead to oblivion. I seek that tiny fraction that can help us avoid the path to oblivion and pave the way to Utopia. FE is the key. Do you want to help?

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

My primary purpose behind writing about money and banking is to help people see how money and banking are not real. :) Banking is one industry controlled by a global cartel (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc), and there are definitely power and control games played through the financial system (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#banking), but they are only accounting games. I hope to help people understand that money is intrinsically meaningless. In the monetized economies of industrialized nations, people use money to get what they need, but money is only an accounting claim and has no real productive purpose. Similar to how the U.S. Constitution is hailed as some kind of masterpiece of political acumen, money has been hailed by economists as one of the greatest inventions in the human journey. What a crock.

I am an accountant by profession, and a helpful analogy may be that any professional cook eating at a restaurant wants to enter it via the kitchen. Astute accountants are not enamored with numerical information produced by the accounting profession. It is a method of scorekeeping, but there is a great deal of important information that it does not measure or measure meaningfully (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fuller), and any accountant who knows much understands that the capitalist accounting and banking game is rigged (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#savings).

I have seen evil games played in banking, and insiders have admitted to some of the games being played (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#neocolonialist), but when people focus on money instead of the real world, they lose touch with reality and their minds are easily manipulated. Mistaking the symbolic for the real has been one of the greatest mind control tools in the history of civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#indoctrination2), from "sacred" texts (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tales) to worshipping flags (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#flag) to the financial economy's money and banking games.

I hope that discussion in my forum does not get too long, as it should merely be about disabusing people of some pretty deep-seated and avidly enforced delusions. There are many conspiracy theories about how robber barons (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#morgan) and others seized control of the global economy through the banking system, and at least some of them are true, but it was like seizing the reins on a horse, and illusory reins at that. If the horse wakes up, the reins will no longer work. People have abdicated their sentience in many ways, but ignoring the real world and focusing on abstractions such as money has been one of the most effective ways to impair one's sentience. Bankers like to make the masses think that they have all sorts of arcane and vital economic knowledge, but that is a lie and part of the magic act. My work does not focus on the magic act and its dupes, but on what is real.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is not a new theme by any means, but is something I am initiating a conversation of in my forum.

There is a great deal that is worthy about the ideal and framework of the scientific process, if its limits are recognized and respected. However, there is a great deal of difference between the process of science, its cumulative facts, and the paradigm that mainstream scientists operate from. I have continually seen a logical sleight of hand practiced by prominent scientists, where they have not respected the process of science and its limits, and have turned science into something resembling a religion.

In the early 20th century, a philosophy called logical positivism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_science#Logical_positivism) became popular among scientists. It is essentially a philosophy that banished from science anything that cannot be instrumentally observed. Logical positivism is essentially a fancy word for materialism. Materialism, particularly wedded with sterile logic, amounts to a religion, and the greatest physicists knew that science as currently practiced would never have anything to say about the source of consciousness (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#mystical). Today's science is particularly unsuited for the task, as consciousness is a non-material phenomenon. The quantum enigma (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann) deals a fatal blow to any certainly about materialism. But just as the quantum enigma does not seem to deter logical positivists, many scientists today are confident that when they finally drill to the basement of the brain and fully dissect the workings of neurons, that they will have the riddle of consciousness solved. That belief begs the question. Not only that, it is pretty easy to get experiences that falsify the materialistic models of consciousness. Such experiences clearly demonstrate that consciousness is far more than some epiphenomenon of brain activity. When I took the Silva class in 1974 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva), everybody in the class had hits like what I saw and performed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown). Brian O'Leary had a similar experience performing the same exercise five years later (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#remote). It wrecked him as a mainstream scientist, as he no longer drank the materialistic Kool-Aid. Everybody that I respected in the FE field had similar experiences, usually in their teens or early twenties, which woke them up beyond that materialistic framework, and they were all either scientists or scientists-in-training. Three years after my mystical awakening with those remote viewing experiences, a desperate prayer changed my studies from science to business (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice) and led me on my odyssey.

All the theories and experiments of science regarding consciousness pale to insignificance in the face of direct personal experience, and particularly the dramatic kinds that we had, which is where knowledge comes from. I performed experiments in my twenties, such as mummifying fruit, and the results were spectacular (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#tomato). Brian was a big advocate of scientific testing of so-called paranormal phenomena (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#frontiers), and he got similar results to my mummification experiments by using love-infused technology (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#vogel).

The deeply dishonest holy warriors of materialism, known as "skeptics (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)," engage in all manner of chicanery to discredit such evidence. I continually see scientists equate science with materialism, being "educated" with subscribing to materialism, and equating logic with materialism. How irrational. If a scientist wants to equate science with materialism, then he/she needs to then acknowledge science's inability to say any at all about non-material realms. To then turn around and state that there not any, based on the findings of materialism, is begging the question. Far too often, scientists, and often prominent ones, make statements that are stunning for their irrationality and failing to heed the cautions of their professional ancestors. A recent example is Stephen Hawking, who declared that there is no God (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking#2000.E2.80.93present) because the theories of science adequately explain the physical universe. I always find it amazing that their circular logic never occurs to them. You begin by assuming materialism, and your logic will "prove" your founding assumption. For as physically confined as Hawking is, I am rather surprised that he never had an out-of-body experience ("OBE") or tried to have one. But he is a materialist through and through, so having an OBE would shatter his faith.

I have constantly seen materialists debate members of organized religions, as if defeating a religious fundamentalist proves the assumptions of materialism correct. I regard that approach as a sort of straw man argument (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#straw). Both camps are gloriously wrong, but neither suspects it.

Ken Wilber made the case that the greatest scientists became mystics because they saw the failures of materialistic science (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#wilber). However, the scientists that I know who developed a mystical orientation (which was usually incompatible with their materialistic careers, so they quit) did not do so out of some logic game and the failures of materialistic science, but by their direct personal experiences. I cannot overemphasize that much of what I write about will not truly be understandable until people go get some experiences of their own, and it goes far beyond rational logic, and includes opening the heart and intuition.

Getting experience in the FE field is life-risking, so I do not recommend it, but there are plenty of other areas where people can investigate and gain experience (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) that blows mainstream dogma out of the water. If people approach my work as some sort of intellectual exercise, they will never understand. Experience needs to be the center-of-gravity for dealing with material like mine. Otherwise, it is easy to get lost.

It took me many years to realize that the assumptions of consciousness of mainstream science were also behind their denial of FE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3) and its organized suppression. Their worldview does not allow that anybody or anything was responsible for Creation; it just happened. That same worldview denies that anybody is consciously manipulating the world economy, and all such evidence is derided as a "conspiracy theory (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism)." Scientist and academics in their soft berths will never find out differently in their armchairs. If they tried to bring disruptive energy technology to market (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make), or harmless, cheap, and effective cancer treatments (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#fitzgerald), they will then discover a different reality than they have been indoctrinated into. Get an exotic technology show like this one (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), and you will know that the science texts resemble cave drawings compared to what is known in the Black Projects world, which mainstream scientists usually deny even exists.

Mainstream science works great within carefully defined limits, but when materialistic scientists play authority of reality, they don their priest's robes, and all priesthoods have always been rackets, just as with all powerful professions.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is another post on science and its limits, but it spreads out beyond it, which is partly why I was uncertain where to put these related topics. Ken Wilber wrote that those mystical scientists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#mystical) did not see any conflict between science and religion, but between the genuine and the bogus (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#wilber). The "bogus" aspects are their authoritarian and dogmatic facets, and science and religion have plenty. I'll deal with the problems of science, first. While the ideal of science is a worthy notion, it has never been achieved, just like other ideals such as free markets (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear), democracies, a free press (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big), an objective history (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#objectivity), and so on.

Long ago, Bucky Fuller remarked that science is a slave profession (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#slave) that was controlled by capitalist interests. Until near his life's end, he likely did not know how right he was. I have written that a key tension in science and technology (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#theorists) is that between the theorists, empiricists, and inventors. Many inventions were declared impossible before they were invented, and even after they were invented and publicly demonstrated for years, by using the "laws of physics" dogma often enough, such as regarding powered flight (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wright). There are no "laws" of physics, only theories, but the term "law" reflects the religious aspects of science. Microscopes nearly a century old (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bechamp) gained optical resolutions still considered "impossible," and their findings point to a different paradigm of subcellular processes than mainstream science currently recognizes. Such technologies demonstrated that the theories of science were wrong, and their ignoring and suppression reflects dogma and the herd instinct of scientists, as well as that capitalist control that Fuller noted.

Many outright frauds have been perpetrated on the public by scientists. Medical claims made by tobacco companies (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#cigarettes), with medical authorities designing their "research," comprise one of many surreal chapters in Western medicine. The face of modern medicine championing an asbestos cigarette filter (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lorillard) is one of those "believe it or not" incidents in the sorry history of Western medicine. At the same time that that asbestos filter was being promoted, death camp Nazis who performed medical experiments on prisoners became American heroes and hosted children's TV shows for Disney and wrote children's books. Not only that, the CIA was founded on the Nazi intelligence network (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nazicia), and the Nazis founded mind control programs such as MKUltra, which still exist, but in privatized realms today, in The Land of the Free. You could not make this up if you tried. When those activities were happening, an industrial waste was rebranded as medicine (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fluoride) and has been force-fed to Americans ever since.

My partner helped develop, build, market, and install the best heating system that has ever been on the world market (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new). He discovered the hard way about free markets (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run), or the lack thereof. As his company was being wrecked and stolen, a voice led me to him (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2), and he could not get rid of me. After I chased him across the continent (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#chasing), after he was run out of his home state (he was eventually run out of his home nation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#forced), as Brian O'Leary also was (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland)), we began to pursue free energy ("FE"), and I brought in my first professional mentor, who invented the world's best engine for a gasoline-powered automobile (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse), who eventually proposed that FE was possible with his engine married to Dennis's heat pump. Almost immediately after we began pursuing FE, a group of non-descript businessmen offered us $10 million for our bright idea (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#ten). A year later, the CIA offered us about $1 billion to go away (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer), and when my partner refused our nightmare began as our company was wiped out and our lives were wrecked (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail). When the prosecution made faces at me while I was on the witness stand (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#faces), as I had my face rubbed in evil, it was the turning point of my life.

What we encountered was capitalism on steroids, and I eventually discovered that FE and antigravity technology have been on Earth for longer than I have (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), and the same people who offered us $1 billion to go away control those technologies. Mainstream scientists are blissfully ignorant of all of that. For the few who even hear of it, they drag out the "laws of physics" objection to deny that FE is even possible, and use the "conspiracy theory" canard to deny that organized suppression even exists. The denial by mainstream scientists of those facts (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3) is the most entrenched of any group that I have yet encountered, and it reflects their naïveté, which Fuller also remarked on (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#naive). While scientists have their heads in the sand like that, they are truly a slave profession. Half of my big essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#midpoint) is concerned with the journey of life on Earth before humans arrived on the scene, and investigating those times does not threaten the empires of the people who run the world, so scientists in those fields can perform their investigations relatively freely.

In summary, mainstream science is limited by political-economic interests and dogmas that scientists are raised with (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#scientific), just like in other disciplines. Wilber's "bogus" aspects are richly evident in mainstream science, and far more than almost any scientist is willing to admit, and the primary dogma fed scientists is the materialistic paradigm. I had spectacular experiences as a teenager (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown) that showed me how false that paradigm was, particularly regarding the nature of consciousness. Contrary to the pronouncements of orthodox science and their political foot soldiers, the "skeptics (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)," scientific investigation of the "paranormal" has been undertaken since the 19th century, with robust results (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#psi) that the "skeptics" have irrationally and dishonestly dismissed and attacked for many years. But all scientific results pale next to having direct personal experience of so-called "paranormal" phenomena, and I highly encourage those in my "choir" go get some if they have not already.

Very unfortunately, the class that I took to get my first experiences (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva) is a shadow of itself today as it fragmented and was watered down. Only "older" souls are going to have much interest or talent (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#focus) in exploring those "paranormal" abilities, which is one of many "filters" that reduces my potential pool of "choir" members, but personal integrity is the most important filter and the world's rarest commodity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn). Integrity is a manifestation of love, and the love/fear divide is the same as the genuine/bogus divide. While materialism is the primary limiting scientific dogma, that unfortunately does not help spiritualists avoid their own pitfalls.

The mystical realm is full of charlatans, too. The greatest charlatanry, as with science, comes from its institutions, with organized religion being a racket that serves the priest class, as it has done since the earliest civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing1). But there is also plenty of charlatanry on the fringes of science and religion, which only reflects the integrity issue. Finding honest people anywhere on Earth is like Diogenes's fruitless quest. What science has going for it is instrumentally reproducible phenomena, at least for those not suppressed in the interests of "national security" and global empires (UFOs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack), FE, antigravity, microscopes that overturn the foundations of biology and medicine, etc.). It is not as easy with the abilities of consciousness, which is a non-material phenomenon, and charlatans abound in the field. I am particularly aware of it in New Age circles (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage), as I was immersed in the Southern California mystical scene for many years. That milieu is filled with male "gurus" who build their harems and empires (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/opinions.htm#mystical), and for every genuine initiate there are a hundred or thousand pretenders and dabblers. It is a sorry spectacle, but as with science and technology, the serious investigators/aspirants can find the gold nuggets amongst the mine tailings, although winnowing the genuine from the bogus in both science and spirituality can be a daunting task.

However, while there are similarities between science and spirituality, there are also marked differences that today throw up a great divide between them. The denigration of consciousness and denial of the "soul" has led to many evils that science has inflicted on Earth, such as vivisection and other animal experiments (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#vivisection). The Nazi death camp experiments were merely part of that spectrum that elevates some lives over others, which is one of humanity's oldest practices (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup1). About the darkest potential future (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115) for humanity that I have encountered had their treatment of plants and animals as the hallmark of their spiritually degenerate state. The brightest one had the opposite regard for life (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), where love was the rule.

While science is primarily concerned with reproducible physical phenomena, the pursuit of it in spirituality can be a pitfall. I have many, many dramatic paranormal experiences, and even I have sat back at times (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/31-Consciousness?p=49&viewfull=1#post49) and wondered if they really happened, and I lived them. When experiences conflict with indoctrination and conditioning, cognitive dissonance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#cognitive) ensues, and few people resolve the dissonance in mature and honest fashion, but usually concoct more delusions or engage in active denial to keep their beliefs intact.

While undeniable paranormal events popped the paradigm for me and my fellow travelers, we learned that the point of having such phenomena was not for phenomena's sake, but to help wake us up. Waking up meant awakening our hearts and intuitive aspects of our awareness. That "intuition" was responsible for great inventions and breakthroughs in science (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#flash), and scientists have no understanding of the process and have been reduced to calling it the "creative moment."

It also became evident that people would not really wake up until they could have those experiences for themselves. Phenomena-chasing can be a path of delusion regarding the paranormal. The phenomena should only be pursued within the larger context, which is what spiritual masters know well, and their understandings usually had little or nothing to do with organized religion. If Jesus or Buddha came back and saw what was erected in their names, they would have been sadly stunned at how the priesthoods turned their enlightened messages into rackets that were virtually unrecognizable distortions of their original teachings. The same goes for all organized religions.

Many spiritual charlatans fake their abilities and will face the music of their karma, but those who will have it much worse in the karma department are those with genuine abilities but misuse them, particularly if they use them to hurt others. That is where fifty lifetimes of penance can come from. Scientists, in their ethical (we sacrifice animals for "science" because we can) and spiritual blindness, are oblivious to those risks, and is partly why they have no interest and little talent in those realms, seemingly as a way to protect them. Unless love and being of service to others is the primary motivation, exploring the paranormal can be very hazardous. So, the marginalization of the paranormal, and the dishonest attacks from the "skeptics" and others, may in some strange way be protecting humanity. However, that materialist approach is also responsible for many evils perpetrated against Earth and humanity, and humanity has to collectively wake up if we are going to make it. Humanity stands on the edge of the precipice (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth) today. Staying asleep is no longer a viable "strategy." The organized suppression of FE and its attendant technologies are not only sending humanity hurtling toward that brick wall looming ahead, but their liberation can manifest the Fifth Epochal Event (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) of the human journey, which will be its largest so far.

Many New Agers and others have argued that humanity has to wake up before we get FE, a healed planet, and a world that looks like heaven (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748). However, my studies of the previous Epochal Events showed me that the introduction of the energy technology came first, which propelled the economic changes, which in turn caused the social, political, cognitive, and even anatomical changes. And for each Epochal Event, nobody could imagine it before it happened (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine). I see no reason why it will be different this time. Each Epochal Event was initiated by a handful of people, and the "choir" that I will be trying to build will be a relative handful, and I will be asking them to manifest a collective enlightenment that has never been witnessed on Earth before. An Epochal Event seated in such enlightenment has a far better chance of an enlightened implementation than the previous Epochal Events.

I probably have plenty more to write on the topic, but that is enough for now.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This post began my racket thread in my forum. Since the very beginnings of life on Earth (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#luca), its first and most important requirement was being where the energy was (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lifeenergy). Skimming energy flows became a viable strategy from photosynthesis (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#photosynthesis1) to bears eating migrating salmon (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#skim1) to humans settling along animal migration routes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#migrationroute) (including humans competing with those bears for salmon (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cityadvantages)) to humans controlling and skimming the first markets (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#markets1), which was how they became elites. Skimming controlled markets for elite benefit is a universal feature of human civilization to this day.

With that kind of history, it should be no surprise that there is no such thing as a free market, and people setting up business along energy flows (all economic flows are primarily energy flows and energy-propelled material and information flows), to skim them and elbow aside all competition, has been a human constant. When contending human groups were evenly matched, a "truce" of sorts was declared, where elite groups divided up the loot by various sharing strategies. Some were territorial, and with the rise of industry, controlling new industries via oligopolies and even monopolies became the way to riches, and is the primary strategy to this day, with the world's richest man (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates) wiping out the competition and erecting a monopoly in a new industry, just as his economic predecessor controlled the new oil industry (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rockefeller1).

The obviously unfair position of elites has always been a problem in all civilizations. In the pristine states, which were humanity's first civilizations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#legitimacy), elites primarily established "legitimacy" via violence. Violence is an expensive way to rule, so ideological indoctrination also began with civilization, and the priesthood went into cahoots with the new elite and conferred divine status or sanction to them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#divinity). Religion became a racket in of itself, which also lasts to this day. When history became a discipline, court historians glorified "royalty" with fanciful tales (classical economists played that role (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists) for the capitalists). Once English elites (AKA "royalty") lost their ability to inflict violence on their subjects at will, then controlling the public's mind (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bernays) became one of the early sciences of the Scientific Revolution. Another strategy for elites was to become invisible, with the "power-behind-the-throne" game played early on. In the 21st century, all politicians are puppets of economic interests; as Bucky Fuller noted, retail politicians are merely actors (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#economic), with almost no real power (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#presidents). Those with real power are invisible. Only their puppets are visible, and those puppets are disposable. Unfortunately for me, I was the catalyst for an effort (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#pursuit) that threatened the greatest racket on Earth, the energy racket, and I nearly did not survive the experience (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr). The global rackets are very real, but are far from monolithic, as more local sub-rackets exist. During my adventures in the pursuit of free energy, we were attacked from the local, state, federal, and global levels (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). While we saw some coordination and overlaps in personnel among the various racketeers, and the Global Controllers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) sit at the top of that food chain, I doubt that there was really all that much coordination between the interests; racketeers all use a similar bag of tricks, with tools becoming more sophisticated as their reach expands. The Global Controllers were the most suave and sophisticated of the groups that targeted us. They probably were guiding, in some fashion, the attacks that came from the lower levels, but those lower levels did not need much encouragement (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#care), either. They all know the game that they are playing.

On Earth today, there are seven cartels that control the world economy, and they are:

Energy (with a bullet (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make))
Medicine (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm)
Banking (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#banking)
Military (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm)
Intelligence (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#cia) (the "spooks (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground)")
Organized Religion (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#indoctrination1)
Media (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big)

They all have differences in how they operate, but their basic methods and goals are the same, and they can complement each other. Take the USA's invasion of the oil-rich Middle East, for instance, where the Bush administration was dominated by oil interests (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#bushoil), Bush invoked plenty of religious justification (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#mental) (although even religious authorities were reluctant to sign on for the plunder operation) for the genocidal invasion by the military (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), with the spooks right in the mix, and the media parroted any and all war-justifying propaganda (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#iraq). Five of the rackets were involved, and the banks were certainly beneficiaries. That only leaves out medicine.

While studying the structural aspects of the rackets can be enlightening, nobody should assume that it was an anarchic result, with nobody planning any of the outcomes or influencing them. The structuralists miss the boat when they deny any conscious manipulation of the events, but the conspiracists also do when they obsessively focus on them and often jump at shadows. Both are lopsided and incomplete perspectives, and both result from thinking like victims instead of creators (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness) and coming from a place of fear instead of love.

What is far more disheartening, for me, are not the evil machinations by the elites and their puppets, but the truly mindless way that the masses fall right into line and stampede any way that the elites want them to, even to certain death. The first times that I saw people embrace certain death (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lemmings) rather than question their indoctrination, it was hard to believe, but I now accept it as normal. The main problem is the not the elites and their evil games, but the masses who abdicated their sentience for the promise of security, even when it leads to their deaths. It can be even more pronounced among the "educated" and "smart," which led Brian O'Leary to openly wonder if humanity is a sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience), and it is a good question. The rackets primarily exist because of the unthinking and low-integrity masses, not those exploiting the "opportunity."

I have kind of written the book on those rackets, and not so much to "expose" them, but to help people understand how the world works and how a semi-sentient humanity living in scarcity is easily manipulated.

Energy is the Big One and always has been, and all other rackets ride atop that one, just as humanity does. The other rackets play their role, but I seek to help topple the big racket, which will make all rackets obsolete. Rackets are a side-effect of scarcity. Abundance will abolish them. The ultra-elites fear that more than anything else, as they would rather rule in hell than be regular members of heaven. They would rather destroy Earth than give up their rackets, although as Earth is literally at risk of being made uninhabitable (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mars), cooler heads may prevail. Among those cooler heads are those who gave my friend an underground exotic technology show (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground).

But I am not going to sit around and wait for them to save the day. It is time for humanity to finally become toilet-trained as a species, and the elites cannot be counted on to help.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is from the last post to populate my forum as I initially designed it. I will add some new threads/sections soon, but this marks the end of my first pass at setting up the forum, with more than 50 posts. I will now go back to editing my big essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm) for its published 1.0 version. I plan to publish it in September 2014. It will not be radically different than today's draft, and will replace it.

It took me many years for the paradigm that I was groping toward to finally crystallize, and that happened after I read some of Bucky Fuller's work in 2003 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller). After having that experience, I began to see all the crazed reactions to the idea of free energy ("FE") and abundance in a common light: they were all various manifestations of an addiction to scarcity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#misinformation). I took it further and realized that all dominant ideologies were founded on the scarcity assumption (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant), even ideologies about non-material realms, such as only Christians getting into that exclusive club called heaven. The in-group gets the scarce resources (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup1), while the out-group gets marginalized, enslaved, slaughtered, etc.

That scarcity addiction also always rested on an assumption of energy scarcity, even long before a science of energy existed. All fears arise from the feeling of not being in control of what happens to our bodies, and all dominant ideologies are rooted in scarcity and fear, and even celebrate fear and greed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#greed) as salubrious aspects of our systems. There were brief golden ages (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages) of the human journey and even of life on Earth, when energy was relatively plentiful, but that age of plenty always ended and then it was back to battling for survival.

What is called free energy ("FE") promises to make energy truly abundant on Earth for the first time. The spiritual masters all encouraged humanity to stop treating out-groups like they did (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enemy), and those masters were all motivated by love. But a humanity living in scarcity and fear did not understand. Talking about abundance is one thing, but demonstrating it is another. Because of my many "paranormal" experiences (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#my), I accept the idea of the love of Jesus performing "miracles." I performed baby steps (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#research), and the full-tilt "running" of the miracles by masters are no great mystery to me. Love is always the key (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#jesus).

The paradigm shift from scarcity to abundance, from fear to love, as humanity's organizing principles, will be the most momentous event in the human journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#focus). I call it the Fifth Epochal Event (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), and if that event happens, all paradigms will be rooted in abundance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), not scarcity.

Understanding scarcity and abundance is important, and for many years, I have seen people unable to comprehend abundance. Because humanity has never experienced abundance before, people's failure to understand what it is, even "smart" people (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#exuberance), is normal, but the choir will not be able to sing the abundance song until its members know what abundance is (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance). This thread is intended to open a discussion where people still unsure of the concept can explore it, although I expect those in the choir to be well on their way to mastering the concepts.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is the first post on the "Manifesting Free Energy" thread that I will begin in my forum. It should be a pretty short thread for now. My strategy is really pretty simple: developing a production-ready free energy ("FE") device and giving it to the world. I plan to ask that only one "requirement" be imposed on those using it: harmlessness in its implementation. That primarily means no weaponization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping) and no strip-mining Earth or causing other environmental destruction with it.

Since unleashing FE technology means the beginning of the epoch of abundance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), weaponization of FE technology and harming Earth should instantly be seen as senseless activities, as abundance makes such behaviors obsolete, as they are rooted in scarcity. All wars have had economic motivation at their root (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warreason1), and the harm that humans have caused to Earth's environment has always been about extracting energy from it. When Earth's ecosystems are no longer "needed" to meet humanity's energy needs, humanity's motivation to rape Earth should end. I know that FE and antigravity technologies have existed on Earth for longer than I have been alive (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). Those two technologies alone will make humanity a space-faring species, and far more is being kept secret. The asteroid belt (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mining), Kuiper belt, and lifeless planets can easily provide whatever material needs humanity might dream up. The basic needs that humanity faces today would be almost effortlessly met, and all of life's necessities (and even goods that would be considered nearly unimaginable luxuries today) would be free for everybody. Money and other economic exchange ideas would quickly become obsolete (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egocentric), and a very different social organization will manifest. Since all human classes are economic categories, all classes will cease to make sense (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#class). Elites will become obsolete (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear).

Almost nobody on Earth today can even imagine what I am writing about in this post, and that is OK, because I do not seek to engage the masses. My goal is manifesting the technology in the public sphere. Only then will the masses begin to understand (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli), and it was like that for all previous epochal events: nobody could imagine it before it happened (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine). My website, my forum, and my other public work is intended to find and train those who can. They are extremely rare on the planet today, because in a world of scarcity and fear, people see no further than their egos or in-group (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup1). All dominant ideologies are in-group ideologies, are based on scarcity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant), and will become obsolete in a world of abundance.

When FE, antigravity, and other "exotic" technologies are brought into the open from the ultra-elites' secret caches, or independently developed, it is not difficult to foresee many of the changes. If the utter stupidity of weaponization and environmental wrecking is avoided, there will nothing for anybody to fear, other than losing a nostalgic attachment to scarcity and its myriad dysfunctions, which are often called "culture." Getting there is the trick, and my big essay's final chapter (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#worked) is devoted to what has not worked, what is likely to not work, and what I think might work. I really do not want to spend much time disabusing newcomers of their delusions. There are plenty of other places on the Internet to have those discussions.

Some people will desire to educate the public about the subject matter in my big essay, and I wish them the best, but that is not the focus of my work. After many years, I came to realize that the masses cannot understand my work or refuse to, as they are addicted to their scarcity-based frameworks. My goal is to find those needles in haystacks that can set aside their scarcity-based conditioning long enough to understand what abundance means (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance).

I do not want to have much to do with today's FE field, as it is in a state of arrested development and is dominated by men trying to become rich and famous, messiahs and heroes, and the like. I seek people outside of the field, and I do not expect that many in today's FE field will be interested in my efforts. Not one of them that I saw ever played at the level of the game that my former partner did, so they have yet to learn the important lessons that have informed my work. Until an FE aspirant begins to put disruptive energy technology on the market (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run) in a way that threatens to become disruptive, they have not yet arrived on the playing field. I was in the game (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#pursuit) and barely survived the experience, while others around me did not.

My forum is not a place for newcomers to discuss their bright ideas of how to make FE happen that nobody has ever thought of before, unless it ascends past the levels of awareness that I have called Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6). I have yet to see a "bright idea," either from newcomers of those in the field today, that did not fall into one of those categories, and all such approaches are a prescription for disaster. If I ever meet anybody else with any experience playing at the high levels who has a bright idea, I will listen. Newcomers with bright ideas nearly invariably play boy generals who have never been on the battlefield (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business), and their suggestions are about as useful (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#ryan).

My forum is for a Level 12 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12) discussion, not rehashes of those earlier Levels.

I have often stated that women have to step up. The people running the world (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) are almost exclusively men, and they suffer from many uniquely male delusions, and their primary one is that power is everything. Power is the ability to have others do one's bidding, has always been amassed through economics, and the first elites appeared with the first civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear). They will disappear with the appearance of FE technology and they know it, which is why they have been so active in their organized suppression (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make). They see it as protecting their very existence. They would rather rule in hell than be regular members of heaven, and as long as they call the shots, humanity will continue to rush toward its doom. (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth) Ruling male gangs go back to chimpanzees, but when the food supply of an isolated chimp population doubled, the females and males ended the domination of violent male gangs. If bonobos could do it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1), I have confidence that humanity, a supposedly sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1), can.

In summary, this thread is intended for an elevated discussion that comes from Level 12 awareness (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12) and leaves the lower levels behind. We will see how it goes.
Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Some examples of Level 12 discussions are:



The role of energy in organisms, ecosystems, and civilizations;



The role of consciousness in organisms, ecosystems, and civilizations;



What abundance looks like (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance);



How each Epochal Event impacted the human journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine);



FE physics;



The ideal FE device (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal);



The technical hurdles to making a production-ready FE device;



The issues around ensuring a harmless implementation of FE;



FE applications (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate);



How to achieve the "cohesion" for a Level 12 effort to succeed;



What a Level 12 effort can look like;



The physical aspects of a Level 16 civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level16);



The political-economic aspects of a Level 16 civilization;



The social aspects of a Level 16 civilization;



The biological/ecological aspects of a Level 16 civilization;



The evolutionary impacts of a Level 16 civilization;


There is plenty to discuss, and a prerequisite will be my big essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm). :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I had some recent exchanges that highlight the FE conundrum. There is no organization on Earth that will help an FE effort. No corporation, no governmental body, no NGO, no rich "angels," and the like. They are all invested in the status quo, and FE upends the entire apple cart. Godzilla fully realizes the epochal nature of FE, even if the masses do not. Godzilla knows that his days are numbered if FE got loose. The FE organizations that exist are all in a state of arrested development, for various reasons.

I am not looking for help from any of them. At best, I am hoping that I am not murdered or have my life wrecked any further. For me, that would be enough. I know how surreal it is to have the very key for heaven on Earth be attacked from all sides, but that is the nature of the beast. Everybody has carved out their niche in a world of scarcity, and abundance means the end of the world as they know it.

Again, the last thing that I am trying to do is engage any of them, as I look for needles in haystacks for as long as this new technology, the Internet, lets me look for them.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Today's action is over here:

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32475-Free-Energy-Transition-plans-for-Earth&p=871668&viewfull=1#post871668

Best,

Wade

[lynwillmott]

Dr Steve Greer presented a complete workshop on the needs for free energy, the drawbacks, suppression and death due to the tight control of the energy giants, but also because of the upheaval this will have to the present economy. He covered every aspect of the problems and the urgent needs for this energy source. The entire workshop goes for 3 hours and you can buy or rent it for a small amount. Here is a preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crY8p3GmGRU

[Wade Frazier]

Hi lynwilmott:

As anybody familiar with my work knows, I have always given it away. You have essentially placed an ad for Greer's work on my thread, where people can pay to find out more. I am very ambivalent about that. I have written plenty about Greer and my respect for his work (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#greer), but I would rather that this thread did not become an advertising conduit.

Thanks,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is from a recent post to my forum on cause and effect. The ideal and virtue of science is seeking causes, distinguishing them from effects, determining how they interact, and telling tales of beginnings and endings.

A common caution from scientists is that correlation does not necessarily mean causation. When exploring causes, scientists view the issues in terms of ultimate and proximate causes. Two dynamics can significantly vary together because both were caused by a third, perhaps unknown, cause. Or one could cause the other, or their covariance might be an unrelated coincidence. If I drop a sledgehammer on my toe, the pain that I will feel at the same instant was very likely caused by the sledgehammer. But the sledgehammer would be seen as a proximate cause, not an ultimate one, but maybe I was, as I dropped it. Others might say that gravity was the ultimate cause, and others might say that whatever thought distracted me and led to me dropping the sledgehammer was the ultimate cause. That framework of receding horizons of causation can become a philosophical discussion which can sometimes seem silly, but the process is a key one in science.

The ultimate "cause" of life on Earth could be seen as nuclear fusion happening in the Sun, without which life as we know it on Earth could not exist. But Earth also needs to exist for life on it to exist, and life as we know it needs water and an assortment of relatively few, and usually "light," elements, so they are also important factors. Or the "laws of physics" that led to life self-organizing itself could be seen as the ultimate cause, and others might call the ultimate cause "god," but scientists will usually reply that their methods cannot answer the god question (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#biblical).

So, causes can be ranked, with the ultimate cause of primary importance, with the proximate causes less so. Causes can interact, and effects can become causes, such as with feedback effects (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gaia).

Let us take global temperatures at Earth's surface. The ultimate cause is the Sun. Scientists believe that the Sun's energy output has been very consistent and has been slowly rising over the eons; billions of years ago, the Sun was only about 70% as bright as today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brightness). The Sun's energy output does not have much cause on the variation of Earth's surface temperature, and Earth's orbit is stable if variable. The variation in Earth's orientation toward that Sun is cyclical in several ways, and those cyclical variations are called Milankovitch cycles (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#milankovitch2). But they are considered less important to surface temperature than the configuration of Earth's continents, which have varied greatly. But the most important cause of the variation of Earth temperature is atmospheric "greenhouse gases," and carbon dioxide is the most important of them. The ice ages of Earth's past (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#iceagetable), as well as its hot phases (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chart1), correlate quite well with the carbon dioxide levels and scientists think that they have been causative. The radiation-trapping properties of greenhouse gases (they all have least three atoms in their molecules) are denied by nobody.

A 200-million-year Greenhouse Earth came to an end 50 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse), we have been in Icehouse Earth conditions for the past 35 million years, and the reduction in greenhouse gases is considered the ultimate reason why, largely due to a decline in volcanic activity. There is no doubt that the skyrocketing carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#greenhouse) are caused by burning the hydrocarbons that have fueled the Industrial Revolution, and climate scientists without blatant conflicts of interest (such as being on the hydrocarbon lobby's payroll (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sold)) think that that is the ultimate cause for Earth's recently increasing temperature. Changing continental configurations altered global currents and influenced the temperature decline into Icehouse Earth conditions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse1), and closing the gap between the Americas seems to have been the final condition for initiating our current ice age (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#atlanticextinction). Milankovitch cycles have been responsible for the advancing and retreating ice sheets of this ice age. Humanity is tinkering with the ultimate cause of this Icehouse Earth, which is what terrifies climate scientists. We may artificially induce Greenhouse Earth conditions. The last time that Earth swung from an Icehouse Earth to Greenhouse Earth correlated with the greatest extinction of complex life in Earth's history (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction). Ranking the causes is a very important exercise, and feedback effects can cause runaway conditions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gaia), and previously stable conditions can undergo chaotic change. Humanity is presently toying with creating such situations.

The issue of ultimate and proximate causes can also be used for analyzing human events. For instance, the ultimate cause for what is happening in the Middle East today is that it hosts the world's greatest oil deposits (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#ultimate), which is by far the most coveted hydrocarbon and history's greatest material prize. The Middle East holds Earth's last easy oil (as the USA mines the dregs in North America (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eroidecline2), such as Shale Oil), which completely explains why the West has meddled in and invaded the region for the past century (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#churchill1). Everything else that happens there is noise, but I rarely see an analysis of why the USA invaded Iraq even mention oil (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#ultimate), just as the Bush administration rarely did, even though the president, vice-president, and secretary of state were all oil industry executives.

Similarly, historians once debated why Rome fell, for instance, and such questions were eventually pursued by scientists. The picture that has emerged is that those historians were debating proximate causes, and the ultimate cause was that those civilizations ran out of energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#collapse1). Since the USA reached Peak Oil in 1970 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hubbert) and the world reached it in 2006 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil), we are looking at the decline and collapse of industrial civilization, and it has been declining in the USA since I was a teenager (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#industrialdecline). Money, taxes, government, "culture," and the like pale to insignificance when compared to running out of energy. Various scientists, such as Stephen Hawking, have argued that disciplines such as philosophy and history have been supplanted by science, as its process is better at determining the truth, and it is hard to argue against. At minimum, scientists are ranking causes in ways that were previously unachievable by philosophers, historians, and other academics.

I am no materialist (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#how), and materialists have their own blind spots, but the process of science is a great improvement over many previous modes of inquiry.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

I am going to hijack this thread a bit, to point out an important distinction between a batery and an energy source. This took me a while to get and I may still not have it completely understood. But this example will help :).

Here is an ad that I was sent today and it says:

Salt Water Powered Car gets European approval

Link (http://www.intelligentliving.co/salt-water-powered-car-gets-european-approval/) and video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqLpqR0SPnQ)

Just reading the title I'm thinking: What?! How did this get out into the public domain?

Here is what the ad says:
- a car that captures the energy of the ocean
- is silent
- it's pure (near zero emissions)
- runs on the most essential of liquids

So it's an electrical car, a clean car, the dream car, right? Not yet very affordable, but could be in the near future.

Now have a look at the image below:

(click to enlarge)
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And answer these questions:
- does this car capture the energy of the ocean?
- is this car really silent?
- is it pure? (near zero emissions)
- does it run on water?

So this is the difference between a battery (that may or may not use salt water) and the source of the energy that said battery is charged with!

With this in mind I see no reason why to get so excited by electrical cars? They are still working on the wrong side of the technology completely ignoring the fact that we are still using fossil fuel. So nothing really changes.

(Addendum: I know the image is incomplete. I should add the Sun in there and radio activity of Earth itself. So the "source of energy" is even more to the left side of the image and not in the car's battery.)

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Ilie:

Not a hijack at all. As I make clear in my essay, science really does not know (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energy1) what energy is, but I have a chapter on making the energy concept clearer (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chemistry), particularly chemical energy. I just added the below text to my essay draft, to help make the idea clearer.


"Even though scientists do not really know what energy is (they do not know what light or gravity are, either), energy is perhaps best seen as motion, whether it is a photon flying through space, the "orbit" of an electron around an atom's nucleus or of Earth around the Sun, an object falling to Earth, a river flowing toward the ocean, air moving through Earth's atmosphere, rising and falling tides, and blood moving through a heart."


That car is burning chemical energy, and that chemical energy was created by the release of energy in an electric power plant. That release of energy could have come from burning coal, which was releasing photon energy generated by the Sun's fusion reactions and captured by a tree more than 300 million years ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coal1), harnessing the flow of water against gravity in Earth's solar-powered hydrological cycle (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hydrological) (AKA hydroelectric power), or the energy that comes from tearing an atom apart (nuclear energy).

So, that car's "electrolytes" are just a fancy battery. Heck, according to the orthodox perspective, everything is just a fancy battery that stores Big Bang energy. When something moves, then the energy is expended. So, without an electric power plant making the electricity (by capturing some kind of energy), that car would not run. So, all of those "clean" technologies that get their energy from burning hydrocarbons, especially coal, have only put their exhaust pipe far away. Coal provides nearly half of the world's electric power today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#electricity2), and coal is a far dirtier fuel than oil or natural gas, so electric cars are actually far dirtier than gasoline powered cars.

But most of the world's gasoline has blood in it, as the West has engaged in genocide to seize control over oil, as the USA did to Iraq (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#ultimate) (and we are not done intervening there, surprise of surprises). Fukushima (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#catastrophes) shows how "clean" nuclear energy is. The only "clean" energies, kind of, are wind and solar power, but there is not enough of that to power the industrialized world, much less raise humanity's standard of living like ZPE could (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). None of the touted mainstream energy "solutions" are really solutions at all. That is a big message in my work (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#alternatives).

I plan to have the essay in its final form this month. I am not only editing, but also adding new material on human "nature," energy and economics, and some other areas.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is a post on desirable prerequisites that people will likely need to be helpful with what I am attempting. These prerequisites are not solely based on my experiences, but include the experiences of my fellow travelers, which include free energy ("FE") revolutionaries, political "radicals," mystics, and others. I will see if I can put this in some kind of order, although there are many connections and overlaps in the prerequisites.

1. If your heart is not in the right place, the rest will not matter.

2. You have had some kind of awakening experience. Basically, it is a moment when you realized that your scarcity-based in-group (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup) conditioning was conditioning, you realized how you had been lied to, and decided to not swallow the lies anymore. That awakening moment can come in many places, such as on battlefields (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#goodness), in hotel rooms (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#saigon), on witness stands (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#faces), in bank lobbies (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#voice), and the like. Those preceding examples were brutal awakening moments, and people can have gentler ones, although the power of the moment seems proportional to how much the person woke up. Another term for it is being radicalized.

The awakening can happen in childhood, but the kinds of awakening experiences that I have encountered were had as adults, usually as young adults. Also, in all of the situations linked to above, we were all overgrown Boy Scouts (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts), not "rebels." Casual observers often confuse those Boy and Girl Scouts with "black bloc" anarchists and other "rebels," but such "rebels" usually suffer from oppositional defiant disorder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositional_defiant_disorder) and other maladies. There is a vast difference between those overgrown Boy and Girl Scouts and such "rebels." Those Boy and Girl Scouts adhered to the ideal of serving others, while those "rebels" were mainly about serving themselves. They are near opposite poles of a spectrum (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving), and the general public is unable, amazingly, to distinguish the saints from the psychopaths (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#hitler). You could not have convinced me of that when I was 25, but after having it rubbed in my face for years (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#why), I finally had to admit it. When you have had an awakening experience like that, you no longer unthinkingly submitted to indoctrination and conditioning. Those kinds of awakening experiences usually laid bare nationalism, capitalism, organized religion (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#obvious), and other such in-group ideologies based on easily discerned myths and lies.

Most of my site as it stood in 2002 and largely stands today pokes holes in orthodox dogma, whether it was nationalistic (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm), capitalistic (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#capitalism), or religious (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm). For political "radicals," those two attributes are plenty, but they are usually not enough to help people achieve the understandings necessary to help with what I am attempting, and the other helpful and possibly required traits follow.

3. It is very helpful and may be essential to have a mystical awakening. It has to be based on experience, not a literature review or received teaching. It is not that difficult to achieve (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown) for those with the proper motivation. A mystical awakening can shatter the indoctrination that the "educated" and "smart" are subjected to. That indoctrination has gone by many names, and materialism (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle) seems to cover them, along with an overreliance on "logic." All logic is only as good as the assumptions that it follows from. Materialistic assumptions have been responsible for a great deal of evil in the world. To border on a cliché, fear is the problem, and love is the answer. All fears are rooted in not feeling in control of what happens to our bodies, and the ultimate instance of not being in control is dying. All organisms have a survival instinct, so some fear accompanies the dying process, but materialists believe that dying is the end of existence, and their fear of death envelops and distorts their awareness. That fear is based on a false belief (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#afterlife). One benefit of a mystical awakening is the realization that consciousness is not a byproduct of chemistry, and mystics do not have the fear of death that materialists do. That changed orientation allows love to more readily manifest.

However, that is not the only benefit of a mystical awakening. It also awakens a property of the mind that has been called the imagination, intuition, the creative moment (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#flash), and other terms. A mystical awareness can help bridge what are called the left and right halves of the brain, where logic and intuition are married. When a unified brain is wedded to a whole heart, spiritual mastery is attainable. It has rarely been achieved on Earth, but that goal is probably the most worthy one that a human can seek.

Everybody that I respected in the FE field had a mystical awakening (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#mystical), and they usually were scientists or scientists-in-training when they had their awakening. When Brian O'Leary and I were being run out of town as we tried to interest California's governor in alternative energy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#governor), and FE in particular, I stood on the Capitol steps and chatted with Hal Fox (http://newenergytimes.com/v2/archives/fic/index.shtml), Fred Wood (http://fredbernardwood.org/index.htm), and Mark Comings (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&highlight=comings#post811647). That day, Brian said that Hal had begun his FE journey as a materialist, but that he had "come a long way" and had recalled some past lifetimes in recent years. Hal's mystical awakening came later than most, but it is never too late.

All worthy mystics have love as the star that they steer by (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#jesus), which also prevents them from misusing their abilities. Those abilities are never to be used to "show off" or harm others, but used in the service of love, and an enlightened mystic knows (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#idealist) that the means become the ends. Love is not a mushy maudlin concept, but is the energy of creation, and creators create with love. Victims live in fear, and overcoming fear and finding love I believe is the great goal of all sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#michael), and humanity allegedly is one (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience), at least when people act from their hearts. I have tapped the zero-point field ("ZPF") with my heart/mind complex (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#research), and mystical masters have developed those innate abilities to astonishing levels (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level19). Also, they all know that a person can only gain their mystical awakening by experience, so helping others attain it is an important goal amongst them.

Accomplished mystics are a far cry from narcissistic and self-centered New Agers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage), and also have little or nothing to do with organized religion, as religion has often been the mystic's greatest enemy. All organized religions, particularly the Judeo-Christian ones (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tales), are rackets invented by the priesthoods, which hails back to the first civilization (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing1).

4. You need some scientific literacy. The greatest science is probably the science of consciousness, which mainstream science has barely begun to explore. For all of the limitations of materialistic science, some scientific literacy is important for understanding how the world works. My big essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm) was written with the level of literacy that I have in mind for those who will join my "choir (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir)." I doubt that people need genius-level IQs or degrees in science to comprehend that essay. It will not be easy, either, but if readers do the work, they should be well on their way to achieving the comprehensive understandings (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) necessary to assist what I am attempting. There is also a mountain of chaff that has largely buried the kernels of wheat on the fringes. Thoreau was right that most hack at branches and few even understand that roots exist. Scientific literacy and a comprehensive perspective can help people avoid the many traps and time-wasters for the gullible, unwary, and non-discerning.


Put all of those traits together, and some hard work, and we have a heart-centered, worldly, mystical, and comprehensive thinker. Not many of those walk Earth today, but my website and big essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm) are intended to help people achieve that state. It will take a great deal of hard work. For such people, FE will not be an unimaginable concept, as it is for more than 99% of humanity today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#unimaginable1), which is the Global Controllers' (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) greatest triumph (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#unimaginable). I do not kid myself that many people even want to achieve that state, and those willing and able to are less than one-in-a-thousand in today's general population. But one-in-a-million is sufficient for my idea to work (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir1), so I like those odds, and the Internet gives me a tool to reach them and allows them to find me. The effort needs to aim high and avoid the kind of mass-movement mentality that revolves around egocentric and lowest-common-denominator in-group beliefs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup). Humanity will finally become a truly sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience) when all life on Earth becomes our in-group (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egocentric). In the big picture, there truly are no "bad guys (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love)." For every previous Epochal Event in the human journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), the event and what it led to was unimaginable to the masses, and I do not expect it to be different for the greatest event of all. A tiny fraction of humanity will initiate the event, and amassing that tiny fraction is my goal.


I wish that I was only one of many people making this attempt, and maybe one day I will be, but I have yet to see anybody else attempt what I am. It may end in failure or may fizzle out, but it should not risk anybody's life except for maybe mine. I have seen too much carnage in this lifetime and do not want to see any more, especially carnage that I had a hand in (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey). I am not going to sneak up on those who run the world, but my work is likely low enough on their radar (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#graphic) to where I am not considered a threat that needs to be addressed by their deadlier measures. If those doing the work outlined in this post can refrain from thinking that they have bright ideas (I call them Levels 6 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6), 7 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7), 9 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level9), 10 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10), and 11 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level11)) that have been attempted many times, they should be able to stay out of trouble, and many pitfalls await the unwary newcomer to the FE field (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls).

The most common way to seek trouble is when newcomers play boy general. They have never been on the battlefield (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business) but think that they have the winning strategy, usually about five minutes after they first heard of FE, but I have seen people still harbor their delusional notions after many years of contemplating the milieu. I am continually trying to disabuse people of their delusions regarding the field, and their "bright ideas" are usually related to sneaking past organized suppression (which I call Level 7 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7)). The attempts that I respected the most and had the greatest chance of success went in the front door and did not try to sneak in. They also all were subjected to often-deadly organized suppression (1 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#death), 2 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr), 3 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#adamiak), 4 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky), 5 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland)), which is the hazard of knocking on that front door.

My approach does not seek to knock on any Establishment doors, but will be a completely independent effort. If enough people with the right stuff can achieve the above prerequisites and do the work, organized suppression will be useless and the GCs will "surrender" and probably slink away, and they can go with my blessings. They likely played some role in the divine plan, however diabolical that plan may seem to those on Earth today, but if humanity is going to survive much longer, their dark reign must end. They know that with FE and abundance, they can no longer manipulate events as they do, and elites will become obsolete (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear). They are fearful and they have my sympathies, but the dark path is not forever (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love), either. They can wake up, too.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am now working on the essay, and will be for the next few weeks, most likely, before I get it finished. Even at this late stage, I pick books from my library to study for the essay, or buy books that seem relevant and useful. As I suppose most readers do, I read reviews and ratings to help decide what to obtain, as well as when I see works that seem important being referred to in works that I study. That usually works well, and few works that I obtain turn out to be mistakes, but today I discovered that I made one.

One comprehensive work that I refer to in my essay pulls together vitally important material and attains a paradigmatic view that I believe is critical to helping people understand how the world really works. Over the years, I have learned to become wary of academic-seeming reviews at places such as Amazon, where the critics really do not understand what they are critiquing but use big words and seeming sophistication to mask ulterior motivation and poor comprehension. One critic of the work I studied stated that it was a poor and bloated imitation of a predecessor effort, which the work I studied did not sufficiently acknowledge its debt to. So, I obtained the magnum opus work of a professional ancestor of one of the authors, which was specifically recommended, and was I ever disappointed.

I highly respect the ideal of popularizers, and a well-placed cartoon or allusion to a movie or TV show can get across a point quite well, but they were on almost every page of the book that I obtained. Popularizers can cross a sometimes thin line between popularizing and dumbing down their work. Carl Sagan kind of did the opposite (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#sagan), where he was pompous and abused the position of trust that he had with the public. Some early readers of my essay made suggestions that began to tread into dumbing-it-down territory, and I have avoided it. It is one thing to do one's best to help the audience attain the needed understanding, but it is another matter entirely to cop out and give them a dumbed down, fairy-tale version.

It is one thing where authors assume ignorance and naïveté in their audience, and I avoid works like that when I can, but it is another thing where authors, either unwittingly or knowingly, display their ignorance and naïveté. The book I was reading dealt with energy and economics, but portrayed the USA's bombings of Iraq in 1991 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#attacking) and Yugoslavia in 1999 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kosovo) as some kind of benevolent action by the world's nations, when they were just more of the imperial aggression that the USA is infamous for. It was the New York Times view of events, and that rarely comes close to depicting much reality (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#loot) in that part of the world, especially when the USA begins bombing. For a work that aspired to a comprehensive view, I was quite disappointed with that naïve perspective (it was written by scientists, that kind of naïveté among scientists, particularly American scientists, is normal, as Fuller noted (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#naive)).

I began my journey naively and lost my naïveté the hard way, but seeing supposedly seminal works stoop to grade-school-teacher levels of political acumen is hard to excuse, particularly after I spent good money to get them. I have often obtained books by scientists who took a multi-disciplinary approach to the subject matter, which could be very useful, but when their syntheses regurgitated the kind of stuff that we see in the media, it not only marred the work but also called into question its validity and relevance. Jared Diamond called the USA's invasion of Iraq a response to an environmental crisis (he did it in Collapse), and it reminded me why scientists often have poor understandings of political-economic events, and that book that I laid aside today had that problem in spades. Win some, lose some.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

An Avalon newcomer, Kay, just made a post over here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32475-Free-Energy-Transition-plans-for-Earth&p=873134&viewfull=1#post873134), and I suggested that making them here may be better. The point of putting up chapter drafts as I wrote them, of writing on this thread almost daily, is encouraging people to discuss my work. What Ilie recently put up (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=872627&viewfull=1#post872627) is just the kind of stuff that I like to see.

After several days of "chewing" on my essay, Kay probably has a few questions ( :) ), and I am here to discuss them. My threads at Avalon have also been "choir (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) tryouts." If you want to be part of the choir one day, this is one place to show your stuff. :)

On this thread and my forum (which I will get going after I finish my essay; I have been slowly populating it with introductory posts, to set the stage), I have put up chapter drafts, and my hope is that each chapter is the subject of deep discussion. Most casual readers will want to cut to the chase of making FE happen (the essay's last chapter (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#worked), and the "vision (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5)" chapter will be a favorite), but the previous several hundred pages are far from a meaningless prelude; they are intended to provide the foundation for truly understanding those final chapters.

Forty years of thinking about energy, and my life-wrecking adventures in alternative energy, were behind writing that essay. There was a definite method to my madness, and it was nice to see Kay begin to see the purpose of her long slog through that essay's earlier chapters. They are vitally important for developing a comprehensive perspective, and only those with comprehensive perspectives are going to be much help for what I am attempting.

I am going hiking in a little while, and plan to pick meadow blueberries today. Somebody has to do it. :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One book that I have recently studied is Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate, which is about human nature. As with virtually all scientific works that I have encountered, it tells a materialistic tale, which I know is far from the whole story. In works like that, they address non-material ideas like the soul, life after death, psi, and the like, but such "investigations" are perfunctory at best and appallingly bad at worst. Pinker hung his "life after death" hat on a questionable interpretation of nineteenth-century investigations, and totally ignored modern investigations. All-too-often, I have seen scientists refer to the "skeptics" and their pronouncements on the issue, when they may be the last people on Earth who should be asked (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends).

That stated, below is a revision of my essay to partly reflect my readings in human nature.


"Humans are the large-brained, allegedly sentient species that dominates Earth, and humans have greatly altered evolutionary processes, down to “engineering” the DNA of organisms. We have a “nature” and multi-billion year heritage, as any organism does. How much have we changed ours, and how much do our natures really matter? Can we consciously change our natures or overcome them? The nature/nurture debate is quite old, and as the domestication of plants and animals has demonstrated, or the , nurture can become nature by selective breeding at the least. The silver fox was domesticated in my lifetime (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_silver_fox), as an experiment, and the changes were dramatic. There is plenty about humanity that is nature at work, such as a child's acquisition of language or the urge to procreate (and probably the related incest taboo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest_taboo)). There is also a great deal that is socially learned. At least half of the variance in human traits such as intelligence and personality has been attributed to genetics, with nearly all the rest being socialization by the peer group (I believe that the soul plays a major role (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#michael), but that is not scientifically demonstrable, at least today). But few of those scientific findings regarding human nature, if any of them, are relevant to why imperial "entertainment" is no longer . The improvement in standard of living due to increased energy consumption has precipitated many changes in what was once considered human "nature," such as . In a world based on abundance (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), would the dominant ideologies exalt greed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#greed) and warfare (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warreason1)?"

Going hiking now.

Best,

Wade

[Kay]

Hi Wade

I first saw your essay mentioned on the other thread and so having read it and joined the forum I posted there.

I am new to this and still finding my way around!

I will repost my comment here;

I have just spent several days "chewing on" your essay.
I have joined this forum so that I can join in this thread.

I admit to being scientifically illiterate so I found the first part heavy going, but as I progressed I began to understand the need to start at the beginning and see the whole picture.

Over the past few years I have started reading your thread a couple of time and ended up following links and getting bogged down. You are a very prolific writer Wade . When I recently saw that you had written this essay and put your ideas into one document I was determined to try again.

Despite what I thought I already knew I feel quite shell shocked.

I need to read it again, to follow the links which I consciously ignored the first time.

I just wanted to say to anyone who is listening that this essay is a very important document and will probably change your view of life on this planet and your priorities.

K

[Kay]

It is interesting that your last post is about human nature. Reading the whole story of man kinds behaviour and history on this planet made me feel deeply sad and wonder if we deserve free energy and what we will do with it? Are we ready for it?

You paint a wonderful picture of a possible abundant future without greed or competition. Can we really change that much or will it take a generation or two for us to switch from fear based behaviour to sharing and love?

What damage could we do in the meantime?

K

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Kay:

You are expressing what I call Level 5 fear of FE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level5). There are no guarantees in life, but some things I can guarantee…


If humanity does not embrace FE, and soon, World War III is going to be fought over the last high-EROI (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eroi) on Earth, which is primarily in the Middle East region and toward Central Asia. The USA has murdered around ten million people (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading) in that part of the world during the past generation, and if World War II commences, ten million deaths will be a footnote. The casualties could number in the billions.



Fukushima will not be "cleaned up" in my lifetime (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nukes), and may still spell the end of Japan as we know it, and it will not be the last nuclear disaster. I know people who moved to the Southern Hemisphere because of the not-outlandish fear that Fukushima could still "blow" and "bless" the Northern Hemisphere with fallout that will make it seem like some kind of Mad Max movie.



The Gulf BP oil spill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill) will be far from the last like it, as hard-to-get hydrocarbons are all that is left outside of OPEC.



Maybe those bullets are miraculously dodged and humanity can keep finding and burning hydrocarbons at ever-increasing rates. If that happens, atmospheric carbon dioxide PPM will get up toward 1,000 in this century, and humanity may artificially induce another Greenhouse Earth (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse). The last time that Earth went from Icehouse to Greenhouse conditions, Earth had its greatest mass extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction). Leading scientists are concerned that humanity may reproduce quite a few of the dynamics of the Permian Extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#medean3) by continuing to burn hydrocarbons. We have already been inflicting the Sixth Mass Extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth1) on Earth's species for the past 50,000 years, and if we keep on our current trajectory, we might even beat the Permian levels of extinction. That would be quite an achievement.


Have you digested those parts of my essay yet? So, what will it be? Destroying Earth's ecosystems and taking humanity with it, because we are unable or unwilling to change our trajectory toward an even greater catastrophe than what humans have already inflicted on Earth, or the risk that there may be some misuse of FE in the transition?

The purpose of my envisioned "choir (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir)" is two-fold.

The first is to help reach a critical mass so that FE can overcome humanity's inertia and the organized suppression. The second is to amass a nugget of enlightenment, the kind never seen on Earth before, that can help assure a harmless implementation of FE.

There are no guarantees, but I found that people with Level 5 fears really feared that the world would end as they know it, and they are just afraid of losing the niche of hell that they so carefully carved out for themselves. Such people are trapped in their scarcity-based awareness, and cannot comprehend abundance, and will not until it can be demonstrated to them, and only FE can do that.

Best,

Wade

[Kay]

Yes I see your point Wade, if we carry on as we are we will certainly destroy Earth's ecosystem, where as FE will hopefully give us the power to start repairing the damage we have done.

I read a very depressing article today;
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/06/the_horrifying_truth_our_oil_addiction_is_only_getting_worse_partner/
about the "revolution in drilling technology" enabling the USA to increase their domestic out put to 8.5 million barrel a day in 2014!
Strengthening the economy and creating jobs has become a more popular govt policy than reducing emissions!
Since the crash in 2008 people are too busy trying to hold on to their lifestyles to see the larger picture.


Despite my earlier comments I do believe in mankind's ability to turn things around. Human beings are complex and wonderful creatures full of potential, ideas, curiosity, and courage. So often at their best when under pressure.
Modern western society is very cleverly designed and arranged to keep us tied in, distracted and oh so very busy!

I would like to hear more about your plans to "amass a nugget of enlightenment ". People reading forums such as this are already part of a global spiritual enlightenment, seeking deeper meaning and purpose, but it is a slow process and we are running out of time.

K

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Kay:

The "news" is one unending horror show, on one hand, and on the other, it is designed to keep the masses asleep (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big). Anybody involved with FE is well aware of the "abuse" fears in the populace. If people get past knee-jerk denial, it might be the most common response. People do not even see the potential before they react with fear. When Greer is asked that question, he replies that the worst elements of humanity already possess that technology (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#divine).

The Global Controllers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) are well aware that we will turn Earth into a cinder on the path that we are traveling, and terraforming Mars (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mars) as their "ace in the hole" survival enclave is one of their plans. Another plan is to "thin out" the human herd to about 500 million or so (to reduce humanity's burden on Earth's ecosystems), and enslave those few bedraggled survivors. The plans are not mutually exclusive, either. Waiting out the catastrophe on Mars, while those seven billion "useless eaters" get to endure a holocaust that makes all others in human history pale into significance, shows how those plans may be related. Also, the saner members of the cabal want FE to come out (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal), even though they realize that it will mean the end of their reign on Earth (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear). Members of that faction gave my friend a show (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal).

The masses will not wake up with talk. I eventually discovered that on my own, although people such as Machiavelli wrote about it long ago (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli). The mass movement Level 10 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10) stuff will not work, which is why I am doing something different. Level 12 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12) is a far cry from Level 10. The choir (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) has to be built, first.

My goal is to create the technology and then give it away to the public. A handful of production-ready models, given to humanity (not the energy institutions, as Robert thought (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32475-Free-Energy-Transition-plans-for-Earth&p=871633&viewfull=1#post871633)), will be enough. To further respond to Robert, demos like what Trombly, Gray, Dennis, Reed, Sweet, and many others (such as QEG) have done are not what I am referring to. A proof of concept demo is nearly meaningless, and there is about a $200 million gulf between a proof-of-concept demo and a production-ready model, and that is one of the biggest hurdles, and all of those "sneak past them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7)" ideas are naïve and potentially fatal.

My essay is the best tool to gain an enlightened perspective on the energy issue that I know of, and people will need to go deeply, and not come up for air for months or years, before it really sinks in.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Yesterday, I went to one of my favorite spots on Earth. Unlike last year, when it was under snow when I visited in early October (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=742612&viewfull=1#post742612), I went a month earlier, and got the attached photos. The red foliage in that picture is made of blueberry leaves. I picked a quart of berries in an hour. When you can pick a quart that quickly, you are in the mother lode of meadows. When I was younger, I joked that "waist-high blues" were the only berries that I deigned to pick in the high season, preferably lining the trail, where I hardly needed to slow down to pick them. Yesterday, after an hour of stooping to pick (some waist highs, but mostly knee highs and ankle highs), my aching back told me how right I was when younger. :) It is the first "berry-back" that I ever got, as I turn into an old man.

But, oh the joy of the hike. I was euphoric on the drive to the trailhead, and the hike lived up to every minute of it. I have definitely gotten my fair share in this lifetime, and days like yesterday are like a fairy tale.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is a spook post. Secrecy and deception are dark path tools (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving), and I have no use for them. Some close to me have played those games in an attempt to outmaneuver the Global Controllers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) and deceive people into saving themselves. I hated it when efforts that I was in began playing secrecy and deception games, and they always ended in disaster. Secrecy and deception are not tools of light path beings.

That is why my "choir (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir)" will not have any anonymous members (anonymity is a reaction to fear), and if we eventually get to the stage of making FE on the technological side, there will be no proprietary "secret sauce (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proprietary)" ingredients, no self-seeking with patents (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patent) and the rest of those doomed approaches. We will be trying something different.

I grew up during the Cold War and in the Vietnam Era in particular. Both of my grandfathers fought in the world wars (one in WWI (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#influenza), and the other in WWII (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kansas)), my father was a Marine in Korea (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business), and all of my uncles, some cousins, and both brothers were in the military. It is the American Way. I have many friends a little older than me who ended up in Vietnam. One deserted, and others served in an array of roles. Of those I knew and knew of, some were only supply-chain vets, others were medics, and some were in combat and killed people with their bare hands, tortured them to death, and the like. Some of what I heard was incredibly brutal (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#interrogate), which makes those recent beheading-American-journalist videos seem like child's play. Some were inducted into "off-the-books" and Special Forces missions that will never be declassified. I have friends with a lot of blood on their hands. It is all part of the evil that the USA has been inflicting on the world for centuries, from the very beginning (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint). In the past generation, I have encountered Iraq and Afghanistan vets, and what a mess they are, but their suffering was nothing compared to what they helped inflict (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading) on people in distant lands.

I know far more about the spooks than I want to know. One close relative was a CIA contract agent (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#cia), and I got to hear all about his sorry secret life. My friends have told me about their secret missions and the like. The USA's hiring all the useful Nazis after World War II (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#cia) only took the game to new levels. The CIA was founded with death camp Nazis, and the CIA's mission has been evil from the beginning. But it is not all spook stuff. Most at the CIA have GS ratings (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Schedule_%28US_civil_service_pay_scale%29) and pensions, such as Ralph McGehee (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm). Some are on the privatized side and in middle management (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#neocolonialist) and can keep their hands relatively clean. The contract agent side of the house does most of the wet work. My close relative also had blood on his hands playing the spook game, and subsequently drank himself to death. Psychopaths can be useful tools, but must be used very carefully. They got sicced on us during my days with Dennis (1 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm), 2 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#texas), 3 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#deputy)), and it was educational. Brian O nearly died at the hands of the spooks, and the incident shortened his life (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack). When I told Brian about my friend's little show, his immediate response "So, he got a show from the spooks (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground)."

Not only are there "off-the-shelf" contract agents from an array of sources, but another entryway to the spook world is through the military. Even discounting what my friend witnessed a mere three weeks after the John Kennedy assassination (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wean), among the serious researchers, Lee Harvey Oswald's military intelligence career path is pretty obvious, even though the USA's government went to great lengths to try to cover it up.

People have asked me how I could spot the psychopaths, and my reply was that it was not hard. Good guys do not engage in such activities, but it was incredible to see how easily they duped people (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#angel). They could not dupe honest people, or not for long. If you study how mobsters operate, many of their scams are outsmarting dishonest people. A common one is duping somebody to think that they can get a windfall by playing a deception where the crook acts like a dupe. But the marks end up with something worthless (thinking that they "took" the con man) and the con man gets the last laugh. The opening scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAF9OAO4TtA&list=PL5EC6F19328542875) in The Sting shows one of those, and there are many variations (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_confidence_tricks#Gold_brick_scams). Your best protection is honesty.

I know far more about that world than I can write about in any post, but the point that I want to make is that almost nobody has a mature and balanced perspective of the issue. They either deny the spook and conspiratorial side, or they obsess over it (and this can extend to trans-physical realms, and the disinformation in that realm can be pretty pervasive). Both think like victims (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness). A creator will acknowledge those dark games and move on. It is the height of foolishness to try to outsmart or otherwise beat the dark pathers and spooks at their own games. But I constantly encounter that mindset. Often, it is rooted in adolescent fantasies, where people have watched too many James Bond movies. That mentality is behind what I call Level 7 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7), where FE newbies think that they can sneak past Godzilla. It is a boy's fantasy, but I have also had women make their "sneak past them" suggestions. I have patience issues (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading), as I have admitted many times and as is evident in my Avalon writings, and I have definitely been able to work on it in this lifetime, as I field the same naïve observations and "bright ideas" countless times.

The public has an interest in the spooks and conspiracist stuff, but their mentality is at about the tabloid level. Some around me tried to get a vicarious sniff of my journey, and some even began to believe their fantasies and think that they were being subjected to spook stuff. Paranoid delusions come with the territory, and I have seen people fall to them. People like Greer have overreacted to the spook stuff (although he has good reason to (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#adamiak)) and play a very dangerous game. It is one thing to be subjected to those activities, and it is another to think that you can defeat them by playing the game better than they can. The only way to win is to refuse to play.

Many FE newbies and others with a passing familiarity with my work think that I am somehow fascinated with the spook stuff, want to beat Godzilla at his own game, and similar ideas. That is the furthest thing from my mind, and when I see people trying to drag me into that stuff, I generally try to get as far away from them as I can. Avalon has been a mixed bag on that score.

My spiritual lessons while young taught me a few things that were vitally important for walking my path as far as I have:


Love (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#jesus) is always the answer;
The means (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#idealist) become the ends;
The truth beats a lie any day, no matter how lying may seem strategically useful.
Secrecy is self-defeating.
The answers are within us, not outside.


Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

A friend died yesterday. He was a mathematician who worked for either Microsoft or for one of Bill Gates's private companies for more than 20 years. Over the years, we would talk about Microsoft and how they were run. Their management practices, such as stack-ranking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve#Microsoft), turned the place into a shark tank. My friend lamented the practices that wrecked their ability to innovate and produce good products. We doubted that Microsoft would be able to change its DNA to become innovators.

In his later years, my friend worked for a company that Bill Gates owned, and my friend came up with an innovation that is today used in Microsoft's search technology. Bill Gates came to his office to meet with him during the excitement over his breakthrough. One my friend's prized possessions was a picture of him and Gates in a conference room, discussing his innovation, which eventually made my friend a lot of money. I am no Bill Gates fan, but his humble lifestyle (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates) is typical of how the high-tech potentates live, particularly on the West Coast. The capitalist aspects of high tech are a very mixed bag, but the vast sums of money in high tech are partly why the open source movement exists (no direct thanks to Microsoft (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-source_software#Microsoft.2C_SCO_and_other_attacks_.281998.E2.80.93.29)). Dennis's brilliant marketing plans, where he put equipment on people's homes for free (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs), is the closest thing to FE that has ever been on the world market, and I am taking pages from those books with my current strategy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). Dennis and Brian would see elements of their approaches in what I am doing.

My friend's death was a long, drawn-out affair that lasted months, and his health problems began with pneumonia as a child in Australia, before penicillin was widely used, and other developmental problems (which I am pretty sure was related to his poor diet and the hygiene standards of the time). His lung and other damage from those childhood conditions shortened his life. I was not at his side when he passed, but my wife was. I was praying for him last night and unexpectedly went into a deep trance, the kind that I know means something important. Suddenly, I felt a great peace and happiness, and I believe it was his joy of leaving his body and entering the next realm. Similar events happened with relatives I was close to, such as my grandparents. I believe that he met his mother, first. When my wife got home, I asked if he passed at the time that I had that experience, and she said that he did. My friend was very happy when he moved on and left his broken body behind.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On a daily basis, I read news of impending and ongoing disasters that would simply vanish with the implementation of FE. I just read this one (https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140905215458-1088431-the-west-without-water-an-interview-with-dr-b-lynn-ingram), which is no news to me, but living just up the wetter coast brings that situation home more than others. I wrote about the Medieval Warm Period droughts in Western North America, which helped collapse the Mayan and Anasazi civilizations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#anasazi).

The grim fact is that today, most of humanity does not have reliable access to clean water. But FE means far, far more than solving California's water problems: it means the end of civilization as we know it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive), and traits that are considered human "nature" today can radically change. Gangs of violent men will no longer dominate humanity, from the GCs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) to American presidents, corporate executives, organized crime, and inner-city gangs. In fact, I just added the below to my essay.


"Violent male gangs, from the GCs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) to American presidents (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#fathers), war industry executives (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#third), organized crime, and inner city gangs, will no longer dominate humanity. Women will have to step up to help make that happen. If bonobos could do it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1), I have confidence that humans can."


I had written it elsewhere, but needed to place it into my essay. The "choir (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir)" needs to get familiar with the changes that FE will bring, and learn to not fear them. For all previous Epochal Events, nobody before the event could imagine what the event would bring (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), and they would have all feared the idea of the next Epochal Event, as it meant the end of the world as they knew it. But, for this Epochal Event, we can have some idea what it will mean. That is something new.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One thing that FE newcomers need to disabuse themselves of ASAP (and I have tried to help them :) ) is that when they begin to comprehend FE's reality and its potential (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), that they think that they are the first people to have ever reached their levels of understanding, and that they have bright ideas for making FE happen, which are almost invariably along the lines of Levels 6 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6), 7 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7), 9 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level9), 10 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10), and 11 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level11). That is the ego talking. The deadliest delusions are probably held by those with Level 7 notions, where they think that Godzilla is asleep, dead, or is not vigilant.

While the information and the way it is presented in my big essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm) is unprecedented (to my knowledge, which is why I did it) in something made for public consumption, nobody should labor under the illusion that the GCs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) are oblivious to the role that energy plays in today's world, the role it has always played, and what FE's potential is (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). In ways, I am sure that they understand the situation far better than I do. They know that energy is the linchpin of the human economy and always has been. Even though John Rockefeller (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rockefeller1) funded the university that founded today's dominant macroeconomic ideology (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chicagoschool), which ignores energy and elevates mythical "free markets" to preeminent status, nobody should assume that the architects of that situation are oblivious to the reality behind their creation. The GCs are very well aware that FE and its related technologies, such as antigravity, will make elites obsolete (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear). Although the Left has an ideological objection (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#religion) to the very idea of GCs and their conscious manipulation of the world's economy, I discovered the hard way that not only do they exist and are vigilant, but that their bag of tricks is deep and sophisticated (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make).

There is dissention in their ranks (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal), the saner members do not want to have to live on Mars in case the GCs' games make Earth uninhabitable (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mars), and members of that faction are almost certainly the people who gave my friend a little exotic technology show, the kind that is no big news in my circles (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground).

Just because John Q. Public is deaf, blind, and mindless, and has no idea how energy runs the world, and we see little of that realization in the media and academia, particularly among economists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists) (although scientists easily understand it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm#scientists)), it is the height of folly to think that the people who run the world are so clueless. Energy is the Big One, and the GCs keenly understand that issue.

As I write this, I am reminded of the presidential debates of 1992, when Ross Perot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Perot_presidential_campaign,_1992#Debates) was the third-party candidate that ended George Bush the First's reign (as Ralph Nader arguably scuttled Al Gore's chances and gave the presidency to George the Second, although I regard the arguments as a bit specious (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#nader)). I saw some commentators from the Left note that when Perot said that American foreign policy was about making Earth safe for the profits of American-based transnational corporations, Clinton was visibly stunned but tried to hide it. There Perot was, giving away the game, right in front of the nation. Clinton tried to divert the conversation back toward safe ground, but he need not have worried. Most Americans really are not stupid enough to think that our foreign policy is about anything other than lining American pockets. That whole charade of spreading freedom and democracy is only for the benefit of the truly mindless who need their fairy tales, but provides a nice cover story for naked pursuit of self-interest (http://www.counterpunch.org/2003/07/15/considering-the-obvious/), as usual. So, not even Americans are really that stupid, but it is never good to openly admit to the charade.

So, FE newbies need to understand, ASAP, that whatever realizations that they are having while pondering FE and its implications, the GCs are about a century ahead of them. The big difference between me and a GC is that I see heaven on Earth (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#visions) potentially coming from it, while all that the GCs can see is losing their power and ability to call the shots on Earth. I can only hope that they underestimate the power of love.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have been hard at work making posts to my forum (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog?p=71&viewfull=1#post71), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/54-Free-Energy-Physics?p=72&viewfull=1#post72)) that are not really appropriate here. I am trying to get enough meat on the bones before I finish my big essay and resume my career. As I wrote in that first post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog?p=71&viewfull=1#post71) referred to above, I plan to post at Avalon as long as I am able to.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Just a quick post…

I have been playing editor and fielding comments and just got finished with my editor's comments. The most common kind of comment that I get is from pals who are trying to make my work palatable to the masses. They are not my target audience. Pals want to try to turn on their families, friends, and colleagues to my work, no matter how much I try to dissuade them. I am looking for needles in haystacks (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), not trying to attract John Q. Public's attention. John Q. Public will only begin to wake up when FE is delivered to his home (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli). Those who are trying to make my work something for the masses are still stuck in Level 10 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10). Level 10 will not work. I spent years in Level 10 myself, until I finally saw its futility. Dennis is still in Level 10, as was Brian. I am doing something different, and do not expect many people to understand. But I am looking for those who can. :)

Best,

Wade

[ulli]

Hi:

Just a quick post…

I have been playing editor and fielding comments and just got finished with my editor's comments. The most common kind of comment that I get is from pals who are trying to make my work palatable to the masses. They are not my target audience. Pals want to try to turn on their families, friends, and colleagues to my work, no matter how much I try to dissuade them. I am looking for needles in haystacks (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), not trying to attract John Q. Public's attention. John Q. Public will only begin to wake up when FE is delivered to his home (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli). Those who are trying to make my work something for the masses are still stuck in Level 10 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10). Level 10 will not work. I spent years in Level 10 myself, until I finally saw its futility. Dennis is still in Level 10, as was Brian. I am doing something different, and do not expect many people to understand. But I am looking for those who can. :)

Best,

Wade

It's democratic programming, don't you agree? Quantity rather than quality;
and if one doesn't want to play the game that way one is considered an elitist.

But what matters in the end...whatever one's agenda, or life purpose,
if one can't be effective there is no point in trying.
The time has come, and you will get your choir, Wade.
And a new generation is appearing who seem to expect FE in their own lifetime.
This will add extra fuel (excuse the pun) to the choir.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Ulli:

Humans have a herd animal heritage, and to the extent that we act like them, we abdicate our sentience. I was just reading up on Athenian democracy, and whipping up the crowd with emotional arguments was typical. Today's "democracies" use more scientific methods to manipulate the masses for elite benefit. Creating a stampede and calling it "democracy" is how it is done in the West.

Yes, the youth will likely be the people to make it happen, if anybody does. They are not yet as ossified into the ways of "thinking" that "grown-up" adults have. We will see what kind of singing happens, and what it can accomplish.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am doing heavy lifting in the editing department, and am adding tidbits here and there, such as this:


In very real terms, economic production relies on work performed, and the physics definition of work (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_%28physics%29) is what economic work is rooted in. Moving an automobile or airplane requires work. Moving water requires work, as does running a household appliance or computer. Electricity can power a machine or a light. Energy consumption causes work to be performed, and that is why energy consumption and GDP have that tight relationship (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gdpenergy). Neoclassical economists, with their supply and demand curves and other social/monetary constructs generally disregard that relationship, as they abandoned the real world for social theories, which is why scientists do not have much respect for them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm#scientists).


Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Every year at this time, as school goes back in session, my Columbus essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm) gets heavy traffic, which also spills over into my American Empire (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm) essay. They have a combined traffic in September so far that is a combined six times the volume on my energy essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm). I hope that it is not always that way, but for another year, it is.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One way that people try to be helpful in making my work palatable for the masses (which I am not trying to do (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=874981&viewfull=1#post874981)) is to avoid certain words or ideas that have been stigmatized in the popular culture. Again, I do not seek to engage the masses, but I also want to help repair the degeneration of language and discourse that I see all around me.

For instance, my experiences radicalized me. Another word for it is awakened, but in intelligent political circles, "radicalized" has nothing to do with the kinds of spiritual adolescents that abound in the "black bloc," so-called "radical Islam," and similar movements. I write about that plenty in my work (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=872800&viewfull=1#post872800). The current "jihads" of Islam were actually created as tools of American foreign policy (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#brzezinski), which is a subject that I rarely find an American able to rationally engage, in these "war on terror (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#wtc)" days. The "black bloc" protestors are also very bad news, and are either a bunch of teenage boys with oppositional defiance and conduct disorders and easily infiltrated by agents provocateurs, or operations that are largely provocateur-created. Mature American activists know that the first person who begins advocating destructive or violent "civil disobedience" in any dissident organization is probably the plant from the FBI. Most "terror" operations in the USA that our Homeland Security defeated were usually gullible or stupid "black bloc" types who were easily manipulated by the FBI and others into becoming "terrorists." The "terror racket" interests literally create the "monsters" that they then defeat, which is also a great way to control the populace with fear. George Orwell's 1984 frankly discussed that kind of public manipulation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#orwell), and the White House has used it as its playbook since 2001.

The last presidential debate that I watched was in 1992, when it was the Ross Perot circus (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=873986&viewfull=1#post873986). I clearly recall watching the 1988 debates between Bush the First and Mike Dukakis, whose political grandstanding I was all too familiar with (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#chasing). Dukakis belonged to the ACLU (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_Liberties_Union), which is a tame, establishment-run "human rights" organization. When I went through my nightmare in Ventura and asked Gary Wean what I could do (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#it), he informed me that the ACLU was phony. It did not really take on the big issues, but liked to appear as if it did. The kind of raping that we were receiving (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail) was the kind of action that the ACLU would not touch with a ten-foot pole.

The ACLU is a lapdog organization that has a cozy relationship with real power, similar to how environmental organizations are all kind of phony (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists), where they run away, shrieking, at the mention of FE. It is a common situation, where the organizations that portray themselves as leaders in solving the big problems actually do not want them to be solved, as they were captured by the dominant interests, are trying to make a living by "solving" the problems, or were phony to begin with (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#coalition).

So, even as tame and worthless as the ACLU is, in the presidential debates, Dukakis's membership in the ACLU caused Bush to call him a "card-carrying liberal," as if it was the equivalent of being a "commie." It was more of the Orwellian Newspeak that permeates American discourse, where the meanings of words are turned upside down. "Liberal (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#note)" and "conservative" have been distorted almost beyond recognition in the USA.

The word "radical" means "root," and all worthy radicalism addresses root causes and does not hack at branches. But the term has been purposefully confused in American discourse as describing some kind of "terror" operation. Brian O used "radical" to describe himself, and for the same reason that I do: because it is accurate and seeks to rescue the original meaning of the term from the Orwellian distortions of it today.

Similarly, some readers advise me to downplay the biographical aspects of my work, as it just seems too way out there. I am sorry, but facts are facts, and my tale is full of documentation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#financier), as unbelievable as it may seem to armchair "activists" and other newcomers to my work. The last thing that I am trying to do is seduce the mainstream into reading my work and sneaking in the "radical" stuff deep into my work. I am a "what you see is what you get" kind of guy. I bring up the UFO issue, for instance, because it is very germane to my work. Brian poked his nose into UFOs and it shortened his life (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack). An astronaut looking into UFOs is the furthest thing from tabloid fodder that I can imagine. I am also Brian's biographer (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#intro) and am the first and so far only person that I know of who finally disclosed what Brian was afraid to disclose while he was alive. Also, you cannot look into UFOs for very long before realizing that the organized suppression around UFOs (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#adamiak) is actually performed by the same people who suppress FE, and for the same reasons (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#greer). People who feel threatened by the very well documented situations surrounding UFOs and FE are not in my target audience, and putting my experiences early in my essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#summary) is partly intended to scare such people off. They should not be reading my work, as it can blow their minds to bits. I have watched people go off the deep end when they barely brushed up against my work, and it was not easy to watch. I do not want people to end up in mental institutions because they encountered my work.

Similarly, some people want me to stop using FE, and instead use New Energy, Zero-Point Energy, and other terms. Well, I am going to fight that one, too. I grew up with the term, and while I mention and define the others (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf), FE is what I am staying with. Jeane Manning has collected more than thirty names for the zero-point field (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=846910&highlight=orgone#post846910). If people get hung up on the terminology, they are not going to go anywhere important.

Sometimes I surrender and use new terms that become popular. For instance, when I began reading the Seth material in the mid-1970s (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#seth), I was unaware of the long history of spiritual mediumship (called "speaking in tongues" and other terms over the millennia), and I think that Jane Roberts was called a "medium" while she was alive. Then along came Shirley MacLaine and the New Age (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage)in the 1980s, and mediumship began to be referred to as "channeling." I was confused by the term at first and hated it, but it became so universally used and understood that I use it myself today. It does not turn the meaning of "mediumship" upside down, and everybody has a general idea of the meaning, so I surrendered on that one.

But where perfectly good words and ideas become stigmatized by the popular culture, partly because they are acquiescing to the "mind f**k" and other manipulations of the social managers, some of whom work for Godzilla (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#godzilla), then I will resist acquiescing to the song of the popular mind.

The ideas and information are important, not the language.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I edit away, I am not just looking for grammar and other errors, but making sure I got it all as accurate as I could, and that includes taking a look at the most recent findings. In the past few days, I read a National Geographic special edition on dinosaurs and a Scientific American special edition on human evolution. I found a few new findings and some new arguments, and I made small tweaks to the essay to reflect those that I thought were relevant. Those kinds of publications are often filled with guest articles by leading scientists in their fields, so it can be a good way to see what the state of the art is. For pretty much all of my essay, I do not ask more scientific acumen from my readers than being able to understand publications such as those. The scientific findings are really not all that hard to understand, and watching how competing hypotheses fare in light of the evidence can be highly educational.

However, the political nature of Scientific American can really be blatant and make it hard to recommend as regular reading material. Noted "skeptic (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)" Michael Shermer is a regular Scientific American columnist, and people like him constantly engage in the logical fallacy of thinking that materialism is the only rational way to think. It is not even a logical position, and I constantly see them purvey the false dichotomy of organized religion versus materialism, as if those are the only two possible ways to view the cosmos. And then people like Shermer assail the religions, and Christianity in particular, and think that they have made the case for materialism. Those "debates" are essentially battles between two fundamentalist camps, and neither one understands.

Shermer even teaches classes on "skepticism," and in the syllabus (http://www.thegreatcourses.com/courses/skepticism-101-how-to-think-like-a-scientist.html), the Level 3 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3) mentality can clearly be seen, with a chapter on conspiracy theories and several chapters that assail religion. Shermer was raised as a Christian, and Christians becoming materialists, or childhood left-wingers become rabid right-wingers, like David Horowitz did, is a typical psychological reaction to one's upbringing, but it has little to do with a pursuit of the truth. So called "skeptics" are little more than establishment defenders, and last year's "debunking (http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/jfk-conspiracy-theories-at-50-how-the-skeptics-got-it-wrong-and-why-it-matters/)" of JFK "conspiracy theories" was typical "skepticism." Of course, they called it a case of the "skeptics" being conspiracy theorists, which was quite a feat of Orwellian Newspeak. It was as if the "skeptics" could say, "See, we are not always right," but the "skeptics" that they used were anything but members of the movement. It was a straw man argument (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#straw) where the straw man was them. Neat trick.

Equating materialism with rationalism is a logical fallacy that I constantly see, and that supposedly intelligent people make such arguments is really a mind-bender for me. Can't they see the irrationality? Even people such as Stephen Hawking do it. What is wrong with them? I think is an emotional attachment to their beliefs, and the prospect that it is not a rational position never seems to occur to them. How such "smart" people can be so irrational is partly behind Brian's question if we are really a sentience species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience). I think that when it comes down to it, both the religionists and materialists lack experience. In the first ten seconds of the first "case" that I was involved in (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown), materialism was shooed out the door and could never come back. I knew. Everything that I experienced since then was merely icing on the cake. How, if such experiences are so easy to attain, can the materialists fail to achieve them? It may have to do with their soul age (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age), I suppose.

It is just so strange to me how such "smart" people can be so irrational while thinking that their logic is impeccable.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

It is just so strange to me how such "smart" people can be so irrational while thinking that their logic is impeccable.

Another way to look at it is lack of responsibility.

With religion: God (or some other Higher Force) did it and I am a victim of that.

With materialism: It's the blind chance or random matter interactions and I am the victim of that.

None of them think as a creator.

To be a creator you need to assume responsibility for the "good" but also for the "bad". You cannot have one without the other.

Can you imagine explaining that to Stephen Hawking? His position rather makes sense... He is an accident in this huge existence and he is not responsible for any of it. It happened to him!

Of course, this is only an assumption of the curtain he keeps over his awareness, so he does not have to look at the real issue. Being a creator may not feel that great you think you've messed up big time. Then you wish you were just a victim and have nothing to do with the situation: "Oh no, I didn't do this... not me.. hey! I'm the victim here!"

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Ilie's brilliant response shows how even I need to be reminded what is really happening, at its root, even though I write about it endlessly (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness). If they proceed from the victim assumption, instead of the creator assumption, then their "logic" makes sense, even though they never explicitly acknowledge that that is their assumption. Their irrational dismissals, refusal to really investigate, much less seek out such experiences for themselves, are really ornate ways to avoid the issue that maybe they are the authors of their existence and asked to be here. For somebody who woke up, their positions seem crazy.

I am sympathetic to their dilemma and have done plenty of whining myself about it, but if such "smart" people can be so irrational, what does it say for the human ability to be rational? It goes back to Brian's sentient species question (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience) and the love/fear divide (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming). If we are fearful, we see everything through the victim's lens. A world based on abundance instead of scarcity will go a long way toward reducing the vibe of fear that permeates everything so deeply that the world's "smartest" people are oblivious to it.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

I might be wrong here , but I feel that at times we can fear and can overcome fear, we can worry and overcome worry, we can be victims and overcome victimhood. By seeing what there is and deeply understanding what can be done about it such as implementing abundance this may transform a difficult situation and even turn the tide. I wonder, if avoiding the fearful approach means to never fear?

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

Fear is inherent in all beings with a brain, and has to do with physical survival. All human fears are rooted in not feeling in control of what happens to our bodies. Fear comes with the territory of living in physical reality, but a loving heart will recognize what it is and will not let fear dictate one's actions. It is said that the brave knew fear, but did not let it overcome them. The fearless cannot be courageous.

People can befriend their fears, and the dark side can become an ally, but darkness running the show on Earth is what is leading to humanity's impending demise. Darkness dominates Earth today, and fear rules the day. Healing humanity means putting the fearful ego into its proper place. It is not designed to be in charge. Making decisions from frightened egos that seek survival at all costs is the problem. If there has been any human "progress" over the past several millennia, it is increasing the "in-group." Racism, slavery, bigotry, and mass murder are no longer celebrated (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#debate). As I have written, when all life on Earth becomes humanity's in-group, maybe we will finally become a sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egocentric).

Virtually every objection to FE or its desirability is rooted in fear (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level1). Love has almost never been expressed by humans on this planet before in any meaningful way. Those recent posts about materialism, fear, and victimhood (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=876267&viewfull=1#post876267) are germane. Fear guides the thinking of victims, and love guides the thinking of creators. Easily said, but difficult to put into practice. Anonymity on the Internet is all about fear, and my forum will not have anonymous members, as they need to muster at least that much courage.

I am trying to help change the game, and moving everybody back from the brink of survival is the central aspect of what I am doing, but people dominated by fear will not help with what I am doing. They need to overcome it in order to be helpful. There is a thread in this forum where people can explore their fears relating to FE (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32467-Free-Energy---No-way-in-hell). Some of most fun that I have had at Avalon was writing for that thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32467-Free-Energy---No-way-in-hell-&p=432073&viewfull=1#post432073), and Melinda began a thread on healing our fears (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?72955-Free-Energy----healing-our-fears-and-the-path-to-creativity).

So, fear is always going to be there, but it can be a small part of our awareness, not the centerpiece. Today it is so central that people do not even recognize that it is fear, such as those materialists who cannot see the irrationality of their positions, as locked into fear and victimhood as they are.

Best,

Wade

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Hi :)

If you don't mind i would like to add a side note on f.e.a.r (false expectations appearing real ;) ) In most cases, fear is a learned reaction. Passed from generation to generation. Children are born fearless (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tippi_Degr%C3%A9). Full of trust for benevolence of this learning dimension we call time-space. If you don't teach children to fear of their surrounding, they won't be afraid of it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8iqDn02XCg) (scroll @7:26 :)). The potential for fear is in-there. I agree. We learn to express that potential from our sc "care givers" :( But if one can learn something then it certainly can be unlearn. The fear-learning begins at pregnancy when mother, and father, pass their own fears of uncertainty to the unborn child. And fully unwinds during childbirth. How many western women and men are accustomed to childbirth? It became a medical condition to be treated at hospitals. Like a disease to be afraid of. And not as something to cherish and impatiently wait for. Don't get me wrong, i don't blame mothers. Fathers are equally responsible for the mess. If not more.

While it may seem as a hopeless, vicious circle, it is not. As with all circles, one needs to cut it anywhere to make it a straight line :) And hopefully more and more parents are doing just that. Starting with their own fears :)

I would also like to share an observation about materialism defined as denying the existence of the supernatural:
If materialists claim there is no supernatural, that implies they must know how thr supernatural looks like so they can state it's absence because they can't find it. But it also implies they once must have experienced the supernatural so they knew how it looks like. And to know something it must exist. Strange...

Last week i had three encounters with the supernatural. #1 while at the office i thought about co-worker who'd found another job. After an hour he dropped in to pay us a visit :) #2 two days later i was trying to recall the difference between "null" and "nil" values in C programming language while i was driving my car out of the parking lot. While approaching the exit gate, another car drives in. On it's licence plate the word NIL was written #3 i regularly visit a place in the pine forest every weekend. This Sunday, while there, i was wondering why haven't we seen any squirrels rumbling in the pine trees, all those times we are there. That seemed odd. Half an hour later a squirrel begins to jump from tree to tree.

I can't simply dismiss it as a coincidence anymore. It must be supernatural in nature.

EDIT:
The above 3 examples are fresh ones. I have some old ones too. It happens almost everyday :) Just start looking around...

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Robert:

Humans have some instinctual fears, such as loud noises and falling, but most fears, as you note, are learned. Again, fears that relate to survival can be "legitimate," as without them, we may not survive. Many fears that parents pass to their children are often situational, where the parent may have faced that hazard, but the child did not.

In physical reality, fears of survival are going to be common where not surviving is common, where people can have premature deaths. Pain is related to those survival fears. Fear and pain have very real and legitimate reasons for existing. People avoid pain and seek pleasure, and there is nothing wrong with that, but it can reach levels where people actually achieve the opposite, as they create pain by seeking pleasure (or avoiding pain; addictions, for instance), and getting pleasure from the pain of others is where the dark path comes in (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving), and the phenomenon of Roman gladiators (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gladiators) was about the apotheosis of that mentality.

The problem with people is that their long memories and ability to imagine can see them project fears of past situations onto the future. Neither one exists in the moment. There are no guarantees in life, other than that we will all die one day. When fear becomes pervasive and is projected everywhere somebody looks or thinks, then it can become dysfunctional and debilitating. As people such as Chomsky have noted, induced fear is a key ruling class tactic, as fear brings up the fight-or-flight response that shuts down the neocortex (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#liferequirements) and people lose their sentience. Fear is a big topic.

I spoke a friend's funeral yesterday. He died the previous weekend, and I was asked to talk about what I experienced as he died (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=873912&viewfull=1#post873912). Attached is his prized picture of when Bill Gates came to talk to him because of his innovation. My friend's name was Bill, and this was called the "Two Bills" picture (my Bill is on the left, and you can pick out the other Bill :) ). Bill faced death straight on and had no fear of it. He was a good man.

The "mystical" stuff can indeed manifest in odd "coincidences," but it can also be dramatic phenomena. I can respect people who want to experience something other than coincidences, and I try to help them attain them. They are not too hard to achieve (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#research), if the person is serious, but they also are best experienced as side-effects of serving a higher purpose. My most dramatic experiences always were a response to a need, and I respect that it happens that way. Love is always the key.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just received another "inventor with an FE gizmo" email from a pal, where the inventors are looking for big funding from capitalistic sources and the rest of the usual stuff. I try to make lemonade from all the lemons that I am constantly handed, and I thought of a new way to say it, in the hopes that people understand, or at least that people that I want to understand:

"Developing the technology is near the end of the process that I envision, not near the beginning."

That nugget will go into my essay.

What FE newbies are absolutely oblivious to is that the odds of success for "normal" businesses are nil for development efforts, and there is nothing "normal" about the FE pursuit. It is almost always men who harbor those boyish, self-defeating, and even suicidal notions, and I cannot even get those close to me to evidence any comprehension at all of what I am trying to do, and some have even ready my essay! :)

It is just more evidence of the magnitude of the task ahead of me, and how hard it is going to be. Looking for those needles…

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As an addendum to the previous post, the FE issue revolves around integrity and sentience, not technology.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Thanks Wade, I deeply appreciate your stance with regards to fear, love and abundance, and it's relation to what you do. It may be that the fear that you mostly relate to is the one which is ingrained very deep inside of us as human beings and as collective, it is so deeply rooted (evident from the profound inspection in every chapter of your essey) and intentionally directed this way that we have to inspect it again and again and somehow need to earn our way to clear ourselves from this by deprogramming and transfering ourselves from scarcity thinking to that of knowing and acknowledging that everything is within our capabilities, and love in it's deepest meaning (most higher frequency) has to be present as a constant companion and as a steady consideration. Now, Those who already come some way and desire to implement FE may fit in the choire.

It seems that what matters is what type of thinking is holding the reins and what type of emotion is held in the heart and what type of vibration is being present

I would say that all have to face this on one level or another, and a few have chosen to ingrained themself deeper in the darkness so they can make the transformation and carry more than just themselves on their back.

A load of work in progress ~

All the best,

Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Limor:

That is a big, big subject, and a worthy one. One of the first lessons for any mystical student is that the dark path is valid (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving), but it is also not forever. I have long provided my interpretation of the dark path (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love) on my site. When I think of the dark path, many, many examples come to mind. I knew a Jewish guy who channeled Hitler (http://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Hitler-1992-1994-Michael-Schuster/dp/0962739081). The dark path is just the long path home, and yes, lessons can be learned there that cannot be learned anywhere else. As cruel as it all seems, even the darkness fulfills a divine purpose, although it sure does not seem like it when you are subjected to it.

I have written it before, that I should thank Mr. Deputy for waking me up, as he rubbed my face in evil (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#faces). Without people like him, I would not have woken up to how the world really works. In that hellish future Earth that Roads visited, his mentor said that those "evil" beings served a divine purpose (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748): to help wake people up.

What has amazed me during my journey is how the masses cannot even tell the lightness from the dark, as they cheer on the dark pathers and revile the saints. I first saw it when Dennis's company in Seattle was stolen (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#salient1). The people were cheering as Dennis's throat was slit, but they really cheered the slitting of their own throats. Hitler remarked on that inability of the masses to discern the light from the dark, and used it to his benefit (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#hitler). My mother making the scrapbook of "my son the crook" is one example of many that I experienced on my journey (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=300436&highlight=treasure#post300436). Being disowned by family and friends because of my pursuit of FE and world healing was a very educational process, let me tell you. It led to my current approach, as I look for those needles in haystacks (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#why).

Part of the trick is to acknowledge the dark path for what it is and keep on going. Godzilla, for instance, cannot be the focus of an FE effort (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus). He is just a hazard, and would really be a minor nuisance if enough people woke up. Likewise, judging the masses that cannot see two feet past their egos is also a trap (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1). It is not an easy path to walk, not by any means. Those who think that their family and friends will wake up with talk have a lot to learn, and I seek those who have already learned that lesson. Those who think that Godzilla can be defeated in battle (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level9) are suicidally deluded. Those who think that they can sneak past him (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7) are also fools, as are those who deny that he exists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6). Godzilla is real and vigilant, the masses are no help (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10), and humanity is on the brink (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). Those are soul-sized issues, and it seems that I was sent here to grapple with them, as were my fellow travelers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures). Again, it took me a lifetime of trial and error to come to my approach. Will it work? Beats me, but it won't hurt.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am madly editing away, and I fully realize how bizarre the essay, taken as a whole, will hit most people. Materialists will get thrown for a loop by the spiritual content (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#journeys), the idea that Godzilla exists and is vigilant (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#summary), and they will deny that technologies that defy the "laws of physics (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#circular)" are even possible, although I know that they already exist (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). Conspiracists will deny that we all have a hand in what is happening, as they heap all the blame on Godzilla's shoulders (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness). Most New Agers will get lost in the scientific material and will not be able to shake their naïve notions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage). Most FE activists will deny that their plans don't have a prayer, and FE newbies will deny that the masses will not be helpful for making FE happen (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1). Environmentalists will run away, shrieking (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists). They all suffer from lopsided perspectives that result from a lack of experience and discernment, and in the end, their inability to understand will rest largely on the fact that their hearts are not quite in the right place, not enough so that they can courageously face the truth of the world we live in and dare to imagine something different (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5).

Believe me, I have seen it all during the past 40 years. I am looking for some very rare individuals (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=872800&viewfull=1#post872800), but nothing less will be suitable for what I am attempting.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As an addendum to the previous post, I am besieged by people who promote their narrow perspectives of the issues, thinking that they have the key, when they only see a small facet of the whole. Those tunnel-vision delusions come in many flavors, but one of the most prominent is when people keep hammering on their view and drilling more deeply into the issue, and think that when they hit bedrock, that they will have everything figured out. Drilling in can be good work, but people can also go into rabbit holes that way and never emerge. Some examples may help.

The materialist perspective is confident that once all mechanisms are explained, everything about reality will be explained, and there will be no role for a creator to play, or for consciousness, other than realizing its ephemeral nature. So, scientists drill ever more deeply into the bedrock of reality and reduce everything to its bare essentials. But they came upon the quantum enigma (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann), where what is seen depends on how it is observed. It remains an unresolved paradox that brings into question the entire materialist paradigm, but materialists have engaged in some assumptions that make the enigma vanish or push it to the side. But when they do that, they have moved their discipline into the realm of faith, although they cannot seem to admit that to themselves. Challenging that faith is what Sheldrake's book was all about, and that is why he was banned from TED (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=774788&highlight=sheldrake#post774788), with the "skeptics (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)" leading the attack.

Similarly, I am continually approached by conspiracists who want to tell me all about Godzilla and his antics, as if I really care about them or do not know what it is like to get stepped on by him (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr). When I reply that I am well aware of many of his antics, and cannot afford to waste my time trying to outmaneuver him (which is a deadly game, but almost nobody ever gets to the stage where they really merit Godzilla's attention, but people like to think that they do), they hammer away and present more of his antics. I guess that they think that if they throw enough "evidence" in my face, that I will acknowledge his omnipotence or decide to go into battle against him. I only know of a few people who gave Godzilla more interesting days at the office than I did, and it is dismaying when people try to tell me all about Godzilla, how to sneak past him, and the rest of that stuff. It is like somebody who has yet to be through boot camp is trying to tell me what the battlefield is like because they surfed the Internet or had some "interesting" experiences.

Another variation is people who deny that Godzilla exists or is vigilant. After all, nobody came to their cubicle and offered them a billion dollars (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer) to stop what they were doing. I have literally received that kind of challenge and dismissal many times, and it got to the point where I really do not like discussing any of that with people, as all I get from them are defenses of their naïve views of reality, and attacking me and dismissing my experiences becomes their passion.

But that reaction is probably preferable to those who fixate on the idea of Godzilla, who think that he can be snuck past, defeated in battle, and the rest of those adolescent notions. Again, I almost never encounter mature and balanced reactions to the idea of Godzilla, and that is because all of those off-the-mark responses are rooted in thinking like a victim (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness). When people begin to don creator's lenses, and those are the lenses of love, then the view radically changes. It is by no means easy to don those lenses and keep them on, and whenever I let mine slip off my nose, I just pick them up, clean them off, and put them on again. Trying to see through those lenses I believe is the most important work that can be done Earth, and that is what I am attempting help people do. And when they can sign the song, the choir (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) will be on its way to forming.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[ulli]

Hi:

As an addendum to the previous post, I am besieged by people who promote their narrow perspectives of the issues, thinking that they have the key, when they only see a small facet of the whole. Those tunnel-vision delusions come in many flavors, but one of the most prominent is when people keep hammering on their view and drilling more deeply into the issue, and think that when they hit bedrock, that they will have everything figured out. Drilling in can be good work, but people can also go into rabbit holes that way and never emerge. Some examples may help.

The materialist perspective is confident that once all mechanisms are explained, everything about reality will be explained, and there will be no role for a creator to play, or for consciousness, other than realizing its ephemeral nature. So, scientists drill ever more deeply into the bedrock of reality and reduce everything to its bare essentials. But they came upon the quantum enigma (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann), where what is seen depends on how it is observed. It remains an unresolved paradox that brings into question the entire materialist paradigm, but materialists have engaged in some assumptions that make the enigma vanish or push it to the side. But when they do that, they have moved their discipline into the realm of faith, although they cannot seem to admit that to themselves. Challenging that faith is what Sheldrake's book was all about, and that is why he was banned from TED (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=774788&highlight=sheldrake#post774788), with the "skeptics (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)" leading the attack.

Similarly, I am continually approached by conspiracists who want to tell me all about Godzilla and his antics, as if I really care about them or do not know what it is like to get stepped on by him (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr). When I reply that I am well aware of many of his antics, and cannot afford to waste my time trying to outmaneuver him (which is a deadly game, but almost nobody ever gets to the stage where they really merit Godzilla's attention, but people like to think that they do), they hammer away and present more of his antics. I guess that they think that if they throw enough "evidence" in my face, that I will acknowledge his omnipotence or decide to go into battle against him. I only know of a few people who gave Godzilla more interesting days at the office than I did, and it is dismaying when people try to tell me all about Godzilla, how to sneak past him, and the rest of that stuff. It is like somebody who has yet to be through boot camp is trying to tell me what the battlefield is like because they surfed the Internet or had some "interesting" experiences.

Another variation is people who deny that Godzilla exists or is vigilant. After all, nobody came to their cubicle and offered them a billion dollars (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer) to stop what they were doing. I have literally received that kind of challenge and dismissal many times, and it got to the point where I really do not like discussing any of that with people, as all I get from them are defenses of their naïve views of reality, and attacking me and dismissing my experiences becomes their passion.

But that reaction is probably preferable to those who fixate on the idea of Godzilla, who think that he can be snuck past, defeated in battle, and the rest of those adolescent notions. Again, I almost never encounter mature and balanced reactions to the idea of Godzilla, and that is because all of those off-the-mark responses are rooted in thinking like a victim (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness). When people begin to don creator's lenses, and those are the lenses of love, then the view radically changes. It is by no means easy to don those lenses and keep them on, and whenever I let mine slip off my nose, I just pick them up, clean them off, and put them on again. Trying to see through those lenses I believe is the most important work that can be done Earth, and that is what I am attempting help people do. And when they can sign the song, the choir (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) will be on its way to forming.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

I know of a choir whose members lived all over the world, and were sent a cassette tape to their homes.
When their time came to sing, at a 1992 Bahai Congress in front of an audience of 15,000 people,
they only had had one single rehearsal.
It was their spiritual commitment which made everything perfect when the time came.

[ulli]

Just wanted to say this...as soon as i started thinking about Wade's choir I started seeing choir stuff everywhere.

And here is an article in today's Guardian, about a South African choir which performed in front of Queen Victoria
in 1891.
Pity that South African freedom took another 100 years after their choir started singing....
lets hope that Wade's choir will only take only a fraction of that.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/15/black-chronicles-ii-victorians-photography-exhibition-rivington-place?CMP=fb_gu
http://www.autograph-abp.co.uk/images/made/TMC024_copy_280_395_80_s.jpg

Eleanor Xiniwe, The African Choir, 1891-93. London Stereoscopic Company. Courtesy of © Hulton Archive/Getty Images

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Ulli:

We will see if a 21st century choir can make a dent. :)

It has been a long day of editing. I am glad I am doing it, but look forward to the end of this process.

As I have mentioned before, that essay is going to be an online textbook, with revised versions probably every few years, and the revisions will probably reflect new scientific findings and relevant events. So, I do not need to get it perfect for this edition, but still want to get it in as good a shape as I can, to help train those singers! :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I have stated many times, impatience is my Achilles heel (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading), and my journey has been teaching it to me in the 40 years since I first dreamed of changing the energy industry (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#introduction). I have outlived numerous fellow travelers, some whose lives ended violently (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland), and others who had them shortened by their journeys (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures).

I have witnessed, heard of, and survived just about every approach to FE that I could think of, and my approach is a new one. I do not know how successful it will be, but it should not hurt. Again, the biggest danger to my effort will be naïve and gung-ho newbies who want to rush out and do something, who are usually trying to be heroes or become rich and famous. I keenly realize that time is short to right the ship, but impatience will wreck the effort.

As I near the end of the editorial process on my big essay, what's next is coming up. For starters, I plan to resume my career, so my time will be limited, but my "class" is largely self-study, so my participation should not be all that necessary, although I plan be at Avalon and my own forum as long as I am able. I purposely designed what I am doing so that I do not need money to do it, and can do it until I am too old to string two rational thoughts together.

Building the choir is going to take time, and again will be a lesson in patience for me. So far, I have found that the only people that I want in the choir do not have to be sold much on it, if at all. The best candidates have been those who have been searching for years. They know that what is bandied about in the world today is no solution, whether it comes from "progressives (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm)," environmentalists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists), New Agers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage), conspiracists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism), and so on. But they never stopped looking, and have longed to hear the song for much of their lives (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approach). In one way or another, they stumbled into my work, and did not come up for air for months. All of my most important allies came to me that way (or I was strangely led to them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2)). Bill Ryan read my work several years before I heard of him. Those whom I seek will immediately recognize the quality of the work. I did not ask that leading paleobiologist to read my work, but I heard from him when he came up for air after he dived in on his own initiative (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#paleo). That is the kind of response that I am looking for.

If somebody understands what I am attempting and wants to help, they likely will not know anybody in their lives who also will (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). Those are just the numbers. The social circle approach will not work for what I am attempting, as I seek needles in haystacks. It is also useless to judge those who cannot or will not hear the song (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1). It is simply today's situation, and it has always been this way before the Epochal Events (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink). This is also the only Epochal Event where there is active prevention of its manifestation (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make), which makes the situation "interesting."

I will probably have to walk a line between making my work a little more visible and promoting it. I do not want to promote or "sell" it, as that will not attract the people that I am looking for. I may do some interviews, but beyond that, I am not sure what I will do, if anything.

Kind of paradoxically, when Dennis was at it, those who were lukewarm or indifferent to what he was doing, and were just interacting with him on a business level, were those who acted the most honorably. It was always those who "believed in the cause" who screwed him over the worst, so that is part of the double-edged sword that I am picking up. But since there will be literally no business "opportunities" in what I am doing, it should substantially reduce that risk, in a number of ways, some of which will become obvious as time goes by.

I do not expect many to understand what I am doing or why, as they have no experience in the realm of bringing disruptive energy technologies to the public, and that includes nearly the entire FE field (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fefield). I do not seek allies from that milieu.

As I think about what I am doing, I wonder how interested my 25-year-old self would be. One on hand, I could tell him what it was like to try to change the energy industry, but he was probably too interested in "doing something" back then. :) If you had told me what I would see and do by the time I was 31 years old, I probably would not have believed you. But I suspect that I would have dived in and not come up for air for a few years if I encountered the work of my 56-year-old self.

While I have some sympathy for the gung-hoers, I am doing something different, and they need to search elsewhere for what they seek. Dennis is still at it, as are some others. There are some "do something" people in the FE field who might be worthy allies. I just have not paid attention to the field for the past decade, even though I have been bombarded with the Keshe, Rossi, Steorn, QEG, etc.,. etc., stuff. One day, when the choir is humming along, it will be time to approach some people with the goods and the right stuff, but that day is a long ways off.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Sunny-side-up]

Love and Positive Flow of Energies in-front of you Wade!

Peace and Big Hugs as-well!
Alan

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, anecdote time. I am a semi-nerd introvert, and being Dennis's partner was the education of ten lifetimes. Dennis is very extroverted. His wife was always Dennis's second in command, for good reason. She once told me that the big lessons of their journey related to humanity and how people operate. The study of human weakness became Dennis's pastime, particularly as he was on the receiving end of it so often. That subject matter also ended up being where I learned my primary lesson (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn). As I noted in my previous post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=877577&viewfull=1#post877577), if you had told me what I was about to see and learn, I would not have believed you. It is only when you get on the high road that those lessons become keen ones. The perils and temptations of the FE pursuit magnify the lessons by a thousand times or so.

Those were some of the many lessons that I learned over the years, and they inform my efforts today. I do not look for heroes, because I know that there are not many. I only met or heard of one like Dennis (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany), and Brian was also very unusual (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#intro).

As I have stated in places, 1986 was the happiest year of my life, the year that I met Denni (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting)s, and 1988 was the worst year of my life, by far, and that year ended with Dennis in solitary confinement (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#solitary), me bankrupt, and lives shattered all around me. When Mr. Professor and I busted Dennis out of jail (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mortgage), my energy ambitions had ended. Dennis kept trying to get me back in the saddle with him, and I did for a brief time back in 1996-1997, and nearly went to prison for my trouble (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting). He tried again in 2006 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#midlife), and I am so happy that I declined his offer. That was a couple years after the NEM fiasco (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem).

Through all of that, I kept seeing enthusiastic efforts turn into nightmares via organized suppression. Or fall flat as they never got going, or they got going but careened into disaster, and it was mind-boggling to watch Dennis pick up the pieces each time and try again. You had to see it to believe it.

I did not believe in the business route to FE much after the Ventura experience, and as I watched Dennis try again and again (and did not want to look too closely), or watched Brian try again and again, although I had nothing but the utmost respect for them, it was like they were trying to battle the rising tide with sand castles.

I resisted the lesson of personal integrity being the world's scarcest commodity every step of the way, until I had my nose repeatedly rubbed in it. I am taking an approach that seeks to skirt that hazard, among others. I would rather do nothing than chart the course to disaster that I saw so many times. I know that almost nobody on Earth today can really comprehend my approach, and that is quite OK. I am not sneaking up on anybody, but to have my approach be seen as innocuous and seemingly worthless is actually a great benefit. How can singing get anything done? :)

Even though I do not pay attention anymore, I am bombarded with the latest FE news, and the field is stuck, stuck, stuck. Inventors trying to get rich and famous, criminal libelers treated like prophets, the circus around the latest gizmo, and so on, will go nowhere. My big essay and site are intended to help people develop perspectives that see beyond all of those prosaic and doomed approaches and develop a big picture view. When enough with the right stuff can achieve it, then it will be time to take action in a way never tried before.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I had a long conversation yesterday, and the issue of the fear that nearly all environmentalists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists), Peak Oilers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#misinformation), and the like have toward the idea of FE (that classic level 5 fear (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5)), came up. The choir will probably explore that issue a little, and I just revised my essay to develop the idea a little more. That passage now reads…



Perhaps the next most common reaction for those not denying that FE is possible is those who fear FE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5) (they may outnumber those who will gladly accept FE delivered to their homes and labs). Their fears are usually stated to be around weaponizing FE or using it to destroy Earth’s remaining ecosystems. Both fears seem misplaced, and a close reading of history does not support them. All wars have been economic in nature (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warreason1), so the scarcity motivation that Fuller noted (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#soldier) would disappear if economic abundance existed. When there was relative economic abundance, people lived in peace in their golden ages (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages). Raping Earth with FE also makes little sense (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate), because there would not be any good reason to and very good reasons to not. The solar system could easily meet all material needs, food can be raised in artificial environments (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#indoor), and there would be no need to rape Earth. Psychopaths (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#psychopaths) kill, rape, and plunder for the sheer joy of it, but everybody else does due to scarcity. Those who fear misuse believe that people will not wake up if the means of abundance are delivered to them, or that the vast majority who quickly would could not police those slow to understand (or the psychopaths who might never). That fear reflects a negative view of humanity that I do not share. I doubt that the masses will wake up until FE is delivered into their lives (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#awaken), but they will wake up when it is. I doubt that humanity is that stupid, and I am willing to take the chance that humanity can become a truly sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1). The worst elements of humanity already possess FE technology (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#divine), and Earth is still intact. After witnessing that fear reaction many times, it seemed to me to camouflage other, deeper fears. I have never succeeded in engaging such people in a rational conversation regarding those fears. I eventually suspected that they really feared abundance and seemed addicted to scarcity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#misinformation). They built their entire lives around surviving in a world of scarcity, and saw abundance as a threat to their existence. Such reactions are like the GCs’ (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitereason), and for similar reasons. They know that the world as they know it will end with FE, they are afraid that their role in that new world will be diminished, and prefer the devil they know. In some cases, they are that devil. I have watched people embrace certain death (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choose) rather than question their beliefs and indoctrination, and that phenomenon seems related to that knee-jerk fear that people express when FE is even mentioned.



Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[kudzy]

Darren's FE Autobiography
Like many Americans I come from a working class background. My grandparents all lived through the Great Depression. My paternal grandfather drove trains in and out of the coal mines in Pennsylvania and then worked in the 'defense industry' in New England. My maternal grandfather started out shining shoes and working as a pinboy (the person responsible for manually setting up bowling pins). He retired as the lead-man of a rigging crew for a 'defense' corporation. My father got his engineering degree attending night school while working full-time when I was a child, again, in the so called 'defense industry'. They all worked very hard so my sister and I could have an easier go at life. I would say they succeeded.

I had everything a child could want from bicycles to BB guns. I even had one of the first mass marketed home computers; a Commodore VIC-20 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodore_VIC-20). I definitely consider myself a member of the most privileged demographic in history; white, male, middle class, college educated American. I too was groomed to be 'a golden boy'. Also, fortuitously I had access to woodlands at a young age and developed a deep connection with nature.

Which brings me to some of my early mystical experiences. Even though they're rather modest they were enough for me to know there's more to life than what meets the eye. One day when I was a teenager it had snowed all day long. I went out at night, shoveled the driveway and finished around 10 PM. After which I decided to go for a walk in the woods behind my parents house. It was a winter wonderland. It had stopped snowing. The moon came out and was glistening off the fresh snow still clinging to the branches of the trees. There was a calm quiet majestic quality to the forest. I thought to myself. “It would be really cool to see a deer right now”. Then I thought “Oh just be thankful for what is right here, forget about seeing a deer.” No sooner did I have those thoughts that a deer comes walking directly towards me! I was dumbfounded. I stood there motionless as the deer walked completely around me perhaps 10 to 15 yards away. It had walked right by me to the point where I had to turn 180° to continue to see it, at which point I startled it and it bounded away.

Another example is when I was around ten years old my parents sent me to summer camp. For some reason I ended up borrowing a rain poncho from a neighbor. One day, out of the blue, a fellow camper picked up the rain poncho and said the owners first and last name. Her name was not printed on the poncho yet somehow he knew it exactly. Again, I was dumbstruck. There are other instances that fall more into the realm of coincidences but were rather remarkable, at least to me. And then there was that time when I saw a Green Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man), now that was pretty cool! I've dated a number of women who were way more psychic than myself. And since then I've become convinced that objects and places hold memories that one can 'tap into'.

Growing up with woods to play in helped foster my concern for environmental issues beginning in my high school years of the early 1980's which continued into my college years where I planned to major in environmental engineering. Lester Brown (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_R._Brown) , founder of the Worldwatch Institute (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwatch_Institute) spoke at my college. Beginning in 1984 the Worldwatch Institute has annually published a series of books titled State of the World (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_the_World_(book_series)) which outlines the various problems facing the planet. Lester Brown's speech and publications like Gaia: An Atlas of Planet Management (http://www.amazon.com/Gaia-An-Atlas-Planet-Management/dp/0385426267) (first published in 1984) only reinforced my resolve to do 'something' to help the environment. However, prior to my junior year the environmental engineering program was dropped, so I chose mechanical engineering as my major instead. When it came time to choose my Senior Design Project my advisor recommended that I design an energy independent home.

I thought that was a terrific idea so that's exactly what I did. It was an Earth sheltered home with photovoltaics and a wind turbine for electricity, solar collectors for hot water, south facing passive solar blah-de-blah. It all looked good on paper, had a reasonable pay back period and was good enough for my advisor and faculty to give me my diploma and send me on my way. The year was 1990. So off I went eager to save the world.

I remember being full of optimism, determined to use my skills to help change the existing energy paradigm. I understood, almost 30 years ago, that global warming was a real concern and that fossil fuels were not sustainable. I had done some work for ConnPIRG, Connecticut's chapter of PIRG (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Interest_Research_Group), so I also understood the risks and costs inherent in Nuclear Energy as well. I was bloody determined to change all that or die trying. That's when reality slowly began to 'settle in'.

It should be noted I was opposed to the First Gulf War and participated in the march on Washington, DC. Which, as we all know, was completely ineffective. There's a really good community supported radio station in southern Connecticut called WPKN that helped educate my young self about all sorts of social, political and economic issues. They're part of the reason why I can read Wade's website without going into convulsions.

In the early 1990's I sent my resume to literally every company in the US that was doing anything related to solar or wind energy. I went to trade conferences out west and handed out my resume in person. If Dennis Lee hadn't already been shut down Wade might have been my co-worker almost 25 years ago! Anyhow, that's about the time when I realized 'industry' really doesn't care about my high ideals and desire to change the energy situation. After seven months of job hunting without success I came back home with my tail between my legs, bit the bullet, moved back in with my parents and got a job in the defense industry that I swore I would never do.

My career in the field didn't last long, my heart just wasn't into it. I was never really cut out for that line of work and knew that if I stayed my future would consist of an ulcer, heart attack, nervous breakdown or some combination of all three. Not to mention I was morally opposed to war and wanted nothing to do with the whole system. The straw that broke the camel's back occurred in 1996. We where testing a hydraulic actuator that went on the F18's. We had to cycle it many times under extreme conditions; high temperature, low temperature, salt environment etc. It was a hot summer day, we were blowing in literally tons of CO2 trying to lower the temperature of this actuator, so much so that the water vapor in the air was actually condensing and falling as SNOW..... INSIDE THE FACTORY! Me being a closet environmentalist and knowing that CO2 is a primary greenhouse gas I nearly had a nervous breakdown right then and there. I knew I had to get out, and soon.

Sometimes I feel like my life is being divinely guided and all I have to do is have the courage and right intention to walk through the door when it opens. One of those doors presented itself to me in 1995-96 and that door was Permaculture and Intentional Community. For better or worse, depending on how you look at it, I walked through that door. I left my engineering career, much to the consternation of my parents, and never went back.

I'd like to back up for a moment and mention Helen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Nearing) and Scott Nearing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Nearing). In short, Scott was an academic, intellectual, pacifist radical back in the early part of the last century. He was so radical he got kicked out of the communist party and run out of academia. Helen, 20 years his junior, was raised in a theosophist household and actually dated Jiddu Krishnamurti (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Krishnamurti). They moved first to Vermont and then to Maine to homestead. They built their own homes, grew their own food, wrote books, lectured and traveled. Wade might find it interesting that Scott wrote a book with the same title as one of Wade's major essays called The American Empire (http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27787). (click the link for an ebook) They advocated sweat equity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_equity), bread labor (http://www.academia.edu/1509824/Gandhi_on_Bread_Labour) and like many great spiritual leaders they espoused Simple Living (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_living). And they did it, they walked their talk. They lived an exemplary life with a high degree of personal integrity. Scott lived to be 100 years old and died a conscious death. I had the good fortune of meeting Helen in person before she passed on at the age of 91 due to a car accident. They had a huge influence on my life and I will be forever grateful.

At this point I moved to an intentional Community some of which I wrote about in this post here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=485070#post485070). I became interested in primitive Earth skills. I had read several books by Tom Brown Jr (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Brown,_Jr.), lived in a primitive shelter, brain tanned buckskins, learned to build fire from friction and practiced various other simple living skills. The idea was ‘those who live far removed from nature are more apt to destroy her’. But I have to admit that some of my motivation was based in fear. My thinking was ‘modern civilization is a house of cards that is about to collapse, I had better learn how to live in harmony with nature if I want to survive the collapse’. Another early influence was Jerry Mander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Mander)’s In the Absence of the Sacred. Despite growing up watching lots of TV I'm proud of the fact that as an adult I've never owned a television.

Ironically, it was in those early years (late 1990’s) that I first became aware of free energy. I seem to be a living dichotomy; an engineer on one hand and a Luddite on the other, or perhaps a product of social engineering. I know of four people at my community who interacted with Dennis Lee. One person invested and lost money (I don’t know the details), he doesn't like to talk about it but he realizes it wasn't Dennis’s fault.  Another friend accuses Dennis of being a charlatan. I quickly realized there was no point in trying to convince him otherwise. The other two friends bought Dennis’s kits and I’ve had constructive conversations about free energy with them. A number of other people are familiar with the concept of free energy. However, none of them seem willing to devote the time and study necessary to obtain a ‘big picture’ comprehensive understanding of the issue.

I received a DVD from a friend titled “Energy From the Vacuum” by Tom Bearden and John Bedini. I remember watching that video and thinking to myself ‘damn, I could sure use one of those wheels’. Fortunately I didn't go down that path and shortly thereafter I discovered Wades World. That's when my belief systems began to crumble.

I honestly believed that simple living, Permaculture and community living were a viable solution to our worlds environmental problems. I came to realize that even though I'm living ‘off the grid’ I'm still indirectly connected to the grid. I came to realize that I was kidding myself into believing that I was really making a difference and that even if seven billion people could live the way I do it still would not help. It's been a bitter pill to swallow. And if I didn't isolate myself enough by leaving mainstream society and joining a community I then isolated myself even more by seeing through the folly of that community’s ideology. At first I didn't believe Wade. I thought ‘my community is progressive and hip enough to understand and embrace free energy’, some are, most are not.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As is obvious, the overlaps in my journey and Darren's are many. I could write for a long time about his excellent post, but I'll try to keep it short. The most enthusiastic readers of my work, particularly my big essay, are usually scientists or the scientifically trained. When they come to my work and I hear from them, their stories are usually similar to Darren's. They know that humanity is in big trouble, they have pursued solutions, but eventually discovered that they were on the train to nowhere. It was usually after encountering my work that it hit them that the "solutions" that they had seen and pursued were all based in scarcity, and energy scarcity at its root, and they were really not solutions at all, but more like Band-Aids put on gaping chest wounds.

Anything short of FE is way too little and too late. Brian O eventually realized it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#udall), too, after his long years of mainstream energy activism. Near the end of his life, he was looking for an assistant to help crunch the numbers on how inadequate the mainstream energy alternatives were. Fortunately, a lot of that work has already been done (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eroimin).

Although his path may have seemed like wasted time in ways to him, I do not see Darren's journey that way. I could also say that my FE journey was a waste of time, as all I saw was bloody disaster, but great learning experiences attend the process of going out and "doing something," and people like Darren have learned important lessons. I have a great deal of sympathy for environmentalists, permaculturists, and others who have done what they can. They just do not have the tools to really make a dent, and FE gives everybody tools that can scarcely be imagined (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) in these days of prosaic "solutions" that are endlessly bandied about. Instead of hacking at branches, FE gives us the ability to address the root, which is what "radical" means.

Darren is one whom I will invite into the choir, and he is doing the work. That bio of his will be in my forum one day, here (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/50-Forum-Member-Introduction).

Back to work.Best,

Wade

[ulli]

If I may share my view: consciousness creates reality. Consciousness coupled with intent.
One person can do little, although those of higher levels of consciousness can effect more than those of lower.
real change comes about when many people see things the same way…
which is why the PTB need their Mass Media, which they use to capture the public's attention,
and then to use the public's emotions, which act as a form of fuel, to get their agendas to move forward.
And the PTB are not just one camp, there are several… at least two.

If, for example, you have two Christian generals, who urge their soldiers the night before a battle to pray for a victory,
whose prayers are then answered? Wouldn't Jesus and his angels become confused?
The answer then depends not on Jesus but on which regiment can generate the most emotional fuel-
the highest level of confidence, the greatest trust in themselves and their general,
coupled with strategic knowledge of the enemies weaknesses.

Confidence alone is not enough, as General Custer found out at the Little Big Horn.
Nor is even occult knowledge, - astrology knowledge...as Hitler found out.

There has to be a deep spiritual conviction that it is the right time, and the right thing to do.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ulli:

Yes indeed, we create our own realities. However, we live in dense physical reality where that is not obvious. We have gravity and other "laws" of the universe that seem to operate whether I believe in them or not. :)

What I found during my studies was that the truly epochal shifts in the human journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1) were energy events, and each was initiated by a relative handful of people (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#events). Energy is where the leverage points are in this reality, as everything is energy. Energy and consciousness (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energy1) are all that exist in our universe. For many years, I asked a chicken-and-egg question about consciousness and FE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#question), and during the process of studying for my essay, I found that all the big changes in human consciousness were a consequence of the energy event (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive), not a cause. Humanity did not begin to question slavery until machines made the institution economically obsolete (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend).

So, if the past is any guide, a relative handful of people can initiate the energy event that can radically change human consciousness. Those few will need to reach unprecedented levels of sentience, while the great mass of humanity will go along for the ride. :)

So, raising one's consciousness is indeed the key, but it does not take many of us that achieve it, fortunately.

Best,

Wade

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

If I may share my view: consciousness creates reality. Consciousness coupled with intent.
One person can do little, although those of higher levels of consciousness can effect more than those of lower.
real change comes about when many people see things the same way…
which is why the PTB need their Mass Media, which they use to capture the public's attention,
and then to use the public's emotions, which act as a form of fuel, to get their agendas to move forward.
And the PTB are not just one camp, there are several… at least two.

If, for example, you have two Christian generals, who urge their soldiers the night before a battle to pray for a victory,
whose prayers are then answered? Wouldn't Jesus and his angels become confused?
The answer then depends not on Jesus but on which regiment can generate the most emotional fuel-
the highest level of confidence, the greatest trust in themselves and their general,
coupled with strategic knowledge of the enemies weaknesses.

Confidence alone is not enough, as General Custer found out at the Little Big Horn.
Nor is even occult knowledge, - astrology knowledge...as Hitler found out.

There has to be a deep spiritual conviction that it is the right time, and the right thing to do.So there are at least two people (and i am sure a lot lot more :) ) who share this same view on reality, actually creating it in a way ;) And that's how i understand Wade's approach to manifesting FE will work. To focus attention of enough sincere people who will keep it stable, to provide that kind of spiritual fuel (energy) to create particular version of reality :) Can you confirm that Wade? :)

[Kay]

Wade

The more I hear about your choir the more I believe that you are on the right track.
A choir sings in harmony for the pure joy of the sound they create.
Not for glory, fame or personal gain, but for everyone.
They create at atmosphere of abundance and hope which is irresistible and quickly draws an audience.

K

[ulli]

Hi Ulli:

Yes indeed, we create our own realities. However, we live in dense physical reality where that is not obvious. We have gravity and other "laws" of the universe that seem to operate whether I believe in them or not. :)

What I found during my studies was that the truly epochal shifts in the human journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1) were energy events, and each was initiated by a relative handful of people (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#events). Energy is where the leverage points are in this reality, as everything is energy. Energy and consciousness (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energy1) are all that exist in our universe. For many years, I asked a chicken-and-egg question about consciousness and FE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#question), and during the process of studying for my essay, I found that all the big changes in human consciousness were a consequence of the energy event (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive), not a cause. Humanity did not begin to question slavery until machines made the institution economically obsolete (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend).

So, if the past is any guide, a relative handful of people can initiate the energy event that can radically change human consciousness. Those few will need to reach unprecedented levels of sentience, while the great mass of humanity will go along for the ride. :)

So, raising one's consciousness is indeed the key, but it does not take many of us that achieve it, fortunately.

Best,

Wade


Someone once said that one awake and conscious person equals one hundred thousand sheeple.
(Non awake people)
So Wade's idea that a carefully picked choir can do it sounds very plausible.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi All:

There are several dimensions of my "choir" idea, and perhaps the best way to see it is that love and FE are joined at the hip, in both mystical and practical ways. Manifesting love in a world of scarcity and fear is no easy trick.

Long ago, I began to suspect that the ZPF was divine in origin (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#divine) and that only a divinely inspired effort had a chance, but that is also only one reason of many to take that kind of approach. A lot of what I learned was by the hard way, particularly from my days with Dennis.

Dennis's marketing program, in which he put the equipment on people's homes for free (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs), may be the most brilliant thing that he ever did, and I am taking a page from Dennis's book with my approach. But I learned many other lessons from my journey. For instance, Dennis tried the capitalist, religious, and nationalist approaches to form "group cohesion." But after many years of seeing what went wrong with them, and my studies, I came to realize that what they all had in common was appealing to people's self-interest, and they were all scarcity-based approaches, and all dominant ideologies are (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) scarcity-based. Self-interested people in the FE pursuit are effortlessly defeated by organized suppression (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make), if the effort does not first collapse via greed (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#greed) and the like. That is why business-oriented efforts have never worked and never will. But the entire FE field is in that state of arrested development (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fefield). Patents (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patent), secret sauce proprietary ingredients (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proprietary), and the rest of the capitalist approaches are completely useless, but dominate today's FE field. But there are also many other hazards, such as delusions of grandeur. That recent FE inventor's announcement of being The Messiah (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah) is an example of that risk. He was not the first to do that, and I know what wrestling with that delusion is like (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah).

The arrival of FE will be the biggest event in the human journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), by far, and Godzilla knows it well, even if the masses are oblivious. In fact, keeping the masses oblivious is Godzilla's greatest triumph (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm#thinkable). Mass movement approaches, such as what Dennis and Brian repeatedly mounted, were easily defeated. Pied pipers such as Ken Hodgell (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=585787&viewfull=1#post585787) effortlessly led the masses astray as he sang the seductive song of greed and fear. And those seduced by Godzilla's song were easily stampeded over the cliff to their doom. Watching them waltz along to Hodgell's' tune was one of the more painful experiences of my life.

The bottom line is that people involved to serve their ego needs will not help the effort along. To answer those "choir" questions, yes, it is intended to help people focus on what is important, and to let the other stuff go, and there are a million distractions that beckon. If you heard what I had to go through to get to where I am today, you would have a hard time believing it, and unless you were a saint (or crazy :) ), you would want nothing to do with a path like mine. I am trying to make it easier for people to reach my vantage point, and whether we call it the harmonic effects of singing the song in chorus, or us all keeping our eyes on the ball, it amounts to a unity of purpose.

If you really get the FE idea and what it means to not only the human journey, but also life on Earth, you cannot think about anything else. Helping people get there is my goal, but I also know that almost nobody on Earth has the right stuff to go there. Almost nobody even wants to. Again, this was a lesson learned after many years on the trail and witnessing the innumerable reactions to the idea of FE. When Brian O openly wondered if humanity was a sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience), I sadly understood.

I am only giving some of the highlights of the method to my madness in coming up with my approach. One of the most persistent delusions is thinking that there is some group out there who just can’t wait to help make FE happen, and if they can somehow understand and can be enlisted, making FE happen will be easy. It is the shortcut approach that so many look for, and it will not work. Newbies often think that governments, or NGOs, or rich philanthropists, and the like, will be eager to help, when they are actually committed adversaries to the entire FE idea, as hard as that can be to believe.

I could throw out another dozen ideas and reasons, and each one is a facet of a whole, and I am not sure that anybody but me has ever seen that particular whole, but one good way to see it is that I am aiming to help humanity get on the trajectory to experience this world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748). I was already imagining worlds like that one, which FE makes feasible (and nothing else can, on a practical basis), when I encountered that account of Roads's.

So, I put it this way, and put it that way, and I can see that people are grappling with the idea, and that is good work, but it really will take a long time for it to sink in. Digesting my work, particularly, my big essay, is only an introduction. I recently stated what the people I am looking for will have as qualities (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=872800&viewfull=1#post872800), and that is another way to try to get the idea across.


Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Melinda]

Once again, a pleasure and a privilege to be let in on your life’s journey with your post Darren.


...I honestly believed that simple living, Permaculture and community living were a viable solution to our worlds environmental problems. I came to realize that even though I'm living ‘off the grid’ I'm still indirectly connected to the grid. I came to realize that I was kidding myself into believing that I was really making a difference and that even if seven billion people could live the way I do it still would not help. It's been a bitter pill to swallow...

This is one of the issues I’ve contemplated most in relation to FE. To elaborate with my own thoughts (I’m not projecting an understanding of Darren’s)...

The idea of a peaceful life in nature is spiritually very appealing. We come from the earth, and are drawn to return to her with love, not just when we die, but as a fundamental part of living, breathing and growing with her. When we have mastered that capacity to honour her, care for her, care for ourselves, perhaps then we will be ready to physically navigate beyond.

I’m reminded of the scene in The Right Stuff, where an Australian shaman interacts with astronaut John Glenn, miles above in his space shuttle. Perhaps on the day a shamanic traveller even waved from outside the window. People with those abilities may well be on the increase, as a result of the spiritual shift and expansion taking place in our world. But for now the majority need physical solutions to clean up our mess and continue harmlessly on our journey.

On smaller communities -

I know people who live in intentional communities, growing their own food, meditating in groups and raising their children in a rich forest blessed with lush greenery and waterfalls. But they still choose to import certain goods. And in one community, members had arguments with its founder when they wished to bring in outsiders to teach their children. They also use computers and cookers and other equipment so that they are not constantly labouring, and so they can interact with people they love around the world. They use buses, trains and planes to visit those loved ones.

All that equipment and the infrastructure of cables, stations, even satellites, etc, require energy beyond a wind turbine or solar panel in a back yard. The raw materials for the household equipment need to be mined, transported, the parts manufactured and transported again, which all requires energy.

I believe some intentional community members I know miss the career work and variety of the ‘outside’ world, but it’s a sacrifice they are prepared to make to experience healing from old wounds, and to honour mother nature - raising their children in a way that grows them peacefully in harmony with the earth.

I for one love to have access to variety. A variety of souls to interact with, a variety of arts to inspire me, a variety of mediums and places to learn from. I remember a brief stay I enjoyed on a Kibbutz many years ago. There were some beautiful souls there. But there wasn’t variety. Members of the younger generation in particular were growing tired of that lack of range and opportunity to explore life, to express themselves in new contexts and to learn. Expanding our horizons is a natural wish. Natural as in the way nature is replete with transformation. And the beauty to me of Free Energy is that we can do it without harming our environment, or at the very least harming it far less than we’ve been doing.

Confined communities can risk having issues with abuse and repression that stem from the lack of diversity and opportunity to explore difference in peaceful and creative ways. People can also turn a blind eye to (and bury) negative occurrences, because they feel it will reflect on them inclusively, drawing psychic or physical repercussions from the outside world. The opposite extreme of sprawling, disconnected urban life can also suffer abuse and repression for converse reasons. With free energy we can have the best, without the worst, of both worlds. The ability to live small and caringly, without closing off from others, and all the variety and the gatherings our hearts can dream of, without the pollution and separation from the earth that cities so often embody.

We have much to learn about what FE can mean for the way we experience community on both micro and macro levels. And if FE means we can clean up mother earth far quicker, and avoid further catastrophe, then I am - as ever – filled with questions. It’s the area I most look forward to being explored.

Much love, and good things to you all, as always.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Melinda:

That was the kind of post that I expect from you. :)

I am not surprised that you would be familiar with intentional communities. They have sought solutions to the problems of civilization, and I am sympathetic to many of their ideals. I have been invited to live in a few (and may still live in one), and they certainly have their attractions. I wrote that I was driven from my home by a hippie cult (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=660270&viewfull=1#post660270) that took over my neighborhood when their intentional community in the sticks went bankrupt. Now that a decade has passed since we were driven from our home in Bothell, and they are largely defunct now, I feel that I can safely identify them (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Family). Yes, those kinds of communities can become insular and even cult-like, as that hippie community became. I once visited a friend that lived in a Course in Miracles cult in Wisconsin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavor_Academy) (I was on my way from Ohio to visit Mr. Professor (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures) on his family farm in North Dakota). It was way out there. The USA has a lot of that, going back to the religious communities in Pennsylvania, such as the Amish. California also had plenty of that. :)

As with every civilization, such communities are rooted in economic scarcity and austerity (which Fuller said would never work (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#austerity)), and really cannot exist like they think they can, not as something standalone. American "pioneers" also had delusions of self-sufficiency, but they were thoroughly dependent on the industrialized portions of the USA for their existence, and, of course, they all lived on newly stolen land (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#steal2) that had rich soils and often "virgin" forests.

Usually, when I mention that cities will become obsolete with FE, people think in terms of us all becoming country bumpkins. Boy, it would be nothing like that. Country bumpkins can't go to Mars for lunch. :)

To my recent posts, FE would not only be the largest event in the human journey, by far, it would also mean a permanent transition from a scarcity-based existence to one based on abundance. A civilization based on FE and abundance will look nothing like what exists today. That is what epochal events do. The other side-effect of becoming an FE-based civilization is that Earth will no longer be exploited for human benefit. There will really be no reason to. Raping Earth will become economically obsolete, and people today really have a hard time understanding that, and a good example is the one that I provide for the end of slavery (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#southseas). Until slavery became obsolete with the rise of energy-driven machines, nobody on Earth challenged that "hallowed" institution that was as old as civilization and even considered human "nature." Again, modern people can barely comprehend a system accepted by all where people were property, but it did not vanish all that long ago. Pre-industrial peoples could not imagine a world without slaves. In the Greek Utopias, they treated the slaves well. :)

To my earlier post of not being able to think about anything else when you really "get" FE and its potential, the magnitude of it is why FE inventors go off the deep end and think that they are the Messiah (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah) and the like. The biggest event in the human journey is big stuff, to put it mildly. The mere fact that I have been able to chase it in this lifetime probably makes it the most significant lifetime in my soul's journey. That it can also forestall World War III and the Sixth Mass Extinction (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth) is just icing on the cake. Again, I do not know of anything bigger on this planet to pursue, in the entire history of the human journey. Brian chased it to the end, as Dennis and I surely will. Once you get bitten, there is no turning back, unless you have a healthy supply of inebriants handy.

I read Roads's little account again today (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748). Maybe all I am doing in this lifetime is punching my ticket for a lifetime in that reality, and if that is the case, I am probably OK with that, although it sure would be a blessing to see us turn the corner in my lifetime.

I am probably going quiet for a few days, rushing to the editing finish line, etc.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have a little time before signing off for a couple of days, and the themes of scarcity, abundance, and "rational" decisions are very important to understand, if the transformative impact of FE is going to be understood. The FE idea has been bounced off of the world's leading intellectuals, academics, scientists, environmentalists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists), activists, and the like for many years. Virtually without exception, they have reacted with combinations of Level 3 denial (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level3) and Level 5 fear (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5). Those were supposedly the world's smartest, most caring, most visionary people, and their reactions spurred Brian to wonder if humanity is really a sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience).

It is initially mind-blowing for FE activists to receive those kinds of responses, but those have been uniform reactions since at least the 1970s. Everybody on FE's high road has experienced those kinds of interactions and responses. I have received them from some of the world's most famous intellectuals. It just comes with the territory, and I later realized that I was seeing a generalized addiction to scarcity, or perhaps more accurately, an addiction to their mental adaptations for living in a world of scarcity. The "smart" can be the most stuck. Their scarcity assumptions were so deeply baked that they could not even recognize them for what they were. It was like the air they breathed. A similar phenomenon was the "skeptical" attack on Sheldrake's relatively tame challenges to materialism (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=802470&viewfull=1#post802470). Those attacks were highly irrational, which was indeed ironic. They were protecting their assumptions from challenge, which amounted to defending their faith, but they were either too unconscious or too dishonest to admit it.

What I have found is that it is rarely a case of conscious dishonesty, but more like an unconscious dishonesty, where they cannot even admit what they are really reacting to. If you try to take them down the path of their logic and show them the nature of their assumptions, they go into irrational tirades. You may have to see it to believe it.

So, with their scarcity-based framework intact and safe from challenge, such people almost invariably come to the place in their mind where they need to coerce the "bad guys." They nearly invariably develop a rational argument for coercion and violence. They either deny that Godzilla exists (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#religion) or think that he can be taken out in battle (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level9). Both are delusionary positions, as is thinking that Godzilla can be snuck past (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7).

Those are all variations of the song of scarcity, which Fuller (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#soldier), among others, could plainly see. The dark deeds that the scarcity-stuck advocated could only be seemingly justified if they assumed scarcity, and it takes no great imagination to see how their minds are working. They cannot afford to wake up, because then the nature of their crimes, both real and proposed, would become evident. They are rationalizing something that really has no rationale, not in a world of abundance. But in a world of scarcity, they can promote arguments that can seem to have a whiff of integrity, but they are only sophisticated ways to play the victim game (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness). Their entire framework is invested in their assumptions, which FE would invalidate. Such intellectuals cannot afford to watch their laboriously constructed houses of cards collapse. It would be the end of the world as they know it.

Again, I have no interest in engaging such people. Been there, done that, way too many times. They will be among the last people to get on the FE train, not the first. They are missing a mystical awakening, and maybe an initial awakening, which is one reason why I say that they are probably necessary for the FE message to begin to reach them (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=872800&viewfull=1#post872800). Otherwise they are stuck in their heads, in "logic," and the like, but what they are really mired in is scarcity.

I am trying to reach the reachable, and will have to build the choir from scratch and find those needles in haystacks. I am OK with that, and newbies who want to find shortcuts, enlighten the intellectuals, and so on, have one hell of a learning experience ahead of them. I have encouraged newbies to poke around a little with stuff like that, so that they can get a sniff of the reality, but I have seen so many of them think that they have the magic answer to blast through that denial, that fear, and that irrationality. After many years at it, I realized that the only thing that would help them (and everybody else) wake up was the means of abundance being delivered into their lives, like Machiavelli (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli) said. Nothing else has a chance that I have seen, and that is my goal.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just got back from a short trip with my wife. The first is a picture of a bridge built by family members nearly a century ago. It was the only "road" across the Cascade Range in northern Washington, where a highway now winds its way through (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_State_Route_20). The bridge was horse-worthy when it was built. That bridge may stand for rest of my days on Earth, but it may not. It is a "bridge to nowhere" today, and family members are about the only people who know about that bridge. The water hole under it is tempting, and I may take a dip on hot sunny summer's day. That water is some of the most pristine on Earth, coming right off wild mountains.

The other pics are taken around Slate Peak (http://www.wta.org/go-hiking/trip-reports/trip_report.2014-07-11.5137464629), where I took my wife three years ago (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=305124&viewfull=1#post305124). That is as good as my life gets. The last is of Diablo Lake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Lake).

Some posts coming soon…

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

About ready to hit the sack, and added this paragraph to the essay:


In a striking similarity to the dual use purposes (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dualuse) of evolutionary innovations, many human traits are relics of our history but have yet to disappear, but various social managers have used them to exploit the masses. For instance, the human taste for fatty and sweet foods (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sweettooth) has a very long pedigree (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proconsul) and developed because those were the most energy-rich foods that existed. But the incredibly high sugar and fat content of processed food vended by Western agribusiness companies plays to those biological proclivities in the name of profit. Diets based on such foods are disastrous for human health, and industrialized peoples, led by the USA, are the fattest of the entire human journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#sloth). Similarly, in-group "loyalty" (to fight the out-group) is a pre-sentient behavior (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#macaquepatriot) that arose to ensure survival. Ever since the first religions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing), a goal of social managers has been forming that in-group cohesion to battle the out-group. There is not much sentient about it. As the Stanford prison experiment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment) and other events (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#browning) have made clear, people can be arbitrarily split along almost any lines and form an in-group and out-group, and the out-group will then be treated terribly. Darwin's "from the war of nature" comes "higher animals" conclusion in his Origin of Species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#darwin) is mirrored in the work of Marx and Hitler, in that they believed that human "progress" was produced by one social group violently prevailing over another. Hitler avidly read Marx, and may be how he developed his "revolutionary" ideas.


Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is a post on the kinds of my reactions to my work that I am looking for, and those that I am not. I have been doing this since 1987 (more than a dozen years after I began dreaming of changing the energy industry (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#introduction)), and have encountered many thousands of reactions to the idea of FE, ideas of how to manifest it in the public sphere, and the like. I am taking a highly specific approach that is informed by all those years of often rueful experience. Those I am looking for have probably never heard of free energy ("FE") before (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level01), because if they have, they probably only know the many doomed approaches used in the field today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) and may well be stuck in the field's state of arrested development (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fefield). I have either been a part of attempts using those approaches, have traded notes with follow travelers who did, or watched from afar. Those approaches have not worked and are extremely unlikely to, and I am doing something different.

I am looking for very specific people, and they will have very specific reactions to my work. Those who do not react in the way that I am looking for are not whom I am looking for. If somebody really begins to understand my work and approach, they almost certainly will not know anybody else in their daily lives that does, because those who can are less than one-in-a-thousand in the general population and few people have a social circle of more than a couple hundred. I recently published the qualities that I think are necessary for a person to be helpful for what I am attempting (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=872800&highlight=prerequisites#post872800). A person's reaction to my work can quickly tell me if they are whom I seek. One reason why I have published my work like I have is that it can be a litmus test for those trying to interest others in my effort. They do not have to talk themselves blue in the face (which is always a waste of time, in my experience), and jeopardize their relationships/careers/lives. They can just point the person to my work and witness their reaction. Here are the reactions that can quickly tell if a person is whom I am looking for, or not. First, here are the reactions that show that the person is not suitable for my approach.


The person responds with denial or fear. I have called those Levels 1-to-3, (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level1) and 5 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5), in my work. I have never seen anybody whose initial reaction was in those levels who ever achieved the level of awareness for what I am looking for, mostly because their heart was not in the right place.



The person says that FE is an interesting idea, and to let them know when a FE device is delivered to their home or laboratory. I have called that Level 4 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level4), and it is also a common reaction. Once again, their heart is not in the right place. They are too lazy and self-centered to help with what I am attempting.


Those are the standard reactions of more than 99% of today's global population. They will be no help for what I am attempting, and people should refrain from wasting their time with them, at least for what I am attempting. It is natural for people to desire to enlist their friends, familes, and colleagues into assisting with what I am attempting, but almost nobody on Earth today has the right stuff for it. That is not a judgment, but just an acknowledgement of the reality on Earth today (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1). The sooner that people can accept that reality, the better it will go for them. What newcomers to the FE idea fail to understand is that if people in those levels mentioned above are ever seduced, cajoled, bribed, and otherwise recruited into my effort, they will be weak links that will wreck the effort if it ever gets going. My effort cannot afford to have people like that in it.

If a person does not react with fear and denial, it still does not mean that they are fit for what I am attempting, although they can get on a learning curve to where they someday might, but the path can be perilous.

Perfectly acceptable initial attitudes toward my work are skepticism, caution, and even naïveté. True skepticism, not the Orwellian use of the term used by organized skepticism (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends), is a virtue, and I would not expect anybody that I am looking for, who never heard of FE before, to immediately accept what I write. However, true skepticism means getting out of one's easy chair and finding out. Surfing the Internet for a few minutes or hours does not qualify. Watching YouTube clips (the Internet's version of watching television) does not qualify. Chatting up others in the FE field does not qualify. Going deep on my work, following the references, thinking deeply about it, and the like can qualify. My journey in the FE field is richly documented (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting), as is the journey of my former partner (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#dennis). My site comprises about two thousand pages of heavily documented material. It is extremely challenging material, for a few reasons, and the emotional challenge is greater than the mental one. While it does not take a degree in science to understand it (I do not have a degree in science, for instance), some scientific literacy is a requirement, and my big essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm) is partly a class in attaining some scientific literacy. Although scientists and the scientifically trained have been the most enthusiastic readers of that essay so far, I am gambling that scientifically illiterate people will be able to understand the gist of my work, even though it will take a great deal of hard work to achieve those understandings. A primary purpose of the discussion of the big essay's chapters (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/forums/10-Chapter-Discussions) is to help people gain a deeper understanding of the material, whether they are scientists or not.

I am somewhat sympathetic to those who want to see an FE device in action before they credit the FE idea at all. Actually, there have been many proof of concept demonstrations, and perhaps the most spectacular is the video of Sparky Sweet's device in action (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal). Unfortunately, the only way I know of to see the device in action is to buy that video from Tom Bearden's organization. If you watch that video, you will also see some of why Sparky also failed, with a "proprietary technology (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proprietary)" message flashing on the video several times. Sparky was not naïve enough to apply for a patent (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patent), but he mailed several working prototypes to the big energy institutions and expected to receive a ticker-tape parade. The opposite happened, and the death threats and even alleged murder attempts were enough to drive Sparky into hiding, where my astronaut colleague visited him (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky) a week before Sparky died of a "heart attack." Dying like that is typical among FE inventors, promoters, and businessmen (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors). Others have demonstrated their FE prototypes, from Henry Moray to Adam Trombly to Troy Reed to Edwin Gray. The typical patterns after such demonstrations include friendly buyout offers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#payoff), seizure of the technologies (if patented) by using national securities laws, murder attempts (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#murder) and other cloak-and-dagger activities, and allies being overcome by greed and wrecking the operation as they try to steal it all. If anybody demonstrates their FE prototype, it is usually not for long. But anybody who does the work can understand how the land lies and understand why they cannot just walk down their street and see an FE device in action. Some close to me have witnessed FE devices in action, in sometimes bizarre settings (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). FE technology is very real, as all players on the high road to FE know well.

I am also OK with people who react to my work with some caution. That is different than reacting with denial and fear. Those in denial or fear, for instance, would not read or understand the visionary chapter of the big essay (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). But it is OK for those who are captivated by the vision to have some concern for misuse of FE technology, with the emphasis on some. I am sympathetic to such concerns, and have made some suggestions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping). The technology already exists to tell when somebody is tapping the zero-point field, and detecting weaponization should not be hard to do and the technology to do that probably already exists. The risks of misuse are vastly less than the risks of continuing on our current path (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). The catastrophe looms (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#running). Those who immediately imagine all that could go wrong with FE are reacting with fear, not caution, do not have their hearts in the right place, and will not be helpful for what I am attempting. Playing the "devil's advocate" is a common fear-based reaction. The fact is that the worst elements of humanity already possess FE technology (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#divine), and Earth is still intact. The ideal proportion for what I am attempting is probably about 95% focusing on attaining a comprehensive and abundance-based perspective (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) and understanding the vision that I present, and about 5% (or less) focus on the cautionary aspects. The best approach is to root one's awareness in an abundance-based world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748) and look back to this one and see how to get there. Those looking at today's world can be forgiven for viewing everything around them and the future with fear (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth), but if that is their predominant state, they will not be helpful for what I am attempting.

The naïveté issue is a big discussion. Everybody that I respect in the FE field began their journeys naively (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts) as overgrown Boy and Girl Scouts. Like Sparky, my former partner also expected a ticker-tape parade (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#naive) for bringing to his extraordinary energy technology to humanity. The opposite happened. So, while naïveté is usually the initial state for FE newcomers, they need to shed their naïveté ASAP, and I may be able to help with that. That naïveté manifests in numerous ways, from thinking that their friends, families, and colleagues will immediately "get" the vision that I am promoting and reach Level 12 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12) (which is where I am attempting to help people reach) or can be somehow herded there by eluding/overcoming their egocentric focus (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egocentric), to the naïveté that denies that organized suppression exists (Level 6 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6)) or thinks that it can be snuck past (Level 7 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7)) or thinks that the Global Controllers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#gc) can be defeated in battle (Level 9 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level9)). Those who think that the pursuit of FE is useless activity because the obstacles are insurmountable (Level 8 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level8)) are also not among those whom I seek. They have already defeated themselves. Those who want to get rich or are overcome with delusions of grandeur (Level 11 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level11)) are also not suitable allies for what I am attempting.

The level of naïveté that I stayed at the longest, and where my former partner and astronaut colleague never quite left, was the idea of forming a mass movement with the teeming masses, who were rallied around some kind of flag (Level 10 (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10)) or vision (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate). I am the most sympathetic to people stuck in that level of awareness, but it also will not work. The very tactics used to appeal to the masses are also used by the Global Controllers' to control the masses. Nobody is going to beat the Global Controllers at their own game, and it is foolish and even suicidal to try.

All of those approaches presented above lead to wrecked and prematurely ended lives, and I am doing something different. It might be called the heart-centered sentience approach. Nothing like it has been tried before, and I need to set a high bar for entry into my effort. Far less than one-in-a-thousand people will achieve the necessary orientation, but I am meeting them far more than halfway. I studied for writing my big essay, after I had been radicalized (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#books), for a quarter-century. The curriculum has been published, for those who have what I am looking for. There are no shortcuts for manifesting the biggest event in the human journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), and those seeking easy answers are advised to look elsewhere. I am looking for needles in haystacks, and I know it all too well.

I am OK with disabusing newcomers of their Level 7 and 10 delusions, but until they relinquish their naïve notions and bright ideas, I cannot begin to teach them. My forum is a virtual classroom and place where I hope to witness singing the abundance song in chorus (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), which has never been heard on Earth before. The work now begins.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I know that it is hard to keep track of, but who are we bombing today? (scratches head...) Oh yes, our former employees in Syria. This is similar to bombing our former employees in Afghanistan (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#brzezinski) or bombing our former pawns in Iraq (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#iran). Millions die and virtually nobody knows or cares in my great nation that committed the murders (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading). Didn't we bomb Iraq last week? Ah, my old head just cannot keep up. Why don't we call it all Westasia or something similarly Orwellian (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#orwell), so that I can keep the scorecard from getting too crowded? And should we just call the bombers "The Oil Crowd (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#churchill1)" or something similar? That would make it all simpler. Anybody who thinks that what is happening there is anything other than The Oil Crowd playing their games (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#ultimate) has a lot to learn.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Anybody who thinks that what is happening there is anything other than The Oil Crowd playing their games has a lot to learn.

Well, I have a confession to make...

When I see people around me cheer the bombing and considering the US foreign policy as a "civilizing force" and the rest of the "animals" deserving what's coming to them because they still live as "savages", I almost go into rage!

I feel like beating them on head with "Manufacturing Consent" or somehow giving them a taste how this civilizing force feels like. It's really hard to be loving at that point :(. Why do I keep being sucked into those kind of conversations I don't know. It never ends well.

This also gives some kind of "superiority complex" when I look around, because "I know better", "I understand and they do not" and I catch myself thinking very low of someone still mired in the "War on Terror" despite being rather good, intelligent people otherwise. I guess is still a lesson that I have to learn, to not judge and just accept the reality as it is, even if I desperately want it to be different.

Wade is not exaggerating when he says that attempting to wake up others to his work or at least an "alternative view" of how the world works, will end up hurting your social circle and career. It does! And listening to some of the most irrational arguments to justify war (especially when you're a likely target) it's something to behold!

[Billy]

The cycle continues. Find them. Employ them, Supply them. Train them. Use them, Sack them. Annihilate Them. Next please.

Peace be upon us all.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

I feel your pain. :) It is natural to want to spread, if not the "truth," then something that is far closer to it than what is served up by the media (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big). Yes, when you see people with their heads so deeply buried in the sand, who endlessly cheer the violence, it is legitimate to wonder if humanity is a sentient species (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience). :)

As I have stated plenty, the masses will not awaken anytime soon (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#machiavelli), except through the power of an Epochal Event (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), and I have the next one in mind (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). :)

Humanity no longer accepts slavery as "normal," but that is just because the Industrial Revolution made slavery economically obsolete (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend). FE will make scarcity obsolete (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#desperation), and the masses will then begin to understand abundance, but not until then. However, the choir will (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). :)

Best,

Wade

[Melinda]

Anybody who thinks that what is happening there is anything other than The Oil Crowd playing their games has a lot to learn.

Well, I have a confession to make...

When I see people around me cheer the bombing and considering the US foreign policy as a "civilizing force" and the rest of the "animals" deserving what's coming to them because they still live as "savages", I almost go into rage!

I feel like beating them on head with "Manufacturing Consent" or somehow giving them a taste how this civilizing force feels like. It's really hard to be loving at that point :(. Why do I keep being sucked into those kind of conversations I don't know. It never ends well.

This also gives some kind of "superiority complex" when I look around, because "I know better", "I understand and they do not" and I catch myself thinking very low of someone still mired in the "War on Terror" despite being rather good, intelligent people otherwise. I guess is still a lesson that I have to learn, to not judge and just accept the reality as it is, even if I desperately want it to be different.

Wade is not exaggerating when he says that attempting to wake up others to his work or at least an "alternative view" of how the world works, will end up hurting your social circle and career. It does! And listening to some of the most irrational arguments to justify war (especially when you're a likely target) it's something to behold!


I sympathise too Ilie.

I’ve had dialogue that left me exhausted with or just disillusioned by people, on any number of topics. Such as the way they’d cheer the Western powers taking down another ‘bad guy’ somewhere to the East, filling each other in on the news with the identical gusto with which they celebrate the football scores. It doesn’t seem to bother them that they’re getting the same news and pictures about death and destruction from TV outlets which (seconds later) supply footage of jubilant sports crowds. What’s more, with those TV news casts there’s usually dramatic music pumped into your ears to convince your emotions that whatever they’re about to feed you is the most important thing you’ll absorb all day.

I once nearly lost patience with an educated guy with money (in a pub full of poor people) who tried to convince me that poorer people just needed to realise how university wasn’t for everyone, and that society needed them to do the manual labour work in order for it to function. There was no remorse in his voice. No willingness to sacrifice his own comparatively inspiring work to do his bit to grease the ugly cogs of our culture. Just the fear (manifesting as arrogance) of someone who doesn’t see solutions and is afraid to lose their ‘niche in hell’ (to borrow a phrase from Wade.) This wasn’t a nasty person though. Just a guy struggling with his fears. I also remember an educated American man joining in a conversation I was having with others, on another occasion, about the devastation brought by Hurricane Katrina. He said his government didn’t need to respond any quicker than it did because New Orleans was mainly full of jobless drug addicts. Initially, I think we all just stared at him. Unsurprisingly, but unfortunately, he was planning a career in politics. Sometimes people can’t handle the confused sense of guilt crying out to be processed, or the feelings of vulnerability, that are itching beneath the denial. These were both young men in their twenties with access to the same books, radio and internet as me. I wonder what it would take for those people to evolve their perspective. They will possibly have to reincarnate into a world where a wiser, more abundant culture has taken root and is prevalent.

I’ve even had debates with people who defended planned obsolescence in technology. It baffles me how anyone could defend something so wasteful and harmful to the environment, but some do. I once watched an interview with Steve Jobs where he explained that Apple don’t hold back the release of advanced technology to suit a selfish agenda. He said they did it because consumers didn’t respond well if you brought out a new device / software that was too different to what they were used to. Even if, in the long term, it proved more intuitive and efficient in the way it functioned. In other words they needed to be eased up to the next level gently. Staggering the release of technological progressions to prevent repelling or overwhelming people is one thing. I can understand it. But planned obsolescence is another. And it has a great deal more to with financial profit and control of people, than its defenders appear ready to admit.

To Ilie’s point about watching people support the war machine, even though they may end up a target, it’s appalling the number of areas of our lives where that applies. By design. Conducive to people feeling paralysed by the onslaught. From flouride, to dodgy medicine, to a lack of employment. While people in one country may be shocked at the way banks in another are threatening to massively tax savings, the banks in their own country have deliberately paid them low interest on their savings for years. Perhaps that’s part of the appeal in TV news. Half hour nightly visuals that reassure you someone else, elsewhere, is far worse off.

I don’t like to prod people’s boundaries, which is why I’m not exactly a party animal. But I’ve found not too many people are interested in the kinds of topics discussed here, and I sympathise. They are hard subjects, even if you feel compelled to them. Even if you suspect you are an older soul. Sometimes it can be lonely – not partying more. But it can prevent wasted energy. I’m happy to plan for the FE party of the future, if it can help it come to pass. And in the meantime, I prefer talking telepathically with the trees. They have no religious, or scarcity-based political affiliations. They run their roots into the darkness of the earth, and draw her breath to the surface, glistening with her patience and her wisdom.

Wishing peace to you all


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[Wade Frazier]

Hi Melinda:

As you know, that rich guy's rationale for manual labor is only a refurbished argument for slavery. I am trying to recall where I read it recently, but a big British or American wig, maybe even a president, said that the lot of the "lower classes" was hard manual labor, not education, and that they had better get used to it. That was about in the 1920s. So, even though slavery is not cool anymore, the echoes of that slavery-justifying behavior can be seen in those pub philosophers.

But, to go back to the end of slavery, it was not until machines began to make slavery obsolete that people began to challenge that hallowed institution. If FE makes its way past the organized suppression, it will spell an end to capitalism and all scarcity-based ideologies (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant). The ideologies have always followed the economic reality and probably always will.

I have written that the USA's standard of living has declined since Peak Oil was reached (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#industrialdecline), and as the middle class has been disappearing, barbaric ideologies have been making their comeback, in which that pub philosopher's observations would fit. If FE does not make its appearance and we fall off the Peak Oil plateau soon, not only will it risk World War III breaking out (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#catastrophes) (many astute observers think that World War III has been happening since 9/11, but we have just not reached the nuclear level yet), but there will literally be a revival of institutions such as slavery, but they won't call it that, in the tradition of Orwell (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#orwell). Again, I do not want to live to see that day come, but slavery largely vanished in Europe during its High Middle Ages, to stage a comeback centuries later. Slavery did not end that long ago, and it was because of industrialization. Once the energy used to power industrial civilizations disappears, those seemingly obsolete institutions will return, as they are economically based. That pub philosopher's arguments do not have to be revised much to justify slavery again and making women barefoot and pregnant. One hell of a lot rides on FE's shoulders, and the surreal part is that almost nobody on Earth knows or cares, and that is just how Godzilla likes it.

Nice picture. So, how old were you when you first read The Hobbit? :)

Maybe because the final Hobbit movie is coming soon, I began to read The Lord of the Rings last week. I used to read it every five years, since my father handed me The Hobbit when I was fourteen (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#bookworm), but I have not read it for twenty years or more. That painting looks like something out of Tolkien.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Beautiful post, Melinda! Thank you!

I don't know who created that painting but it's a vision I've been having for a few years. And funny enough I actually wanted to put it in writing last week, but didn't get to it. :)

I need to pick up my drawing pencil and practice some more :P! I can come up with some interesting images...

[Melinda]

...Nice picture. So, how old were you when you first read The Hobbit? :)

Ah - I think I was about 8 or 9 when our teacher read The Hobbit to us in class. Plenty of magical archetype in Tolkien. The painting, called Awakening, is by artist Emily Balivet. It’s as if the woman in the picture represents the season of spring, emerging after winter. If you look at it one way, it might seem as though she is tied to the earth. But actually she is a part of it, not ‘bound’ but seamlessly connected. Changing her form in a cycle of rest and rejuvenation. If you look closely you can see she is engaging with the butterfly, a symbol of transformation. In an FE context, it reminds me of the shimmer, on the cusp between winter and the dawn of what follows. We are emerging from that winter. There is light on the horizon, as our race has a unique opportunity to blossom.

http://www.emilybalivet.com/

:)


...a big British or American wig, maybe even a president, said that the lot of the "lower classes" was hard manual labor, not education, and that they had better get used to it. That was about in the 1920s. So, even though slavery is not cool anymore, the echoes of that slavery-justifying behavior can be seen in those pub philosophers... [...] ...One hell of a lot rides on FE's shoulders, and the surreal part is that almost nobody on Earth knows or cares, and that is just how Godzilla likes it.

This has always seemed to me one of the hurdles on the path. The appearance of scarcity means less resources, lower standards, people pushed into a survivalist mentality. So the same powers that have permitted the world to be a less nurturing place, are those who like to say the masses are too battered for the cure. It gives certain individuals (like those pub philosophers) the excuse to claim that people are too ignorant or too dangerous to handle FE. And that’s if they’re even aware of it, which most aren’t. The whole class system is a sham, long past what little justification it may have had for existing in order to facilitate progress. Some benefits may have trickled down, but FE is the game-changer.

Undoubtedly we need caution. But we don’t need people turning on each other because they are afraid of not being superior to someone else anymore, no matter what shape that takes. That is an addiction created by scarcity. To truly live in abundance would blow the ‘perks’ of the current middle and upper classes out of the water. People can be defined by the decency they will be freed to show, not by the veneer of quality won by exploitation, nor by martyrdom. But many don’t see it yet. Some do, they just don’t know what to do, which is why certain powers that be keep throwing down more economic burdens, so people won’t have time or headspace to think it through. But it’s an idea whose time has come, which is why bringing it forward peacefully and carefully is so crucial. And it starts, as you’ve always said, with imagining it.

There’s a lot of grey area when you start to ask what motivates people in the wish to help others. Including with FE. For me it’s fairly simple. In my life I was raised with privileges. Being white, always having food on my plate, having an education. But my life would have been even more uplifted, immeasurably, if everyone around me had enjoyed the same kinds of security and acceptance. It’s just common sense.

What people decide to do once we have abundance is up to us all individually. But having privilege and watching others suffer to maintain it is a corrupting way to live. It serves no-one. We could truly have heaven on earth, and that is something to look forward to in every way. It lifts my spirit, just knowing it’s possible.

I realise I’m not adding much. But I’m grateful to have a place where the many-layered aspects of this subject are acknowledged.


Beautiful post, Melinda! Thank you! ...

Thank you Ilie, much appreciated. I thought of your old post on page 6 of the Future Earth thread actually, when I posted that pic...


“Beautiful post Robert!! :)

I had a similar vision with living in symbiosis with the plan life, but I saw a plant-bed.

When you would sleep in this bed the plant would wrap you and cleanse you, for what is toxic for your is nourishment for the plant. The wrap would be gentle and soft, allowing you to move should you want to. The plant would then secrete a scent that would relax your body, allowing you to go into deep and rejuvenating sleep. And finally it would help balance your energies and heal your body while you're sleeping. In return your energy field and your "dream energy" would support the plant.”

Lovely post. As was Robert’s. Stayed with me.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Here is post 4,000 to this thread. That is a lot of water under the bridge. I am getting close to the end of the editing process, and should have the "final" essay version published this month. It has been largely fixing grammar and style, with only small content tweaks. It will have to be good enough for Version 1.0. I plan to make periodic revisions to that essay for as long as I am writing.

There is definitely a method to my madness, and very specific reasons why half of my essay deals with the time before humans arrived on the scene (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#midpoint). It has to do with training the choir, not only for that song, but also to assist with the enlightened implementation of FE. Even as I edited the essay, I kept making more connections that were not previously clear to me, and those "visions (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5)" and "how to do it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#worked)" chapters are where a lot of it comes together. A comprehensive understanding is required for really envisioning FE's potential and how to make it happen.

For those who are professionals, a helpful analogy might be recalling your textbooks and the lessons learned in school, and the difference between school and the real world. Depending on your area of study, the textbooks might have eventually looked like expedient rubbish, or they took on new meaning in your post-graduate life. I have written about how what is taught in school about accounting and how it is practiced in the real world can be like night and day (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#believing). But in other ways, you can later gain a new appreciation for what is in the textbooks. But in the real world, those texts can be old friends that helped you in your baby steps, and as your career progressed, you left those texts behind as you mastered your craft, and they may have become cherished relics. My essay is intended kind of like that, in that just making it through the essay will be like reading a textbook for the first time. Mastery of the material will be a long way off. One of the hard parts will be that few will have much experience in the real world of bringing disruptive technology to market, and getting experience in the FE field is perilous. However, for most of what I have in mind, building the choir does not need experience on that high-abrasion road. But if a person has life experience in some of the essay's subject matter, then it will go a long way toward getting the bigger picture of what I am attempting to impart.

As I think I have mentioned on this thread before, the primary lessons that Dennis and his wife learned on their journey was about humanity. People are the same everywhere, and people such as Ilie have poked around in my material, banged it up against the real world, and realized that I am not making anything up. :) Indeed, trying to wake up those around you is very perilous (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=880408&viewfull=1#post880408). My intended "choir" is going to be a place where people can pursue and discuss the subject matter of my writings without losing friends, family relationships, and careers. But it is not just intended to be a safe place, but I plan for us to get something done, like help manifest the biggest event in the human journey. It is not small stuff.

Hi Melinda:

Class systems began with civilization and will become obsolete with FE (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#class). Almost nobody can really imagine it today, but nobody could imagine the end of slavery (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#southseas), either, before the Industrial Revolution began.

I have been fortunate to see the erosion of class systems in my lifetime. You live in the land of pubs, where the class system's roots are deep. During Dennis's amazing adventures, he got to see how the USA' s Eastern Oligarchy acted, as they tried to be like English lords (their servants called them "master," and the like). I could go on about the contrast between the USA's east and west coasts and class, and perhaps the best example is when I was in the popcorn line behind the world's richest man (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates), and nobody but me recognized him. West Coast high tech is that way a lot, as contrasted with the East Coast, where you can still hear the echoes of "master" in the way that they do business. All of that class erosion is because of the benefits of the postwar boom (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#postwar), but as the USA's standard of living has been declining (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hubbert), I am witnessing the erosion of that egalitarian ideal, and class systems are again rearing their heads.

Best,

Wade