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Wade Frazier

15th July 2017, 17:39

Hi:

I wrote that this series of posts would be about anecdotes, and I’ll mention some more. When people deny the significance of free energy, they are normal. I recently talked with Dennis, for the first time in several years, and Dennis does not understand the epochal significance of free energy. If Dennis does not understand, how understandable is the masses’ lack of understanding? A big reason for my big essay is to get across free energy’s epochal significance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). Scientific literacy is probably required to truly understand its significance. If people can understand its significance, they can keep their eyes on the ball and not go chasing off down the many rabbit holes out there.

I’ll give another Level 1 reaction to free energy. One of my dear friends, who also was one of my investors with Dennis, was of Japanese ancestry and grew up in one of the internment camps (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans) in World War II. She knew what her government was capable of, but when I saw her in the summer of 1988, as my life was falling apart (and just before Dennis was arrested (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail)), when the conversation turned to what was happening in Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr), she went on the offensive, saying that the police would not have come after us unless we had done something illegal. It was a cousin to that former girlfriend’s attacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=622&viewfull=1#post622), and just one of many similar reactions that I received in those days. As I have stated plenty, when it got back to me that my own mother was campaigning against me (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=400492&highlight=treasure#post400492), it no longer even hurt anymore, but those early reactions were a shock. And in the instance of that friend, my mother, and that friend who eventually criminally attacked me (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page10?p=823&viewfull=1#post823), they all knew that I always did the right thing, Golden Boy from beginning-to-end. They had all seen me in action, and they all hero-worshipped me at times. When anybody begins to hero-worship me today, I put a stop to it if I can. I found that hero-worshipping me is about them, not me, and their later attacks are also about them, not me. Almost without exception, anybody who hero-worshipped me later attacked me, and often enough, after I had rescued them.

When I discuss my journey with people new to it, the best of them often do their homework and perform some diligence. They will always come back impressed. There is vastly more documentation of my pedigree and journey than I have published, and it does not take much gumption to dig it up. That is how people who begin with understandable Level 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level2) skepticism can get over the hump. But, in order to get over that hump, they have to relinquish their belief in the “system,” such as our “justice (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#law)” system, the media (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big), retail politics, and the like. Not many can go there, and most of the time, when people encounter such “discordant” information, they have to resolve their cognitive dissonance (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#cognitive) by making me wrong, unworthy, a criminal, etc. I certainly don’t go out and seek to have such conversations, and in my old age, I carefully choose whom I have such conversations with, and ease into them, ready to back out and end the conversation if I see their defenses go up. I almost never get the kinds of reactions that I did back in the 1980s, as I go about it very carefully. Those experiences are also why I caution free energy newcomers from going out and proselytizing to their social circles. I am not talking to people about a slick YouTube presentation that I stumbled into or some clever book, but my experiences and those of my close circle. If I can’t really talk to my social circles about my experiences, and only under carefully selected circumstances, my pupils don’t have a prayer of doing so. The best that they can do is send people a link to my work and just watch what happens. Those that I seek will dive in and not come up for air for weeks, months, or years. They can gauge the reactions of their social circles in that way, and do it relatively risk-free.

I do my best to inform people that if they resonate with my work, that probably nobody else in their social circles will. Those are just the numbers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), and judging the situation is a trap (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1). The people I seek just have to learn to accept it, and my best students almost invariably go right out and proselytize to their social circles, to return to me, chastened, telling tales of ostracism, and then are more willing to learn and heed my cautions. Proselytizing to their social circles is at about the kindergarten level of the free energy journey, and my goal is to get them at least through high school. It will not be easy.

For Levels 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3) and 5 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level5), I could give many more examples of it, but I will let Brian take the stage. I’ll give a last one of my own, of my interactions with Richard Stallman in 2006 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=849&viewfull=1#post849). He was a pretty standard Level 3, but he at least evinced some Level 4 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level4) open-mindedness, stating that if free energy devices were delivered to scientists, they could then study them, and then free energy could become scientifically respectable.

If anybody gets the award for most ardent proselyting to their social circles, it is arguably Brian. In 1996, he took to the road, playing the global Paul Revere of Free Energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#revere). Brian had credentials and access that I’ll never have, and he banged on every door that he could. He talked up free energy with his colleagues at the tops of Earth’s scientific, political, and “progressive” institutions. All that he got for his trouble was a hair-style change from the wind of the doors slammed in his face.

In our epic note-trading session in 2001, after we were nearly run out of town for trying to interest California’s governor in free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#governor), in the midst of his career-ending raping by Enron and friends (http://ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#enron), Brian told me how his ride went for the past five years. He gave me a litany of reactions of denial and fear, from luminaries such as Lester Brown (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/73-Darren-Geffert-s-introductory-posts?p=130&viewfull=1#post130) and Amory Lovins (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions), who nearly soiled himself when Brian mentioned free energy. I have heard that Brian did it publicly, which can be seen in videos someplace on the Internet, but one of my favorite memories of Brian was his describing the reaction of the department chair of what is arguably Earth’s most prestigious physics department, who pedantically thrust his finger in the air as he dismissed free energy on the basis of “the laws of physics.” Brian ended that litany in my car with openly wondering if humanity was a sentient species (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience). My heart hurt for him when I heard it, but I understood.

As I have stated before (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/45-Chapter-28-What-Has-Not-Worked-So-Far-and-What-Might/page2?p=989&viewfull=1#post989), I never saw any Level 1s or 3s leave their levels. Both abdicated their sentience in favor of the paradigms that feed them (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant). Level 3s are the most dug in of all, and will likely be among the last on Earth to embrace free energy, not the first. This Level 1/3 issue is also a close cousin to the Brooking’s Institute’s recommendation to NASA (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#brookings), on how religious zealots and scientists would likely be the two groups most resistant to the idea of intelligent ET life (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2). Near his life’s end, Brian told me that the collective blindness and denial of mainstream science was worse today than it was a century ago, when the Wright brothers were ignored or ridiculed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wright) for five years after they first flew.

I am going to leave those levels of unawareness, denial, and fear behind for now, to focus on those trying to “do something” about free energy, those levels 6 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6), 7 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7), 9 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level9), 10 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10), and 11 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level11). Those levels, while generally noble of purpose on some level, still drag around the baggage of scarcity and fear, and are very unlikely to lead to productive activity. I am going to end this series of posts with a summary of which level(s) each failed approach to free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) hails from. It may help my target audience understand what is different about my approach (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), and why I think that it might have a chance.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

16th July 2017, 19:26

Hi:

The first level of “do something” I call Level 6 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6). It is usually comprised of free energy inventors. They think that they can develop a free energy prototype and it will be welcomed and eagerly embraced by the world, especially the corporations and governments. They have no idea that such a thing as organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) even exists. I was never there (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dream), even when I was 16, as I imagined that powerful interests might not be too keen on such a thing.

I’ll not deny that there may be some noble motivation with those inventors, but my experience eventually informed me that inventors invent to get rich and famous, not to help the world. As my initial orientation was inventor-centric (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse), and Mr. Mentor is still the closest thing that I ever saw to an altruistic inventor, the delusion that it took the longest for me to shed was that inventors really care about humanity and the planet, and that getting their invention out there was more important than profiting from it. Mr. Inventor was the first person to begin to enlighten me on inventors (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/81-Vignettes-from-my-journey-and-how-I-learned-what-I-did-and-came-to-my-approach?p=209&viewfull=1#post209), and by the time that I saw Yull Brown screw Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/89-Free-energy-psychic-abilities-and-the-skeptics-and-debunkers?p=413&viewfull=1#post413) a decade later, I was forever cured of my delusion.

I think that one reason for my delusion persisting that long is that I am likely an Artisan soul (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading), and creativity is the positive pole of that role (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#role). The positive pole is accessed via love, so I thought that when people did their best creative work, that love was motivating them, especially free energy inventors (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest). It is how it works for me, and I was guilty of psychological projection, as my fellow Boy Scouts (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts) often were.

While I will allow at least some benevolent motivation amongst free energy inventors, I came to understand that while most could talk a good game, they were all in it primarily to serve their self-interest. Sparky Sweet (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky) was the quintessential Level 6, mailing out working prototypes of his free energy gizmo to the big energy institutions, thinking that he was going to get the tickertape parade (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tickertape2). The opposite happened, and Sparky died a lonely and possibly violent death. When Dennis hit Seattle in late 1984 (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#seattle), he also thought that he would get the tickertape parade (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tickertape1) for bringing the energy conservation that the full-page ads of the electric companies said that they wanted so much. The opposite happened.

Naïveté is no crime (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive), and all of my fellow travelers, and I, suffered from it as we began our adventures. Level 6s are generally blithely naïve about free energy and the real world. The vast majority of free energy inventors never come up with something worth suppressing (a recent estimate that I saw was more than 95%), so they will never leave Level 6 and generally leave the field at that level, with their dreams of riches and fame, and maybe helping the world along the way, dashed.

If inventors with the goods and can survive the initial suppression (it is rarely violent at first, but their lives are often wrecked), then they can move out of Level 6. Dennis went straight from Level 6 to Level 10 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10), and I went along for that ride with him. Many Level 6s ended up getting the Golden Handcuffs (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#payoff) and they were never the wiser, as they were in it for the money, anyway. Only when they rejected the friendly buyout offer did Godzilla begin playing rough (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#graphic). We got our friendly buyout offer in Boston (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=623&viewfull=1#post623), soon after I became Dennis’s partner. Oh, if we had only known what we were in for.

In summary, Level 6s did not fall for the “laws of physics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3)” denial of free energy’s possibility, but they generally swallowed their nationalist and capitalist (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) indoctrination hook, line, and sinker.

God bless the Level 6s, but they have no idea what they are in for, and those with the goods are often lambs to the slaughter. Until this past generation, Level 6 was generally the entry-level awareness of free energy inventors and activists, but in these days of the Internet, that kind of naïveté is hard to maintain. They should have at least heard of organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). For those who have, many graduate to the next Level, Level 7 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7), which is one of the most dangerous levels of all to play at, which will be the subject of a coming post, as I wind my way through the levels.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

18th July 2017, 13:46

Hi:

Level 7 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7) is where slightly worldlier free energy inventors and activists reside, at least for a while. They at least credit the idea that there is organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). In some ways, it is better than the defeatist Level 8 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level8), but it is arguably the most dangerous level of awareness. Thinking that they can sneak past the organized suppression is a potentially deadly delusion. Mark (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&viewfull=1#post811647) quickly went from naïve Level 6 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6) to deadly naïve Level 7, to be rudely disabused of his adolescent Level 7 notion, to make it to Level 10 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10), where most free energy activists with my respect reside. Mark is a genius, and it took only one incident to cure him of his Level 7 delusion. He later learned the magnitude of his folly.

Nobody on Earth has a better free energy radar than Godzilla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) does. From people who should know, I have heard that he even has satellite technology that can tell when somebody taps the zero-point field (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf1). When I have mentioned that, I have been offered a way to shield the device from detection, in a demonstration that the “helpful” person completely missed the point of my statement. Free energy inventors and activists become potentially suicidal when they start thinking that they can sneak past Godzilla.

I have stated that the Levels are not mutually exclusive, and during my Level 10 days with Dennis, he often played secrecy games, and I hated it at the time. I have been in meetings in public venues where we wrote out our discussion instead of talk it, to defeat the eavesdroppers, and we likely were under that kind of surveillance. I eventually realized that any effort that had to start playing secrecy games was doomed. The very nature of the secrecy game leads in the wrong direction. Secrecy is Godzilla’s game, and he can’t be beaten at it. I have assumed that I have been under constant surveillance since the 1980s, and I don’t lose any sleep over it. Anybody who thinks that he/she can be anonymous from Godzilla and interact with me is foolish. I will never have anonymous members of my effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), as anonymity defeats the very purpose of what I am doing, as it is based on fear. Anonymous cowards are not going to make free energy happen.

When people begin playing the secrecy game, they invite in paranoia, “specialness,” and other problems that will help lead to the internal collapse of the effort before Godzilla even needs to get involved. It was refreshing to hear Steven Greer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort) learn his lesson on that score. He advocates open-sourcing (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=945&viewfull=1#post945) and complete transparency for any free energy technical effort. He stated that secrecy and deception were Godzilla’s tools, and that he can’t be beaten at his game. I heartily applaud that direction, even if Greer is still stuck in Level 10. There are worse places to be, but I strongly doubt that Level 10 will work. But Level 7 is the height of foolishness, for free energy newcomers who watched too many spy movies.

Another adolescent level is Level 9 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level9), in which the free energy aspirants think that they can defeat Godzilla, usually violently. Level 9 is for the delusional Young Warriors (http://ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#warriors), and it is the exclusive province of men. You can hear various activists threaten Godzilla with their ninja warriors and the like, but they don’t even know where to begin looking. When the Young Warriors arrive, hankering for a confrontation with Godzilla, the only thing that you can guarantee that is the only people threatened by such an approach are the Young Warriors themselves and those they say they are protecting. Godzilla chuckles when Young Warriors get all in a lather, to go fight the “bad guys,” like in cowboy movies. He is not threatened by such approaches. When people around us began making Level 9 boasts, they were the ones who attacked us, in the end, as they helped destroy the effort.

The last major delusional level I call Level 11 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level11), which is where the megalomaniacs live, dreaming of becoming the Bill Gates of free energy and declaring themselves the Second Coming (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#grandeur) or Messiah (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah). I had to wrestle with my own Level 11 delusions (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=621&viewfull=1#post621) soon after becoming Dennis’s partner, before I was rudely disabused of my fantasies. I know the lure, but it is just one more way to lose one’s way. Billionaire “philanthropists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy)” can also live there. Brian described his “anger and awe (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#oleary)” when a free energy zillionaire made his strategy plain: wait like a vulture until the time is right to swoop in and take over the field. Billionaires swarmed Greer and Dennis, but they were all worthless opportunists who never parted with a dollar.

To one degree or another, those levels are all rooted in scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), not love (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest), and not with an abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance) mindset.

Best,

Wade

Krishna

19th July 2017, 05:08

Been reading "The Last Ape: Pygmy Chimpanzee Behavior and Ecology" by Takayoshi Kano one of the first researchers on the Bonobo.
The range of bonobo is a rain forest with little variation in climate everyday, over the year. Leading to a steady environment, this seems
to me the key to the evolution of a relatively more peaceful bonobo society.
Chimpanzees on the other hand have much more extreme weather, because of this extreme environmental stress are ruled by the strong,
who dominate and make the societies an image of their own.

Wade Frazier

19th July 2017, 13:44

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1167384&viewfull=1#post1167384):

Yes, when times get hard, our line of primates gets harsh. We are seeing it with the disintegration of the American middle class (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hubbert), and all declining and collapsing societies had that dynamic of the social fabric disintegrating, as it became every man for himself (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1146317&viewfull=1#post1146317).

The environment that the bonobo adapted to had a lot to do with its social organization, especially when gorillas left the area and the food supply doubled (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1). Large, stable foraging parties resulted. One dynamic that I read about was that there is no lone foraging among bonobos, because of that enhanced food supply and large groups. So, the chimp strategy of finding and killing lone foraging males (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coalitionary) in neighboring societies no longer worked. That wet and stable environment that you refer to is only that way during interglacial periods such as now (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#iceageeurope1). For most the past two million years of bonobo evolution, it was not that way, and they likely survived by living in the river valleys that feed the Congo. It was likely not much different from their chimp relatives at the time, except that there were no gorillas in the region to compete for food.

There is speculation that bonobos are the closest things existing to australopiths (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lucy), and the human line may have had bonobo-like social organization at times. It is speculated that Ardi’s species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ardi) is on that line that may have at least partly given up the chimps’ murderous ways. I’ll agree that nurture can become nature, hinted at by those Dutch children from the Dutch famine in Late World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_famine_of_1944%E2%80%9345#Legacy).

This is one reason why I am so “on it” about the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). The human condition will change radically, as will the human potential, and even human nature will likely be affected. I’ll bet that the humans in those two Roads worlds (1 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115), 2 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748)) had (or will have :) ) significant genetic differences.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

20th July 2017, 15:07

Hi:

Level 10 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10) is where I spent my early activist years. The day that I met Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=602&viewfull=1#post602), he announced the first of his many Level 10 plans. He is still at it. In our recent conversation, he said that he wanted to do something before he died to put the USA “back on its feet” and make his dealers whole. He never gave up on his Level 10 dreams. He has been banned from the energy industry in the USA (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&viewfull=1#post694872), so he is playing the Level 10 game in medicine, reflecting his medic days (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=576&viewfull=1#post576). Good luck with that (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm).

I have presented many Level 10 anecdotes, especially here (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/81-Vignettes-from-my-journey-and-how-I-learned-what-I-did-and-came-to-my-approach?p=197&viewfull=1#post197) and here (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574), so no need to belabor it. My Seattle days with Dennis were when my education began, and seeing the employees cheer the theft of Dennis’s company (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=604&viewfull=1#post604), and watching that courtroom charade (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=605&viewfull=1#post605), were among the indelible memories of that year. When I chased Dennis to Boston (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=611&viewfull=1#post611) and improbably became his partner (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=614&viewfull=1#post614), my learning curve dramatically steepened. When Mr. Mentor cut his secret deal with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=647&viewfull=1#post647) to move the company to Ventura, my fate was sealed. I got to see the rocket take off (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=654&viewfull=1#post654), and I got to see us swatted down (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=660&viewfull=1#post660). My life was shattered in those days (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr), and I was radicalized. I can’t overemphasize the lessons of experience, and few have ever played on the stage that we did. I was with Dennis during the darkest days of his journey and sacrificed my life to rescue him (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=687&viewfull=1#post687), and I can still barely imagine what he has lived through. But to this day, I hear no end of the bright ideas that free energy newcomers present to me, which are all naïve variations of strategies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) that we and our fellow travelers have tried many times. Dennis does nothing halfway, but throws his life into it. You really have to see it to believe it. Hearing those naïve Level 10 bright ideas only reinforces to me that such approaches don’t have a prayer. It is long past time for something different, to approach the issue from a far higher plane of awareness and integrity, which is how I eventually came to my choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) approach.

When the dust settled in Ventura in 1990, I had long since learned my life’s primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) and had strong doubts about the businessman’s path to free energy. When my second stint with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page9?p=803&viewfull=1#post803) was finished, I was forever cured of thinking that the businessman’s path had a prayer. But spear-carrying is in my DNA, and I carried Brian’s in the next decade (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=842&viewfull=1#post842). In the aftermath of that disaster, I was forever cured of any Level 10 notions, and Americans have not been my target audience since 2004. They are history’s most brainwashed people (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bernays), and think they are free.

I was always studious, from the time I could walk (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#bookworm), and I began hitting the books (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=689&viewfull=1#post689) to help prepare any expert witnesses that my legal fund might line up, but it wasn’t until I moved to Ohio in 1990 that I began my deep dive (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=739&viewfull=1#post739) that never really finished. After I finished the 2002 version of my site, I was introduced to Uncle Bucky’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller) and began another phase of my scholarly and scientific journey. It began with Richard Heinberg (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=841&viewfull=1#post841) and the Peak Oilers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil), and my studies after 2007 were mostly scientific and were made with writing what became my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm) in mind. My update of that essay is more than a year overdue, due to the demands of my life, including resuming my career, for what might be its last stint.

I understand the allure of Level 10, but the general public does not have the collective integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) to support such an effort. They only see their immediate self-interest. When I saw Dennis try his Level 10 efforts, he was always appealing to the population management ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) to gain traction, but allegiance to those ideologies is how people have been brainwashed. Those ideologies are part of the problem, not the solution. They all short-circuit sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1), as they create in-groups (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup) at the expense of out-groups (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup1). We are all one (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enemy).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

21st July 2017, 15:17

Hi:

Before I get to Level 12 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12), which is what interests me, I want to cover Levels 13 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level13) to 15 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level15). Level 13 is where some free energy inventors ended up. They generally were successful with developing technology that could tap the zero-point field. While my Levels were developed to deal with free energy, the fate of Level 13s can also apply to a wide array of potentially disruptive technologies, such as new mining techniques (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#platinum). I have heard many harrowing tales over the years, and not just with free energy inventors, but free energy is the Big One (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal). Brian O knew about 25 dead inventor stories (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors). Greer was told of the $100 billion in quiet money (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#payoff). We got the friendly buyout offer (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#ten) a couple of months after I became Dennis’s partner, and they added a couple of zeroes (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer) a year later, before they began playing rough (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail). The adding some zeroes trick (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=623&viewfull=1#post623) is not unusual. At the level that Godzilla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) plays at – controlling a planet – a trillion dollars to keep the lid on disruptive technologies is a pittance. He has developed his game into a science (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#graphic).

No independent free energy effort has ever been allowed to get to the finish line of bringing commercially viable technology to market. They don’t let anybody get close, but strangle all efforts in their cradles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). There is a $200 million chasm (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demonstrate) to cross in the first place. What makes Dennis’s journey so unique and informative for those with the right stuff (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) is that unlike any free energy effort ever attempted, he actually brought disruptive technology to market, when he put the world’s best heating system (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new) on people’s homes for free (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs). Discerning readers can learn what bag of tricks is brought to bear when something disruptive is brought to market. Free energy inventors in their garages have not even stepped on the playing field yet.

I do not try to collect tales of organized suppression. I am a tale myself, and soldiers who have seen battle (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#sledge) don’t regale their families with war stories, but do their best to forget them. During my first stint with Dennis, I heard more stories than I care to recall, as they could become monotonous. In Ventura, a couple of elderly brothers from Europe told me how they attended one of those conferences when Max Gerson was poisoned (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gerson). In those Ventura days, a member of the clergy told me that the skullduggery that we were experiencing was global in scope. He told of witnessing such activity in New Zealand, to swindle some Maori out of their land. That is a familiar tale (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint). :)

What I get a lot of from free energy newcomers is a kind of titillating interest in suppression tales, in a kind of denial/fascination, and some seem to want to go tweak the lion’s tail, to see if the stories were true. What a potentially deadly delusion. It is a cousin to 18-year-old boys pining to prove their manhood on the battlefield (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business). In some ways, I am happy when my pupils rush out to proselytize to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), even after I try to dissuade them from doing it. It is relatively low-risk behavior, as they “only” risk their careers and relationships, not their lives. They can get a little taste of the reality that I write about without risking their lives, and they can get chastened before they go out and foolishly play suicidal games.

I’ll tell a few new ones here, or, at least, I think they are new. I have heard a lot of Adam Trombly’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/radio.htm#trombly) story over the years, almost straight from the horse’s mouth. He has survived something like 40 murder attempts. Adam’s story is the only one that I have heard of that matches Dennis’s on the preposterous scale. I have been invited to hang out with Adam, but he is just too hot. With my luck, the bullet would miss him and hit me. :) I don’t want to betray Adam’s confidence, so will tell an innocuous anecdote.

What happened to my efforts with Dennis, with provocateurs infiltrated into the inside, such as Bill (http://ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm) and Ken (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/81-Vignettes-from-my-journey-and-how-I-learned-what-I-did-and-came-to-my-approach?p=206&viewfull=1#post206), is not unusual. In fact, in my circles, they are standard features, and I have heard them called “inside people,” whose jobs are to help tear down the effort from the inside. As I saw with Bill and Ken, they could coordinate their efforts with outside attacks, in what I have called an “inside-outside job.” Because the level of integrity of Joe Average is so low (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708), inside-outside jobs are very effective, as Joe becomes a willing member of the mutiny, happily slitting his own throat as he chases the bait of self-interest (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#angel). As Brian learned at NEM (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=853&viewfull=1#post853) and another organization that he helped found, even organizations of initiates, with no provocateurs on the inside, readily tear themselves apart from the inside as everybody jockeys for position. It happened to Joe Firmage’s effort in the 1990s (http://deletionpedia.org/en/Joe_Firmage), as I heard from somebody who helped tear NEM apart.

The first dozen times or so that I saw our business associates try to steal our company, I was shocked (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#shocked). Dennis told me to join the club, and said that I would eventually lose my shock. In ways, it was like how I became used to working in the hell of Skid Row (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&viewfull=1#post406928). Eventually, a dead body on the sidewalk just became part of the scenery. Another attempt to steal our company was just another day at the office.

Early in Adam’s journey, one man came into his effort, as Adam was trying to make things happen. Adam played the game, of political action (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#activism), “philanthropists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy1),” and the like, and that man was Adam’s most enthusiastic supporter, who was 100% on the same page with Adam. It did not get any better than that supporter, at least until the moment came when that supporter was supposed to interact with some big players who were going to provide assistance to Adam. Then, that “supporter” instantly went from 100% with Adam to 100% against Adam, as he actively scuttled the deal and disappeared. That is one way that “inside people” ply their trade.

I have purposely designed my effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) to not be very vulnerable to “inside people,” which is one reason why my effort is starting slowly. I constantly hear from free energy newbies with their bright ideas, blithely suggesting tactics and strategies that invariably lead to disaster (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches), but they are too naïve to realize it.

Organized suppression of disruptive technologies is all too real, what we encountered was capitalism on steroids (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#steroids), and thousands of free energy aspirants discovered that the hard way. The “lucky” free energy aspirants got the Golden Handcuffs (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bearden), while the less fortunate had their lives wrecked or prematurely terminated. Level 13s know that free energy technology is real, because they developed some themselves. Sparky Sweet’s story (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky) is all-too-typical.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

22nd July 2017, 15:49

Hi:

Few people on Earth are Level 15s (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level15). They have had free energy technology demonstrated to them, almost always in intimate settings, as far as I know. Many genuine free energy prototypes have been demonstrated (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demonstrate), sometimes in public venues, but the best demonstrations were done privately. Mr. Advisor was invited to meet with Sparky Sweet (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#sweet), and witnessing his describing watching Sparky’s device operate was unforgettable. He was awestruck by the experience.

Free energy is far from the only exotic technology in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard, and Steven Greer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=938&viewfull=1#post938) spoke of watching electrogravity craft fly around in an underground setting (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=909&viewfull=1#post909). You have to play in highly rarified air to be invited to something like that. The few people that I know of who received such shows played at levels at which they risked their lives for many years. Surviving murder attempts seemed to be one prerequisite for eligibility for shows such as those.

But all such demonstrations paled next to what my close friend was shown (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) a generation ago. He received a generous demonstration of technologies in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard, which was likely snuck out the back door for that demonstration, and the demonstrators almost certainly risked their lives to do so. My friend does not know who gave the demonstration or where it was, as he was transported there blindfolded and under bizarre conditions. It was not a typical invitation. I have purposely not wanted to know very much about that demonstration, to protect people. My friend’s eyes were bugging out of his head, and he told the demonstrators that they did not play in his galaxy. When I told Brian O of that demonstration, his reaction was along the lines of, “So, what else is new?” Brian was well aware of demonstrations like that, but my friend’s is the only one like that that I have directly heard of, by watching as the witness describes it to me.

Free energy, antigravity (or electrogravity) technology, advanced materials that show that Flubber is not so fictional, and other exotic technologies are on the planet today. You can take that to the bank. The means to a Star Trek civilization (Type 1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev)) on Earth already exist. But we don’t get any while we collectively slumber, are ruled by scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), and are our own worst enemies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#attacks). But free energy is the Big One, with Epochal significance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5).

Then there is the other side of the table, the Level 14s (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level14). They also know that free energy technology exists, because they get to use and play with it every day, as part of their jobs. Level 15s have far more credibility with me than Level 14s. When so-called “insiders” leak information or go on the talk circuits, I always take their “revelations” with a grain of salt, as there is also a great deal of disinformation coming from within those ranks, for various reasons. The whistleblowers that I respect the most are people such as Ralph McGehee (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm) and John Perkins (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#neocolonialist), who have indisputable bona fides with well-documented tales. When so-called insiders come forward with their stories, without any documentary or other hard evidence, it pays to keep a skeptical eye.

Greer’s most credible Disclosure Project witnesses (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#greer) were those on the “outside” of such operations, who saw something that they weren’t supposed to. What Gordon Cooper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Cooper#UFO_sightings) reported, for instance, is at the height of credibility. I have heard several astronaut tales of close encounters in space, and some have remained private affairs. Astronauts who speak out about close encounters in space, after they have been read-in (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read_into) following the encounters, risk their lives to do so, which is why you never hear them telling about such encounters publicly. You don’t even get death-bed confessions from them, because the goons threaten their families with retribution if they speak out. One of Ed Mitchell’s moments of awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page3?p=416&viewfull=1#post416) was when he witnessed the Director of Intelligence of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Tom Wilson (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_R._Wilson), being denied access to a Special Access Program (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_access_program) that Greer identified to him.

Barry Goldwater’s reporting (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#goldwater) of what happened when he asked to see (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater#UFOs) Hangar 18 and the Blue Room at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base), which I lived near when I met Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#meet), is also highly credible. An amusing anecdote about Wright-Patterson (which was built where the Wright brothers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wright) flew their first planes) is that there is a museum of flight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Museum_of_the_United_States_Air_Force) at Wright-Patterson. It is impressive, beginning with the Wright brothers (that denial and ridicule by mainstream science is minimized in the Wright brothers’ exhibit) and some NASA gear was also presented (http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Space-Gallery/). On the second floor, next to the restrooms, was a small glass case, about two feet on a side and a few feet tall, on UFOs. It was the only mention in the entire museum. As I recall, there was a meteorite fragment in that case, and maybe a picture of “swamp gas,” as the text in that exhibit stated that the UFO issue was a minor curiosity, of people’s mistaking meteorites and the like for ET craft. On Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, of all places (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright-Patterson_Air_Force_Base#UFO_studies). It was the funniest part of the museum. I have interacted with leading space “skeptics” and I have been on the receiving end of their “debunking,” and they were either idiots, criminals, or both (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=942&viewfull=1#post942). Brian O’s life was shortened (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack) when he snooped into the UFO issue (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2).

Even if Level 14s were telling the straight truth when they played “whistleblower (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#whistleblower),” they were being allowed to speak publicly, and the reasons for that comprise a highly controversial subject. All Level 14s who go public have been tainted by their employment history and the reasons for their being allowed to speak out. I am sure that some are telling the truth as they know it, but others are playing the disinformation game (some are not even genuine insiders, but pretend that they are), with some truth and plenty of fiction in their testimony, whether they are doing it wittingly or not. Winnowing the truth from the disinformation is a nearly impossible task for examining “whistleblower” testimony such as that, and I advise truth-seekers to spend more of their time looking elsewhere, and take what they glean from that milieu with a huge grain of salt.

Next up is what my work is really all about, Level 12s (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12). There are also not many of them on Earth today, but they are my target audience, and only they can truly help with my effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

23rd July 2017, 15:22

Hi:

Why do I think that the Level 12 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12) approach has a chance of success? It is not the only path to success that I know of. Ten Dennises, or a hundred Brians, combining their efforts, and we would have had free energy long ago. But I have not heard of anybody else like Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany), and I also have not met anybody quite like Brian, which is one reason why Greer repeatedly used a plug from Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=938&viewfull=1#post938). There are just not enough people like them on Earth today. So, I am stepping it back a notch or three. I don’t need heroes (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#heroes) for my plan to work. In fact, the hero’s approach can be a trap (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah1), in several ways, and the hazard of megalomania is one of them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level11).

When I mentioned my Level 12 approach to Dennis and Brian, both instantly realized that I was doing something different, and Brian was planning to promote my approach (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=918852&viewfull=1#post918852) before he died. If you think about Levels 1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level1) to 11 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level11) deeply enough, what becomes evident is that they all have scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) in common, in both obvious and subtle ways. Those levels of awareness also underlie all of those failed paths to free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches). The only quality of those lower levels that I can see could arguably not arise from scarcity and fear is the naïveté behind Level 6 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6).

Everybody that I respected the most in the free energy field began their journeys naively, and were generally overgrown Boy and Girl Scouts (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts). Those in Level 6 bought many of the Big Lies of their indoctrination and conditioning, believed what they read in the newspapers (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big) and saw on TV (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#deputy), were taught in the classroom, and the like (all except for free energy’s possibility, so they did not buy the “laws of physics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3)” canard). Unless somebody is a child, being fed those lies and not knowing any better (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#glory), in this day and age, maintaining that level of naiveté (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive) takes hard work. They can maintain that tunnel vision because they are afraid to expand their awareness. Somebody in Level 6 lives in a cocoon of ignorance, and it is hard to argue that fear and scarcity are not largely responsible for that tunnel vision. They had opportunities to broaden their perspective, especially in this Internet Age, but chose not to. Why?

What have Level 12s accomplished that makes them useful for making free energy happen? In short:

They are motivated by love, not fear;
They are not self-seeking;
They have awoken past their conditioning;
They seek the truth;
They are discerning;
They have developed a comprehensive awareness;
They are ready to act.

I have discussed the qualities that I seek before (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/52-Helpful-Prerequisites-for-Forum-Participation?p=69&viewfull=1#post69)), and will try to not repeat myself too much, but I will show how their qualities enabled them to avoid the pitfalls (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls) that have ensnared so many. I do not kid myself; such people are exceedingly rare, at one-in-thousands (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers) amongst the general population, and if I did not have a global medium such as the Internet, I would not even be thinking in the direction that I have for the past 20 years or more.

The first five qualities listed above they have to come to this issue with. Nobody can give them those qualities; they earned them themselves. What I can help with is developing that comprehensive awareness (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing). Very few on Earth have had my particular journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601), and I am trying to prevent what I learned from going to waste. I am the last man standing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures) among my inner circle, and Earth and humanity are on the brink today (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). I long ago accepted that I am on special assignment, and like Dennis and Brian, I will do it until I can’t anymore.

I tell people from the very beginning to not expect to make a living from this work. In fact, trying to make a living from it is a path to failure, as it is self-seeking. It is “reasonable” to want to make a living, but this task, manifesting the biggest event in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), is anything but “normal.” All of the usual motivations, rooted in fear, scarcity, and survival, won’t work for this task. People have advised me to parlay my work into an advanced degree, sell books, and the like for more than 20 years, but that is the devil’s flypaper. If I had gone that way, I would have failed long ago.

I doubt that anybody is born a Level 12. It is a long, winding road to get there, and only lovers of the truth, who are unwilling to settle for the bromides of our conditioning, are candidates. To use some current jargon, they are self-selected.

One early lesson that my pupils learn, if they haven’t before they encountered me, is that sociality is based on fear and scarcity. It is not exactly a novel realization; it is a standard understanding among biologists and anthropologists. Social animals are social because it enhances their survival prospects (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialreason). In fact, internal societal “cohesion” has largely been developed through outside threats. Sociality is based on self-seeking, and is worthless for the free energy pursuit (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy?p=925&viewfull=1#post925). Most of my best students learn this early on, as they just have to spread the “good news” of free energy amongst their social circles, even as I caution them against it. They quickly find out what a thin reed their social circles are, as they are attacked, ostracized, and the like. If they are lucky, they don’t wreck too many relationships, their careers, etc. The social approach is worse than worthless for this task (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). As Brian O sagely stated, combined positive intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus) will work. Each person, working towards the goal, each with the goal in sight, and knowing that they can’t do it alone, is the key for a Level 12 effort. Each member is self-motivated toward the goal, and their self-interest is not in the calculus of their thinking. They have raised their awareness far past that level. They are doing it because it needs to be done, not because they seek some earthly or even heavenly reward for doing it. That requires a spiritual and ethical maturity that is exceedingly rare on the planet today, and that rareness is why we don’t live in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) today.

Why would a Level 12 effort have a chance? For one thing, it would not take many people, proportionally. It can work if only one-in-a-million people (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers) have the right stuff and do the work. I have seen the power of a few committed people. I lived with Dennis and Alison in Boston (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=613&viewfull=1#post613), and we were high and dry, about to be homeless on the streets, when I came through (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=614&viewfull=1#post614). Three months later, we were offered $10 million to go away (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=623&viewfull=1#post623), and a year later, they raised it to $1 billion (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer) before they lowered the boom on us (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail). Less than a year later, Mr. Professor, Alison, and I were all that was left, standing up to the full might of our evil system. When I sacrificed my life (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mortgage), the greatest miracle that I ever witnessed happened. Those days wrecked and shortened Mr. Professor’s life, and I don’t want to bury anybody else (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey) whom I got involved in my journey. But a handful of us gave Godzilla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) some interesting days at the office and sleepless nights, and a chapter or two of his manual for maintaining his global dominance is likely devoted to us, a mere handful of people, who had the proper motivation.

If I can find and train 5,000-to-7,000 people, to just attain a comprehensive vision and form that choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), free energy is going to be laughably easy to make happen. The hard part will be building that choir. I may have 30 more good years in me, and we will see how it goes. This is not something that can be rushed, to “do something,” or it will be just one more path of disaster. This is something different. I may not be the person who will build that choir. My role might be to merely found the idea of one. If that is all it is, I am OK with that, but I pray that I live to see humanity begin to turn the corner, and I as wrote recently, things are looking up in ways (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/45-Chapter-28-What-Has-Not-Worked-So-Far-and-What-Might/page2?p=982&viewfull=1#post982). Manifesting the biggest event in the human journey is not going to be easy, but I know of nothing more worthwhile to do on Earth today.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

24th July 2017, 03:27

Hi:

I am likely going to be pretty quiet over the next few weeks, as another work-related hurricane blows through my life. Here are some odds and ends for a Sunday evening.

Yesterday, I saw for the first time, somebody other than me writing about Brian O’s Martian credentials (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Astronaut_Group_6). In all of this talk of manned Mars missions in recent years, it is nice to see Brian’s Martian credentials (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianbio.htm#mars) get some mention. I have a feeling that if we did not get his NASA bio published (https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/oleary-bt.html), it would have gone right down the Memory Hole, and it nearly has, anyway. I was just looking at those astronauts in Brian’s group, and it was more than 15 years before any of them went into space. That was quite a wait for the XS-11, and it is very understandable that Brian was one of several who quit.

In this month’s Scientific American, there was an article (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/life-on-earth-came-from-a-hot-volcanic-pool-not-the-sea-new-evidence-suggests/) on volcanic hot springs’ being the cradle of life on Earth. In Nick Lane’s latest (https://www.amazon.com/Vital-Question-Evolution-Origins-Complex/dp/0393352978/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8), he makes the case for volcanic rifts in the ocean, and Peter Ward’s and Joe Kirschvink’s (https://www.amazon.com/New-History-Life-Discoveries-Evolution/dp/160819910X/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1500866194&sr=1-1) latest makes the case for a Martian origin of life on Earth, carried here by meteorites. Following the issues and evidence is what I hope that my work spurs among the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). It is all part of developing a comprehensive perspective.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

24th July 2017, 13:38

Hi:

A Level 12 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level12) is going to realize what won’t work:

Inventor-centric efforts (patents (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patent), proprietary (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proprietary), the hero/inventor (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah1));
Ideologically based (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) efforts (nationalism, capitalism (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#money), organized religion, communism, socialism, materialism, etc.);
Approaching governments (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching1), corporations, NGOs, universities, “progressives (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching2),” “philanthropists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy1),” environmentalists (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists), etc.;
Mounting conferences (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#conferences);
Chatting up their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle);
Forming a guerilla movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#guerilla);
Sneaking past (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7) the organized suppression;
Conquering the organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#conquer);
Mounting a media campaign (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#media).

They are generally not going to need somebody like me to help them realize why those approaches won’t work. They will understand on their own. In one way or another, all of those approaches are based on scarcity, fear, and giving one’s power and responsibility away to others, looking for a shortcut; in general, acting like victims. They will understand that combined positive intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus) is the key, and they will learn to sing the abundance song (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). They also know that their intended audience is not their social circles, but they will be broadcasting on a global stage, to attract the few like them. They will know how unusual they are, and not from a place of ego or judgment (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1), but just understanding the situation and what the numbers are (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers). They will understand the stakes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth) and what the potential is (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). There is nothing easy about getting there, but it begins in the heart (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

28th July 2017, 11:56

Hi:

When I work the 12-14 hour days, it does not leave much time for anything else. But I began working on my biography project this week. I plan to finish it in the next month. Then, it will be on to my essay update. Because I resumed my career, I am not going to have nice blocks of time to do that update, and my public posting will suffer for it. I am going to do it an hour or two a day until I finish it. We’ll see if I can get it done this year. I have to admit that when I write something for publication, it is an enjoyable process that I look forward to. It was not always that way, but there is something about the creative process, and what I write about, that makes it something that I look forward to.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

28th July 2017, 12:52

Hi:

As I wrote previously, I am going to finish these Level posts by noting what levels (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#chart) the failed approaches to free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) are operating from. Applying for a patent (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patent) is classic Level 6 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6) behavior, as the inventor naively thinks that he/she can bring that pig to market. Keeping the invention proprietary (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proprietary) can operate from Level 6, but such aspirants can also have some Level 7 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7) delusions, as inventors try to avoid having their patents seized under the national security laws. The feds are just one of many tools at Godzilla’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) disposal.

Raising money (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#money) from investors, selling to customers, and the like can come from Level 6 or 10 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10). Level 10s can operate from an unawareness of organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1), or they can operate from a strategic effort to overcome it, with the idea that Godzilla will see the coming stampede and flee or join it. The problem is that stampeding people are easily manipulated, and can be readily steered right over the cliff (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lemmings). My days with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601) taught me that lesson.

Seeking those rich “philanthropists” (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rich) can operate from Levels 6, 7, 10, and even 11 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level11), as the aspirant plays the hero/messiah (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah1) who seeks patrons. Of course, trying to sneak past the organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sneaking) is classic Level 7 behavior. A guerilla revolution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#guerilla) generally operates from Level 9 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level9), but elements of Levels 7, 10, and 11 can be found in them.

All mass movement attempts (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mass) operate from Level 10. The primary difference between Level 10 and Level 12 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12) is that Level 10s are operating from self-interest and are rallying around a scarcity-based framework (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant). Level 12s are something very different (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308). They operate from combined positive intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus), their efforts are selflessly motivated (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/45-Chapter-28-What-Has-Not-Worked-So-Far-and-What-Might/page2?p=997&viewfull=1#post997), and they have developed a comprehensive awareness (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) so that they can keep their eyes on the ball. They think in terms of abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance).

Trying the open assault on Godzilla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#conquer) is classic Level 9 behavior. Media campaigns (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#media) and mounting conferences (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#conferences) are standard Level 10 activities. Approaching the world’s governments (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching1), corporations, and other institutions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching2) can arise from Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11.

In short, all of those failed approaches have fear and scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) at their roots, and all fail to understand, at one level or another, how our world really works. An approach based on love (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest) and sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1) has not really been tried before. It won’t be easy or start quickly, and it gives me a great opportunity to work on my patience issues (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading). :)

Best,

Wade

Krishna

30th July 2017, 08:25

On the causes of mass extinctions (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018216306915)

Scary. Have not read it thoroughly. Posting it for others to read and think about.

Wade Frazier

30th July 2017, 13:57

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1169963&viewfull=1#post1169963):

That was timely. Great paper (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018216306915). Nice to see it freely published so early. I recently bought a few more mass extinction books, and am currently reading The Ends of the World (https://www.amazon.com/Ends-World-Apocalypses-Understand-Extinctions/dp/0062364804), in which the author specifically credited Peter Ward (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=738&viewfull=1#post738) as his inspiration for writing it. Ward’s place in posterity is assured, but he would say, as Uncle Ed does, that he is not done yet! :)

After more than a century of Darwinian denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lyell), mass extinction research has been galloping along, and yes, current man-made trends are very ominous (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). I will have significant revisions of my big essay in light of current findings, and that paper will have a place in it. I am onboard with the idea that volcanism was a major driver of mass extinctions, as well as the adaptability of the ecosystems. Global temperature swings, and primarily global warming, are deeply implicated, and humanity is merrily replacing a big part of the volcano effect by burning up all of the hydrocarbon deposits (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil). Of course, virtually nobody is even considering the solution that trumps all others (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). :( But that just inspires me to keep doing my work, and we’ll see how many good years I have ahead of me. I am not done yet! :)

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

6th August 2017, 15:40

Hi:

Not only am I crazily busy, but I moved hosts this past week. I was with my old host for several years, but it is owned by a company making the capitalist play, which bought up hosting companies like mad and then instituted cost reductions that made the service pretty crappy. I have not been able to back up my site for more than a year. Back in the early 2000s, my host had a similar fate, as it got swept up in Dot-Com Hysteria Version 1, tried to make the big capitalist play, and went out of business with the crash. Finding a stable and competent host is not easy, but I hope that the one that I moved to will be around for a while. I think that this is the sixth host that I have had since my first site went up in 1996.

I have purposely made my site a low-tech one that is easily portable, low bandwidth, non-commercial, and other traits that I can build a low-cost choir with. In the move, however, my tool that turns my Word docs into forum posts, with the links in the words, is currently broken (the code needs to be updated for the new host), and until it gets fixed, I am going to be doing it the old way, with links spelled out separately from the text.

The next few posts will be odds and ends.

As stated, I have been crazily busy lately, working 14-hour days, working on my latest biography project, etc. I recently wrote about reading yet another mass extinction book ( http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/16-Chapter-9-Speciation-Extinction-and-Mass-Extinctions?p=1002&viewfull=1#post1002 ), I am concurrently reading another one ( https://www.amazon.com/Great-Extinctions-What-Causes-Shape/dp/1770853278/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 ), and this post will be about that issue and the human journey. In The Great Extinctions, the author separated ultimate versus proximate causes for the greatest extinctions, and he placed geological causes as the ultimate every time, related to tectonic plate movements and especially the volcanism that came with them. Fair enough. Others have tried to make bolide events as ultimate causes each time, or the inherent instabilities of multi-tiered energy systems (AKA “food chains”), or climate change. There are plenty of proximate causes to go around, and the controversies are heated these days.

The Ends of the World was written by a science writer, and they tend to write the best popular science, although some of history’s greatest scientists also wrote good popular science. Einstein was one. Peter Ward has written more than a dozen popular science books. In The Great Extinctions, when the author got to the Holocene extinctions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

he showed himself to be badly out of his realm of expertise, as he preferred the climate-change cause over human activities. There is a great human tendency to absolve humanity of responsibility for the Holocene extinctions, but I don’t buy the explanations of those denying human agency. They are pretty weak, IMO. The human impact was overwhelming:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction#Competition_by_humans

One of the best examples of the human impact was the fate of the elephant family in the Americas: complete extinction. Before the rise of humans, the elephant family was the most successful land mammal ever:

http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elephantsuccess

They lived in the Americas for more than 16 million years, and lived in the length and breadth of the Americas, in all major biomes. Their size, intelligence, prehensile trunks, and opportunistic feeding patterns made them invincible, at least until humans arrived, and then elephants quickly went completely extinct throughout the Americas. Those who argue for climate change doing it all have about zero credibility with me, and I consider the scientific infatuation with the mammoth extinctions to be a red herring. Mammoths were merely one of several elephant-family species to go extinct when humans arrived in the Americas. South America has nearly the identical climate to Africa’s, and while Africa retained its elephants, South America lost 100% of its elephants, right after humans arrived. What a coincidence! :)

I don’t regard any climate change hypotheses for the global demise of the megafauna, coincident with the arrival of humans, to be credible. Even if they want to say that the ranges went bad during the ice age, the huge problem with their hypotheses is that the American extinctions happened just as it became warmer and wetter, not the colder and dryer conditions that were responsible for the last large extinction (that took 15 million years to play out http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse ).

There has never been a predator on Earth like behaviorally modern humans, and nothing stood in their way, as they conquered Earth after leaving Africa:

http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit

Not even their fellow human species:

http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climateneanderthal

It did not matter what the climate was doing: all the easy meat was consigned to extinction when humans arrived. I consider arguments that deflect responsibility from humanity to arise from a conflict of interest, as they defend their species. To be sure, those scientific arguments have all sorts of data in them, but it is what they leave out that is most telling, similar to what Uncle Howard had to say about the kind of “history” that is vended by historians:

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

Scientists are not pinnacles of virtue. No profession is, not in a world of scarcity and fear. The author of The Ends of the Earth readily discerned the human impact on the Holocene extinctions that the specialist who wrote The Great Extinctions just could not seem to see. I see it as who is grinding an ax and who isn’t, or who gained a generalist vision and who was blinkered by their specialist lenses:

http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#specialists

This morning, I read this article, on the coming end of the nation-state:

http://www.internationalman.com//articles/doug-casey-on-the-end-of-the-nation-state

Without scientific training or a comprehensive perspective, people will confuse ultimate with proximate causes, etc. That author at least got the phases kind of right, when mentioning the agrarian and industrial revolutions and citing Marx’s arguments that the “means of production” largely determine what kind of society can exist. The change in social relations is a consequence, not a cause, of the Epochs, and each was based on its energy practices. Everything else was dependent on that.

I want to be fairer to that author than my initial post, and am revising it a little a day later. I almost never do that, but he deserves it. The author missed the first two epochs, and the agrarian and industrial revolutions were entirely dependent on exploiting a new energy source, and he has it right about tribes, kingdoms, and nation-states, but he does not propose anything about what will wither the state other than the Internet. The nation-state is primarily a Fourth Epoch construct, and I don’t see it withering away until the Fifth Epoch makes all territorial constructs obsolete, as land and the “resources” that can be wrested from it will no longer be relevant to the human standard of living, or not like it does now.

I have yet to see one of those financial writers break out of their exchange framework and see the bigger picture. The ones a little savvier become Peak Oilers and beat the drums of doom, and I can’t blame them:

http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil

But they are only describing problems, not solutions. Free energy is the solution that trumps all others.

http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5

Next to the energy issue, everything else is noise. But while everybody grinds the ax of their self-interest and fails to see the forest from trees, people like me are voices in the wilderness. It is just what it is, and there is no use in judging it:

http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1

I don’t need many to make it happen:

http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir

Best,

Wade

ThePythonicCow

6th August 2017, 23:12

In the move, however, my tool that turns my Word docs into forum posts, with the links in the words
So ... that's your secret link weapon. I've been meaning to ask for years how you managed to embed so many links, so seamlessly, into your posts.

Wade Frazier

7th August 2017, 02:57

Hi Paul:

My friends helped me build that “arsenal” of tools. :)

Going back 20 years and more, I “fondly” recall the days of essay formatting and the like. The tools I have today make it a much easier process than it used to be. Now, I can tweak an essay, in Word and the web version, and publish it formatted to my site in less than a minute, for small typos.

When I finally publish my next big essay update, it is only going to take an hour or so to convert the Word doc to HTML and publish it to the Internet, for a 600-page “essay.” If I did not have such tools, it would an immensely harder task.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

11th August 2017, 14:46

Hi:

I keep working 12-14 hour days, but the end of that is near, at least for this quarter. One fascinating part of my studies is the idea of refugia and relict populations that can provide a window into the past. This goes way back. Cyanobacterial colonies along ancient shores are called stromatolites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#photosynthesis2), and they go back to three billion years or so (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite#Fossil_record). When other organisms learned to eat them, they faded from the fossil record (they formed the first fossils that we know of), but they still exist today (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromatolite#Modern_occurrence), in a few places where no animals can live. So, a way of life has survived for three billion years, and gives scientists a window into the past.

With the rise of animals and plants, there have been numerous instances of relict populations that survived in refugia. They were able to hang on in niches that the dominant forms could not thrive in. Horsetails (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#horsetail) and ferns comprise some of the earliest plants. The first forests were made from them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#devonianforests). They are spore-reproducers, and seed-bearing plants overtook them and became dominant, as seed reproducers do not need the wet environments that horsetails and ferns do. But in the ice age rainforests near my home town, horsetails and ferns thrive, giving us a window several hundred million years into the past. Seed-bearing plants gave way to flowering plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#flowers), and that rainforest where I live is also dominated by seed-bearing plants, as flowering plants don’t do as well. But where it is warmer, flowering plants dominate. That temperate rainforest of my home looks similar to what dinosaurs tromped around in a couple hundred million years ago, for another window into the past.

With animals, there are similar situations. Nautiloids were Earth’s apex predators (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nautiloids) more than 400 million years ago. But fish came to dominate. Some nautiloids were able to survive in deep-water refugia, where they live today, but are threatened with extinction by human activities. Similarly, the lobe-fined coelacanth has survived in (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nautilus) deep-water refugia for hundreds of millions of years, while their ray-finned brethren dominated the seas, and their discovery in the last century was one of the mindbenders of science. Of course, we are descendants of lobe-finned fish.

The pattern of those “living fossils (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bottleneck)” is that they did well, were even dominant, but evolution passed them by, as more adaptable organisms came to dominate. But in marginal environments that were too salty, oxygen-poor, cold, and the like, remnant populations of those ancient organisms were able to eke out an existence. Those survivors give scientists amazing glimpses into the past, and studying them provides invaluable information.

There has been a similar dynamic with humanity. Because we are such a young species, the relict populations are not so much biological relicts (as we can all interbreed), but are more around their means of subsistence and related cultural adaptations.

Gorillas and chimps are arguably relict populations. What can happen with relicts is that they were once dominant, the more adaptable left to eke out an existence someplace else, and the original “place to be” became a refugia niche, as those original refugees adapted to the hostile environments and became dominant in them. Chimps were marginal gorillas, and the human line is descended from marginal chimps. Gorillas got the heart of the rainforest, living the good life, while chimps are descended from gorillas pushed to the margins, and the human line is chimps pushed to the margins as the rainforest continued to shrink. Today, humans threaten their relict ancestor population with extinction. There is much more to come.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

12th August 2017, 17:30

Hi:

We’ll see if I can do this in one post. Current events have precipitated this. It is not easy for people to understand what I am doing, even when they want to. It is the very rare person who approaches me and almost instantly gets a pretty good understanding of what I am doing. Few others do, and more than 40 years of doing this showed me what those who don’t understand have in common, for the few who even want to: they are dragging along their baggage.

That baggage can be ideological (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant), but that is really more of a symptom than a cause. When I roll back the layers of people’s orientation, which comes out in my exchanges with them, what their lack of understanding really stems from is fear. In a world of scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), that fear wears many guises. One of the most encompassing pitfalls is trying the social route (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10), when sociality is based on survival and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy?p=925&viewfull=1#post925), not love (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm). People want to be paid to study my work, to make a living pursuing free energy, and the like. I hear no end of beginners’ bright ideas for making free energy happen, and without exception, they hail from the kindergarten level of this issue. They are all variations on the paths of failure that I have written about at length (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/45-Chapter-28-What-Has-Not-Worked-So-Far-and-What-Might/page2?p=982&viewfull=1#post982). And they are not just paths of failure, they are the kinds of failures that wreck and end lives, leaving a smoking crater behind.

The arrival of free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far, as humanity will become a Type 1 civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev). The technology to make it happen (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) is older than I am. Technology is not the issue: integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) and sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1) is, and both are in very short supply on Earth today, but there really does not have to be all much of it concentrated on the issue (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus) to make it happen. That was one of the key lessons of my journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), it is just the nature of what I am doing, and I let go of any judgment of it long ago. Judgment is a huge pitfall (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) for this effort that I am trying to mount. For people who approach me with their “bright ideas,” they confuse my reactions to seeing the looming doom of their bright idea approaches with judgment.

I have presented a very straightforward class, for those with the right stuff to take. My big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm) forms its centerpiece, but my entire site is the class, and I have now made nearly a thousand posts in my own forum, in a more organized fashion than I have anywhere else. I am just getting the venue populated with enough meat so that the high-level conversation that is needed for my approach to work has a place to happen.

I have devoted the rest of my life’s “spare” time this effort, in an approach that came to me over more than 30 years of this pursuit. The biggest event in the human journey is worth one man’s life to try an approach that might have a chance. If my effort does not bear fruit, the idea of it will at least be established. If that is all that I end up accomplishing, that is fine by me, but I am also aiming pretty high. :)

Enough said for now, and time to begin my busy weekend.

Best,

Wade

Krishna

13th August 2017, 19:05

Finished a bunch of books on Human evolution, chimpanzees and bonobos. Reading to get insights into human behavior and how it shapes our societies.

A short description and what I found interesting in the books that I read.

Lone Survivors (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12116875-lone-survivors)
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The Broken Ladder (http://therumpus.net/2017/05/inequality-is-everyones-problem-the-broken-ladder-by-keith-payne/) has a good summary of how inequality effects us, it increases stress, makes us meaner, and encourages reckless risk taking at the bottom, when you have nothing to lose why not risk it all? I think it encourages risk taking at the top also, anyway you don't pay the price why not take risks somebody else pays for it anyways. Socializing costs and privatizing profits. One reason we don't have FE.

Almost Human: The Astonishing Tale of Homo Naledi and the Discovery that Changed Our Human Story (http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/05/09/527624622/dizzying-new-evidence-in-human-evolution-provokes-debates) is mostly an autobiographical story of finding fossils. The most important take away is that Home Naledi buried their dead nearly 300, 000 years ago.

The Chimpanzees of Gombe: Patterns of Behavior by Jane Goodall (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/822658.The_Chimpanzees_of_Gombe#) Easy to understand book, but at 600+ pages not written for the general public. She is a great scientist and if memory serves me right she refers to Frans De Wall and Richard Wrangham quite a bit. She says bonobo societies are Utopian in comparison to chimpanzee societies.

Previously I mentioned The Last Ape: Pygmy Chimpanzee Behavior and Ecology (https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Last_Ape.html?id=0zisAAAAIAAJ) it is a good read on bonobo good paired reading with Goodall's book.

Demonic Males: Apes and the Origins of Human Violence by Dale Peterson, Richard Wrangham (https://www.amazon.com/Demonic-Males-Origins-Human-Violence/dp/0395877431) Sobering reading. Shows how chimpanzee (and to some extent male behavior) is rooted in violence. With infanticide, power plays, rape fundamental behaviors of male chimpanzees. Also rape is chimpanzee societies is not an end in itself, but to force submission of females in the future, and to force them to go on consortship.

Also the ratio of males to females in bonobo societies is 1:1 but in chimpanzee societies it can be as high as 1:2 with the dearth of males coming from infanticide and murder.

Draft of US Climate Change Report (https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3920195/Final-Draft-of-the-Climate-Science-Special-Report.pdf) has been leaked, its too long at nearly 700 pages, most likely will skim through it someday.

Wade Frazier

13th August 2017, 20:16

Thanks Krishna:

You are doing your homework, young man, which is always nice to see. Timely stuff, too. In my upcoming posts on refugia and relict populations (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/101-Refugia-and-Relict-Populations?p=1005&viewfull=1#post1005), I will remark on how science keeps rolling back human traits to earlier appearance in the human journey, and how many traits once thought to be the sole province of humans keep getting attributed to an ever-wider assortment of animals, chimps and bonobos most famously. Yes, de Waal and Wrangham are up there with Goodall in the West, along with some Japanese scientists. If had told me twenty years ago, when my studies of our evolutionary cousins was just beginning, how much I would have gleaned from the experience, I would have been delightedly surprised.

That said, yes indeed, something about behaviorally modern humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap) was the game-changer. Was it the mastery of language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language), tools, both? Something about them allowed them to conquer the world and eliminate all other human species, Neanderthals most notably (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climateneanderthal), but there were also Denisovans. This will be a significant area of revision and expansion when I finally publish my next essay update.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

15th August 2017, 04:17

Hi:

Where I live, I can encounter bears (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1084181&viewfull=1#post1084181) on hikes in the nearby mountains, and there was a bear in my community a couple of years ago, which had wandered down from the mountains. In the Alps, bears were extinct in nations such as Switzerland and Germany, but are making a slight comeback, partly due to reintroduction efforts. That bears live in the mountains near my home does not mean that it is their ideal habitat; they can better survive humanity there. Mountains have been refugia for relict populations for probably hundreds of millions of years. Islands can also be refugia. The last mammoths lived on them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mammoth), for one example of many that could be provided.

Negritos are a relict human population (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#negrito), living on isolated islands or mountains. They certainly did not start out that way, but when agriculture began (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran), the hunter-gatherer economy became increasingly unviable and could only be practiced in ever-shrinking refugia, basically marginal lands where agriculture could not be practiced. There are no humans alive today who purely practice the Paleolithic hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Even a pure agrarian lifestyle, without any benefits of industrialization, might not exist on Earth today. Intentional agrarians such as the Amish enjoy many benefits of the industrial civilization that they live in the midst of.

Aboriginal Australians (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australia) lived in Earth’s greatest refugia, and the end of their isolation resulted in nearly their complete genocide, as it was for the Andamans, Tasmanians (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#tasmania), and other isolated groups who pursued the means of production of an earlier Epoch. But those isolated peoples gave the early intruders a glimpse into the human past. Those hunter-gatherers, living in their refugia, still practiced the first behaviorally modern human religion, with their singing and dancing rituals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing). The San of Africa still use the click-consonants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kung) that the first human language likely used.

Just as stromatolites, nautiloids and horsetails (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/101-Refugia-and-Relict-Populations?p=1005&viewfull=1#post1005) give us glimpses into the evolutionary past, so those relict human populations have given us a window into the human past.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

16th August 2017, 15:10

Hi:

It will be a short one this morning. The Ends of the World (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/16-Chapter-9-Speciation-Extinction-and-Mass-Extinctions?p=1002&viewfull=1#post1002) is almost a mass extinction travelogue, as the author travels the globe, meeting with mass extinction specialists, looking at rock formations at extinction intervals, etc. It is a very good survey of mass extinctions for lay audiences, and what the implications are for today. One thing that stood out was how influential today’s climate change disinformation is among the laity. Sea level changes are implicated in most mass extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctions), and global glaciations’ beginnings and endings are usually the prime culprits. The first of today’s Big Five, the Ordovician Extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ordovicianextinction), was definitely caused by sea level changes related to an ice age.

As the author discussed the Ordovician with scientists, he and the scientists were acutely aware of the abysmal state of the Global Warming “debate (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463)” today, in which the connection between carbon dioxide and the atmospheric temperature (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=460&viewfull=1#post460) has been muddied by scientists who sold their souls to the Hydrocarbon Lobby and who have been enabled by a compliant media. More than once, the author had to note that there has been no significant controversy about the relationship of carbon dioxide and atmospheric temperature among geoscientists for more than 150 years. That the author had to keep bringing it up is a “tribute” to the disinformation efforts of people such as Fred Singer (http://ahealedplanet.net/simon.htm#singer). I am regularly approached by scientifically illiterate people who challenge me on Global Warming (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#globalwarming), who have been swayed by the disinformation effort. It is a very sad commentary on the state of affairs today.

Lately, I have been reading a lot of Uncle Ed’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#manufacturing), or more properly, rereading it, and I recently read a chapter of The Myth of the Liberal Media (https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Liberal-Media-Edward-Herman/dp/0820441864) that was devoted to “junk science” and the media. Corporate giants such as Monsanto churn out study after study that shows that their products are safe, and the media gullibly swallows such interest-conflicted studies, time after time. Interestingly, the term “junk science” was coined by Steven Milloy (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#milloy), who literally worked for the tobacco companies as they assailed the secondhand smoke findings. Junk science, indeed.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

17th August 2017, 12:48

Hi:

Uncle Ed sent me the link to this (https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/) last night, on The New York Times’s anti-Russian hysteria during the past century. Ed is 92 years old. I have rarely, if ever, heard of anybody at that age doing what Ed still is. Maybe George Seldes (http://brasscheck.com/seldes/bio.html) came close. Ed is far from alone (https://consortiumnews.com/2017/05/17/the-fallacy-of-demonizing-russia/) on that subject.

Some related odds and ends…

The USA is considered the greatest threat to world peace today (https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/08/07/polls-us-greatest-threat-to-peace-world-today.html). Here is an article (https://consortiumnews.com/2017/08/04/the-war-on-wikileaks-and-assange/) on the war on Wikileaks. Ed cites Consortium News a lot. Here is a nice article (http://ahtribune.com/human-rights/american-human-rights/1757-indian-war-on-terror.html) on American imperialism under the “war on terror” rubric.

I was not aware of this article (http://www.businessinsider.com/the-nuclear-bomb-didnt-beat-japan-stalin-did-2017-8) when I updated my atom bomb chapter (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#dropping) of my war essay, but might update that chapter one day with that author’s thesis, that the Japanese surrendered after the atom bombs as a convenient face-saving device.

I did not know that Michael Collins Piper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Collins_Piper) died a couple of years ago until recently, when I heard some of this clip (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-IWzHfpstg) of him. He talked some about Gary Wean (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=761&viewfull=1#post761) in it. I’ll weigh in a little on the controversy of him and Gary. Piper said that Gary was miffed that Piper’s book (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#piper) did so well when Gary’s didn’t. I am not so sure about that. What Gary told me was that Piper’s initial effort did not credit Gary’s book much, when Gary gave Piper the idea for his book, when he stopped by The Spotlight (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spotlight)’s office one day and talked with Piper. Piper’s final edition of his book gives Gary plenty of coverage. I am not so sure about the Jewish angle on the JFK hit. Jack Ruby was a Jewish mobster (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#ruby), so there was certainly a Jewish connection, and it deserves to be taken seriously. But they were far from alone, and I doubt that they were the masterminds who interposed Hunt’s grand plan (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower) or ran the cover-up, even though Arlen Specter authored the ridiculous Magic Bullet theory (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=767&viewfull=1#post767).

I stumbled upon this (http://groovyhistory.com/vintage-ads-that-would-never-be-allowed-today-1/7) “funny” series of ads from the postwar years. In one way, it is nice to see how far we have come, but the ads could be pretty horrifying. Also, in ways, we have not graduated very far beyond it at all.

I’ll weigh in a little on the tempest at Google over that paper (https://gizmodo.com/exclusive-heres-the-full-10-page-anti-diversity-screed-1797564320/amp) that that former employee wrote. I did not think that The Blank Slate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blank_Slate) was all that good, but Pinker definitely showed how skewed the arguments can get. Nature and nurture play their part, and the former Google employee definitely had some of the nature arguments right, but he was short on the nurture aspect. There are innate gender differences, plenty of them, and they can be important, but corporate America, even supposedly “enlightened” places such as Google, is highly conditioned by our political-economies.

Heck, how would Uncle Ed’s latest article play in corporate America? That Google guy could have been fired over promoting that article in most of corporate America. Corporations are not democracies; they are profit-seeking dictatorships. In the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), they will go the way of dinosaurs, and deserve to.

Best,

Wade

Limor Wolf

17th August 2017, 15:25

Hello Wade, Within the emerging of consciousness, there is a great orchestration of events surrounding almost every aspect of the world conduct at small and at large, all seem to be players on a 'script' that it's writers and directors are of a multi dimensional nature. As your tendencies on this greatly respected thread are to stay within the confines of the 3D reality at most, I will not dwell much on that besides this short post. But just a little reference... The writers are the multidimensional, but the executors/ actualizers are the beings who inhabit this planet, unbeknownst to themselves and their great qualities of creative processes of how reality 'is done'. The 'play script' that goes around Russia and the US and the 'grand powers' is an old one and is used for quite a few centuries. That orchestration mechanism works best when the actualizers buy into the events from the players perspective and ' participate in the game'. Though, of course this orchestrations have many times hand and leg in reality, sometimes it is being faked just to encourage the script a little more.

The current role of president Putin (and for a while) is to create identification of the population with one leader and by that to deepen the energy of polarity (all about energy) as well as to keep society in the never ending loop of a ping pong game that is known to be the players script by (and with) our 'leaders'.

My personal choice is to take this broader perspective over the reviewing one, as this awareness does not create within the Truman show , I hope that makes some sense : )

Thank you very much for your patience with various perspectives, Wade,
Knowing that patience is something you exercised to a large degree during your life

With love,

Limor

Wade Frazier

18th August 2017, 13:45

Hi Limor:

Without my usual links to experiences and study, here is how I see things. Physical reality is where our souls come to grow, in a class that cannot be had anyplace else, and school is anything but easy. Experiencing polarity is one way to grow, but far from the only way. In physical reality, the love that permeates other dimensions is not evident here, as it hides away and must be sought. That is part of the often-cruel game that is played here, for reasons that only God truly knows. For the rest of us, we slog our way through, at various levels of seeing/blindness, sentience/reflex, and so on.

The beings focused on this planet, which is but a speck of Creation, have been playing a game of duality, light and dark, love and fear, etc. This venue keeps being used by those focused on this planet’s dominant game, and the other planes “above” this one, for those who repeatedly incarnate here, are generally focused on this arena. Souls will generally focus on one arena until they get what they came for, and then they move on to the next stage of the endless journey.

On this planet, yes indeed, we have seen similar games play out repeatedly, as souls learn, but there has been “progress,” as our particular species, of seeming sentience (although that is arguable), has progressed through its Epochs, and each Epoch was founded on its energy practices. For people living in the Fourth Epoch, we no longer slaughter our neighbors on sight, steal their women, enslave our neighbors while pointing to “holy” books that justify it, and the like. We still have the bane of scarcity, politicians, wars, darkness running the show, and so on, but it does not have to be this way, just as killing our neighbors on sight and slaughtering entire cities was a passing phase.

Everybody adapts to the Epochs they live in, and rarely see beyond them. Heck, almost nobody can even imagine what could be next. Some of us are “lucky” enough to have our paths more “illuminated” than others, but for those with such “luck,” their journeys present unique demands. Some of us are on special assignment to initiate the next Epoch, partly because humanity might not survive this Epoch. And almost everybody on Earth will go kicking and screaming into the next one, with the dark ones leading the festivities, as they have for a very long time. Their time of dominance on this planet just might be ending, as their continued rule will destroy the venue. But they can’t be fought, outsmarted, snuck past, and so on. Only love and true sentience will change the game, from scarcity and fear to abundance and love, coming from people who act from healed hearts. That is how I see it today. It could change tomorrow, but probably not by much.

Love,

Wade

Limor Wolf

19th August 2017, 01:09

Hello Wade, thank you so much for sharing those pieces of spirit's truth

It's an interesting thought, that so many times the amnesia state specifically designed around the loop of incarnation cycle on this planet is shaping our perception of some of the reasons we are here for (as an 'inside' point of view), while the potential of genuine remembering (rather than growth) as a process of deprogramming from the overlays put on one's original soul allows the original 'data' (as an 'outside' point of view) to add it's ancient/new flavor to an already set table, perhaps even replace it completely. Their world pleasantly changes then

Love,

Limor

Wade Frazier

21st August 2017, 01:28

Hi:

This will be the first post on what will likely be a series of them, on intentional communities. I have been to several, heard of many more, had one dumped on top of me (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=850&viewfull=1#post850), running me out of my home, and have been invited to live in several. I never saw or heard of one that had the right stuff to help make free energy happen, but I have had many people suggest some kind of intentional community to make free energy happen. Dennis formed intentional communities during his adventures (Christians, Patriots, business opportunities). They came and went, with some failing spectacularly and others dying with a whimper.

What I am doing with my forum (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/forum.php) could be called forming an intentional community, although it is a virtual one. It is a long way from becoming physical in any way, if it ever does. Building a public-ready free energy device likely will take an intentional community to make happen, but it will have to be very different from any intentional community ever formed. Communities are rooted in sociality (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialreason), which is based on survival, and as such, sociality is not going to work for making free energy happen (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy?p=925&viewfull=1#post925), IMO.

I do not ask for money, and I caution anybody from thinking that they are going to make a living by pursuing free energy. Immediately, that brings self-serving motivation into the equation, and that is a prescription for failure. The failed approaches to free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/45-Chapter-28-What-Has-Not-Worked-So-Far-and-What-Might/page2?p=991&viewfull=1#post991) all have self-serving motivation in common, and that is the primary reason why they failed. In coming posts, I’ll relate what I have seen and heard of with intentional communities, and why none on Earth today are suitable for the free energy pursuit.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

21st August 2017, 14:27

Hi:

Intentional communities have come together for various purposes, such as building dams, railroads, etc. Los Alamos was the site of an intentional community, but its purpose was far from noble (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project#Los_Alamos). If the purpose is survival, greed, evil, and the like, intentional communities are relatively easy to establish. But if the purpose is the greatest boon ever to humanity, initiating the human journey’s greatest event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), it is not going to be as easy. For one thing, for the community to be successful, the members will not be there for survival, greed, and the like, not when the fruit of the project will be given to humanity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers). Self-serving motivation is not going to get this Epochal task done.

One of the first “bright ideas” that free energy newcomers come up with is establishing an intentional community to live in, with mutual support, to make free energy happen. When they make those blithe suggestions, I can tell that they don’t have any experience in trying to make anything important happen. Those bright idea newcomers have yet to heed or understand my journey’s primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). The people who have the right stuff to form such a community are very few and far between, those needles in haystacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle) that I keep referring to. You are not going to walk down to your local street corner and find candidates for building that community. If there were 50 people in my home state with the right stuff (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) to help form that community, I would be pleasantly surprised. This is going to be infinitely more difficult than enthusiastic newcomers think. There are not any easy ways out, but newcomers always seek them.

Many intentional communities have been formed with a stated high purpose. I have never seen or heard of one of them coming close to living up to its potential, and it always came down to scarcity, self-servingness, and the like. The more idealistic ones can be formed around self-sufficiency (living off the grid), so-called enlightened teachings, and the like. Almost without exception, the founder is some charismatic man. He becomes the nucleus that the community forms around. Dennis’s communities were that way, and he is the most qualified leader of any intentional community that I ever saw or heard of. But one charismatic leader of high integrity is far from enough. Dennis was quite the lady’s man before he met Alison (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/81-Vignettes-from-my-journey-and-how-I-learned-what-I-did-and-came-to-my-approach?p=211&viewfull=1#post211), but when they met, his Casanova days were over. He is the lone exception that I know of.

In almost every other instance that I ever heard of, that charismatic man used that intentional community as his personal harem, and the women eagerly lined up. New Age-style and “spiritual” communities are particularly notorious on that score. Long ago, I was asked if I knew of even one New Age guru type who did not use his position to exploit his followers (http://ahealedplanet.net/opinions.htm#mystical), build his harems, and the like. The only possibilities were those that I did not know or know of very well. The rest of them exploited their followers, often in cult-like fashion.

The intentional community that was dumped on top of me (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/102-Intentional-Communities?p=1011&viewfull=1#post1011), driving me out of my home, was a bona fide cult. The charismatic leader literally named himself “Love Israel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Family),” and the cult members gave up their names for names that he bestowed on them. As they took over our neighborhood and drove us out (and illegally, but that is another story), my next door neighbor was literally named “Vortex.” The cult members gave “Love” their worldly possessions, and he happily turned the cult women into his personal harem. That hippie cult saw its heyday in the 1970s, but when the other men in the cult confronted Love and wanted some of those fruits for themselves, Love told them to hit the road and it began falling apart. It eventually moved to the countryside from urban Seattle, went bankrupt, and then moved to our ready-made neighborhood, with Love destroying our yard and setting up his cult in the house behind us, and we were soon surrounded by the most strung-out group of hippie burnouts that you ever saw, as they literally had their Sunday gatherings in our back yard. We moved away as fast as we could, and nobody in the neighborhood even tried to defend itself from this intrusion, which we bore the brunt of. Only being renters, we were an easy target.

You might say that it was a classic cult, but I don’t know of any intentional communities that did not have aspects of that cult community. When I lived in Ohio, I joined a mystical community that was far more enlightened and committed than anything that I saw in Southern California, but a bunch of them went and joined an A Course in Miracles cult in Wisconsin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endeavor_Academy). Of course, there was a charismatic man who led them, this time called “Master Teacher,” I kid you not. In 1994, my wife and I took a road trip to visit Mr. Professor on his family farm (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/81-Vignettes-from-my-journey-and-how-I-learned-what-I-did-and-came-to-my-approach/page3?p=243&viewfull=1#post243) in North Dakota, after his life had been ruined (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey) by his days with Dennis, and we visited that community on the way there. The matriarch of that Ohio community lived there, we had some kind of “connection,” and we visited her at that community. It was your standard New Age cult. Of course, “Master Teacher” sampled the fruits of the women members, building his harem, and I even heard rumors of violence. Like Love’s cult, Master Teacher’s little racket eventually fell apart. I really had a hard time understanding how such seemingly committed people could join a cult like that. We went to their Sunday morning service, it was about the weirdest thing I ever saw, and I was a veteran of the Southern California mystical scene. One of the ironies of an A Course in Miracles cult is that its author remained anonymous for years, to try dissuading a cult forming around the teaching and her.

You could say that those were out-and-out cults, but I visited other “enlightened” communities, such as one founded by Paramahansa Yogananda (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paramahansa_Yogananda), and the same dynamics were evident, with his protégé sampling the fruits, etc.

For some communities with more mundane goals such as living off grid and maybe making a dent somehow, the “successful” members said that the key to their longevity in their community was staying out of the community’s politics and living on the fringes of it. The “leaders” and politically active rarely lasted very long.

I have either visited or known people from about a dozen such communities, and maybe more if we include gringo enclaves in Latin America, in which U.S. ex-patriots take advantage of how far their pension checks go in impoverished Latin American nations, where they can live like kings on the cheap.

I have also heard of many others, often via their former members. I have fielded several invitations to live in such communities, and was never tempted for an instant, other than living in Dennis’s community as we pursued free energy, and those days were like a bad dream for me.

As I experienced such intentional communities, talked with their members, both current and former, and thought long and hard about them, about what they had in common and why they all either failed or were grotesque versions of their ideals, I finally came to realize that they all had scarcity and fear in common. I’ll expand on that in future posts. Sometimes it was obvious, sometimes it was subtle, but it was always there, and I could not really put it all together until after encountering Uncle Bucky’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller) and thinking in more consciously comprehensive terms. Then it became obvious what they all had in common. In a world of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), they are all going to look like that, to one degree or another.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

22nd August 2017, 14:46

Hi:

As Brian O wrote, the difference between a working free energy prototype in an inventor’s garage and a free energy device for public use is about $200 million of development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demonstrate). While that is a pittance at the government/corporate/industrial scale – $200 million to permanently solve humanity’s energy problems – it is far more than the average inventor can ever bring to bear on the issue. And money is only a small part of the equation, just as the technology is. If an effort ever gets to where that kind of development project becomes feasible, the biggest problems are going to be the organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1), the temptations of such technologies to the participants’ egos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah1), and the lack of support from the public, even active attacks, as the social managers effortlessly mobilize the public to go on the offensive, similar to how Americans are so easily mobilized to support the evil of wars (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#wtc). I lived through all of that more than once, and my mother’s open campaigning against me (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=400492&viewfull=1#post400492) was just one small example of that phenomenon.

Lone inventors are lambs to the slaughter, the businessman’s approach (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=710&viewfull=1#post710) is hopelessly doomed, mass movements (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10) all rely on self-serving motivation (the “mutual self-interest” that defines all politics), and are similarly doomed. Those are all aspects of the field’s arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested) today. I have seen it all during my journey, and a process of elimination brought me to my choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) approach. Messiahs and heroes, sheeple and opportunists, cheerleaders and groupies – these are all examples of the kinds of people who are not going to be much help, and can actually be great hindrances and fatal flaws. The people who are fit (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) for the kind of effort that I advocate are very few and far between, but they are the only people who are going to be very helpful for the effort that I have in mind. One day, when the choir (or choirs) is singing along and creating that harmonic effect, an intentional community might be formed, which is going to develop and deploy public-usable free energy. But it won’t be like any intentional community that ever existed before. It is not going to form out of mutual self-interest, but out of combined positive intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus). It will be founded on a loving, comprehensive (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) perspective. Fear and scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) will have to be kept at bay for the effort to succeed.

That is far easier said than done, and my effort is really only beginning. It is entirely possible that the choir alone will catalyze free energy’s happening, as it might come in from the shadows (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). Nothing remotely like a choir has existed on Earth before, and its mere existence might be enough, the critical missing piece. However, the effort has to be ready to do it the hard way, and anything “leaking” out of Godzilla’s Golden Hoard will only be a delightful surprise, not the goal. The hard part will be building the choir. The rest will be easy.

I have more to write on today’s intentional communities and how they go awry.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

23rd August 2017, 14:41

Hi:

I have several reasons for making my site, and particularly my big essay, as comprehensive (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) as it is. The human journey half of my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#path) was written with the intention of showing that many aspects of the human journey and human behavior have deep roots. Many are biological, while others are through economic/social/political conditioning. Nature and nurture both play their roles. I strongly believe that there is a third aspect, which today’s science generally cannot deal with very effectively, which is the soul’s role. People are born with life agendas. They rarely work out as planned from the astral plane, due to the sh*t happens nature of physical reality, but the general “progress” is forward. The way that I see things is spelled out pretty clearly in my spirituality essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm). I am not saying that my views are “right,” but it is how I see things, and, as always, it is firmly rooted in my experiences, not some received teaching. I am into data far more than theory, and the non-physical nature of the Great Beyond presents many challenges, and people spin all manner of grand yarn. There is a great deal of “mystical” disinformation out there. I am pretty conservative in my mystical views, and they certainly don’t form the foundation of my work, other than to acknowledge that love is the answer (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest), always, and that there is far more than meets the eye happening.

Human sociality has roots far older than humanity, and my essay update will go into that area in more depth. A big part of human nature is in-group/out-group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup) treatment. This goes back to the beginnings of social animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialreason). The so-called “golden rule” admonition goes back to the first behaviorally modern humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap), at minimum. People were to treat members of their in-groups well. Otherwise, why be social in the first place? But members of the out-group were fair game (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup1). That Biblical admonition of “Thou shalt not kill” only applied to the in-group. The Old Testament’s Jehovah was a genocidal monster, with “kill them all” being his byword.

Jesus eventually came along, and was not the enemy-killing messiah that the Jews expected. His “love the enemy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enemy)” is another way of saying that there is no out-group, which is as enlightened as it gets on Earth.

A human hunter-gatherer could not survive alone, so ostracism from the band was effectively a death sentence. Humans live in mortal fear of being ostracized, and being ridiculed is one “gentle” way to get people back in line with the herd. Advocating a new Epoch of the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is crazy talk to the vast majority of humanity, as people rarely glimpse beyond their immediate self-interest, nor do they want to. I constantly warn free energy newcomers from rushing out and proselytizing to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), unless they want to be ostracized. Human sociality (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy?p=925&viewfull=1#post925) is based on survival, and being “nice” to in-group members, as long as they don’t threaten the society’s wellbeing, is just what social animals do. That is not love, but survival.

My choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) might be seen as just another social grouping to the casual observer, but it is not going to come together for survival reasons. Being in the choir won’t be traumatic, at least from the other members, and being cast out will not cost anybody anything, but I am being highly careful about who can join, and I have gotten pickier than ever over the years. It is about hitting the notes, not the numbers, not now. The harmonics that I seek will take numbers, but the notes have to be hit, first.

But back to intentional communities; they often have some stated high ideal as their purpose, and I’ll agree that that sentiment can often be genuine, not just some cynical scam. But in our world of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), even the most enlightened intentional communities today cannot entirely protect themselves from them. Most who join such communities are looking to serve themselves, not the cause. They all face the problem of the community’s survival, and they all come up with ways of ensuring it. Because we are sexually reproducing, and humans and bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1) use sex for recreation and procreation, and ensouled humanity uses the sex act to reach “up” toward its soul, human sexuality and mating is part of the mix, and those charismatic men who generally found such communities often used them to build harems. It was far more the rule than the exception. It could be kept under wraps and quiet for some time, but it would eventually come out.

Another endemic aspect of such communities was the “leader” enriching himself at the expense of his followers. The Love Israel cult (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/102-Intentional-Communities?p=1012&viewfull=1#post1012) was typical in that regard. It is the rare intentional community that overcame the sex and economic challenges. In fact, I never saw or heard of one, but one or two might exist out there (if we don’t look at them too hard :) ).

As I saw those dynamics play out over and over, it could become dispiriting. In one Internet forum that I was invited into long ago, one domineering woman member was sleeping with a forum admin, and my arrival inspired her to get her boyfriend to try to steal the forum. The coup did not last long, but it showed that men were not the only ones abusing their sexual positions. Men and women just do it differently, and women’s historical disempowerment has led to many subtle games of manipulation. Men are more direct. A prominent hypothesis regarding the growing human brain was to navigate complex social environments (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#macaquewar).

My choir seeks to avoid all of that and more. I don’t need any money to build the choir, there is precious little chance for dalliances in a virtual environment ( :) ), and I want choir members to be in stable relationships so that they are not looking for love in the choir (but they should not expect their mates to get involved; tolerance is about the best that they can hope for). They are there to bring it. If we go and build a free energy device for public use (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers) one day, with the choir forming a strong nucleus, we are going to give away history’s most lucrative technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion). The effort will come together out of combined positive intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus), not seeking security, sex, etc. I don’t kid myself that those people are going to be found on every street corner; they are exceedingly rare on Earth today, on the order of one-in-thousands, maybe many thousands, but my idea can work even if they are only one-in-a-million.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

24th August 2017, 14:29

Hi:

I had a lively conversation yesterday about intentional communities. I live in one today, although I am not an official member. I live across the street from Microsoft’s campus. This is as much a company town as any American industrial town ever was, but people have come from all over the world to be here. That is what “intentional community” means, in which people leave their former communities to move to another one, for a specific purpose and forming a community that previously did not exist. But nobody is here for Bill Gates’s high purpose, whatever that might be (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy1), but to make a good living and live in one of Earth’s most affluent communities (high-caste escapees from India are by far the most common immigrants here). Microsoft is legendary for treating its customers terribly (I have been one of them for more than 30 years). The community’s members are all primarily here to serve themselves, not some high purpose.

There is not a higher purpose than what Dennis aspired to, I lived in his free energy intentional community in New Jersey, and it was like a bad dream for me. When I last saw Dennis, he said that only Mr. Professor (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures), his wife, and I walked away from deep involvement in his efforts with our integrity intact. It was sadly no great surprise. I have yet to see anything that invalidated my journey’s primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708), the one that few want to acknowledge the truth of.

When I staggered out of my home town (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#books), with my life in ruins, I began my years of study and searching. While I found people of high integrity such as Ralph McGehee (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm), Uncle Noam (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=734&viewfull=1#post734), and some others like them, they were few and far between. Instead, I was discovering that the heroes held up to me while growing up, such as Christopher Columbus (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm), George Washington (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint), and Junípero Serra (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#serra), were mass murdering thieves, even genocidists.

I began searching the world for people with the right stuff to help make free energy happen, which I discovered was already here (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sweet) before I left my home town. I met only one other great one, Brian O, and I met him (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#meet) at the beginning of my search, led to him almost like I was led to Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2). I now realize that it was my “friends” at work once again. Through Brian, I met some other fellow travelers such as Mark (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&highlight=comings#post811647), Jeane Manning, and a few others with the right stuff, but it was literally only a handful, maybe two. Far more often, I encountered scoundrels and others whose self-interested actions were far greater hindrance than help.

I have been invited to live in intentional communities, even to help form them, for more than 20 years. I never saw or heard of one that had the right stuff to help make free energy happen. Even putting aside the free energy issue, I never saw or heard of one that really had the right stuff, was on a high mission, and its members selflessly committed their lives to it. Brian was quite the globetrotter, and visited and spoke at most intentional communities of note on Earth. After Mallove was murdered (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland), Brian sought out that place to live out his remaining years, and chose a gringo enclave in Ecuador, of American ex-pats living like kings on the cheap. And I eventually heard Brian’s complaints about his community.

I have known others who traveled the world (some are still traveling it today), hunting for their Shangri-La, seeking out intentional communities with the right stuff, looking for that community of high mission to join, and they never found it. I am regularly approached by such seekers. Those issues that I have been writing about in this series of posts (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/102-Intentional-Communities?p=1011&viewfull=1#post1011) constantly reared their heads. The most successful ones that I have seen or heard of have been isolated or an arm of some larger organization, such as religions. They can be on islands, be like the Amish, be on the far coast of Scotland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Findhorn_Foundation), etc. I visited Holden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holden_Village,_Washington), tucked away in the mountains, with the community’s members on a kind of rotation, and they are an outcast sect of their Lutheran Church. I visited Ghost Ranch (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Ranch), a Presbyterian counterpart of Holden, tucked away into the mountains. A former CFO of mine consults for them.

I’ll not deny that there were some good intentions among the members, because there were. But the song of scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/4-The-Song-of-Scarcity?p=10&viewfull=1#post10) blew through all of those communities, sometimes obviously, sometimes subtly, but I could always hear the familiar notes. At Holden, they became quite the environmentalists, out of necessity, as there was no place to dump their refuse. So, they were organic gardeners, got their electricity from upland glacier melt (and those glaciers will all be gone soon (http://ahealedplanet.net/lyman3.jpg)), you did not flush the toilets until absolutely necessary, and the evening sermon was mandatory. Those places survived by becoming retreat centers in their idyllic locations, hosting conferences and the like.

When I first met James Gilliland (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm), I could tell that he had been around the block a few times, such as when he talked about how the early days of his effort were welcoming to all, and eventually his ranch just became an encampment of hippies and others who looked to James to feed them, and he had to kick them all out, change his approach, and start over. When I heard that (and similar tales), I knew that he knew.

Every time that I ever visited intentional communities or discussed them with current or former members, the stories were always similar, of various adaptations to scarcity, as the community tried to survive. Peyton Place (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peyton_Place_(TV_series)) tales were the norm, not the exception. Scandals over money and sex plagued virtually every one that I heard of, and the members always try to keep those things quiet, as they can scuttle the communities. In a world of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), these are typical outcomes, and if an intentional community of high stated purpose overcame those issues, even partially, it was through strict codes of conduct, with little tolerance for breaking them.

I have continually fielded the “bright idea” that there are intentional communities out there just waiting to help make free energy happen. That is a potentially dangerous delusion. Another delusion that I continually encounter is thinking that I am judging those communities and their members, or humanity, when so few have the right stuff (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) to help make free energy happen, which will be the biggest event in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), by far. They are just the numbers, and no judgment is implied (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1). I resisted my primary lesson every step of the way, until I had it beaten into my head in no uncertain terms. One could say that it was not a fun lesson to learn, but it was also very liberating, knowing what approaches would not work, and not wasting any more time on them.

All of those scandals over sex and money are just the facts. It is just what it is, and wishing that it was different might be comforting, but it is not productive activity. I am into what might work, not traveling unwaveringly down the paths of life-wrecking and life-shortening disaster (ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) that so many have done.

After being a key member of five mass movement efforts, hunting for those people with the right stuff, seeing intentional communities and trading notes with fellow travelers such as Brian, I finally realized that those people simply don’t exist, not in any ready-made group, and that if I wanted that group to form, I would have to roll my own, which has been my intention for the past decade. Nobody can do this alone.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

25th August 2017, 15:07

Hi:

I’ll wrap up these intentional community posts (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/102-Intentional-Communities?p=1011&viewfull=1#post1011) for now. In the big, comprehensive (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) view of human societies – all of them – the overriding issue is scarcity. It manifests in many ways, from the obvious to the subtle. Scarcity in human relations means the zero-sum game (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#zero). It means that everybody is jockeying for position, to get their “fair share,” which in practice means some people getting more than their fair share, and in those intentional communities, that means money, community resources, sex, free time, etc. In a world of abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance), which is what the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is all about, all of that scrambling becomes meaningless. In a world of abundance, all of humanity is one community, and intentional communities, in which the members sought shelter from scarcity and the rigors of our societies, will become quaint anachronisms of a bygone Epoch, like slavery, living in caves, women being barefoot and pregnant, etc.

I am sympathetic to people who cannot even imagine what I am writing about. Virtually nobody could ever imagine the new Epoch before it arrived (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), and it will be little different this time, even with shows like Star Trek out there (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#visions).

Intentional communities of high stated ideals are all variations on Utopian communities, and as Uncle Bucky (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller) said, what they all have in common is shared austerity (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#austerity), which is why such Utopian ideas have never really worked. Visit enough such communities, talk with their members, and the like, and you will hear the song of scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/4-The-Song-of-Scarcity?p=10&viewfull=1) humming in the background, just as it does in every place on Earth today. Abundance is the answer, and it will necessarily rest on energy abundance. Without energy abundance, the rest cannot happen (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#necessity).

All of those failed approaches (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) for bringing energy abundance to humanity have scarcity in common. It took many years for me to finally understand what I was seeing, and to propose a different approach (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). We will see how it goes.

Best,

Wade

Ernie Nemeth

25th August 2017, 16:37

I gave up going to and working for experiential workshops when the realization hit that even there people had their personal agendas. Because I was seen to be above the fray, I was targeted the hardest. It wasn't long before I lost my status, and my supposed friends. I stopped attending, the master moved on, and not one 'friend' ever called to see what had happened to me. Months later the calls did come, as one by one the others in my group realized the same thing I had: they had succumbed to temptation and compromised their integrity, just like I had warned them. Now they wanted my help to recover but I was out of the service to others business - it does not pay in my accepted currency.

From time to time one still calls for aid. I just gently turn them elsewhere...

Wade Frazier

26th August 2017, 14:27

Thanks Ernie (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1175911&viewfull=1#post1175911):

Yes indeed, even the most “enlightened” courses out there have self-seeking dynamics among the “teachers” and participants. Although the Silva course (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva) gave me my mystical awakening, for which I will always be grateful, oh God, what a train wreck of self-seeking that formed around it. My father became close pals with the instructor, joined the instructor’s “mystical” Christian church (the supposedly “pure” one), and I eventually learned what a charlatan that instructor was. He was a very talented psychic, but he greatly abused his position with his pupils/patients, and one specialty was hypnotizing his female patients and then essentially raping them. He did it to somebody close to me.

Silva itself was a nepotistic business, with family members in all key organizational positions (who each promotes his/her particular Silva brand after Jose died), and they cut the class from 40 hours to 20 hours, as a cost-cutting move, and another Silva instructor friend jokingly called it “Silva Lite.” The class is a shadow of its former self, I am not happy about that, and really cannot recommend it anymore.

Five years of spiritual study later, my girlfriend had me take est (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erhard_Seminars_Training), we moved away to the university a week or two later, as I chased her to the university, and she dumped me a week after we got there. I quickly saw that est was pretty cult-like, and the “master (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Erhard)” encouraged it. At est meetings, his biography was for sale, and the cover had him staring into the heavens, in a cliché pose of New Age charlatanry. As that Silva instructor pal said, est was the biggest thing for psychotherapy since Freud, as traumatized est participants sought to recover from the experience. I had a great time in the class, but est was classic New Age spirituality, some pre-packaged, mass-produced “enlightenment” class. They eventually watered it down, so that people were not as traumatized. That Silva instructor pal himself welcomed his female pupils into his arms and bed. The laws that were eventually passed that forbid therapists from sleeping with their patients were “inspired” by the California scene in the 1970s and 1980s. My wife’s yoga teacher ripped her off and even stole my toolbox.

I saw all of that in the 1970s, several years before anybody heard of Shirley MacLaine’s New Age explorations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_on_a_Limb_(book)). I saw it all over the years, and when I eventually heard people pronouncing “New Age” to rhyme with “sewage,” I understood. But one of those who called it “newage” (and a prominent member of an intentional community) “borrowed” $1,000 from me right afterward, never paid it back, fished for me to be his patron, and when that was not forthcoming, he “moved on.”

Actions of high integrity in that milieu were few and far between, but I don’t want to pick on them, as its integrity level was likely little different from the general population’s, but it could even be lower. The only time that I was ever ripped off by mail order was by the Whole Life Expo, which took my money, never gave me what was promised (tickets to some presentations, which I had to repurchase at a higher price at the door, as they “lost” record of me), and never refunded my money, after several phone calls, letters with the documentary proof, etc. A pal was recently ripped off similarly by some New Age guru dude.

When I saw that mystical community in Ohio join that A Course in Miracles cult in Wisconsin (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/102-Intentional-Communities?p=1012&viewfull=1#post1012), I thought about that for a long time. I eventually concluded, after seeing all of that circus for a generation and more, was that everybody was “looking for love.” They sought that promise of love and longed for safety, a full belly, belongingness, and various “masters” were always ready to offer it. Neat little rackets.

As I look back, it was a little preview of what my ride with Dennis would be like, and when the dust settled four years later, I had learned my life’s most important lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) in no uncertain terms.

Expecting those intentional communities to somehow be above the fray is not really fair to them, but they also often present themselves as something that they really are not. As long as scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) form the constant background hum of our societies, there really is no escape from it, and all people need to learn how to deal with it, develop their tools of discernment, their methods of staying balanced, etc., if they want to aspire to a higher purpose than survival and temporarily sating their addictions.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

27th August 2017, 03:37

Hi:

A few odds and ends… I am finishing The Ends of the World (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1170002&viewfull=1#post1170002), and there were a few takeaways for me. One was how often the mass extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctions) had climate change as part of them. The ominous parallels of those extinctions and what humanity is doing to Earth were vividly in evidence. The author said that you get a few beers in today’s working scientists, and many will say, “We’re f**ked.” Some of the numbers are mind-boggling. Humanity has killed off 90% of large ocean predators in my lifetime. 30% of the world’s coral reefs have died off since the 1980s. Wildlife today comprises only 3% of today’s land animal biomass, with the rest being us, our domestic animals, and pets. Spaceship Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth) is indeed in bad shape. Humanity has been radically transforming Earth’s surface ever since that Founder Group left Africa (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit) and began driving all of the megafauna to extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna). Other than obstinate scientists and scholars who are determined to deflect responsibility from humanity and heap it onto climate change (and they really don’t have much of a leg to stand on), sometimes to defend the ancestors of indigenous Australians and Americans, there is almost no doubt left that humans did it, in a trend that lasts to this day and is accelerating.

But mass extinction specialists are divided on whether what is happening today is a mass extinction yet, although all readily admit that we are rapidly getting there. 30% of Earth’s coral reefs dying in 30 years is an eye-blink on the timescale of life on Earth. Mass extinctions could last over many millions of years, but humanity is doing it in the relative a blink of an eye. Humanity is doing it through climate change and ocean acidification (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#acid) from burning fossil fuels, and also habitat destruction, as ocean floors are plowed by trawling nets and the land masses are being deforested, strip-mined, paved, and turned into one big farm.

A quote from the book is pertinent (page 233):

“That the human project since its birth, and human flourishing in general, seems to have played out at the expense of the rest of the natural world is one of the stark and unsettling discoveries of science.”

It is surreal to know that the solution to all of that is on the planet today (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), and is studiously ignored by nearly all factions. Are we really a sentient species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1)?

Today, I live in one of Earth’s most affluent communities, and can run into the world’s richest man at the movie theater (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates), as we watch a movie that features humanity destroying a planet in another star system in its greedy quest for mineral wealth. But as I drive around my community, at the progressive grocery store where I shop (http://ahealedplanet.net/links.htm#pcc), a woman begs, as she has done continually for the several years that I have patronized that store. At most highway off-ramps in Seattle and intersections near my home, people beg from the passing cars. In the parking lot of the home improvement store that I patronized this morning near my home were dozens of poor Mexican-American men, standing around, hoping to be hired today by local homeowners. This is all in one of the most affluent communities on Earth, which is currently the hottest city in the USA, as neighborhoods are being mowed down to make way for high-density condo projects and the like, as Seattle turns into Gotham City. When I see all of that, I often say to myself, “And they call it civilization.”

One interesting tidbit in The Ends of the World (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1170002&viewfull=1#post1170002) was a new angle on the Cretaceous Extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction). The asteroid impact (likely an asteroid, not a comet) has been the primary culprit since the 1980s, but it also coincided with the huge volcanic event in India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous%E2%80%93Paleogene_extinction_event#Deccan_Traps). The Deccan Traps hypothesis has long been the main competing hypothesis to the bolide hypothesis, as volcanism was associated with most previous mass extinctions. And now, a co-author of the bolide hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Alvarez), and son of Nobel Prize winner Luis Walter Alvarez (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez), is endorsing the idea that the bolide impact may have triggered the most spectacular lava flows in the Deccan Traps, kind of like a slow leak from a pipe turning into a spout when the pressure is turned up.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

28th August 2017, 14:01

Hi:

It is going to be a quiet week for me. One “pleasant” aspect of my work is that I have no shortage of topics to write about. There are thousands in my big essay alone, and the subject matter of my site provides grist for endless discussions. I continually jot down topics to discuss. I won’t run out of them in my lifetime. One topic has rattled around in the back of my mind for years, and this morning is when I mention it.

When I had that little experiment with Wikipedia nearly a decade ago, with the massacre list (http://ahealedplanet.net/wikimass.htm), it was a reaction to the extreme bias of the list. What exists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_events_named_massacres) nearly a decade later is wildly uneven. Most of my additions still exist, but were moved to an Indian massacre list (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indian_massacres). The post-siege massacre of Tenochtitlan’s residents (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Tenochtitlan#The_surrender) was the greatest in the known history of the Western Hemisphere, at probably at least 50,000 people, but it shows up nowhere on the massacre list, and the Indian massacre list is somehow reserved for massacres on what became United States soil, to further demonstrate the Anglo-American bias at Wikipedia. The Spanish engaged in many slaughters of the natives, in that century when they had the Western Hemisphere largely to themselves, and none of them are represented south of today’s USA in either list, with the lone exception of the Cajamarca Massacre (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cajamarca).

One Indian massacre that I discovered years after my massacre list additions I saw was also added to the massacre list, of the Spanish slaughter of 900 Indians in the Sandia mountains (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia_Mountains), outside of today’s Albuquerque. My wife’s godmother lives in Albuquerque, and I have been to the top of the largest Sandia peak a few times, to a gift shop on top, and my wife’s godmother led us on some back roads in the Sandia Range several years ago. I did not see anything on those mountains that hinted at that slaughter, and I never heard anybody talking about it, even in Indian-friendly situations. The entire incident is just swept under the carpet.

While reading Ward Churchill’s masterpiece (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/99-My-Media-and-Political-Studies-What-That-Ride-Was-Like?p=976&viewfull=1#post976), which cost him his career, it could be numbing to read of all of the slaughters of Indians, which was just a sampler. The slaughter at Bear River in 1863 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear_River_Massacre) did not make my additions to the list, and the Wikipedia account has the numbers slaughtered at the low end of the range, at “only” 280, while the Park Service itself estimates more than 500 today.

On that Indian massacre list are four (or three) American soldiers being killed in 1861 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallinas_massacre), 11 soldiers in 1867 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidder_fight), six “settlers” in 1871, three in 1872, and even two sheriffs in 1889 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin_Grade_massacre). Oh God, whites slaughtering two, three, and four Indians were simply days at the office, with most likely never even recorded, other than when their scalps were presented for the bounty. If that many Indians killed in one incident were added to that list, you would never finish reading it. Anglo-American racism and egocentrism are on full display in that Indian massacre list.

Wikipedia has a very long way to go before it can aspire to being a valuable resource on those kinds of events. It can be pretty sickening to read Uncle Noam’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky) and Uncle Ed’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Herman) biographies at Wikipedia (Ed’s is much worse on that score, although Noam bore the brunt of the attacks over the years).

On the campaign against Chomsky, Carlos Otero, the editor of Chomsky’s Language and Politics, wrote:

“The major international campaign orchestrated against Chomsky on completely false pretexts was only part – although perhaps a crucial part – of the ambitious campaign launched in the late 1970s with the hope of reconstructing the ideology of power and domination which had been partially exposed during the Indochina war. The magnitude and insane attack against Chomsky, which aimed at silencing him and robbing him of his moral stature and prestige and influence, is of course one more tribute to the impact of his writings and actions – not for nothing was he the only one singled out.”

Uncle Ed wrote that the attacks on their Cambodian writings:

“…imposed a serious personal cost on Chomsky. He put up a diligent defense against the attacks and charges against him, answering virtually every letter and written criticism that came to his attention. He wrote many hundreds of letters to correspondents and editors on these topics, along with numerous articles, and answered many phone enquiries and queries in interviews. The intellectual and moral drain was severe. It is an astonishing fact, however, that he was able to weather these storms with his energies, morale, sense of humour and vigour and integrity of his political writings virtually intact.”

Noam later wrote that the most disturbing aspect of the situations was the complete inability of Western intellectuals to muster even basic rationality in their attacks on him. They largely resorted to repeating each other’s lies (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#crv) and committing fallacies of logic (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#false) that a five-year-old could see through. Chomsky wrote that the attacks on him were further evidence of how the conditioning system had dumbed down “intellectuals” to an astonishing and abysmal degree. I encountered that kind of irrational insanity many times on my journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#naive), and it usually came from the “smart.” Those are the kinds of behaviors (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions) that led Brian to openly wondering if humanity was a sentient species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1).

Best,

Wade

ortizrealstonegroundcorn

29th August 2017, 18:40

Hello, Mr. Frazier. I'm a bit of a fan of your writings even though I don't read a lot, and relatively new to this forum. Are we allowed to ask personal questions, or should I choose a more private way of doing that (if it is permitted)?

Wade Frazier

2nd September 2017, 12:19

Hi ortizrealstonegroundcorn:

My life is generally a public property, and many of my writings are highly personal. I do my best to shield those in my life from that exposure, as they did not sign up for it. I guess that it depends on the kind of personal questions that you have in mind

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

2nd September 2017, 23:48

Hi:

This month, I plan to work on my biography project. We will see if it slips into October. After that, I plan to work on my big essay revision. I already have a table of humanity’s epochs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable), but I plan to put something in the beginning of each chapter on humanity’s epochs, and summarize when, where, who, how, and why. For the earliest, those aspects are more speculative, but even for the most recent, there is controversy. But I’ll summarize the current thinking on those aspects. Some is not in my big essay yet, but will be. So, here goes the summary, at one post for each chapter, with some discussion.

The First Epochal Event:

When: 3.3 million years ago for stone tools, and 1-2 million years ago for the control of fire.
Where: East and South Africa
Who: Australopiths for stone tools, anywhere from australopiths to Homo erectus for fire.
How: By striking rocks together for stone tools, and by various possible methods for sustaining or creating fire
Why: Enhanced energy security, from food processing for stone tools (eventually to weapons), and fire was the human line’s most important energy technology to this day.

Karl Marx’s pal Friedrich Engels arguably made the best 19th-century case of how the human brain’s evolution is a product of biology and culture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Part_Played_by_Labour_in_the_Transition_from_Ape_to_Man#Relevance_to_Marxist_thought). Engels wrote that bipedalism freed the hands to make tools (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Part_Played_by_Labour_in_the_Transition_from_Ape_to_Man#Summary), and that is the orthodox position today (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hand).

East Africa had been a crucible of ape evolution for millions of years, and those earliest tools found so far have been in East Africa (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_tool#Pre-Mode_I). They were likely made by australopiths. Tools are many millions of years old (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tools1), but the crafting of stone tools was something new on the evolutionary scene, and few doubt that they were critical to the rise of humans. The stone tool evidence is pretty unequivocal, as stone tools readily last intact to today. The progress of stone tool complexity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oldowan) mirrors human evolution, which is directly tied to the growing human brain (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpbrain).

Brains are energy hogs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#braingrowth1), and just where the energy came from to grow and power the growing human brain is a source of lively controversy today. A prominent hypothesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/24-Chapter-17-Humanity%C2%92s-First-Epochal-Event-Growing-our-Brains-and-Controlling-Fire?p=979&viewfull=1#post979), but by no means the only one (another is bipedal locomotion, although that predates the explosive brain growth by millions of years (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bipedskull)), is that the energy-denser food made available by the human line’s burgeoning toolset allowed the human digestive system to become smaller, and the energy savings were used to grow and power the human-line’s expanding brain.

Stone tools and fire were likely used for food processing and defense, and only later did they become offensive tools. I believe that the increase in tool sophistication, the control of fire, and the growing brain of the human line are all related, but just how they are is still a big controversy. But there is no doubt that the growing human brain is the key aspect of the rise of humans, and it also rode an energy wave provided by First Epoch technologies.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

3rd September 2017, 18:06

Hi:

Here is my Second Epochal Event summary:

The Second Epochal Event:

When: Around 50-60k years ago
Where: East Africa
Who: Behaviorally modern humans
How: Behaviorally modern humans developed the toolset and social organization to leave Africa and conquer Earth, and Earth’s large animals fueled the conquest.
Why: Probably from a subsistence crisis in East Africa, which spurred a society of a few hundred people to leave Africa via the Red Sea’s mouth.

The Second Epochal Event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2) is another fascinating area of study and a source of lively controversy. My upcoming essay update will have a lot of new material in it for the Second Epochal Event. The human achievement of behavioral modernity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap), like so many other prehistoric events, likely happened earlier and less suddenly than previously supposed. I get an unsolicited monthly periodical that extols the virtues of Neanderthals in nearly every issue. Professional kill butchering appears to go back to perhaps 250k years ago (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1093721&viewfull=1#post1093721), which at this time is considered to be before Homo sapiens appeared on the evolutionary scene (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sapiens), but not by much. Throwing spears were discovered from 400k years ago, and the control of fire is likely at least one million years old, and maybe twice that long ago (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1).

Today, other than in some obstinate (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climatechange2) and scientifically illiterate corners (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#velikovsky), nobody is strenuously denying that the rise of humanity meant the demise of many other species (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/16-Chapter-9-Speciation-Extinction-and-Mass-Extinctions?p=1018&viewfull=1#post1018), and that Neanderthals were just one of the innumerable losers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climateneanderthal) to the success of behaviorally modern humans. Homo sapiens quickly drove all of the large animals on three continents to extinction. It began in Australia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna), and to a lesser extent in Eurasia, where those animals had familiarity with those two-legged killers and avoided them, but still the Eurasian mammoths were quickly driven to extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gravettian) at around the same time that Neanderthals were driven to extinction. Unlike mammoths, however, Neanderthals did not have any refugia to huddle in safety from the depredations of Homo sapiens.

Before the rise of humans, the elephant family was the most successful land mammal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elephantsuccess), they lived in the Americas for more than 16 million years, lived the length and breadth of the Western Hemisphere, but the arrival of humans meant the complete extinction of the elephant family in the Americas, with the sole exception of an island that humans could not get to for several thousand years (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#refugia1), and then the last of the mammoths quickly went extinct. Vast numbers of other large species quickly went extinct in the Americas (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#westernmegafauna) when the elephant family did.

With all of the debate and research, I think that it is obvious that the Founder Group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit) had an “it” factor that made them an irresistible force. I have seen their mastery of language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language) invoked, their sophisticated toolset, and their group-hunting practices, which all likely reflected a higher cognitive operation than anything else on Earth’s continents, including all other human species. None of them survived the arrival of Homo sapiens, and I think that it is an in-group-defending fantasy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup) to think that the extinction of those other species was a gentle process. Homo sapiens is the most successful predator in Earth’s history, and it is only honest to put our capacity for violence at the top of the list of traits that made us so successful.

Those Earth-conquering humans also put fire to new uses, devastating entire biomes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fires) to make them human-useful. The incipient Sixth Mass Extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth1) began when humans began conquering Earth.

Killing off all of the easy meat, setting huge fires, driving all other human species to extinction – these are all about energy. By about 11k years ago (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran), all of Earth’s easy meat, at least which could be killed with the technology of the day (the whale holocaust happened later (http://ahealedplanet.net/simon.htm#whaling), when the technology to kill them arrived) was extinct, and in a few places conducive to it, women built on their gathering duties and plants began their domestication, which is when the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) began, and that is the subject of my next post.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

4th September 2017, 16:33

Hi:

Here is my Third Epochal Event summary:

The Third Epochal Event:

When: 11-10k years ago
Where: At least two places independently, the Fertile Crescent and Mesoamerica, and as many as nine.
Who: Women gatherers
How: By selectively breeding plants with edible energy stores, often by breeding them to be more edible and to increase their energy stores.
Why: In areas where large animals were hunted to extinction or nearly so, domestic plants became a novel and necessary source of calories.

For me, all Epochs have their fascinating aspects, but the first two don’t have much familiar about them to modern peoples. However, the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) gave birth to many aspects of today’s world. One aspect of the Epochs is that as energy use rose, so did the human population. It went from perhaps five thousand when the Second Epoch began to five million when the Third Epoch began, to 600 million when the Fourth Epoch began, and it is over seven billion today.

The domestication of plants made civilization possible. Each Epoch began with a relative Golden Age of exploiting a new energy source (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages), and the Neolithic Expansion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#maledna) was one of those times. Those peaceful horticultural villages that feminists have long written about were real, but it was a relatively short-lived phase in the human journey. Those peaceful matrilocal settlements (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1) eventually gave way to male dominance and violence again. All pristine civilizations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1) began peacefully (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873), but women’s status universally declined with the advent of civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#womenstatus1).

The dog (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dogs) was the only domesticated animal before the Third Epoch began, and all other domesticated animals of note were domesticated in the Third Epoch. About the only exception was the silver fox, which was domesticated as an experiment (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#silverfox).

Sedentary living made possible numerous aspects of our lives today. Cities (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer), metallurgy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#plow), literacy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#writing), mass warfare (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warfare), states (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#legitimacy), empires (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#akkadian), professions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#professions), and many other attributes of civilized humanity were a result of domesticating plants.

However, the process of domestication and civilization-building further wrecked the natural world (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/16-Chapter-9-Speciation-Extinction-and-Mass-Extinctions?p=1018&viewfull=1#post1018). Environmental devastation came with all early civilizations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#earlycivilizations), and they all collapsed as they ran out of energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#collapse). Ancient Rome was the quintessential example of that phenomenon (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gladiators). No civilization has ever been sustainable, as they never had sustainable energy supplies, and that includes all Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) civilizations, as we rapidly head for oblivion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). The test of humanity’s collective integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) and sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1) is happening now. How are we doing?

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

5th September 2017, 15:35

Hi:

When I wrote my big essay, I invented Epochal Events 3.5 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal35) and 4.5 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal45) partly because the Third (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) and Fourth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) Epochal Event chapters would have been too long. :) Also, however, the 3.5 split on the rise of Europe and 4.5 split on the rise of oil and electricity were very logical places to divide those Epochs.

Epochal Event 3.5 – The Rise of Europe:

When: One thousand years ago
Where: Western Europe
Who: Western Europeans
How: By harnessing water and wind power at unprecedented levels, and by the reintroduction of Ancient Greek teachings.
Why: Necessity and opportunity

This is the first Epochal Event that is not the sole province of scientists for study, as we have vast contemporary writings to refer to. Millions of pages of ink have been spilled on the rise of Europe and its conquest of humanity. Europe conquered the world because it could. Europe has been a rump of Asia for more than 30 million years, and the initial Asian invasion resulted in a mass extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#endeocene). Europe eventually returned the favor.

Why Europe rose to global dominance instead of someplace else has been a question long asked. One question is why Greece and Rome did not industrialize. I think that the answer is that both civilizations collapsed as they ran out of energy before they could tap the next energy source. China actively dismantled (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill2) the technologies that led to England’s industrialization. England was one of the more backward parts of Europe before its rise to industrialization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#uk). So, Europe’s rise and England’s rise to industrialization have been enduring subjects of study, but it is not difficult to put them in energy terms.

The watermills that proliferated (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill1) in Europe during the Medieval Warm Period have no precedent in the human journey. Non-muscle power was exploited on a vast scale for the first time, and its advantages were obvious. Western, Central, and Northern Europe also had relatively intact forests, and Western Europe’s forests had largely recovered from Rome’s depredations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gladiators).

At the same time that watermill use exploded, long-suppressed Greek teachings (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#toledo) made it back into Europe from captured Islamic libraries, which led to Europe’s humanism and the rise of science (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sciencerise). Europeans benefitted greatly from imported technologies and ideas, they engaged in war after war (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#wars) with each other, and refined violence to a science. When they achieved the technical prowess to turn the global ocean into a low-energy transportation lane (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2), the rest of humanity never had a chance. The indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere were nearly eradicated in the greatest demographic catastrophe in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide). The transatlantic slave trade (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#slavery) was another demographic catastrophe that Europe inflicted on humanity, and there would be others (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic2). For the next month, my Columbus essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm) will be among my site’s most popular, as it has been for many years. That essay is nearly twenty years old.

England’s rise and embrace of coal energy is evident in hindsight. England played catch-up with Dutch proto-industrial practices and began playing the conquest game (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#english) as Europe learned to sail the oceans. England had already dispossessed its peasantry through Game and Enclosure laws (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gamelaw), and those hapless peasants ended up in the mines and mills of industrializing England, as its first workforce. Before English civilization could collapse, as many other agrarian civilizations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#collapse) previously had, it turned to coal after it eradicated its forests (and Ireland’s) (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coaluse). That is the initial and quintessential example of the transition from Third Epoch to Fourth Epoch energy sources, which is the subject of the next installment of this series of posts.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

6th September 2017, 14:36

Hi:

Here is my Fourth Epochal Event summary:

The Fourth Epochal Event:

When: 1700s
Where: England
Who: English inventors and entrepreneurs
How: By harnessing coal energy in new ways
Why: Necessity and opportunity

Of course, the Industrial Revolution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) has far more ink spilled on it than the rise of Europe. Until now, it is the biggest event in the human journey. Today’s world would be beyond the wildest imaginings of English peasants in 1500 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine4). It was an energy revolution above all else, as with the previous Epochs. Without tapping the energy of coal, the Industrial Revolution could not have happened. As I studied the Industrial Revolution, I got some surprises.

Although the first commercial steam engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#steamengine1) was invented only the year after coal was first used in a successful commercial smelting operation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coke) (and once again, the Chinese were ahead, but never really took advantage of it), coal was originally more important for smelting than producing power. Wind and water power were competitive with coal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#waterpower) until about 1850. Using coal for smelting, however, was an immediate improvement. Darby’s operation made iron into a household consumer good for the first time. Before Darby, iron was an elite good, but with coke-fueled smelting, iron became the primary metal of the Industrial Revolution. Without coke, there would not have been iron in appreciable amounts. No people could have ever industrialized by using wood.

But even coke took some time to become dominant. In 1750, only 5% of English pig iron was made with coke, but by 1800, almost all of it was, and iron production skyrocketed.

In the 1740s, spinning machines were invented (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spinning), which began replacing people’s hands and backs. Soon thereafter, the abolition movement began. As machines replaced people, manual labor became economically obsolete, and slavery as a hallowed institution ended (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#southseas). It was a Third Epoch institution.

England’s turning to coal made the Industrial Revolution possible. The science of energy did not yet exist (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sciencerise1), but the next Epoch was made possible, as the previous ones were, by tapping a new energy source. Industrialization allowed tiny England to become the world’s greatest imperial power, as it had a century’s head-start on its rivals. Its descendant, the USA, became history’s richest and most powerful nation, by far, as it stole Earth’s most plunderable continent (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#steal1) from its residents.

This is only intended to be a brief summary, and a key question is: “Why England?” I don’t want to call it an accident, and it certainly was not the result of some master plan, but it was a confluence of circumstances, and taking advantage of them led to the Industrial Revolution. England had the coal, its forests were gone (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday), its dispossessed peasantry (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gamelaw) comprised a ready-made workforce for the mines and mills, and it was on a proto-industrial trajectory, as it played catch-up with its imperial rivals (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#jockeying), primarily the Dutch in this instance.

Industrialization allowed for global imperial goals. My view is that the global elite (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) began to form as Europe conquered the world. Until the world was conquerable, there was no point in thinking that way. Capitalism was the dominant ideology (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists) that arose with industrialization, and it sanctifies greed (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#greed) but somehow ignores energy. Today’s dominant economic school (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chicagoschool), which ignores energy in favor of social theories, was sponsored by history’s greatest energy mogul. What a coincidence. :)

Best,

Wade

ortizrealstonegroundcorn

6th September 2017, 16:19

I am not asking you to reveal the identities of anybody that you encountered in your life. I think you say somewhere on your website you had some paranormal experiences while meditating for something like 40 hours total when you were younger, and that this convinced you that there was much more to reality than what you were taught in school. You don't go into much detail about exactly what you experienced -- is there a reason for this? I think mathematician / remote viewer Courtney Brown also wrote about having paranormal experiences while meditating.

Also, I remember you most for the saying "The ends do not justify the means. The means become the ends." You mention some of the sources where this idea came from, and you seem to use this as an argument against violence to solve problems [of power]. Bill Ryan once asked the question -- I am using my own words here -- "Do we humans evolve by 1) participating in a war of good versus evil, or 2) do we ignore what's going on in the world and sit and meditate quietly in some corner?" in one of his video interviews. His own opinion (at the time) was that you have to do both. The notion of "war" suggests that violence may be involved. I really like the logic of your statement though. It is similar to laws like "a body in motion tends to stay in motion" and the idea that people generally resist change. And some people have proposed that violence gives rise to more violence (i.e. the means become the ends).

Using violence to solve problems [of power] seems like a very common belief, however, and it's hard to argue against the immediate consequence of someone using greater force to control others / the environment. Do you think there is some scientific way to test your statement in the laboratory, or is beyond our present ability to know the truth of?

Compared to other people in the "conspiracy field", you seem to have an almost pessimistic view of the situation on this planet. You say that no individual or group can ever beat Godzilla at their game, because Godzilla is organized, has relatively unlimited resources and has anticipated and prepared for just about every possible action against them. You turn to a sort of spiritual / psi solution -- we can only beat Godzilla though selfless loving intention.

I've also come across this idea that nothing need to changed about the situation on the planet, that it's deliberately designed to be the way it is, to teach us certain lessons.

Wade Frazier

7th September 2017, 14:35

Hi ortizrealstonegroundcorn (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1178438&viewfull=1#post1178438):

Thanks for writing. This is timely, as it was about time for one of my “purpose” posts that I periodically make. First off, I go into quite a bit of detail regarding the remote viewing experiences that initiated my mystical awakening, including the class (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva) and exactly what I experienced during those remote viewings (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown). That woman’s description of Isaac Brown was far more dramatic to me than my getting my “case” accurate a few minutes later. Brian O had the same experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#oleary) performing the same exercise five years later, and it ruined him as a mainstream scientist, as he could no longer drink the Kool-Aid of materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle), which is a religion. My site comprises 2,000 pages of material, and when you see that blue text (http://ahealedplanet.net/home.htm), it means links that you can follow to read more, and usually to my site, but also to forum posts, both at Avalon and elsewhere.

I have written that my jury is still out (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=312&viewfull=1#post312) on whether people need to have a mystical awakening before being useful for my little plan, but I have received all sorts of crazy reactions (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/94-My-last-posts-in-another-forum) to that idea. What that mystical awakening is really good for, as far as what I am doing, is to help people see beyond their indoctrination and conditioning. Materialism is just another false faith, and people who buy that rubbish also often utter the “laws of physics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3)” denials of free energy’s possibility. They could not be more wrong, but is not easy to escape that straightjacket of the mind. A mystical awakening can help, but it is far from the only kind of important awakening experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309).

The “means becoming the ends (http://ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#idealist)” statement is from Seth (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#seth), my first important mystical influence, and that statement was one of the stars that I steered by during my adventures, and one reason why I survived them with my sanity intact. That statement was just about how reality functions. You point out a dichotomy, and a false one, as far as I am concerned, in that our options are to do nothing but meditate, or be violent. Making a free energy device and giving it to the world (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers) is neither. I have had the urge to do violence (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#it) at a level that few are provoked at (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail), it was the most soiled I ever felt, and my overcoming it led to the greatest miracle that I ever saw (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mortgage). I don’t need a lab experiment to know. :)

Love is the greatest power in the universe (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest), and those who practice it may one day live in this world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), while those who don’t may live here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115). Each one of us determines our future by our actions most of all, followed by our words, and then our thoughts. Physical reality is a place of action.

As far as the Global Controllers (GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc)) go, the Left denies their existence while the Right obsesses about them. Both reactions are rooted in fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness). A loving perspective just acknowledges their existence and lets them go. The GCs are far from all-powerful, and they are divided today (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal). I believe that it was a disenchanted faction of the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mars) that gave my friend his exotic technology show (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground).

Many people misunderstand my approach, which is why I keep having to restate it. I don’t regard the GCs as the main obstacle to manifesting free energy. The enemy is us (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#attacks), not them. I regard the GCs as a symptom of our malaise, not a cause, just like those grey beings that Roads encountered (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115). The reason why all of those paths to free energy have failed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) is more about the internal weakness of the efforts, not the organized suppression (which occurs at several levels (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1)), but people just have to act like victims and focus on the “bad guys.” Those failures are mainly about failures of integrity, which was the main lesson of my journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). Combined positive intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus) is the way out of this conundrum, not focusing on the GCs and other obstacles.

If that choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) forms, whether it is through my efforts or somebody else’s, it won’t matter what the GCs do; they will be powerless to stop it.

You can find the entire spectrum of opinion in “mystical” sources about the point of this reality, from how God did not intend it to be this way, to that he specially designed it as a testing ground for souls. I have not been let in on the joke, so I keep doing what I can to make this world a better place, and nothing would do it like free energy could (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). So, I keep doing what I can, with the years I have left. I have written at length on how my effort might turn out (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/49-Manifesting-Free-Energy?p=256&viewfull=1#post256), and we’ll see.

Thanks again for writing.

Best,

Wade

ortizrealstonegroundcorn

7th September 2017, 23:56

Thank you for the clarification. I always liked your "more comprehensive" way of looking at things, combining both material and spiritual perspectives. Yes it's one thing to have your own experiences to convince you of the reality of something; and it's another thing to try to convince someone else who has no similar experience. So you're saying the GCs, because they're motivated by fear [and separation], will never be as united [and allied with the power of universal consciousness] as those who are motivated by love, okay. And despite the GCs being divided among themselves, they are still dangerous enough to overwhelm all fear-based challenges to their highly centralized power. Why didn't the years of bitter-sweet experiences affect Dennis the same way as it did you? Have you ever talked with Dennis about this? I don't know what [paranormal] experiences motivated him to go on his own journey toward radicalization, but I think you mentioned somewhere that Dennis has his own spiritual beliefs.

So for people like me, who have never truly had convincing experiences, the truth of Seth's statement will remain merely a possibility. I met this older couple who told me they were long-time abductees of grey aliens, and that these grey aliens (as well as other entities) had helped them develop their consciousness to the point of reaching "enlightenment" [and beyond]. The wife of the couple told me that she believed that universal consciousness was a loving entity, and that what was necessary to experience it was to "trust in the unknown" rather than fear the unknown (a/k/a paranormal -- I'm guessing she's talking about universal consciousness here). Whereas fear is a feeling that motivates one to act, she said it was better to stay observant rather than reacting, and to trust in the unknown. She said she wish she could give that feeling of inner peace [that comes with enlightenment] to me, but that I would "just have to see for yourself."

Wade Frazier

8th September 2017, 03:05

Hi ortizrealstonegroundcorn (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1178812&viewfull=1#post1178812):

Dennis is on a different journey than I am. I never met a greater human, but he was raised as a migrant farmworker (Olde%20Tyme%20Religion) (Third Epoch), and was raised with that Old Tyme Religion. I was fortunate that I wasn’t. I wasn’t really raised with all that much Kool-Aid, to my parents’ credit. That helped me. Dennis’s mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#voice) was far more dramatic than mine was, and whatever amalgam of experience and belief that he has, he will take it to his grave with him. However, when I last saw him, and told him what I was planning, he immediately realized that it was something different, as did Brian (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=918852&viewfull=1#post918852). They thought that I might have a chance of making a dent. Like I have written about Greer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=945&viewfull=1#post945), Dennis has gone so far down his path that taking another would be a huge lift for him, like changing his DNA. Not easy. Also, he has been legally forbidden (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&highlight=wirec#post694872) from being involved in the energy industry in the USA ever again, courtesy of David Rockefeller and friends (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888). He legally could not do what I am today, and Brian is dead, so I am carrying the ball, to a degree, as the last man standing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures).

My mystical awakening was just the beginning of my adventures. A voice in my head changed my career path from science to business (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice), and led me straight to Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2). Two years later, we were being offered $1 billion to go away (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer), before they lowered the boom on us (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail). I have never even heard of another story like that. I lived it, and at times it is even hard for me to believe it. Let’s just say that when you go on odysseys like that, you don’t come home the same.

You bring up a very good point in what “makes sense,” is “plausible,” and the like. Dennis should be dead dozens of times over, and I would not recommend his journey to anybody. If they made a movie of his life, nobody would believe it (such as this vignette (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page9?p=778&viewfull=1#post778)). I have long written that my work cannot wake anybody up, and that they have to come to me already awakened somehow (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309), and that can only come through experience. It does not have to be mystical, or political, etc., but it has to be some kind of awakening experience, in which you realize that you have been drinking somebody’s Kool-Aid. Once you get the taste out of your mouth on one issue, the others are easier to do that for.

While I didn’t drink much religious Kool-Aid, I was force-fed American nationalism (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#flag) from kindergarten onward, and drank the capitalist Kool-Aid in college (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#janitor1). It was my awakening during my years with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601) that really showed me how my nationalist and capitalist indoctrination was something akin to reading fairy tales every day and thinking that they depicted reality.

I admit that I am likely psychically “gifted,” as most of my fellow travelers were (and we were all naïve, overgrown Boy Scouts (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts), too), I think that we had those gifts for a reason, and we were all a bunch of geniuses, too. But then we went into the world and barely survived our adventures. I long ago accepted that I was on some kind of special assignment, and when you draw that straw, nothing about the assignment is easy.

However, I think that if people are diligent, having a mystical awakening is very feasible, no matter their soul age (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age), and I doubt that my work needs a genius-level IQ to understand. I wrote it so that an IQ of 110 or so should be enough. The vast majority of my work is not about mystical stuff, or fringe science, etc. It is simple science and history, for the most part (the non-Kool-Aid version :) ). And a general awakening can be done by anybody. They just have to want to know the truth, not settle for the bromides of their conditioning, and get out of their easy chairs.

Thanks again for writing.

Best,

Wade

CdnSirian

8th September 2017, 03:13

Hi after a long time. And no telling when I'll log in here again...but my first IQ test came in at 145 and recently I did one on line that came in at 60! AAAHHH! Whatever the truth is, I know my soul age is way higher. Power to you and all of us. Still tracking.

Wade Frazier

8th September 2017, 04:01

This is going to seem bizarre, but I was thinking of you today, CdnSirian. You have not posted here in years. Cue Twilight Zone music.

I hope all is well,

Wade

Wade Frazier

8th September 2017, 13:42

Hi:

Here is my Epochal Event 4.5 summary:

Epochal Event 4.5 – The Rise of Oil and Electricity:

When: Late-1800s
Where: United States and Western Europe
Who: American and Western European inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs
How: By drilling into Earth and manipulating electrons.
Why: Necessity and opportunity

All of the Epochs built on each other. The energy-hogging human brain that the First Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/103-The-when-where-who-how-and-why-of-humanity-s-epochs?p=1020&viewfull=1#post1020) produced, along with fire and a sophisticated toolset, was only built upon in subsequent Epochs. Behaviorally modern humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/103-The-when-where-who-how-and-why-of-humanity-s-epochs?p=1021&viewfull=1#post1021) have not changed in their basic cultural traits (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up) in 50,000 years. Once humans domesticated plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/103-The-when-where-who-how-and-why-of-humanity-s-epochs?p=1022&viewfull=1#post1022), they never undomesticated them, and their agricultural practices only became more sophisticated over time. The West is still riding the energy wave that began a thousand years ago (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/103-The-when-where-who-how-and-why-of-humanity-s-epochs?p=1023&viewfull=1#post1023), and humanity has yet to move beyond fossil fuels in its industrial phase (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/103-The-when-where-who-how-and-why-of-humanity-s-epochs?p=1024&viewfull=1#post1024). Epochal Event 4.5 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal45), when humans began mining oil and using electricity, built on the earlier practices of the industrial epoch. As whales were hunted to the brink of extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/simon.htm#whaling), there was a “whale oil crisis (http://ahealedplanet.net/simon.htm#crisis),” and the first commercial oil was used to replace whale oil for lamps. John D. Rockefeller (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rockefeller1) became the world’s richest man long before oil became such an important industrial fuel. Oil could not have been mined until the development of machines and related technology in the first phase of the Industrial Revolution. The first phase was a necessary precondition of the second.

The rise of science interacted with the rise of industry, and from Ben Franklin (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#franklin) onward, Western scientists and inventors experimented with electricity, and Thomas Edison’s team (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#edison) perfected electric lighting, with prominent scientists in initial denial of his achievement (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#edison), which replaced those lamps. Edison’s direct current, however, lost the battle against Tesla’s alternating current (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tesla1), and humanity has been increasingly electrified ever since. I am writing this post with electron power and even its manipulation by semiconductors to mimic brains. Try to imagine airplanes and rocket ships running on coal. :)

The rise of oil and electricity has been called The Industrial Revolution, Phase 2, for good reason. Oil is Earth’s chief geopolitical prize (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#ultimate), with wars and genocides (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading) resulting from its pursuit. Humanity might fight World War III (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wwIII) over oil. Electricity is the preferred way to deliver energy to homes and cities. Without oil and electricity, industrial societies would still be fairly primitive.

As technology galloped along, the global elite grew in stature, if largely a covert one, and the Global Controllers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) were born. Tesla was the first to pursue free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#teslatower), the oligarchy pulled the rug on him, and the suppression of technological advances has become a science in ultra-elite circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). The toys in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) today are mind-boggling, and the technological means to the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) are older than I am. But we don’t get any while we collectively sleep and are our own worst enemies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#attacks).

Elites will become obsolete in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear) and they know it, which is why they have been so avid in suppressing free energy and related technologies. It will take an unprecedented act of integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) and sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1) to overcome humanity’s egocentric inertia and the organized suppression. Earth and humanity are in the balance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). For the level of the stakes, it is incredible how few people have any productive awareness of the situation, much less doing anything about it. Hardly anybody on Earth sees past their immediate self-interest, nor do they want to. If enough can (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), and unite their efforts (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus), then the Fifth Epoch will easily arrive.

Best,

Wade

ortizrealstonegroundcorn

9th September 2017, 02:16

My IQ is probably around 110. Problem is, my ability to maintain focus isn't great. I usually only read what I find interesting, and even then, I often cannot finish what I start reading. So I tend to try to understand the essence of something from what parts I do read. It's like I'm looking for a feeling or a motive behind the writing, rather than just the written content. For example, Ingo Swann's writings are pretty interesting to me, maybe because he deals with [his own experiences with] psi abilities, a taboo topic, and the psychology / sociology surrounding the phenomenon of psi and individual empowerment / depowerment in general. But even Ingo seems to believe in violence, even though he never seemed to have been violent in his life. He keeps on using the expression "lean mean fighting machine" in his writings, as something one would have to become, to make psi a universally accepted reality in the world, or anything else that can greatly change power distribution among people.

Wade Frazier

9th September 2017, 03:29

Hi Ortiz (for short :) ):

For what it is worth, I have made quite a few attempts to simplify my work, like a PowerPoint presentation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanityppt.pdf) of the Epochs, pithy summaries (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/58-What-is-Most-and-Least-Important-in-My-Work-and-What-My-Confidence-Levels-Are?p=77&viewfull=1#post77), executive summaries (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#summary), and the like. I sympathize with short attention spans in our tweeting and texting times, but I also know that for the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), it will take long, deep study, for those who have already been awakened (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309), etc. There is a lot of meat to digest.

To circle back to Dennis for a moment, deep thought was not part of his approach, not for the participants, who were virtually all there for self-serving reasons, not the “cause,” and I repeatedly saw how weak such efforts were. But even an idealistic and high-minded approach like Brian’s NEM was fatally flawed (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=853&viewfull=1#post853). I am trying to help manifest the biggest event in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), and it won’t be easy. The hard part will be building the choir. The rest will be easy.

To that “lean and mean” stuff, the Michael Material (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#michael) can be helpful to understand somebody such as Swann. People who “break through” the barriers of the public’s inertia, the “skeptics,” and the like are often enough Warrior souls. The Achilles heel of Warriors is believing in coercion to achieve their goals, which they may think are lofty. The USA is transitioning from Young Soul to Mature Soul, and is full of Young Warriors who believe in violence as an answer (but the means become the ends, etc.). That is how they can rack up huge karmic debts in short order, which they spend the rest of their lives paying back. What a game. :) All men are susceptible to thoughts of violence (http://ahealedplanet.net/opinions.htm#mystical). It is pretty deeply baked into the human animal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coalitionary). I know the urge (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#it).

The only Warriors who are going to make a dent for efforts like what I am doing are those who reached the stage where they realized the utter and self-defeating futility of coercion and violence, and operate from the positive pole of their role (http://ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#warriors), which is persuasion. The positive pole is reached via love, and the negative pole by fear. But I really don’t need them for my work, not now, if ever, as the choir’s singers are not trying to break through the inertia, the skepticism, the suppression, and the like, but will be a beacon to attract others like them. The song will do it. That, at least, is what I am trying out, and we will see in 30 years or so how it has gone.

Best,

Wade

Franny

9th September 2017, 04:04

Thanks Wade, I don't read here a lot but when I do, I always appreciate your work, and very much so. I then get lost in your website for hours or days and have learned a lot.

I have even tried to send friends here but so far, no takers. I think their mind boggles at the breadth and depth of your work, eyes roll back in the head and they pass out :)

Thanks so much and I wish you well.

Wade Frazier

9th September 2017, 12:26

Hi Latte:

You are in good company, not having any takers. Extremely few people have what it takes to digest my work. Sure, there is a lot there, but it is not really very challenging, conceptually. The challenge is letting go of what we think we know. The ego does not want to do that, not in a world of scarcity and fear. I have specifically designed my work so that most people are quickly chased off, as their cherished beliefs are challenged. We can’t get where we need to go by dragging along our baggage. That is why I know that I seek needles in haystacks.

Happy reading,

Wade

Wade Frazier

9th September 2017, 13:09

Hi:

Here is my hypothetical Fifth Epochal Event summary:

The Fifth Epochal Event – Free Energy and an Abundance-based Political Economy:

When: First half of the 21st century
Where: Likely in an industrialized nation
Who: Global activists
How: By tapping the zero-point field
Why: Humanity’s survival, healing Earth, and realizing the human potential

Manifesting that event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is what my work is all about, but I am trying a new approach (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) that seeks to avoid the pitfalls that swallowed up (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) every other effort that I have seen or heard of, and organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) is only a minor aspect of the hazards. If an effort makes it over the hump, the Fifth Epoch will likely have these features:

An end to pollution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#combustion) and environmental devastation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mining);
An end to poverty (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#desperation) and war (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping);
An end to races, nations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nations), cities (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cities), money (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange), and all in-group ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup), including all of today’s religions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#religion);
An end to scarcity, and a super-Epoch of abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance) will begin; love will reign (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest), not fear.

And that is just for starters. Humanity will become a space-faring species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#solarsystem), the extraterrestrial presence (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm) will be officially acknowledged, we will domesticate our solar system (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spacejunk), and Earth will be healed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#forest2). Social constructs such as the nuclear family (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#family) will vanish, and what replaces it will be infinitely more enlightened. Elites will disappear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear), as will the poor, as humanity becomes a Type 1 civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev). Quite simply, the world as we know it will cease to exist, in ways that futuristic shows such as Star Trek only hint at (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#visions), and the technology for manifesting that world (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) is older than I am. Sign me up! :)

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

9th September 2017, 14:11

Hi:

The previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/103-The-when-where-who-how-and-why-of-humanity-s-epochs?p=1028&viewfull=1#post1028) finishes my summary of the Epochs (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/103-The-when-where-who-how-and-why-of-humanity-s-epochs?p=1020&viewfull=1#post1020). Helping manifest the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is my life’s work, while I also juggle my life, work long hours to make a living, play the dutiful husband, care for my aging body, etc. Impatience is my Achilles heel (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading), and my life’s work lets me work on it every day, oh the joy. :)

It is wearying to be constantly approached by people stuck in scarcity, hearing their “bright ideas” for making free energy happen, when they have yet to leave their easy chairs, and their suggestions are always along the lines of what has never come close to working (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches). It gets tiring to have my efforts continually compared to Greer’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=938&viewfull=1#post938), Dennis’s ongoing efforts (although he has been banned from doing it in the USA (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&highlight=wirec#post694872), and he is likely finished on the free energy front), or even what Brian continually attempted (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#new). While those men are in my pantheon (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures), I am doing something different, which Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/81-Vignettes-from-my-journey-and-how-I-learned-what-I-did-and-came-to-my-approach/page3?p=249&viewfull=1#post249) and Brian immediately recognized (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=918852&viewfull=1#post918852).

I am not trying to form some social movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy?p=925&viewfull=1#post925), persuade another one to join up with me, play the hero or Messiah (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah1), etc. I am doing something so different that almost nobody can even conceive of what I am attempting. So, I am constantly approached by people who have yet to understand, and they likely won’t, not until free energy is delivered into their lives, which is normal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink).

I do not seek to change people’s minds that are in denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1) and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level5). I do not seek to engage people who can’t or won’t understand, who need to be cajoled to read my work, and the like. The people whom I seek will instantly recognize my work’s worth, and won’t come up for air for months or years. So far, those have been the only people in cyberspace who have come close to understanding what I am attempting, and most of my little circle has been reading my work for at least five years and as many as 20. I have been doing this on the Internet for more than 20 years, after I semi-retired from the free energy field, and I have fielded thousands of reactions from the public. I know what has not worked and is unlikely to, what might make a dent, and am through wasting any more time on the paths of failure. In this field, calling it “failure” is too tame, as such failures leave smoking craters, with the devastation of wrecked and shortened lives scattered far and wide. This field is not the place for enthusiastic newcomers to run out and “do something,” proselytize to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), etc. If they follow my prescribed curriculum (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), all will be well, but almost all newcomers look for the shortcut, the easy way to the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), so that they can make it happen in hours, days, or weeks (maybe even months! :) ) of their spare time. Nothing worthwhile is ever that easy, and this task least of all. Manifesting the Fifth Epoch will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far.

What I am doing is going well. If you had shown me my site today, in 1996, when I just began my public writing career, I would have scarcely believed it. I regularly hear from people who think that I am not going anywhere, that what I am doing should have made more progress by now, and the like. It is going just fine. Efforts like this never start out with a bang, and trying to “make it big” and the like are prescriptions for failure, the smoking crater kind of failure. I am done with risking people’s lives (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey), including mine. This is going to be a gentle approach, and we will see how it has progressed, 30 years from now. Maybe it will only help a little (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/49-Manifesting-Free-Energy?p=256&viewfull=1#post256), but it might also be the critical missing piece, and it won’t harm anybody, although it might dash some megalomaniacal dreams.

I will be going fairly quiet while I work on my latest biography project, and then it will be off to finally working on that essay update, in my “spare” time. :)

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

10th September 2017, 12:51

Hi:

A few odds and ends before I begin my busy day. Yesterday, I was reading Ward Churchill’s masterpiece, A Little Matter of Genocide (https://www.amazon.com/Little-Matter-Genocide-Holocaust-Americas/dp/0872863239), which cost him his career (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#churchill), and David Stannard’s masterpiece, American Holocaust (https://www.amazon.com/American-Holocaust-Conquest-New-World/dp/0195085574/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8). Churchill’s book is 20 years old, and Stannard’s is 25. They are still the works to be reckoned with, as far as what Europe’s “settling” of the Western Hemisphere was like for the natives (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide). Every year around this time, my Columbus essay becomes popular (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm), up until Columbus Day, and then it tails off until the next year. This Huffington Post article (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html) is responsible for most of the traffic in recent years, but it also gets used in classes, from middle school to college.

Thirty years ago this month, the rocket ship began taking off in Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=654&viewfull=1#post654), and 35 years ago, I was licking my wounds from my first post-graduate attempt to live in Seattle, getting ready to move to LA and begin my career (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&viewfull=1#post406928). Where does a life go?

Best,

Wade

ortizrealstonegroundcorn

11th September 2017, 00:37

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to drive you away. I became curious about your life and personality after I read some of your writings, the same way as i got curious about Ingo Swann after I read some of his writings and articles about him. Whereas I sense that Ingo sometimes expresses anger / bitterness in his writings, you seem to more express sadness maybe. I am not sure.

You said Dennis came from an old-fashioned religious background and that he served in the military. Maybe his experiences in war served to harden him against any life-threatening situations that came afterward. I'm curious what exactly he experienced during war, what he witnessed, and whether he had to actually kill other people. I've met and talked with war veterans, including one ex Army officer who said he lost count of how many people he'd killed, because he had killed so many. This ex Army officer claimed because of his war experiences, he lost any fear of death and of other people, but he admitted he still suffered from PTSD symptoms. I thought that was interesting, but also seemed kind of contradictory in a way.

I never served in the armed forces. I grew up sheltered and in isolation with my strict South Korean parents, so what I was exposed to in college and beyond were shocking for me.

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(below is the initial post. I shortened it considerably after I read my original post)

Don't misunderstand me. I'm not trying to drive you away. I just became curious about you as a person after I read some of your writings, the same way as i got curious about Ingo Swann after I read some of his writings and articles about him. Whereas I sense that Ingo sometimes expresses anger / bitterness in his writings, you seem to more express sadness maybe. I am not sure.

You said Dennis came from an old-fashioned religious background and that he served in the military. Maybe his experiences in war served to harden him against any life-threatening situations that came afterward. I never served in the armed forces. I grew up sheltered and in isolation with my strict South Korean parents, so what I was exposed to in college and beyond were shocking for me. I don't have a lot of experiences of my own, but I learned a lot from meeting and talking with people with experiences I find interesting. I have my own mental health issues that stem from childhood experiences. If you say you were groomed from an early age to become a scientist then maybe you lived a relatively comfortable life until you started coming up against organized suppression. So you maybe you didn't encounter too much trauma and disillusionment until later in life.

I met this ex-Army officer, also with a religious background, who had served something like 30 years in the military, and had a security clearance higher than the U.S. President, according to him. He said he had killed so many people during his tours of duty, in seven different theaters of war, beginning with Vietnam and ending with Iraq/Afghanistan, that he lost count of how many he had killed, not just with weapons, but with his bare hands. I never asked him how many, but I'm guessing probably in the thousands or tens of thousands total. He said he got addicted to killing people, got very good at it and would do it just for the pleasure of it. But he said it bothered him that he developed a taste for killing, so he got his PhD in psychology at some point just to figure himself out. He also said according to what he's heard from others and his own research, that the Philadelphia Experiment is real but still classified.

So I think in a way because you associated so closely with someone like Dennis, that you yourself might have a religious bent. I didn't come from a religious family but some of my relatives are strongly christian. I went to catholic elementary school for one year and in the last few years studied occult literature including Theosophy. You know there's a big divide between the religious and conspiracy communities. Maybe they might be both classified politically as being right-wing, but the religious people tend to believe in some divine authority, some higher power, while the conspiracy community (e.g. the Alex Jones crowd) tend to not trust in any authority [and might be looking for a violent revolution of some sort].

To illustrate this point, this acquaintance I met in New York state, who's a follower of Paramhansa Yogananda and works in the IT field for IBM, advised me, don't focus on all the negative things (i.e. conspiracy) that go on, but meditate and focus on positive things. Try to help other people, he said, and maybe join a church group.

I guess maybe the worst thing you could say about the conspiracy material, is that it can inspire a lot of fear, as well as give insight into a hidden reality. I think Charles Webster Leadbeater said that for those who aren't mentally ready, clairvoyance can be a curse rather than a blessing. Montauk Project scientist Preston Nichols has some things in common with Theosophy's Leadbeater.

From what little I've read of your scientific writings, you're very very mainstream compared to what I've encountered on Project Avalon, Project Camelot and other websites. Maybe you're not really interested in anything to do with conspiracy, yet you do write about encounters with organized suppression with some mention of psi, ETs and exotic technologies. For example, when you say the archeological record shows that the Neanderthals become extinct, you don't mention Lloyd Pye and his theory that some of the prehumans survive to this day (the beings known as "big foot") and are in hiding from modern man.

I've had some encounters with corporate environments myself, having worked as a legal word processor for 15 years. Being sociophobic, I felt a bit ill at ease there but liked how clean and posh it could be. If I still were working, maybe I wouldn't have had the time to delve into conspiracy material. It's interesting though, if also confusing. I got into conspiracy through my interest in and experiences with alternative medicine. I repeatedly encountered this idea of medical conspiracy on the internet and after a while it seemed believable to me, at least with the assumption of greed and corruption. I might possibly not be alive today if not for my alternative medicine practices. That led to the consideration of everything else I initially considered bizarre and insane.

I had this mathematics teacher for one summer who believed that mathematicians were the greatest people in the world. That in part made me believe that any problem could be solved with enough [logical, reductionist] thinking. I am not sure if I believe that any more, because I am encountering material saying that psi might be the next evolution in cognition, that logic and deep thinking might have their place, but that the future belongs to psi, the next step in our evolution. Just as Ingo Swann discovered that thinking interfered with psi, the wife of the couple that were long-time grey alien abductees, told me that one needed to stop thinking to let the "unknown" manifest itself.

I know this is a mouthful. I write more easily than I read. Maybe you write because you find it therapeutic, like a form of journaling which some therapists recommend. It's probably a lot safer than drinking alcohol.

Wade Frazier

11th September 2017, 13:15

Hi Ortiz (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1179598&viewfull=1#post1179598):

I read your initial post, and waited for the morning to reply. My work cannot be understood by skimming it. My conspiracy and cover-up essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm) has been my site’s most popular at times. I don’t think that it should be. As I look at my site stats for September, my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm) is by far the most popular, as it should be, but the conspiracy essay is a distant second. It was more popular than my big essay last month, but my American Empire (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm) essay was the most popular (at 12,000 views) in August. There is a world of difference between acknowledging conspiratorial activities and making them the dominant framework to understand how the world works. People who deny them or obsessively focus on them are missing the boat (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness).

I am the first man in my family (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business), going up my family tree, in a century who did not serve in the military. Uncles were in Vietnam, Korea, and the like, my father was in Korea, one grandfather was in World War I (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#influenza), the other was in World War II (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kansas), and both brothers were in the army. My father was a Marine boot camp drill sergeant. I was raised in a military household in a military community. If I was a few years older, I might have been drafted for Vietnam, and as it was, many of my pals and acquaintances were in Vietnam. I have seen what the evils of war do to people. They spend the rest of their lives trying to recover.

I already linked to Dennis’s wartime experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page9?p=778&viewfull=1#post778) in a previous reply to you. He killed plenty of people, and was in hand-to-hand combat, as a medic, of all things. I have lived with professional killers and have heard what that life was like. Dark, dark stuff, and drinking themselves to death was one way of coping (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#cia).

I deal with plenty of fringe science and exotic technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#impossible) in my work, but most so-called fringe science is rubbish. People need to know what mainstream science has to say (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=313&viewfull=1#post313) before they go off into the fringes, or else they get lost in the weeds and disappear down rabbit holes. I have dealt with the “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” at length, and they are criminals, as far as I can tell.

As far as Dennis goes, his being forced out of his home at age 13 (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#dennis) was probably the primary crucible that prepared him for what was coming. His wartime experiences were part of his background, but only a part. His odyssey is not going to be summarized in a sentence or two. His life’s journey has been preposterous, and he should be dead dozens of times over. And at age 71, he is still optimistic that he can make a dent. I have never met or heard of another like him.

As far as my life goes, it was tame compared to Dennis’s, but was also an unbelievable odyssey, and my life was shattered by what happened in Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr). I suffered from PTSD afterward, and a therapist who specialized in treating soldiers eventually treated me (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#therapy), and it helped. I have no contact with my immediate family, as one of the many prices of my journey. What Dennis and I lived through I would not recommend to anybody, but we are on some kind of special assignment, oh the joy. Dennis and I are naturally happy people. Otherwise, we would not have survived our dark adventures.

Back to my biography project.

Best,

Wade

ortizrealstonegroundcorn

12th September 2017, 23:26

I'm sorry if I'm taxing your patience by having you to summarize / repeat parts of your prewritten material. I'll hold off on any more questions and comments. Thank you for your responses.... It was nice to have finally exchanged words with you.

Krishna

13th September 2017, 03:54

Just watched a TED talk (13 min long) What is so special about the human brain? (https://www.ted.com/talks/suzana_herculano_houzel_what_is_so_special_about_the_human_brain)
Very interesting, her research reinforces "Catching Fire", the following book is now on my to read list.

The Human Advantage: A New Understanding of How our Brains Became Remarkable. Suzana Herculano-Houzel, MIT Press, 2016 (https://www.amazon.com/Human-Advantage-Understanding-Became-Remarkable/dp/0262034255/)

Also I was thinking, Free/Open Source communities, Wikipedia, and other communities are also forms of intentional communities. The choir too will be a (mostly unrecognizable) variant of intentional community.

==== Added Later====

What explains the rise of humans? (https://www.ted.com/talks/yuval_noah_harari_what_explains_the_rise_of_humans/transcript) According to Yuval Noah Hariri it is cooperation.

Another talk I found interesting The neurons that shaped civilization (https://www.ted.com/talks/vs_ramachandran_the_neurons_that_shaped_civilization/transcript)

The special neurons are mirror neurons that allow us to empathize, present in primates, I guess we have more of them.

So, this made evolution suddenly Lamarckian, instead of Darwinian. Darwinian evolution is slow; it takes hundreds of thousands of years.

Wade Frazier

13th September 2017, 13:15

Hi Ortiz (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1179989&viewfull=1#post1179989):

No harm done. Yes indeed, I have patience issues (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading), but I am also spread very thin these days. There are days when I have to literally fight for the time to do my public work. I have to stay focused on my mission, and I seek pupils who do their homework, and I have plenty of it for them. :) My best students don’t come up for air for months and years.

I also faced my death in the mountains recently, and am still recovering from it. I’ll write about it one day. I have had to face it several times in the mountains over the years, and it is never fun, but it certainly can be a teaching tool. :) Something unexpected happened and I got into trouble. I was able to get myself out of it, but it took all that I had to do it. As we get older, our margin for error and getting out of trouble gets smaller. This last one was the beginning of my old age in the mountains, and we’ll see how the rest of my hiking career goes. My goal since my 20s was doing it into my 80s, but I’ll have to make a serious regimen change to do it. Working long hours at my day job does not help.

I leave you with one last reply, as you wonder about spirituality and religion. I have written at length about my mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown) and those of my fellow travelers (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#mystical). I have written about how my jury is still out on if a mystical awakening is a choir requirement (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=312&viewfull=1#post312). Even though it was critical to my journey and those of my fellow travelers, what is immensely more important is whether a person cares (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308). What attracted me to Dennis and Brian was not their talent, genius, or fame, but their great hearts (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#attracted). What attracted me to Ralph McGehee (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm), Uncles Noam, Ed, and Howard (http://ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm), and the few like them was the high personal integrity evident in their work, which they all confirmed during our relationships. Some were brief, and some have been extensive. When I heard from Peter Ward like I did (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=738&viewfull=1#post738), it only confirmed the sense that I had of his character, which I picked up from his writings. It takes one to know one, and we were all a bunch of over-grown Boy Scouts (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts), naively trying to help this world become a better place to live in, and that is what led us on our journeys.

Dennis was raised with fire-and-brimstone sermons while growing up but did not believe them. Only after his mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#voice) did he embrace the Old Tyme Religion that he was raised with. He still has not spit out all of the Kool-Aid of his first religion: American nationalism (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#dennis). His fervent embrace of those religions is part of who he is, and as I have written (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/49-Manifesting-Free-Energy?p=1026&viewfull=1#post1026), I am on a different journey and never really drank the Kool-Aid that Dennis and Brian did, although I stand back in awe at their journeys, and their hearts led them on their odysseys, not their heads.

I am likely a “gifted” psychic, and it runs in my family, but I have chosen to not develop those gifts in this lifetime. I have my reasons. I am likely an Old Artisan (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#role), but other than writing, I have zero artistic talent (although I have a high appreciation of it), and I think that my soul purposely blocked those avenues of expression so that I could focus on my mission in this lifetime. That is just a sense that I have. It is easy to fall down the mystical rabbit hole (http://ahealedplanet.net/opinions.htm#mystical), and I have seen people get strung out, fall off the rails, etc. I may be speaking from experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#atlantis) about the hazards of abusing those abilities. I completely understand the conditioning statements in the Silva class (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva), for instance, about not abusing those abilities. There can literally be hell to pay for those who do.

Back to my biography project.

Best wishes on your journey,

Wade

Wade Frazier

13th September 2017, 13:31

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1180012&viewfull=1#post1180012):

I regard TED as infotainment, but even Peter Ward (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=738&viewfull=1#post738) has been on it, so it can be a good introduction to certain subjects. I write a little about mirror neutrons (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpculture2), and your pal de Waal has studied the subject. My essay update will go a little deeper into them and the human journey. Yes, Lamarck is making a comeback. :)

Suzana Herculano-Houzel is from Wrangham’s side of the house (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1), and I cite her work a bit. Yes indeed, the development of the human brain (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpbrain) is a big issue.

Thanks for the tips.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

18th September 2017, 00:19

Hi:

I am hard at work on many tasks, including my biography project. I have often written that my jury is still out on whether a mystical awakening is a choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=312&viewfull=1#post312) requirement. A mystical awakening opens many doors of perception and possibility that can remain closed for those who have not had theirs, particularly those who have committed to an ideology such as materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle), and the numerous variations that it can be clothed in.

In my experience, materialists almost uniformly deny free energy’s possibility, as well as its organized suppression. They often invoke the “laws of physics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3)” to deny free energy’s possibility, and they deny evidence of organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) as a “conspiracy theory (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#naive),” which I believe arises from the same well that is hostile to the idea of teleology (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleology). The universe is a big, meaningless accident, in the minds of most materialists. Denying free energy’s possibility on the “laws of physics” objection is both arrogant and naïve. Today, I was reading a new Scientific American special issue titled Wonders of the Cosmos, which is about galaxies, stars, black holes, the universe’s structure and history, etc. You can hardly turn a page of it in which scientists don’t admit how tenuous their theories are. Take dark energy, for instance. It has never been observed, but it supposedly makes up 70% of the universe, according to the current cosmological theories. Scientists have had to admit that dark energy may not exist at all, and is just an artifact of relativity theory, which may not be universally applicable. To rule out something that I actually know exists (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), because of rudimentary theories, is ignorant and flies in the face of what enlightened scientists know (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#mystical), which is how much we don’t know.

The key is always keeping an open mind, and to especially avoid becoming prey to somebody else’s theories, which are often not based on experience. Most of the craziness that I have seen in intellectual and related circles is their thinking that they know something, when their “knowledge” is something that they were told, not something that they found out for themselves.

Materialists also nearly uniformly fear death. A mystical awakening, and especially an NDE (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#nde), puts a big dent in the idea that physical reality is all that there is, and a mystic’s fear of death can be quite muted, even though all organisms try their best to survive. The problems that surround manifesting free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) without exception revolve around fear. So, the fearful minds of materialists are a huge handicap. However, I believe that it is possible that a materialist can operate from the highest ethical level, because it is the right thing to do. Materialists who live by the Golden Rule, not because they are trying to earn heaven or karma points, but because it is the ethical thing to do, even a loving thing, might just be the most advanced beings on Earth. Have I ever met or heard of a materialist who reached that lofty level? No. But if one did, he/she would have reached the highest level of integrity attainable on Earth, in my opinion. The problems of making free energy happen are matters of integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) and sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1), and mystics have no monopoly on those qualities (http://ahealedplanet.net/opinions.htm#mystical). Far from it.

So, materialists who can act ethically, not deny realities and possibilities because of their adoptive ideologies, and put love and sentience front and center in their awareness, I think can definitely be choir material. They are also going to be needles in haystacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), but so it is with any group on Earth. This is a big subject, and I’ll likely write more on it later.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

Ilie Pandia

18th September 2017, 15:34

Hi Wade,

I can agree with "Materialists also nearly uniformly fear death" and "a mystic’s fear of death can be quite muted" because I have observed them to be true in my own life :).

I was raised to be a materialist. And I was afraid of death big time. My death... my parents' death... It seemed that life allowed for no mistakes, and no "re-try". One wrong step and you're dead! It seemed like a miracle that people lived into their 80s... :). As I shifted more towards being a mystic and discovering that materialism does not really hold water, my fear of death has become more muted indeed. I am not willing to have an NDE to have that "cured" for good though... :becky:

Where I would disagree with you is that one can act ethically while still being afraid. Fear tends to dumb you down, and to orient your thinking towards your own survival or the survival of a very limited in-group (that will also contribute to your survival). In such cases the good of humanity has no room in your consciousness.

I consider my family members to be good, loving people. But if I ask them about global issues they would say: we are too busy taking care of you the children, or the grand-children. We are too busy taking care of our own health. Which basically translates into: if we don't focus on our tiny in-group we fear that we may not survive. So there is no time saving humanity if we feel our family is not safe enough. If they would lean more towards mysticism maybe they would be more relaxed. Maybe they would be willing to expand the in-group further and further...

When I get afraid or worried I rarely think about Free Energy :). That happens only when I get the time to dream of what could be a different future. So the chores are done, the work is done and there is no pressing "worry" on my mind. With various tools I can now create that space more willingly so, rather than wait for it to "happen", but still, it is not at the forefront of my consciousness...

Yes, being a mystic does not imply high integrity or sentience. I suspect Godzilla is quite the mystic himself, but more concerned with power over others, than going good. That being said, mystics, in my view, have an advantage over the materialists in the sense that they can be less afraid of the "unknown", so have a higher chance of actually considering to act in an ethical way.

I would love to chat with an ethical materialist. And ask them why are they following their strong code of ethics? What compels them? Could it be peace of mind? A clear "conscience"? Doing good deeds just in case they are wrong and there is actually a hell? Maybe pressed a little, we could discover a mystic not knowing himself/herself to be one. Just like Wade didn't know he was a comprehensivist until someone mentioned it to him :).

About the "laws of physics": I was watching documentaries about the history of the Universe, black holes and distant celestial bodies. What I noticed is that the further away from being a scientist the speaker was, the more "sure" he or she was about their pet theories. While actual scientists would almost always start with "we speculate that..." or "assuming that this is true then..." and end with "but all that could be proven wrong one day". You do have to wonder how "sure" can you be when you talk about events taking place billions of miles away :becky:. But they are fun to watch nonetheless and the visual effects are usually stunning.

ThePythonicCow

18th September 2017, 22:17

It seemed like a miracle that people lived into their 80s..
When I think of some of the dangerously stupid things I did in my youth ... it seems to me to be a miracle that I am barely over 10 years away from 80 myself, and still going strong, with never a serious injury or broken bone.

That happens only when I get the time to dream of what could be a different future.
One of the blessings of retiring ... I've learned and studied way more diverse areas than I ever could have while "earning a living and raising a family."

About the "laws of physics": I was watching documentaries about the history of the Universe, black holes and distant celestial bodies.
Look into the Electric Universe (http://www.electricuniverse.info/Introduction). Also look into Robert Distinti's Ethereal Mechanics (https://www.youtube.com/user/rdistinti/videos).

East Sun

18th September 2017, 23:19

Wade Frazier

19th September 2017, 12:08

Thanks Ilie:

Brilliant little post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1035&viewfull=1#post1035). Big subject. This will take a few posts. With materialists and the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), my point is asking whether a mystical awakening is a “have to have” or a “nice to have” for the choir. In my professional life, I have been in situations where standard “have to haves” were not only not “have to haves,” they weren’t even “nice to haves,” but were: “why the heck do you want that?” It was insane.

I fully admit that materialists have a huge handicap for what I am doing, but can any of them reach these understandings?

At least free energy’s possibility (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf1), if not its reality (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground);
That organized suppression exists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1);
Free energy’s Epochal significance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5);
That only a high-integrity effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) has a prayer of overcoming the pitfalls (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls) and avoiding the failed approaches (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches);
Coercion (http://ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#coerce) will not work, as the means become the ends, and only a loving approach might work;
A comprehensive awareness (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing), which will help them stay focused on what is important.

If they can, I think that they can be choir material. Is materialism incompatible with those above understandings? I don’t see how, other than the pervasive fear that materialists often operate from, but materialists can operate with high integrity, too. I was on my way to becoming a materialist before my mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva), and Brian was a materialist, even though he was raised Catholic, until his mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#remote). Anybody with a scientific bent has been fed the Kool-Aid, and materialism is seductive, especially for the “smart.” But it is really little different from religious Kool-Aid, nationalist Kool-Aid, capitalist Kool-Aid (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant), etc. It is abdicating one’s sentience and responsibility to be in some “club,” AKA in-group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup).

In Brian’s materialist days, his Nobel-prize-winning colleagues would sip their sherry and ridicule the paranormal (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#oneill), and Brian smugly sipped his sherry, too. Anybody can wake up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309). Anybody can express love (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308). If materialists wake up to the Kool-Aid that they have been drinking, do they immediately become mystics? I doubt it, and a mystical awakening can only come through experience, not received teachings and study. Drinking New Age Kool-Aid (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage) is not how you get a mystical awakening. A disillusioned materialist does not immediately become a mystic, just like a disillusioned capitalist (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#getting) does not immediately become a communist. Among disillusioned idealists (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/52-Helpful-Prerequisites-for-Forum-Participation?p=97&viewfull=1#post97) are where I am going to find the most fertile ground.

Yes, good scientists are going to always couch their statements in uncertainly, as the guiding principle of science is doubt (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pioneers), not faith. But are the “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” ever cocksure. They are religious zealots who perform criminal acts on behalf of their faith.

A mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#mystical) is one thing what my fellow travelers mostly had in common, but so were our Boy Scout natures (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts).

This is going to be a crazily busy week at my day job (it looks like it will not let up for a couple of months now), so this series of posts will take some time, while I also juggle my biography project. Thanks again for that great post. It is a lot of grist for the mill.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

20th September 2017, 13:36

Hi:

Materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mystical1) is a pretty sterile, dreary philosophy, IMO. Most scientists are functional materialists. There is a great deal of scientific evidence (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#psi) that materialism is a false faith, but when you have your own dramatic and undeniable experiences (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown), it does not matter what the scientists say; you know. Theories mean nothing when compared to knowledge. For the scientifically minded, plenty of sturdy works (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=801&viewfull=1#post801) provide grist for the mill of the idea that death is not end of our consciousness. There is an intermediate view that does not deny psi but states that consciousness’s surviving physical death is an illusion. Is There An Afterlife? (https://www.amazon.com/There-Afterlife-Comprehensive-Overview-Evidence/dp/1903816904/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1483291647&sr=1-7) deals at length with that idea, but the author decisively favors survival over illusion.

I strongly agree with Ilie that acting with integrity while living in fear is almost impossible. I’ll agree with the “almost” part. I have had the “pleasure” of studying many dark events in the human journey, and while it was largely a horror story, such as the Holocaust (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#toward), the biggest demographic catastrophe (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide) in the human journey (so far (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth)), Transatlantic slavery (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slavery1), today’s holocausts inflicted by my great nation (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), and so on, there were often dots of light in the blackness, acts of selflessness and heroism in the face of the blackest evil. If I had not had my own experiences with how evil works (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr), I wonder who much I would have understood.

My pantheon has people in it whom we would call materialists. Uncle Noam (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky) is one, and many prominent leftists are. And I have to admit that their materialism has sent them down the path of justified violence (http://ahealedplanet.net/opinions.htm#mystical). Noam has said that when reason fails, he recommends violence. Uncle Howard (http://ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm) would not rule out violence in activism. Michael Albert has long been one of the left’s most enlightened voices, but he advocates coercion (http://ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#coerce) and his reason for not advocating violence is that activists could never out-do the state in violence. He does not support violence for strategic reasons, not on principle. The left’s materialistic blinders (http://ahealedplanet.net/opinions.htm#left) really hamper them as a force of change. I regard their advocacy of violence as reflecting the limits of their integrity, and one of the hazards of materialism.

Materialists really don’t understand what love is: the energy of creation (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest), and that is a big handicap to their acting with integrity. However, some of the greatest humans that I know of were materialists. I agree that a mystical perspective far more readily allows an awareness that puts love front and center, which opens up the intuition and paths to enlightenment. And that is why I say that materialists that operate with high integrity just may be the most advanced souls on Earth, as they are not thinking of heavenly rewards, avoiding hell or the lower astral plane (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#hell), or racking up karma points (or avoiding them). That is why I state that if materialists can hit all the marks needed for the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1036&viewfull=1#post1036), I think that I will welcome them in.

But materialism handicaps people in many ways. Materialists make up the bulk of Level 3s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3), I have seen Michael Albert disparage the ET situation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2) with the classic “little green men” retort, seen secular saints such as Richard Stallman (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/73-Darren-Geffert-s-introductory-posts?p=130&viewfull=1#post130) unable to get over the Level 3 hump, and I have never really been able to interest a prominent leftist in free energy (we have some lefties at Avalon, such as Krishna and Serg, so not all is lost). I have only met one environmentalist (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=848&viewfull=1#post848) who was hip to free energy, and I watched his travails in trying to interest his brethren.

There are most posts to make in this subject.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

21st September 2017, 13:46

Hi Ilie:

Responding to your latest (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1038&viewfull=1#post1038) is a pleasure. We should do this more often. :)

Just those two posts give me a lot to discuss, and they give me a chance to cover important concepts in my big essay. Those will take a week or so of posts to reply to.

You are saying that when materialists begin to lift the lid on free energy and the milieu around it, they won’t remain materialists for long. :) I agree, but I think that they can still come to the party as materialists, and even help start the party. Almost nobody can come to my work without having their beliefs challenged. Materialism is just one of many ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) that my work takes a meat ax to.

In the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), there likely won’t be any materialists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#religion), or they will exist only at the very beginning of it, like at the beginnings of the other Epochs. Materialism is the religion of the Fourth Epoch, but it did not begin to become dominant until more than 150 years into it (about the time of Darwin (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#darwin)). It took centuries for the professional urban priesthood to stamp out the hunter-gatherer religion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing1), with its singing and dancing rituals, and bring the agrarian religions into dominance, but the agrarian priesthood has been fighting a rearguard action against the ecstatic (Second Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing)) religions to this day. Heck, rock concerts are throwbacks to the Second Epoch religion. Even chimps engage in ritualistic behavior (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy?p=934&viewfull=1#post934).

The Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4), based on fossil fuels, cannot last much longer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil), but if it could, it might take centuries for the agrarian religions to finally die out and be practiced only in “primitive” corners, and even they will die out. However, it will not be through coercion, but because they will no longer make any sense. Many practices of the Third and Fourth Epochs will no longer make any sense in the Fifth, and will die out (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive). I expect that the nuclear family (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#family) will likely die out. The USA has its Bible bangers because we were an agrarian society until recently (my grandfather lived in a sod hut (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kansas), Dennis was raised as a migrant farmworker (some of his homes had dirt floors), and my father and Mr. Professor were raised on farms (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574)), and Christianity is largely a phenomenon of rural America (those Red States), with muted influence in cities. I can see some materialist holdouts at the beginning of the Fifth Epoch, but they are going to be few and far between. It is going to be hard to stay stuck in materialism (or the Second and Third Epoch religions) with the daily reality of the Fifth Epoch.

You and I were raised to be materialists, but here we are. I completely agree how hard it will be for a materialist to meet these qualifications (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1036&viewfull=1#post1036), but I don’t want to say that they can’t. At what stage of your development could you meet those qualifications? Was it before meeting me? :) The Epochal significance of free energy did not begin to become clear to me until about 2010, when I read an oil company book (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=738&viewfull=1#post738). If I had not heard of Sparky Sweet (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky), and if a close friend had not received his exotic technology show (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), free energy technology might still be on my mental shelf someplace, in the realm of, “maybe it is possible.”

Some of my best students today are still materialists. But they realize that they are, are not trying to defend their faith, and look forward to one day moving beyond it, but again, that can really only be done by experience and knowledge, not by trading one set of beliefs for another (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#orwell). Unfortunately, the Silva course (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva) is a nepotistic shadow of its former self. But, if a person is diligent, a mystical awakening is attainable. There is also the issue of soul age (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age). Older souls will achieve mystical awakenings easier than younger ones (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age3) will, and younger souls still comprise a huge fraction of humanity today. But I think that anybody who is attracted to my work can have a mystical awakening, if they are diligent. There is no denying that I seek needles in haystacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), and can some of them come to me as materialists? Some already have.

Back to my biography project.

Best,

Wade

Foxie Loxie

21st September 2017, 14:08

I would agree that Belief Systems is not where it's AT!!! I would note that it takes some very big jolts to get the majority of people to even BEGIN to question their beliefs! Wish I had found this thread sooner! :idea:

Wade Frazier

21st September 2017, 14:18

Hi Foxie:

We are all fed the Kool-Aid from our cradles (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#blinded), and the beliefs that we are force-fed seem to work, as they make us part of a club (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup), which helps ensure our survival. I don’t expect that the masses will even begin to wake up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309) until the Fifth Epoch arrives into their lives (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink). It has always been this way (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), and I don’t expect that it will be any different this time. I let go of any judgment of that (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) situation long ago. The advent of free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far, as humanity forms a Type 1 civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev). The world will end as we know it, and none of today’s belief systems will last for long.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

22nd September 2017, 12:56

Hi Ilie (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation/page2?p=1040&viewfull=1#post1040):

Yes indeed, we might see the complete end of materialism quickly, but I doubt that free energy alone will do it, as it will only operate under a new physics, or at least seem to. Today, we have the quantum paradox (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann), and while it can lead people to mystical ideas, it does not put much of a dent in today’s materialist (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mystical1) ideas. The ET issue (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2) is entwined with the FE issue, and I doubt that one will come without the other. I have this feeling that when ETs come into general awareness (or interdimensionals, and as Greer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort) says, it is not either/or, but both/and), that they will definitely not be materialists, and materialism will quickly be seen as an obsolete ideology, as will all organized religions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#religion). But we have the Flat Earth society (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#flatearth), (with their numbers growing daily (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_flat_Earth_societies#Resurgence_in_the_era_of_celebrity_and_social_media)! :) ), so I imagine that there will still be some stubborn materialist holdouts. It is a passing phase in a soul’s journey through the physical plane. I think that we all go through it, somewhere in our journeys, and likely in the Young Soul (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age) stage, when we are the most outward-focused (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age3). I know materialism’s seductions. It is kind of funny, but with the rise of the idea of antimatter, among the astute, “materialism” is an obsolete term, and has been replaced with “physicalism.” Call me old-fashioned, but I still go with “materialism.”

That idea that the ZPF (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf) is divine in nature is just something that slowly dawned on me over the years. It was a cousin to my lessons on integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). When I saw how so many efforts failed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches), what they all had in common was a lack of integrity, and not only from within the efforts, but from within the organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1), too, obviously. I began getting the idea that none of the efforts were divinely intended enough to get there. It definitely had something to do with my choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) idea.

I suppose that my notion was related to the healing work that I did (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#hands), experiments with subtle energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#tomato), hearing about Level 19s (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level19), and the like. I have been in arguments whether that Level 19 energy is the same as the ZPF. I don’t know, but I strongly suspect that they are close cousins. In the end, it all comes from the godhead (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest).

Many years after that realization began to dawn on me, I read as much in a channeled magazine, which stated that not only was that source divine, but when a society finally tapped it, all other societies in the universe that have tapped it will immediately know it. It is apparently akin to jumping into a lake, and everybody else in the lake will feel the ripples and immediately know who jumped in.

Mr. Professor (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr) was not really religious and never went to church, and while we never discussed it, he was likely somewhere along the materialist spectrum (but not today (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#grave)! :) ), and he is one of the greatest humans that I ever met. I just don’t see that attaining the qualities needed for the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1036&viewfull=1#post1036) must preclude materialism. I completely agree how hard it would be for a materialist, but, like you, meeting a materialist who operated at such an enlightened level would be quite an experience. As I have written plenty, somebody who can become choir material while still dragging along their materialist baggage would be a mighty soul (although they would deny that they have a soul :) ).

Much more to come, but back to my biography project.

Best,

Wade

Foxie Loxie

22nd September 2017, 14:17

PERSONAL INTEGRITY.....that does seem to be the key issue. That's the conclusion this Old Lady comes to! :Angel:

Wade Frazier

22nd September 2017, 14:45

Hi Foxie:

Yes indeed, the integrity issue was my journey’s primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). Almost nobody wants to admit it, however, so you get some points. :)

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

24th September 2017, 14:59

Hi:

To Ilie’s comment on whether Godzilla is a materialist or not (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1035&viewfull=1#post1035), he definitely is not. He possesses the technologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) that render today’s physics meaningless, he is all over the ET issue (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2), and knows that there is far more to existence than the physical plane.

As Ilie noted, Godzilla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) is quite mystically inclined, but firmly on the dark path (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving). Oh, the stories I have heard over the years. All are plausible and many are likely true. The scientific might describe Godzilla’s actions as psychopathy on a global scale. But his orientation is not materialist. He has an idea about the other planes of existence, but without love in his awareness, or as Ra says (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#ra), only love of self, he really cannot comprehend dimensions where love is the basis for them, and far more obviously than it is in physical reality.

I don’t want to dip too far into Godzilla’s darkness, but he knows something about karma, but thinks that he can beat the system. He thinks that he can trick others into bearing his karma. It is the height of delusion, but self-servers are the most deluded of all (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love), even though they can seem quite clever.

Take the psychotronic equipment that was used to give Greer’s team those advanced cancer cases (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#adamiak); the equipment operators get the diseases, too, but they aren’t told that. They are among the disposable assets that Godzilla uses. Godzilla may think that he can orchestrate the mayhem and not pay the price of his machinations, but that is the most foolish of all positions that one can have, particularly for those who think that they understand what lies beyond the physical plane. And as I can’t stress too much, no lofty entity on the other side of the veil sits in judgment and punishes anybody on the other side, but beings go to where they are attracted. Those who play evil games on Earth get every chance to keep playing them when they pass over, but they only get to interact with beings who share their delight, and the stray being who tries to help them wake up and leave their “heaven.” Those who play at the highest levels of evil on Earth will “graduate” to a “heaven” that makes Max’s hell (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#hell) seem like a playground.

As Road’s mentor said, those gray beings in that hellish world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115) may think that they are the “winners” of that reality, but actually, they are the biggest losers. All that we take with us is our awareness, and the patterns of thought and action that we develop while we are here is what we take with us. Wherever we go, there we are, and those patterns of our thoughts and actions are by far the easiest to change while we are here, and harder to change on the other side (such as addictive behaviors). But if you seek love, on the other side you will find it at levels that are not comprehensible in this cruel little dimension called physical reality. The greatest challenge that we have here is choosing love (http://ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#jesus), when fear is such a normal state, as we live in a reality of scarcity and survival. There is nothing easy about being here, and for my part, Godzilla has my forgiveness. I don’t wish him ill. I don’t seek to interact with him, either. He can go his own way, and if my little choir idea (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) reaches its potential, Godzilla is just going to slink away, looking for easier meat, and he can go with my blessings. The dark path is not forever, and some of his clique might even be redeemed in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). That would be my ideal outcome.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

24th September 2017, 23:57

Hi:

I have not posted very many hiking photos this year. While I had some great moments in the mountains this year, there were not enough of them, as I resumed my career and don’t get as much time for hiking as I would like. That Bucket List backpack became life-risking, which is never fun, and yesterday was my first hike since that Bucket Lister. But magic can always happen, and I got a little yesterday. For most of the hike, the weather was not very cooperative, being cloudy and cool. We still got great views on top, as you can see, and on the way down, magic happened. We were taking a break, overlooking a lake, when off to the side, I saw a falcon perched about 30 feet from us. I fumbled out my camera, and before I could get off a shot, the falcon decided to go flying. My guess is a gyrfalcon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrfalcon), because its head seemed rather white (otherwise, I would have guessed peregrine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_falcon)), and that shot attached was the only close one. Another attached shows it as it rode the thermals way above us. I have never seen a falcon that closely before. Last year, it was an owl (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page5?p=644&viewfull=1#post644).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

25th September 2017, 00:31

Hi:

I would like to make a post on something that rears its head occasionally, spurred by my previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation/page2?p=1042&viewfull=1#post1042). I truly wish nobody any harm, not even Godzilla and friends. What I sometimes hear is people savoring the day when the “bad guys” who have suppressed free energy and related technologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) get their “just desserts.” I don’t want to see them suffer. When it clearly becomes “game over” for their evil plans, I would happily just have them slink away, and some might even be redeemed.

I would never approach Bill the BPA Hit Man, Mr. Deputy, or Ken Hodgell (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=726&viewfull=1#post726). Unrepentant dark pathers are highly dangerous for anybody to approach, particularly if they are going to be taken to task about their crimes. If their consciences finally awoke and I heard from them, all that they could do, as far as I would be concerned, would be to publicly discuss their crimes and seek to repair their damage, even though they were merely soldiers following orders, in a way (although they had to demonstrate their capacity for evil to even be on the team). I would not trust anything less from them. They don’t owe me anything. Their debt is to Earth and humanity, and ultimately, themselves.

Focusing on the GCs and friends, and particularly wishing them ill, falls far short (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus) of the mentality needed to help along my effort. No need to settle any scores or hope for retribution. Leave that to wiser minds than ours to sort out.

Best,

Wade

Foxie Loxie

25th September 2017, 16:47

Well put, Wade! :highfive: Sounds a lot like the conclusions George Kavasillas & Robert Stanley have come to. I don't think too many have reached the level of being able to see things in that light. Who even knew we are Eternal Beings & as such, can see things in a whole different light! :sun:

Wade Frazier

26th September 2017, 14:58

Hi:

Way too busy, as usual. My biography project is going to slip into October, but not by much, I hope. I plan to have it published this year.

It was 30 years ago this month when the rocket ship began taking off in Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=654&viewfull=1#post654). How time flies. So many of those memories are like they happened yesterday.

Hi Foxie: I am not familiar with the people that you mention, but acts from the heart are the most powerful that we can achieve. This, I know (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#it).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

28th September 2017, 14:26

Hi:

Some of Ilie’s comments (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1035&viewfull=1#post1035) show how other groups besides materialists have their challenges. People raised or living in the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3), in agrarian societies, also have strikes against them, but as with materialists, does their conditioning automatically disqualify them from choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) consideration?

One thing that I hope that my big essay gets across, and it will more so with my essay update, is that while energy forms each Epoch’s foundation, what is built on that foundation looked a lot different each time (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), while retaining some similarities. We all need to eat. We are social animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy?p=925&viewfull=1#post925). We have been behaviorally modern (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap) since before our ancestors conquered Earth.

Ilie mentioned being pressed for time. In agrarian societies, everybody is pressed for time, trying to get enough to eat. From the earliest civilizations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#salination1), they were always collapsing as they ran out of energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#earlycivilizations), which meant wood and food (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#unsustainable1) for agrarian civilizations. Hungry, time-pressed people, living on the edge, are not going to be very helpful in imagining the coming Epoch as a way to help it manifest. Desperate people are going to be more harm than good. Similar to how materialism is a straightjacket that prevents true sentience from manifesting, so are the ideologies of the Third Epoch.

In ways, it is amazing how far Dennis got dragging his religious and nationalist baggage (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) with him, and he still tries the businessman’s route (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#greed). But there can also be a charming, naïve honesty that can come from people raised on farms, which my inner circle largely did (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574). There is something to that.

But the stories of organized religion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tales) read like bedtime stories, as if their adherents took Grimm’s Fairy Tales literally or still believed in Santa Claus. It is understandable that materialists entirely reject the agrarian religions, but they also miss the boat. It is like they rejected a hypothesis that can’t be falsified, but then erected a similar hypothesis, kind of like a mirror image of what they rejected. Instead of being met by Saint Peter and given a harp to strum, their story is that there is no story, and only oblivion awaits our consciousness when our bodies die. A mountain of evidence suggests otherwise, and I am uniformly unimpressed by the debunkers (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#blackmore), which comes from adherents to both Third and Fourth Epoch religions. And like I state about awakenings (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309), people can only awaken through experience, not beliefs that they were fed.

If anybody, no matter what their backgrounds are, can achieve these understandings (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1036&viewfull=1#post1036), I think that they can be choir material. Is it harder for Third or Fourth Epoch people to achieve them? Both have their challenges. Materialists are often the most entrenched against to the idea of free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3). Yet the credulousness of those adhering to the primary population management ideologies is a big problem going the other way (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1). I don’t need people who believe, but people who know, people who can think. And you can’t get there by sitting in your easy chair.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

29th September 2017, 14:10

Hi:

To briefly revisit those understandings needed for the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1036&viewfull=1#post1036), a key understanding is the power of integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708), sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience), and combined positive intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus). The people I seek are going to understand that the choir can make a dent. Nothing like it is has ever been seen or heard on Earth before, and who is to say what its harmonic effects might be? Doing the work to learn the song and sing it is most certainly “doing something.” And it can easily lead to manifesting the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers).

On Third Epoch peoples helping out, they have big issues, and this may not be initially easy to understand. In 1500 England, only about 5% of the population was literate (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishpeasant), much less scientifically literate (scientific literacy did not really exist at the time). Women were subservient, everybody spent all of their time making sure that they could eat, strangers were legally enslaved, the odds of surviving to adulthood were about 50%, and if you walked down a street in London without a weapon at your side, you were asking to be robbed or murdered.

There was a period of Neolithic bliss in horticultural societies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1), when women had high status and broke up the male gangs, but it did not last long. Agrarian societies today, for all the influence of industrial societies, are relatively primitive, with agrarian religions dominating, women have low status, and scientific literacy among them is almost non-existent. Leaving school early to begin one’s “career” on the farm is typical in agrarian societies. While my inner circle was raised on farms (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574), they all escaped them, too, lived in history’s richest and most powerful nation, and took advantage of the postwar boom (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#postwar), which was the most prosperous period in the human journey.

Agrarian societies might produce some choir members, but it is going to be a long haul for such people, leaving behind their natal Epoch, living in the next one, imagining the one after that and helping it manifest. My grandfather lived in a sod hut (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kansas), his son helped put men on the Moon (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary), and his son chased the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). In many ways, we live in truly extraordinary times.

So, can people raised in agrarian societies learn the song of abundance and sing it? Maybe, but theirs might be the longest journeys of all, to get there.

This is my last planned post on this subject (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1034&viewfull=1#post1034) for now. Back to my biography project.

Best,

Wade

Foxie Loxie

29th September 2017, 16:05

I'm a little slow in "catching up" here.....but it appears I have moved from one "Epoch" to another in just a matter of a few years! :tea: Thanks, Bill! :high5:

Wade Frazier

2nd October 2017, 14:52

Hi:

This will be on current events…

I awoke to the news of the latest mass shooting in the USA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_Strip_shooting). I really can’t keep track of them all. This one apparently broke the “record” of a shooting last year. My life has been touched more than once by mass shootings in the USA. I am nearing the end of my biography project, or, at least its first draft, and when people see who it was, and my readers will not be surprised, the following statement may make more sense.

Since the heinous way that the USA comported itself in defeating Germany (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#dresden) and Japan (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#last) in 1945, capped off with nuclear weapons (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#dropping), the USA has been the greatest purveyor of international violence, by far, of any nation on Earth. My great nation has slaughtered millions (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#toll1), in the name of freedom, of all things. Today, black NFL players are protesting police brutality and how this nation is failing to live up to its rhetoric. What nobody seems to be discussing is that the national anthem ceremonies are acts of religion (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#flag) in the first place, and we supposedly have freedom of religion. When I read comments on Internet boards on the NFL protests, I see what I always see when such events happen, comments that state that the protestors are disrespecting those brave soldiers who fight for our freedom. What a Big Lie. Any American soldiers serving in America’s imperial archipelago of foreign bases and who participate in foreign invasions, who think that their efforts have anything to do with protecting American freedoms, are deeply deluded. Sometimes, returning soldiers will begin to wake up to the evil that they participated in, but they are few and far between. The last time that any American soldiers fought for the USA’s freedom was the War of 1812, when we were just a sideshow for the British, who were busy fighting the Napoleonic Wars, as they drubbed the USA and burned Washington D.C. All American wars since then have been imperial ones, as we expanded our territory and influence, which is now global in nature, although the Empire is in swift decline these days.

Our endless imperial crimes, while we fervently worship the symbols of our national religion, have everything to do with the increasing waves of violence in the USA. The USA exports more weapons than any other nation on Earth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry#World.27s_largest_arms_exporters), and our military budget is far and away the highest on Earth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_military_expenditures), at nearly ten times Russia’s, which is the demon of the moment in American ideology.

There is no way that our prodigious international violence can fail to come back to haunt us (called “blowback,” “chickens coming home to roost,” and the like), and until the USA begins to face up to the reality of the evil that we endlessly inflict on the world’s peoples, this domestic violence will continue to escalate. It obviously does not need to be this way (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5).

Back to work. The next six weeks will be very busy one in my daily life, so I may get relatively quiet on the posting front. We’ll see.

Best,

Wade

Foxie Loxie

2nd October 2017, 20:18

Wade Frazier

2nd October 2017, 21:23

Thanks Foxie (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1183200&viewfull=1#post1183200), yes indeed, most Americans have no idea that the USA is an empire, even though Karl Rove openly admitted it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rove), because Americans are history’s most brainwashed people (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dime). We live in the land of Hollywood and Madison Avenue, where form prevails over substance, and where reality can be turned upside-down.

Orwell knew what he was writing about (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#propaganda). Americans as a group have not been my target audience since about 2004. As Darren noted, most Americans would “go into convulsions (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/73-Darren-Geffert-s-introductory-posts?p=125&viewfull=1#post125)” if they read my site. They aren’t going to awaken via work like mine. Only experience can do that (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309), which also applies to the free energy issue (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink). They can keep sleeping. When the next Epoch is delivered into their lives, then they will begin to awaken, and probably not before that.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

3rd October 2017, 04:01

Hi:

Today I was home sick, for the first day in years. I always know when I will (salty or sugary foods, season changes), and I always get sick the same way (sore throat, sinus infection, flu symptoms). I should be coming out of the woods tomorrow.

So, my down day (still did some office work from home, in these high-tech days) coincided with the aftermath of yesterday’s shooting in Las Vegas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Vegas_Strip_shooting). I have vacationed on the Strip about ten times, mostly with family, and have been to Mandalay Bay, so this one hits closer to home than usual.

Of course, Trump called it “pure evil,” the Democrats renewed their calls for gun control, and the Republicans called for silent prayer, as they will rarely vote to limit weaponry in my great nation. How many have to be slaughtered before they change their stance? On the fringes, YouTube gets flooded with “false flag” clips for every mass shooting in the USA, within hours of the events, led by the dean of conspiracists, Alex Jones, and today was no exception. Evidence? Ha! They have their ideology, which gives them all that they need. ISIL took credit for the slaughter, and the apparent shooter’s brother had no warning at all that his brother, a multimillionaire high-rolling visitor to Vegas, was capable of such an act.

Is the USA capable of the introspection necessary to begin to come to grips with our endemic and escalating violence? I am not counting on it. We are a nation of gun nuts. Today, I was reading some of Uncle Ed’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#manufacturing) on the USA’s awesome imperial hypocrisy, which is so great that Ed had to come up with a new word to describe it: chutzpah. I am not sure what is more mind-boggling; the hypocrisy of our political system, or how the blatant lies are swallowed as truth by most. Ed and Noam’s propaganda model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model) explicitly did not deal with the media’s effectiveness in brainwashing the population – it only described how it worked – but Ed has remarked about how easy it is to bamboozle the American public to support any war.

How hard can it be to see the connection between our imperial violence and the escalating violence at home? Most video games are first-person shooters, and violence is nearly an obligatory feature of most movies. I find it a little ironic that the NFL is where the current protests against police brutality began, when the sport is the modern equivalent of the gladiatorial “games.” Maybe the nature of their sport helped them make a stand, although I don’t think that I ever heard one of them say a word about our imperial behavior – our predatory military is universally revered in those circles.

In 1970 in The New Republic, Orville Schell wrote about the USA’s activities in Vietnam:

“One Newsweek correspondent told me on returning from Quang Ngai that he was shocked by what was going on in the countryside. Having had experience in Europe during World War II, he said that what he had seen was ‘much worse than what the Nazis had done to Europe.’”

One scholar remarked that the primary cause of the Jewish Holocaust was likely World War I (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#primary), as a generation of men in a formerly peaceful (relative, of course, for Europe) nation became professional killers, and German society became far more violent in the wake of World War I.

There has never been any accountability for the USA for its evil crimes in Indochina that killed millions, no Nuremburg equivalent for our crimes there, much less anyplace else where we invaded, such as Iraq and Afghanistan (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading). Again, I am not counting on it. Germany and Japan only came to grips with their imperial behavior when forced into it by defeat. The British and Americans have never had that moment of truth, and likely won’t. But if the means of abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) were delivered to humanity, Americans just might grow a conscience, like the rise of machines meant the end of slavery (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#southseas), because people could afford more of a conscience. I don’t expect Americans to wake up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309) before then. A few will, but it will only be a relative few.

Best,

Wade

Limor Wolf

3rd October 2017, 15:59

Coming from where my life has been & the circles I have been a part of, I would say the majority of the American people have NO CLUE there even IS an American Empire. That is sad, but it is also what we are attempting to accomplish here on Avalon....wake people up!! :horn:

And go to another wake up call, to the grander consciousness and awareness, believing we have arrived leaves the apple half eaten, and the worm inside.. :)

LOVE

Foxie Loxie

3rd October 2017, 16:31

Didn't mean to make it sound like "I have arrived", Limor. I'm just so thrilled to have begun the process, even at this late stage in life! Who knew! :heart:

Wade Frazier

3rd October 2017, 17:06

Hi Foxie (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1183412&viewfull=1#post1183412) and Limor (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1183401&viewfull=1#post1183401):

I woke up the hard way (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601) thirty years ago, more than a decade after my mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown), and if you had tried to tell me what was in store for me, I wouldn’t have believed it. This, I know: the learning never ends. However, that moment of awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309), when you realize that you have been drinking somebody else’s Kool-Aid, is the most important step of the journey. So, if you have had your awakening moment, the hard part is over. :) Almost nobody ever wakes up. That is just the nature of being here. There are also false awakenings, when somebody thinks they woke up, but they just trade one set of beliefs for another (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#orwell). That is not what waking up means. Changing the flavor of the Kool-Aid is not the answer. :) Waking up is a matter of integrity and sentience, and few ever achieve it, in our world of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming). They sell out their sentience for the promise of security.

When fear is not the constant drumbeat of our societies, a lot will change (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate), and so much that this world will end, and it won’t be missed. :)

Best,

Wade

Limor Wolf

3rd October 2017, 19:33

Didn't mean to make it sound like "I have arrived", Limor. I'm just so thrilled to have begun the process, even at this late stage in life! Who knew!

That was not meant to be a personal comment, Foxie, your thrill is contagious and age in numbers is meaningless, you have been there done your act, done that :)

I like the way the other expansion is talked about here (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4fHCPd1fH8) , beyond the Matrix mind human perception/identity that is drinking the 'Kool aid' without it's knowledge even after a few waking up, also many times referred to by David Icke's good friend Carol Clarke in her personal readings (https://uk.linkedin.com/in/carol-clarke-52846837), But I wouldn't like to derail Wade's thread as I have a lot of respect for him and his choices of focus

Wade Frazier

3rd October 2017, 22:14

Hi:

A number of recent events spurred this post, on what is it like to do what I do. First of all, my personal life is a joyous one, but has had its fair share of tragedy and sorrow over the long years. I take many people in “my (http://ahealedplanet.net/pics.htm)” mountains, all the time, and while all are appreciative, for some, it is life-changing.

I have had to let family members and friends go over the years, as they were parasites/attackers, and almost all of them received great assistance from me, even life-saving, but those you help are often those who attack you, as bizarre as that might seem. I just take it when they do that, but then I am done with them, and in my advancing years, I am very particular about whom I let into my life and who gets my time. Some are entitled to it, such as my wife, employer, cat, and some relatives, and my best students are always highly respectful of my time, which is why they are my students. :)

But also, nobody who has played at my level of the free energy game puts himself out there like I do, interacting with the public like I do, and even I need a cloistered environment, as all-comers venues are full of trolls (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll), some of whom are professionals. Bill and team (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1183412&viewfull=1) keep them at bay at Avalon. Even at forums where I have been invited in, it has never ended well (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/94-My-last-posts-in-another-forum), which is partly why I began my own forum, in which nobody gets in unless I invite them. Looking for needles...

I fully understand why my relatively few peers will not subject themselves to public interaction, but I need the patience-training (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading). :) I am approached all the time, and usually it is privately, but you can also see people regularly coming and leaving my Avalon thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1183412&viewfull=1), at more than 7,000 posts to date. This year is probably a typical one, as far as my interactions go, and in the past year, I have been approached on:

Mass movement efforts (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10), including intentional communities (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/102-Intentional-Communities);
Inventor approaches (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6);
Plenty of New Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage)/conspiracist (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism) “advice”;
Trying to enlist me in this or that “Band-Aid” approach (hacking at branches);
All manner of distraction on the Internet, which they think will help enlighten me;
Trying to turn me on to various political or mystical flavors.

In short, none of those are things that I have time or interest in. Once in a great while, I will see something new, interesting, and potentially useful, but that is very rare. I am interested in students who will do the work so that they can competently discuss the subject matter in my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm), develop a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing), and sing the song of abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/26-The-Song-of-Abundance) with me, which is going to attract the people I seek. I am not interested in much else. I also heard from people like me this year, too, who played at various levels of the game, and we always have great mutual respect. We know what we have been through.

The advent of free energy will be the biggest event in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), by far, and I am the only person on Earth trying what I am, and it is worth one man’s life to try an approach that might make a dent and avoid the many tried-and-true paths of disaster (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches). My plate is overflowing, all the time, and I need to stay focused on my mission, while juggling my life. I sometimes sit back and wonder how I do it, and I am not getting any younger.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

Smell the Roses

4th October 2017, 18:10

When fear is not the constant drumbeat of our societies, a lot will change (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate), and so much that this world will end, and it won’t be missed. :)

Best,

Wade

Thank you for this beautiful statement. I have come a long way in eliminating fear in my own person, but it is still somewhat of a mystery to me as to how to help eliminate it in others. Maybe I can't "help" them, and they just have to figure it out for themselves. For example, one reason I returned to homeschooling is that even the private school my children attended for a few years started holding these ridiculous school shooter lockdown drills, as if a kindergarten child needs to be prepared for such an incredibly unlikely event. So many events in society that claim to be for preparation or security are of course, only for the purpose of instilling fear. At a school, for example, adults need to know what to do if bad things happen; but children do not need to be made to think that a gunman may burst into their room at any minute. Anyway, I am going to look at your website, and I appreciate reading what you have shared here. :sun:

Foxie Loxie

4th October 2017, 18:45

Congrats on the home schooling, Merry Mom! Wade...I can totally understand about "letting go" of friends & family. Wish I had figured out SOONER what your thread was about! :star::star:

Wade Frazier

5th October 2017, 04:32

Hi Merry:

Oh boy, snooping into my site can be hazardous. :) There are 2,000 pages of dense and intense material there. Fear is a normal biological response (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#liferequirements), like hunger and the desire for sex. There is a good reason for it, but all biological proclivities have the capacity to be abused, and in today’s dominant economic ideology, fear is celebrated (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fear). In Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model) of media behavior, fear ideologies are a critical piece of the structure (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model#Anti-Communism_and_fear). Chomsky has said that a primary trick in the elites’ governance bag is “induced fear.” People’s brains then shut down (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fearresponse). These are biological realities.

While we live in scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), we will live in fear. They are joined at the hip. End scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive), and fear is going to go away as a way to manipulate the great human herd. That is my game. I see a great deal of useless “advice” on overcoming fear, similar to Nancy Reagan’s “just say no” advice or what New Agers (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage) often come up with. Big subject. While living in physical reality, physical limitations are real, and fear has its reason for being.

I’ll finish with a memory of reading Autobiography of a Yogi back in the 1980s. Yogananda was telepathically summoned back to India by his guru, who was about to make his conscious exit from his body, as those people can do. Yogananda’s guru certainly did not fear death, but Yogananda noticed his guru’s body shaking with fear. It was the body doing that, as all bodies do their best to survive. If you have a body, you are never going to completely banish fear, as it serves a very good purpose. But we certainly do not need to live in dread, but as Michael (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#michael) once said, that is a valid choice, too. :)

Thanks for writing.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

5th October 2017, 04:39

Hi:

Before I hit the hay, here is another volume marker post. This thread passed 2.2 million views today. The Russian bots seem to have slowed down, and it seems that most of my forum readers do it on my forum now (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/26-The-Song-of-Abundance). I see 87 readers of my forum as I write this, and only four here. I think that it is primarily due to my forum's being better organized than this lengthy thread. But I don’t plan to stop posting here. Here is where the public can contact me, and they do all the time, although much of it is through PMs, not posts.

Best,

Wade

Smell the Roses

5th October 2017, 12:49

This makes sense, that we cannot just artificially or arbitrarily end fear while we live in human bodies. Thank you for your kind response!

Wade Frazier

5th October 2017, 13:21

Hi Merry:

Fear and love are the two ends of the spectrum. My readers are very familiar with a chapter in a Michael Roads book that deals a future Earth society that chose love (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), and one that didn’t (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115). That loving one is one of the stars that I steer by (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#visions).

Best,

Wade

Krishna

7th October 2017, 06:25

The current leading hypothesis for the stimulant of simian brain growth is social navigation. (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#_ednref481)

This has to be changed :)

Primate brain size is predicted by diet but not sociality (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0112) Specifically "Specifically, frugivores exhibit larger brains than folivores".

Fruit eating and the energy (a familiar theme here :) from fruits are responsible for the size of primate brains.

From "The Human Advantage" (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/human-advantage). I understand that Neurons in primate brains themselves scales higher than in mammals. And that the metabolic cost is proportional to number of neurons.
A cost born by eating fruit, I don't have source now but I read something that said that primates lose weight during the non-fruiting season. Goes back to why we love sweet, and why sugar is toxic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOCPyheVesM) in our modern world.

I would recommend the book to you Wade (sorry about eating your time 8) Suzana Herculano-Houzel has a nice graph (page 188) that shows brain size increased faster in last 2 million years a consequence of fire and cooking.

Job Kibii from the University of the Witwatersrand and colleagues say that Homo pelvises could not have evolved in response to expanding cranial capacity. In fact, the Au. sediba’s pelvis was already developing modern, Homo-like features when its brain and skull were still small. Source (https://www.aaas.org/news/science-australopithecus-sediba-may-have-paved-way-homo)

Sediba also had hints of Broca's area responsible for speech. A Partial Pelvis of Australopithecus sediba (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kristian_Carlson/publication/51635482_A_Partial_Pelvis_of_Australopithecus_sediba/links/543c26180cf204cab1db9145/A-Partial-Pelvis-of-Australopithecus-sediba.pdf)

Probably the first proto humans finished off other Homo species, like Home eructus, Homo Naledi which lived until 250-300 thousand years. And if they could interbreed they did so with Neanderthals and Denisovans and also competed and killed for sure.

Finally I read The Age of Empathy by Frans De Waal and A new History of Life by Peter Ward

Wade Frazier

7th October 2017, 13:09

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1184089&viewfull=1#post1184089)!

Very interesting paper. It aligns more with this part (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#intelligencechain) of my big essay. That paper was more suggestive than conclusive, and I am sure that the social hypothesis is not done yet. I’ll follow this issue with great interest. Thanks again for the heads up. Yes, my essay will mention that paper when I get that revision done. I can already tell that it is not going to happen until next year. My stack of books and magazines next to my desk for that revision is three feet tall.

Your sugar observation is an apt one (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#diabetes), and it harkens back to a recent post of mine that mentions how our biological proclivities get abused in our world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1183740&viewfull=1#post1183740). In that heavenly Roads world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), I am sure that there is no refined sugar. No drugs, and sex is practiced very differently than it is here.

I actually bought her book. It is in my stack to read, and I just looked at that graph. Yes, that will go into my book update too. For me, what is most important about these debates, as far as my work goes, is that they are all energy debates. :)

Interesting on the hip development. Sediba (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sediba) is certainly the latest early human evolution rock star.

So, what is all of this study teaching you? My goal for my pupils is developing a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing), and energy is going to be front and center, to the degree that the Epochal impact of free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is going to be obvious. Then, it is going to be a lot easier for them to keep their eyes on the ball. It would be interesting to hear how your journey into this stuff has gone. You definitely do your homework. I would like to think that you have developed an abiding interest in these subjects that will continue, free energy or not, Uncle Wade or not. For me, this stuff is brain food. :)

Best,

Wade

Krishna

7th October 2017, 22:49

That paper was more suggestive than conclusive, and I am sure that the social hypothesis is not done yet.

I started out with Suzana's book The Human Advantage, in page 50 another graph says that primates have more neurons (and use proportionally more energy, page 188). Knowing that primates are tree dwelling and eat fruits I wondered if fruit eating is responsible for theirs expensive brains. I searched for relationship between fruit eating and brain size and found that paper. Which I see as confirmation for my hypothesis. The social grouping of Chimpanzees and Bonobos is strongly effected by group size while foraging. Chimps because of their environment sometimes need forage alone, while bonobos forage together in groups of average size 5. Also the brain for great apes is smaller than expected (according to Suzana) because they need big guts and muscle (the muscle I suspect being required to keep predators at bay)

The great apes are outliers and have smaller brain than predicted because of their diet, humans brains and number of neurons in them are on the same curve as the other primates (not exceptional).

So, what is all of this study teaching you? My goal for my pupils is developing a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing), and energy is going to be front and center, to the degree that the Epochal impact of free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is going to be obvious. Then, it is going to be a lot easier for them to keep their eyes on the ball. It would be interesting to hear how your journey into this stuff has gone. You definitely do your homework. I would like to think that you have developed an abiding interest in these subjects that will continue, free energy or not, Uncle Wade or not. For me, this stuff is brain food. :)

I wanted to go through your end notes and start reading your sources. I have more than a lifetime of reading left for me. Partly I guess its just my interest in reading. Which is why I read Chomsky, Stallman and Amartya Sen before I stumbled into Wade's world.

Your energy essay is definitely the most important influence on my thinking. It is so much easier to understand the world and teaches me humility. I am what I am because of atleast 3 billion old inexorable urge for consciousness in life. These days I am mildly amused when exchange games are put front and center and not energy.

I understand the epochal importance of energy very well, and tell my activist friends to pay less attention to social change, political activism. I urge them to read your essay but it falls on deaf years :)

As you know Wade, I am a scientist or its close cousin materialist, so I am eagerly waiting for you to deliver free energy to my doorstep. I promise not to slam the door in your face :)

Jokes apart, the role of energy is clear, the epochal significance is clear, and I can easily envision the Fifth Epoch assuming some form of effectively infinite energy. I know that the conscience of the Fourth Epoch is because of the their energy consumption. In-groups expand with increase in energy and shrink with its decrease. What more is there to say?

Apart from mystical side, what do you see this student of yours missing?

Wade Frazier

8th October 2017, 04:40

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1184227&viewfull=1#post1184227):

I am about four chapters into Suzana’s book. It is a good read. I already cited some of her findings in my big essay, but will update it a little for her book. I’ll buy fruit and larger brains (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#intelligencechain), both that fruit is energy dense, and it takes more brainpower to live off of fruit.

What I read about foraging parties was 2-9 for chimps and a stable 15-20 for bonobos. Your 1 and 5 may be for what it is on certain trees. Chimps will generally only murder lone foraging males in their raids (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coalitionary). Bonobo foraging parties made that impossible. I saw your earlier bonobo references, and will do a little more homework. But the gist is the same. When females joined the large parties south of the Congo, after gorillas left the area, that set the stage for those isolated chimps to become bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1).

As far you your perspective goes, it looks like you made it to here (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1036&viewfull=1#post1036), or close, which on one hand is extraordinary, and on the other, your journey into the material shows me that my work is understandable if somebody devotes effort to the task. It is an honor for you to have done what you have, and important. I appreciate it.

As far as the mystical side goes, I have always said that I am not sure that it is a requirement (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1034&viewfull=1#post1034). I get people who think that I am trying for some kind of hundredth monkey effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect) (which is a New Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage) fraud in of itself), and while I am not against Sheldrake’s formative causation idea, I am shooting for something far more mundane. I have experienced the power of what a few people of high integrity are capable of if they combine their efforts (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus). The whole point of my site, and my big essay in particular, is to get the people I seek on the same page. If I can build that choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), making free energy happen is going to be easy.

That your words fall on deaf ears is normal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). :) Your pals are not going to begin to understand until free energy is delivered into their lives, and that is normal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink). They are trapped in their Epoch, as virtually all people in the history of humanity have been. To look out beyond one’s Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), and actually understand what made each Epoch happen, is highly unusual. That is partly because knowledge of the other Epochs, the rise of science, and the like are very recent features of the human journey. I am not kidding: many of the key understandings reflected in my big essay are only a generation or so old, if that, in scientific/scholarly circles, and nobody yet has put it all together like I have, as I have the advantage of my preposterous journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601), which even I have a hard time believing happened at times. It is definitely a race between education and catastrophe.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

9th October 2017, 15:19

Hi:

I finished the heavy lifting on my biography project, but am working long hours at the office. The big essay update is next on my plate, but I may wait until 2018 to start on it, as I take a little “leisure” time for the rest of the year. That update will be quite a chore. I literally have a three-foot tall stack of books and magazines next to my desk, which I will use for that update. That stack reflects that past couple of years of big-essay-related reading, plus plenty of links to scientific papers, etc. While nothing will dramatically change about my big essay, quite a few of the revisions will be important, and will largely go deeper into numerous areas, making my epochal framework (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable) even clearer.

This less-than-daily posting is working for me just fine. I likely won’t slow down that much, but discussing my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/forums/7-The-BIG-Essay-Energy-and-the-Human-Journey-Where-We-Have-Been-Where-We-Can-Go) is the kind of posting that I look forward to. That is how the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) is going to form.

Today is Columbus Day in the USA, and while the controversy is now big news (https://finance.yahoo.com/news/indigenous-peoples-day-italians-stick-columbus-140851002.html), this year, I have not seen the usual spike in traffic to my Columbus essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm). My big essay is far and away the “winner” on my site anymore, and I can’t complain, but the past two years have been relatively modest on the Columbus Day traffic spike to my Columbus essay.

I am going to update my fluoride essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm) when I update my big essay. I find it very interesting that one of the early anti-fluoride books was Fluoride and the Aging Factor. My fluoride essay update will be about how the fluoride ion has a “free radical” effect on cellular structures, how recent research (1 (https://www.hindawi.com/journals/isrn/2012/403835/), 2 (http://www.bmj.com/rapid-response/2011/10/28/fluoride-and-apoptosis-trading-dental-caries-cellular-death), 3 (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0300483X13000784)) shows that the fluoride ion “gums up the works” of subcellular machinery and brings on programmed cell death. In Nick Lane’s latest, he formulates his hypothesis for why birds live ten times as long as mammals do, pound-for-pound, and his example is a pigeon and a rat. Lane’s hypothesis is that free radical production triggers programmed cell death, and that is what ages rats ten times as fast as pigeons, although they weigh the same. That same dynamic is why fluoride artificially ages us. It looks like John Yiamouyiannis (https://www.amazon.com/Fluoride-Aging-Factor-Recognize-Devastating/dp/0913571008/ref=la_B001KMUI86_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507562212&sr=1-1) was right, and was way ahead of his time.

My fluoride and Columbus essays are two of the oldest on my site, along with my Julian Simon (http://ahealedplanet.net/simon.htm) essay. They were all first published in 1998, as I recall.

In the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), these kinds of “conflict of interest disasters,” such as fluoridation, as greed (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#greed) trumps all, will no longer happen. But the masses are not going to begin to awaken until the Fifth Epoch arrives (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink), not before. They are not going to awaken to work like mine or anybody’s talk. They will only awaken through experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309). But for my task, I seek the awakened and awakening, not the sleeping. The Level 10 approach (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10) is not going to work. Been there, done that.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

10th October 2017, 14:55

Hi:

In my previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page9?p=1054&viewfull=1#post1054), I mentioned John Yiamouyiannis’s increasing posthumous vindication, but don’t expect to see it come from the quackbuster operation, run by a real quack (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#barrett) who took on Yiamouyiannis regularly and gave him a “eulogy (https://www.quackwatch.org/11Ind/yiamouyiannis.html).” Yiamouyiannis fired back (http://whale.to/b/stephen_barrett.html). Similar to organized skepticism (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends), I consider such “quack-busting (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#quacks)” efforts to be criminal enterprises, working on behalf of their patrons.

The Columbus Day traffic to my site was odd. It was up, but there was actually relatively little traffic to my Columbus essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm). The Columbus debate is heating up these days, and I read an Ayn-Rand-ish economic essay on what Columbus wrought (https://www.mises.ca/how-columbus-revolutionized-the-global-economy/). It glosses over the greatest genocide in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide) to focus on what the author found more important: the economic aftermath of Columbus’s effort.

I have not weighed in on the issue for a long time, letting my essay speak for itself, but this year, I will a little. Unlike that author who minimized the genocide of the Western Hemisphere’s natives, I consider Europe’s conquest of humanity to be history’s greatest crime. Of course, when you wipe out all of the people on a landmass and “settle” it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#richness) for yourself, it will be a great economic windfall. Hitler was merely following our example (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#hitler).

The dregs of European society eagerly “settled” such exploitable lands, from New England to Australia, as the natives were removed from it. My own ancestors happily “settled” lands (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#familyname) that had recently been shorn of their native population while marveling at what “providence” gave them. My grandfather’s conscience (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kansas) eventually awoke on the issue.

Just yesterday, I was reading of the humane feats of my great nation, as it tortured people to death (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-10-09/unsealed-cia-memos-provide-shocking-salt-pit-black-site-details). In a way, it is fitting that the “settlers” of this “virgin” continent reached such lofty heights, while being fed industrial waste each day (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#compulsory) as “medicine.”

In the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), such evil insanity will go the way of the dinosaurs.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

11th October 2017, 10:57

Hi:

Reactions to my biography draft from my pals have been nice to see. I couldn’t have done my work without my pals. Nobody can do this alone. My big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm) is the fruit of the effort of truly countless scientists, scholars, and others, going back thousands of years.

I would like to bring up a theme that is in my big essay plenty, but needs reiteration: the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is only going to be possible with abundant and clean energy. Without that (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#necessity), the Fifth Epoch won’t happen. It can’t happen. I cannot overemphasize that, and it usually takes some scientific literacy to understand. Aspects of today’s humanity that will vanish in the Fifth Epoch include:

Nations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nations)
Races
Cities as we know them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cities)
Money (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange) and other exchange tools and ideas
Different languages – everybody can understand everybody else in the Fifth Epoch
Poverty (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive)
Warfare (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping)

The arrival of the Fifth Epoch means the end of the world as we know it, and it won’t be missed. Again, the above list is not New Agey (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage) wishful thinking, but those are easily predictable outcomes of abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance) and the end of humanity’s geographic isolation, and with a little scientific literacy, they are not hard to understand at all. And I know that the technology to usher in the Fifth Epoch is already on the planet (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) and likely is older than I am. Technology is not the issue: integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) and sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1), is.

So, arguing that some race or nation is hopelessly screwed up today is merely an assessment of what we see in this Epoch, like arguing in Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) civilizations that a woman’s place was to be barefoot and pregnant, or that some people were natural slaves. In the Fifth Epoch, those Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) assessments become meaningless.

Human nature will also change. Perhaps not dramatically at first, but it doesn’t need to. But take away fear and survival concerns, and new horizons of the human potential are going to come into view, and human nature will even change. This world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748) begins becoming feasible. If the drumbeat of scarcity and fear prevails, if humanity survives long enough, this kind of world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115) becomes increasingly possible. Which do you prefer? :)

The masses are not going to begin to wake up until the Fifth Epoch arrives (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink), and that is normal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine). Judging the situation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) is counterproductive. It is just what it is. It won’t take many of us (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers) to usher in the Fifth Epoch, but it takes hard work to raise our awareness past the mind-and-heart-traps of this Epoch. To jettison scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), and embrace abundance and love, in today’s world, is a very heavy lift. Not many can even begin to do it, but I believe that enough can, and I have devoted all of my “spare” time over the past quarter-century and more to that idea, and I might have another 30 good years in me. If not my effort, then another, but my approach will work, if enough people with the right stuff (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) come together, keep their eyes on the ball, and combine their efforts (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

12th October 2017, 14:06

Hi:

I was talking with my dentist yesterday (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/80-Vaccination?p=784&viewfull=1#post784) about the fluoride and free radical relationship to programmed cell death (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/80-Vaccination?p=939&viewfull=1#post939), and he knew John Yiamouyiannis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page9?p=1054&viewfull=1#post1054). Yiamouyiannis is going to receive posthumous vindication, if it is not stolen (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#steal). My dentist said that the scientific issue is settled, and that fluoridation is now a purely political issue. It will not take much for me to update my fluoride essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm) with this new information, so I’ll do it soon.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

12th October 2017, 14:34

Hi:

This post will be on another theme of mine that I have written on before. While I may seem to ask a lot of my readers, for the task I am attempting (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), it really is trivial. The biggest event in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), that saves Earth’s ecosystems (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate) as a side-effect, and people today get a chance to be involved with it. At no other time in the human journey has this opportunity existed. Big stuff, to put it mildly, and nobody needs to play the hero (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah1), and they don’t need any money. All they need to do is devote some of the time that they put into watching TV and surfing the Internet, and be willing to lay aside their conditioning and indoctrination (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant). But very few on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle) are willing to do that. They need to develop some scientific literacy (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=313&viewfull=1#post313), but no more than is needed to digest my big essay, which is really not such a heavy lift. They also need to be a real person, not hiding in the shadows. Truly, for the task at hand, I am asking for almost nothing at all.

I never expected this to begin quickly. Nothing like this ever has. Hardly anybody can even conceive of what I am doing, and that is normal, for something as radical as what I am attempting.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

13th October 2017, 14:52

Hi:

This will be a post on what my experience has been with my readers over the years. For those happily slumbering in the cradles of their conditioning, my work is like a bucket of ice water poured over one’s head. I have watched peers – white, educated, American men – go berserk after reading only a few pages of my work, such as this section (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#progress) of it. They quickly lost all semblance of rationality (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#false) as they launched into their tirades.

My work takes on the innumerable lies and deceits of my great nation’s indoctrination and conditioning. Most of it is very easy to see through, such as the idolatry of worshipping a flag (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#flag). The lies begin in our cradles. The “news (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big)” is a pack of lies, and history (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#more) is written by the winners. Industrial waste (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#compulsory) is added to our water supply as compulsory “medicine,” which “coincidentally” damages our brains (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#harold) and prematurely ages us (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page9?p=1054&viewfull=1#post1054). We have disease “treatments” that kill the patients (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#racket) but are extremely lucrative, and the masses line up for it (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lemmings). Our governments are hopelessly corrupt, and virtually every official investigation into the corruption, including the murder of the sitting president (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=761&viewfull=1#post761), is a sham. This is what a world of zero-integrity looks like (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708), and it can get worse (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth), far worse (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115).

I regularly get new readers to my work who immediately want to use it to “wake up” their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). That is a good way to get ostracized. I regularly get “progressives” who might like what I write about the news and history, but when I get into the conspiratorial aspects of the situation (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism), and they are many and important, they go scurrying away, calling my work a “conspiracy theory,” when I am reporting facts (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make), not theories. I have had so-called free energy activists dismiss me as a “conspiracy theorist,” (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#naive) in the height of naïveté and irrationality.

I know that there are technologies on Earth today (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) that turn the physics textbooks into doorstops. But try to engage a scientist on that reality and watch what happens. The Brookings Institute warned NASA (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#brookings) about making just those kinds of revelations to scientists, as their heads could explode.

What often happens is that new readers will be enthusiastic about my work until it comes to where they get their ox gored, and it is often over trivial matters, and usually on issues where they have some cherished belief that is obviously false. One recent example that I have seen repeatedly is on human-induced climate change. You can see a tirade or two on my Avalon thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet) and elsewhere, as scientifically illiterate people challenge me, but have no idea what they are writing about. One pal was kicked out of Avalon for stating that Global Warming was a reality.

The science around the issue is very simple. Humanity is mining and burning Earth’s hydrocarbons at a mind-boggling rate – so fast that all of the easy hydrocarbon deposits will be burned up by the end of this century (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil), especially conventional oil, which is humanity’s most lucrative energy source (leaving out those that are suppressed). Those deposits were amassed over hundreds of millions of years (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coal1), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oilformation)), and will all be mined and burned in hundreds of years. Over Earth’s history, there have been hot periods (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianwarming) and cold periods (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cryogenian), and the atmosphere’s carbon dioxide content (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#GEOCARBSULF) has been the primary driver. The carbon cycle’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=462&viewfull=1#post462) additions have always come from volcanism, and the subtractions from deposition and burial. It has been that way for billions of years, except for right now, as humanity’s activities are venting a hundred times more carbon to the atmosphere than volcanoes are. Carbon dioxide traps infrared radiation, and that will warm the atmosphere. That is incontrovertible, denied by no scientist that I know of (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=460&viewfull=1#post460), even the Global Warming deniers. The Global Warming deniers are mostly scientists who sold their souls to the hydrocarbon lobby. Brian O knew one of the most prominent deniers, who tried to get Brian to sell his soul (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463), too.

But the scientifically illiterate, who don’t even know the basics, have taken me to task for admitting the obvious. Why? Because Global Warming Denial is somehow attractive to them, probably because they don’t trust scientists and believe that the issue has been politicized, which it most certainly has (and they likely don’t have the will or mental horsepower to become scientifically literate). However, the Global Warming Denial arguments are intentionally distracting from the important issues, like a man playing the shell game with his “customers.” A little scientific literacy can go a long way. So, the scientifically illiterate get hoodwinked by oil company mouthpieces, and anybody disputing that transparent propaganda has a screw loose. And those people believe that they are free thinkers!

That is just one example of many where people encounter something about my work that challenges one of their sacred beliefs, and they then go running away, usually heaving insults and the like as they flee. And that is OK. My work is not for them, but for the awake and awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309). I don’t mind criticisms, if the critics have some idea of what they are writing about and not parroting somebody else’s propaganda. I am sure that some of my work is wrong, but I don’t know what it might be. My big essay update will correct for some small errors and introduce new scientific findings, and that is standard textbook updating. I have written what I think is most important about my work (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/58-What-is-Most-and-Least-Important-in-My-Work-and-What-My-Confidence-Levels-Are?p=77&viewfull=1#post77), and what my confidence levels are.

My best students don’t “buy” everything that I write about, and that is good. I don’t want anybody to blindly accept what I write about. Knowledge comes from experience. They need to do their homework, get out in the world and find out for themselves, and only accept things into their reality window that they have tested to the extent they are able. I have not had an NDE (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#nde) or OOB, but I have seen and participated in enough “paranormal (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#research)” events that I don’t doubt the reality of the experiences of those who report NDEs and OOBs, even though they may be subject to interpretation. Similarly, the kinds of experiences that I have had (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting) you can’t buy. Even I sometimes have a hard time believing that they happened, and I lived them. I would not recommend finding out the reality of free energy and its organized suppression how I and my little circle did. Like an NDE, it is not easy to survive the experience.

One reason why I state that the people I seek have to already be awake is that if they are, they have had experiences that showed them the lies of their conditioning. They will have had experiences enough like mine that my reporting it is not going to make their heads explode as they take it in. Not many can do that.

I am going to give an example of Darren (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/73-Darren-Geffert-s-introductory-posts). When he first encountered my work, and I wrote about those “austere environmentalists,” he got indignant, as he was one of them, but didn’t think of himself that way. After chewing on it for a year, he realized that I was right. Like virtually all free energy newcomers, he thought that his social circle was hip, and to an extent they were, with some knowing who Dennis was and were even involved with him. But after a sobering period of trying to interest somebody in my work, he had to ruefully admit how alone he was regarding my work. That is normal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). It can be very good work to do that, as it helps “seat” my information, and people like Darren eventually approach me, ready to learn. He is far from alone, at least on a global scale. I have thousands of regular readers scattered across Earth.

Darren told me that when I wrote of the prosecution making faces and laughing at me (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=681&viewfull=1#post681) as I testified, it rang the bell of authenticity with him. He was not surprised that that would happen. That is the kind of mentality that I seek. They don’t have to immediately believe me, but be worldly enough to be able to handle the revelations of my journey, and those of my close circle. I am not at liberty to reveal all the names, but to the degree that I can, I have (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures), and if people do just a little homework, the identities of nearly everybody is revealed. They have to dig into subjects on their own and sharpen their tools of discernment. After taking those deep dives, they can then come back to my work on those subjects and see how it holds up. Until they do that, either before or after encountering my work, they are not going to have a solid foundation of their awareness. I don’t need parrots, but colleagues. I have more to write, but time to begin my busy day.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

14th October 2017, 18:16

Hi:

This post will cover territory that I have written about before, here and there, but this will be more comprehensive and is a segue from my previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/45-Chapter-28-What-Has-Not-Worked-So-Far-and-What-Might/page3?p=1059&viewfull=1#post1059). I have seen about a dozen alternative physics hypotheses over the years, usually comprehensive ones that end up with some kind of unified field (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_field_theory) theory. It is like watching aspirants chase after Moby-Dick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick), seeking to be the one to finally plant the deadly harpoon. The unified field theory is the Holy Grail of physics, so it is understandable to see so many go after it. Some have interesting evidence for them, while others are on the speculative end, with little evidence in their favor, and they often make the scientist’s plea: money to fund experiments to test their hypotheses. They are not all going to be right, if any of them are. Every theory is wrong; that is the nature of what we call science. The best scientists try to never get too attached to a theory, as any of them can fall with the next experiment. I am regularly approached about this or that hypothesis promoted by this or that scientist.

For me, none of that is very important. What is important, to me, is that today’s corpus of mainstream theory is a rickety house of cards that already has plenty of evidence supporting its unstable nature, but it is suppressed in the name of global control (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc). The mainstream theories are even admitted by their adherents to be shaky. The quantum paradox calls into question the entire foundation of today’s physics, and it has been admitted to be quantum physics’s “skeleton in the closet (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann).” Almost all mainstream scientists who witnessed what my friend saw (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) would have staggered away from the demonstration, with their minds blown.

When I see scientists invoke “the laws of physics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3)” to deny free energy’s possibility, they are merely parroting their catechisms, and this is far from a new phenomenon. As Brian O often said, there are no “laws of physics,” only theories. To even say “law” is to invoke religious faith. Every generation of intellectuals had its self-satisfied members who “knew” that they had it all figured out, or nearly so. The “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” are notorious for making those religious pronouncements (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#skeptic). The fact is that there are many technologies extant today, and publicly available, which mainstream physics cannot explain, such as how Naessens’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#naessens) and Rife’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#rife) microscopes attain their “impossible” resolutions, or how Brown’s Gas causes transmutation (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/89-Free-energy-psychic-abilities-and-the-skeptics-and-debunkers?p=422&viewfull=1#post422). A graduate student performed recent work on Brown’s Gas (https://pesn.com/archive/2009/11/23/9501587_ChrisEckman_BrownsGas_model/index.html) and proposed a new orbital configuration to explain it, the kind of hypothesis that they hand out Nobel prizes for, but the kid ran into science’s political establishment, so his work languishes on the margins, as usual.

Invoking the “laws of physics” to buttress denial is not only naïve, but also ignorant. Many of the greatest breakthroughs in technology had no theoretic basis for them when invented, and two of the most famous were Edison’s incandescent lighting (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#edison) and the Wright brothers’ powered flight (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#wright). Edison was the world’s most famous scientist when his teams perfected electric lighting and lit up Menlo Park with it, while scientists who could not leave their easy chairs to go see for themselves ridiculed Edison, called him a criminal for making such claims, and said that electric lighting was an “idiotic” idea.

Not only were theorists decrying man-powered flight to be “impossible” before the Wright brothers flew, but the scientific establishment ignored their flights for five years, while the house organ of science ridiculed persistent reports of their flights. That kind of insanity is alive and well today in the halls of science, and soon before he died, Brian O told me that the situation is worse today in science than it was when the Wright brothers flew.

On a more mundane level, when Dennis got involved with the heat pump that changed his life (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new), the inventors were cutting their performance data in half (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#half) so they would not stop being laughed out of engineering offices, who ridiculed such “impossible (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#impossible)” performance. That kind of stupidity usually prevails when dealing with technological breakthroughs. One of Dennis’s assailants even testified (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#young) to the “impossibility” of his heat pump’s performance, and then Dennis produced test data that the very witness produced. Not even doing the “impossible” work himself prevented him from continuing to parrot his textbooks.

Just like with the ideas of democracy, a free press (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big), an objective history (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#objectivity), free markets (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#freemarket), and the like, while the ideal can be noble, reality often falls far short, and it is that way, in spades, with today’s science. A big problem that free energy efforts have is the assumption that today’s science is somehow democratic, free, and endlessly inquisitive. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is a very close cousin to Uncle Noam’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky) critiques of establishment political ideology, the “free press,” and the like. Within a very narrow band, bounded by rigid framing assumptions, the establishment encourages vigorous debate, such as how the so-called political left and right debated the looming invasion of Iraq. It was taken as a given that we had a right to intervene. The only debate was about how to do it. Science is very similar. Scientists are relatively free when they deal with “safe” topics, but once their work begins treading on powerful toes, such as challenging the “attack the tumor (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#racket)” paradigm of cancer treatment, or inventing, for God’s sake, a working free energy prototype (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal), with some theory to explain it, then there is hell to pay.

It has amazed me how naïve the so-called radical left is to that reality, for all of their worldliness on other issues. The entire free energy milieu is dismissed, and the more honest of them admit their objection (http://ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#religion) to the idea of some global effort of conspiring elites. They find the very idea of such people and their efforts too frightening and depressing to even contemplate. I eventually realized that the idea of free energy and its organized suppression ran counter to their religion – materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mystical1) – which is the Fourth Epoch’s religion.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

15th October 2017, 01:41

Hi:

I recently made a post on what disappears (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page9?p=1056&viewfull=1#post1056) in the coming Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). I can’t overemphasize that without clean and abundant energy - decentralized and democratized, AKA free energy - the Fifth Epoch cannot happen. I constantly see people advocate Fifth Epoch features in our Fourth Epoch, but that is as impractical as advocating the end of slavery before the rise of machines (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#southseas); it is crazy talk. But if the means of the Fifth Epoch make it past humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1), then the world will end as we know it, and I am going to get into some specifics of what that transition can look like. I have largely avoided that discussion, partly because it is putting the cart before the horse. People can get all excited about a discussion like this, but I have rarely found it to be an enlightened or informed discussion, or rooted in practicality. I am going to see if I can help raise the bar a little, and what will also become obvious is that all of the chapters of my big essay, before this one (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures), are preparation for understanding what the Fifth Epoch means. It is not easy to wrap one’s head around, even with shows such as Star Trek to give us hints (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hints).

I’ll start off with the easy one. Giving away (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers) history’s most lucrative technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion) (the only strategy with a prayer, IMO) will mean the end of capitalism. Half of the ten largest companies on Earth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue) are energy companies. They all go away, for starters. All energy utilities go away. But far more importantly, energy becomes the means of abundance, and capitalism is based on scarcity, greed (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#greed), and fear. The idea of hoarding wealth, when the means to it are freely available to anybody, is not going to make sense any longer. There will not be any need to coercively end capitalism. It will disappear of its own accord, like children outgrowing their toys. Anybody clinging to capitalist notions will quickly look like that guy hoarding items on the holodeck (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#trek); he will be seen by all to be ill, and his healing will be sought. Dark pathers (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving) are not going to like it, and they have my sympathy, as the milieu that makes their games so effective will vanish. They are going to either change their game or find someplace else more conducive to it. Without their leverage of artificially induced scarcity and fear, nobody is going to play along with them.

The immediate effects of free energy making its appearance will be dramatic. The end of air pollution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate), for starters. The end of capitalism will barely be noticed. Just like the rise of machines meant the end of slavery, as people could afford to have more of a conscience, when abundance is available to all, Arab sheiks are not going to starve, nor will anybody who formerly depended on oil revenues. I have confidence that the world’s peoples will easily figure something out. It is like asking a billionaire what problems in his personal life he can’t solve. Making sure that every person on Earth has access to life’s necessities (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive) is going to be the first order of business, and it will be easy. All greed-based ideologies, and capitalism chief among them, will quickly vanish.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

15th October 2017, 13:11

Hi:

What else goes away in the Fifth Epoch, and almost instantly? Environmental destruction, warfare, and crime. Dominating and destroying ecosystems for human gain will easily be seen as slavery is today: an abomination. That increase in human conscience will happen just as the conscience against slavery exists today: people will be able to afford a greater conscience. Just as slaughtering one’s neighbors on sight (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#deathrate) was standard practice in the late Second Epoch, but vanished in the Third Epoch, just as slavery was standard in the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaverybeginning), but vanished in the Fourth, mass warfare, economic exploitation of peoples and ecosystems, and the like have been standard features of the Fourth Epoch, but will vanish in the Fifth. All humans will easily have all of their material needs met without recourse to exploiting ecosystems or abusing Earth’s surface.

Environmentalists (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists) shriek in fear when they hear about free energy, claiming that all that will happen will be the strip-mining of Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mining) and wars that turn Earth into a cinder. I have a higher opinion of humanity than environmentalists do. I strongly doubt that humans are that stupid, to be given the means of living harmlessly and in abundance, but will choose self-destruction. Really, who is that stupid? I advocate those peacekeeping grandmothers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping) who ensure that free energy is not weaponized, and a global governance system that ensures free energy’s safe implementation, but really, those efforts will likely be minimal and will not be needed for long. It would be like a system that prevented people from playing Russian Roulette. Who is going to want to play that game? The few who do will be sequestered in places of healing, not punishment. If everybody was a billionaire, who would steal from their neighbors? What would the point be?

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

16th October 2017, 02:39

Hi:

As the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) begins, it will quickly become apparent that today’s politicians are useless. As Uncle Bucky said, those politicians are merely “stooges (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#politics)” of the economic interests. As capitalism vanishes, the moneyed interests will lose their control over the retail political system. All of today’s politics is founded on the idea of divvying up the scarce economic production, and when abundance reigns, the entire purpose of today’s political systems simply vanishes. Politicians will be seen as puppets who had their strings cut. People will care about them even less than they do today. Their role will become completely obsolete. It is likely that many evil deeds committed under the guise of politics, “national security,” and the like will come into the open. Godzilla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) might even be unmasked, but I would happily just see him slink away.

Also, with antigravity and free energy technology, which already exist on the planet (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), humanity will become space-faring (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spacejunk), all of us, and geographical isolation will end for all peoples. Anybody will be able travel the planet in minutes. When that happens, territorial constructs such as nations will become quaint anachronisms (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nations), in which ruling classes of geographical zones carved out their spheres of influence, to exploit the masses under their control, will be quickly seen as nonsensical.

It will globally be acknowledged that all humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up) are behaviorally modern (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap), and that we all have far more in common than differences, and national identities will be seen as meaningless, more like a fact of our ancestry that no longer means much of anything. Nations will then end, and something like a global government will form, but its purpose will be little more than promoting a dynamic unity among all people and ensuring that everybody lives in abundance. They will deal with people who just have to violate others, but they will be sequestered, if necessary, in places of healing, not punishment. I doubt that there will be very many of such “hard cases,” and with each generation, their numbers will be fewer, until that mentality vanishes from the planet, as a relic of our primitive past.

Again, what I am presenting is not hard to predict, if free energy and related suppressed technologies make their appearance, for people who understand how today’s world works.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

16th October 2017, 13:25

Hi:

As I have stated plenty, materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mystical1) (or “physicalism”) is the religion of our Epoch, as traditional organized religions (Third Epoch religions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing1)) have lost their sway in industrialized nations. Both religious traditions will become completely obsolete (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#religion) in the Fifth Epoch. There will be a few reasons for that. One is that the technologies that my friend was shown (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) were likely largely developed from reverse-engineering “captured” ET craft. It was years later when I saw Greer’s Disclosure Project (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort) witnesses describing some of the same technologies that my friend was shown. When free energy comes into the open, ETs likely will at the same time (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2), and they are certainly not materialists. The reason for The Brookings Institute’s advice to NASA (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#brookings) will become clear, as scientists and religious fanatics the world over have their minds blown by the events.

The revelations of Godzilla’s antics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) will be little more than the day’s news in light of the other events. All exchange-related professions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange) will quickly become obsolete. There will be little of what people do today to earn their livelihoods that will survive in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), and those activities won’t be missed, similar to how nobody pines for the days of slavery, except perhaps would-be masters.

I strongly doubt that humanity is suddenly going to become enlightened (as many New Agers (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage) think), and that all people will engage in deep introspection regarding their contribution to the miseries of our current Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#responsibility). Few in today’s world possess the personal integrity for that (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). But what today’s people I think can readily learn, as they live in abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance) for the first time, is that egocentric justifications for violating out-groups (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup1) will be seen as highly primitive, and the flowery justifications, which are older than humanity, will wither and vanish, and quickly. People are going to grow consciences like they never have before. The lessons that we are all taught by age five (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#forgetting) will actually be retained. :) Warfare, crime, violence, abuse, and exploitation will quickly be seen as extremely barbaric activities that all humans (except dark pathers (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving)) will happily see deposited into the dustbin of history.

And, as always, none of that will happen until all people’s standards of living begin to reach Fifth Epoch standards, which make Bill Gates appear a pauper, just as the average American lives a richer life than Earth’s richest human of three centuries ago. Without clean and abundant energy, the Fifth Epoch won’t and can’t manifest. But if humanity finally becomes a Type 1 civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev), everything will change, and radically, just as happened during the previous Epochs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

16th October 2017, 14:21

Hi:

I don’t comment too often on the current retail political scene, but Hillary Clinton really is disgusting, as she stays in Joe McCarthy mode (https://www.yahoo.com/news/clinton-brands-wikileaks-boss-tool-russian-intelligence-103359125.html). Uncle Ed has been writing on the new McCarthyism for years, and American Russia-bashing is a century old (https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/). Her joking about the invasion of Libya and Gaddafi’s murder (https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/) is what psychopaths do (Bush the Second (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#wtc) is also psychopathic, which seems to be a requirement to be the American president). Libya had Africa’s highest standard of living (http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/reports/270/hdr_2010_en_complete_reprint.pdf) before Hillary and company got involved, and Gaddafi was leading the effort to protect Africa from more Western imperial interventions, and he had to go. I even heard Uncle Noam (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky) call her the “lesser evil” to Trump, but I really have to wonder about that. When our “moderate” assets in Syria posted up a video of beheading a child, Trump (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/trump-syria-cia-program-video-moderate-rebels/) called off our covert action operatives there. Those Syrian activities (http://yournewswire.com/clinton-email-we-must-destroy-syria-for-israel/) were Clinton’s and Obama’s handiwork (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeffrey-sachs/hillary-clinton-and-the-s_b_9231190.html).

Best,

Wade

Joe Akulis

16th October 2017, 19:00

Just caught up on the last few posts here. Thought I'd chime in on something about the global warming topic. I'm not interested in opening any doors into the debate, there's plenty of places even here on Avalon where you can do that. People who spend a lot of time researching, are sadly, still all over the map on the topic. If someone doesn't even think CO2 is a greenhouse gas, I'm moving on. :-)

I do however, see something that people without a Wade-like comprehensive understanding of how the world really works, probably won't catch. And if it hadn't been for time spent on your forum, Wade, learning about the art of the mega-racket, I would not have noticed a common approach being attempted in the global climate arena.

It makes you think some of the folks who are trying to get involved in the finance of climate repair are not some of the same folks who pioneered western medical practice: Find a problem, profit from its treatment.

Earth is the biggest patient of them all. Whether or not the treatment works or doesn't, or whether or not treatment is actually needed; those questions are all beside the point. We only need to deal with those subjects if they start getting in the way of the profits. :-)

Joe

Joe Akulis

16th October 2017, 19:16

I would not recommend finding out the reality of free energy and its organized suppression how I and my little circle did. Like an NDE, it is not easy to survive the experience.

I need to offer you an apology, Wade. That cleverly profound statement had me cracking up. I'm done chuckling now, and there's a lingering twinge of guilt there, as I am quite aware of what you went through in order to make a statement like that.

You're a pleasure to read, Wade. A pleasure to read.

Joe

Wade Frazier

17th October 2017, 03:52

Hi Joe:

To your second post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1185806&viewfull=1#post1185806) first; most of my posts are intended to elicit a chuckle or two, or maybe a mind-smile. :)

On Global Warming, your analogy (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1185803&viewfull=1#post1185803) is apt, in a few ways. Let’s take cancer. The establishment said that cancer was part of a normal aging process, that you can’t do anything to prevent getting it, and if you get it, the only sane choice is to submit to their ministrations, which have the virtue of being lucrative and killing you (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#racket). It has gotten a little better, in that they now allow that what we put in our bodies has something to do with it, but it is still the attack-the-tumor paradigm of treatment.

So, yes, they make money going and coming, and the masses line up (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lemmings). To deny the cancer epidemic because its treatment is a racket is like denying Global Warming because of all the interests that plan to cash in on their “solutions,” and I have not seen an effective one yet, other than free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate) (another reason to suppress it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) :) ). Or, when they finally acknowledge that there is a cancer problem, they just chalk it up to aging. That Morris Fishbein promoted cigarettes (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#cigarettes), while trying to monopolize actual cancer cures (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#hoxsey), is a great example of this issue.

Watching the Global Warming wars can be educational, if you have never seen such a dynamic, but I have seen too much of it. Global Warming denial plays to people’s egocentrism of business as usual, and the oil companies are only too happy to abet that delusion. You really have to have your head in the sand to buy it, and scientific literacy can really help here, so you can see the fraudsters at work (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463). They play similar games of statistical obfuscation and other tricks that the medical racketeers do.

All of the temperature slicing and dicing holds little interest to me. The world’s ice is rapidly melting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retreat_of_glaciers_since_1850). How much more obvious can it get? The temperature anomaly in the Arctic (https://www.livescience.com/53111-arctic-warming-fast-in-2015.html) is very dramatic, with the permafrost melting, etc. Over Earth’s history, it is the poles that get the dramatic swings, not the equatorial regions. In greenhouse Earth phases, there are forests near the poles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#polarcretaceous), and during icehouse phases, they are covered in ice (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cryogenian).

The additions to the carbon cycle have historically come from volcanism, and the subtractions from deposition and burial. With what humanity has already vented to the atmosphere in the industrial age, at 100 times the contribution from volcanism this year, for instance, it will take 100,000 years for it to come out in deposition. Many climate scientists think that it is already too late to prevent a pretty big temperature rise. It is similar to what I recently read on mass extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/16-Chapter-9-Speciation-Extinction-and-Mass-Extinctions?p=1018&viewfull=1#post1018), that once it gets going, there is no stopping it, as the systems collapse. You can reach a tipping point that initiates a runaway effect (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gaia). We are toying with that today, and worse (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth), with our profligate burning of Earth’s hydrocarbons.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

17th October 2017, 13:18

Hi:

What else disappears in the transition to the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5)? All scarcity-based ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant), including:

All of today’s organized religions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#religion)
All economic ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists) – capitalism, communism, socialism, parecon (http://ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#parecon), neoclassical, etc.
All materialistic ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle);
Nationalism
Racism
Sexism
Tribalism

Any ideology that tends to make out-groups (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup) will vanish, because all in-group/out-group ideologies are based on scarcity and survival. Those ideologies will quickly become pointless in a world where scarcity and survival (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) are no longer issues.

Not only will those ideologies become pointless, their very basis will vanish. Racial, lingual, religious, and other differences are the result of geographic isolation. When all people can travel the world in minutes, the human traits born of geographic isolation will end. There will be one race, probably golden-skinned (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748). There will be one language, or maybe a few, one for daily conversation and one or more for more formal discussions, such as scientific or artistic. Everybody will be able to understand everybody. English is already the lingua franca of the Internet. Those universal languages likely won’t look or sound quite like anything on the planet today. The disappearance of race will likely take a century or three, as humanity interbreeds like never before. Today’s organized religions won’t last long, either, especially when humanity openly interacts with ETs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2). What will replace it will be infinitely more enlightened, more like what the teachings of the masters really looked like, not the priesthood-serving distortions of today’s organized religions.

The scarcity-based ideologies will disappear in a generation or so. Nations will likely not last more than a generation, maybe two. Again, none of them will end through coercion, but because they will no longer make any sense. When everybody can travel the planet and solar system in their vehicles, who will want to enslave a horse to pull a cart?

Cities as we know them will also vanish. I expect that in the first generation of free energy’s appearance, all manner of “alternative” lifestyle will be explored, and when people can live in abundance anywhere, nobody is going to want to live cheek-by-jowl in cities. Cities as we know them will become obsolete, and I would think that they will stop being the abode of humans within a century. When I have made these predictions, one objection was that everybody would then become hillbillies. Those objectors don’t yet understand. Nobody will be geographically isolated unless they really want to, but almost nobody is going to want to do that. That isolation today results from poverty, survival, and fear. When those dynamics go away, so will the desire to be geographically isolated. If some desire the hermit’s existence, they will easily have it, but few will, and almost none for long. They might try the hermit lifestyle for a little while, and then decide on something else.

I am sympathetic to people whose minds are blown by posts like this, and that is why I know that I seek needles in haystacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). Nobody could imagine (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine) the previous Epochal Events (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable) before they happened, and very few people today can begin to wrap their minds around the Fifth Epoch’s changes before they happen. Fear almost instantly rises, as their imaginations run amok, thinking about all that could go wrong. It is just the projection of fear, which is typical. People have always feared change, because in a world of scarcity, it meant winners and losers. In the Fifth Epoch, everybody wins, although Godzilla and friends (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) have been doing everything that they can to prevent the Fifth Epoch from manifesting, and so far, humanity has been easily kept in their pens of scarcity and fear. Godzilla reacts in fear, too. You might call him the master of fear, being on the dark path (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving) like he is. Even he can win, but he might also seek other planets to exploit, so that he can explore evil further. It is a valid path, although ultimately illusory (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

18th October 2017, 14:17

Hi:

Another dramatic change will be in humanity’s health, diet, and medical practices. Today, they are abominable. While it is true that humanity has adapted to cooked food (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cooking), the same does not go for processed food. Most of the human diet should be raw fruits and vegetables, but in our world of scarcity, it is expensive, and food processors have essentially concocted addictive foods. In the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), all people will have instant access to live food (indoor). Most people will be involved in producing the food (food) they eat. But they won’t be peasants. :) It will likely take only a few minutes a day to tend and prepare food for consumption. And with that increasing human conscience that grows in a world of abundance, when it becomes obvious that nobody needs to eat animals, nobody will (http://ahealedplanet.net/veggie.htm).

Today’s medical system is one huge racket (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm) that feeds off of misery and death. All of the world’s rackets (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#rappoport) will disappear in the Fifth Epoch, and the demise of the medical racket will be one of the most welcome developments of the early Fifth Epoch. Prevention will be medicine’s byword, not lucrative, violent interventions. Any treatments will be gentle and effective (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#paradigm1). In the Fifth Epoch, obesity will go the way of slavery, so will all addictions, which are all brief, debilitating escapes from misery. People will live to be a hundred or more, in perfect health for their entire lives.

Everybody will exercise in fun ways, and competition will also vanish. All competitive games and sports will disappear. Gambling will be pointless. The idea of winners and losers will disappear. The idea of becoming rich and famous will become obsolete, as will the related celebrity culture. It all will cease making any sense.

One reflexive reaction to these coming changes is something along the lines of, “You are taking away our reason to live!” All of these vanished aspects of today’s world that I am describing do not exist in this world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), and their lives are vastly happier and more fulfilling than what anybody on Earth experiences today, with the constant hum of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) in the background.

Best,

Wade

Smell the Roses

18th October 2017, 17:28

What a beautiful series of posts here, Wade! Thank you so much! I have once again stopped paying much attention to what I consider the trivial events of mainstream news. It has become clearer to me than ever that what I need to do is to prepare my children for a different future. Everything you have written here helps me to validate that choice, as I relate most of it to parenting, my main vocation. For example, my children don't like competitive games. I used to occasionally fall into the belief that they needed to participate in some kind of team, like most of the children around us do. But I've pretty much given up that idea.

One of my son's friends spent the night recently and we had to deliver him to his soccer game in the morning. When we arrived, the parents were all watching very silently and seriously. The children were silently and seriously kicking the ball around. I didn't see a single smile in the bunch. My kids horsed around on the sidelines for a while to the apparent annoyance of the sports fans, and we left soon afterwards because we all found it incredibly tedious and boring. The main thrust in what you have written here is that the old ways will just fall away as unimportant. I can see that easily happening once people realize/remember what real life is like.

For the most part, education today focuses on preparing children for the old world. At least in the USA, the main focus is sports, and everything else (including the arts) is secondary. I envision that in the future, artists and musicians will be much more highly valued than they are today. Revering and outrageously rewarding someone for their ability to throw a ball or to tackle someone will seem like less of a priority.

Wade Frazier

19th October 2017, 14:06

Hi Merry:

A soccer mom, you aren’t. :) I was an athlete (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page4?p=466&viewfull=1#post466), some pals became professionals, and the stories I could tell. Yes, sports are crazy in the USA, and the economics are insane, in a number of ways. Most NBA and NFL players go broke (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_finances_of_professional_American_athletes) within a few years after their careers end. They are mostly black, and it reflects, IMO, their reactions to the poverty of their race in the USA. That is a long, sad tale (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#chinacliff) that goes back to how their ancestors came here in chains. You don’t see that craziness in the PGA, for instance.

That “piss it away as fast as you can” mentality extends to lottery winners, rock stars, actors, etc. That is not what a world of abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance) looks like. Yes, raising children to Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) standards is a worthy goal, but if not enough of us can muster enough integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) and sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience), there won’t be a Fifth Epoch, and the cockroaches might take over (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). The choice is ours (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#utopia).

Thanks for writing, and best wishes for raising Fifth Epoch kids! :)

Wade

Wade Frazier

20th October 2017, 12:58

Hi:

Human sexuality is going to change dramatically in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). Humans and bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1) are the only land animals that use sex for both recreation and procreation. The bonobo experience is very germane to the human journey. A doubling of their food supply after gorillas left the region resulted in a radical restructuring of the societies of the chimps that became bonobos. Chimp societies are male-dominated, and you could call them psychopathic. About half of male chimps die violently, and infanticide is common (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#infanticide1). Just this week, I saw a report (http://www.newsweek.com/cannibal-chimp-snatches-newborn-eats-it-shocking-behavior-maternity-leave-686873) of a male chimp cannibalizing a newborn chimp. Nobody dies violently in bonobo societies, and the only act that brings down societal retribution is if a male chimp remotely looks like he is threatening an infant, and then the entire society will come down on him, no matter his mother’s rank (male bonobos get their rank through their mothers). Life is one big orgy in bonobo societies. They enjoy their lives, while chimp societies are governed by fear and violence.

When women began bringing in more calories than men in horticultural societies, they often became matrilocal, which broke a pattern that was likely established before gorillas (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1). Those became humanity’s most peaceful preindustrial societies, as they broke up ruling male gangs. Women’s status universally declined with the rise of civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#womenstatus1), and only rose again with industrialization, which also freed the slaves (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic).

Today, it is thought that the nuclear family began when the human line understood paternity. Before that, with nine-month gestation periods, nobody understood that sex led to procreation. The nuclear family is likely related to a man’s investing his time and energy in raising offspring that he has a genetic investment in. So, the nuclear family is above all an economic institution. Women have sought “dads, not cads,” for the entire human journey. The idea of a cuckold will become obsolete. :) In the Fifth Epoch, women won’t need men to provide for their children, and the nuclear family will likely become obsolete. I strongly doubt that the Fifth Epoch is going to mark the ascent of cads. Human sexuality is likely going to go the bonobo way. Women will be in complete control of their sexuality, and only conceive when they want to.

As Seth (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#seth) discussed, children won’t try to “grow up” too fast and have sex too early. Seth said that the so-called sexual liberation of women in the West was actually a restriction of human expression. Child abuse and sexual abuse is going to become unthinkable. Sex is going to have its place, and a prominent one, but it is not going to be the dominant channel of human expression and the primary dance of the genders. We can barely imagine what the Fifth Epoch will be like on these matters.

Places such as Hollywood will vanish, along with cities (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cities), and the repeated sex scandals (Cosby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby_sexual_assault_allegations) and Weinstein (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein_sexual_misconduct_allegations) in recent years) will go the way of slavery. Celebrity culture will vanish. There won’t be any point in it.

Women are not going to need to sell their attractiveness, and the many sexual dysfunctions of men and woman are going to disappear. What replaces it will be infinitely more enlightened. My guess is that nuclear families may still exist, but they will be one option among many and probably rare, and may be seen as quaint. Human sociality is going to change dramatically, just as it has in other Epochs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable). I can’t overemphasize that the social changes came as a result of an Epochal Event, and were never a cause of them. People get it entirely backwards when they think that some kind of new social movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10) is going to usher in the Fifth Epoch. Sociality is based on survival (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy?p=925&viewfull=1#post925). In the Fifth Epoch, survival issues vanish, so human sociality is going to take directions that few of us can imagine today. Human sexuality is just part of that dynamic. The closest human relationships will likely still be a mother and her offspring, but that might also change some. Flexibility in human relations will likely be the mark of the Fifth Epoch. We likely have little idea of what that will look like. If it looks anything like that heavenly Roads world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), who would not want to sign up? OK, dark pathers (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving) likely won’t, but who else?

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

21st October 2017, 14:13

Hi:

What else disappears in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5)? Elites. Elites appeared in the Third Epoch, and will become obsolete in the Fifth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear). Elites found a way to skim off the scarce economic surplus from agrarian societies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran), and became prominent with the rise of civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer). Dark pathers (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving) flocked to those scenes like moths to a candle, and still do. Early elites claimed divine status (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#divinity), and the priesthood entered into a Faustian deal with them. Elites always garnered economic power as a path to political power. While some sat on thrones, they discovered that being behind the throne was the place to be, and you have never heard of today’s most powerful elites. They see Bill Gates as just a boy with his toys, and even David Rockefeller (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888) did not play at the highest levels. Sitting American presidents are puppets (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#presidents). The last president who thought that he could make a dent was rudely disabused of the notion (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page9?p=776&viewfull=1#post776). During my adventures, we ran afoul of the global elite (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make), as we pursued free energy. We had more dealings with them than I can publicly discuss today, but let’s just say that their pockets are deep (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#payoff), their toys are many (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), and while humanity collectively sleeps and is its own worst enemy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#attacks), we do not get to play with them, as we live in scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), which allows the global elite (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) to easily call the shots on Earth.

Those global elites don’t really have the power that they aspire to, and act like nearly everybody else: fearfully. They don’t want their world-straddling role to disappear, which is why they are the leaders in suppressing the public dissemination of free energy and related technologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). They like ruling in hell just fine, thank you, even as they toy with making Earth uninhabitable (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mars). In the Fifth Epoch, their ill-gotten role will disappear. Not only the evil-minded elites, but all elites, who have always been economic elites above all else, and conspicuous economic consumption has always been the mark of their status. In a world of abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance), the very idea of elites will vanish. Gone will be elites and their power, financial, and cultural centers such as Washington, D.C, Wall Street, and Hollywood. Cities as we know them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cities) will also end, so those centers will doubly disappear. They won’t be missed. Celebrity culture will vanish along with them.

Some people might become relatively prominent due to their talent or virtue, but they are not going to be elites and celebrities. Even gossip will largely vanish. Gossip is a human invention, partly to replace grooming as a social glue among simians (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#grooming), and humans have used gossip to keep their in-group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup) members in line, so that nobody took too much advantage of their position, and economically above all else. Humans universally punish people (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cheaters) who cheat the system. In the Fifth Epoch, none of that will make sense any longer. Human sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1) is going to be put to far greater use than gossip and punishing cheaters. Cheating is not going to make any sense, and it will quickly become evident that “cheaters” are really cheating themselves. Those chapters of the human journey will close, and they won’t be missed.

Best,

Wade

jewelldo

21st October 2017, 17:01

Hi Wade,
Just got onto this today thanks to Bill. Sent you a email the other day, hope you have chance to pick it up at some point. Thank you again. Doug

Wade Frazier

21st October 2017, 17:36

Hi Doug:

Do you mean the exchanges from a few weeks ago, on making free energy happen?

Wade

Wade Frazier

22nd October 2017, 15:39

Wade Frazier

23rd October 2017, 12:54

Hi:

I finished The Human Advantag (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1184089&viewfull=1#post1184089)e yesterday, which Krishna recommended. I cite Suzana Herculano-Houzel’s work in my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#scaledbrain) a little, and her book will make it into it more when I revise my essay. It was interesting how she came onto Richard Wrangham’s cooking hypothesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cooking) and incorporated it into her work. What was new to me was that primate brains evolved differently from other mammals, and primate brains pack several times more neurons into them, pound-for-pound, and Herculano-Houzel’s hypothesis is that the number of neurons in the cerebral cortex determines potential intelligence for mammals, and I’ll buy that. Nothing else on Earth comes close to humans, even whales. I’ll have to reconsider the idea of cetacean intelligence, although they pass the mirror test (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mirrortest), which is arguably near the threshold of sentience, but human sentience is arguable (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1). :)

While her work was perceptive in ways (such as her thinking on the demise of the Neanderthals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#europeinvasion)), in others, she could have benefitted from reading Frank Niele’s book (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#paradigm) (or my big essay :) ). A lot of her book was about how the human line overcame the energy constraints that other animals had, particularly our great ape cousins, but then she framed the rise of humans in technological terms. Instead of the energy epochs of my work (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable), she wrote about technological revolutions, and she named six:

Stone tools
Control of fire
Agriculture
Industrialization
Automated machines (such as washing machines)
Thinking machines (such as computers)

I wrote long ago about the factors of humanity’s rise (http://ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#factors): energy, intelligence, and manipulative ability, and wrote the summary of my hypothesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#succinct) before I wrote my big essay:

“Each epoch of humanity’s past was initiated and sustained by achieving the social organization and technological prowess that enabled the exploitation of previously unexploitable energy resources.”

I think that energy epochs are a more meaningful measure of the human journey than technological revolutions are. In my framework, stone tools and the control of fire are part of the same Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1), which was about growing the human line’s brain to the point of behavioral modernity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap). Behaviorally modern humans, with their superior toolkit and other traits such as language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language), easily conquered Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit), and Neanderthals were just one of many species that Homo sapiens drove to extinction as they conquered Earth. Because men will mate with anything that moves, some Neanderthal DNA made it into our genome. Herculano-Houzel got it right, IMO, when she stated that Homo sapiens easily drove Neanderthals to extinction with their superior toolset and abilities, much like Europeans drove the Western Hemisphere’s natives to extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide) while mating with some of them.

But an energy framework is more meaningful and important, IMO, than Herculano-Houzel’s technological revolution framework. Stone tools were about gaining more energy, fire was about using orders of magnitude more energy, which helped grow the human brain (while I think that there is something to Wrangham’s cooking hypothesis, it is far from proven, as far as the human line’s dramatic brain growth, but Herculano-Houzel goes whole hog on it), and the agricultural and industrial revolutions were founded in tapping a new energy source.

I split both revolutions into two parts, and not just because the chapters became too long ( :) ), as there were phases of them, and the rise of Europe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal35) was definitely related to the Industrial Revolution, and Europe conquered the world while riding on the back of history’s greatest energy technology to that time (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2).

I broke the Industrial Revolution into two parts: the exploitation of coal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) (although it did not overtake wind and water power (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#waterpower) for more than a century – coal was initially more important for smelting metal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coke)) and the exploitation of oil and electricity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal45). The energy sources defined the Epochs, and while washing machines and computers are great innovations, they all use the same energy sources. To me, the technological innovations and social changes were outcomes of tapping the new energy sources. Give people enough energy, and they are going to find new ways to use it.

The energy issues that humanity faces today (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#running) are nowhere in her book, not to mention the foundational energy of the next Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal). :)

The Human Advantage is an important book, no doubt, and it deals at length with how humans overcame the energetic constraint of our evolutionary heritage through technology, but it could have been a little more energy-centric. It would have made some things clearer.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

23rd October 2017, 14:14

Hi:

I recently wrote about Hillary’s psychopathic chuckle about Gaddafi’s murder (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page9?p=1066&viewfull=1#post1066), and here is an article (https://www.rt.com/op-edge/407332-gaddafi-west-sirte-recolonization/) that you won’t see in the Western media, similar to how Chomsky (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky) is almost never seen or heard in the Western media. Overthrowing Libya’s government and murdering Gaddafi was a key step in the Western effort to recolonize Africa. The greatest mass murderer alive today, Paul Kagame (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page3?p=442&viewfull=1#post442), is lionized in the West as some kind of heroic figure, as he slaughters millions of people and raids the Congo’s mineral wealth.

In replying to a critique of their work on Rwanda, Ed Herman and David Peterson wrote:

“In short, once the RPF (Kagame’s army) controlled the Rwandan state, it immediately turned its prodigious killing machine towards Zaire’s natural resources. This it may have done under cover of chasing the Hutu “genocidaires,” but the pillage of Zaire-the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) worked out so well for the RPF that by the late 1990s it had ‘built up a self-financing war economy centered on mineral exploitation,’ in the words of the UN Panel, with the pillage of resources so complete that it not only finances the RPF’s aggression, but generates annual surpluses back in Kigali as well. As the historian René Lemarchand sums up this system of blood and money: ‘It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that by turning a blind eye to the profits drawn from the looting of the Congo’s wealth, the international community . . . is tacitly encouraging a colonial enterprise in the best tradition of European imperialism.’ Of course, what is true of the ‘international community,’ is true of academics as well.”

Uncle Ed wrote:

“The warfare in Syria is a follow-on to the attacks on Iraq and Libya. We may recall General Wesley Clark’s claim in March 2007 that shortly after 9/11 a Pentagon official had shown him a Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz list of seven Middle East and North African countries that were scheduled for attack and regime change. Iraq and Libya, both on that list, have been attacked and transformed into U.S.-destroyed states with new or unsettled leadership. The United States has been supporting regime change forces in Syria as far back as 2011, but the job has not been completed, in part because of Russian support for president Assad. Truce efforts by the U.S. and Russia have regularly broken down because the U.S. still aims at regime change and supports the rebel forces that Russia targets, many or most of which are Al Qaeda- or ISIS-related and whose victory would mean another Libya-like failed state.”

Time to begin my busy week. I am likely going to be fairly quiet for the next few weeks.

Best,

Wade

Limor Wolf

23rd October 2017, 16:40

Hi:

I’ll return to this theme periodically, as it is one of my work’s most important, IMO, but I’ll wrap up this series of posts (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/43-Chapter-26-Humanity%C2%92s-Fifth-Epochal-Event-Free-Energy-etc?p=1061&viewfull=1#post1061) for now. In short, what disappears in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) includes:

Scarcity
Fear
Violence
Abuse
Disease
Environmental destruction
Drudgery
Addiction
Ideological indoctrination
Delusions, such as calling the darkness the light
Geographical isolation
Materialism
Unhappiness

What becomes standard in the Fifth Epoch includes:

Abundance
Love
Health, both humanity’s and the environment’s
True learning
Space travel
Self-realization
“Mystical” abilities
Enlightenment
Happiness

Earth and humanity will cease being raped. Life, work, study, and play will become far more meaningful and fulfilling, the world will end as we know it, and it won’t be missed. Almost none of humanity’s activities today will continue into the Fifth Epoch, as they are almost all oriented around scarcity and fear, and those will not be the operational principles of the Fifth Epoch.

Perhaps the most important contribution that I bring to this effort is intimate knowledge of the paths to manifesting free energy that have not worked and are unlikely to (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches)

Helping make the Fifth Epoch happen beats watching TV. :)

Best,

Wade

Wade, thank you for this enlightened post, you remember that very well.. that is rare. Cellular memory held in the body does not lie

What I have found is that when some of those artificial technologies of Millennia will be worked to be thoroughly dismantled from someone's body/psych by going inside then the self realization is activated, and the path to actualize free energy as BEING free energy becomes potent. That's a possibility

Something to write home about? :)

This awareness came to me two years ago -

The simulation tries to prevent self-realization
The planetary changes are coming from outside to allow a change within and are being met with all attempts for virtual reality complete take over. There is a version to this planetary system that is more natural. Nature is leakage into the virtual world or vice versa, they are layered within one another. Therefore the attempts to take over nature, control the weather. The live world is defending herself, it is inhabited very close to us, it is possible to be tapped as it's there, or maybe right here.

Cooperation from the outside is translated to the inside, as virtual reality tries to do it's thing. Don't let it"

I often keep coming back to this 'Future Earth' thread and post, that was inspired by your work, due to your encouragement and vision, nothing like that was done before and I am grateful for you for that encouragement.

In the realms of pure Harmony which resides somewhere way high over the rainbow, and where the call to come and help planet "Terra" echoed decades ago ,are now gatherd and collected a large group of light energy beings to watch with great satisfaction and with overly joy on the most perfect transformation ever made on any of the third dimensional planets in the physical world section of the vast creation. The challenge was virtually inaccessible, or so it felt. From a dense swamp like point of location in the physical universe, where it was apparent that the light is getting dimmer and darker, untill the concern arose that the entire galaxy will shut down, a strong flux of light is now radiating and return some sparkle rays back to the sun.

It was anything but easy, the planet of 'free will' was one of the most complex experiments ever done by the planners of stars, galaxies, solar systems and paralle universes with all varieties of different forms of life stretched as far as the imagination can go.
Something else needed to be created that will challenge all creations done up till then. The starting point was kinda limited, but the recipe included all potential ingredients that could form the wonderful heaven like expensive paradise that is the true essence of the 'all there is' and which characterizes the higher realms existences. Intention was to translate the frequencies of pure and higher energies into the density of the physical.

Starting conditions included amnesia and some genetic manipulation without revealing the knowledge of the great creative and most important tool in all of the universes - free flowing energy. Take that from the beings and see how they manage... and let some other players from similiar created places with slightly better advancment intervene and by that let all physical beings grow together each in their own pace. The unknown situation of disharmony was investigated and researched thoroughly inside and out. But now, thanks to the resolute insistence of the creators of the game and their faith in the ability of the souls participating in the game to remember who they are and where they came from - the perfect reversal has occurred. It began with the revelation of free energy. It is the essence that every living soul, plants, inanimate ,spirits, cells, atoms, and much everything else in all realms is consisted of. However, In the 3D physical dense world of Terra it needed to be captured by devices, first. The process of understanding was slow and was tried and failed many times, but now the type of energy expressed in the form of consciousness has spread on this precious planet due to the reinforcement of the game with some of the creators rushing in to save their invention and experience it first hand and with some other technitians who came to assist with support.

In the pure world of harmony, far over the rainbow, the energy beings gathered and are ready to zoom in and see what has become of the beloved Terra. They themselves have no names, no physical forms and almost no individuality, they all consist of light and only a slight difference between the energy signatures that separates one form from the other, but they own a distinctive connectedness that originates from the knowledge of UNITY which is the essence of their beings.

Terra - old but new, is now a remarkable sight. Zooming in on it's location in the milky way galaxy, it's aura is a healthy radiating indigo blue, a rich color that is viewable from afar. Taking a closer look, the rugged plains and mountains can clearly be seen covered with rich coating of green vegetation. The most apparent change easily discernible to all the senses is the clean atmosphere srrounding the earth, the belt of metaphysical and physical 'dirt' has vanished, as if it was never there and instead there's a rich mixture of oxygen and CO2 due to the lush greenery and the accelerated photosynthesis process. The beings obviously look more healthy, this is evident in their body movement and their intense joy of life. There are many visitors at this time, coming with their crafts from all over, from the far out galaxies as well as from the neighboring planets such as Venus and Mars. Entry conditions to the earth's atmosphere are a certain level of consciousness and an expression of unity, and if you are qaulified to that, you are most welcome to stay and be an honored guest, so as not to upset the delicate balance and the free will of the residents who earned this via a lot of hardship. Telepathic communication can produce funny situations, especially if you are an energy being without a body, you may very well be ignored at times, no hard feelings please, it may take some time for the inhabitants to fully develope all their abilities. Their small family size crafts are often painted with the logo colors of the earth, a symbol of patriotism and a belonging to a one place. This too shall pass. In the meantime the rich biological diversity of the terrain very well makes up for any small inconvniences of this new 'free energy found and implamented' planet of rookies ;)

Re-education is the most important activity on the planet, it is up to every living soul to decide where they want to be in their growth, no pressure, but many exhibit excess enthusiasm and want to dedicate their free time to move forward, mentally, technologically and spiritually. Part of the process is having long meaningful conversations with the animals and with plant life, a big ceremony of appology was conducted and now a new way of cooperation is being formed. Trees have a rather interesting symbiosis with one another, they create intimacy through their roots, under ground, regardless of type, thickness, and the specification of every tree. It is now the inhabitant's pleasure to learn about being part of the versatile echo system. The full recovery of Terra was so successful that some new species are now developing due to the harmonious vibe of the planet, some new species of fish, insects and mammals are naturally being created. Crystal clear oceans, Azur blue in color allow a clear view down to the bottom of the sea, miles and miles in distance, because of the purity of the water and because of the enhanced vision of the residents resulted from their very fine diet.
The obvious affection between the fruit-bearing trees and shrubs and between humans produces rich fruit flavors with Intoxicating scent.

Elected officials invest their time, energy, and enjoyment in improving the living conditions of the entire population, whether they are walking on two, on four or crawling on their bellies, with the understanding that the development of one will encourage the development of the other. The new sciences are emerging at an alarming rate, and the use of levitation in construction is quite beneficial to form new lovely structures, also to disassemble whatever remained left from the old cities, as long as it's done with a group effort. A slight amusment is happening with the attempts to levitate the bodies and more often then none, men find themselves sitting in the lap of another man in a wrong calculation of the distance or in a too weak of an effort. humans of the new earth greet and treat eachother in a loving and respectful manner, it is true that small arguments may revolve around the need to rain at noon time as opposed to at around night time, but a satisfactory compromise is usually achieved where rain is rained down according to the region and while one is being watered for 30 minutes to nurture the lush green vegetation, the other is 'showered' with warm and embracing sun, therefore, everyone can choose their pick.

The energy beings from the realms of pure harmony, far over the rainbow, are observing with satisfaction what's been done on the renewable planet - the beloved Terra, 'The poor toddlers' they think,' they still have a way to go, but their path has finally been found. this segment of evolution has now ended. There are always new experiences and discoveries waiting around the corner. But for us it is off to the next mission ~

http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=673977&viewfull=1#post673977

Originally posted by Wade Frazier: " We can’t get there by dragging along our baggage. That baggage is where all of those “bright ideas” come from."

As well, from my own 'ruffle feathered' journey this is true, it is a painful peeling of layers, All of us are holding the pain of the Earth.. and the Earth 'story' for so long. We are now being urged to let go..

For many silent and less silent readers finding this thread must be one of the most changing life experience one can have, due to the positive Avalanche of awareness that enters ones perceptions with regards to free energy at such a vast scope. As well as for the authentic, humane, personal, beyond visionary that is gifted here. quietly thanking you, Wade, as behind it is truth

Many blessings ~

Limor

Wade Frazier

24th October 2017, 14:30

Hi:

This will be a short one on the upcoming JFK files release. I am currently reading Greg Poulgrain’s The Incubus of Intervention, which deals with the contrast between JFK’s and Allen Dulles’s policy toward Indonesia. I have also been reading the JFK assassination researcher community’s customary fisticuffs on a number of issues. Dulles had a relationship with George de Mohrenschildt’s father, over oil, as Dulles was a Rockefeller fixer for his entire career. Dulles helped supply the Nazis with oil. Poulgrain marveled over Dulles’s ability to keep moving the chess pieces of covert action over decades, with subtle nudges here and there.

One thing that is stunningly evident, if you take the time to read a little, is how completely unbelievable the “Oswald the Commie” angle is. George de Mohrenschildt was from the pre-revolutionary Russian Oligarchy, and Ruth Paine, who took in Marina Oswald, was not only known to Dulles, but her husband was deeply in the spook world. When that spy camera was found in Paine’s garage after the JFK hit, it became one more piece of bizarre evidence that needed to be explained away. It not only disappeared from evidence, but Gerald Posner later tried to explain it away as belonging to Ruth’s husband. There is little about Oswald’s background that makes sense, as far as his being a commie goes, including his warm welcome back to the USA after his “defection” to the Soviet Union, and being taken in by de Mohrenschildt and Paine.

Dulles rode herd on the Warren Commission’s cover-up, and anybody who thinks that there are going to be juicy revelations in the CIA’s files is dreaming. The best stuff never even got into the files in the first place. Oh, there might be something inadvertent, such as how the declassification of the Northwoods documents (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#northwoods) bolstered the case for the authenticity of Gary’s meeting with John Tower (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower). But I sure am not expecting much with this most recent document release.

Best,

Wade

Mark (Star Mariner)

24th October 2017, 14:58

I'm not holding out for much either, I'm expecting a rather unspectacular damp squip - which the media will no doubt leap on to dismiss all conspiracy theories once and for all.

A hopeful exception might be the papers of E. Howard Hunt. Maybe a morsel or two there. But I still anticipate that anything that would incriminate LBJ, the CIA, or any forces at all within the government, to have been disposed of long ago.

You're definitely right on about Dulles, a nasty, slimy, Nazi-collaborating traitor if there ever was one. For more info, I would highly recommend David Talbot's The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government. (https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Chessboard-Dulles-Americas-Government/dp/0062276174/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1508856805&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Devil%E2%80%99s+Chessboard)

(BTW Wade, love your posts) :)

Wade Frazier

25th October 2017, 11:07

Hi Star Mariner (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1187049&viewfull=1#post1187049):

I gave my review of Talbot’s book here (http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/20494-bill-decker-and-john-tower/?do=findComment&comment=321167). I segued from it to reading a biography of Karl Wolff (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=847&viewfull=1#post847). I have already read enough about Nazis (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#toward) to last a lifetime, but Wolff’s career was sickly fascinating, and easy to see why he was one of Dulles’s favorite Nazis (Wolff was one of Hitler’s favorites, too, with his aristocratic looks and comportment), along with Gehlen (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#gehlen). I wrote a series of JFK posts (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=761&viewfull=1#post761) recently, in which I presented my views.

I made a succinct post on my view of the JFK hit (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/91-Scientific-literacy/page3?p=541&viewfull=1#post541). I have written plenty on the JFK hit in recent years, in addition to my site’s rendition (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wean). I go plenty into the Magic Bullet and the backyard photos (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=768&viewfull=1#post768). IMO, the Magic Bullet, rifle, backyard photos, and the camera that allegedly took them were all planted evidence to frame Oswald to be, in his words, a “patsy.” Ruby’s job was to silence Oswald, and quickly, before he really spilled the beans. Ruby was a big-time mobster (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#ruby), not some two-bit hustler. Framing a patsy became the standard MO in most high-profile American assassinations during the generation after the JFK hit, when the spooks ran amok. And yes, Dulles kicked it all off. The mob and CIA often worked together (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page9?p=785&viewfull=1#post785), and a similar alliance nearly killed Charles de Gaulle a year before the JFK hit (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=755&viewfull=1#post755), and de Gaulle did not miss the similarity.

Hunt was in the JFK hit up to his eyeballs (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower), and his amazing “alien presence (http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/20494-bill-decker-and-john-tower/?do=findComment&comment=321167)” explanation to Doug Caddy may well reflect Hunt’s view, but don’t expect any revelations in Hunt’s papers, either. Spies like him are not going to leave much juicy material behind. The raid of Angleton’s vaults after his death, as he met Dulles in hell (in Angleton’s words), yielded gems such as RFK’s autopsy pictures (probably trophies for Angleton), but I doubt that Hunt left much honest behind, especially in his papers.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

25th October 2017, 12:07

Hi:

I am working crazy hours right now, and I’ll be fairly quiet for the next few weeks. One thing that keeps being driven home to me is how few people have what it takes (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) for my strategy to have a chance. I don’t need many, relative to humanity’s population, but they are going to be few and far between (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). I am besieged by free energy newcomers who don’t do the work but who present their “bright ideas” that often work against what I am doing, but they don’t understand and likely won’t or can’t. This happens all the time. I look for people who can competently discuss the subjects in my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm), and there are thousands to choose from. That is all that I seek anymore. Everything else is a distraction (my recent biography project is a very welcome distraction, and you will see why, when it is published). Krishna’s posts are welcome, as he does his homework. I am beginning to put responses in my chapter discussions section of my forum, such as the recent ones on Suzana Herculano-Houzel’s work on brains (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/24-Chapter-17-Humanity%C2%92s-First-Epochal-Event-Growing-our-Brains-and-Controlling-Fire?p=1053&viewfull=1#post1053). That is intended to help organize my material for my essay update, which I plan to do next year, as I winnow through the three-foot-tall stack next to my desk.

Best,

Wade

Mark (Star Mariner)

25th October 2017, 20:53

IMO, the Magic Bullet, rifle, backyard photos, and the camera that allegedly took them were all planted evidence to frame Oswald to be, in his words, a “patsy.”

I don't disagree, however the backyard photos remain a sticking point for me. There are still many unexplained anomalies with these photos, but personally I was never all that convinced by the 'pointed chin/square chin' argument - which takes up rather a lot of the limelight. Although the evidence in these backyard photos is indeed tilted heavily towards 'shenanigans' to frame Oswald, I've yet to see a slam dunk.

Didn't want to thread-jack, so have laid out my case here in the JFK section (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?92641-JFK-the-Assassination-of-John-Kennedy&p=1187243#post1187243).

Wade Frazier

26th October 2017, 13:40

Hi Star Mariner (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1187248&viewfull=1#post1187248):

I have plenty of JFK/Oswald posts on this thread, so a few posts on my thread is fine, and it is a subject of my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jfk). :) Nice chin pics (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?92641-JFK-the-Assassination-of-John-Kennedy&p=1187243&viewfull=1#post1187243). Here is my take on the backyard photos. I write plenty about them (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#backyard) on my site, and I’ll be referring to it. Just like the rifle and Magic Bullet, the provenance of the backyard photos and the camera that allegedly took them is highly dubious.

We will begin with the first one: Oswald was asked about the photos before they were officially discovered (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#discovered), and they somehow eluded the search on the day of the assassination. Two developers working in the FBI’s lab on the night of the assassination said that they saw a color transparency of the backyard photos the day before they were “discovered.”

On the chin, Oswald himself began the “fake” argument, because he called them fakes when he saw them, and said that he could prove that they were fakes. He said that his head was pasted onto somebody else’s body. Of course, the next day, he was silenced forever. Right at the chin, there is a crop-line (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#chin) that the HSCA explained away as water spots, but spots don’t run in lines. So, right where you might expect the crop line, if Oswald was right, is a crop line, which was explained away very dubiously.

Of course, there is plenty of evidence that there were two Oswalds, so I always look at the photos of the man in Dallas PD custody. You are right that sometimes his chin does not look as pointy, but the backyard photo chin sure looks a lot more like Roscoe White’s than Oswald’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#chin1). Particularly damning of the HSCA’s “analysis” was when the chin data was purposefully omitted from its Penrose study (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#penrose). How obvious could it be?

As you know, the chin is one of many anomalies regarding those photos, and I’ll go into some of them here. Again, the provenance of the evidence is highly damning to the official version. Not only was Oswald asked about the photos before they were “discovered,” and the FBI apparently had a color version on the day before they were “discovered,” the negative of the most famous backyard photo has never been introduced into evidence, even though the evidence inventory shows one more negative (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#negative) than was ever presented as evidence.

More than a decade later, Roscoe White’s widow (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#roscoe) was found to possess a third backyard photo. A Dallas PD reenactment in 1964 proved that they knew about that photo in 1964, but it was “discovered” in 1976. There also may have been a fourth one, of Oswald holding the rifle over his head. The very compliant Marina initially denied taking any photos, but when prodded enough, said whatever the Warren Commission wanted her to.

Not only that, but a year after the JFK hit, George de Mohrenschildt discovered a version (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#mohrenschildt) of the most famous one (133-A) that was clearer than the “original” and showed area outside the frame of the original. The pictures are taken in sunlight, but the weather of the day in question was cloudy and rainy. Oswald never had clothing like the man in the photos did. It goes on and on.

The camera was like the photos (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#camera), in that it was not found in previous searches, to miraculously appear in that garage, actually discovered by Oswald’s brother. It did not even work when it was “discovered.” I have seen the many chain-of-custody issues with the photos explained away by Dallas PD malfeasance or cavalier treatment of the evidence. So much evidence disappeared or miraculously appeared that it is very difficult to believe the evidence at all.

There are many other anomalies with the backyard photos. I have to give Jack White credit for his work (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#white2), although he should have just stuck with those photos, IMO. But I also have some contributions of my own. The newspapers that Oswald holds up have several anomalies to them. One is the newspapers themselves. Oswald poses with his guns and papers, like some revolutionary, but the newspapers themselves (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#crypto) are from the “peaceful co-existence” faction of communism, and Oswald would have known the distinction. It would be like a gun-toting militia member in camo fatigues holding up his weapons and copies of Time and The New York Times, to show how “radical” he was.

Oswald’s hand holding up the newspapers is very anomalous. For one thing, the fingers are chopped off, and they don’t cast any shadow (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#shadow), like his nose obviously does. The entire newspaper looks like a special effect. The same goes for the hand holding the rifle. Where is his forearm and elbow (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#elbow)?

The rifle is doubly planted. Not only is there very convincing evidence that there were at least two rifles in evidence (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#two), neither one of them is the rifle in the backyard photos. The serial number issue proves, to me, that there were two rifles in evidence, even disregarding how the Warren Commission switched ads (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#ad) to force the official rifle in evidence with the ad that Oswald would have bought the rifle from. There is a circular strap ring on the bottom of the rifle stock (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#ring1), obvious in the backyard photos, but the rifle(s) in evidence show oblong side-rings. Also, it is obviously not the same strap, either. A light-colored one that looks like just a strip of canvass is in the backyard photos, while the rifle in evidence has a leather strap dyed black like the rifle stock. Oswald the starving commie sure played around a lot with his rifle.

With at least three rifles in evidence, which one shot the Magic Bullet? The Magic Bullet also entered into the evidence ledgers miraculously (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=762&viewfull=1#post762). For starters, for the official story to make any sense, that it caused both the back and neck wounds (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#magic) before its dance through Connally’s body, it would have had to pass through JFK’s spine, which was a greater feat than penetrating his skull, which the head shot(s) did. The head shot bullet(s) broke into a million pieces, while the Magic Bullet remained almost perfectly intact, and then made several wounds in Connally, shattered bones, and then rolled out intact into his clothes, to be miraculously found on an unused stretcher at Parkland Hospital, with not a trace of flesh or blood on it, even after microscopic examination. Magic indeed.

So, for me, the chin issue is just one of many that points to fabricated and planted evidence. I’ll agree that maybe the chin issue is not quite a slam dunk, but the HSCA treated it with strange logic, and the experts never convinced Congressman Fithian that that was Oswald’s chin (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#mccamy). These doubts do not just issue from the minds of paranoid conspiracists.

Of course, I treat Gary’s testimony (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower) as fact, so I have no doubt that Oswald was not the Lone Nut assassin.

Best,

Wade

Mark (Star Mariner)

27th October 2017, 13:48

Cheers Wade, and I already read your long article on the matter - excellently put together. I'm in agreement with a great deal of it, having come to many of the same conclusions over lots of years of reading and studying this whole massive mess. Yet I still can't get over the line with the backyard photos. There are problems and anomalies that need explaining - yes, but nothing comfortably adds up.

I'm sure you're aware of the Dartmouth study. I thought their data was pretty solid. It demonstrates the shadows are actually authentic, as is Oswald's seemingly weird off-balance pose.

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Many of the other points I cannot argue, particularly the laughable 'magic bullet'. But on the photos, there isn't enough concrete evidence. If the 'spooks' did fake them, their resources stretched to the very best skills and equipment available at the time, far beyond what an average photo lab would have. And owing to the multi-generation copies we have to muddle through with today, all these years later, I think it's nigh on impossible to tell anymore exactly what they did or how they did it. The lack of fidelity in the degraded quality of these copies could also be contributing to the anomalies we see.

I personally believe the chin in the photos is part of the same face in the photos, and that face is Oswald. The so called 'crop line', while definitely not a waterspot, could be many things, such as a scratch, or an eyelash - anything. But the presence of a crop-line would be highly sloppy, and that's not consistent with the rest of this sophisticated forgery, if that's what this truly was. And I'm not so sure. I don't think it's a simple copy/paste anymore. I'm not a fake photography expert (and neither was Jack White as you pointed out), but I do have a background in photography (10 years as a pro - pre-digital age.)

I'm inclined to suspect a different scenario - that these pictures may have been genuine, they were taken of Oswald with his consent, possibly at the arm-twisting of his so-called spook buddies, and not Marina at all. They could've been made for his undercover work, even for publication in the papers he's holding up -- that's as far as Oswald himself knew, but really it was just insurance, something extra to produce later, after the assassination, if needed. Any number of his crew could have posed him in this picture to help set him up, including De Mohrenschildt.

I'm positive everything was planned well in advance of November 22nd, including - maybe especially - Oswald's part. It would be highly risky to fake these pictures, because how would they know their forgery would go undetected? Far better to snap them for real - Oswald wouldn't complain, it's just theatre after all. As Jim Marrs said, and I fully agree: "Oswald [was a] US intelligence agent posing as a pro-communist, he was the perfect patsy. He would have followed orders and easily could have been manipulated into incriminating himself as the assassin." What's more, the likely plan was that Oswald was killed during the assassination, possibly in return fire from secret service. He was never meant to be caught, certainly never interrogated.

Why would they need to fake photos of him in the yard with a rifle, when Oswald would very easily have agreed to pose them for real for the part he was willingly playing (as an agent infiltrating the pro-communist movement)?

That they were authentic doesn't make Oswald guilty of the assassination all of a sudden. But I do believe it's at least possible that they were genuine photographs. Of course Oswald is going to deny that. Once caught, he knew he'd been set up as the patsy, he already knew he was done for. So when he's presented with these photos under interrogation, shown holding a rifle similar to one that shot the president no less... it 'looks' pretty bad for him. May as well deny everything.

After 50+ years, photographic analysis has still not decisively cracked this mystery, and I don't think there ever will be a smoking gun here. It's practically a logic puzzle now. I'm not completely committed to any one theory at the moment, I'm just, as you say across the pond, spitballing here...

Wade Frazier

27th October 2017, 14:36

Hi Star Mariner (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1187590&viewfull=1#post1187590):

Since we are discussing the most infamous murder of the 20th century, it is very reasonable to think that the best spook resources would have been used on the photos. As you know, there are great doubts about the authenticity of the autopsy photos and other autopsy evidence (to disguise the fact that the back of JFK’s head was blown out), and the man who performed it burning his notes afterward is typical behavior around the JFK hit.

As I stated, the chin issue is far from the only one. Oswald’s right hand’s fingers and disappearing left arm are very odd. But yes, even in Gary’s conversation with John Tower (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower), the pictures were discussed as a ploy to make Oswald’s “assassination attempt” appear believable, and your scenario is plausible. I’ll agree that it is possible that the photos are not altered, but the HSCA, among others, sure did not do much to dispel the doubts, with its water spots explanation and Penrose study, and that professor that you cite actually works with the FBI, which was involved with the JFK hit, so once again, we have an “expert” with a conflict of interest (similar to McAdams’s working closely with the CIA – I am all-too-familiar with such “experts” and “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” appearing on the scene like they did and being lionized for bolstering the official story). I don’t consider Oswald’s body shadows to be anomalous (although the pictures were almost certainly not taken on the day that the Warren Commission concluded), but the finger ones I do. I believe that the body is genuine, and I was not very impressed with that professor’s analysis (I saw it years ago, when it was ballyhooed). All that it might show to me was that the head was photographed at the same sun angle as the rest of the photo, which would be elementary for any forgers.

Even if the photos are genuine, that rifle is very likely not the “murder weapon” in evidence. I am pretty confident about that. The many anomalies about the photos and camera, as far as their provenance, make me think that they were planted to frame Oswald, genuine pictures or not. The photos were definitely made to make it look like Oswald was some kind of violent revolutionary, when he wasn’t. He was an expendable covert action asset, and met the fate of many like him.

On a related note, yesterday’s JFK document release went about as expected, but once again unintentionally supports the “frame Castro” angle that Tower discussed, as the Northwoods documents did (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#northwoods). It is somewhat amusing to see the media take that bait once again, and focus on Castro as the likely agent of murder, so that operation in a way was successful, even though killing JFK was an unintended outcome for the chumps who were involved.

Best,

Wade

Mark (Star Mariner)

27th October 2017, 17:01

Even if the photos are genuine, that rifle is very likely not the “murder weapon” in evidence. I am pretty confident about that.

Yes it probably isn't the same rifle, yet, regardless of even the ballistics evidence, I have grave doubts that a Mannlicher-Carcano carbine was even involved in the shooting. Not only was it a very unreliable weapon, but - as I'm sure you know - Officer Roger Craig, who was on the sixth floor of the TSBD moments after the shooting, and was present when the rifle was recovered, stated quite clearly that the make and model of said recovered rifle was a 7.65 Mauser - a German rifle. As an experienced Police Officer, he made a confident, specific identification, knowing a bit about firearms of course. It is very unlikely he would confuse it with the significantly different Mannlicher-Carcano.

I agree, the Mannlicher-Carcano was likely a later plant, because it was the same as the cheap, shoddy rifle that Oswald owned, and which (they knew) he had been clearly photographed with. So they just got hold of a random Mannlicher-Carcano like Oswald's (thus it doesn't match the one Oswald has in the photo, because it was a different rifle) and switched it in as evidence. Who knows what happened to the Mauser (or Oswald's original Mannlicher-Carcano).

Wade Frazier

28th October 2017, 13:59

Hi Star Mariner (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1187638&viewfull=1#post1187638):

As you know, you can’t dive very far into the JFK hit before seeing evidence disappear and magically appear all the time. Witnesses were silenced, had their testimony altered by the Warren Commission, many came to untimely ends, and the like. So much about it smells bad. Having a man who despised JFK, whom JFK fired, heading the “investigation” and who covered the CIA’s tracks at every turn – what an abomination. Of course, LBJ got a friendly wink (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=767&viewfull=1#post767) as he was being sworn in. The evil goes on and on. I lived in Texas because of LBJ (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary), and even spent some weeks in Dallas. The Magic Bullet in evidence is not the one described by the orderly who found it, etc.

On the Carcano, its provenance is extremely dubious, beginning with the ad that Oswald would have used to order it. Yes, I am well aware of the initial “Mauser” identification. Gary’s JFK adventures began with the conversation (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower) that arms experts around the country were having right after the assassination: there was no way that Oswald could have made those shots from that position with that Carcano. There were no fingerprints on the rifle, as if Oswald carefully wiped down the Carcano after using it, but a palm print miraculously appeared on it after he was dead, “discovered” by the FBI.

As you know, the controversy is fierce on these issues, with Warren Commission apologists going after the independent researchers, with the conspiracy advocates fighting with each other, each with his/her pet theory and favorite evidence, etc. What a circus (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#jfk). I have given my general views on the situation (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/91-Scientific-literacy/page3?p=541&viewfull=1#post541).

So, yes, the rifle in the backyard photos is not the one discovered in the depository, and Oswald was not even in the sniper’s nest when whatever shots were fired from the window were made. He was definitely not in on the real hit, so he was somehow redirected, such as sitting in the depository lunchroom, waiting for a call, while the real hit played out, and he soon realized that he had been had. The real assassins tried to kill him as he fled, but policemen Tippit was killed instead. I have tried to imagine what Oswald must have been thinking. He had to be silenced by the real killers, and quickly, and he was. Ruby was a big-time mobster (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#ruby), and mobster attorney Belli (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=763&viewfull=1#post763) (he wanted a $250K retainer to defend Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail) – I didn’t have that kind of money :) ) defended Ruby for free.

To me, the backyard photos are merely part of a constellation of planted and possibly forged evidence. They had to make it all look at least plausible, but there is no perfect crime. There is far too much damning evidence, for those who care to look at it with their eyes open.

On a related note, Hoover may have been in on the JFK hit from the beginning (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=773&viewfull=1#post773). He began beating the “Lone Nut” drums on the day of the assassination, and they only got louder. Dulles, another who was in on it, according to those taped conversations, handed out a “Lone Nut” book to the other Warren Commission members before they ever convened. Those skids were greased from the beginning, and the “new” Hoover memo issued when Oswald died (https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32263509.pdf) is no revelation. George Bush the First was also involved from the beginning (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=769&viewfull=1#post769), according to the tapes, which explains the Tower conversation (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower). I have seen it argued that Tower was providing misdirection with his conversation with Gary, but I strongly doubt it.

For me, the entire JFK affair only shows the complete fraudulence of our government. The USA is a plutocracy and always has been (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#plutocracy), back to when its richest citizen became its first president (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#washington), and used his office to steal even more and set the blueprint for stealing a continent (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint). What a saint.

JFK was the last president who thought that he could make a dent. All presidents since then have been puppets and know it (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#presidents), with perhaps the exception of Trump, but if he hasn’t figured it out yet, he will: he is relatively powerless and completely in the dark on the important issues, and chief of which is the subject of the technology that can usher in a new Epoch of the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal). Everything else pales beside that. No president has come within a country mile of that knowledge.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

28th October 2017, 17:38

Hi:

I finally updated my fluoride essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm) for free radicals, fluoride ions, apoptosis, and aging (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#compulsory). We will see if John Yiamouyiannis (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#enzymes) receives posthumous vindication (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page9?p=1055&viewfull=1#post1055).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

29th October 2017, 14:53

Hi:

Not long ago, I looked again at the sunpump site (https://www.sunpump.solar/) that Krishna directed me to last year (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1088781&viewfull=1#post1088781). A beautiful picture introduces it, so much so that I put it in my screensaver collection, but as I looked a little more at their site, I saw that they are a hand-to-mouth start-up, with an installed base of 20 systems (https://www.sunpump.solar/faq/how-many-have-been-installed-and-tested/?portfolioCats=107%2C108%2C110%2C111%2C109). A hundred companies came and went during that first go at it (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new), and Dennis was by far the most successful (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=585&viewfull=1#post585), which is partly why he ended up in prison (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail).

Times change. More than a generation ago, making a windmill farm (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#windmill) was a way to get a death threat, but it does not work that way anymore, to my knowledge. Maybe somebody like Dennis would not be wiped out when attempting to carpet states with that heat pump, but I won’t be dipping my toe into that water to find out. But an installed base of 20 systems, by onesies and twosies, is not going to attract the snuff job, unless they begin talking big and showing that they could deliver.

The reasons why those hundred companies failed were rarely because of organized suppression. Other than Dennis, none ever got to the stage where they threatened to disrupt the energy markets. Bringing any new technology to market is difficult, in many ways. The history of the American marketplace is littered with failed technology introductions that did not fail because of organized suppression.

It looks like the sunpump company is making them part of the original homes (https://www.sunpump.solar/faq/how-many-have-been-installed-and-tested/?portfolioCats=107%2C108%2C110%2C111%2C109), and with far more surface area than Dennis’s heat pump. Notice how they cite their inspiration as NASA (https://www.sunpump.solar/faq/who-invented-the-sunpump/?portfolioCats=107%2C108%2C110%2C111%2C109) and don’t mention their predecessors. Maybe they really are ignorant of their predecessors, but I doubt it. That story is not going to help them sell their systems. Better to cite NASA as their inspiration. Wiped-out pioneers receiving no mention (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#steal) is as American as apple pie.

So, I wish them the best, but they have many hurdles to overcome, even if they don’t get the cement shoes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). Also, I have found that operations like that never want to hear from people like me. Kind of like that 18-year-old about to rush out on a battlefield (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business). Keep whistling that happy tune and wear your lucky rabbit’s foot, and the bullets won’t find you.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

30th October 2017, 10:57

Hi:

In recent months, I have been reading Jennifer Clack’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Clack) magnum opus, Gaining Ground (https://www.amazon.com/Gaining-Ground-Second-Evolution-Tetrapods/dp/025335675X), which has been inaccurately described as being written for the layman. It is definitely not popularized science, but is for the graduate specialist. As such, I likely won’t be citing it much, if at all, in next year’s essay update. That said, it is a tour de force of tetrapod evolution. Airport reading last spring (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/18-Chapter-11-Complex-Life-Colonizes-Land?p=961&viewfull=1#post961) got me into this area a bit more. While Clack helped coin the term Romer’s Gap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer%27s_gap), her recent work has been closing the gap.

In Gaining Ground, Clack shakes up the evolutionary tree a bit, and as she also did recently, she dismissed Peter Ward’s low-oxygen explanation of Romer’s Gap (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tournasian). While Clack cites the many technological and technique advances in her field of study, and she cited the explosion of the Internet as one of the most important, she is very skeptical of metadata studies. She stated that in order to get each piece of data into its slot so that the numbers can be crunched, important relational and other information is lost, so that the results can be bizarre and invalid. That highlights one of the hazards of the reductionistic aspects of analysis, as features are increasingly “atomized,” and their relationships either lost or reconstructed rather ignorantly or fancifully.

With all of the controversy aside, what is very clear is that evolution happens atom-by-atom, cell by cell, as life changes. In the recent epigenetic revolution (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page8?p=958&viewfull=1#post958), the ideas of Barbara McClintock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_McClintock) have gained relevance, such as when she challenged scientists in her Nobel Prize acceptance speech to find out how organisms directed their own evolution. Initially dismissed as verging on “mystical” and smacking of Lamarck, those ideas are being revisited in the light of epigenetic findings, although there is fierce attack of scientists proposing ideas that are uncomfortably close to “intelligent design,” which materialists avoid like the plague. Interesting times.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

31st October 2017, 14:16

Hi:

Recent posts have been about the human brain (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1186867&viewfull=1#post1186867), the USA’s murderous imperial behavior (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1186878&viewfull=1#post1186878), the JFK assassination (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1187048&viewfull=1#post1187048), fluoride and aging (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1187798&viewfull=1#post1187798), another solar heat pump startup getting (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1187912&viewfull=1#post1187912) into the act, and tetrapods and evolution (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1188040&viewfull=1#post1188040). There is a method to my madness, which is helping people develop comprehensive perspectives (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing). That way, it is going to be a lot easier to understand what the Fifth Epoch means (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1186725&viewfull=1#post1186725), which is a key, arguably the key, aspect of my work. Then, the people I seek can easily keep their eyes on the ball.

If you develop a comprehensive perspective, you won’t get sucked down the many rabbit holes that await the undiscerning and unwary, such as New Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage) and conspiracist (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism) topics that lead nowhere, alternative political and economic systems that are no more than reshuffling the deck of scarcity in the advocate’s favor, alternative science and technology that means very little in the big picture, or is delusional, such as the “science” behind denying Global Warming (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463). On my list of topics to write about in the near future is the mystical big picture (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm) (which none of us can truly see while we live in physical reality), and where it fits into my work. It is really not hard to understand:

Love is the answer (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love) and always has been; love is the energy of Creation (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest);
The means become the ends (http://ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#idealist);
We are here to develop our sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience) and integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708);

There are a few other odds and ends, but the basics are simple. People tend to forget the basics (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#forgetting), however, as their egos take over in a world of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming). Survival and temporarily sating their addictions becomes paramount. I am here to help end all of that. :)

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

1st November 2017, 14:22

Hi:

My previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/63-Developing-a-Comprehensive-Perspective?p=1085&viewfull=1#post1085) on developing a comprehensive perspective veers into the mystical at its end. I recently wrote on the topic of a mystical awakening and whether it is a choir requirement (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1034&viewfull=1#post1034), and I doubt that it is, as long as those without it can reach these understandings (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=1036&viewfull=1#post1036). It will not be an easy feat for materialists, but none of what I think is needed (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) is an easy feat to achieve. Not in this world. Uncle Bucky said that college students were the best candidates for understanding (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#college), and I’ll agree. They have their adult minds (and people like me not could be accused of trying to corrupt minors :) ), yet their minds have yet to ossify into the dominant in-group ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant). They more easily understand that humanity is one (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#nature), even that Creation is one.

But the drumbeat of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) is pervasive, in both obvious and subtle ways, and those who learn to stop dancing to that tune are very few and far between (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). It is just the reality of the world that we live in (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1).

It took many years for me to make sense of the innumerable reactions of fear and denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1) that I have witnessed over the long years, to the idea of free energy and abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance). I finally concluded that such reactions reflected their addictions to scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#misinformation), or more accurately, to their adaptions to scarcity, which are evident in every breath that they take. They won’t begin to understand (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink) until they can live in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), and that is normal. I seek people who aren’t normal. :)

Best,

Wade

Foxie Loxie

1st November 2017, 16:11

Thanks for confirming what I had always suspected!!! I'm not "normal"!! :ROFL:

Smell the Roses

1st November 2017, 23:27

dominant in-group ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant)
I printed off the 18 pages at this link and read them. I have trouble reading on the computer, so I think I will have to do that with the rest of your essay in order to properly digest it.

When I was getting my Masters degre, I read Kuhn's book that you mentioned. That particular course was taught by a South African visiting professor. The rest of the courses were strange, in that, as you mentioned in your essay, the so-called scientific minds seemed completely resistant to exploring untested hypotheses.

I am happy to find such a huge intellectual masterpiece with so much food for thought, that is not interspersed with ads selling me toothpaste etc.! I hope you have a beautiful day!

Wade Frazier

2nd November 2017, 12:36

Hi:

Foxie, “normal” is being herded into “thinking” what the dominants want us to, as we are social animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialreason). I have watched people embrace certain death (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#doom) rather than question their indoctrination. Becoming truly sentient (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1) is not an easy trick in our world.

Merry, I purposefully designed what I am doing so that I would not need any money to build the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). Sorry that you cannot read online. My work was designed to be read that way. Printing it out can work, after a fashion. I have my big essay in a printable format (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity1.pdf), like reading a book, but that is the only essay that I do that for. My site comprises 2,000 pages of material. It is truly my life’s work.

About 95% of the American population is scientifically illiterate, while the scientifically literate are usually brainwashed in a different way (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#orthodox). Brian and I discussed that long ago. That essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm) that you printed off is the one that brought Brian back into my life, after the NEM fiasco (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem) and my monster of a midlife crisis (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#midlife) ended. That essay is over ten years old now, how time flies. The publication of that essay marked the year (2007) when I began studying with writing what became my big essay in mind.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

2nd November 2017, 12:57

Hi:

This is a brief post on Global Warming (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=454&viewfull=1#post454). As I have discussed, until the Industrial Revolution’s exploitation of hydrocarbons (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coaluse), Earth’s carbon cycle (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=462&viewfull=1#post462) got its additions primarily from volcanism, and its subtractions from deposition. Deposition is not quick. While the carbon dioxide that comes out of my car’s exhaust pipe takes “only” a century to come out of the atmosphere, that does not mean that it then goes to deposition, to be removed from the carbon cycle (with some to be reintroduced through volcanism). What humanity has already vented to the atmosphere won’t all come out in deposition for more than 100,000 years. These are very long-term issues, at least on the human scale. On the geologic timescale (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#geologictime1), it is but the blink of an eye. We are wreaking havoc on Earth at a rate far greater than what drove the mass extinctions of the past (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctions). Some of the numbers are mind-boggling. Humanity has killed off 90% of the ocean’s predators in my lifetime, and 30% of Earth’s coral reefs have died off since the 1980s. We are rapidly making Earth uninhabitable, and Godzilla knows it well (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mars), as he leads the parade to oblivion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth) and we stampede along (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lemmings), oblivious. It is not too late for enough of us to wake up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309) to halt our drive to self-extinction, but time is short.

Best,

Wade

Smell the Roses

2nd November 2017, 14:34

What affected me the most about what I have read so far is the idea of viewing the Global Controllers as a symptom rather than a cause. I appreciate how you pinpoint that we need to get out of the victim mentality. It's something I have worked on in my own life, as I started in the victim mentality as a child when my brother was murdered. It is deeply ingrained. I resonated with what you wrote about the Global Controllers being an object of pity when one looks from a wider view. I have been looking at my brother's killers more in this way as well lately. There is so much focus in the so-called alternative community on the activities of the Global Controllers. If we focused instead on our own part in making the change within, it seems like we could make more progress.

Wade Frazier

3rd November 2017, 13:13

Hi Merry (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1188632&viewfull=1#post1188632):

Having a family member murdered is very hard to deal with, and sorry to hear of your loss. It happened repeatedly in my family, too, and it is easy to get into victim mode with that happening. Physical reality is one hell of a place to be. There is nothing easy about it.

The victim mentality seems to be humanity’s default setting. :) It is very hard to shake, and is behind all of those unproductive reactions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1) to the free energy issue. It is the root of the integrity issue that humanity has (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708), the addictions to scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#misinformation), etc. It took many years for me to see what they all had in common: fear. Love is the antidote (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), but in a world of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), there are no easy answers. End scarcity and fear as humanity’s operative principles, and we will have an Epochal shift (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), the biggest so far in the human journey.

That denial or obsession (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness) with the global elite (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) is another symptom of the problem. That situation is similar to how Western medicine also operates (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#masculine): operating on the victim principle and treating symptoms while ignoring causes.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

4th November 2017, 15:51

Hi:

I just published phase one (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm) of my biography project on Ed Herman. I hope to finish the project this year, and then it is off to my long-overdue update of my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

7th November 2017, 16:05

Hi:

I often write about “waking up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309)” and how important it is for what I do. Another term is being “radicalized (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm).” But the awakening never ends, and there must be eternal vigilance against falling asleep to the siren song of our conditioning. In the West, that song plays 24/7. Most Americans’ heads would explode if they read my Ed Herman biography (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm).

It was interesting to see Dennis’s gradual awakening on certain issues. When I met Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601), his company was in its death throes as it was being wiped out by the local oligarchy (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#seattle). A phony bankruptcy suit (http://ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#bk) by an electric company hit man, which the federal courts fraudulently allowed, was strangling the dying company. Dennis had been rooked into pleading guilty to fraud (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#conviction) for unintentionally bouncing some checks as his company was being illegally wiped out in the mayhem of the USA’s first energy crisis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#industrialdecline). But when I lived with Dennis in Boston (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#chasing), he still believed in the USA’s legal system, saying that if you pressed far enough into the legal system, you could find justice.

Then came the Ventura experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr). After that, Dennis called our legal system the “just us” system. How the heck could Dennis still believe in the legal system after Seattle? Coming to understand that we live in an evil system is not a fun process. I resisted the primary lesson of my journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) every step of the way, until I had it beaten into my head in no uncertain terms. Ever since, I have constantly heard from people who deny the truth of my life’s most important lesson, in their naïveté. They don’t want to believe it, either. I am sympathetic, but if people are not awake in this field, they unerringly travel the well-worn paths of disaster (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches).

After Dennis’s last run-in with the USA’s “justice” system, which even the sitting American president’s energy advisor (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&viewfull=1#post694872) was powerless to influence, Dennis still implores (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching1) the American government for help to make his idealistic dreams come to fruition. Is that called being a slow learner? :)

My point is that “awakening” does not happen in an instant, but is part of a process. My radicalizing moment on the witness stand (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=681&viewfull=1#post681) was merely the culmination of several years of gradual disillusionment, which began in earnest with my college graduation (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#believing). After those Ventura days, I would never see the world the same way again.

But the learning never ends, and although nothing that I learned after Ventura was “radicalizing” to me, nor could anything have been truly radicalizing to me after those Ventura days, my studies and further experiences since then were important for developing the perspective evident in my big essay. I only began understanding the true Epochal significance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) of free energy in about 2010 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#paradigm), after reading a book published by an oil company, of all things. So, I respect the many roads that people can take to the free energy issue. While my path was set long ago (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#introduction), it took a long time to get there, and the learning never ends.

Best,

Wade

Krishna

7th November 2017, 16:27

I have been thinking about Mentor's engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/engine.jpg). Still not sure how it works. But if the energy in the gas can be converted to hydraulic energy then the efficiency has to be 100% (theoretical). Since practical hydraulic engines are 90% efficient we would expect mentor engine to be the around that.

If the numbers are right, the engine in itself is easily worth a Nobel Prize in Physics. I am still not sure how it works or even if it works. Will keep thinking.

Wade Frazier

7th November 2017, 16:50

Hi Krishna:

Keep thinking! :)

The engine definitely worked (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) - a company built one and drove it in the Rose Parade (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#study) - and I have heard the marveling over it from scientists and engineers, but it was not invented to do free energy, but to just wring more energy out of a gallon of gasoline. Whether it could do free energy is still an open question for me, and as we were wiped out while building a prototype of it (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#marry), it may always be at the “open question” level for me, although some scientists thought it was more than possible (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#mallove).

Compared to what I already know exists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), it is no big deal. But compared to everything else on the market today, it is marvelous and a real brain-breaker. It was my introduction to the energy issue and the beginning of my bizarre journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#introduction), which started more than 40 years ago, how time flies.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

8th November 2017, 16:11

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1189459&viewfull=1#post1189459):

I made some posts (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=656&viewfull=1#post656) on the physics of Mr. Mentor’s engine. I work at a company that makes use of Mr. Mentor’s pressure intensifier concept (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#worked), and you can imagine my reaction when I saw it used and the technicians began explaining it to me. Mr. Mentor is likely not the first person to come up with the intensifier concept for fluids, but his innovation was original in engines. When I have encountered some of his other inventions (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#introduction) in my life, it has been a bittersweet experience, as they were all stolen from him, which is typical (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#steal).

They don’t give out Nobel prizes for technological advances, but yes, his engine would be big stuff, compared to what else is on the market today. Hybrid cars take advantage of using the car’s momentum to recharge in the batteries while braking, which is another feature (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#braking) of what Mr. Mentor’s engine did. If free energy makes it past humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1), Dennis, Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm), and Mr. Mentor will become historical figures.

In a world of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), beggars and thieves dominate, and it is the ideal environment for Godzilla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) to operate in. That is the main reason why Godzilla so avidly keeps the lid on free energy and related technologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal). He reacts to the idea of abundance like almost all people do (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#misinformation): with fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1). No need to be too hard on him, and I have some respect and even admiration for him, as he has attained mastery of his game (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love), even though it is a dark one. He has some dark and heavy karma, however, but so does the USA (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#fathers), as my Uncle Ed bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm) made clear, for those with eyes to see.

But with all the justified wonder at Mr. Mentor’s engine, Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new), and other suppressed technologies, the free energy issue is really about integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) and sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1), not technology. Technology is really only a small part of the puzzle, but in the free energy field’s state of arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested), it is dominated by inventors and scientists. Free energy efforts that focus on inventors and scientists are doomed. The efforts have to raise their games far higher than that, which is, of course, what my work is all about. Only a comprehensive approach has a prayer, IMO.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

9th November 2017, 14:54

Hi:

I am going to make a few posts on how I see the big picture. I have written plenty on the subject before, but there will be some new stuff in it. It won’t be THE Big Picture, but the one that I see, from my limited perspective as a mortal human.

I can’t overemphasize that anybody’s worldview should be based on experience as much as possible, and on theirs as much as possible. Learning “vicariously” through others can also be very useful (“There be dragons!”), but everybody that I know and know of with a radical perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm) got theirs primarily through their own experiences, which woke them up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309). Without that awakening through their experiences, they would still be in thrall to their conditioning. You can’t begin to see the big picture if you drag around that baggage (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant). The population management ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#obvious) are the most deadening to one’s awareness, but perhaps the most insidious is the religion of the industrial Epoch, which goes by materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle) and other terms.

Almost everybody that I respected in the free energy field had a mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#mystical), based on their experiences, always, and once you have that, you can no longer drink the Kool-Aid of materialism. That awakening has ruined many scientific careers, such as Brian’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#remote). Materialism is just one more false faith. That said, there is a great deal of “mystical” disinformation out there, vended by various parties for various reasons. Some is innocent, and some is less so. But one person’s disinformation is another person’s truth, and in realms that cannot be validated very easily by experiments, these can be highly contentious areas that I will tiptoe through.

I was trained to be a scientist (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#bookworm) since I was knee-high (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/70-Distinguishing-the-wheat-from-the-chaff-and-my-life-s-journey?p=102&viewfull=1#post102), but as I look back, my mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown) ruined me before my career could begin, and sent me on other paths (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice). After my mystical awakening, I became quite the student of spirituality, and the mystical section of my library is arguably the largest, at several bookcases and stacks of channeled magazines, going back to the 1980s.

I know people who have had NDEs (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#nde), and nobody who had ever had an NDE could be convinced that death is the end of existence. Lots of “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” and debunkers try to invalidate NDEs, but their efforts are pedestrian (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#blackmore) if not fraudulent (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=787774&viewfull=1#post787774). I never had an NDE or OOB, but I have as little doubt as there can be that death is not the end. I have had way too many paranormal experiences of my own (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#research), and do not fear my coming death, as I reach 60 years old next year. I have already outlived quite a few of my pals who were younger than me, and I look forward to seeing them again, as well as the older generations that have already passed on. I have been burying about one relative a year lately, as my parents’ generation dies off. My guess is that Mr. Professor (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey) is going to meet me when I pass, but maybe not just him. I have a very long list of people to catch up with when I pass over, to enjoy their presence again, to make amends when necessary, and the like. The other side is not a dull place to be, but I still have work to do while I am here, and I take it very seriously.

So, here comes that series of posts over the next week or so.

Best,

Wade

Foxie Loxie

9th November 2017, 18:33

Couldn't agree more, Wade, that our experiences are what move us toward our "awakening"! :highfive:

Dennis Leahy

9th November 2017, 19:38

...I printed off the 18 pages at this link and read them. I have trouble reading on the computer...

I am happy to find such a huge intellectual masterpiece with so much food for thought...

...Merry, ... Sorry that you cannot read online. My work was designed to be read that way. ...

Wade
Merry Mom, (You may already know this, but just in case) All the modern browsers have a "zoom" function. My eyesight (for me specifically, focus) has deteriorated drastically, and I have to increase the size of the font on virtually every web page I visit. In Firefox, the keyboard shortcut to zoom larger is holding down the "Ctrl" key and hitting the plus sign ("+") key. Each new page that I visit is followed by Ctrl + three times for me, then I decide if the page needs to be blown up even bigger. To read Avalon posts, I hit Ctrl ++++ (Hold down the Ctrl key and click the plus sign four times.) Your browser should then remember the level of zoom you used on every page you've visited, so when you shut down your browser and later come back to a page, the zoom will already be set the way you like it/need it.

The key reason to read Wade's material online (rather than to print and read) is that Wade peppers his online writing with text hyperlinks to other material on his website. He uses this format to provide the background context for his statements, to tell the big story with its interrelated stories. Those hyperlinked side trips to Wade's material are exponential to what Wade writes here and on his site, and, in my opinion, critical to understanding the big picture of what Wade is conveying. And, those side trips are informative. And mind blowing.

Sorry for the interruption - which I do not take lightly in Wade's thread - but when I saw "I am happy to find such a huge intellectual masterpiece", and noting that you are reading offline, I felt compelled to comment.

:focus:

Smell the Roses

9th November 2017, 20:26

Dennis, thank you so much! I actually did not know about the control plus shortcut, so I truly appreciate the tip. I did come up with a new way to read Wade's website, which is by finally using the Kindle I received for a gift and keeping it by my bedside with the website pulled up so I can read it at night. For me, I think it might be just a matter of developing new habits. I get so easily distracted online, whereas when reading a book or a printout, I isolate myself with just that thing and focus on it. Of course, with Wade's essay and the hyperlinks you mentioned, one will get pulled in different directions anyway. I find reading his essay a little bit at a time and then spending time digesting it does work well. I have accepted that I will not be finishing it anytime soon!

Wade Frazier

10th November 2017, 17:56

Hi Merry and Dennis:

Those were timely posts. Kindles and iPads are popular ways to digest my work. People such as Chris (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/95-Introducing-Chris-Gilbert) and Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1189459&viewfull=1#post1189459) have been reading my work since 2001, on and off. Reading some, digesting it, searching elsewhere, living, coming back, digesting more, etc. That is a very good way to approach my work. Developing a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) takes work and time. But, for the people I seek (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), nothing less is going to help with what I am doing. And the learning never ends. I’ll never get through my list to read, and that is OK. I am currently reading a book on the formation of civilization, which I will report on when I finish it. My Domestication Revolution chapter (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) I think is my big essay’s biggest, and covers a lot of territory, and the controversies on the agrarian epoch will not end soon. My work on those subjects is less about the answers than on the questions, how they are pursued, how the pieces of the puzzle seem to fit together, etc.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

11th November 2017, 15:47

Hi:

Back to the Big Picture stuff (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture). As I have written plenty, materialism is just another religion (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle), which you know when you have a mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=312&viewfull=1#post312). Until you have had one, you really can’t relate. It is like the difference between theory and knowledge. If I had not had my mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva), I doubt that I would have become a student of spirituality, as I was well on my way to becoming a scientist, and most scientists drink the materialistic Kool-Aid each day, although the greatest scientists usually had a worldview that verged on the mystical (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#wilber).

After his mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#remote), Brian was a big advocate of scientific testing of paranormal phenomena (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#frontiers), and I performed my own experiments (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#research) when I was young. While the experiments could be amazing, it was the spontaneous events that could really bowl you over. I don’t want to hear from that voice anymore (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey), but I know that it was real. I have people who want to “fix” me, but I am fine as I am, and am not interested in having any more life-risking adventures. That voice has a lot of explaining to do.

I became quite the student of NDEs (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#nde) over the years. Just this year, a close relative shared his OOB/NDE with me, which he rarely talks to anybody about. He is a very public figure, and I doubt that he wants that story circulating. Crazy world. Every year or so, I will read NDE accounts submitted to a site (https://iands.org/research/nde-research/nde-archives31/account-index.html) (and here (https://www.nderf.org/Experiences/NDERF_NDEs.html)). They are not even the famous ones, but just your normal everyday NDEs. :)

While nothing trumps experience, and reading first-person accounts is a treat (Testimony of Light (https://www.amazon.com/Testimony-Light-Extraordinary-Message-After/dp/1585427047/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507603108&sr=1-1&keywords=Testimony+of+Light) is one of the best, and Everyone’s Guide to the Hereafter (https://www.amazon.com/Everyones-Guide-Hereafter-Ken-Akehurst/dp/085435414X/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507603134&sr=1-3-fkmr0&keywords=everyman%27s+guide+to+the+hereafter) is one of a number like it, of what a “normal” afterlife is like), scientists have also dipped their noses into the subject. Next to my bed today is Handbook to the Afterlife (https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Afterlife-Pamela-Rae-Heath/dp/1556438699/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1507603068&sr=1-1&keywords=2.%09Handbook+of+the+Afterlife), which I have been reading often (and “rereading” is more proper, as I reread my favorite stuff all the time). Handbook to the Afterlife does not try to convince its readers of the reality of the afterlife experience, but just summarizes what has been reported from a wide array of sources, from NDE experiencers to channels to religious texts.

This past year has often seen Is There and Afterlife? (https://www.amazon.com/There-Afterlife-Comprehensive-Overview-2005-01-17/dp/B01FIWE5OG/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1507602962&sr=8-8&keywords=1.%09Is+There+an+Afterlife%3F) next to my bed, and it sits on my office’s floor today, in one of my stacks, which does assess the evidence for an afterlife. Handbook to the Afterlife and Is There an Afterlife were both written by scientists, and it shows. I have a lot of respect for taking a scientific approach (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#theories), but it could be rather amusing when reading of Klimo’s encounter with his deceased atheist father. Klimo’s parents did not want to hear about any of the afterlife “crap” that he studied as a scientist, but Klimo’s father came to him in a hyper-real state soon after he died, bewildered as to where he was, and he kept trying to get into bed with his atheist widow, who soon called her son, asking what to do about her ghost of a dead husband. Even while Klimo was staring at his deceased father, in a hyper-real state where he could see every pore on his body, Klimo did his best to keep up his scientific skepticism, questioning what he was seeing, as he was seeing it.

Jane Roberts always questioned just what Seth (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#seth) was, and I appreciate that kind of skepticism. Jane knew that something odd was happening, but she was never quick to slap a label on it. I have attended around a hundred channeled sessions, beginning with a Seth session (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#meetseth), have had many private readings, and the like. I have done my time, and there is certainly something genuine about those events. It was not just people making it up, and the most startling validations often came when I least expected them.

Watching an entity strip the rings from the channel’s fingers in about a second, as the rings bounced off the floor, they were so violently removed, while his hands never moved while his fingers were a blur, was a sight that I will take to my grave. That was not the channel doing that. Nobody would do that to their hands that way. For every session after that, the channel carefully removed his rings before the session began, so that if the other entity came through, he would not have to go through that again. In that instant of ring-stripping, the entity was sparing the channel’s fingers, as his light body was extremely intense on the channel, whose hands were in a death grip on each other while the session lasted. When the session was over, the channel would peel his hands from each other, obviously in pain. The other entities did not do that to him.

The theme of my many private sessions is that I have been around the block a few times (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading) as a soul, did my fair share of screwing up (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#atlantis) over my soul’s lifetimes, and am on special assignment, perhaps my final assignment in physical reality, to help humanity right the ship (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#summary4) before I leave the stewardship of Earth to the next generation.

My studies of the human afterlife (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#afterlife) yielded one insight above all: it all begins in the heart (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), and it would pay to keep our minds open when we pass over. Belief fanatics have the hardest time passing over, whether it is a fundamentalist Christian who is waiting to be handed that harp by Saint Peter, the materialist who fiercely believes that oblivion awaits, or the New Ager who has a highly specific expectation of just what will happen. A popular meme among New Age conspiracists these days is: “Run from the light!” We live in a highly limited reality, bounded by time and space, which are not restrictions on the Astral Plane, and nobody’s notions of what awaits in the afterlife is going to be completely accurate. It is just the nature of the issue, just like you cannot travel to a foreign culture and be completely prepared for what you will encounter. The learning comes from the doing.

What comes across very clearly in the wealth of after-death accounts that I have digested over the many years is that wherever you go, there you are. You don’t suddenly become somebody different when you pass over. Indeed, you become more yourself than ever when you pass over, as the layers of fear are shed, sometimes quickly, and sometimes very slowly. One concept that is relatively new to me, or at least in the way that I think about it, is that physical reality, for all of its rigors and trauma, is where my earthly personality was born. The soul kind of prepares the raw material for my existence, but the personality known as Wade truly did not exist until I was born into physical reality. I will exist forever, but I was truly born when I came to inhabit this body. There is something about physical reality that is essential to creating new leaves on the soul’s tree. Can there be a better way? I think that anybody who lives here must think that, with all of the immense cruelties of our reality, but somehow, this “school” is not only where our souls come to learn and grow, but our personalities (AKA “fragments” a la Michael (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#michael), and other terms) need physical reality, with physical bodies, to even exist. The process of becoming physical is a crucible of creation, and the soul’s tree would not have those leaves, or not in the way they exist, without physical reality to grow them.

A lot more is coming on these subjects.

Best,

Wade

Charles Harris

11th November 2017, 19:35

I would like to have your essay on my kindle paper white, can anyone help? Also Wade, is there some way I can donate to your site?

Wade Frazier

11th November 2017, 20:15

Hi Charles (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1190242&viewfull=1#post1190242):

Bless you for offering, but my work is given away for free. I don’t need any money to build the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). As far as getting my big essay on Kindle, others will have to answer that. This .pdf version (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity1.pdf) is the closest thing to reading it in book form. I would like to think that it should not be too hard to get on a Kindle. I know that pals have put it on iPads, too. I purposely have made my site pretty small, byte-wise (partly so that I don’t need money to make my work available ( :) )), and early on, I had pals put it on iPads, to see how it worked, and it worked fine, so I heard. My wife has an iPad, and maybe I’ll have to go to my site on it, and see how it works.

Happy reading,

Wade

Wade Frazier

12th November 2017, 01:53

For anybody who wants to donate to what I am doing, they can donate to Avalon. I have donated over $1,000 to them over the years. They deserve it.

Wade Frazier

12th November 2017, 16:06

Hi:

On that Big Picture (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1093&viewfull=1#post1093), what comes across very clearly in the many accounts that I have encountered is that while the “other side” is real, it also goes back to the idea of “Wherever you go, there you are,” in that people’s experience of the other side is highly dependent on them. While physical reality is very “objective,” and while that saying of “creating our reality” is true even here, it happens instantly on the other side, where there is no time, anyway, not like we have here.

If people expect Saint Peter to hand them a harp, he will. If people want to run away from the light, they can. There are still Romans hanging out in Elysium, and that harp-strumming “heaven” is still open for business.

All beings that leave physical reality are in charge of their realities in ways that are not evident in physical reality. The realities on the other side (monroe) are truly infinite. But, paradoxically, all of creation is one, which is the message of the Infinite Spirit (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#nature) when it manifests in physical reality. Seth (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#seth) said it as, “There is no separation of the self.” I remind myself of that when subjects of earthly personalities, souls, soul groups, mid-causal entities and the like are discussed. They are all aspects of the whole, and all of the slicing and dicing of the other side from here is, to a degree, unproductive activity and can serve to lead away from the truth instead of nearer to it. It pays to not get too focused on the other side, and not get too set on how it is. You will find out when you get there.

One phenomenon that deserves mention is that when people encounter mystical material, they often try to twist it to justify their behavior. I have seen people justify murder with even the most enlightening mystical material. People can use anything to justify anything, and they do. As Seth said, violence is never “justified.” All of those self-righteous justifications are not paths to love or enlightenment, although all roads eventually lead home. Ending up in the lower astral, or “hell (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#hell),” as it is commonly called, is just the result to how beings choose to live, and they rarely stay there for “long.” Most people end up in the mid-astral pretty quickly, or “Summerland” and other terms, while only those who expressed the highest love and enlightenment while here immediately go to the celestial realms of the upper astral.

Beyond the Astral Plane is the Causal Plane, and beyond that other planes of increasingly fine vibration, which eventually lead back to the source of Creation, called the Tao, Godhead, and other terms. Physical reality is the “basement,” but is also the foundation. Form begins here.

I have known some very accomplished psychonauts, who have made visits like Michael Roads has, visiting heavenly (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748) and hellish (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115) future Earths, and they sometimes brought back earth-shaking inventions. When Dannion Brinkley had his first NDE (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brinkley), he was shown a contraption that allowed people to easily contact the other side, and part of his mission was building it. The “Creative Moment (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#flash)” is when the big breakthroughs happen in science and technology.

In studying these subjects, the saying of being so heavenly bound to be no earthly good richly applies. We are here for a reason, and while denial of anything beyond physical reality is a choice, even if a delusional one, it is less painful in the end to simply acknowledge that there is far more to Creation than what meets our senses each day. Some talented psychics make livings contacting the other side for people who want to connect with departed loved ones. The predominant message is that the deceased are alive and well, in their new reality, look forward to when those still on Earth pass over and they can be reunited again, but they usually deflect too much inquiry into their Astral Plane lives, as they advise the earthly to maintain their focus on their lives.

What we do while we are here matters. Turning Earth into heaven or hell is our choice, and few know it better than activists like me, who have been on the “heaven on Earth” project for our entire lives, to only see the “hell on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc)” people running the show, as the masses shuffle along to the drumbeat. My recent bio draft of Uncle Ed’s life and work (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm) is highly appropriate for this subject matter. The USA is the greatest force of evil on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), while Americans pretend that we are humanity’s savior. Yesterday was Veteran’s Day, and the USA worships all aspects of its warfare activity. No American soldier has truly defended the USA since the War of 1812. All other American wars were about imperial expansion and maintaining it. The USA even started the War of 1812 with its land-grabbing ways (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#steal1). A huge, delusionary engine labors mightily to turn darkness into light, to get people to worship violence, and nearly everybody plays along.

As Seth said (http://ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#idealist), the means become the ends, which was one of the stars that I steered by from the very beginning of my adventures.

I will now leave aside the other side, and focus on the Big Picture on Earth, while drawing in otherworldly perspectives when it seems warranted.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

13th November 2017, 16:08

Hi:

Well, I lied a little. One more post or so on the other side, before I get into this side of the veil. When I saw that entity rip the rings off of the channel’s fingers (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1094&viewfull=1#post1094), it was Hermes ripping them off of Tom Massari’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Material#Other_authorship_claims) fingers. Tom was a Seth channel, and I don’t know if he is still at it or not. I was at the sessions when Hermes began coming through, before Tom learned to remove his rings (about five of them, as I recall, as Tom was a musician, with that artistic affectation), before channeling. I attended at least 50, and maybe more like 60-70, of Tom’s sessions before moving away to Ohio (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=734&viewfull=1#post734). Other than the session when I met Seth (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#meetseth), in November 1986, as I chased Dennis out to Boston (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=611&viewfull=1#post611), the sessions were all held in Tom’s home, between LA and Ventura. There were usually about 20-30 of us who attended, jamming his living room. His wife was the social glue of the events. We generally left Tom alone, as he prepared for the sessions. Hollywood types often attended, such as Elizabeth Perkins (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Perkins), whom I sat near but did not even recognize, as Tom/Seth/Hermes/Abrum comprised the main event. My future wife had to tell me later that Perkins was there, with an actress pal who was a regular who acted in soap operas but never got her big break, I believe. Seth flirted with that aspiring actress in the sessions, and it was delightful to see. None of the entities had personalities remotely like Tom’s.

Going to Tom’s channelings every two weeks for more than two years was quite an experience. I have all of the sessions on tape, and plan to digitize them one day. Tom once told me that he once got a message on his answering machine from Jane Roberts, who threatened him with legal action if he did not stop channeling Seth. Tom said that Jane was a pretty negative person, and that Tom did not even know who Seth was for a long time after he began channeling him. Channeling in our world of scarcity and fear can be quite a scene. J.Z. Knight attacked the first woman who became a “full body” channel like her when she channeled Ramtha. The original Michael (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#michael) channels looked askance at others who channeled the Michael entity, as they considered their version to be the only genuine or “best” one. I was close pals with another public channel, who gave me private sessions, and I became quite the channeling student over about a 30-year period. The channels themselves could act scandalously, even when the material was excellent.

I have seen “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” use that channel discord and different flavors of the messages to dismiss all channeling as some kind of scam or delusion. That is what “skeptics” do, as they defend their faith. They attack anything that challenges materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle), or even the scientific establishment. I attended about a hundred channeled sessions over the years, and have had dozens of readings, both by channels and psychics. It has been many years since I have had a reading or attended a channeling, and I don’t plan to again. I rarely read channeled material anymore. I did my time, got my value, and moved on.

The teachings are not all identical (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#teachings), which is another arrow in the quiver of the “skeptics,” but, to me, all that it means is that creation is a big and diverse place, that there are many ways to look at it, and that they all have their validity. It pays to never get too stuck on any one of them. But people often become fanatics of one particular teaching (and New Age groupies abound), and you can see how organized religions work when you see that. Some channelings are better than others, and some channels are fraudulent, or are “channeling” their subconscious or not very enlightened entities from the other side, and channeling “distortion” is always a risk and part of the phenomenon. But that is a small proportion of the channels out there, IMO. As with everything, it pays to be discerning. I have noticed a New Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage)/conspiracist bent to channelings in recent years, and I don’t want much to do with it. It is not like channels don’t acknowledge Godzilla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) and friends, because they often do. In my private sessions, I have even been advised on how to deal with them, such as from Zoosh (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/126695.Zoosh), who said that naming names is where I could get into trouble (I already knew that :) ), and one channel did not understand how high the interest in us went (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make). Like I stated, you have to be discerning, and I take no channeling as gospel, and the best channels say to never do that in the first place.

However, with all of the diversity in channeled teachings, there were some constants that could be seen, and I’ll list some here:

I never saw a modern channel deny that reincarnation was a fact;
We are all in physical reality for a reason, and each reason is unique;
Oblivion awaits nobody;
We are all ultimately one, and we are all equal in the Creator’s eyes;
It is all about love (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love), which is the energy of creation (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest).

To me, that is the gist of the channeling phenomenon and what I took from it. If I had not already been mystically awakened (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown), I doubt that I would have gone down the channeling path at all, or it would not have meant much to me.

Mystical students can also see controversies play out on the nature of physical reality, from positions that it is all a big accident that the Creator never intended to it is a halfway house for “fallen” souls to regain their divine awareness (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#tale), or that it is specially created as Creation’s basement, where form is born, and without it, Creation would be a missing something important. I am somewhat sympathetic to all of those views, but I just keep marching on the path put in front of me, and that can sort itself out later. I am surely in no position to adjudicate the truth of that controversy. Maybe I will be let in on the joke after my earthly life has ended. :)

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

14th November 2017, 19:13

Hi:

I found out in the past hour that Uncle Ed has died. I literally got home from an all-nighter at the office to get this news. I am grief-stricken at the moment. As I am sure many of my readers suspected, my next step, after publishing a draft of his bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm), was to do battle at Wikipedia. Ed’s Wikipedia bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Herman) is truly execrable today, and this project came about when I remarked in my birthday greeting to Ed how terrible his Wikipedia bio was, and he asked me to rewrite it. Being Ed, he was emphatic that I was under no obligation to, even though that Wikipedia bio was sickening to him. But writing his bio was truly a labor of love. I told Ed that I would get something good at Wikipedia this year, and that is still my plan.

As with Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm), I would gladly do battle with the “editors” at Wikipedia on Ed’s behalf, and I can easily live with Brian’s Wikipedia bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_O%27Leary) as it stands today. I hope that I will be able to put up something as lasting at Wikipedia for Ed, but I will always have the originals on my site, where Wikipedia’s “editors” can’t get at it. :)

Best,

Wade

Foxie Loxie

14th November 2017, 20:28

So sorry to hear of your loss! Good to know how you honor these heroes! :flower:

Wade Frazier

15th November 2017, 12:20

Hi:

I will be getting over Ed’s death for a while. Ed had a good run, living to be 92. If I have remotely as productive a writing life, it will have been an insanely good run. Ed has been my role model on that score. Ed and I only corresponded. I had an idea that I might visit him after I finished my bio project on him, but that day will never come. The bio project will include improving some Wikipedia articles related to Ed, and I will write an essay like I did about Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm). But I obviously did not know Ed as well. That said, we had a wonderful writing relationship over about twenty years, and we corresponded every year, sometimes multiple times.

I literally addressed him as “Uncle Ed” fairly often, and he even signed off an email or two as Uncle Ed. He was delightful like that. Ed was funny, which was part of my attraction to his work, but the quality of his work brought me to him. What a giant. In the past few years, I remarked on the huge shoes that he, Noam (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky) and Howard (http://ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm) would leave to fill, and he replied, “They aren’t empty yet!”

As with Brian, when Ed asked me to do his Wikipedia bio, I think that he knew that the end was coming, even though he stressed in recent years that he was in relatively good health. Ed brought me into his circle, I heard from some of them yesterday, and the theme was about what a wonderful man he was.

I published that biography draft (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm) one week before he passed, and after fixing a couple of typos, I am going to preserve that draft on my site. My final bio will be beefed up a little, and maybe with some help from Ed’s pals.

I always thought that Ed was a better writer than Noam, but that is like comparing the virtues of Buddha and Jesus. Ed had an article in Z Magazine literally every month until his 90s, so I read Ed’s work every month. It was always the first thing that I read in each issue. While Noam is one of history’s most prolific writers, as well as humanity’s most towering intellectual today, I read Ed’s work more often, partly because of Z Magazine. Even though I have read Ed’s work since 1990, when I subscribed to Lies of our Times (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#loot), the process of writing that bio draft was somewhat mind-boggling. Last spring, when I began the project, I did not have his early Vietnam writings (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#early), so I immediately bought them and studied them, and then worked my way through his oeuvre. I had already read most of it, but rereading older works and then studying his newer works over the past several months was an unforgettable experience.

Even though Ed said that his health was good, as I worked on his bio, I wondered if he would live to see it finished. His public writing dropped off in his last months, and I heard from him only once since he asked me to do his bio. I wondered if his health had slipped, and now I know.

When Ed passed, the angels were lined up ten deep, with trumpets. I’ll meet him in the “flesh” on the other side (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1094&viewfull=1#post1094), one day, after my earthly work is finished, and I hope that I have 30 more good years ahead of me. Ed was crazily prolific, clear into his 90s, and is my inspiration.

There is a lot more to write about Ed, and I will in the coming weeks and months.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

15th November 2017, 14:36

Hi:

Boy, have I been hearing from some heavy hitters about Ed since yesterday, and with offers to help on my bio project. It brings tears to my eyes. A giant has left us.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

16th November 2017, 12:04

Hi:

The eulogies are coming in for Ed (1 (https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/15/thank-you-ed-herman/), 2 (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/matt-taibbi-on-the-death-of-edward-herman-w511766), 3 (http://fair.org/home/edward-s-herman-master-of-dissent-1925-2017/)). I am also hearing from some of his closest colleagues, and so far, nothing but praise for my bio draft (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm) and offers to help tackle Ed’s Wikipedia bio, as we will likely be fighting the hacks. I have had my work at Wikipedia summarily erased by the “editors” before (http://ahealedplanet.net/wikimass.htm), several times, and had battles over Brian’s bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_O%27Leary) before it ended up in pretty good shape that I can live with. This figures to be a bigger battle, but for Ed’s memory, it will be worth it. I hope to have a Wikipedia bio up by year-end.

Here is an interview with Ed (https://isreview.org/issues/41/herman.shtml) that I gleaned off of the Internet. Here are some videos (1 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC_4OUK74iY), 2 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAbQP4ryZEI), 3 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raqOLvjz-E8), 4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFZKJOXtHkg)).

Best,

Wade

Billy

16th November 2017, 13:00

My condolences for losing a friend and a hero Wade.
After listening to Ed Herman on one of the videos you linked above. He had such great insight, I think he deserves his own in loving memory thread.
QC_4OUK74iY

Wade Frazier

16th November 2017, 13:18

Thanks Billy. Do you want to start one?

Wade Frazier

17th November 2017, 15:19

Hi:

I have put up my final “pre-death” bio draft on Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm), and will now begin work on my final big bio for him, and then it will be off to the Wikipedia version, then doing battle with the “editors (http://ahealedplanet.net/wikimass.htm).” We will see if I can get it all done this year. I have been in contact with a bunch of Ed’s pals, and our interactions are bringing up memories of Ed. Here are a couple. These will also make it into an essay that I will write about Ed, kind of like I did for Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm).

I can’t overemphasize the scholarly learning experience that I got at the knees of Noam, Howard, and Ed. While Noam (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky) and Howard (http://ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm) were among my most gracious correspondents ever, Ed was the only one of that trio that I kept in contact with. Interacting with Ed could be very educational, and one anecdote came to mind yesterday. If you look at the list of Ed’s books (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#publications), it is obvious how collaborative he was, and several of the people that I heard from since Ed’s death were his collaborators, and they all remarked on what a wonderful collaborator and man Ed was.

One collaborator was Christopher Black (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Black), and they wrote an article together (https://christopher-black.com/an-unindicted-war-criminal-louise-arbour-and-the-international-crimes-tribunal/) on Louise Arbour, which made the compelling case that she was really a war criminal, not somebody who should be a prosecutor in war crimes tribunals (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#hrw). I’ll use that article in Ed’s bio, and while rereading that article yesterday (I read all of Ed’s Z Magazine articles for 25 years, and they were the first thing that I read in each issue for as long as I can remember), it took me back to the 1990s, when Ed was helping to educate me, and not just with his prodigious published output. I began the full-time work that led to my 2002 site in 1997, and sometimes wrote letters to the editor, such as this one (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#sunny) that predicted something like 9/11.

I donated to Amnesty International in those days, and I began getting pleas from them to ask the authorities to deliver Milosevic (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#milosevic) to The Hague. The Hague’s war crimes tribunal was obviously a kangaroo court from the outset, and I still had a bit of naïveté to shed. I was shocked when I got those pleas from Amnesty International, and I asked Ed about it. He agreed that it was scandalous, and wrote that he only donated to local human rights groups anymore, and he mentioned one in the Balkans, if I recall correctly. I never donated to Amnesty International again (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#amnesty). In 2002, Ed wrote a couple of articles in Z that exposed Human Rights Watch as an imperial tool (here is a later article (https://www.globalresearch.ca/yugoslavia-human-rights-watch-in-service-to-the-war-party/5021)). I asked him if he was going to follow it with one on Amnesty International, and he said that he was not planning to, as Amnesty was not as bad as Human Rights Watch. I was tickled when I read Ed and David give it to Amnesty in Enduring Lies (p. 67) more than a decade later, and he wrote an article (https://dissidentvoice.org/2016/01/western-aggression-the-highest-form-of-terrorism/) in Z little more than a year later that repeated it.

The next anecdote is kind of funny. People have been attacking or promoting my work for more than 20 years (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page9?p=805&viewfull=1#post805), and back around 2001, a woman began promoting my work. She was one of those New Agey Beverly Hills housewives, and our relationship did not last that long, maybe a year or two, but as the drums began beating for the Iraq invasion, which I wrote plenty about, desperately (and that letter (http://www.serendipity.li/wot/wade_iraq.htm) was written exactly 15 years before Ed died, as I just realized), I got that woman in contact with Ed.

I can’t overemphasize what a wonderful correspondent Ed was. He was so friendly, honest, and insightful that almost anybody who interacted with him wanted more (until they got one of their oxen gored, which has been the case with me (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/45-Chapter-28-What-Has-Not-Worked-So-Far-and-What-Might/page3?p=1059&viewfull=1#post1059), too, over the years), and so it went with that woman activist. Actually, it got “worse”: she got the hots for him! :) It was kind of embarrassing, not only because Ed was a devoted husband (https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/15/thank-you-ed-herman/) and about 75 years old at the time. I was not trying to play matchmaker, but it is easy to see how a woman like that could fall for Ed, even just through correspondence. I never heard how that “romance” ended, but I am sure that Ed was able to end it amicably. Oh, the hazards of being Ed! :)

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

18th November 2017, 16:41

Hi:

Ed’s pals helped get a decent obituary (https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/edward-s-herman-media-critic-who-co-wrote-manufacturing-consent-dies-at-92/2017/11/16/7cab93ca-cade-11e7-aa96-54417592cf72_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.0638a6159f14) in Washington Post, which Ed’s last article (https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/) lambasted. That obituary was far better than the black eulogies that the mainstream published when Howard Zinn died (http://ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm). I traded email with Ed when Howard died, and Ed called Howard an “awfully good man.” The New York Times, which Ed spent much of his media analysis career studying (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#loot), had a perfunctory obit (https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/11/15/arts/ap-us-obit-edward-s-herman.html) that made the rounds in the mainstream. All in all, not bad. Here is another eulogy (http://stephenlendman.org/2017/11/remembering-edward-herman/) from one of Ed’s pals.

I have a lot more to write on Ed. The subject of structural analysis versus conspiracy theories (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism) is near and dear to my heart, and is a highly controversial issue amongst the Left. As Uncle Mike stated (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#parenti), many in the Left have a “conspiracy-phobia,” but Ed was not one of them. In his Doublespeak Dictionary (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#doublespeak), Ed defined a Magic Bullet as:

“One that wends its way through several bodies, smashing bones on the way, but ends up in pristine condition, conveniently located for police attribution to the gun of choice.”

In his Doublespeak Dictionary, Ed defined a Conspiracy Theory as:

“A critique or explanation that I find offensive.”

Ed’s deep structural analysis was invaluable, which informed his advice on reforming the media. He cautioned media activists from thinking that a few clever laws were going to do the trick, not with the deep structural constraints on the media (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#manufacturing) that he and Noam examined.

Ed read my account of Gary’s conversation with John Tower (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower) three weeks after the JFK hit and was intrigued, and even leaving that conversation aside, which I consider incontrovertible fact, the Magic Bullet (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=761&viewfull=1#post761) is indeed arguably the key piece of evidence that shows what a sham the Warren Commission was. Ed and Noam did not always sing the same song, such as Noam’s Rethinking Camelot, which challenged the idea that the CIA had any motivation to kill JFK (it certainly did (http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/20494-bill-decker-and-john-tower/?do=findComment&comment=321167), IMO). Ed mixed it up with the “Left” often, such as his fisticuffs with the “Cruise Missile Left (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#loot),” which was behavior that Noam would not engage in, as it tended to “divide the Left,” which Noam thinks that “conspiracy theories” also do. That is a big subject that I won’t get into today, but I wanted to show that Ed was not a typical leftist.

Ed reviewed my site (http://ahealedplanet.net/home.htm) long ago and said that I did it how he wanted to do it, organizationally, to put his work all under one roof. Ed’s work is scattered far and wide, and his output dwarfed mine. He would have needed a full-time assistant to put all of his work under one roof. Ed was a man of his generation, and writing books and articles for publication in print was his style, and that was fine. The stacks of his books next to my desk right now comprise a gold mine of insightful analysis, but Ed also took advantage of the Internet, and many of his later works were primarily or exclusively available online. It is beyond my means to do it, but a very worthy project would be to put all of his work online on one site. But it would be a monstrous task. I may host some of his work on my site as it disappears off of the Internet, as a book on Srebrenica already has from its original site, but has been preserved here (http://resistir.info/livros/srebrenica_massacre_rev_3.pdf) for now.

For my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm), I have been hosting documents that have disappeared from the Internet, which I used in my essay. Even though it was once erased by one of Wikipedia’s “editors,” who I believe was somebody’s employee while defacing Brian’s Wikipedia bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_O%27Leary), Brian’s doctoral thesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianthesis.pdf) exists only on my site today, after NASA removed it from theirs, soon after I published Brian’s Wikipedia bio. Coincidence? I have experienced many such “coincidences” during my publishing career on the Internet. I don’t lose any sleep over it, but I doubt that they were all “coincidental,” and I may host some of Ed’s work on my site one day, as it slowly disappears from the Internet. So, I can see the virtue of books these days, although I have yet to locate Ed’s The Great Society Dictionary, which was a precursor to his Doublespeak Dictionary.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

19th November 2017, 15:51

Hi:

Ed and I surprisingly had professional overlaps, too, and they were not insignificant. I did not realize the extent of them until I worked on his bio. Ed taught economics at Wharton (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#career) (and was very good at it, as one of his pupils once told me), and I went to business school. Ed taught at one of the top institutions on Earth, and I was a record-setting business school student, and I was led to business school (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice) in my first instance of otherworldly guidance (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3). When I began my auditing career (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#believing), I worked on banks, some of the largest on Earth. My idealism tried to make sense of my business school training in the real world. It was not easy to see, and led to a funny event (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#idealist).

I saw the Savings and Loan Scandal (http://ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#doomed) from the inside, before it became a scandal. I was assigned to a very high exposure audit of one of the world’s largest savings and loans banks as it was going under, in what became one of the most famous and earliest events of the Savings and Loan Scandal. I was still trying to figure out my profession, and what the partner who ran the job told me (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#independence), a month into that engagement, helped me figure it out years later. There was a fatal conflict of interest at the core of my profession: we were providing financial regulation, but the targets of our regulation paid our salaries. It was like hiring the cops that “policed” you. That practice turned public watchdogs into corporate lapdogs, and rendered my profession essentially worthless. We only kept honest companies honest, and that conflict of interest exists today. I am the only accountant that I know of who has ever publicly pointed it out.

Many years ago, I read Ed mention the conflict of interest in the auditing profession, and it was the only time that I ever saw it mentioned in any media, even though Ed worked on the fringes. Ed and I never discussed it, but it was one of the many Twilight Zone moments of my journey when I began doing Ed’s bio, and learned that his early claim to fame was pointing out conflicts of interest at savings and loans (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#career)!

Ed and I were professional comrades-in-arms, pointing out how the emperor was stark naked, but that was not part of our relationship, strangely. However, it did lead me to trying to wake Ed up to a bigger picture in economics, but Ed never went there. I can sort through my emails with Ed and find when it was, but I think that it was about 15 years ago when I tried to get Ed to think about economics in energy terms. Ed admitted that he probably should undertake that task, but he never did. Ed often pointed out the Chicago School’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chicagoschool) bogus economic framework. Very early on, as I tried to make sense of the world, economic theory bothered me. I got plenty of it in school, but it seemed obsessed with prices and money. I intuitively knew that it was missing important aspects of economic reality. It did not seem to deal with the real world very well, especially after my first wild stint with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting). There were no such things as free markets. They were as mythical as unicorns, but economists and the media treated them as if they were real. Economic theory was bedtime stories for adults.

But it was not until I studied for my big essay that I was able to articulate what the problems of economic theory were. Neoclassical economics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#neoclassical), which is what economics of both the right and left are based on, is an invalid ideological framework that ignores the real world in favor of social theories of market equilibrium. When I completed the 2002 version of my site, one of Bucky Fuller’s pupils called me a “comprehensivist,” and I did not know what he meant. He had me read some of Bucky’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller), the lightbulb went on for me, and my work has been consciously comprehensive ever since. I was a seat-of-the-britches comprehensivist but did not know it, and seeing Bucky present a comprehensivist perspective was the final step in crystallizing the paradigm that I had been groping toward for 20 years. I long ago saw how greed and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fear) were cornerstones of economic and capitalistic theory, and I knew that there was something wrong with that, but it still took many years for me to describe just what the problem was.

Right after reading Bucky’s work, I was introduced to the Peak Oilers. I saw the disdain that scientists had for economists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil1), but I had yet to more fully understand the problems with economic theory, although I was getting there. I began to see how economic theory was founded on an assumption of scarcity. After interacting with the leading Peak Oil spokesman (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#introduction), who feigned interest in free energy technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#heinberg), I was able to finally express what I had been seeing for many years: people were addicted to scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#misinformation). Another way of saying it was that people have made many adaptations to scarcity, and their adaptations are how they eat and survive. Free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal) and what comes with it will put an end to scarcity and usher in a super-epoch of abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate). Nearly everybody reacts to the idea of free energy and abundance with denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1) and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level5), which could take many guises. What all of those reactions of denial and fear had in common was the understanding that free energy would end the world as they knew it, and they had dug out their niche of hell and were not about to budge. Even if free energy could turn Earth into something resembling heaven, all that they could see was their niche disappearing.

When I finally read a book on energy and economics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#neoclassical1), as I was writing my big essay, the last pieces finally fell into place for me, and I clearly saw the big picture of how off-base modern economic theory was. But I had already been writing for years that all dominant ideologies on Earth are founded on the scarcity assumption (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant), and how all will become obsolete in the super-epoch of abundance. I gradually realized how we were swimming upstream against all dominant ideologies on Earth. As I elucidated the Epochal framework (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable) of my big essay, which was years in the making, I gradually understood that nobody in world history saw the next Epoch before it happened. They could not even imagine it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine). Then it became very clear to me why people reacted to the idea of free energy and abundance like they did. They will only begin to understand when they can experience it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink), not before. It took a 40-year journey for me to come to that understanding, and I was not there yet when I tried to introduce Ed to Brian, back around the time of our NEM days (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem).

I tried it more than once with Ed, but he never took me up on it. With Ed, you would get a polite silence. I never even tried to tell Ed about my bizarre journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601). But Brian was an ex-astronaut (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nasa), fellow Ivy League professor (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#after), advisor to presidential candidates (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#udall), and explorer of the fringes (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#frontiers). Brian had some credentials. But I was never able to interest Ed in interacting with Brian, to my lasting sadness. That was a delicate area for me. On one hand, he was Uncle Ed to me, and I had been learning at his scholarly knee for more than a decade. On the other, free energy and abundance blows all of today’s economic theory out of the water. Ed was a scientist of a scholar, and one of his hobbies was astronomy, and Brian was an astronomer to boot. How could Ed pass this up? Well, he surely had his hands very full with the work he was doing, and probably considered this free energy stuff to just be a distraction from his important work, and I could not blame him for seeing it that way. However, the public arrival of free energy will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far. Nothing else comes remotely close, as humanity will form a Type 1 civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev).

So, after those attempts to interest Ed in energy and economics, and free energy and abundance, I stopped, and never brought it up again for the remaining 13 years of our relationship. Ed was far from alone, however, and the last thing that I would ever do would be to get on Ed’s case. I greatly respected what he had committed his life to, and worked with him inside of that framework. It turned out that I never interested anybody in the so-called radical left in free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm). Their ideology got in the way, as it does for nearly everybody, which is one more reason why I know that I seek needles in haystacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). The rad left is hacking at branches, IMO, just like all of the other activists on Earth. Rad lefties can have sophisticated reasons for denying free energy’s possibility and desirability, and I have called such deniers Level 3s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3). In ways, they are the most frustrating level to deal with, with their “laws of physics” and “conspiracy theory” objections. I long ago learned to relinquish judgment of the situation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) and just accept it. If I could not get Ed interested, what chance did I have with any other lefties? Progressives could be particularly obtuse on the subject (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#awaken). Reshuffling the deck of scarcity, playing the exchange game (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange), is not going to solve humanity’s problems, as we have our toes over the edge of the abyss (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). As Uncle Bucky said, there are no political solutions (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#politics) to this problem. Retail politics are meaningless, and sitting American presidents are puppets (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#presidents) and know it. JFK was the last president who thought that he could make a dent, and he was rudely disabused of that notion (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=761&viewfull=1#post761).

But for what Ed had focused his efforts on, media analysis (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#ethics), he was best that I had seen or heard of. So, I stayed within Ed’s framework in our relationship, and here I am, carrying his spears, even after he is gone. I carried Mr. Mentor’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) spears for many years, then Dennis’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=761&viewfull=1), then Brian’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#intro), and now Ed’s. I also helped carry Ralph McGehee’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#statement) and even Gary’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#wean). Carrying their spears was among my life’s greatest honors and pleasures, but there is nobody left in my life to carry spears for, other than my wife and cats. :) Carrying spears is in my blood, but I think that carrying Ed’s is going to be the last time that I do it for anybody. It is time to get my task done, and I have devoted the rest of my life’s “spare” time to its pursuit (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir).

With this post, I am going to stop reminiscing about Ed and get on with the task of writing my final bio for him, making the Wikipedia version, publishing it, and doing battle with Wikipedia’s “editors.” Part of me is not looking forward to it (http://ahealedplanet.net/wikimass.htm), but as with Brian, I am happy to do it for those giants among men. I have also had offers of help from Ed’s pals, so this might go easier. We’ll see how it goes.

Best,

Wade

Krishna

20th November 2017, 09:44

Progressives could be particularly obtuse on the subject. Reshuffling the deck of scarcity..., is not going to solve humanity’s problems,

Reshuffling the deck of scarcity is what we have done as hunter gatherers, enforcing egalitarian norms on the small band. Progressives I feel embody that evolutionary past, looking beyond scarcity when it is the most important force shaping us is very hard.

I had to overcome my ride-a-bike thinking, free/open source software movement helped me a lot as did your essay and Amartya Sen. The left has been of no help in this matter, they have been more proponents of sharing what we have.

Wade Frazier

20th November 2017, 13:34

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1191846&viewfull=1#post1191846):

Yes, we have always been reshuffling the deck of scarcity. The human journey has seen brief golden ages of relative abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages), until the energy ran out. You are right, that scarcity is insidious, and once people accept it like the air they breathe, then they can’t even see how they constantly bend under its force, like constantly leaning into the wind. People don’t even realize that they do it. Part of what I am doing is pointing out that issue. Only if people become aware that they are doing it can they dare to imagine something else (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), which is part of the point behind my choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) idea. It is part of being sentient (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1).

However, I don’t expect to find many people willing and able to do that (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), but I don’t need that many of them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers), not relative to the more than seven billion people that we share the planet with. The so-called “left” is more “advanced” then the “right,” as far as their souls’ development (mature souls (http://ahealedplanet.net/opinions.htm#left) versus baby and young souls (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age)) and personal integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) goes, but yes, like everybody else (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), they can’t see past their Epoch, stuck in scarcity, unwilling and unable to see past it to abundance. This is part of the conundrum (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#summary).

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

20th November 2017, 15:29

Hi:

It is time to report on a book that I recently read, on the rise of civilization, titled Against the Grain (https://www.amazon.com/Against-Grain-History-Earliest-States/dp/0300182910/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1511185807&sr=8-1&keywords=Against+the+Grain). I bought another of that author’s books, and will digest it, too. Not that I agree with his entire hypothesis, but his book was a good source of information, and part of it will make it into my big essay update. In a way, the book was a history of the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3), although the author likely did not see it that way. He focused on the rise of civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer), but because the author, James Scott (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_C._Scott), is a political science professor, his orientation is social organization, so his work was all about the state versus the “barbarians” who lived outside of states. IMO, that orientation stunted his perspective, but there was also good stuff in the book and, as usual, for works like his, I’ll plunder his footnotes.

Scott’s work mostly focused in the rise and fall of Sumer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer), but also took in the other pristine civilizations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1), and he noted that they were all based on grain. Grain had the virtue of ripening at the same time and being easily taxable. There has been debate for millennia on the rise of civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#theories), and the two positions are that the people joined civilization for the benefits it conferred, and that civilization was a way that elites could exploit the energy surpluses created by the masses. Scott made the second argument and went even further: civilization was a creation of elites, as they were nothing more than criminals who enslaved the masses to build civilization. Scott argued that there was no agricultural surplus until incipient elites created peasants and slaves to produce it. Otherwise, the “surplus” was spent by people in leisure. Nobody tried to save grain for a rainy day. I doubt that it worked quite like that.

Also, Scott also bought the “there was no collapse” thesis promoted by some sloppy scientist/scholars (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#diamond1). He also tried to universalize the process, but the New World’s dynamic of civilization was dramatically different from the Old World’s, partly because the New World’s “barbarians” did not have domestic animals of significance.

Part of his work I agree with, in that the intensively farmed fields became the “grain core” that formed the basis of civilization, with its energy surplus (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#discretionary), and controlling that surplus was what civilization rode atop. If the grain core failed, so did civilization. But Scott was quite speculative on the ends of early civilizations, primarily attributing it to epidemic disease. But if a civilization was built around an energy engine, and there were not many places on Earth conducive to building the first ones, and the agrarian mode of production only worked in a few places early on, why would it be abandoned forever, as the ruins of many ancient civilizations attest? Wouldn’t it get used again, when the epidemic passed? And since the grain core had the densest populations, when they were abandoned, where did the population go? Into the waiting arms of the barbarians?

Humans have been intensely territorial since the late Second Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#violence2), and those migrations from collapsed grain cores can’t have been peaceful, and I doubt that a large fraction of the civilized peoples survived the collapse. Scott argued that the collapse was often just an elite political collapse, while the peasants did fine. Again, I have my doubts. It may have happened in some instances, but far from all.

That said, his book gave plenty of food for thought. I may have to add another “golden age (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages)” to my narrative: the golden age of the barbarian. Scott showed how the “barbarians” of Eurasia, primarily mounted on horseback, also exploited the grain core with attacks, which in the “best” situations evolved into a protection racket (or they conquered and set themselves up as the new elite), similar to the games that urban elites played, so the barbarians also enjoyed the benefit of the grain core’s energy surplus. That dynamic did not play out in the New World, without horses, draft animals, and milk (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#milk1), so Scott’s hypothesis is far less than universal.

But Scott ended his book with a lament, that the two primary civilization-related activities of barbarians dug their own graves: selling their neighbors into slavery in the grain cores, and becoming military protectors of the grain cores from other civilizations and other barbarians. That “golden age” was not too golden.

What Scott got right, however, was describing the environments that were conducive to building civilizations, and focusing on Sumer, the first civilization, was appropriate, and Eridu, the first city, farmed, fished, herded, and even did some gathering, and only later was the “grain core” developed.

Scott is of an anarchist bent, and it pays to keep that in mind when reading his work. That he embraced the sloppy work in Questioning Collapse says a lot about him as a scholar (he praised Yoffee, but Yoffee helped edit the book, which arguably libeled Jared Diamond (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#diamond1)). That said, it pays to read “heretical” works, as there can often be something to them.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

21st November 2017, 14:41

Hi:

More on the big picture (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1093&viewfull=1#post1093). I regard the other side as very real (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1095&viewfull=1#post1095), just as everybody who had an NDE (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#nde) does, had OOBs, etc. That said, we are here for a reason, and for all of the undeniable cruelty of this dimension, this is an important place where consciousness comes to evolve, in Creation’s basement. Love is the energy of Creation (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest), and we have come to find and express it in Creation’s densest, cruelest dimension. We are either Creation’s idiots or its bravest denizens, or both. :) Manifesting love and sentience in this dimension is no easy trick, and those mired in fear here have my sympathy.

The orthodox scientific position is that the physical universe came into being in an instant called the Big Bang (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beginning). However, there are increasing challenges, even from within the mainstream, that the universe had a more “quantum” beginning, as it slowly flashed into existence. Flashed into existence from what? Are time and space truly infinite, with no beginnings or endings? Seth (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#seth) has said as much, but you will also see a spectrum of mystical opinion. On the other side, time and space eventually lose their meaning, even what we call form, as beings evolve on their way back to the godhead. But while we are here, they define our existence and are important. Einstein said as a half-joke that according to his general theory of relativity, if you removed all matter and energy from this universe, time and space would go with them. The quantum paradox (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann) shows that our scientific theories have a long way to go, and what my friend was shown (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) blows today’s mainstream physics out of the water.

I can’t claim that my mystical orientation brought me to my strategy, but when I stood back and looked at it, of amassing enough integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) and sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1) to form the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), that might be able to make a dent, with its harmonic and practical effects, I realized that it was in alignment with the mystical principles that I was taught. Seth’s statements on practical idealism (http://ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#idealist) stuck with me and helped comprise the stars that I steered by during my days with Dennis. If we had failed the integrity tests, we would not have gotten very far at all. If I think about it, I suppose that my mystical training did have something to do with developing my strategy, as my mystical radar would have gone off if I had strayed very far (I have lived far from the saintly life). But when I think about it more, my theme of integrity and sentience merely reflects what I learned during my journey, of what worked and what didn’t. It was kind of like I learned the truth of those mystical ideas as I went out and tried to make a dent. It was a most secular education, however, and often it was only later that the mystical significance came clear, even when crazily mystical events (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3) propelled me on my journey. That voice in my head only made suggestions the first two times that I heard from it. It was up to me to live it. That seems to be how it works here. The most enlightened channelings are only pep talks. They can’t do much of anything for us other than lend some perspective. We are the ones living here, not them.

As I think about my Epochal perspective of the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable), of each Epoch riding on the energy surplus of each mode of production, how much of that came from my mystical background? In ways, it does not seem that way at all, and in others, I can see the connection. I’ll say this: when that voice spoke to me the first time, I literally had no idea what I was getting into. The idea that I had been set on the pursuit of the biggest event in the human journey only began coming clear to me in the past decade, when I began studying for what became my big essay. Do I thank that voice, or curse it? :) My life was wrecked more than once because of my journey, but I can’t regret it, even though my life has been filled with cruelty, often directed at me. It seems to have come with the territory. Dennis had it infinitely worse (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=576&viewfull=1#post576). Mr. Professor had a ruined and prematurely ended life (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey), thanks to meeting me. Brian’s life was shortened (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack) due to his adventures on the fringes. I had it relatively easy, I am the last man standing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures) in my circle, and I carry on partly for them.

Even when I was 16, with my first energy dreams (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse), I knew that energy was a big deal, but I had no idea how big. Only two things undeniably exist in our universe: energy and consciousness (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energy1). As I studied the journey of life on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#midpoint), those also became the evident themes, as life continually found new ways to harness, preserve, and use energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyevents), and humanity took the game to levels never seen before (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable), with our “intelligence” and tool-making abilities. We are at the brink of becoming a truly sentient species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive), or we are going to leave Earth to the cockroaches and bacteria (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth), and with each passing year, the muddle-through middle-ground options continue to shrink. And almost nobody knows or cares, as they egocentrically pursue their lives of quiet desperation, with their existence defined by scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming). In ways, the lessons of my journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm) were a booby prize, and in others, they showed me what would not work (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) for manifesting a world of abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance), love, and sentience. Even if all of that mystical stuff was just wishful thinking, I would not change my approach.

Coming posts will get more into the details of the big picture that I see, and the learning never ends.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

22nd November 2017, 14:33

Hi:

Well, I’m not quite done with Ed yet. The New York Times (NYT) had an obituary (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/obituaries/edward-herman-dead-critic-of-us-media-and-foreign-policy.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region®ion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0) that was its second on Ed. The NYT’s first (https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2017/11/15/arts/ap-us-obit-edward-s-herman.html) was perfunctory. As the NYT was Ed’s favorite target (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#loot), it could have been far more scathing.

I think that Ed would have liked the NYT’s obit, as it illustrated his work quite well. One part read:

“One case study, for example, asked why a single Polish priest murdered by the Communists was more newsworthy than another cleric killed by a Washington-sponsored Latin American dictator.”

Actually, it was why the Polish priest’s death was more than 100 times as newsworthy (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#worthy). That obit deftly underplayed the magnitude.

The next part of it stated:

“Manufacturing Consent was severely criticized as having soft-pedaled evidence of genocide in Cambodia, Rwanda and, during the Bosnia war, Srebrenica.”

That is actually wrong. The conflicts in Rwanda and Bosnia had not yet happened when Manufacturing Consent was published in 1988. In the second edition of Manufacturing Consent, published in 2002, only Serbia/Kosovo is mentioned (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#humanitarian1) in Yugoslavia, and only in comparing the disparity of how the media described the events as “genocide.” Bosnia and Srebrenica were never mentioned in any edition of Manufacturing Consent, and neither was Rwanda. Ed wrote about the events in Bosnia at length later (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#srebrenica), and again in the context of the media’s treatment of the events. Ed was a media critic above all else.

The next section of Ed’s NYT obituary is very misleading, too:

“Dr. Herman and Professor Chomsky argued that in assessing the killings they were seeking an accurate count rather than relying on unreliable reports by survivors. In the civil wars in Rwanda and Bosnia, they said, the victors had exaggerated the toll to justify their rise to power and their pro-Western policies.”

“In the case of Cambodia, they said, the toll had been overstated by enemies of the brutal Khmer Rouge Communist regime, which, the authors wrote, had “dealt with fundamental problems rooted in the feudal past and exacerbated by the imperial system.”

“Among their critics was Professor Gitlin, who wrote in an email, “It’s crucial to their Manichaean view of the world that the suffering of the Cambodians is less important than their need to pin the damage done to Cambodia in the 1970s primarily on the American bombing that preceded the rise of the Khmer Rouge to power — bombing that was indeed heinous, ruinous, and did contribute to the rise of the Khmer Rouge, but that was only the prologue to the horrendous crimes that followed at the hands of the Khmer Rouge.”

Gitlin’s email treads very closely to the “genocide denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#denial)” charges that have always been falsely attributed to Ed and Noam. The entire point of Ed’s and Noam’s writings on Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia was how the American media treated those events, not the objective truth about any of them (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#refraction). Those were all nefarious genocides (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#bloodbaths) in Ed and Noam’s framework. Ed would have pointed out that their work on Cambodia was explicitly about the American media’s treatment of it, particularly in contrast to the slaughters in Indonesia and East Timor (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#cambodia1), which were constructive and benign bloodbaths/genocides, which the American media either cheered or was silent on. Regarding Rwanda (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#rwanda), Ed wrote extensively about how the media had literally turned reality upside down. Ed wrote for many years about the situation in Yugoslavia (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#yugoslavia) and how the media misrepresented the situation there.

So, Ed would have likely congratulated NYT on performing its propaganda function by almost completely missing the point of his work. Ed’s work was focused on the media, and the NYT in particular. Any cursory reading of Ed’s and Noam’s work shows what it was about, but the NYT turned it on its head, as usual. The NYT’s obituary was a fitting tribute to Ed, proving his point.

That said, I saw black eulogies when Howard Zinn died (http://ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm), and it was nice seeing Jeff Cohen get the last word. The obituary could have been worse.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

23rd November 2017, 15:20

Hi:

Cosmology is far from settled. In the past year, universal effects predicted by the models of cosmic inflation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology)) have not been found, bringing up the question of whether inflation really happened. The Big Bang is far from a universally accepted event. My thinking is that when the ETs finally come into the open (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2), we can ask them what they think. That said, it seems very likely that elements heavier than hydrogen were made in star cores, as the pressure of gravity fused nuclei. I consider it very likely that Earth is part of a star system that formed several billion years ago from the detritus of a formerly exploded star. Star systems form from what are called accretion disks, as gravity draws together the detritus in the galactic vicinity and fusion begins again. White (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_dwarf) and brown (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_dwarf) dwarfs may outnumber the other stars in our galaxy. Today, cosmologists hypothesize the existence of dark matter and dark energy, which supposedly makes up most of our physical universe, but they have not been observed. The foundations of cosmology are anything but firm, and the principles underlying the technologies that my pal was shown (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) will mean a wholesale revision of physics, and the religion of our Epoch, materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle), will also go into the dustbin of human ideologies when the Fifth Epoch arrives (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5).

So, there are great limitations in today’s scientific practice (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#irrelevant), particularly where Godzilla’s realm (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) is concerned. Just like there is no free press (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big), a true democracy, or a free market, there is no purely pursued science today. That said, some areas are less restricted than others, and I have yet to hear of a fossil dig that has been classified. Scientists can study geology, cosmology, paleontology, and even anthropology relatively free from interference from the global rackets (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#rappoport). So, the story of the journey of life on Earth that I tell in my big essay I believe is relatively “pure,” and all hypotheses and theories are subject to challenge, always, as new evidence come to light, as investigative tools improve and scientists find ingenious ways to use them. In many fields, big questions are still there, begging to be addressed.

That said, in coming posts is the big picture that I see today. For me, what is more important than the “right” answer on any of these issues is understanding how the questions are raised, how they are pursued, what the evidence is, how it is interpreted, and the like. Trying to imagine a star forming, how plants and animals first colonized land, how dinosaurs and early humans lived, is kind of what it is all about, for the best scientists.

It is the process of science that is important, not any extraordinary finding of the day, which may go into the dustbin tomorrow. The ideal of science is reproducible evidence. For instance, what I and my fellow travelers learned is easily reproducible; just go bring disruptive energy technology to market (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run) or demonstrate a working free energy prototype (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demonstrate). People will then begin to learn how our world really works, if they survive the experience. :)

I will focus on my home planet and the solar system it resides in for the following narrative. A lot of it will be in my upcoming update of my big essay.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

24th November 2017, 15:52

Hi:

Over the years, I have seen the advances in mass spectrometer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spectrometers) data and how it has been used. The technology keeps improving, and the results are being used on an ever-wider array of problems. Most people are probably used to hearing about the results of dating, using radioactive decay. But that is only one aspect of it. Mass spectrometer data is also used for stable isotopes, and that data can be more fascinating. Life preferentially uses lighter isotopes, and water, for instance, has its lighter molecules liberated easier from water surfaces by sunlight, and can also be used to help reconstruct ocean temperatures. Those differences can be detected by today’s mass spectrometers, even when the sample is too small to see with the naked eye. It has been used to tell when the ancestors of whales (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#whale1) began their migrations into the sea, as freshwater and marine isotopes leave their mark on the teeth of such animals.

When meteorites and Moon rocks were subjected to testing, they conformed to the prominent hypotheses of how the solar system and Moon formed (they are the oldest rocks yet discovered), and fringe “exploded planet” hypotheses (if we can even call them that – they were more like legends) became even less tenable.

Those kinds of tests led to certain hypotheses prevailing over others, but I have seen people completely discard all spectrometer testing as unreliable. Of course, they don’t provide much evidence to support their position, and even when they do, they have very weak arguments for why spectrometer data is unreliable.

Similarly, I have seen even scientists challenge and discard global warming evidence. Most such scientists sold their souls to the hydrocarbon lobby (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463) long ago, but I have seen other scientists make obviously invalid and extremely weak arguments to dismiss the data. One dismissal I have seen is to challenge the data on increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=462&viewfull=1#post462). The challenges have been based on saying that the data is collected too close to cities and volcanoes (such as Mauna Loa), when such challenges don’t survive minimal inspection. Those challenges are of the hand-waving and straw-grasping variety.

When I have relied on spectrometer and related data, I have been dismissed as “Mr. Orthodox,” but the dismissers could never tell me why my reliance was misplaced. When I revisited Velikovsky’s hypotheses (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#velikovsky) after many years of studying scientific findings, practically none of it held up to even cursory scrutiny.

Navigating that morass of hypothesis, theory, and evidence takes time and sharp tools of discernment, but developing a big picture perspective requires nothing less. How I developed my big picture perspective is important. This series of posts will be more about what that picture is, but will return to the evidence periodically.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

25th November 2017, 15:45

Hi:

Every aspect of the history of Earth and life on Earth has controversy. Some areas are more controversial than others. There is a general consensus that Earth is about 4.5-4.6 (http://ahealedplanet.net/timeline.htm) billion years old. After it formed, it was battered by asteroids and planetoids, in what is called the Late Heavy Bombardment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment), but even that is challenged (http://aasnova.org/2017/02/14/dont-blame-asteroids-for-the-late-heavy-bombardment/). Today, scientists think that life on Earth may have appeared more than four billion years ago (bya) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_known_life_forms), and that major impacts happened all the way up to two bya (http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-earth-063016-020131). So, early life on Earth may have lived with huge impacts for two billion years. Those are all relatively recent ideas.

In the past couple of years, I have seen prominent scientists make the case that life began in oceanic hydrothermal vents, freshwater ponds, and came from Mars, where life in the solar system may have started. Those controversies won’t end anytime soon. But, what is important, IMO, is to understand the evidence and arguments.

The so-called Hadean Eon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadean) was a time of fire and chaos on Earth, but once it ended about four bya, Earth seems to have quickly become the water planet that it is today. The next eon lasted for about 1.5 billion years, and is called the Archaean (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archean). Most of the iron ore that humanity has mined came from banded iron formations (BIF (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bif)), which are up to 3.7 billion years old (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banded_iron_formation). BIFs only form in the presence of oxygen, so, oxygenic photosynthesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oxygenic) may be that old. So, the most important metal of the Industrial Revolution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coke) was originally refined by the earliest life. The remains of later life (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coal1) provided the energy to further refine it. The remains of other life (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#anoxicoil) comprise the most important fuel of the Industrial Revolution. Industrial humanity is one big detritivore (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detritivore), devouring the handiwork and remains of ancient life.

That early photosynthetic life not only made the iron deposits that humanity plunders, but it also saved Earth’s ocean from being blasted into space, like what happened to Mars’s ocean. Venus lost all of its water, too (as did Mercury and our Moon). Earth got oxygenated by oxygenic photosynthesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oxygenation), which also formed the ozone layer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ozone), so life saved life, and made land-lubbing life, like us, possible. Humanity is riding a wave of life, even as it destroys life at a prodigious rate (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth).

Evolution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#darwin) happened from the beginning, and it happened one atom at a time, one molecule at a time. More than three bya, the parent of all life on Earth today lived (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#luca), which had DNA (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dna3), enzymes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enzyme), membranes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#membrane), and all life on Earth uses ATP (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#atp) as its fuel. The reproduction trick (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#aspects) had to be learned from the very beginning. Respiration (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#respiration) and photosynthesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#photosynthesis1) are the essential energy behaviors of life. Once Earth became oxygenated, life learned to respire with oxygen (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#aerobic), which gets more bang for the buck than any other kind of respiration.

At least once, and maybe only once (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mitochondria), an Archaean bacterium (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#treeoflife) either ate or was invaded by a “modern” bacterium, and it was perhaps before Earth was oxygenated, as hydrogen may have been the energy-transfer element that they had in common. Complex cells were then born. That happened around two bya. It took almost another billion years before those complex cells ganged together to form multicellular lifeforms, and plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chloroplast) appear to have preceded animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#animals). Predation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#predation1) and grazing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#grazing) happened early on, as life learned to eat each other.

There is great controversy today on just when Earth’s ocean was oxygenated (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#canfield2), and it may have come in phases, with the instance that led to animals happening a little less than 600 million years ago (mya), at the tail-end of a tumultuous period of global ice ages (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#challenges), punctuated by warming phases. Those gyrations may have provided the impetus for the appearance of animals. The first large animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ediacaran) hardly looked like animals at all. After tens of millions of years of evolution, those early animals were swept away (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ediacaran2) in the first of many mass extinctions of large life (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctions). Those extinction events usually had profound impacts on Earth’s ecosystems, as previously marginal life came to dominate in the aftermath of the mass extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctioncauses1), and entire ecosystems could be dramatically altered. The mass extinctions had numerous causes, but in the end, they were likely cascading energy failures (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cascade), as multi-tiered ecosystems collapsed when one or more of the links were removed. From the rubble of a mass extinction came the seeds of the next period of complex life. The most important period of animal life was the Cambrian Explosion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ecosystem), when all of today’s phyla of note were born (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#organs). There has been very little biological innovation since then (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#foundation), at the fundamental level.

For us animals, the varieties of complex life which have graced Earth for the past half billion years have been the most fascinating, and I’ll sketch that journey in coming posts.

Best,

Wade

Krishna

26th November 2017, 00:37

I always assumed that the effects of colonization were the same and that newly independent countries in the 1940's were roughly at the same level. It turns out not to be the case.
At independence Sri Lanka had a literacy rate of 57.8% (http://www.dailymirror.lk/article/Literacy-and-Sri-Lanka-136319.html) , India 12.2% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy_in_India#The_British_period), Taiwan enrollment rate of 71.3% in 1943 (https://web.archive.org/web/20070317044611/http://www.gio.gov.tw/taiwan-website/5-gp/history/tw07.html) literacy rates of around 50% is a good approximation, Korea had enrollment rate 49% in 1945 (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/30/Public_regular_school_enrollment_rate.svg) literacy rate of 22%.

The effect of literacy can be seen in lower child mortality rates, lower fertility rates and other human development indicators.

I wonder what led to the literacy rates at independence? Korea, Taiwan is a result of Japan's colonization.
Why do India and Sri Lanka have such different literacy rates despite both being under British rule. (Bangladesh, Pakistan also had low literacy rates in 1950).
So why was Sri Lanka an exception to the British Norm?
and Why was Japan an exception to the norm that colonizers don't educate the local population?

Wade Frazier

26th November 2017, 01:36

Hi Krishna:

Great questions! I don’t know all of the answers, but as I peruse that dubious source of information, Wikipedia ( :) ), it was as I thought about Japan and Taiwan, in that Japan intended Taiwan to be its “showcase (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_under_Japanese_rule)” colony. As with the USA in East Asia, those who played ball got development (South Korea, for instance), while those who didn’t (Vietnam, for instance), suffered (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#early). Imperial treatment is never uniform.

For Sri Lanka, it looks like British attempts to staff Ceylon’s civil service resulted in a new educated class (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lanka#British_rule). That is just skimming the surface, but what I will say about Taiwan and Sri Lanka (and South Korea) was that both were sideshows to the main imperial task, and on the fringes is where these kinds of imperial crumbs might be had.

If you do something like study the Holocaust (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#toward), which I don’t recommend unless you want to be driven to drink, or even the varied fates of the Indian nations (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#english) in what became the USA, you can see how some groups fared better than others. It was usually a combination of factors, such as where in the trajectory of events the encounter happened, what each side had going for them, outside influences, etc.

If you come on a good account of those disparate imperial outcomes, I’ll be here.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

26th November 2017, 16:03

Hi:

The Cambrian Explosion saw the development of organs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#size3) such as kidneys, livers, eyes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vision), gills, and brains. The Cambrian Period was the Golden Age of Arthropods, as they dominated the period, and my beloved trilobites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#trilobite1) were at their peak influence. The Cambrian was punctuated with mass extinctions (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#shellyextinction), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dresbachian)), and ended (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#endcambrian) with what might have been a big one. Since life had yet to colonize land to any significant degree, the early mass extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctions) were all accompanied by, and probably caused by, anoxia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#anoxic), which means that oxygen levels crashed. Global oxygen levels were likely below today’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#GEOCARBSULF), maybe significantly below, and anoxic events plagued the oceans for hundreds of millions of years. Those anoxic events are where the oil that we burn today came from (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oilformation).

Carbon dioxide levels were probably many times higher than today’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#GEOCARBSULF). The reason for that is volcanism, which is what adds carbon dioxide to Earth’s carbon cycle (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=462&viewfull=1#post462). Volcanism is driven by the radioactive decay of the primordial elements that formed Earth, and as the decay continues, the heat generated has declined, and scientists estimate that in a billion years or so, the radioactivity will decline to the point where plate tectonics will stop, which will sound the death knell for life on Earth, and Earth will be on its way to looking like Mars, as its oceans will eventually be blasted into space by a growing Sun, which will eventually envelop Earth. Carbon starvation may be what kills off life on Earth, if the loss of water doesn’t do it first. During the age of mammals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mammals), some plants developed a new method of photosynthesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#c4), to cope with our declining carbon dioxide levels, but in the early days of complex life, the oceans were warm and carbon dioxide was abundant, although plants did not yet exist to take advantage of it.

There is great debate today on the role of oxygen in evolution and ecosystem development. Peter Ward (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nautiloids) has been a prominent oxygen promoter, but many scientists have taken him on, as is normal in science. But oxygen and carbon dioxide are the two key gases for life on Earth. Nitrogen is, too, but it is less than 1% of a human body, while oxygen and carbon comprise more than a third (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#table1), and hydrogen is almost all of the rest, as it is part of water.

When the Cambrian Period was over, the next period saw great diversification of ecosystems (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ordovician), mollusks came to dominate (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#giant1), and some got pretty big. Vertebrates first appeared in the Cambrian, but their day in the sun had yet to come.

After a hundred million years of fast evolution in warm seas, the first ice age of the eon of complex life caused the first big mass extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ordovicianextinction), which wiped out about 85% of all species. Since complex life had yet to colonize land, this extinction was the only one of the Big Five that was exclusively an oceanic event. All of the Big Five are controversial today, as far as what caused them. The first fossil evidence of plants migrating to land (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#landplants) happened before that first big extinction, and after that big extinction began the migrations that led to us. Reef ecosystems greatly expanded as plants began migrating to land, followed by animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#silurianreefs), and arthropods first, just like they dominated the first oceanic ecosystem.

The Devonian Period was the Cambrian Explosion for plants, as most features of plants today were developed in the Devonian, as vascular systems, leaves, roots, and seeds developed then. The first forests appeared in the Devonian. It would be more than 200 million years before the next big evolutionary event in plants, when flowering plants evolved (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#flowers), which was a symbiosis with animals and the greatest partnership in the history of complex life.

During the Devonian, long after plants and arthropods migrated, along came fish out of the water. But just as fish began their migrations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tetrapods), those first forests took so much carbon dioxide out of the air that Earth cooled once again, and the greatest ice age of the eon of complex life (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#karoo2) began. The Devonian ended with a series of extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#devonianextinction) that is the second of the Big Five. There is great controversy today on the fish migration to land. Peter Ward performed work that suggested that low oxygen was responsible for “Romer’s Gap,” (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#romer1) but recent work that is closing Romer’s Gap (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romer%27s_gap), led by Jennifer Clack (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Clack), challenges the idea. The first amphibians (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#amphibian) appeared during the Devonian Extinction events, and after the Devonian Extinction they eventually came to dominate, and vertebrates dominated land, just as they achieved dominance in the oceans in the Devonian (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonyfish). The first land plants reproduced by spores, but they need wet environments to do that. The evolution of seed plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#seed1) allowed plants to colonize dryer locations on land. Similarly, amphibians had to lay their eggs in water. The evolution of amniotes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#reptile) allowed vertebrates to live outside of the swamps in dryer lands.

That ice age put an end to the global rainforests (ice ages are far dryer than warm periods, as less water evaporates from the oceans), so seed plants and amniotes came to dominate land. Oxygen levels skyrocketed far past today’s levels, as the forests blanketed the land and sequestered carbon dioxide. Most of today’s coal deposits (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coal1) were formed before the rainforest collapse.

During that high oxygen period, gigantic arthropods (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dragonfly), amphibians, and fish lived, including the largest freshwater fish ever (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#millipede). It was a good time to be a shark (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sharks).

Although 95% or so of species extinctions don’t happen during mass extinction events (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctioncauses1), but during the intervening years, mass extinctions have the distinction of radically shaking up ecosystems, and what came to dominate after the mass extinctions were usually marginal species before the extinction, and the entire ecosystem could appear radically different from how it did before the mass extinction.

The Devonian Extinction spelled the end of armored fish and sea scorpions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hangenberg), which were the largest arthropods ever (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurypterid). Oceanic lobe-finned fish (our ancestors) were also thought to have been driven to extinction in the Cretaceous Extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction), before the amazing discovery of the coelacanth in the 1930s, but humans are putting them at the brink of extinction (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coelacanth#Conservation) today.

After the collapse of the Carboniferous rainforest, reptiles rose to dominance on land, and the ancestors of mammals were originally the dominant reptiles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#synapsid). The Permian Period saw the collapse of those high oxygen levels, and the formation of a supercontinent (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pangaeaforms), Pangaea, is generally thought to have been the trigger for the biggest extinction event in the eon of complex life (so far (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth1)! :) ), called the Permian Extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction), and like the Devonian extinctions, the Permian Extinction was only the last in a series of extinction events (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#olsonsextinction) that punctuated a 20 million year period.

The greatest reefs in Earth’s history (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#devonianreefs) existed in the Devonian, and after 100 million years, they began to recover (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianreefs), to only be wiped out again in the Permian Extinction. The Permian Extinction wiped out more than 90% of Earth’s species, and like the other Big Five events, there is great controversy today on just what caused it. The Permian Extinction was so great that it ended an era, as the Paleozoic Era ended and the Mesozoic Era began, which lasted nearly 200 million years, which was also a time of a hot Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianwarming), thanks to volcanism, which was related to supercontinent dynamics. The ancestors of mammals lost their dominance, to be displaced by archosaurs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lystrosaurus1), and the mammal line largely hid in their burrows (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mammalsappear1) for the next 160 million years.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

27th November 2017, 14:52

Hi:

There may be no more battle-tested idea in science than Darwin’s idea of descent with modification. No organism just magically appeared, but had an ancestry rooted in other organisms. However, in English-speaking countries, studying mass extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctions) was a taboo for more than a century, because Darwin’s uniformitarian ideas became a dogma (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lyell). Western science has been making up for lost time since the 1980s, and all mass extinctions are studied today, and some heavily. Even the end-Cretaceous Extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction) is still controversial.

In the end, mass extinctions are ecosystem collapses, and one compelling hypothesis is that they are energy failures (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cascade), for one reason or another, and the multi-tiered energy systems that power ecosystems are disrupted, leading to the collapse. This is also the most prominent dynamic proposed for why civilizations collapse (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#tainter). Degenerative disease seems to have a similar dynamic (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#anthro).

A set of hypotheses that keeps rearing its head is the periodicity of mass extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#periodicity). Scientists keep proposing a bolide event cause, and a recent hypothesis is that dark matter is the agent of periodic mass extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog?p=320&viewfull=1#post320). Another is that the 30 million years or so between many mass extinctions are because it takes that long for multi-tiered ecosystems to become unstable and vulnerable to collapse. These controversies will not end anytime soon.

But what scientists agree on is that ecosystems take very different directions after mass extinctions. The change in organisms in each geological period since the Cambrian (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#geologictime1) is what made the lines of demarcation in the first place. Each period had markedly different assemblages of fossils. In general, life has become more energy efficient and resilient over this eon, which are concepts that can be in opposition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#resilience). The quest for efficiency can lead to a lack of resilience. We can see that in financial terms, as heavily leveraged companies can be very “efficient” in generating profits, but they also lose their resilience and collapse in financial storms, as we most recently saw in 2007-2009 (http://ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#subprime). The global financial system is being propped up by endless money printing (http://ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#everything), and the next collapse will dwarf the previous ones.

In the wake of the greatest mass extinction of complex life ever (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction), a kind of reptilian sheep (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lystrosaurus2) dominated the landmasses as no animal did before or since, but that was the last gasp of the line that mammals arose from for the next 180 million years, as a previously marginal line of reptiles rose to dominance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lystrosaurus1), and they dominated until 66 million years ago, when the biggest bolide event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction) in the eon of complex life happened. The reign of archosaurs then ended, and the age of mammals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mammals) began.

One idea is that mass extinctions halted encephalization more than once. Being brainier can be a big advantage. Predators often outsmart their prey. Some dinosaurs were pretty encephalized (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#encephalization), some had hands, and if not for that Cretaceous-ending bolide event, there might be space-faring dinosaurs today instead of humans. Many bird behaviors were dinosaur behaviors, and dozens of dinosaur species were known to have feathers. Mammals were small, rat-like burrowers for nearly the entire reign of dinosaurs, with the largest mammal about raccoon-sized (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mammalsdevelop). But their small size is partly why they survived the calamity when dinosaurs didn’t. Being marginal has its advantages.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

28th November 2017, 15:17

Hi:

Nobody can call me a materialist (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1093&viewfull=1#post1093), and here is a good place to reiterate a longtime theme of mine. The greatest scientists often had a worldview that verged on the mystical (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#mystical). The best of them say what science has to say about the physical universe is about what happens and they quest for why, and that science cannot answer the question of any intent behind the universe. The same goes for the journey of life on Earth. The story that today’s science tells is one of history and process, not intent (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mystical2). But far too many scientists have tried turning science into a quasi-religion, and that is as bogus as what organized religions do. Some scientists have spoken out against it (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page5?p=569&viewfull=1#post569), but far too few. Today’s science is not equipped to address those issues, and the greatest scientists knew it well (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#schroedinger).

There is a battle these days between materialists and religious fanatics. In one corner are “intelligent design” advocates and Bible bangers, and in the other are materialists and “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends).” It is a battle of fundamentalists that I became weary of when I was a teenager. When I wrote my big essay, I mentioned the Flat Earth society (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#flatearth), to show how people can cling to beliefs that are obviously false. All societies have had beliefs that are obviously false (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#false). If some thought that my mentioning the Flat Earth Society was perhaps going too far to make my point, 2017 has been the year of resurgence in Flat Earth thinking, incredibly (1 (http://www.denverpost.com/2017/07/07/colorado-earth-flat-gravity-hoax/), 2 (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/neil-degrasse-tyson-flat-earth-pop-stars-flawed_us_58faa373e4b06b9cb91719ad), 3 (http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/20/yet-more-celebrities-have-admitted-that-they-believe-the-earth-is-actually-flat-6520782/), 4 (https://www.livescience.com/24310-flat-earth-belief.html)). People can believe anything, and can justify anything. Those kinds of activities make it easy to wonder if humanity is really a sentient species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1), or if we are, just what sentience means (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#ed).

An assumption often found in mainstream science is that evolution is purposeless and even random. Other scientists have challenged that idea (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/18-Chapter-11-Complex-Life-Colonizes-Land?p=1084&viewfull=1#post1084), and the ideas of Lamarck are finding new relevance in these days of epigenetics. While I know (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown) that the materialistic models of consciousness are invalid, the story that my big essay tells is also one of process and history, not of intent. Each of us has our own intent, and whatever creator may exist has yet to let me in on the joke of why physical reality exists, although I have my educated guesses.

So, archosaurs rose to prominence (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lystrosaurus1) after the Permian Extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction), and the mammal line of reptiles became marginal nocturnal burrowers for the next 180 million years. Why one line of life became dominant and the other relegated to the margins is a primary study of scientists, and their innumerable hypothesis are almost always couched in energy terms, in one way or another; sometimes subtly, and sometimes explicitly. The reasons that scientists discuss for why archosaurs rose to prominence and the mammal line (therapsids) did not generally revolve around how fast archosaurs grew, how fast they could move (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#carrier1), how they breathed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#airsac), how fast they reproduced, how they regulated their body temperature (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#thermoregulation), what and how they ate, and similar energy ideas. Maybe archosaurs thrived better in the greenhouse Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianwarming) of the Triassic, while the icehouse Earth of the Permian led to synapsid dominance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#synapsid). Those are all, in one way or another, energy ideas.

Dinosaurs were easily the largest land animals ever, and scientists are still not sure why. Dinosaurs are called “charismatic” animals, meaning that they capture the human imagination. I played with my toy dinosaurs as a child, and had toy mammoths and other “charismatic” figures, such as Dimetrodon (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#synapsid), in my collection. Sauropods (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sauropods) had brains the size of walnuts, while other dinosaurs were quite encephalized (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dinosaurbrains). Dinosaurs enjoyed a 135 million year Golden Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jurassic), and while some scientists today suggest that mammals would have eventually displaced dinosaurs on their own, I don’t see it. Without that bolide event and its aftermath (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction), which may have been a gigantic volcanic event triggered by the bolide (likely an asteroid), I strongly doubt that mammals would have ever risen to dominance, icehouse Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse) or not. The Cretaceous Extinction cleared the way for those marginal mammals to rise to dominance, and they did not waste time (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cenozoic).

About ten million years after the Cretaceous Extinction, a Golden Age of life on Earth began, maybe even its most golden, and that time is called the Eocene (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eocene). Alligators lived near the poles, reefs abounded, and it was a ten million year period of earthly life at its most verdant. But all good things come to an end, and the early Eocene was kind of a freak occurrence, ten million years of warmth that came during a gradual cooling over about 100 million years, as the volcanism that produced the carbon dioxide that made the Mesozoic so warm steadily declined.

From about 50 mya to 38 mya, Earth gradually cooled (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse) from the 200 million year hothouse Earth to the icehouse Earth that we live in today. That cooling caused the greatest extinction so far (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mideocene) in the Age of Mammals, and has been called Paradise Lost. When that cooling period was over, the remaining life was adapted to an icehouse Earth, and there were no more major extinctions, until the one that humans have started (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth1).

Best,

Wade

Krishna

29th November 2017, 08:08

Have been reading World illiteracy at mid-century: a statistical study; Monographs on fundamental education; Vol.:11; 1957 (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000029/002930eo.pdf) it is fascinating reading. There were wide variations across the world in terms of literacy in 1950, ordering countries by literacy rates then, gives us relatively same order for human development indicators today, and also relatively same order for economic development today, although the variations are for higher for economic growth.

Wade Frazier

29th November 2017, 15:35

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1193544&viewfull=1#post1193544):

That UNESCO document is exactly the kind of document that the USA stopped funding (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO#US_withdrawals) back in the 1980s. I devote a section of Ed’s bio draft (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#unesco) to his analysis of the media treatment of the USA’s withdrawal from UNESCO.

Yes, back to those imperial anomalies that you pointed out (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1192962&viewfull=1#post1192962), illiteracy is relatively cheap to remedy, so you can have very poor nations with high literacy rates, and as the West has outsourced things such as programming and call centers, poor nations with high literacy rates are where they can end up. As you know, India has been one of those places. In my lifetime, India went from more than 80% illiterate to nearly 80% literate, and the most literate state in India is one of the poorest, Kerala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model), which Western progressives have long cited as a model of what even poor humans are capable of. As long as people are not living under imperial oppression, improving human welfare is very feasible “on the cheap.” The capitalists don’t like it, obviously.

As I begin work on Ed’s bio, I have found myself reading Uncle Noam’s work (on Ed’s and his propaganda model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#manufacturing), which I will write more about in Ed’s big bio), and a work (https://www.amazon.com/Chomsky-Language-Politics-James-McGilvray/dp/074561888X/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1511969110&sr=1-6) that attempts to make a connection between Noam’s linguistics and political work.

On a related note, The New York Times corrected the blatant “error (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1107&viewfull=1#post1107)” in Ed’s obituary a couple of days ago. That obit, even with that “correction,” is largely a smear on Ed, so I am likely going to refer to it when I write Ed’s big bio in the coming weeks.

Best,

Wade

Invictos

30th November 2017, 00:09

Hi Wade:

Your work is one of the best in the "free energy" question, but can it be considered totally "comprehensivist" in the extraterrestrial scope?

Your work involves and understands many subjects and concepts, such as extraterrestrials, conspiracies, religions, politics, economics, ideologies, secrets, events of the past, present and future, among many others; but are these subjects and arguments based on reality, facts or based on theories, convictions, and expectations, or are they a junction of the two?
For example, you recognize that the free software movement is very naive, although there is an altruistic ideal in the middle, such as sharing knowledge among people, but that same ingenuity and childishness is discarded when it comes to visitors.

In the exo-political ambit, the desire for wealth and power is universal, and where there is wealth and trade, there is competition. Such a society would not be dominated by war and military forces, but by persuasion, coercion, and deception. The true power in the universe is in the mental environment.

Even with free and abundant energy, many Fifth Epoch events may not happen, that is because you disregard the extraterrestrial factor. However, clean and abundant energy and self-sufficient resources solve almost all the problems of humanity. This includes a solution to economic exploitation, a balance between ambitions and a desire for achievement, preservation of individual freedom, economic independence from economic collectives, an end to environmental degradation, an end to the scarcity of basic resources, and so on.

Basically, all ideologies, science, politics, religion, economics consider that we are alone in the universe. That is, they are partial studies of reality and facts.

However, for those who regard extraterrestrial as real, the problem is in the expectations and beliefs of such beings, for such convictions are unrealistic, and this includes their work on free energy.

Even if you make progress in your work, such success would fall before extraterrestrial races.

Some consider that to preserve individual freedom it is necessary to maintain private property. However, they do not take natural resources into consideration. To destroy the natural resources of a world is to destroy individual liberty, equality, or any other type of ethical ideology. So you cannot blame an economic system because of greed, power, competition and environmental degradation, but people. A true economic system is people-based, not numbers, laws, and codes.Ideally, people should develop their own basic resources, participating in associations without relying on state and institutions.For an economy to be based on abundance, it can not rely on external supplies.

The ideal and the human expectation is that the extraterrestrials have managed to solve the problems of lack of resources, competition, conflict, profit and greed, but the reality is different from expectations.

At the galactic level, the scarcity of resources remains a major problem. Technology has not been able to eliminate this, in fact, has further increased the search for resources. If a race becomes dependent on an external technology, the resources to produce such technology are also external, and this race becomes dependent on trade with others, on the rules of others, and over time these resources become vital to the support of such a society, and if it is not constantly supplied, such a society collapses.

Conflict and (military) war on the interplanetary level is very rare and is strongly opposed. However, there is another type of "conflict and war" and this is at the mental, psychic level, and is the path to persuasion, deception and manipulation. Therefore, the worshipers/believers of "altruistic and advanced" extraterrestrial beings will have great disappointments.
No race has the permission to travel to another planet and place and get what you want, do whatever you want, though, that some groups here on Earth want to do away with private property, out there almost every planet belongs to some race. Planets like Earth are rare, most planets are deserts of sand and ice, and can be inhabited thanks to technology.
Overcoming scarcity, becoming self-sufficient, having resources in abundance, is undoubtedly a great leap that any race wishes to make. However, if that happens humanity must join forces to protect the boundaries of this world, because of the extraterrestrial influence. The reason is that most races fall under foreign persuasion, with promises of riches, power and technologies that they do not need. This is why most races are not independent because they rely on features that your solar system does not have to offer.

I understand that your work is focused only on humanity, and it has already become clear that the extraterrestrial question does not importance, and that is exactly where the problem is found. Do you really believe that other races that have an interest here, want humanity to become an independent, self-sufficient, and free race? The extraterrestrial do not want to save this world because of humans, but because of the resources, to use for themselves.

Restoring the entire natural environment is the least we should do, so we will have some respect for extraterrestrial beings, as well as develop abundant resources, but that is only part of the solution. If your idea of Free Energy and abundance does not happen, we already have an idea of what the future will look like. In addition, in this future humans will not be free.

For your approach to work (http://ahealedplanet.net/home.htm), you must approach all topics, perspectives, and subjects, according to reality rather than hopeful perspectives. Whoever puts his work on free energy into practice, now or in the future, will have problems, unless the person is a seer/clairvoyant to predict situations and events. In some subjects, your work cannot be considered as comprehensivist. The main problem here, for people involved with free energy are the influences of external forces.

Invictos

30th November 2017, 00:15

Hi:

The universe in which we live is a universe of magnificent creations, but also a universe of tremendous constraints and limitations. Acquiring resources is a problem for all developing nations. Technology requires resources. The greater the technology, the greater the need for resources. The broader the sphere of influence, the empire or the ownership of property, the greater the need for resources.

If a nation fails to exchange / commercialize or acquire advanced technologies from other nations through the terms of exchange and trade routes, they remain extremely isolated. However, if a nation is self-sufficient and does not rely on external resources, isolation is not a danger.

When a nation, group, commercial cooperative are forced to rely on trading, they lose much of their self-determination.
Therefore, if they are unable to adequately provide resources for themselves, they must rely on external supply, and the influence of external policies on their own subsistence.

For a nation that seeks to be free and self-sufficient, the problem of trade and dependence on others is extremely large. That is why, the three basic requirements to be free and self-sufficient in the universe are unity, to be a united people, self-sufficiency and extreme discretion.

People generally believe that technologically advanced races have solved all the problems humanity is currently facing. This is childish belief. In addition to all human problems, the greatest threat is the extraterrestrial influences. Many crimes that the ultra-elites commit, they have learned from extraterrestrial beings.

The stupidest idea I have ever heard of extraterrestrial is, "If they were aggressive and evil, they would have already destroyed and conquered this planet." Is it serious?

In addition, the worst is that these people assume that "all" extraterrestrial races are peaceful. It is "normal" to arrive at these conclusions, but they are not based on reality.

Having a lot of wealth is a disadvantage, because everyone will try to influence it, on an individual and global level.
Problems of lack of privacy, secrecy and confidentiality. Big problems in staying self-sufficiency and staying as a free nation.

Problems in preserving the natural resources of their worlds and avoiding exhaustion.

Problems with many concurrent and competitors for types of rare technologies that are used in advanced technologies.
It is common for emerging races such as the human, to fall under the dominion of foreign powers and later become dependent on certain forms of foreign technologies. This can be done secretly.

The problem of maintaining self-determination, independence and sovereignty. This makes it more complicated and difficult if a nation participates too much in commercial networks. The greater the level of trade that a nation commits, the less its privacy and sovereignty.

If a world possesses great riches like the Earth, it becomes extremely difficult to maintain privacy and this world will be continually influenced by other nations.

To maintain stability, order and security in this region of space, wars and achievements are not allowed. This rule is maintained to protect resources and maintain order. The aggressiveness and bellicosity of the human race is a great advantage to the influence of other races here.

Therefore, if humankind is overly involved in trade and barter, it will destroy all human culture, freedom, and all that is great and noble to us.

That is why free and independent nations and people remain hidden and anonymous.

These are problems that evolve the extraterrestrial reality, and that humanity will have to face throughout its existence, because, the isolation of humanity in relation to the extraterrestrial community has come to an end.

Therefore, for a nation to remain free and independent it must remain highly discreet and participate in trade with only a select few nations.

All nations that maintain contact with other races have their secrets, proprietary information and some protect it with great effort and determination.

They all have their secrets and everyone is trying to find out the secrets of others. Thus, while there may be co-operation between nations and sometimes even a close relationship between interdependent nations or between groups of nations, privacy / secrecy problems and unequal wealth problems continue.

The galaxy is an environment full of restrictions. It is not a place without limits, without borders, without property and without conflicts.

There are severe limitations on what humanity can do in the local universe itself.

Even if it were technologically possible, humans cannot travel anywhere in the galaxy, be what they want, do whatever they want, harm something, get or conquer something. There are limits to everything and in terms of space travel, it is practically impossible to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other. That is why the races travel in certain regions, commercial regions, transport routes and are relatively populated. Even in a region sparsely populated in space, humans could not do much along the way.

Stars and planets are not like a place of escape and they are not like a wonderful environment. Humans should look to the stars and space not as a refuge but as a representation of life on a larger scale. Most of the difficulties and limitations that humans face here on Earth will face in space, but on a much larger scale and in a much more extreme way.

For example, the lack of freedom that exists in many parts of the world will be more extreme in the Greater Community. The exhaustive struggle for resources in this world (Earth), particularly among the poorest people, will be more extreme in the Greater Community. The need to control society and individual behavior is most extreme in the Greater Community. The problems in trade travel and negotiations will be more extreme and difficult in the Greater Community. The need to contain war and conflict is most extreme in the Great Community. The Greater Community is a larger version of your life here, bigger in every way.

The problem of maintaining physical health is most extreme in the Greater Community, where addressed beings who have evolved in completely different biological environments or who have evolved in sterile environments. The problem of contamination is extreme. One could come in this world, pick up a virus or set of viruses, take it to own house and infect the entire planet, wiping out most, if not all, inhabitants of this world. This is how truly powerful the problem of contamination. Advanced medical technology has not ruled out the risk.

The care one must bring to their own lives and to their business is most extreme in the Greater Community. The problem of moving is more difficult in the Greater Community. The problem of getting along with others who are different from you is more extreme in the Greater Community because the differences between you and them are much greater. The problem of communicating with others is most extreme in the Greater Community, where differences in nature, temperament, and appearance are enormous things.

These issues about the massacres and genocides of natives and indigenous peoples throughout Western Europe, despite being criminal and unethical, is something normal and happens throughout the Universe. This is the natural evolution of life, where the strongest dominate the weakest. If the weaker ones had become strong enough, they would not have been massacred and dominated.

The problem is that now we are the natives and the other races that visit this planet are the dominators. At the time of European colonization, there was no ethical code of conduct, rule or law to prevent the massacre of indigenous peoples. Visitors are here for economic and territorial conquest, just as the Western Hemisphere did with the natives, however, on a much larger scale and with a higher level of sophistication and deception. Fortunately, planet Earth sits in a highly inhabited space district where there are rules, and one such rule is that "others" cannot invade this planet using brute/military force. It is permitted to do so only through persuasion, deception, and manipulation.

Therefore, enough would be to protect the boundaries of your world from inappropriate invasions by resource explorers and economic collectives, by opportunistic groups who want to establish their influence here, and who want to establish trade here.

For an end to the destructive tendencies and ambitious and greedy behaviors of humanity.
There are predatory forces in this local universe that can take advantage of human perversity and ingenuity to create their own benefit.

Invictos

30th November 2017, 00:19

Hi:

The wealth of this world is rapidly depleting, a world that is so rare and precious in a universe of desolate planets.
You still do not see your vulnerability here or see the importance of maintaining this world, of maintaining its self-sufficiency, of maintaining the planet's climate and maintaining the natural balance. There is no need to believe that only you can travel to other worlds and find places like this (The Earth).

They are very rare and are always busy. This understanding will give you a greater sense of responsibility, because true learning in you must always permeate with a greater sense of responsibility - the responsibility not only to learn, but also to act and serve.

Humankind is now on a path of recklessness. It is destroying its self-sufficiency in the world. It is putting at risk the natural balance that has given humanity a beautiful, splendid world in which it evolves and lives. This is dangerous not only for your future in this world, but also dangerous regarding your relationships with other races in the universe.

Human isolation from intelligent life in the universe gave you naivety and lack of preparation for the challenges and opportunities of the Greater Community.

But if humanity continues to rape the world - destroying its basic resources, depleting its wealth, creating greater instability and conflict and bringing the biological life support system to instability, then others (races) will feel compelled to intervene here and put this saved / rescued world to use them. In fact, this is what is happening today.

The human being and humanity must grow and become responsible: to maintain in this world as much self-sufficiency as possible. Because if you lose self-sufficiency you miss out on great opportunities and the great hope of being a free and independent race.

If humanity becomes part of a vast and vast network of commerce, it will be affected by these networks and by who will determine enormously what you can do and not do.

Humanity represents a newcomer - a weak and unstable race, a race that is easily persuaded and manipulated, by nations very stable, for their own benefit and stability itself, will try to take advantage of an emerging and weak race like humanity.

That is why humankind is not prepared to negotiate and trade with other races. That would influence us and in some cases, they would try to take advantage of us. The price for this is very high, humanity would lose the little freedom it has, and would become only a slave race (not free) of exploiters, merchants and opportunists.

These races represent resource explorers, economic collectives and opportunist groups who want to establish influence and establish trade on this planet.

These groups do not represent consolidated worlds and established powers / forces, because such powers / forces do not conduct their own affairs in that way. These groups, therefore, are unofficial associations, which act illegally without the authorization of official governments and consolidated worlds.

These resource explorers are not much respected in this space region, because their purpose ranges from taking advantage of emerging races and decaying worlds. And they can do this through persuasion, deception, and manipulation. This is allowed according to the rules of interaction, visitation and travel in this region of the galaxy.

This is the nature of life in physical reality. From indigenous peoples living on other worlds, to developed and evolved nations of the Universe, the reality is the same.

Free and independent nations do not receive visitors (other beings and races) in their worlds. They remain isolated and discreet, protecting the borders with great care and attention.

The greatest threats, even to the most stable nations in the universe, are: loss of resources, biological contamination, and environmental collapse. These three things affect the behavior of stable nations and evolved more than anything else. Although war and conflict are rare in many regions of space, concurrence / competition and influence are plentiful and this threatens the sovereignty of nations and their access to the necessary resources.

Although it is necessary to become a united world in your area, if they want to work successfully in the Greater Community, the nature of such units may include a wide range of expressions. To be a free race, to be a race that individual rights and freedoms in your own world and in your own sphere of influence, it takes a lot of development and it takes a lot of restraint. When worlds become overpopulated and resources deplete the containment of individual freedom increases.

The planet Earth is one of the few worlds in this region of space that were not conquered and consumed by other nations. Biological diversity has played an important role in this process.

Extraterrestrials are secretly encouraging human conflicts so that humanity will never have security or stability. Needing that foreign powers interfere and so humanity can accept any kind of incentive that they can offer.

So the shift in emphasis to this world is to achieve stability and security in a way in which individual freedom is preserved and honored and where individual creativity is considered and is in service for the good of the world. This type of requirement is not about worshiping technology because if you do, you will fall for those who are technologically more advanced than you.

The world will become more regulated and orderly, so preserving human freedom will be an increasing emphasis.

Social structures can move towards a healthy balance or to maintain a balance in order to achieve stability and security. Here, the emphasis on your individual freedom and the value of the individual either exists or does not exist. The process of building stability and security requires that people find ways to work together and cooperate with each other. This is either forced upon them or is something to create for their own benefit. Choosing which way forward is one of the great thresholds in the evolution of a race.

It remains to be seen whether humanity will achieve greater stability through superior consent or whether stability will be forced on people by a hierarchy of power.

Too often in the Greater Community, stability and security are established through mastery of a government force and this is always the case when nations are conquered by other nations or become economically dominated by other nations. Repression of the individual is always the result.

Therefore, freedom is rare in the universe and freedom is the most important thing. The freedom to be a race of self-sufficient, self-determined people and the freedom of individuals to contribute their own gift to their society and their world are the greater emphasis.

Invictos

30th November 2017, 00:28

Hi Wade:

The family and genetic manipulation

The nuclear family is the natural origin and the model that allows the intelligent life to evolve. This model is followed unless it is interrupted or controlled in some way by external forces. This is the right model for more primitive worlds, but with genetic manipulation in advanced nations the situation has begun to change and the result is not good.

In more progressive and technological societies, the family nucleus has sometimes been maintained only in the ruling/prevalent classes, that is, the elites. The rest of the population are procreated and cultivated collectively. This includes the working class, classes of beings who have skills / specializations (seers, telepaths, engineers, etc.) and other collective groups. This is not only done in nations where it is considered unethical and impractical.

From a human point of view, collective breeding is horrible, but experimentation with genetic manipulation is underway under the pretext of improving the health and well-being of people. But, this represents a seduction of power and a weakening of reality and the potential of human freedom and creativity.

God created the individual to be creative and expressive. If there is an attempt to pass over it, using genetic conditioning, political oppression or social designation, it creates a fundamental conflict within the individual. Here there is always the potential possibility that the individual revolts against genetic design, against social designation and against those who have established their functions in society.

In your world, when you are facing the Great Waves of Change, individual freedom will be reduced out of necessity, out of circumstantial necessity. It now faces constraints on resources, the reduction of wealth in nations and the ever-increasing problem of human deprivation, individual freedom will by necessity be largely moderate. Humanity must have greater social awareness and responsibility. This is part of your evolution as a race and is somewhat important about the kind of future you create for yourself and the nature of your involvement with the Greater Community.

Given the difficulty of facing the Great Waves of Change - environmental deterioration, declining resources and problems resulting from food production, the distribution of essential resources to people, the risk of pandemic disease and the threat of war and conflict - all these things represent the immense danger that humanity faces today and will always face more as it proceeds. Moreover, the danger of foreign meddling by economic collectives and other groups seeking to gain advantage and exercise persuasion for their own self-interest increases the complexity of the situation that humanity is now facing.

These texts are compiled, based on the work of Marshall Vian Summers, from Life in the Universe (https://www.newmessage.org/the-message/volume-4/life-universe).

I hope you can find something useful that can help your work (http://ahealedplanet.net/home.htm) become more comprehensivist (https://www.bfi.org/).

Wade Frazier

30th November 2017, 04:14

Hi Invictos:

Thanks for posting. All channelings come through humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1096&viewfull=1#post1096), and I take them all with a grain of salt, to one degree or another, especially those that spin grand galactic yarns (with little or no evidence to support them (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100736-PINE-GAP--which-may-be-Australia-s-Area-51--&p=1192959&viewfull=1#post1192959), of course). FYI, the elites on Earth are already part of a galactic trade network (as some in my circle know). For me, it is about love and manifesting it here. I deal with ET material quite a bit (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort), but it is about what we do, not what they do. I don’t know of another free energy effort as Bucky-ish (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fuller1) as mine is. All that we take with us (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#afterlife) is our awareness. That is what it is about, IMO, back to the integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) and sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1) themes. I am trying to help humanity get on the track to this (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), and set my track on that trajectory to there or its vicinity. That is my game. When the ETs land on the White House lawn, then there will be more to discuss on the ET front.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

30th November 2017, 12:42

Hi:

As the title of my big picture thread (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1096&viewfull=1) states, it is A big picture, not THE big picture. Nobody on Earth sees THE big picture, but I am constantly approached by people selling me their big picture, which is almost invariably some version of the scarcity and fear song (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/4-The-Song-of-Scarcity?p=10&viewfull=1#post10), whether it is secular, galactic, or cosmic. I hear no end of people promoting the various New Age/conspiracist flavors of the day, the free energy inventor who “has it!”, and so on. We have enough of scarcity and fear in our world, ungrounded “activists” who play the anonymity game, heroes, messiahs, groupies, cheerleaders, “insiders” spinning grand yarns, etc. I am doing something different (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), and it is not easy to understand.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

30th November 2017, 14:07

Hi:

When the cooling was over (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse), the Eocene ended, paradise was lost, and the Oligocene (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oligocene) began, which was a cold time, when the Antarctic ice sheets were developing. Mammals had achieved their maximum size (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mammalsize) by then, and some plants developed a new form of photosynthesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#grass1) to cope with declining carbon dioxide levels. Mammals had different digestion strategies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hindgut), and the big grazers and browsers duplicated guilds (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#guild) that dinosaurs had.

Primates first appeared on the evolutionary scene (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#primate1) during the last 20 million years of the dinosaurs. Mammals always had relatively large brains, but recent research shows that primates took it further, packing more neurons into their brains (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/24-Chapter-17-Humanity%C2%92s-First-Epochal-Event-Growing-our-Brains-and-Controlling-Fire?p=1074&viewfull=1#post1074) than any other mammals. A primate packs in about six times as many neurons per gram of brain tissue as rodents do, which are close cousins that also evolved in canopies.

Another principle of evolutionary theory is that biological features are often evolved for one purpose, and then are “drafted” into other functions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dualuse) as opportunities arise. Densely-packed primate brains are energetically expensive to possess, and another principle of evolutionary theory is that nothing gets a free ride. The biological feature is used or lost. “Use it or lose it” is an evolutionary adage. The primate brain is thought to have partly evolved to navigate the canopies, and also to remember were food is. Fruit, the primary simian staple, ripens at different times and places, and larger brains and higher intelligence seems related to those who have to hunt for fruit, from monkeys to chimps.

In the Oligocene, monkeys began evolving into apes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proconsul) in Africa, as they slowly left the canopy. Some monkeys made it to South America (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#monkeysplit), which is one of the most spectacular and improbable migrations in the Age of Mammals. The Oligocene ended with a warming period, which began the Miocene (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#miocene), when Africa began colliding with Eurasia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#alpide), and Africa’s apes scattered across Eurasia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#apemigration). When times were warm, mammals easily migrated between the continents (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#horse1) (North America, Europe, Asia) via the Arctic, but that route closed during the cold times. The Age of Mammals is marked by many migrations, which often displaced the “natives.” The Age of Humans has had similar dynamics.

What became whales began migrating into the ocean during the hot Eocene (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#whale1), as archosaurs had done 200 million years earlier (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ichthyosaurs). The reigns of archosaurs and mammals had many similarities.

I’ll now begin moving the narrative to the rise of humans.

Best,

Wade

Invictos

30th November 2017, 19:05

Exactly, that's why your work is excellent. I know it's not an easy work. Our work is also to overcome scarcity and fear. If we remain anonymous, it does not matter. Anonymity and discretion are important to avoid conflict, instability and mistrust. As you yourself know, the progress of "others" is based on fear and victim-hood, which are consequences of your own choices. They would see us as "enemies," though it is an illusion. Aggressiveness, evil, perversity and self-destruction is not tolerated in a mature environment. Such attitudes are of rebellious, passionate and ambitious teenagers wanting to show that they have "power."

Yes, I know the ultra-elites maintain a network of trade with extraterrestrials, and they continue to learn from mistakes, mingling with those who should not. One of the secret space programs was exclusively developed to protect the borders of this planet.

Thinking of evidence in terms of physical 'proofs' is considered to be very primitive. For this we have the superior intuition of the Superconsciousness. Work of David Jacobs (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26038285-walking-among-us).

For us the extraterrestrial question is important and not because of fear, victimism or arrogance, but simply as a preparation and a maturity principle.

You say you had a mystical awakening, but I guess you did not have access to "God's intuition," which E.T.s call "Source," and which some people call "Superconsciousness," which is a kind of higher mind, as well as intuition. With this kind of "guide," you would know what your colleagues are thinking and plotting, you would know what was going to happen to you in the future and neutralize any kind of threat, you could discover the intentions of the E.T.s, discover deceptions and manipulations, find secret bases, etc.

This is not a guide, as people usually think. It is just a part of you, only on a higher level. Therefore, a person or a group cannot simply lie to us, whether by deception, fear or other intentions.

As long as the E.T.s landed on this planet, it means that we fail as a free race.

Despite the contribution of many inventors and activists to manifesting the greatest event on the human journey, which is the end of the scarcity, and a new era/epoch, they were not prepared because they thought in anthropological terms, but we think of the "extraterrestrial" scope ", holistically.

The planet Earth is governed by a set of tribes and weak groups that are always in conflicts and contradictions. Therefore, the extraterrestrial factor will be very important to unite the nations of the world in a kind of global civilization.

This is not a New Age / Conspiracy advice, therefore, this is not based on children's ideas and illusory expectations about reality. Even though, the New Age / Conspiracist are classifying the M. Vian Summers material as anti-extraterrestrial propaganda.

The Allied Reports address a higher consciousness, which they call “the Knowledge,” including greater telepathic ability between people and between races. This higher consciousness is not the analytical mind of the human being, but, the Knowledge, a deeper part of the human being waves the truth, no matter how obscured, can be directly discerned and experienced.

People from other worlds can come on this planet, do whatever they want, and telepathically control anyone's mind to help put their agendas into practice.

Therefore, why the mental environment is what really needs to be worked out. Thus, important events, such as Free Energy, will be manifested more clearly and without many risks of failure.

Do you know Future Science (http://mauricecotterell.com/#FS) book of Maurice Cotterell?

Good work

Wade Frazier

1st December 2017, 15:03

Hi:

One concept in my big essay that came out of writing it was the idea of energy-driven golden ages (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages), of both life on Earth and in the human journey. I had more than a vague idea about them before I began writing my big essay, but by the end, they became obvious. For non-humans, they arose because some organism learned a new energy trick or inherited an ecosystem free from competition in the wake of a mass extinction, and enjoyed it unhindered until some barrier was reached, such as breeding to ecosystem limits or increased competition. The golden ages never lasted forever, as energetic limits were reached.

Human golden ages were very similar, always had to do with tapping a new energy source, and the early days of each golden age were easy living. Humans always blithely blew through that energy source, without any awareness or concern that what they were doing was unsustainable. Richard Heinberg (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm) likened humanity to pond algae, which breeds to the limits with a nutrient infusion, to then die off. I see his point. Humanity is egocentric to the point of threatening its self-extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth).

Also, those golden ages often were enjoyed by marginal organisms or humans, which is where the important innovations usually hail from. Apes were likely marginal monkeys, forced out of the canopy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proconsul), and learned to live on the ground. Chimps were likely marginal gorillas (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gorilla), forced to the rainforest’s margins, and human line (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpsplit) members were marginal chimps, forced even further away from the rainforest and learned to walk upright (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bipedskull). Instead of a marginal existence, their descendants eventually conquered Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit).

While fruit is still humanity’s ideal food, moving away from the rainforest meant dietary changes, to roots, more seeds, meat, and eventually cooked food (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cooking). Fruit never needs to be cooked, as it is designed to be eaten, unlike almost all other foods that people eat. About 80% of what is called nutrition is energy, usually measured in kilocalories.

Crafting stone tools (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stonetool1) was a big step in the human line, and australopiths (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#biped) are the likely inventors. There is controversy over whether Homo habilis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#habilis) was the first member of the genus Homo, and even whether it was an ancestor to humanity at all. But there is no debate over Homo erectus (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#homoerectus). Homo sapiens definitely arose from Homo erectus, and their members are certainly in the Homo genus. Most of the growth in the human-line’s brain (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#scaledbrain) happened during the time of Homo erectus. There is great controversy today on just how humanity garnered the energy to fuel its energy hog of a brain, which uses about 25% of a human body’s energy. The energetic benefits of walking upright, which increased the human line’s range, an increasing toolset, cooking, meat, and shrinking the digestive tract are all hypothesized to have contributed to the human-line’s growing brain. However it happened, the explosive growth of the human line’s brain is unique in the history of brains, and nearly unique in the history of organs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#size3).

It is likely that Homo erectus invented cooking, although Richard Wrangham thinks that it might have been before then, and some think that cooking was a more recent innovation. I will follow that controversy with interest, but there is no doubt that the control of fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1) was a critical invention in the human line and led to human dominance, if not humans themselves. To this day, human civilizations are built around the control of fire. Controlled fire in my car’s engine is how I will get to work this morning.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

2nd December 2017, 15:59

Hi:

Each Epoch of the human journey has its controversies. The First Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1) has many, including just when the human line began controlling fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1), the exact line that was ancestral to today’s humanity, how many relict lines existed and when they went extinct, when Homo sapiens first appeared on the evolutionary scene, when they became behaviorally modern (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap) and how, what migrations happened past Africa – who and when – and many other fascinating issues.

The so-called Middle Stone Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#msa) began about 500 thousand years ago (kya), although most scientists argue that it began less than 300 kya. It happened around the time that Neanderthals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#neanderthalsplit) split from Homo Heidelbergensis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#heidelbergensis). Homo erectus still walked on Earth back then, as did the “hobbits (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hobbit),” which may have been island-dwarfed australopiths (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis#Classification), and if that is the case, the control of fire may be pushed back to Wrangham’s range or the invention of fire quickly spread to all human-line species of the time. I consider it likely that the original human-line migrants past Africa controlled fire.

The path to finding out more is the anthropologist’s mantra of “do more digging!” :) I will follow those issues with interest for as long as I am able. When I make my essay update, and next year is the plan, after I get done with my biography project on Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1089&viewfull=1#post1089), there will be updates on chimps and bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1). The USA’s political machinations (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#rwanda) are driving bonobos to the brink of extinction, in standard American genocidal (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide) fashion. The study of chimps and bonobos reveals a lot about human nature and the human journey. After a career spent studying them, Frans de Waal puts chimp social intelligence on par with humanity’s. That is consistent with many new findings of scientists, as dates of evolutionary events are almost always pushed back by new evidence. There is recent work (http://www.nature.com/news/oldest-homo-sapiens-fossil-claim-rewrites-our-species-history-1.22114) that argues that the evolution of Homo sapiens was more like 300 kya instead of the currently accepted 200 kya. This is normal science at work.

Darwin argued that the two greatest achievements of humanity were the mastery of language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language) and the control of fire, and the view of scientists has not changed much since then. I mark the beginning of the Second Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2) to when the Founder Group left Africa (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit) about 60 kya or so. Once again, it was probably a marginal group facing a subsistence crisis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1117&viewfull=1#post1117) that made that migration. And they made it big. All humans outside of sub-Saharan Africa are direct descendants of that Founder Group.

The Founder Group mastered language, had Earth’s most sophisticated toolset, used fire as a key tool, and nothing could stand in their way as they conquered Earth. Next up is the Second Epoch.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

3rd December 2017, 16:08

Hi:

This will be a current events post. On Friday, tax “reform” was passed in the USA, which was nothing more than another giveaway to corporations and the richest 1% (http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/debt-taxes-growth-and-the-gop-con-job/), as usual. The people who voted Trump in, disillusioned middle class whites who felt abandoned by the Democratic Party, get nothing, as usual.

It is always hard to tell just when the top is in and when the crash will follow, but the coming crash is certain (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-01/signs-market-top-pole-dancing-instructor-now-bitcoin-guru). We may have seen a “stripper indicator (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-01/signs-market-top-pole-dancing-instructor-now-bitcoin-guru),” and the last two Fed-fueled frenzies had the same pattern as this one does (http://www.kesslercompanies.com/stock-market-acceleration-final-stage/). The end is near, and this crash will dwarf the others, as this bubble is global in scope and goes across virtually all asset classes (http://ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#everything), AKA The Everything Bubble, fueled by the crazy money-printing and low-to-negative interest rates of the world’s central banks. The current Bitcoin frenzy (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-03/bitcoin-hits-new-all-time-high-11800-after-burst-asian-buying-market-cap-nears-200-b) is a symptom. A member of my circle has made close to $10 million on Bitcoin, and it looks like he will do the prudent thing and sell it now (I would advise to sell at least half). Maybe he could make another $10 million, but it could all become worthless. While the concept behind Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies makes sense, just like with the Internet frenzy a generation ago (http://ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#enron), in our world of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), these innovations become the focus of “get-rich-quick” hysteria.

It was nice to see even a right wing writer like Pat Buchanan admit the obvious (http://buchanan.org/blog/little-rocket-mans-risky-game-127917) about North Korea’s nuclear shenanigans:

“Give up your WMD, and you wind up like Gadhafi and Saddam Hussein. Build nuclear weapons that can threaten Americans, and you get respect.”

As my readers know, I read Scientific American regularly. Being scientifically literate is like being literate: you don’t believe everything that you read. When Scientific American takes on the very obvious hydrocarbon lobby propaganda that there is no Global Warming, or if there is, it has nothing to do with humanity’s prodigious mining and burning of Earth’s hydrocarbons (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=462&viewfull=1#post462), they get points, such as when they reprinted this article (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/merchants-of-doubt-about-global-warming-hope-to-strike-back/), featuring Brian’s erstwhile pal Fred Singer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463).

But when Scientific American writes on medicine, they have been oblivious to the existence of the medical racket (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm), acting as if the science around vaccinations (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#vaccination), for instance, has not been distorted by the medical racketeers going back to Pasteur (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#pasteur). It is like believing that voting really matters in the USA, as if we have something resembling democracy. That kind of New York Times-parroting naïveté is very evident in the pages of Scientific American, if I am being charitable and attributing it to naiveté. It is the author of a semi-ridiculing article on the persistent reports that the Wright brothers were flying (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#wright), after all.

I read the American media every day, too, just as Noam does (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky) and Ed did (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#loot). Noam and Ed did it professionally, while I do it with a highly skeptical eye. I learned about the Big Lies in the media (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=687&viewfull=1#post687) before I ever heard of Noam or Ed. You can’t just read material that fits your worldview, or you get “confirmation bias (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias).” The USA’s banning of Russian TV in the USA (http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/peace-and-prosperity/2017/december/01/mcadams-us-empire-too-fragile-for-a-free-press/) is what totalitarian regimes do. What became the final article (https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/) of Ed’s lifetime was very appropriate, as it exposed some of The New York Times’s fake news over the past century. I will make an Ed post soon. I am still waiting for some of the materials to complete my work on his biography.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

3rd December 2017, 17:31

Hi:

The Second Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2) began by boat, as the Founder Group ferried across the mouth of the Red Sea (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit). Descendants of the Founder Group also made it to Australia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna) by boat. So-called “archaic” humans and elephants never made it to Australia, being boat-less as they were, as the deep-water gulf between Southeast Asian islands and Australia was too far to swim across. The elephant family was the most successful land mammal ever (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elephantsuccess) before the rise of humanity. Where they lived with an evolving humanity, in Africa and Southern Asia, they learned to avoid humans and survive the onslaught, but everyplace else, the arrival of humans meant the extinction of the elephant family, from the “mammoth steppe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gravettian)” of Eurasia to the entire Western Hemisphere, along with almost all of the other large animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#clovis).

While the large animals lasted, there was a Golden Age of the Hunter Gatherer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#huntergatherer), at least until the easy meat went extinct. We know that chimps are genocidal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coalitionary), with about half of male chimps dying violently, but when chimps were isolated south of the Congo when gorillas left the area and never returned, during a glacial interval, and the food supply doubled for those chimps, they became more peaceful than any human society ever was, as scientists have yet to record even one violent death among bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1). Instead, life is one big orgy. It was an economic revolution born of relative abundance that led to female dominance.

Kind of like the opposition to the idea of human-induced Global Warming (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463), generously funded by the hydrocarbon interests, there is a cottage industry of scientists and scholars that strenuously disputes the idea that humans had anything to do with the megafauna extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climatechange2). They generally attribute it to climate change, but their arguments don’t withstand even casual scrutiny, and this is a good example of the tunnel vision of specialists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#specialists), or those with an agenda other than discovering the truth.

Humans had the unprecedented means, motive, and opportunity to kill off the world’s easy meat (and no history of conserving their kills (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bison)), as well as drive all other human groups to extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#europeinvasion). It was very likely not a gentle process, as some scientists hypothesize. IMO, many or most of those “contrarian” scientists are defending either their in-group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup), humanity, or have some misguided solidarity with the indigenous peoples of Australia and the Western Hemisphere, where the most spectacular extinctions happened. I am highly sympathetic to what happened to the world’s indigenous peoples (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide) under the European boot, but there is no sense in denying the obvious, which only leads to a delusional mindset. Our reality may not be pretty, but denying its unsavory aspects sure is no path to enlightenment and righting the swiftly-sinking ship (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth).

Today, it is thought that when the easy meat still existed, humans briefly lost their territorial nature, as conflicts were easily solved by moving to the next valley, where more easy meat was there for the killing. But once the easy meat was gone and humans became territorial again, then human-on-human violence escalated (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#violence2), as they fought over their dwindling energy base. It was not as bad as a 50% violent death rate of male chimps, but about a third of hunter-gatherer men of the late Pleistocene died violently (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#deathrate). Women became war booty, and the hunter-gatherer goal was exterminating one’s neighbors and taking their territory and women. Strange men in one’s territory were killed on sight with no questions asked, as the assumption was that they were there to steal women. The late-Pleistocene was anything but a Golden Age.

But the Second Epoch saw humanity’s population grow by a factor of a thousand, from maybe five thousand people when the Founder Group left Africa and conquered Earth (part of the evidence is a “bottleneck (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bottleneck)” in human DNA), to about five million when humans began domesticating plants and animals, 10 kya.

If you are not indigenous to South-Saharan Africa, you are a descendant of that Founder Group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit), and all human societies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up) are very similar in how people behave and interact, as they retained the traits of those behaviorally modern humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap) of 60 kya or so. DNA testing has confirmed the status of relict groups from the original migration (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warfare1), and they all have strikingly similar religious practices (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing), of dancing and singing rituals, which are used to foster in-group cohesion, to prevail against their neighbors in battle. That so-called hunter-gatherer religion was supplanted by the organized religions of the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing1), which arose wherever civilization did, as the professional priesthood stamped it out.

In the late Second Epoch, where the easy meat was extinct (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873) and the plants conducive to it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran), women domesticated plants as an adjunct to their gathering duties. Humanity then became sedentary like they never had before, and the agricultural village formed. It was “Neolithic bliss” in the golden age of the early Third Epoch. Those villages often broke a pattern that stretched back to at least gorillas, as many societies became matrilocal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1) (the men left their natal groups to mate), and those were the human journey’s most peaceful preindustrial peoples.

The Second Epoch, like the First, took place during an ice age, and the ice age impacts were profound and perhaps even seminal. A cooling and drying Earth drove marginal monkeys from the trees (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1116&viewfull=1#post1116), into becoming apes, drove chimps to the margins of the shrinking rainforest (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#migratehome), drove marginal chimps into the woodlands, where they eventually evolved into people, may well have been related to a subsistence crisis that caused the Founder Group to leave Africa, and the vagaries of the Younger Dryas may have spurred the invention of agriculture (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#natufian). Necessity has long been the mother of invention.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

4th December 2017, 01:13

Hi:

For the rest of the year, I will be working on Ed’s biography, in my “spare” time. What I published the week before he died (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm) was only intended as a rough draft, and I expected that when Ed saw what I had done, I could collaborate with him to take it the rest of the way. Ed was kind of an invisible man in his writings, even to the extent of often writing “this author” when referring to himself in his writings. He rarely wrote in the first person, and biographical details were sparse in his writings. I was hoping to get more from Ed after he saw my rough draft. When I did not hear from him for months and he largely stopped publishing anything, I guessed that his health was poor, and I was sorrowfully right.

So, I am going to slog on to the finish line without Ed’s input, but Ed looped me into his circle of pals in my last email from him, several have offered to help, and we will see how it goes.

It looks like I might have found the source of the “correction (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/21/obituaries/edward-herman-dead-critic-of-us-media-and-foreign-policy.html?hpw&rref=obituaries&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=well-region%AEion=bottom-well&WT.nav=bottom-well&_r=0)” of Ed’s New York Times obit, as FAIR mounted a campaign (http://fair.org/home/nyts-obit-for-ed-herman-requires-a-correction/) to get it corrected. FAIR made the same point that I did, that the “having soft-pedaled evidence of genocide” charge was fraudulent in of itself, never mind that they allegedly “soft-pedaled” evidence that did not yet exist, in the New York Times’s original obit. Ed and Noam never remotely did that. Instead, what they did was analyze the media’s performance on reporting bloody events that were very similar, with one key difference:

“Was the crime perpetrated by us [the USA, client regimes, or allies] or them [official enemies of the USA]?”

Ed and Noam’s work was about exposing the media’s double-standards on reporting such events. What Ed and Noam did do, as scientists, was seek the most reliable sources of information about such events and see how the media handled them. Their focus was on the media’s treatment of the events, not the events themselves. Pretty much without exception, in situations for which “we” committed the murders, if the media even covered the events, the victims were “unworthy (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#worthy),” even if they were American nuns, and actual American-sponsored genocides would receive complete silence in the American media while they happened, such as in East Timor (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#timor). Arguably even worse, if “we” did it, the perpetrators could often be lionized nearly to the point of sainthood, and Ed contrasted the “good genocidist (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#zmag)” Suharto with the “bad genocidist” Pol Pot.

If “they” committed the crimes, any rumor would do, and the more lurid, the better. The media treated “their” victims as saints, with even hagiographic coverage. The media even plays up largely or wholly fictitious events, such as the “Racak Massacre (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#racak)” or Iraqi incubator (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#incubator) story to justify bombing campaigns, and a massacre of 500 soldiers becomes “genocide” when “they” did it, while our outright genocide of several million people either passes in silence or, incredibly, becomes a heroic deed, a “constructive (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#crv)” genocide. As another example, arguably humanity’s greatest mass murderer in the past generation (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#rwanda) is lionized in the West as a heroic figure.

Ed and Noam did a Q&A back in 2009 (https://chomsky.info/200911__/) on how their propaganda model had aged since Manufacturing Consent was first published. Their work is Orwell for the 21st century, and I have been reading a bit of Noam’s work since Ed’s passing, from the Noam shelf of my library. My Ed project has made my Ed shelf perhaps larger than my Noam shelf, if we leave out a quarter-century of Ed’s Z Magazine articles.

I am expecting one heck of a eulogy for Ed in the next Z Magazine, and this was a wonderful remembrance (https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/11/22/remembering-media-critic-ed-herman/) from one of his friends. The best mainstream obituary on Ed that I have seen so far naturally did not come from the American media, but British (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edward-s-herman-scholar-whose-radical-critiques-of-us-media-unpacked-the-fake-news-caricatured-by-a8067131.html), as the British media did not get its ox gored as badly by Ed over the years, and The Independent is where Robert Fisk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fisk) works.

Best,

Wade

Krishna

4th December 2017, 08:44

I have been reading more about the spread of literacy. Progress of literacy in various countries: a preliminary statistical study of available census data since 1900 (http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0000/000028/002898EB.pdf) and The making of literate societies (http://www.unesco.org/education/GMR2006/full/chapt8_eng.pdf) from Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2006.

One thing that struck me is that literacy rates in India at independence were worse than that of black population in South Africa at the same time. I have no words to describe this horror.

Literacy of African American population preceded the Civil Rights movement, I suspect that literacy was needed for the movement to find its voice. Claudette Colvin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudette_Colvin) and Rosa Parks were both educated, as was Dr. King and other leaders of the Civil Rights movement.

I found another outlier Myanmar (Burma) with 40% literacy (sri lanka 60-70%) in the british empire. I am not sure why. Maybe it is random like with the Osage Nation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Nation)

Wade Frazier

4th December 2017, 16:08

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1194336&viewfull=1#post1194336):

I don’t need to tell you how India suffered under British rule (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic2). I doubt that any of it was random, but the fates of peoples were tied to the dynamics of the time, although fate sure could seem capricious. Some did better than others, for various reasons. The Osage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Nation), like all aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, suffered greatly, if they survived at all, when Europeans invaded. Are you referring to the Osage’s relative affluence because oil was discovered (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Nation#Oil_discovery) on their “worthless” land? I have taken business trips in Oklahoma, you could not pay me enough to live there, and in the airport at Oklahoma City was a big picture of Osage Indians being driven in their cars by chauffeurs, and the exhibit stated how they got rid of each car when it needed any repairs, as they were so rich. What the exhibit did not mention was that many of those rich Indians were murdered by whites (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Indian_murders), to get their hands on their wealth.

The Cherokee (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#cherokee) invented an alphabet and had a higher literacy rate than American whites, but that did not stop the Trail of Tears (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#tears). Over my years of traveling the USA, I have seen many exhibits and memorials about the aboriginal natives, and while some were kind of disgusting, such as the rich Osage exhibit, most of the rest were respectful and told a story that I never got in school (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#more). I saw one just last week in Leavenworth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leavenworth,_Washington), as the exhibits told about what Indian life was like before the whites invaded. In fact, I am going to attach pictures that I took of an exhibit.

I recall one that I saw in upstate New York on my Bucket List road trip in 2013 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/81-Vignettes-from-my-journey-and-how-I-learned-what-I-did-and-came-to-my-approach/page3?p=249&viewfull=1#post249). It was about the slaughter and razing of an Indian “village” in the 1700s, although the “village” looked identical to a colonial town of the day, as the Indians had completely adopted European ways and lived in houses with slate roofs, glass windows, etc. But no matter how “civilized” they were, they lived on land that the invaders coveted, so an excuse was made to destroy their town and steal the land, which was standard operating procedure. The killers undoubtedly sold some scalps (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#headhunting) after it was over.

I have found that when you got into the details of the trajectories of any peoples, it was always understandable, in that you could see the dynamics that led to their trajectory. It can often be a mystery, particularly with preliterate or vanished peoples, but as more evidence is adduced, the story becomes clearer. An example is the Classic Maya. When I was born, the fate of the Maya was a complete mystery and the leading interpretation of the evidence, of a peaceful forest people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization#Investigation_of_Maya_civilization), is now known to be just one more romantic fiction. That said, the rise and fall of the Maya is another fascinating study that is not nearly finished. I was about to write my Third Epoch posts in this little series (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture), so this is an appropriate place for a little vignette on the Maya.

To me, the Mayan trajectory was kind of a New World parallel to Sumer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer1). Agriculture was not invented in the Yucatan or Mesopotamia, but crops were imported into a seemingly unpromising region and clever water management practices made the land arable. City-states then arose, with the usual trappings of agrarian civilizations, with peasants, elites, soldiers, slaves, a professional priesthood that conferred divine status to the new elites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#divinity), etc. Alluvial Mesopotamia did not have handy stone, so the monumental architecture was made of earth and wood, and those mounds are excavated and studied to this day, at least until the USA invaded the region to steal the oil (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading).

But the agricultural methods were not sustainable. In Sumer, soil salination did them in and siltation clogged the irrigation canals, and in the Yucatan, a 50-year drought finished them off, but their unsustainable practices exacerbated it. As with Sumer, the lowland Mayan civilization collapsed with starvation and endless wars between the city-states, and like Sumer, the place was abandoned by the survivors. In Sumer, the ruins eroded and were buried in the silt of “progress,” but in the Yucatan, the forest reclaimed the land, and the ruins were not rediscovered until whites began exploring them. As with Sumer, when the central core collapsed, the center of Mayan civilization moved to lands that had not yet been depleted, and the northern Yucatan and nearby highlands became the center of Mayan civilization, and the lowlands were permanently abandoned. In Sumer, civilization moved upriver, with later centers such as Akkad, Babylon, and Assyria, and the original cities are buried under silt in a desert today.

Best,

Wade

Krishna

5th December 2017, 08:57

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1194336&viewfull=1#post1194336):
Are you referring to the Osage’s relative affluence because oil was discovered (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osage_Nation#Oil_discovery) on their “worthless” land?

The Cherokee (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#cherokee) invented an alphabet and had a higher literacy rate than American whites, but that did not stop the Trail of Tears (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#tears).

Yes. I was referring to the oil find on "worthless" land. My comment about randomness was more about literacy in Sri Lanka and Myanmar, they also suffered under colonization, but literacy reduces suffering and other factors like colonization increase it. Weather had a role to play in Late Victorian Holocausts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Victorian_Holocausts). I am trying to understand all the forces that together make history. Literacy is not the only factor as your rightly point out w.r.t. Cherokee.

World Wars (which growing up I always though of as European Wars) weakened the British and allowed a little breathing space leading to the great divide year (http://theanalysis20.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-year-of-great-divide-population-of.html) in India. Even then independence did not happen at the same time, Kenya and Uganda becoming independent only in 1960s. Its a long story and my understanding is incomplete.

Wade Frazier

5th December 2017, 14:59

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1194503&viewfull=1#post1194503):

I was just reading this map (http://www.visualcapitalist.com/histomap/) this morning, which is from the 1930s. Well, the purpose of my big essay is to not just understand human history, but the history of life on Earth. There are some so-called “principles” of history, but they have always ridden on the energy issue (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyevents). I think that the concept of energy Epochs of the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable) is critical to understanding how human history has unfolded as it has, and what the future may be.

Unfortunately, when one society got the upper hand in the energy game, it played it to the hilt on its neighbors. That is really the story of colonialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#colonialism). A rising Europe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hma) turned the global ocean into a low-energy transportation lane (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2) and thereby conquered the world, setting off the greatest demographic catastrophes in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#boom) so far. Those conquering Europeans were the oceanic equivalent of the Mongol hordes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mongol).

When higher-energy societies engage lower-energy ones, the lower-energy ones don’t have a chance, and this goes back to the Neolithic Expansion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#maledna) and earlier. Sure, some groups will fare slightly better than others, but it is like studying who became house slaves versus field slaves; they were all still slaves. The so-called post-colonial era of “freedom” has really been anything but that, as the USA took over the colonial mantle from its weakened rivals, with the terror states that it erected (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#terrorism). That has really been the primary thrust of Noam’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#crv) and Ed’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#early) work over the years. On India, I think that it was too big and powerful of a colony to be subjugated outright forever, similar to China, and the USA did not have nearly the strategic interest in India as it did the oil-rich Middle East or East Asia, and it was never really a threat to go communist. None of William Blum’s work, for instance, mentions any American interventions in India, while the USA intervened everywhere else in the post-colonial world. This “friendly” relationship is partly reflected in millions of high caste Indians living in North America. You might say that India got “lucky” with the Americans. If they had been sitting on huge oil reserves or went communist, it would have been a different story.

India made a certain sense for the British to conquer and subjugate (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#bengal), but the same did not go for the USA. It already had a continent to exploit and slaves to raise and pick the cotton and tobacco, declared all of Latin America to be its imperial hinterland (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#monroe), etc. China and India were going to regain their freedom a lot faster than smaller nations such as Kenya. Hitler thought that England’s rule of India was a poor colonial model (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#hitler). He preferred the Anglo-American experience in North America of exterminating the inhabitants and taking their land, which became his model for Germanic “settling” of Eastern Europe.

As long as scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) are humanity’s operative principles, the future looks grim (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). Introduce abundant and harmless energy to humanity, and an entirely different game (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) awaits.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

5th December 2017, 15:45

Hi:

It took a few weeks, but I finally received a book with an interview of Ed (https://www.amazon.com/Key-Thinkers-Critical-Communication-Scholarship/dp/1349564680/ref=sr_1_7?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1512487095&sr=1-7), and read it last night, along with an interview with Noam in the same volume. That interview is where some of the quotes in Ed’s obits came from, such as this one (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/edward-s-herman-scholar-whose-radical-critiques-of-us-media-unpacked-the-fake-news-caricatured-by-a8067131.html). While Noam seems to give interviews weekly, not so with Ed. He only gave a handful that I am aware of, and I think that Ed was OK with that, as he wanted his work to speak for itself, and it was never about him. It was about our world and how to make it better. That said, Ed was a man of his Epoch, and his work revolved around the Fourth Epoch’s politics and economics, or, at least, the retail versions of them. No Godzilla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) and free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal) on his radar. My work was a little too radical for him. :) In fact, I have had to coin a new term for my work, which is “Epochal.” The so-called radicals (http://ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm) are not really very radical, operating within the confines of their Epoch, unable to imagine anything beyond it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), as all peoples have always done. I am not picking on them. Noam and Ed are examples of what high-integrity scientists and scholars have been like in the Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4), if a little blinkered by the paradigms (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#introduction) of their Epoch.

Now, I will spend the rest of my year’s “spare” time working on Ed’s big bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm), fielding feedback from his pals, and then making the abridged Wikipedia version. Next year will be working on my essay update, which is way overdue because I resumed my career and my “spare” time is very limited. I am going on all cylinders and then some, and I don’t see any daylight for another decade, if I am lucky, and then it will be time for my dotage. :)

So, I expect that my forum postings will slow down next year, as they did at times this year, as something has to give.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

6th December 2017, 16:11

Hi:

During my studies over the years, one dynamic became very fascinating. All life finds its energy niche, where it can survive. Sometimes, life helped build that niche, and some niches have lasted for billions of years. Those niches can give a glimpse into the past. In hydrothermal vents (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal_vent#Hydrothermal_origin_of_life) today we can see the most primitive forms of life still at it, called extremophiles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extremophile) today, but they probably represent the earliest life on Earth, and are probably doing it just like they did nearly four billion years ago.

When a bacterium learned how to split water for its photosynthetic needs, oxygenic photosynthesis was born (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#photosynthesis2), which ultimately saved Earth’s ocean (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oxygenation) and made land-based life possible. That event likely happened more than three billion years ago. The oldest fossils yet found are of colonies of that bacteria. Those colonies can even be found today, in a few places on Earth too hostile for animals that can eat those colonies.

So, in environments too hostile for complex life, we can still find bacteria living like they have for billions of years. The bacteria that learned how to split water also became the energy center for all plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chloroplast). We all owe our existence to bacteria. There is little reason to believe that cyanobacteria have changed much for billions of years. They found something that worked, keep doing it, and nothing else on Earth does it.

Sponges were among the first animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#animals), and they are still at it, with a lifestyle that still works. The direct ancestor of vertebrates may still be around (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ward). The coelacanth and nautilus (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bottleneck) are so-called “living fossils,” as they survived for hundreds of millions of years in deep-water energy niches while all of their cousins died off, leaving them the last leaf on their branch of the tree of life, although coelacanths are our direct ancestors or close cousins to them. After amazingly surviving in their niches for hundreds of millions of years, as evolution passed them by, they are both threatened with extinction by humanity.

The horsetail is a living fossil (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#horsetail), nearly 400 million years old, and horsetails helped form the first forests. Their large cousins were driven to extinction long ago, as other plants overtook them in the game of evolution, but horsetails thrive today in the niches that resemble what they thrived in so long ago. These relics all provide a window into the past, for scientists to study and amateurs like me to marvel over. I hike past horsetails almost whenever I hike, and they are usually found near ferns, which are nearly as old and can also still live in wet environments.

Humans are about to become living fossils, as they drive all of their cousins to extinction. It began when humans conquered Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit), and all great apes today are in danger of becoming extinct, due to humans. While no First Epoch specimens live today, in the historical era, Third Epoch humans encountered Second Epoch humans that lived in their energy niches. Basically, Third Epoch humans drove Second Epoch humans to extinction or the brink of it, and this also goes back to the Neolithic (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#maledna) and Bantu (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bantu) expansions and other migrations. Perhaps the most illustrative example is Australia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tasmania), but all other continents had similar encounters, especially when Europe conquered Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2).

One of the more fascinating hypotheses (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873) that I encountered in my studies was the idea that plant domestication and state formation could not have happened if the region had warfare. Where humans had not hunted the big game to extinction and hunting was still the dominant mode of production, men still ruled with patrilocal societies, and those were violent societies that warred with their neighbors once the Golden Age of the Hunter Gatherer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#huntergatherer) ended. But where the big game was driven to extinction and the plants conducive to it, women domesticated plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran) as an adjunct to their gathering duties, and the Third Epoch began.

Aboriginal Australians could never hunt the fleet-footed kangaroo to extinction, so hunting remained the dominant form of production for nearly 50,000 years, until an industrializing Britain (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#uk) invaded and quickly brought aboriginal Australians to the brink of extinction. But before they were wiped out, white people got a glimpse into the human past. Those patrilocal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1) aboriginal societies were in constant warfare with each other, and although there were plenty of candidates for domestication in Australia, as with the other continents, Australians never did, as stealing the neighbor’s crops would have been easy for hungry hunters.

Aboriginal Australians also had a religion dominated by dancing and singing rituals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing) that could go on all night and their rituals could last for months. With the rise of DNA testing, it has been determined that aboriginal Australians and Negritos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#negrito) are relict populations of the original migration from Africa, and they lived in their energy niches ever since, at least until Europeans invaded. While Australia was relatively isolated, I imagine that they kept out Third Epoch people like the Andamans did (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#negrito), by killing any strange people arriving in boats (which Native Americans didn’t do, which led to their extermination (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide)). The !Kung people of Africa are also a relict population of the original humans that conquered Earth, living in their energy niche in the desert (too hostile for Third Epoch energy practices to work), and they have a click language, which is likely how the original human language sounded. Those relict peoples all had strikingly similar religious rituals, which give us a window into the human past.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

7th December 2017, 16:01

Hi:

My previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1125&viewfull=1#post1125) is an example of what comprehensive thinking (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) is all about. Comprehensive thinking is about combining the detail orientation of the specialist (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#specialists) with the pattern recognition and big picture thinking of the generalist. It is not easy, but the potential insights are more than worthwhile to pursue. They could have Epochal significance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). The challenge is to learn the details well enough to not overly generalize, and seek the overarching principles at work (if there are any :) ). It is kind of like unified field thinking. Today, scientists are often trained to think that way, so they don’t get stuck in overspecialization (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#slave) and can see the bigger picture.

Sedentism partially preceded the domestication of plants, but not by much. Sedentism was only possible with a stable and adequate energy (AKA food and wood in preindustrial societies) supply. Before the Domestication Revolution, that was possible in only a few places on Earth. Where land met water was always a good place for that, for a few reasons, and some are a water supply and the relative ease of water transportation, but ever since bacterial colonies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#photosynthesis2), where land met water was a key environment, even for the beginning of life on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1125&viewfull=1#post1125). The shore is where fish learned to walk (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tetrapods), and the primary environment by which humanity conquered Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit). Even today, nearly half of humanity lives near the coasts (http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/methodology_sheets/oceans_seas_coasts/pop_coastal_areas.pdf).

Ancient shellfish middens (Europe, Florida, California, etc.) are evidence of at least semi-sedentary humans living off of seashore environments for a long time. In the Pacific Northwest, Indians lived in semi-sedentary villages that took advantage of both estuary environments and salmon runs (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#northwest). In California, south of the salmon runs, Indians took advantage of seashore environments and the acorn harvest. One good week of acorn harvesting could feed a family for years, and they stored the acorns in silos. Those were all sustainable situations and led to at least semi-sedentary living, as long as populations were relatively small. Mammoth villages (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gravettian), however, only lasted as long as the mammoths did, as humans quickly drove them to extinction.

Acorns and pistachios (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran) formed the basis of the culture immediately preceding the first acts of plant domestication in the Fertile Crescent, so they also got a taste of semi-sedentary living, and liked it. I doubt that I need to explain to anybody what the benefits of sedentary living are. Even in my industrialized world, those leading nomadic existences are generally marginal people, such as those miserable truck drivers (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/83-My-days-in-the-trucking-industry?p=272&viewfull=1#post272). The sailors that conquered the world on behalf of Europe lived horrific lives (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#mortality), if they survived for long (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#scurvy).

Around today’s Turkey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#catalhoyuk) is where key crops and animals were domesticated, in upland environments. Only thousands of years later did those domesticates form the basis of the “grain cores (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/27-Chapter-19-Humanity%C2%92s-Third-Epochal-Event-The-Domestication-Revolution?p=1105&viewfull=1#post1105)” of civilization. Without domesticated animals to fertilize the grain cores of the Fertile Crescent, the civilization would not have lasted long. In China, with few domesticates, people fertilized the farms with their night soil practices (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_soil). The Mississippian culture (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mississippian) had neither domesticated animals nor used night soil methods, so their culture did not last long and their first city soon collapsed from environmental exhaustion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cahokia).

Scott’s book (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/27-Chapter-19-Humanity%C2%92s-Third-Epochal-Event-The-Domestication-Revolution?p=1105&viewfull=1#post1105) makes the case that civilization was an invention of peasant-enslaving elites, who became elites by enslaving people to work the grain cores. There was certainly coercion involved in building civilization, but slavery appeared wherever sedentary living did, which Scott did not deny. His case was that coercion by elites was the sole reason why civilization appeared, which he called the state. I will be studying his referred works before I make my essay update, but the benefits of civilization were also many. The constant influx of peasants into the cities (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#athensplague), to sustain their populations, was a feature of all cities until the 20th century. From what I have seen in my studies, the attractions of civilization were not just elite-living or aspiring to be one, or to be the professional class that supported them. The “class-conflict” theories of civilization formation are only one set of theories, and the other were the attractive benefits that civilization conferred. That debate is thousands of years old (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#tainter). Scott comes down on the “class-conflict” side, but it was far more than that. In the past decade, I saw a poll of people in the Seattle area, and the ideal living situation for most people was living in rural environments with urban amenities. I completely understand, and that would be my ideal, too. In the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), everybody on Earth could enjoy that lifestyle.

It is very true that hunter-gatherers in their Golden Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#huntergatherer) would hardly want to trade their lives for the drudgery of the peasant in the grain cores or becoming a slave, but in order to understand those dynamics, both a bigger and longer-term picture needs to be attained. The Neolithic Expansion was a Golden Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#maledna), at least for the farmers, and the hunter-gatherer women ran, not walked, into the arms of those farmers. Whether it was in sub-Saharan Africa (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bantu), the Fertile Crescent, or today’s American Southwest, lands suitable for farming were there for the taking, and life was easy at first, at least while the forests and soils lasted, and “pests” had yet to adapt to eating those human crops.

Scott made the case that “non-state” peoples during the Third Epoch easily moved back and forth between hunting, gathering, herding, and farming, moving from one mode to another as conditions warranted, and their flexibility allowed them to escape the clutches of states for millennia. Well, those people were going to be relatively few. Civilization arose where intense food-production was feasible, which obviously meant far more people. The difference in Earth’s carrying capacity under the hunter-gatherer versus farmer modes of production was a factor of 200 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#population1). The difference was so dramatic that I call it an Epochal difference, and there was no way that very many people could move between the hunter-gatherer and farmer lifestyles. The numbers just don’t support that idea very well.

I will not underplay the coercive aspects of states. They have always been coercive (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#legitimacy), although the elite reigns over their subjects are far gentler in Fourth Epoch societies versus Third Epoch ones, at least on the surface. That said, plenty of good stuff that Scott amasses in his book will make it into my essay update. There is a lot to write about the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3), and those chapters of my big essay will be significantly revised in next year’s planned essay update. The basic thrust will not change, but it is going to be fleshed out more.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

8th December 2017, 16:58

Hi:

My big essay attempts to make very clear the profound differences between each Epoch, which why I call them Epochs. :) The First Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1) was a radical departure from the history of life on Earth, when a big-brained (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#scaledbrain) tool-maker (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stonetool1) appeared on the evolutionary scene and learned to control fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1). Nothing remotely like it ever existed before, and the Second Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2) was about their conquest of Earth, as they expanded their numbers by a thousand-fold (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1120&viewfull=1#post1120). Each Epoch would have been incomprehensible (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine) to the beings who lived immediately before it. That goes for the First Epoch as much as the coming Fifth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), even though we have works of fiction and other accounts to give us hints (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#visions). The Third Epoch would have been entirely incomprehensible (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine3) to Second Epoch peoples.

The first hint of the coming Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) was likely the domestication of the dog (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dogs), which may have domesticated themselves. Animals were domesticated (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goat) around the time that plants were, and humans were also domesticated (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1093721&viewfull=1#post1093721), in a process that likely began before anything else was domesticated, as psychopathic men were gradually eliminated from the gene pool. The human conscience gradually grew, and each Epoch was markedly more humane than the previous one, as the energy surplus increased (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable). Chimps slaughtered each other with abandon, and once the Golden Age of the Hunter-Gatherer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#huntergatherer) ended, people did the same, although the “Golden Rule” applied to in-group members (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup), but that in-group could shrink to one in hard times, when eating’s one’s children was acceptable practice (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page5?p=650&viewfull=1#post650), and I suppose that the parents sized up each other when the child-food ran out. The out-group was fair game (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup1), but men slaughtered each other in the late-Second Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#deathrate) at rates slightly less than male chimps slaughtered each other, so you might say that “progress” was made. Bonobos showed how a doubling of their energy supply could allow a society to radically reengineer itself, and bonobo societies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1) are more peaceful than any human society ever was.

The early Third Epoch saw a similar reengineering in horticultural societies. It happened where the easy meat had been rendered extinct (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873) and some plants were conducive to domestication (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran). In those relatively few places, women began bringing in more calories than the men, and those societies often became matrilocal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1) (which was likely a first in the human line in at least ten million years), related to the increasing status of women, not far removed from the bonobo experience, which broke up the male gangs, and those became the human journey’s most peaceful preindustrial societies. Women don’t have the proclivity to dominance and violence that men do, which is rooted in our evolutionary journeys. When men run the show, it usually becomes greedy and violent, and psychopaths make great politicians and corporate executives. The women who “make it” in those professions often have that psychopathic edge, such as how Hillary joked about murdering a head of state (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page9?p=1075&viewfull=1#post1075) and destroying a nation. Being a psychopath seems to be a prerequisite to becoming the American president, and they are all puppets and know it (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#presidents). The last president who thought that he could make a dent was JFK, and he got taken care of (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/104-The-JFK-Assassination?p=1076&viewfull=1#post1076).

One of the most compelling hypotheses (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873) that I have seen in my studies of those days is that warring societies could not have domesticated plants or mounted the efforts that led to civilization. But once those societies were on the way to forming civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1), they all had similar dynamics, without influencing each other, which supports the idea that humans in similar circumstances will act similarly, kind of like convergent evolution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#convergent). Otterbein’s and Scott’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1126&viewfull=1#post1126) work are not that far apart, as far as the formation of civilization went. Once an agricultural surplus was generated and could be used for political purposes, men rose to dominance once again and the establishment of their rule was a brutal process (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#legitimacy). Women’s status universally declined with the advent of civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#womenstatus1) and only rose again when the Fourth Epoch began (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic), which also ended slavery as a hallowed institution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend). Only after the ruling class violently established their dominance could their rule become more bureaucratic and gentler. However, warring polities became the norm with the rise of civilization, wherever it appeared, as they fought over energy supplies, which at its most essential was the intensely farmed “cores” of civilization, which provided the energy surplus to sustain civilization, as well as the wood of forests (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#treesenergy).

The dynamics of early civilizations were never stable, as they rapidly depleted their energy bases of arable soils and wood (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#earlycivilizations), and they all collapsed, to only rise again in the regional vicinity, where the same practices could be repeated for a time, until their inevitable collapse. The Fertile Crescent and Mediterranean’s periphery is the first and best-studied example of those dynamics. It has nearly all been rendered a semi-desert or outright desert today.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

9th December 2017, 15:18

Hi:

While the downsides of civilization were many, there were also numerous attractions, which Scott (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1126&viewfull=1#post1126) underplayed in his work to the point where the benefits of civilization were not even evident, as if only elites would want to live there. For people living in the Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4), it is very difficult to even imagine lives in the other Epochs. We may be able to get some sense of their material life, social and political organization, and the like, but try to imagine a late-Second Epoch person, living when nomadic life was all that was ever known. No crops, no homes, other than the cave that might be seasonally inhabited for the fortunate few, your only possessions were what you could carry, and you were lucky to live to adulthood. You had language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language), largely used for gossip, but no Third Epoch features even existed, other than the few bands that had dogs. In the late Second Epoch, you killed members of neighboring bands on sight, except for fertile women, who were always worth stealing.

The early Third Epoch saw the rise of the horticultural village, and for the fortunate ones that became matrilocal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1), life was better than ever before, in the Golden Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages) of the early Neolithic. But even horticultural villages were rarely sustainable and regularly abandoned, as the wood and soils were depleted. But social organization was still along kinship lines. You knew or were at least familiar with everybody in your society, and while your community was still territorial, it was a pretty gentle territorialism in matrilocal societies, and relatively few people died violently. But tools were still made of stone (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oldowan), bone, and plants, literacy was not even a concept, and the idea of a city (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer), professions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#professions), metallurgy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#plow), elites, and monumental architecture was completely alien, something never seen before. Hollywood has long portrayed the awe of “hayseeds” when gawking at the wonders of big cities. The first cities had to be places of awe for their visitors. Nothing like them had ever been seen before. They all had monumental architecture to overawe those viewing them, and it had to have worked, or else they would not have been built. Even today, the necropolis at Giza (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egyptold) is an awesome sight, even stripped and defaced, the mere skeleton of an ancient marvel that took a century to build.

Fourth Epoch peoples might disparage the “marvels” of the first cities, but for their time, they were spectacles and humanity’s greatest achievements. When invading Spaniards approached Tenochtitlan (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#cannibal), the sights so overwhelmed them that they thought they were dreaming. And they weren’t all rubes; some had visited Venice and Constantinople. So, imagine what the effect must have been on peoples who had never even seen cities before.

Cities were not just places to marvel at, but they were lived in, and never-before-seen social organization accompanied them. Cities are where professions formed, and for the first time ever, people socialized along something other than kinship lines, and professional associations began. It is hard to overstate that effect, of ending kinship as the basis of society. The levels of wealth creation and concentration were also unprecedented, and temples and palaces (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear) became regular features of cities from the beginning.

Elites and professions appeared with cities, and there were plenty of downsides to cities. Filth and crowding were only part of it, but those led to epidemic diseases that eventually scourged cities. All city-states had their professional armies, and in Otterbein’s hypothesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873), the rise of civilization was one of the two paths to war. All early cities had slaves, too. Forced servitude was a standard feature of Third Epoch societies. Slavery began when sedentism did (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaverybeginning) and ended with industrialization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend). The first written laws (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#akkadian) largely dealt with slave matters, and closely following the first cities was the first empire. Laying siege to cities was a standard feature of the Third Epoch, and conquering a city and putting the men to death (or becoming crippled slaves, by either blinding them or cutting off feet) and stealing the women were typical outcomes.

No city was ever sustainable, either, as they burned through their energy supplies, which in the Third Epoch was comprised of wood and arable soil. Those early cities all eventually collapsed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#earlycivilizations), leaving ruins for scientists to investigate. That dynamic of unsustainability is far from confined to the Third Epoch. No Fourth Epoch city was ever sustainable, either. Fourth Epoch civilizations are burning through their primary energy sources a million times as fast as they were created (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dregs). With all of the recent ballyhoo about electric cars, windmills, and how the USA was becoming energy self-sufficient, I recently saw a graphic of global energy consumption in 2013 (http://www.oftwominds.com/blognov17/BTC-electricity11-17.html). Fossil fuels provided nearly 80% of global energy consumption, nuclear energy about 2%, and “renewable” energy was 19%. About half of the “renewable” 19% was basically firewood (or cow pies (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=668457&viewfull=1#post668457) :) ), which is still the primary energy source of the world’s poor nations, still in their Third Epoch, which is more than 80% of humanity. The remainder of “renewable” is more than 3% energy from crops, almost 4% hydroelectric, and wind, solar, geothermal, and ocean energy combined are well short of 1%. All of that hype, and it is still less than 1%.

Take away hydroelectric dams and nuclear energy, neither of which is ideal or very sustainable, and about 99% of Fourth Epoch fuels are fossil fuels. The prize hydrocarbon, conventional oil, will be completely burned up in this century (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil), and the others are not far behind. And that is if we don’t have a species-ending catastrophe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth) before we suck out the last dregs.

There is no way that Fourth Epoch denizens would want to live in the Third, if they could have understood what it really meant. Today’s average American lives a richer life than Earth’s richest human of three centuries ago, when the Industrial Revolution began. The average Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) denizen will live a vastly richer life than Bill Gates (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates) does today. But for Second Epoch denizens, the Third Epoch would have been mind-boggling, just as the idea of the Fifth Epoch blows people’s minds today, as nearly everybody reacts in denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1) or fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level5). You could not have talked a Second Epoch person into wanting to become a Third Epoch person. It had to be experienced to be understood, just as it is today regarding ideas of the Fifth Epoch. The masses are not going to be talked or enticed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink) into embracing it.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

10th December 2017, 18:46

Hi:

I have been working on Uncle Ed’s big biography lately (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1089&viewfull=1#post1089), and plan to be relatively quiet until I get it done. I want to get my Ed project done this month, including getting a Wikipedia bio published, and then it will be off to battle the hack “editors” at Wikipedia. I have been doing my homework, and Ed wrote about the numerous attacks on Noam over Cambodia and the Faurisson Affair in this book (https://www.amazon.com/Noam-Chomsky-Critical-Assessments-Linguists/dp/0415010055), but it costs over $1,000 today, so I’ll have to do without it. But Ed talked and wrote about the issues enough elsewhere, so I can get my task done well enough. The next steps will have to be taken by a professional biographer. Some of Ed’s pals have offered to help, and we will see how it goes.

I’ll leave you with a morsel from my account of Ed’s academic career, which I drafted this morning as an overhaul of this section (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#career), as I make my way through his bio. As I have written (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1103&viewfull=1#post1103), Ed and I had some profound professional overlaps that I did not fully realize until recently. The below further reflects those overlaps, and shows how Ed was far from a slouch in his profession.

Academic career and writings

Herman’s post-doctoral career began at Penn State in 1954. In 1958, he joined Wharton’s finance department to help perform studies of banks and corporate control mechanisms, which Wharton had contracted with various government agencies to study. For the next 15 years, Herman participated in studies of various financial institutions. Herman’s specialty was analyzing the power and control issues in those institutions.

In 1962, Herman’s team, led by Wharton professor Irwin Friend, completed the first large-scale study of mutual funds, which was commissioned by the Securities and Exchange Commission and published by the United States Congress. Wharton’s study became a landmark in the field, and one of its key findings was that:

“The main problems affecting mutual funds do not seem to relate to the size of the individual funds or companies…The more important current problems appear to be those which involve potential conflicts of interest between fund management and shareowners, the possible absence of arm’s-length bargaining between fund management and investment advisers.”

Among the Wharton study’s conclusions was that the performance of mutual fund advisers was no better than that achieved by randomly selecting securities. In the study’s wake, one senator picked a portfolio by throwing darts at a list of stocks, which subsequently performed better than the average common stock mutual fund. In a preview of his political writings and media analysis, Herman publicly defended the study from an attack by an interest-conflicted mutual-fund-related professional, which generally praised the study but challenged the motivation of its authors, including Herman’s.

Wharton’s next major study was on savings and loan banks, for which Herman wrote the chapter on conflicts of interest. When the study was published, the savings and loan industry called a press conference to specifically dispute Herman’s chapter, and Herman was particularly proud of receiving that denunciation. Herman then studied bank trust departments and their conflicts of interest.

In 1981, Herman published Corporate Control, Corporate Power, which The Twentieth Century Fund sponsored. It was partly an update of A.A. Berle, Jr. and Gardiner C. Means’s The Modern Corporation and Private Property.

In Corporate Control, Corporate Power, Herman analyzed the internal structure of American corporations, their influence over the American economy and polity, and the competing interests within corporations, which were primarily owners, lenders, and managers. Herman wrote that corporate managers had prevailed in those power struggles, and that in 1981, management’s “triumph is virtually complete,” although managerial ascendance did not dim the overriding corporate goal of profit maximization. The primary competing interests within corporations were united on that premise.

Herman wrote that expanding government influence in the 1960s and 1970s was resisted by the American business community and that “Big Government” was in the midst of attacks on it. Herman concluded that American corporations were, on average, as immune to outside influence as they were at the turn of the 20th century, as they operated with virtual autonomy, no matter their impact on American society, including environmental harm. Herman wrote that government influence over corporations was “extremely modest,” and that efforts by public interest groups and citizens to make corporations more accountable to American society were “extremely feeble.”

Near his life’s end, Herman said that although he sometimes received anonymous and unhappy critiques from members of Wharton’s faculty, many at Wharton thought that his public political writings and media analyses were valuable, and he never had any professional repercussions at Wharton due to his activism or his political writings or media analyses. Herman noted that because he was a “steadily producing professor according to the rules of the game, I was promoted and became a full professor during the Vietnam War years,” and that Wharton’s dean was friendly to Herman.

That is it for that section, and I’ll try to make a post or two this week, between stints of writing on Ed.

Best,

Wade

Krishna

12th December 2017, 08:16

Apart from Sri Lanka, Thailand I found another outlier w.r.t. education in the British Empire which is Jamaica it had literacy rates atleast 50% around 1950. The Indian state of Kerala also had 50% literacy rate in 1950.
I just re-read Hunger and Public Action and India Economic Development Social Opportunity, I think Amartya Sen, Jean Dreze mistakenly attribute the improved Human Development Indicators to public policies, I would attribute it to mostly literacy and schooling. Never thought that I could gain insights on Human Development beyond their books :) This student has graduated the class.

Wade Frazier

12th December 2017, 14:09

Hi Krishna:

There is that old saw in science, that correlation does not equal causation. In the social sciences, finding causes can even be harder. Hypotheses ideally rise and fall on tests of their causation. I think that Drèze and Sen would be happy to know that you chewed on their work long enough that you came up with different conclusions, right or wrong. That you digested and pondered is the goal of any author. That is big goal of my work, too. If I can get enough people thinking and interacting, about my big essay in particular, the comprehensive perspectives (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) will be on their way to being formed, and some are going to see things differently than I do. However, I do expect them to understand the Epochal significance of free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). :)

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

13th December 2017, 14:15

Hi:

Over the next week, I will largely put up sections of Ed’s bio that I am working on. I previously mentioned (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1121&viewfull=1#post1121) that what I published last month (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm) was only intended as a rough draft, and the Manufacturing Consent chapter was intentionally short, because Wikipedia already had a fairly decent article on Ed and Noam’s propaganda model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_model).

I decided to beef up the Manufacturing Consent section to get it to a standalone standard in my bio, although I will likely truncate it in my Wikipedia bio, because of that propaganda model at Wikipedia. What is pretty bizarre is that Ed was the primary author of the propaganda model, which is widely used by media analysts globally, while the Wikipedia article on Ed himself is borderline libelous.

So, without further ado, here is my section on Ed and Noam’s first filter of their propaganda model, which is who owns the media. I partly draw on my previous writings on the issue (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#manufacturing). You can’t see my references in this post, but they will be available when I publish my final bio on Ed.

Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model has the following “news filters” that determine the mass media’s news content in the United States.

Size, ownership, and profit orientation of the mass media

Herman and Chomsky cited the work of James Curran and Jean Seaton on the British working class press in the first half of the 19th century. British elites tried to destroy the working class press through punitive laws, which proved ineffective. After the punitive laws were repealed, there was a brief renaissance of the working class press, but the last half of the 19th century saw the “industrialization of the press,” and the working class press could not keep up with capitalist industrial practices. In 1837, the cost of establishing a profitable national weekly newspaper was less than a thousand pounds and breakeven sales were a circulation of 6,200. By 1867, the cost of establishing a new London daily was 50,000 pounds, and in the early 20th century, the Sunday Express invested two million pounds to reach a breakeven circulation of 250,000. By the end of the 19th century, the British working class press was effectively defunct. The United States never had anything resembling a working class press.

Herman and Chomsky analyzed the American media in the late-20th century, particularly 24 of the largest media companies. The authors cited Ben Bagdikian’s statistics that showed that the 29 largest media systems dispensed more than half of the newspapers, books, broadcasting, magazines, and movies in the United States. Herman and Chomsky argued that perhaps more important was how those large media organizations provided the national and global news for local media organizations, which usually only provided original news on local events.

Herman and Chomsky made the case that those large media conglomerates were all profit-seeking corporations that were owned and controlled by wealthy interests, and that any reporting contrary to the interests of the owners would be distorted by that conflict of interest. In addition, large industrial corporations such as General Electric, which was also a huge military contractor at the time, diversified into owning media companies, which further concentrated the ownership of the media into a few rich hands and created greater conflicts of interest.

When Ben Bagdikian first published The Media Monopoly in 1983, he noted that 50 media organizations controlled more than half of the United States’s media content (which shrank to 29 companies in The Media Monopoly’s 1987 edition, which was cited in Manufacturing Consent). Bagdikian observed that each edition of The Media Monopoly was dismissed by media figures as “alarmist,” but that by 2013, the number of media organizations controlling more than half of its output had shrunk to just five companies.

A few years after Manufacturing Consent was published, the influence of media ownership became starkly evident during the first Gulf War. General Electric (GE), through its subsidiary GE Aerospace, was one of the world’s largest military contractors in 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, and GE had acquired NBC in 1986. Before 1991, GE had been involved in several instances of censoring NBC’s reporting, such as removing a reference to GE in a Today Show segment on substandard products.

During the United States’s Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in 1991, GE’s technologies were part of nearly every weapons system deployed in that war. NBC regularly dispensed with journalism in favor of cheerleading, such as calling Iraq’s Scud missile an “evil weapon” while describing an American missile as “accurate within a few feet” soon after admitting that such an “accurate” missile had just hit Iraqi homes.

When the United States invaded Panama in 1989, the Pentagon’s spokesman was Pete Williams, whose prevarications on behalf of the Pentagon became legendary (such as his announcing 457 Iraqi deaths during Operation Desert Storm, when the real number was more like 100,000), and his performance during Operation Desert Storm earned him the appellation as commander of “Operation Desert Muzzle.” Williams’s and the Pentagon’s lies were so influential to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw that he announced that the Patriot anti-missile system “put the Scud in its place.” NBC’s glowing commentary failed to mention that the weapons it praised were built by its owner. In 1993, NBC hired Williams as a news correspondent.

GE’s influence led to a spectacular instance of censorship during 1991’s Gulf War. Jon Alpert has won 15 Emmy awards and has twice been nominated for Academy Awards for his documentary efforts. He was the first American journalist to bring back uncensored footage from Iraq in 1991, which depicted heavy civilization casualties. The footage was presented to NBC, which had commissioned the effort, and although even Tom Brokaw wanted it aired, NBC president Michael Gartner not only killed the story but fired Alpert and ensured that he never worked for NBC again. Alpert then took the footage to CBS, where CBS Evening News Executive Director Tom Bettag told Alpert that he and his footage would be on the air with CBS Evening News’s anchor Dan Rather the next evening. However, Bettag was fired that night and Alpert’s footage never aired on an American news show.

It was not until 1997 that the American people heard about the truth of those highly praised weapons systems, when a General Accounting Office report was declassified, which detailed the exaggerations of effectiveness made by the Pentagon and weapons manufacturers regarding the American weapons used in Operation Desert Storm.

I’ll put up the other sections as I draft them.

Best,

Wade

Foxie Loxie

13th December 2017, 14:55

Mentioning GE was very interesting to me as a neighbor of mine was fired from his job at a factory nearby that made airplane parts, due to a withdrawal of orders from GE. He had worked there 10 years!

Wade Frazier

14th December 2017, 16:01

Hi:

Here are two other sections on Ed and Noam’s propaganda model. We’ll see if the cigarette vignette makes it into the final version.

The advertising license to do business

Herman and Chomsky wrote that the Liberal chancellor of the British Exchequer, Sir George Lewis, in the mid-19th century observed that market forces would marginalize dissident opinion by promoting those newspapers “enjoying the preference of the advertising public.” The authors noted that, indeed, the pressure of advertising weakened the working-class press, and that the subsidy of advertising and the affluent audiences that they target, as well as the “downscale” audience that is also attracted, gives media that cater to affluent audiences an economic edge that marginalizes and drives out media that don’t attract or rely on such advertising revenue.

Herman and Chomsky cited Curran’s work on the subject, which noted that in its last year of publication, the Daily Herald had nearly twice the circulation of The Times, Financial Times, and the Guardian combined, and was held in far higher regard by its readers, but because it was not integrated into establishment systems with their generous advertising revenue, it failed, along with other social-democratic newspapers in the 1960s, which contributed to the Labor party’s decline. The authors wrote: “A mass movement without any major media support, and subject to a great deal of active press hostility, suffers a serious disability, and struggles against grave odds.”

Herman and Chomsky wrote how CBS took pride in informing its shareholders how it used a sophisticated approach to attract and retain affluent audiences. Just as the 19th century British press did, CBS was not seeking a wide-audience, but an affluent one that, in the 21st century parlance of the Internet, can be “monetized.” The authors noted that the advertisers, seeking those affluent audiences, exert great influence on media content. Advertisers do not want to help fund unsettling media content, but prefer content that puts viewers in the “buying mood.”

Herman and Chomsky provided an example of advertiser clout when, in 1985, public-television station WNET lost its corporate funding from Gulf + Western when it aired a documentary titled “Hungry for Profit,” which depicted predatory corporate practices in the Third World. Even before the documentary aired, WNET executives, who anticipated the negative corporate reaction, did their best to “sanitize” the show, but that effort did not prevent Gulf + Western’s pulling its funding while its CEO stated that the show was “virulently anti-business if not anti-American.” The London Economist remarked on the situation that “Most people believe that WNET would not make the same mistake again.”

Advertisers can also gang up on publications that step out of line, an example of which was when Mother Jones ran a series of articles in 1980 that discussed the medical findings that smoking was a major cause of cancer and heart disease. The tobacco companies pulled their ads en masse from Mother Jones, and that event helps explain that while Reader’s Digest had been campaigning for generations on the health hazards of smoking, no other mainstream publication dared to, including Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. Eight years after the Mother Jones incident, the world’s largest ad agency, Saatchi and Saatchi, lost its huge RJR Nabisco account when it produced an ad that announced Northwest Airline’s strict no-smoking rule on its flights. RJR Nabisco sold the Winston and Camels cigarette brands. Saatchi and Saatchi learned its lesson, and when it subsequently bought an ad agency that was preparing anti-smoking messages for the Minnesota Department of Health, Saatchi and Saatchi cancelled the deal with the health authorities rather than risk its $35 million fee for promoting Kool cigarettes.

The next year, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop angrily denounced magazines and newspapers that were full of ads for cigarettes and refused to publish anything on the dangers of smoking. The media collectively yawned and quickly consigned Koop’s diatribe to media oblivion. Andrew Mills, TV Guide’s assistant managing editor, stated in an interview for Unreliable Sources, “I think it would be naïve to expect publications that take a lot of revenue from the tobacco industry to go after them vigorously.” When Mills made that statement, every issue of TV Guide was filled with cigarette ads, and Mills never heard that TV Guide ever thought of publishing anything critical of cigarettes.

Some tobacco-ad-carrying publications went even further, as Playboy magazine ran an essay authored by an attorney that attacked proposals to limit cigarette ads, defended the rights of cigarette companies to promote cigarettes, and the essay specifically defended a Camels ad aimed at teenagers. In that issue of Playboy was a two-page color Camels ad.

The media’s conflicts of interest with advertisers could reach surreal levels. For a generation, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) ran tobacco ads. It only stopped running them in 1954 when drug companies that advertised in JAMA, as well as physicians, complained. Drug ads appeared next to cigarette ads in JAMA’s pages, those cigarette ads featured doctors promoting various brands, and the ads often made health claims that made cigarettes appear to be wonder drugs.

The event that finally spurred JAMA to cease running cigarette ads was the final ad campaign for cigarettes in its pages, which began when JAMA’s former editor, Morris Fishbein, the face of American medicine for a generation, entered into a lucrative consulting arrangement with Lorillard, the maker of Kent cigarettes, to structure research that “proved” the superior properties of Kent’s new Micronite filter, which was made of asbestos. The ad blitz that followed the Micronite filter “research” finally inspired the AMA to stop running cigarette ads and declare that its scientific meetings would ban cigarette exhibits (although the AMA’s headquarters had cigarette vending machines in its lobby until the 1980s). Fishbein worked with Phillip Morris on a similar “research” campaign in the 1930s, for the diethylene glycol “moistener” in its cigarettes, which Phillip Morris’s representatives used for a publicity campaign that it took directly into doctor’s offices and onto JAMA’s pages. It was not until 1950, the year after Fishbein was finally ousted as JAMA’s editor, in the aftermath of a scandal relating to his wiping out an alternative cancer treatment practitioner, that the first study of lung disease and smoking appeared in JAMA’s pages. That study showed that 96.5% of lung cancer patients in St. Louis hospitals were smokers.

In the increasingly hostile environment for American cigarette companies during the 1980s, the Reagan administration successfully used the threat of trade sanctions to force Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand to open their markets to American tobacco companies. The “free trade” rhetoric behind the Reagan administration’s offensive was reminiscent of the British Opium Wars against China. The tobacco industries in those nations were moribund before the entry of the American tobacco companies, and their market was primarily comprised of adult men. In the wake of the entry of American tobacco companies, with ad blitzes that specifically targeted women and children, smoking rates in those nations skyrocketed.

That groveling before their advertisers was far from restricted to cigarette ads. At Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report, they would give their advertisers advanced notice, including tobacco companies, if an article ran, including plane crashes and studies on alcoholism, that put their advertisers’ products in an unflattering light, so that the advertisers could move their ads accordingly. Also, those publications would produce ad copy that looked like news, not an ad, to readers who were not careful to distinguish ads from “news.”

Herman and Chomsky concluded that the “buying mood” imperative of TV advertisers ensures that only bland, lightly entertaining content will be delivered to viewers, as the primary reason for advertising is to disseminate the “selling message.”

The sourcing of mass media news

Herman and Chomsky wrote that “The mass media are drawn into a symbiotic relationship with powerful sources of information by economic necessity and reciprocity of interests.” The authors noted that the media’s needs for a reliable stream of raw material for news, and the need of powerful institutions to shape society to their liking, form the basis of symbiotic arrangements between the media and governmental and corporate institutions, which steadily produce material that is increasingly published by news agencies virtually unaltered, turning the mass media into little more than a conduit of governmental and corporate propaganda. The media dependency on those news sources can be extreme. Herman and Chomsky wrote, “It is very difficult to call authorities on whom one depends for daily news liars, even if they tell whoppers.”

Herman and Chomsky presented a survey of the American military that showed that the Pentagon produced 371 magazines in 1971, at a cost of $57 million, which was 16 times larger than the largest American publisher. The authors wrote about Senator J.W Fulbright’s investigation of the U.S. Air Force in 1968 that yielded the findings that the Air Force had 1,305 full-time public relations employees, and that the resources that governmental and corporate institutions devoted to spreading their message are hundreds and even thousands of times greater than those of dissident organizations.

Regarding the American government’s public relations efforts, Herman and Chomsky wrote:

“It should also be noted that in the case of the largesse of the Pentagon and the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy, the subsidy is at the taxpayer’s expense, so that, in effect, the citizenry pays to be propagandized in the interest of powerful groups such as military contractors and other sponsors of state terrorism.”

Herman and Chomsky wrote that in 1972, future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, urging them “to buy the top academic reputations in the country to add credibility to corporate studies and give business a stronger voice on campus.” The authors noted that in the 1970s and early 1980s, that buy-an-expert trend began the era of “think tanks” that had the effect of “propagandizing the corporate viewpoint.”

Herman and Chomsky provided an analysis of such “experts” on terrorism and defense on the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour for a one-year period in 1985-1986, on the subjects of the so-called Bulgarian Connection to the assassination attempt on John Paul II, the shooting down of the Korean airliner KAL 007, and terrorism, defense, and arms control. The majority of guests on the show were current and former officials and conservative think tank “experts.”

The year after Manufacturing Consent was published, the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) published a study of 40 months of Nightline shows, which confirmed Herman and Chomsky’s analysis of MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, in that the vast majority of American guests on the show were professionals, government officials, or corporate representatives. Only five percent of the guests spoke on behalf of the public interest (peace, environmental, consumer advocates, and so on). Nightline’s most frequent guests were Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, both former U.S. Secretaries of State.

Nightline responded to FAIR’s survey and Ted Koppel, the host of Nightline, replied that FAIR’s survey merely reflected Nightline’s shows during the reign of the conservative Reagan administration. FAIR’s director, Jeff Cohen, replied to Koppel’s defense with:

“This explanation could have been given uttered by a Soviet TV news programmer – pre-glasnost. American television news is not supposed to be strictly a forum for representatives of the state. FAIR does not criticize Nightline for inviting policy makers to appear on the show, but for its exclusion of forceful American critics of the policy. Critics, and critical sources, are part of a news story.”

In 1994, the authors of the study released by FAIR on Nightline, David Croteau and William Hoynes, published By Invitation Only: How the Media Limit Political Debate, which presented not only their Nightline research results, but also their analysis of the MacNeil-Lehrer News Hour, and their results were similar to Herman and Chomsky’s. Their study of several hundred Nightline episodes showed that of Nightline's guests, 82% were male, 89% were white, and 78% were government officials, professionals, and corporate representatives. They also presented the same data taken from The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour. Those numbers were even more skewed, at 87% male, 90% white, and 89% government officials, professionals, and corporate representatives.

The media themselves also provided their own “experts,” such as Claire Sterling and John Barron, and another class of experts was remarked on by Herman and Chomsky, of “former radicals who have ‘come to see the light.’” Those former “sinners,” whose work was formerly marginalized and ridiculed by the mass media, were suddenly catapulted into the bright lights and became revered “experts.” The authors recalled how Soviet defectors during the McCarthy era vied with each other to provide the most lurid stories and warnings of a coming Soviet invasion. Herman and Chomsky concluded that, “The steady flow of ex-radicals from marginality to media attention shows that we are witnessing a durable method of providing experts who will say what the establishment wants said.”

Best,

Wade

Krishna

15th December 2017, 08:45

Orientation toward humans predicts cognitive performance in orang-utans (https://www.nature.com/articles/srep40052)

NYT has an article (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/14/magazine/to-unlock-the-brains-mysteries-puree-it.html) on Suzana Herculana-Houzel's research.

parrots, dolphins and apes raised by scientists in intellectually demanding environments often develop a degree of intelligence not seen in their wild counterparts: Culture unlocks the brain’s latent potential.

Culture definition is "the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively." The spread of knowledge (via education) is the spread of culture.

This ties in back to Sen and Dreze, my theory is that they should give more credit to education and less to other public policies like healthcare (they are important, but I think education makes the critical difference). The Kerala Model (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala_model) it not really unique, Costa Rica, Chile, Sri Lanka, China to one extent or other were poor and had with some variation good life expectancy, maternal mortality rates etc... And in all those cases education preceded human development. They do get credit for repeatedly showing via tables that gdp is not a good predictor of human development.

Which ties back in to why I think Free Software Movement is important and gets it right. Free Software people don't fully appreciate the role that they are playing in the spread of knowledge, a path they did not anticipate until 2000 (https://www.gnu.org/encyclopedia/anencyc.txt). The effects of their actions has been to spread knowledge, culture and therefore play an unwitting critical role in the evolution of society.

"Epochal Events in the human journey, and like the first one(s), they were all energy events above all else, and were all dependent on humans gaining the technological prowess and social organization that enabled them to exploit a new energy source"

When (and iff) the Fifth Epoch arrives Stallman and friends should be remembered for their contribution to the technological prowess (internet, software and tools), and the (virtual) social organizations that they indirectly enabled.

Wade Frazier

15th December 2017, 14:38

Hi Krishna:

Keep working that muscle! :) That brain and intelligence work that you cite (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1196174&viewfull=1#post1196174) is the nature/nurture argument for the 21st century. In this world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), probably everybody’s IQ is over 200, and I’ll allow that there may have been some genetic (nature) tinkering involved, but done under the framework of love, not fear and greed, as dominates this world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115), and ours today.

For my part, the Free Software Movement already gets credit (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#utopia), thanks to your making me aware of it, no matter how Stallman (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/73-Darren-Geffert-s-introductory-posts?p=130&viewfull=1#post130) is still stuck in the religion of his Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle). The mastery of language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language) was the first human Internet, the city was the second (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer), literacy was the third (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#writing), close behind the city, and now we have the true Internet.

For many years, it has been well known that you can very cheaply bring up the most critical human development stats close to Western levels. Reducing infant mortality, eradicating hunger and its related diseases, raising literacy, and the like can be done globally for a tiny fraction of what the Pentagon spends each year. That is the surreal part that true humanitarians have discussed for at least the past 70 years, and probably far longer. Even Eisenhower remarked on it (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#racket). But the global rackets (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#rappoport) have actively prevented it and, of course, Godzilla is the most culpable of all (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc), although we all have played our part (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#responsibility).

On that brain aspect, I have recently been informed that my Einstein of a father (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/70-Distinguishing-the-wheat-from-the-chaff-and-my-life-s-journey?p=102&viewfull=1#post102) now has dementia. My mother went demented, as her mother did, but they never stimulated their brains. That my father has it too, at only 81, is more incentive than ever to keep my motor going in high gear for the rest of my life. Ed still had it until the very end (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm), at 92, and he is my inspiration on that score. With my father’s coming demise, I am going to be freed to write far more frankly about my journey with Dennis, as my father’s role was greater than I have publicly disclosed so far. We’ll see when I can.

Best,

Wade

Foxie Loxie

15th December 2017, 14:55

So sorry to hear about your Father, Wade! Looks like you are fulfilling your True Purpose in Life! :flower:

Wade Frazier

15th December 2017, 15:12

Thanks Foxie:

Well, as far as my purpose goes, that voice in my head (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3) never let me in on the joke, but pursuing the biggest event in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) seems worthwhile. If God or some other entity had different plans in store for me, well, too bad! :)

Best,

Wade

Krishna

16th December 2017, 06:34

The mastery of language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language) was the first human Internet, the city was the second (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer), literacy was the third (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#writing), close behind the city, and now we have the true Internet.

For many years, it has been well known that you can very cheaply bring up the most critical human development stats close to Western levels. Reducing infant mortality, eradicating hunger and its related diseases, raising literacy, and the like can be done globally for a tiny fraction of what the Pentagon spends each year.

Going even farther than language, fire increased life spans which allowed for the cultural transmission of knowledge (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/attachment.php?attachmentid=35894&d=1502647126)

Human Development is cheap in energy terms but not that cheap Wade. I saw estimates of $40 billion shortfall for high school education all over the world. There are other goals (http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/). So I assume it will take a significant fraction of the Pentagon budget. Definitely the entire budget is enough. And also the requirement would reduce to zero within 20 to 40 years.

Sorry to hear about your father.

Wade Frazier

16th December 2017, 06:57

Thanks Krishna:

Ah, you might be about to show me that my information is dated again! :) I’ll see if I can dig it up, about those sustainable development goals. Here is one that I found in my Ralph Hovnanian quotes (http://ahealedplanet.net/mdaq.htm).

"Since the end of WWII, 25 million people have died in war somewhere in the world. War has been fought in as many as 12 countries at one time. ...In 1981 the world spent about $22 for military purposes for every $1 it spent on development aid to poor countries." - War vs. Development, Oxfam America News, Winter 1983.

I have seen other stats, again, going back 30 years ago or so, of how the infant mortality, hunger, illiteracy, and other basic human development measures could be globally brought to close to Western standards for something like 10% of the Pentagon budget. It likely is a more circumscribed list than that sustainable development list that you had. I’ll see if I can dig it up, and I might have to update it. :) However, in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), that kind of arithmetic becomes meaningless.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

16th December 2017, 07:12

Hi:

Before I hit the hay, to address Krishna’s recent posts, in my studies, what I found was a typical dynamic in these situations, in that the first efforts get huge returns on “investment.” We could call it the low-hanging fruit, but human development measures skyrocket with the first applied efforts. Later, there are diminishing returns, but the early resources spent on alleviating those Third World conditions (again, my terminology is likely dated here) can produce huge benefits. Relatively poor countries can greatly improve their human development numbers with relatively small incremental resources, and Kerala has been a model for a long time, and again, I am dating myself. I did some study of the Kerala situation back in the early 1990s, as I recall, or it might have even been before I met Dennis.

When I was thrown into the hellhole of Skid Row in LA (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&viewfull=1#post406928), nearly 35 years ago, I began to become a student of poverty and misery. But it was after my first stint with Dennis, when I was really woken up, when I began looking into such situations in earnest. But it has been a while, and I have not really kept up on it, such as Krishna’s recent correction the global infant death toll in my writings, which has been cut in half in recent years, with concerted international effort. Those efforts are to be commended. They won’t help us reach the Fifth Epoch much, if at all, but it is good work nevertheless.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

16th December 2017, 18:38

Hi:

I need to focus on Ed’s bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1089&viewfull=1#post1089) for the rest of the year, but Krishna’s posts (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1196174&viewfull=1#post1196174) on development and poor nations deserve being addressed. In an era of phony “progressive” and “humanitarian” organizations, Oxfam seemed at times to be better than most, but that may be just another mirage (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam#Criticism). That quote from Oxfam (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1196397&viewfull=1#post1196397) also seriously understated the situation. The vast majority of development aid to the poor nations was phony from the outset, led by the World Bank, IMF (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#banking), and the like. When John Perkins came forward (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#neocolonialist), nobody in my circles was surprised in the slightest. The Peace Corps (http://ahealedplanet.net/racket.htm#peace) is a neocolonial tool, and if the Peace Corps and missionaries fail to keep those nations enslaved to global capitalism, then it is time for the CIA (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm) and the spooks (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#cia), and then if that fails, send in the marines (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading).

I know of no truly “rich philanthropists” active on the planet today. The very term (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rich) is an oxymoron. It would be a relative pittance to raise human development stats away from the brink that so many nations are on today.

I don’t know anybody in my circles at home that thinks that Bill Gates is really some kind of humanitarian. Gates’s promoting (http://www.businessinsider.com/the-better-angels-of-our-nature-bill-gates-2017-5) an imperial valentine (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#pinker) such as The Better Angels of our Nature is typical Gates. Gates is close chums with Paul Kagame (https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/rwanda-paul-kagame-americas-darling-tyrant-103963), who is probably the greatest mass murderer alive (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#rwanda). Those are the kind of “humanitarian” efforts that I am all-too-familiar with. When Dennis was flying high, billionaires would swarm him, and I never heard of one of them parting with a dollar, as they sniffed out opportunities. Greer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=938&viewfull=1#post938) had similar encounters with those billionaire “philanthropists.” Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm) went to his grave looking for rich humanitarians, and never found one.

As the Fifth Epoch begins, all problems of poverty and human development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive) will be solved, almost as an afterthought. In that light, it has been surreal to see all progressive organizations that I ever heard of react to the idea of free energy with denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1) and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level5), and even go into active attack (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists), seeing free energy as the enemy. I think that it is just another egocentric reaction, as people carve out their niches and defend them. If poverty, environmental devastation, disease, and the like went away, what would those “humanitarians” and “progressives” do all day?

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

17th December 2017, 05:00

Hi:

I have been busy on Ed’s bio, and just read his last published writing while he was alive, on the propaganda model at 30, in Project Censored’s 2018 edition (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1609807812/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s01?ie=UTF8&psc=1). I have watched about all of Ed’s interviews that I could, and several happened in his home. It looks like Ed’s office was likely not far different from Noam’s (https://bennorton.com/noam-chomskys-office-looks-exactly-like-you-imagined-it/), on the messy scale. During my studies over the years, I regularly encountered accounts of meeting renowned scientists and scholars, and their offices could be a maze of stacks of books and other materials, such as fossils. Well, mine is not as bad! :) I am attaching a picture that I just took of my home office. Those stacks in front of and on my desk are related to Ed’s bio. You can see one stack at the end of my desk. It is one of two (the other is behind it), which are for when I tackle my essay update. I also attached what the floor next my bed regularly looks like. Around every couple of months, I clean it up and reduce the stack to only a few items, but then it immediately begins growing again. I have never injured myself tripping on a stack, etc., so my “system” seems to work. :)

When I wrote my big essay, the process was spending a week or two on a chapter, and I would have a huge stack next to my desk, and I would clear it away for the next chapter. I particularly remember that process when I was working on the journey of life on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#midpoint). To a degree, it is just the nature of the beast. The constant fight against entropy! :)

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

17th December 2017, 15:55

Hi:

Before I take a little hike, I want to comment on Ed and Noam’s propaganda model. They never denied that there are “corporate abuses and scandals” (from Ed’s last essay that was published in his lifetime (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1134&viewfull=1#post1134)), but that did not invalidate the framework of the propaganda model. The propaganda model works without much elite coordination at the top. But that does not mean that there is not any.

I found the same thing in my adventures and in my medical racket studies (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#developing). Most of the organized suppression is structural (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#structural), which means that people just pursuing their narrow self-interest do the vast majority of the damage. Doctors and drug company employees (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#system) who only care about getting rich, prosecutors who don’t care if their targets are innocent or not (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#care) and will lie their asses off to gain those coveted convictions, are part of the dynamic. Sheriff’s deputies who rob their targets in raids (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#raid), as standard operating procedure, are also part of the scene. Local energy interests protecting their turf, as they wipe out innovations that can disrupt their markets (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#scam), including hiring hit men (http://ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#tale), without any direction or encouragement from the global cartel (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc), is also part of the dynamic. In our adventures, we suffered organized suppression from the local, state, national, and global (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) interests.

So, the structural approach does not have to deny elite control, although structuralists are often ideologically opposed (http://ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#religion) to the idea of it. A purely structural, or a purely conspiratorial, view of the issue is going to be lopsided (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness). Both dynamics play their part. That is what comprehensive thinking (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) means. If people understand the primary lesson of my journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708), then a lot becomes clearer. People such as Ed, Noam, Ralph (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm), Howard (http://ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm), Mr. Professor, Dennis, Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures), etc., are beacons in the darkness, and why I know that I seek needles in haystacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle).

Best,

Wade

Krishna

18th December 2017, 04:29

organized suppression is structural.... we suffered organized suppression from the local, state, national, and global interests.

I think this is the key, elites at each level have more in common with each other than people below and therefore tend to act in their interests. It is mostly structural, sometimes there is a wink and nod, and rarely even more. And each level above follows the same pattern.

I want to think in terms of flow of information and action based on information. In Second Epoch societies all information is known by everybody and is acted upon immediately (in terms of sharing or enforcing sharing), defense too is immediate and as there nothing to protect in terms of assets. In Third Epoch information is stratified and therefore leads to inequality, defense is needed for grain stores and that itself leads to inequality. Forth Epoch societies are even more stratified because the opportunities for elites to control and "steal" are way higher, and the true source of power: energy in terms of oil or coal is easily controlled.

Why do commoners choose to move from Second Epoch to Third or Fourth. I think life becomes easier with each epoch, with less inter personal violence and death. The downside is increasing inequality from Second to Third to Fourth epochs.

The Fifth will be different, because nobody has a stake in inequality.

Wade Frazier

18th December 2017, 05:55

Gee, Krishna:

When I see a brilliant little post like that (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1196740&viewfull=1#post1196740), I can see that I am not wasting my time! :) Yes, what we saw was mostly structural, but also conspiratorial, as in each situation what they did was blatantly illegal and even evil, but they were always able to portray their actions as “protecting the public,” which is the greatest racket Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jungle), and, of course, the elites largely operated from the shadows, using their lackeys to attack us.

In my coming essay update, virtually every chapter is going to be revised, and some will be pretty significant. The First (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1), Second (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2), Third (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3), and Fourth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) Epochs will get significant overhauls. Why the common people participated in each Epochal Event is a very good question. It looks like the immediate impetus for each one was survival, which led to opportunities scarcely imagined. The benefits of each Epoch over the previous one were obvious, and a reduction in violence was definitely part of it, but each event was also world-changing, bringing things into existence that were not even imaginable (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine) in previous Epochs. Literacy was not even a concept in the Second Epoch, nor were crops, metallurgy, civilization, etc.

I am doing what I can so that the Fifth Epochal Event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is not survival-oriented (which is partly why all previous efforts have failed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches)), although the USA’s first energy crisis is what led my fellow travelers and me (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures) into the free energy field.

I think that it was the carrot more than the stick which got the common peoples (or common apes, for the First Epoch :) ) to play along with each Epochal Event, and yes, elites are a passing phase that will disappear in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear), and they know it, and that understanding is behind the actions of those at those highest levels (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc). It will be Game Over for them, and they know it.

For years, I have wanted to do a pretty big overhaul of the Fourth Epoch chapters. The beginning of the Industrial Revolution in England was a seminal event in the human journey, and there was little, if anything, that made it inevitable. It was a confluence of circumstances that led to it. One pal recently gave me an old Scientific American article on coal and the Industrial Revolution, which spurred me to order this book (https://www.amazon.com/Energy-English-Industrial-Revolution-Wrigley/dp/0521131855/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1513488211&sr=1-12&keywords=coal+history), which surely will make it into my essay update. These kinds of heads up from my pals, and you are a key one, is helping me flesh out my work, to make it more comprehensive and better. The basic thrust will never change: the Epochal potential of free energy (and related sequestered technologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground)), but I am likely a ways from getting that big essay into the shape that I originally wanted, but what is there today is still pretty close. If I die tomorrow, that essay can stand on its own, but I can hardly wait to work on the next update of it. Lots of good stuff to add. If I had to guess, I am about five years away from getting the big essay into what I will consider world-class shape, although the current version is more than adequate for choir-formation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). You are hitting some notes, Krishna, and I appreciate it.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

19th December 2017, 13:05

Hi:

Here is a rough draft of Ed and Noam’s fourth propaganda model filter

Flak and the enforcers

The propaganda model’s first three filters act as powerful coercive controls over what news is published, but sometimes news that does not conform to the dictates of power is produced. Herman and Chomsky wrote about “flak” as a negative reaction directed at media organizations. It can simply be a letter to the editor or phone call to a TV station, but the most influential flak comes from highly organized operations or the powerful, such as a call from the White House to a TV news anchor. The authors emphasized right-wing think tank flak and cited Accuracy in Media (AIM) in particular. AIM is a media watch-dog organization founded by Reed Irvine, whose diatribes were frequently published in the media, as he and AIM were given easy access to the media. AIM was one of many corporate-funded organizations that rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, whose general purpose was to produce flak to police an already right-leaning media while using the Orwellian “liberal” epithet to describe the media.

Freedom House has had close relations with AIM, and Herman and Chomsky provided an example of Freedom House’s kind of flak when they wrote:

“In 1982, when the Reagan administration was having trouble containing media reporting of the systematic killing of civilians by the Salvadoran army, Freedom House came through with a denunciation of the ‘imbalance’ in media reporting from El Salvador.”

Herman and Chomsky analyzed one of Freedom House’s most notable publications, Peter Braestrup’s Big Story, which contended that the media helped lose the Vietnam War. The authors wrote that the premise of Big Story was that the media’s function was supposed to be as cheerleaders for all American wars, no matter the merits of American interventions and invasions.

In the years before and after Manufacturing Consent was first published, spectacular instances of flak were seen. In 1982, The New York Times's reporter Ray Bonner accurately reported on the El Mozote massacre, committed by American-trained El Salvadoran forces. About one thousand people were murdered, mainly women and children. That mass murder was committed by Reagan's "fledgling democracy," reporting the truth cost Bonner his job, and AIM led the attack. The alternative media covered the El Mozote and Bonner story extensively in the 1980s, and Bonner was vindicated when the mass grave was discovered.

In 1998, a joint project by Time and Cable News Network (CNN) produced a report on Operation Tailwind, which was a secret American operation in Laos in 1970. CNN reporters April Oliver and Jack Smith published their story on the alleged use of Sarin nerve gas by the American military in Operation Tailwind, which was partly mounted to find and kill deserting American soldiers. CNN's Peter Arnett also helped report the story. It was broadcasted on June 7 and June 14, 1998, and Time ran it in its June 15, 1998 edition.

The reporters worked on the story for several months and interviewed people involved in the operation, as well as Major General John Singlaub and Admiral Thomas Moorer, who were aware of operations such as Tailwind. CNN was prepared to support its reporters, but did not anticipate the level of flak. AIM went on the attack, but the biggest flak came from the Pentagon and Henry Kissinger. In the flak’s wake, CNN hired two attorneys to critique Oliver and Smith's report, CNN retracted the story, and Oliver and Smith were fired. The establishment press accounts of the Tailwind controversy made it appear as if CNN responsibly retracted a story that its loose cannon reporters snuck through.

Whatever inaccuracies there may have been in their story, Oliver and Smith were fired because of whom they offended. Peter Arnett's career with CNN ended in April 1999 because of the issue. He was one of America's finest mainstream reporters, but his continual reporting of the "wrong" story, such as his uncensored reports from Baghdad in 1991, won him the enmity of many powerful people.

Reed Irvine publicly called for the firing of those responsible for the Tailwind story and got his wish. Oliver and her colleagues were eventually vindicated. Singlaub sued Oliver to clear his name, sullied in the Tailwind flap. On January 17, 2000, Thomas Moorer, in the presence of Oliver and Singlaub, was deposed as part of the lawsuit. The transcript of that deposition was posted to the Internet (http://ahealedplanet.net/moorer.txt), and Moorer confirmed all the essentials of Oliver’s reporting, including:

Sarin gas (also known as "BG" and "CBU-15") was stockpiled at the Nakhorn Phanom base in Thailand, where the Tailwind mission was launched;
The mission sought American "defectors," and that killing them would have been a mission option;
Sarin was regularly used on the secret missions, the pilots knew they carried it and knew how, when, and why to deploy it; Moorer justified its deployment if it would save American lives, and admitted that the Montagnards had gas masks that were too large to fit properly, which allowed the nerve gas to kill them and prompted the USA to begin making smaller gas masks;
He believed that Sarin was used on the mission and that it was successful.

In essence, Oliver's reporting was accurate. Although the Tailwind flap was huge news when it happened, the revelations of Moorer's testimony failed to receive any mainstream media coverage. Singlaub's lawsuit was quietly settled and Oliver received a substantial settlement, reputed to be about $1 million, although the nature of such settlements is that Oliver cannot publicly say that she was vindicated, but the silence of Singlaub and others spoke volumes, and Oliver always stood by her story. The careers of Oliver and others were ruined, but not a hint of "sorry" could be heard from Irvine or the others who attacked Oliver and her colleagues for reporting the truth. They merely moved on to their next flak targets.

Similarly, reporter Gary Webb ran a series of reports in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996 regarding the issue of Contra complicity in the drug trafficking in South Central Los Angeles and elsewhere. The same stories came out during the Iran-Contra scandal, and it put the powerful in a bad light. There was no substantive objection to Webb's powerfully supported story, and the CIA and Justice Department confirmed key elements of it, but nevertheless, Webb’s career ended. Webb committed suicide in 2004, largely because of the financial pressures of his career’s termination.

Immediately after Oliver and Smith's public professional execution came the story of Mike Gallagher of the Cincinnati Inquirer, who published a series of articles about Chiquita Brand International in May 1998. Chiquita used to be known as United Fruit. The USA overthrew the Guatemalan government in 1954 so that United Fruit could continue to "own" the country. Gallagher reported that what went on in Central America was merely more of the same, and he found himself legally attacked by Chiquita, accusing him of illegally accessing their voicemail system.

During American invasions, the flak could become deadly. During the American invasion of Panama, American troops murdered Spanish photojournalist Juantxu Rodríguez for the crime of taking pictures of the invasion. Several Reuters reporters, for instance, were murdered by the American military, with the first coming during the conquest of Baghdad, when the invading Americans shelled the Palestine Hotel, which was well known to host foreign journalists. It was later revealed to be a potential target before the invasion. Later that year, before the Abu Ghraib prison became a household word in the West, for its tortures and murders of prisoners, a Reuters cameraman was killed by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib as he stood outside of its gates, filming. Another Reuters photographer was imprisoned in Abu Ghraib. In 2007, a Reuters photographer and his driver were murdered by a American helicopter crew. The official story of those murders was suppressed until footage of the murders was leaked by Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning and Wikileaks. The murders received no reprimands while Manning went to prison and Wikileaks’s founder, Julian Assange, lives in asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy in London.

Between 2002 and 2017, the United States sank from 17th to 43rd in press freedom, in the annual report by Reporters without Borders. Herman and Chomsky wrote, “News management itself is designed to produce flak.”

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

20th December 2017, 16:24

Hi:

Here is the final filter of Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model, followed by their famous paired example of media coverage of murders, depending on who was performing the murders.

Anticommunism (or “fear ideology”) as a control mechanism (partly replaced by the “war on terror” after the fall of the Soviet Union)

The final news filter presented by Herman and Chomsky was ideological, and when Manufacturing Consent was first published, that ideology in the United States was anticommunism. The authors wrote:

“Communism as the ultimate evil has always been the specter haunting property owners, as it threatens the very root of their class positions and superior status.”

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Chomsky said that he thought that the final news filter should have been more generalized, to portray a malevolent external power to scare the populace into huddling under the “protection” of the state, as a primary strategy of elite rule is through “induced fear,” and especially in democratic societies. Chomsky and Herman wrote that since the demise of the Soviet Union, the “‘war on terror’ has provided a useful substitute for the Soviet Menace.” Herman stated near his life’s end that in the first edition of Manufacturing Consent, they should have probably included market ideology as a filter, as the market economy has long been promoted in the American media as an “ideal arrangement of the economic order.”

Herman and Chomsky stated that their hypothesis was no “conspiracy theory,” but that market and structural principles were a better explanation of the media’s behavior. A Canadian documentary of Chomsky’s life and work was released in 1992, titled Manufacturing Consent, which briefly featured Herman. It was the most popular documentary in Canadian history to that time, yet it never played on American mainstream television or had a mass theatrical release in the United States, but played at American colleges.

After presenting the propaganda model, Herman and Chomsky presented case studies of the propaganda model in action. In Manufacturing Consent, Herman and Chomsky coined the terms “worthy and unworthy victims” (which Chomsky later stated was Herman’s invention). Worthy victims are victims of official enemies, and unworthy victims are victims of us or our allies and clients. Herman and Chomsky often used pairing analysis, which Herman thought that, with the propaganda model, was his chief contribution to the field of scholarship. Not that Herman invented paired analysis, but he believed that he and his coauthors’ efforts may have “given them more weight and salience” in subsequent studies.

Their paired analysis of worthy and unworthy victims in Manufacturing Consent also became their most famous, in which they compared the media’s coverage of the murder of Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko by the Polish police to the murders of one hundred church workers in Latin America, who were killed by American client regimes. Herman and Chomsky studied the coverage in The New York Times, Time, Newsweek, and CBS News, which in 2017 are still the most respected media productions in the United States. For the murders of Popieluszko and the Latin American church workers, including Archbishop Romero and four American church-women, the authors adduced the number of articles, their length, whether they were on the front page and in editorials, and in the case of CBS news, how many news segments were on the evening news. The coverage afforded Popieluszko’s murder was far more than the collective coverage of the hundred murders of church workers in El Salvador and Guatemala, which were American client states when the murders occurred.

Herman and Chomsky noted that the coverage of Popieluszko’s murder was “somewhat inflated” because of the coverage of the trial and convictions of the Polish policemen who murdered Popieluszko, while virtually no murders of the hundred church-workers in Latin America were prosecuted at all. The quantitative aspect of Herman and Chomsky’s analysis was complemented by a qualitative one. The media’s treatment of worthy victims stress their humanity and even saintly qualities, while the media’s treatment of unworthy victims’ suffering is perfunctory if at all, and in the case of the American women, American Secretary of State Alexander Haig and American ambassador to the UN, Jeane Kirkpatrick, went so far as to say that the women deserved it, as they lied about the circumstances of their deaths and their relationship with the “rebels” in El Salvador (those women had none).

The media’s reaction to Popieluszko’s murder was to provide great detail on the manner of his death, demands for justice, and the search for responsibility at the top, as the media strongly hinted at Soviet involvement. For Archbishop Romero’s and the 99 other church-worker victims’ murders, including the American women, the coverage was muted, if any, and only rarely was there even an attempt to investigate or prosecute, or any interest shown by the media in knowing who might have been responsible for the murders. When four El Salvadoran National Guardsmen were eventually prosecuted for the murders of the American women, years later and only under intense American pressure, the trial officials and American media never even hinted at whose orders they might have been carrying out.

Best,

Wade

Wade Frazier

23rd December 2017, 02:01

Hi:

Oh my, I was on a roll today, as I had the day off from work. To expand on what I have previously written, my original draft (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm) of Ed’s bio was intended as more of an introduction of my bio work to Ed, which I hoped would lead to a close collaboration with him on his bio.

There was already a decent Wikipedia bio on the propaganda model (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1130&viewfull=1#post1130), so I skimped on the Manufacturing Consent chapter (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman1.htm#manufacturing), as I planned to go fairly light on it in Ed’s bio. With Ed’s death, I decided that my Ed bio needs to stand on its own. I’ll still make an edited bio for Wikipedia, but Ed thought that Manufacturing Consent was his most important work, so I needed to do justice to it in my bio, so it is now the largest chapter of Ed’s bio, and I am reproducing the chapter draft in full below.

I plan it publish Ed’s bio on my site, as well as Wikipedia, by year-end, and we will see how that ambitious timeframe goes. If I can’t get it done by then, then in January, but I really want to get it done this year.
Best,

Wade

Manufacturing Consent and the propaganda model

Herman’s framework of analysis in Corporate Control, Corporate Power, in which competing interests would still unite on the mutually beneficial goal of maximizing corporate profit and power, was a precursor to his and Chomsky’s propaganda model (PM), of which Herman was the primary author. The PM formed the central framework of his next effort with Chomsky, published in 1988 and titled Manufacturing Consent, which is arguably their most famous work, both jointly and individually. The book’s title came from Walter Lippmann’s writings, which noted the “manufacture of [the public’s] consent” for elite activities.

Herman and Chomsky’s PM has the following “news filters” that determine the mass media’s news content in the United States.

Size, ownership, and profit orientation of the mass media

Herman and Chomsky cited the work of James Curran and Jean Seaton on the British working-class press in the first half of the 19th century. British elites tried to destroy the working-class press through punitive laws, which proved ineffective. After the punitive laws were repealed, there was a brief renaissance of the working-class press, but the last half of the 19th century saw the “industrialization of the press,” and the working-class press could not survive in an environment of capitalist industrial practices. In 1837, the cost of establishing a profitable national weekly newspaper was less than a thousand pounds and breakeven sales were a circulation of 6,200. By 1867, the cost of establishing a new London daily was 50,000 pounds, and in the early 20th century, the Sunday Express invested two million pounds to reach a breakeven circulation of 250,000. By the end of the 19th century, the British working-class press was effectively defunct. The authors noted that similar dynamics were at work in the United States in the 19th century, and by 1945, even small-town newspaper publishing was considered big business, with huge capital investment required to start-up a newspaper.

Herman and Chomsky analyzed the American media in the late-20th century, particularly 24 of the largest media companies. The authors cited Ben Bagdikian’s statistics that showed that the 29 largest media systems dispensed more than half of the newspapers, books, broadcasting, magazines, and movies in the United States. Herman and Chomsky argued that of great importance was also how those large media organizations provided the national and global news for local media organizations, which usually only provided original news on local events.

Herman and Chomsky made the case that those large media conglomerates were all profit-seeking corporations that were owned and controlled by wealthy interests, and that any reporting contrary to the interests of the owners would be distorted by that conflict of interest. In addition, large industrial corporations such as General Electric, which was also a huge military contractor at the time, diversified into owning media companies, which further concentrated the ownership of the media into a few rich hands and created greater conflicts of interest.

When Ben Bagdikian first published The Media Monopoly in 1983, he noted that 50 media organizations controlled more than half of the United States’s media content (which shrank to 29 companies in The Media Monopoly’s 1987 edition, which was cited in Manufacturing Consent). Bagdikian observed that each edition of The Media Monopoly was dismissed by media figures as “alarmist,” but that by 2004, the number of media organizations controlling more than half of its output had shrunk to just five companies. Bagdikian contended that such a huge concentration of media companies “constitute a new Private Ministry of Truth and Culture” that Herman and Chomsky wrote: “can set the national agenda.”

A few years after Manufacturing Consent was published, the influence of media ownership became starkly evident during the first Gulf War. General Electric (GE), through its subsidiary GE Aerospace, was one of the world’s largest military contractors in 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, and GE had acquired NBC in 1986. Before 1991, GE had been involved in several instances of censoring NBC’s reporting, such as removing a reference to GE in a Today Show segment on substandard products.

During the United States’s Operation Desert Storm against Iraq in 1991, GE’s technologies were part of nearly every weapons system deployed in that war. NBC regularly dispensed with journalism in favor of cheerleading, such as calling Iraq’s Scud missile an “evil weapon” while describing an American missile as “accurate within a few feet” soon after admitting that such an “accurate” missile had just hit Iraqi homes.

When the United States invaded Panama in 1989, the Pentagon’s spokesman was Pete Williams, whose prevarications on behalf of the Pentagon became legendary (such as his announcing 457 Iraqi deaths during Operation Desert Storm, when the real number was more like 100,000), and his performance during Operation Desert Storm earned him the appellation as commander of “Operation Desert Muzzle.” Williams’s and the Pentagon’s lies were so influential to NBC anchor Tom Brokaw that he announced that the Patriot anti-missile system “put the Scud in its place.” NBC’s glowing commentary failed to mention that the weapons it praised were built by its owner. In 1993, NBC hired Williams as a news correspondent, a position that he still held in 2017.

GE’s influence contributed to a spectacular instance of censorship during 1991’s Gulf War. Jon Alpert has won 15 Emmy awards and has twice been nominated for Academy Awards for his documentary efforts. He was the first American journalist to bring back uncensored footage from Iraq in 1991, which depicted heavy civilization casualties. The footage was presented to NBC, which had commissioned the effort, and although even Tom Brokaw wanted it aired, NBC’s president Michael Gartner not only killed the story but fired Alpert and ensured that he never worked for NBC again. Alpert then took the footage to CBS, where CBS Evening News Executive Director Tom Bettag told Alpert that he and his footage would be on the air with CBS Evening News’s anchor Dan Rather the next evening. However, Bettag was fired that night and Alpert’s footage never aired on an American news show.

It was not until 1997 that the American public learned the truth of those highly praised weapons systems, when a report by the General Accounting Office was declassified, which detailed the exaggerations of effectiveness made by the Pentagon and weapons manufacturers regarding the American weapons used in Operation Desert Storm.

The advertising license to do business

Herman and Chomsky wrote that the Liberal chancellor of the British Exchequer, Sir George Lewis, in the mid-19th century observed that market forces would marginalize dissident opinion by promoting those newspapers “enjoying the preference of the advertising public.” The authors noted that, indeed, the pressure of advertising weakened the working-class press, and that the subsidy of advertising and the affluent audiences that they target, as well as the “downscale” audience that is also attracted, gives media that cater to affluent audiences an economic edge that marginalizes and drives out media that don’t attract or rely on such advertising revenue.

Herman and Chomsky cited Curran’s work on the subject, which noted that in its last year of publication, the Daily Herald had nearly twice the circulation of The Times, Financial Times, and the Guardian combined, and was held in higher regard by its readers than the readers of any other newspaper, but because it was not integrated into establishment systems with their generous advertising revenue, it failed, along with other social-democratic newspapers in the 1960s, which contributed to the Labor party’s decline. The authors wrote: “A mass movement without any major media support, and subject to a great deal of active press hostility, suffers a serious disability, and struggles against grave odds.”

Herman and Chomsky wrote about how CBS took pride in informing its shareholders how it used a sophisticated approach to attract and retain affluent audiences. Just as the 19th century British press did, CBS was not seeking a wide-audience, but an affluent one that, in the 21st century parlance of the Internet, can be “monetized.” A 21st century Internet adage is that if you use anything for free, the product being sold is you. The authors noted that advertisers, seeking those affluent audiences, exert great influence on media content. Advertisers do not want to help fund unsettling media content, but prefer content that puts viewers in the “buying mood.”

Herman and Chomsky provided an example of advertiser clout when, in 1985, public-television station WNET lost its corporate funding from Gulf + Western when it broadcasted a documentary titled “Hungry for Profit,” which depicted predatory corporate practices in the Third World. Even before the documentary aired, WNET’s executives, who anticipated the negative corporate reaction, did their best to “sanitize” the show, but that effort did not prevent Gulf + Western’s pulling its funding while its CEO stated that the show was “virulently anti-business if not anti-American.” The London Economist remarked on the situation: “Most people believe that WNET would not make the same mistake again.”

Advertisers can also gang up on publications that step out of line, an example of which was when Mother Jones ran a series of articles in 1980 that discussed the medical findings that smoking was a major cause of cancer and heart disease. The tobacco companies pulled their ads en masse from Mother Jones, and that event helps explain that while Reader’s Digest had been campaigning for generations on the health hazards of smoking, no other mainstream publication dared to, including Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report. Eight years after the Mother Jones incident, the world’s largest ad agency, Saatchi and Saatchi, lost its huge RJR Nabisco account when it produced an ad that announced Northwest Airline’s strict no-smoking rule on its flights. RJR Nabisco sold the Winston and Camels cigarette brands. Saatchi and Saatchi learned its lesson, and when it subsequently bought an ad agency that was preparing anti-smoking messages for the Minnesota Department of Health, Saatchi and Saatchi cancelled the deal with the health authorities rather than risk its $35 million fee for promoting Kool cigarettes.

The next year, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop angrily denounced magazines and newspapers that were full of ads for cigarettes and refused to publish anything on the dangers of smoking. The media collectively yawned and quickly consigned Koop’s diatribe to media oblivion. Andrew Mills, TV Guide’s assistant managing editor, stated in an interview for Unreliable Sources, “I think it would be naïve to expect publications that take a lot of revenue from the tobacco industry to go after them vigorously.” When Mills made that statement, every issue of TV Guide was filled with cigarette ads, and Mills never heard that TV Guide ever thought of publishing anything critical of cigarettes.

Some tobacco-ad-carrying publications went even further, as Playboy magazine ran an essay authored by an attorney that attacked proposals to limit cigarette ads, defended the rights of cigarette companies to promote cigarettes, and the essay specifically defended a Camels ad aimed at teenagers. In that issue of Playboy was a two-page color Camels ad.

The conflicts of interest with advertisers could reach extreme levels. For a generation, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) ran tobacco ads. It only stopped running them in 1954 when drug companies that advertised in JAMA, as well as physicians, complained. Drug ads appeared next to cigarette ads in JAMA’s pages, those cigarette ads featured doctors promoting various brands, and the ads often made health claims that made cigarettes appear to be wonder drugs.

The event that finally spurred JAMA to cease running cigarette ads was the final ad campaign for cigarettes in its pages, which began when JAMA’s former editor, Morris Fishbein, the face of American medicine for a generation, entered into a lucrative consulting arrangement with Lorillard, the maker of Kent cigarettes, to structure research that “proved” the superior properties of Kent’s new Micronite filter, which was made of asbestos. The ad blitz that followed the Micronite filter “research” finally inspired the AMA to stop running cigarette ads and declare that its scientific meetings would ban cigarette exhibits (although the AMA’s headquarters had cigarette vending machines in its lobby until the 1980s). Fishbein worked with Phillip Morris on a similar “research” campaign in the 1930s, for the diethylene glycol “moistener” in its cigarettes, which Phillip Morris’s representatives used for a publicity campaign that it took directly into doctor’s offices and onto JAMA’s pages. It was not until 1950, the year after Fishbein was finally ousted as JAMA’s editor, in the aftermath of a scandal relating to his wiping out an alternative cancer treatment practitioner (after the practitioner refused to sell out to Fishbein and his associates, as they refused to treat the indigent for free, as that practitioner did), that the first study of lung disease and smoking appeared in JAMA’s pages. That study showed that 96.5% of lung cancer patients in examined St. Louis hospitals were smokers.

In the increasingly hostile environment for American cigarette companies during the 1980s, the Reagan administration successfully used the threat of trade sanctions to force Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand to open their markets to American tobacco companies. The “free trade” rhetoric behind the Reagan administration’s offensive was reminiscent of the British Opium Wars against China. The tobacco industries in those nations were stagnant before the entry of the American tobacco companies, and their market was primarily comprised of adult men. In the wake of the entry of American tobacco companies, with ad blitzes that specifically targeted women and children, smoking rates in those nations skyrocketed.

Such subservience to their advertisers was far from restricted to cigarette ads. At Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report, they would give their advertisers advanced notice, including tobacco companies, if an article ran, including plane crashes and studies on alcoholism, that put their advertisers’ products in an unflattering light, so that the advertisers could move their ads accordingly. Also, those publications would produce ads that looked like news, not ads, to readers who were not careful to distinguish ads from “news.”

Herman and Chomsky concluded that the “buying mood” imperative of TV advertisers ensures that only bland, lightly entertaining content will be delivered to viewers, as the primary reason for advertising is to disseminate the “selling message.”

The sourcing of mass media news

Herman and Chomsky wrote, “The mass media are drawn into a symbiotic relationship with powerful sources of information by economic necessity and reciprocity of interests.” The authors noted that the media’s needs for a reliable stream of raw material for news, and the need of powerful institutions to shape society to their advantage, form the basis of mutually beneficial arrangements between the media and governmental and corporate institutions, which steadily produce material that is increasingly published by news agencies virtually unaltered, turning the mass media into little more than a conduit of governmental and corporate propaganda. The media dependency on those news sources can be extreme. Herman and Chomsky wrote, “It is very difficult to call authorities on whom one depends for daily news liars, even if they tell whoppers.”

Herman and Chomsky presented a survey of the American military that showed that the Pentagon produced 371 magazines in 1971, at a cost of $57 million, which was 16 times larger than the largest American publisher. The authors wrote about Senator J.W. Fulbright’s investigation of the U.S. Air Force in 1968 that yielded the findings that the Air Force had 1,305 full-time public relations employees, and Herman and Chomsky noted that the resources that governmental and corporate institutions devoted to spreading their message are hundreds and even thousands of times greater than those of dissident organizations.

Regarding the American government’s public relations efforts, Herman and Chomsky wrote:

“It should also be noted that in the case of the largesse of the Pentagon and the State Department’s Office of Public Diplomacy, the subsidy is at the taxpayer’s expense, so that, in effect, the citizenry pays to be propagandized in the interest of powerful groups such as military contractors and other sponsors of state terrorism.”

Herman and Chomsky wrote that in 1972, future Supreme Court Justice Lewis Powell wrote a memo to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, urging them “to buy the top academic reputations in the country to add credibility to corporate studies and give business a stronger voice on campus.” The authors noted that in the 1970s and early 1980s, that buy-an-expert trend began the era of “think tanks” that had the effect of “propagandizing the corporate viewpoint.”

Herman and Chomsky provided an analysis of such “experts” on terrorism and defense on the highly regarded MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour for a one-year period in 1985-1986, on the subjects of the so-called Bulgarian Connection to the assassination attempt on John Paul II, the shooting down of Korean airliner KAL 007, and terrorism, defense, and arms control. The majority of guests on the show were current and former officials and conservative think tank “experts.”

The year after Manufacturing Consent was published, the media watch group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) published a study of 40 months of Nightline shows, which confirmed Herman and Chomsky’s analysis of MacNeil/
Lehrer News Hour, in that the vast majority of American guests on the show were professionals, government officials, or corporate representatives. Only five percent of the guests spoke on behalf of the public interest (peace, environmental, consumer advocates, and so on). Nightline’s most frequent guests were Henry Kissinger and Alexander Haig, both former U.S. Secretaries of State.

Nightline responded to FAIR’s survey and Ted Koppel, the host of Nightline, replied that FAIR’s survey merely reflected Nightline’s shows during the reign of the conservative Reagan administration. FAIR’s director, Jeff Cohen, replied to Koppel’s defense with:

“This explanation could have been given uttered by a Soviet TV news programmer – pre-glasnost. American television news is not supposed to be strictly a forum for representatives of the state. FAIR does not criticize Nightline for inviting policy makers to appear on the show, but for its exclusion of forceful American critics of the policy. Critics, and critical sources, are part of a news story.”

In 1994, the authors of the Nightline study released by FAIR, David Croteau and William Hoynes, published By Invitation Only: How the Media Limit Political Debate, which presented not only their Nightline research results, but also their analysis of the MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, and their results were similar to Herman and Chomsky’s. Their study of several hundred Nightline episodes showed that of Nightline's guests, 82% were male, 89% were white, and 78% were government officials, professionals, and corporate representatives. They also presented the same data taken from The MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour. Those numbers were even more skewed, at 87% male, 90% white, and 89% government officials, professionals, and corporate representatives.

The media themselves also provided their own “experts,” such as Claire Sterling and John Barron, and another class of experts was remarked on by Herman and Chomsky, of “former radicals who have ‘come to see the light.’” Those former “sinners,” whose work was formerly marginalized and ridiculed by the mass media, were suddenly catapulted into the bright lights and became revered “experts.” The authors recalled how Soviet defectors during the McCarthy era vied with each other to provide the most lurid stories and warnings of a coming Soviet invasion. Herman and Chomsky concluded that, “The steady flow of ex-radicals from marginality to media attention shows that we are witnessing a durable method of providing experts who will say what the establishment wants said.”

Flak and the enforcers

The PM’s first three filters act as powerful coercive controls over what news is published, but sometimes news that does not conform to the dictates of power is produced. Herman and Chomsky wrote about “flak” as a negative reaction directed at media organizations. It can simply be a letter to the editor or phone call to a TV station, but the most influential flak comes from highly organized operations or the powerful, such as a call from the White House to a TV news anchor. The authors emphasized right-wing think tank flak and cited Accuracy in Media (AIM) in particular. AIM is a media watchdog organization founded by Reed Irvine, whose media attacks were frequently published in the media, as he and AIM were given ready access to the media. AIM was one of many corporate-funded organizations that rose to prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, whose general purpose was to produce flak to police an already right-leaning media while using the Orwellian “liberal” epithet to describe the media.

Freedom House has had close relations with AIM, and Herman and Chomsky provided an example of Freedom House’s kind of flak when they wrote:

“In 1982, when the Reagan administration was having trouble containing media reporting of the systematic killing of civilians by the Salvadoran army, Freedom House came through with a denunciation of the ‘imbalance’ in media reporting from El Salvador.”

Herman and Chomsky analyzed one of Freedom House’s most notable publications, Peter Braestrup’s Big Story, which contended that the media helped lose the Vietnam War. The authors wrote that the premise of Big Story was that the media’s function was supposed to be as cheerleaders for all American wars, no matter the merits of American interventions and invasions.

In the years before and after Manufacturing Consent was first published, spectacular instances of flak were seen. In 1982, NYT's reporter Ray Bonner accurately reported on the El Mozote massacre, committed by American-trained El Salvadoran forces. About one thousand people were murdered, mainly women and children. That mass murder was committed by Reagan's "fledgling democracy," reporting the truth cost Bonner his job, and AIM led the attack. The alternative media covered the El Mozote and Bonner story extensively in the 1980s, and Bonner was vindicated when the mass grave was discovered.

In 1998, a joint project by Time and Cable News Network (CNN) produced a report on Operation Tailwind, which was a secret American operation in Laos in 1970. CNN reporters April Oliver and Jack Smith published their story on the alleged use of Sarin nerve gas by the American military in Operation Tailwind, which was partly mounted to find and kill deserting American soldiers. CNN's Peter Arnett also helped report the story. It was broadcasted on June 7 and June 14, 1998, and Time ran it in its June 15, 1998 edition.

The reporters worked on the story for several months and interviewed people involved in the operation, as well as Major General John Singlaub and Admiral Thomas Moorer, who were aware of operations such as Tailwind. CNN was prepared to support its reporters, but did not anticipate the level of flak. AIM went on the attack, but the biggest flak came from the Pentagon and Henry Kissinger. In the flak’s wake, CNN hired two attorneys to critique Oliver and Smith's report, CNN retracted the story, and Oliver and Smith were fired. The establishment press accounts of the Tailwind controversy made it appear as if CNN responsibly retracted a story that its loose cannon reporters snuck through.

Whatever inaccuracies there may have been in their story, Oliver and Smith were fired because of whom they offended. Peter Arnett's career with CNN ended in April 1999 because of the issue. He was one of America's finest mainstream reporters, but his continual reporting of the "wrong" story, such as his uncensored reports from Baghdad in 1991, won him the enmity of many powerful people.

Reed Irvine publicly called for the firing of those responsible for the Tailwind story and got his wish. Oliver and her colleagues were eventually vindicated. Singlaub sued Oliver to clear his name, sullied in the Tailwind flap. On January 17, 2000, Thomas Moorer, in the presence of Oliver and Singlaub, was deposed as part of the lawsuit. The transcript of that deposition was posted to the Internet (http://ahealedplanet.net/moorer.txt), and Moorer confirmed all the essentials of Oliver’s reporting, including:

Sarin gas (also known as "BG" and "CBU-15") was stockpiled at the Nakhorn Phanom base in Thailand, where the Tailwind mission was launched;
The mission sought American "defectors," and that killing them would have been a mission option;
Sarin was regularly used on the secret missions, the pilots knew they carried it and knew how, when, and why to deploy it; Moorer justified its deployment if it would save American lives, and admitted that the Montagnards had gas masks that were too large to fit properly, which allowed the nerve gas to kill them and prompted the USA to begin making smaller gas masks;
He believed that Sarin was used on the mission and that it was successful.

In essence, Oliver's reporting was accurate. Although the Tailwind flap was huge news when it happened, the revelations of Moorer's testimony failed to receive any mainstream media coverage. Singlaub's lawsuit was quietly settled and Oliver received a substantial settlement from CNN, reputed to be about $1 million, although the nature of such settlements is that Oliver cannot publicly say that she was vindicated, but the silence of Singlaub and others spoke volumes, and Oliver always stood by her story. The careers of Oliver and others were ruined, but not a hint of "sorry" could be heard from Irvine or the others who attacked Oliver and her colleagues for reporting the truth. They merely moved on to their next flak targets.

Similarly, reporter Gary Webb ran a series of reports in the San Jose Mercury News in 1996 regarding the issue of Contra complicity in the drug trafficking in South Central Los Angeles and elsewhere. The same stories came out during the Iran-Contra scandal, and it put the powerful in a bad light. There was no substantive objection to Webb's powerfully supported story, and the CIA and Justice Department confirmed key elements of it, but nevertheless, Webb’s career ended. Webb committed suicide in 2004, largely because of the financial pressures of his career’s termination over his accurate reporting.

Immediately after Oliver and Smith's public professional execution came the story of Mike Gallagher of the Cincinnati Inquirer, who published a series of articles about Chiquita Brand International in May 1998. Chiquita used to be known as United Fruit. The USA overthrew the Guatemalan government in 1954 so that United Fruit could continue to "own" the country. Gallagher reported that what went on in Central America was merely more of the same, and he found himself legally attacked by Chiquita, accusing him of illegally accessing their voicemail system.

During American invasions, the flak could become deadly. During the American invasion of Panama, American troops murdered Spanish photojournalist Juantxu Rodríguez (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#rodriguez) for the crime of taking pictures of the invasion. For instance, several Reuters reporters were murdered by the American military, with the first coming during the conquest of Baghdad, when the invading Americans shelled the Palestine Hotel, which was well known to host foreign journalists. It was later revealed to be a potential target before the invasion. Later that year, before the Abu Ghraib prison became a household word in the West, for its tortures and murders of prisoners, a Reuters cameraman was killed by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib as he stood outside of its gates, filming. Another Reuters photographer was imprisoned in Abu Ghraib. In 2007, a Reuters photographer and his driver were murdered by an American helicopter crew. The information about those murders was suppressed until footage of them was leaked by Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning and Wikileaks. The killers received no reprimands while Manning went to prison and Wikileaks’s founder, Julian Assange, lives in political asylum in the Ecuadoran embassy in London, under the specter of rendition and prosecution by the United States.

Between 2002 and 2017, the United States sank from 17th to 43rd in press freedom, in the annual report by Reporters without Borders. Herman and Chomsky wrote, “News management itself is designed to produce flak.”

Anticommunism (or “fear ideology”) as a control mechanism (partly replaced by the “war on terror” after the fall of the Soviet Union)

The final news filter presented by Herman and Chomsky was ideological, and when Manufacturing Consent was first published, that ideology in the United States was anticommunism. The authors wrote:

“Communism as the ultimate evil has always been the specter haunting property owners, as it threatens the very root of their class positions and superior status.”

After the fall of the Soviet Union, Chomsky said that he thought that the final news filter should have been more generalized, to portray a malevolent external power to scare the populace into huddling under the “protection” of the state, as a primary strategy of elite rule is through “induced fear,” and especially in democratic societies. Herman stated near his life’s end that in the first edition of Manufacturing Consent, they should have probably included market ideology as a filter, as the market economy has long been promoted in the American media as an “ideal arrangement of the economic order.”

Herman and Chomsky stated that their hypothesis was no “conspiracy theory,” but that market and structural principles were a better explanation of the media’s behavior. A Canadian documentary of Chomsky’s life and work was released in 1992, titled Manufacturing Consent, which briefly featured Herman. It was the most popular documentary in Canadian history to that time, yet it never played on American mainstream television or had a mass theatrical release in the United States, but played at American colleges.

After presenting the PM, Herman and Chomsky presented case studies of the PM in action. In Manufacturing Consent, Herman and Chomsky coined the terms “worthy and unworthy victims” (which Chomsky later stated was Herman’s invention). Worthy victims are victims of official enemies, and unworthy victims are victims of us or our allies and clients. Herman and Chomsky often used pairing analysis, which Herman thought that, along with his structural analysis of the media, was his chief contribution to the field of scholarship. Not that Herman invented paired analysis, but he believed that he and his coauthors’ efforts may have “given them more weight and salience” in subsequent studies.

Their paired analysis of worthy and unworthy victims in Manufacturing Consent also became their most famous, in which they compared the media’s coverage of the murder of Polish priest Jerzy Popieluszko by the Polish police to the murders of one hundred church workers in Latin America, who were killed by American client regimes. Herman and Chomsky studied the coverage in NYT, Time, Newsweek, and CBS News, which in 2017 are still the most respected media productions in the United States. For the murders of Popieluszko and the Latin American church-workers, including Archbishop Romero and four American churchwomen, the authors adduced the number of articles, their length, whether they were on the front page and in editorials, and in the case of CBS News, how many news segments were on the evening news. The coverage afforded Popieluszko’s murder was far more than the collective coverage of the hundred murders of church-workers in El Salvador and Guatemala, which were American client states when the murders occurred.

Herman and Chomsky noted that the coverage of Popieluszko’s murder was “somewhat inflated” because of the coverage of the trial and convictions of the Polish policemen who murdered Popieluszko, while virtually no murders of the hundred church-workers in Latin America were prosecuted. The quantitative aspect of Herman and Chomsky’s analysis was complemented by a qualitative one. The media’s treatment of worthy victims stress their humanity and even saintly qualities, while the media’s treatment of unworthy victims’ suffering is perfunctory if at all, and in the case of the American churchwomen, American Secretary of State Alexander Haig and American ambassador to the United Nations, Jeane Kirkpatrick, went so far as to say that the women deserved it, as they lied about the circumstances of their deaths and their relationship with the “rebels” in El Salvador (those women had none).

The media’s reaction to Popieluszko’s murder was to provide great detail on the manner of his death, demands for justice, and the search for responsibility at the top, as the media strongly hinted at Soviet involvement. For Archbishop Romero’s and the 99 other church-workers’ murders, including the American women, the coverage was muted, if any, and only rarely was there even an attempt to investigate or prosecute, or any interest shown by the media in knowing who might have been responsible for the murders. When four El Salvadoran National Guardsmen were eventually prosecuted for the murders of the American women, years later and only because of intense American pressure, the trial officials and American media never even hinted at whose orders they might have been carrying out.

In Manufacturing Consent, Herman and Chomsky argued that those news filters reflected conflicts of interest that biased the news toward serving powerful interests instead of objectively informing the public. Manufacturing Consent presented several other case studies of the news filters in action, including “Legitimizing versus Meaningless Third World Elections in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Nicaragua,” the “KGB-Bulgarian Plot to Kill the Pope,” and the Indochina wars in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

As they summarized the American media’s retrospective treatment of the Vietnam War, Herman and Chomsky wrote:

"The war was a 'tragic error,' but not 'fundamentally wrong or immoral' (as the overwhelming majority of the American people continue to believe), and surely not criminal aggression - the judgment that would be reached at once on similar evidence if the responsible agent were not the USA, or an ally or client.

"Our point is not that the retrospectives fail to draw what seem to us, as to much of the population, the obvious conclusions; the more significant and instructive point is that principled objection to the war as 'fundamentally wrong and immoral,' or as an outright criminal aggression - a war crime - is inexpressible. It is not part of the spectrum of discussion. The background for such a principled critique cannot be developed in the media, and the conclusions cannot be drawn. It is not present even to be refuted. Rather, the idea is unthinkable.

"All of this reveals with great clarity how foreign to the mobilized media is a conception of the media as a free system of information and discussion, independent of state authority and elite interests."

In 1989, Manufacturing Consent won the National Council of Teachers of English’s George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language (the Orwell Award). The same year, Exxon earned the National Council of Teachers of English’s Doublespeak Award, for its prevarications about its cleanup of the Exxon Valdez’s Alaskan oil spill.

Subsequent assessments

In 1999, Herman revisited the PM and analyzed the mainstream media and “left” academic critiques, including the criticisms that the PM was a “conspiracy theory,” that it came from Chomsky’s linguistics (when it really came from Herman’s institutional framework of analysis), that it ignored what reporters thought, that it ignored journalistic professionalism and objectivity, that it failed to explain opposition and resistance, and that it was too functionalist and determinist. With his characteristic approach, Herman argued that all such criticisms were invalid.

Herman further noted in his decade-later review of the PM that changes in the economy, communications industries, and politics made the PM more relevant than when Manufacturing Consent was first published. Herman noted that with the demise of the Soviet Union, Reagan’s “miracle of the market” had nearly become a subject of religious faith among the American elite and media. Herman provided 1990s examples of the PM in action, such as when the media became cheerleaders for the North American Free Trade Agreement and harshly condemned any dissent to it. Herman also noted how the media treated the chemical industry and its regulation, and its coverage of the single-payer medical insurance issue. Herman argued those examples made the PM perhaps more relevant in 1999 than in 1988, when it was first published.

In 2009, Herman and Chomsky participated in interview about the PM, 20 years after it was first published. They noted that the propaganda framework for the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, under plainly false pretenses, was never questioned in the mainstream media. Herman and Chomsky noted that a NYT retrospective in 2008 featured notable “experts” for think-pieces on the global situations that the incoming president would face, and every article assumed that the American invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq were “legitimate, even noble.” Herman and Chomsky observed that the media’s treatment of those invasions were just like it treated the American wars in Indochina. At worst, they were “strategic blunders” in their high mission of spreading freedom, and the American media never referred to any of them as aggressions. Herman and Chomsky noted that the effects of four filters had become even more pronounced in the intervening 20 years, while the fifth, anticommunist ideology, had somewhat receded since the demise of the Soviet Union, but that the “‘war on terror’ has provided a useful substitute for the Soviet Menace.”

In the last essay that was published in Herman’s lifetime, Herman assessed the PM 30 years after it was first published. Herman noted that the casualty-free Russian annexation of Crimea, after the American-backed coup in Ukraine, was regularly described as an “aggression” in the American media, while the unprovoked and casualty-rich American invasion of Iraq was never described that way. Herman noted a similar double standard of the use “genocide,” such as when it was “lavishly” used to describe the Srebrenica massacre of approximately 500 military-aged men, while the U.S. sponsored sanctions regime against Iraq, which preceded the invasion and claimed the lives of at least a half million children was not only not called “genocide,” but Madeleine Albright said that those deaths were “worth it” on national TV.

Herman discussed the same criticisms of the PM that he previously identified, and he noted their superficiality and the critics’ inability to address what the PM really is. Herman noted another criticism, that the PM was not deterministic enough, as if some formula could be used to rank the filters and predict media performance for various situations. Herman wrote that all such criticisms demonstrated that the critics did not understand what the PM is, which is a broad analytic framework.

Herman wrote that the biggest change in the media since Manufacturing Consent was published was the growth of the Internet, but that the rise of Google and Facebook, while taking advertising revenues from the traditional media, don’t even produce content, but are in the “spying and selling” business. However, with their control over the “eyeballs” that advertisers seek, Facebook seeks to become a platform for the mainstream media, and may be on its way to controlling online journalism. Herman observed in a late-life interview that the Internet Revolution has actually been regressive, as far as journalism and media freedom went. Dissidents may have the ability to publish like never before, but that does not mean that anybody knows about it or reads it.

Herman wrote of the Internet-Age media campaign to justify invading Iraq, and how the lies told before the invasion were lurid and quickly exposed, one after another, with NYT and Washington Post notably swallowing Bush administration disinformation whole, and instead attacked the findings of the United Nations and American inspectors of the Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), which clearly demonstrated that Iraq had been completely disarmed, and NYT even published an attack on the most vocal American WMD inspector, Scott Ritter. NYT in particular, and especially its journalist Judith Miller, became conduits for the Bush administration’s disinformation campaign against Iraq. In the wake of no WMD being found after Iraq’s invasion, NYT and Washington Post offered semi-apologies, yet not only were the personnel responsible for publishing the disinformation not fired, but the very same people almost immediately began publishing lurid articles about Iran’s alleged WMD.

Herman provided 21st century paired examples to demonstrate that the PM was alive and well. In 2009, Iran and Honduras held elections. Iran’s was contested, while the Honduras election happened soon after a coup that the United States supported, and was another infamous Latin American Demonstration Election, and only two elite coup-supporters were on the ballot. Nevertheless, American newspaper coverage used “fraud” and “rigged” to describe the Iranian elections 2,139 times, versus 28 times for the Honduran elections. One Iranian protestor was shot and killed in a peaceful demonstration in Iran, and one Honduran protestor was killed by the Honduran military two weeks after the Iranian protestor’s death, and his murder was dramatically captured on video. Herman noted the disparity in the American media’s coverage of those two deaths: 736-to-8 in the print media, and 231-to-1 on TV news, in favor of the Iranian protestor’s death, which was nearly the same ratio in Manufacturing Consent regarding Popieluszko’s murder versus the Latin American church-worker murders.

Herman concluded with:

“The Propaganda Model is as applicable as it was thirty years ago…The Propaganda Model lives on.