WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

In the iconoclastic draft of a possible book preface (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481), I listed many popular beliefs that my writings challenge. Virtually every one of those challenges was rooted in my experiences, and experience will always be the key of going from unawareness to knowledge. For some of those ideas that my work challenges, my perspective was also leavened by the experiences of my fellow travelers.

A good example is the media (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/116-The-Media-Racket?p=1260&viewfull=1#post1260). I read the newspaper every day for about 20 years, thinking that I was getting the news. In my LA days (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&viewfull=1#post406928), I subscribed to Christian Science Monitor, thinking that I was getting something more thoughtful than the standard newspaper accounts (CSM is only a little more sophisticated (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#csm) on the propaganda front). 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 spoke in front of a thousand people, with several TV station camera crews recording it. A week later, a Canadian TV station played a clip about Dennis, and it is the only time that I ever saw or heard of positive TV coverage of Dennis. A week after that, a Seattle TV station played a clip about Dennis, and it was a string of Big Lies (http://ahealedplanet.net/COP.htm#news), although I did not fully appreciate it at the time. In Boston (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=611&viewfull=1#post611), we had a blackout in the mainstream media (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#blackout), while the electric industry in New England (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#carpet) had secret meetings about what to do about us, and while I saw the most blatant propaganda effort in my lifetime (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#coalition) to ram through a nuclear power plant. When I read a huge article on our effort by the LA Times in early 1989, which was the result of “investigative journalism,” I finally realized that they could simply make it up as they went along (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=687&viewfull=1#post687). In subsequent years, the pathological lying of Mr. Skeptic (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#article) and others was no big surprise, but I was a little surprised at how easily he duped naïve free energy activists (http://ahealedplanet.net/skeptic.htm) with his affable skeptic charade.

A year after Mr. Professor and I busted Dennis out of jail (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#it), I first heard of Lies of Our Times. When I moved to Ohio, I began my studies in media analysis (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#loot), eagerly learning at the scholarly feet of Uncles Noam and Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv). I wonder if I would have been too interested in the work of Noam and Ed, or really understood it, if I had not already received both barrels of the media’s lies during my days with Dennis. Noam’s treatment by the media is similar to Dennis’s treatment. The highest councils on Earth have convened to determine what to do about Dennis, while his treatment in the American media has been uniformly libelous and slanderous, as it dupes the credulous (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/94-My-last-posts-in-another-forum?p=639&viewfull=1#post639). Noam has been the world’s leading intellectual for 50 years, and a documentary of his life was the most popular documentary in Canadian history to its time, but it has never played on an American mainstream TV station, to my knowledge. The libelous bio on Ed at Wikipedia, and the erasure of my attempt to correct the record (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368), is just a day at the office in the American propaganda mill.

I think that my media experience and studies is a good example of how the awakening from experience has to come, first, before work like mine will make much sense to people. And if their hearts are not in the right place (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), they never will wake up, but will be creatures of their conditioning (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1463&viewfull=1#post1463). People have to care, first.

Similarly, I had my mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva) before I ever read any mystical literature. If I hadn’t, the mystical literature would have likely seemed like some mind game to me, if I would have even been interested in it.

While I did not doubt that UFOs were a real phenomenon, watching one “light up (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm#call)” on request brought it into a whole new level of reality for me, as did subsequent encounters (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm#visit2006). Having those experiences does not mean abdicating one’s critical faculties. Quite the contrary: it enhances them, and when you encounter the various “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” and deniers, you can see how they have abdicated their critical faculties, as they protected their cherished beliefs, and the most “intelligent” of them postured as critical thinkers. You’ll never uproot one of them from their armchairs. Nobody is as blind as those who refuse to see.

I plan to prescribe some activities in which people can gain experience without risking their lives, on various topics that I write about. For those who quest after it, those experiences are not that hard to achieve.

One of the quickest lessons to learn is to go around to your social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), trying to spread the “good news” of free energy and the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). Nearly all of my pupils do that (even after I warn them not to), and the best of them return to me, chastened by the experience. They all tell me tales of ostracism, and I have seen careers end by such proselytizing. I don’t advise that people jeopardize their livelihoods to learn that lesson. Doing it with some acquaintances, or even friends, whose friendships you don’t mind wrecking, will be sufficient. But, really, if you have to do that to wake up to the reality, you may not be ready for this stuff. Generally, the people I seek have already learned that lesson and don’t need to rush off and make those beginner’s mistakes. Naïveté (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive) is no crime. I started out that way, as did my fellow travelers that I most respected (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures), but it needs to be shed early on this journey to the Fifth Epoch. Otherwise, disaster looms as people rush to try out their bright ideas, oblivious of their peril (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business). The free energy field will not be served with more naïve martyrs to the cause (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As people die, I can reveal more about my story. I revealed John Spickard’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=604&viewfull=1#post604) name recently, Joe Starr’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page10?p=828&viewfull=1#post828), Ron Waugh’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=623&viewfull=1#post623), and I would make a shrine to Mr. Professor’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures) memory, if his widow would let me. They were good guys on my journey. On the scoundrel side, I recently revealed a judicial gangster’s name, Harry Pregerson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1399&viewfull=1#post1399), who was a thorn in Gary Wean’s side (and maybe Mr. Big Time Attorney’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#disbar)). I named David Rockefeller (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888) after he died, Dick Southwick (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=604&viewfull=1#post604) (who may still be alive), and plan to name people such as Bill the BPA Hit Man (http://ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm), Mr. Deputy (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#deputy), and others (Betsy (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#betsy) and Ms. Pinch Hitter (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#pinch), for instance), if I outlive them. Those names are generally available if people do just a little work, and getting Dennis’s books reveals some of those names. After Ken Hodgell (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) went to prison and was sufficiently defanged, I named him. Writing about what I do keeps bringing up memories of my journey, and I’ll often track down what the people of my journey are doing today, and I sometimes find that they have passed on. The attorney who teamed up with my boss to help steal the Seattle company (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=604&viewfull=1#post604) works just down the street from me, literally a couple of miles away. He has been sanctioned a couple of times by the state board for defrauding his clients, which is not surprising. My boss, who engineered the theft of the Seattle company, still works in Seattle, as does Mr. Young Engineer (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#young). I recently contacted several of the good guys on my journey, people who acquitted themselves honorably during my days with Dennis, but not one of them wanted to talk with me. Oh well. I think that my journey since we knew one another has been a little too strange for them. :) They were just trying to be successful in business, not heal the world’s ills, and certainly not take the wild ride that Dennis and I had (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601).

It is not the first time that I have done it, but yesterday, I surfed around a little, looking for information on Mr. Inventor (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 discovered that he died in 2005, which is no big surprise, as he was 81 at his death. His name was Robert E. Van Der Maas. His claim to fame was inventing a heat-storing fireplace. His patent is here (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=4270512.PN.&OS=PN/4270512&RS=PN/4270512). Robert went by Bob, and Bob was the first person who gave me an inkling of what inventors were really all about (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#alpha), and he later demonstrated it to us, as his greed overcame him when he tried to extort money from us (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#extortion), with other “loyalists.” I felt badly that Bob’s life’s work ended up in Mr. Engineer’s barn (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/81-Vignettes-from-my-journey-and-how-I-learned-what-I-did-and-came-to-my-approach?p=208&viewfull=1#post208), but attacking Dennis was what too many people did on my journey. They were attacking their greatest ally and killing the golden-egg-laying goose.

I also want to give some perspective on Bob. His extortion demand was about how Dennis was using his invention to raise money, and he wanted his fair share. A heat-storing fireplace is indeed an invention, but on the scale of things, it is trivial, especially when compared to Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new), much less free energy technology, which we were pursuing (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#marry) when we got Bob’s extortion demand. Dennis tried to involve Bob as a favor to him, to help make up for what happened in Seattle. Mr. Mentor (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) was a world-class inventor. Bob wasn’t. On the other side (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#afterlife), I am sure that I will have a chat or two with Bob.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Interesting paper behind paywall Our shallow-water origins Catalina Pimiento (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6413/402)


They report that all major vertebrate clades originated in restricted, shallow-water environments

Wade,
Still waiting for your report on Hunger and Public Action, and possibly Evolution of Human Childhood

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1256150&viewfull=1#post1256150):

Do I have a deadline? :) Partly because of your badgering, I plan to read Hunger and Public Action after I finish Schrödinger’s Mind and Matter, and I plan to immediately draft that part of my big essay, and I’ll likely add a note or two, referencing it. It will have some relevance to my work, as will The Evolution of Childhood, which is also in the pile next to my bed, and I have read a bit of that tome.

I’ll get to it when I get to it. I am in no rush. While you are in the throes of your life, it is not always easy to gain a perspective of it, but when my life ends, I am going to look back and wonder how I did it. I was recently handed a situation that could have meant life or death, and at minimum a wrecked life, while my day job is in overdrive. I had no less than three life-changing/challenging crises and potential crises handed me just in this past week, as well as a missed windfall that was practically in my hands, and another that I did get ahold of. My life has been one of navigating crisis after crisis, and doing my writing on the side. Untimely deaths, some violently, wrecked lives, including mine, people going off the deep end, financial windfalls and ruin, family members and friends losing their sanity and worse – these have been the markers of my journey, and I don’t know if I will ever see the end of that. It seems to be what I signed up for. One day, I may be able to write publicly about those issues, but for now, I just keep my head down and keep going. I would like a quiet life, but that is not what I get.

To your earlier post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1255189&viewfull=1#post1255189) on energy and peaceful primates, all of the golden ages of life on Earth, as well as the human journey, were based on relatively abundant energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages). That paper on our shallow water origins (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6413/402) promises to be interesting. That shallow water was on the margins of both aquatic and terrestrial life, and the first city (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer) formed at an estuary. Evolutionary breakthroughs often happened at the margins (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energysurplus). I’ll be writing a bit more about that in the essay update, especially the move to land by vertebrates (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tetrapods).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1255189&viewfull=1#post1255189) is a fan of Sapolsky (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1233024&viewfull=1#post1233024), for good reason. Sapolsky’s article from 2006 (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/cfr/international/20060101faessay_v85n1_sapolsky.html?pagewanted=8) is a good one on primates, sociality, and violence. If baboons can be socialized into being peaceful, humans should be able to manage it. :) I will always advocate that it will be economically mediated and, as always, it rests on the energy issue. If energy is relatively abundant, it is an era of peace and plenty. Energy gets scarce, at whatever the means of production are (each Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable) had unique ones), and then times get hard, with rising inequality and violence. It is pretty simple, really. So, the era of absolutely abundant energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) (not relative), which is harmless in its production and use (if I have anything to say about it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate)), should lead to societies that are radically different from anything that came before them. It will be the biggest event in the human journey, and the technology for it is already here (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This post begins activities that people can do to go from unawareness to knowledge, and those topics in that potential book preface (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481) are a good start. I am going to skip the end for a moment and discuss three topics that I think that almost anybody on Earth would want to come to a place of knowledge about - not belief, not rumor, not faith - but the knowledge that comes from experience, and they are:


That the technologies that my friend was shown (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) really exist on Earth today;
That ETs are really visiting Earth;
That there really is a creator, God, or whatever the term that is used.


Trivial issues. :)

Many people credibly assert knowledge of those technologies, aliens, and the Creator. I’ll start with the last one. I am not going to get into what various religious authorities assert, or what ancient texts might state (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tales), but what the rest of us have reported, in my lifetime. I have known many psychonauts, and some made their travels and then brought back ideas for inventions that are used in every home today. I don’t regard Michael Roads’s reporting (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115) as fiction, or Dannion Brinkley’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#nde), and the NDE issue is one of the more fascinating that I have encountered. People don’t try to have NDEs. They happen when people least expect them, and what they have reported is often stunningly similar to what ancient texts referred to, in virtually all world religions. Relatively few claim to have met God, especially the anthropomorphized versions of him/her, but instead met angels, departed loved ones, and energies and awarenesses that were vibrantly real, even divine. McLuhan’s book (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=787774&viewfull=1#post787774) (and others (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/106-A-Big-Picture?p=1094&viewfull=1#post1094)) is good on what NDE experiencers report and how they are treated by various audiences, including the “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#blackmore).” I don’t regard these tales (http://www.nderf.org/Archives/NDERF_NDEs.html), for instance, to be confabulations or the other dismissive explanations that people give. If you have an NDE, you have a pretty good chance of knowing, but you also might not come back to your body, and it will be Game Over for this round. I don’t recommend it.

I had my mystical awakening at age 16 (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva), in spectacular fashion, had a voice in my head launch me on my odyssey (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2), 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3)), and had many other experiences (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#research) that opened my awareness to the extent that reporting NDEs and other otherworldly experiences are no big deal to me (although always nice to hear), although I have never gone to such places. I accept that I won’t until I take my last breath. I can wait, and have vanishingly little doubt that death is not the end. You never know until you get there, but I welcome my life’s end, once I get my work done. :) I can see it coming, but it is 30 years out or so, if I am lucky.

If people want to meet God, having an NDE is one way to get a good chance of at least meeting somebody in God’s neighborhood. Deep daily meditation practices for many years (others call it prayer) can also get people there, but it is likelier for older souls (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age). My final answer on this is that it is not easy, and people have to really quest after it. For those who truly seek, they will find, but the best advice I can give is to set one’s expectations aside while questing. It can happen when you least expect it, and in ways you will not expect. It sure would be nice if the Creator came out of the shadows and showed off a little, just to let us know he/she was there, and always had the shingle out, but that is not how it seems to work.

On ETs, that knowledge is far easier to attain. I’ll admit that ET craft did not land in my backyard and the occupants came out, chatted with me, and I took them to lunch, but all four times that I visited James Gilliland’s place (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm), I saw something extraordinary. Steven Greer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=938&viewfull=1#post938) holds workshops in which they view UFOs, record them having encounters with military craft, and other events. Brian O and Ed Mitchell (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page3?p=416&viewfull=1#post416) were prominent members of Greer’s effort, and Brian’s life was shortened (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack), courtesy of the American military, when he snooped into UFOs. Short of jumping aboard an ET craft and visiting the Pleaides, you can go a long way toward knowledge (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2) of the issue, and you may well have encounters that remove all doubt, as you step into knowledge. But, once again, you have to relinquish your expectations. As James said, they best respond to a joyful desire to see them, and I went to The Ranch to see something, not to play the “skeptical” game, and I was richly rewarded (similar to going to swim with dolphins (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#dolphins)). Hanging with that gang can sure trip the light fantastic, but you can still bring your critical faculties to bear. I am not onboard with James’s hollow earth idea, for instance. Evidence can convince me, but I have never seen any credible evidence of that. Underground bases I buy, but only because those close to me have been there (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), which brings me to that third issue, and the one that I am asked about the most.

If you want to see free energy, antigravity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=1355&viewfull=1#post1355) (AKA electrogravity), and other exotic technologies, these activities are all that you have to do to become eligible for the show:


Play on the high road of the ET investigation/disclosure issue;
Bring disruptive technologies to market, especially energy technologies;
Hobnob (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching1) with various elite factions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc), due to the above activities’ bringing them into your circles or you into theirs.


If you survive the experience for long enough (it takes many years to reach that level), you just might get a show. Generally, you will have to survive at least one murder attempt before you are going to be a candidate for a show. For many years, people have approached me with, “Show me a free energy machine, and I will believe.” Who wouldn’t (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#awaken)? What a naïve, lazy, and worthless approach. People think that it will be dumped in their laps if they just ask. Don’t we all wish that it was that easy? :) History’s most lucrative technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion), which has been the focus of history’s greatest cover-up (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make) (and is entwined (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spacemining) with the UFO/ET cover-up (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#big)), is just waiting for gawkers to go see one, to satisfy their idle curiosity (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#curious).

These are the “shoot the moon” issues, and if people are not very carefully prepared and already awakened, even brushing up against the above issues can send them off the deep end. I have watched it happen many times. There are many preparatory steps of awakening that can be taken, to lead to knowledge of a more mundane kind, before people can fruitfully pursue issues like the above, and those will be the subjects of coming posts. Baby steps, first.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1256150&viewfull=1#post1256150):

Do I have a deadline? :) Partly because of your badgering, I plan to read Hunger and Public Action

I had no less than three life-changing/challenging crises and potential crises handed me just in this past week

Ouch. Sorry Wade.
Regarding Hunger and Public Action, you will find a normal economic analysis that you will not care for much, however I hope that you will find the cross country comparisons that are worth knowing about. And a deeply satisfying read about human development.
Evolution of human childhood is a good book, however it is only incremental for you. Take your time.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1256648&viewfull=1#post1256648):

I have already started reading Hunger and Public Action, and I’ll get to more on The Evolution of Childhood soon. Some of what is in them will make it into my essay update. Yes, I doubt that any major revelations will come from them, but at this stage of my game, I am not expecting to find a book like that. Even Ian Morris’s stuff is just a little more formalization of my themes. I have already done the heavy lifting, and the essay update will only refine my work, and deepen and broaden it in areas (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1447&viewfull=1#post1447). My basic thesis, of healing Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate) and a flowering of the human potential (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive) in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), won’t change much. I’ll never really improve on what Roads glimpsed (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), but my work will always be about turning the ship in that direction.

To all:

I finished Schrödinger’s Mind and Matter yesterday. He did not really have a mystical awakening, but he showed how materialism was a religion, and he wrote how the entire issue of objectivity was an invention of scientists that might have helped along the scientific process, but was not really valid, which the findings of quantum physics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann) exposed, as the act of observing alters what is observed. I have seen materialists reject that line of reasoning, but Schrödinger was one of the fathers of quantum theory, so the idea deserves to be taken seriously. Schrödinger wrote that God would not be found in time and space, but in spirit. He was a keen writer on the limits of physics (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#schroedinger).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On those subjects for the possible preface for a book (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481), those three subjects (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1494&viewfull=1#post1494) in my prior post are the hard ones, for a few reasons. Not only is the evidence not easy to obtain and can be slippery, but coming to a place of knowledge in those realms will permanently alter your worldview, so much so that interacting with “normal” people can be challenging, as you live in different worlds.

One of the “easier” ones to come to knowledge on is what a propaganda mill the Western media, and especially the USA’s media, is. Uncle Ed devoted a lifetime (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#contribution) to exposing it, and he and Noam noted how subtly it can work in the West (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#beauty). Again, the way that I discovered it I don’t recommend, as I saw the media’s attacks on Dennis soon after I met him (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1490&viewfull=1#post1490), which continued for more than 20 years, until he was finally run out of the American energy industry, soon after David Rockefeller called him at home (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888). I watched government officials (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=669&viewfull=1#post669) and shills such as Mr. Skeptic (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends) lie out of both sides of their mouths, while the media uncritically broadcasted it (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#deputy). I saw it with my medical lab employer (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#experience), too. When you become a political target, the lies come fast and furiously (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big), but if you are part of any kind of situation that the media covers, if it is in any way contrary to the Establishment’s party line (and particularly if it can threaten powerful interests), it is a good way to witness the media in action, as you can compare your experience to the media’s reporting of it (my Wikipedia encounters (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1389&viewfull=1#post1389) are just more of the same). The media accounts can seem to come from another planet. You get one good dose of seeing it in action, and you can be permanently soured on the media. If nothing else, you will never believe what it states at face value again. Fool me once…

There is no objective media, anywhere, on Earth. It is a close cousin to what I covered in my previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1495&viewfull=1#post1495), in that objectivity in science is an artificial construct. While objectivity might be a nice ideal to strive for, it may well be impossible to attain, like an asymptote (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymptote).

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Regarding censorship, all tech companies are algorithm driven, feed it a list and poof goes the accounts. Internet makes all voices heard, while rational voices are not in internet-speak "viral". The voices of the alpha chimps are viral because they are saying that the ingroup is great and that the hordes are coming to destroy their greatness, or simply to dehumanize and attack others - all "viral" messages. Hate and trolls fill the internet, which is one reason you needed a censored forum both here and on your site. Even solidly mainstream and well respected organizations like wikipedia is overtaken by chimpism (or maybe they always were that way).

Bringing it under control means censorship, and clearly corporations are not the ones that should be doing it. Neither are there any other organizations that can be trusted to do the right thing. I see no path out of this mess.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1256891&viewfull=1#post1256891):

Big subject. The good news is that I see a way out. :) Go after the roots of chimpism: scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming). Only free energy can end scarcity, and when that goes, so will the fear. Then the chimps will retire. :)

Free speech means being able to say what you want on the “commons.” If the Internet is privatized, and private interests control who gets to say what, then it is no longer “the commons.” There is the old argument on free speech, of whether somebody is free to yell “fire” in a crowded theater. What is being banned today is nothing like that situation. What is happening today is very contrary to the American idea of free speech. A rival to Twitter (https://tomluongo.me/2018/10/29/attack-on-gab-proves-speech-was-never-free/) is being wiped out as I write this, in capitalism at its finest, which has nothing to do with freedom. The censors are going into overdrive (https://moneymaven.io/mishtalk/economics/brutally-honest-facebook-removes-then-restores-images-from-yemen-luNQ9k6ABkuVObOodEoEXA/) (1 (http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2018/10/shadow-banning-is-just-tip-of-iceberg.html), 2 (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-10-01/alex-jones-sues-paypal-infowars-ban-over-hate-intolerance)) and it may get much worse (https://grayzoneproject.com/2018/10/23/facebook-censorship-of-alternative-media-just-the-beginning-says-top-neocon-insider/). Europe never had much respect for free speech (https://mises.org/power-market/europes-war-free-speech-continues). As Uncle Noam has said, one of the great things about the American political system is the idea of free speech. Of course, that freedom is always under siege, especially today (https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/10/25/two-stories-from-propaganda-war.html). Ralph McGehee’s adventures (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#mcgehee) show what a farce freedom of speech is in the USA. But it is relatively free.

Anonymity is the great bane of Internet forums. About the only reason why Avalon is peaceful is that people have to identify themselves, at least to the admins, before they can join. Attacking others under a cloak of anonymity is cowardly (but even Washington Post promotes such behavior (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#propornot)), and almost all of my assailants over the years were anonymous cowards.

I foresaw what is happening today a generation ago, and Noam, Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1478&viewfull=1#post1478), and others warned about it. When private interests take over the new medium, it will no longer be free, and it is happening today. The Internet was developed by the government, but then private interests took it over (socialize the costs, privatize the profits, and make billionaires out of the privatizing parasites – The American Way). The same thing happened to radio. I have been in a race to use the Internet’s relative freedom and reach to go after a global audience, before I am censored and silenced.

I have watched the steep degeneration in Internet discourse since 9/11, and have borne the brunt of it often enough (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll). But the crazy part is not that I am attacked by trolls wherever I appear outside of Avalon, but that the admins are often the worst offenders (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#_edn1), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page13?p=1438&viewfull=1#post1438), 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/94-My-last-posts-in-another-forum?p=639&viewfull=1#post639), 4 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368)). The trolls attack, and I am the one who is banned. I was not going to mention it, but some months ago, a JFK assassination forum was rationally discussing my writings about Gary, and I joined, about the same time that I began my Gary thread (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398), offering to discuss the issue. Not only was there no reply, even after I contacted the man who began the thread, but I accidentally hit my bookmark to that thread this past weekend (after no replies for months, I lost interest), to only find that the forum erased it! Typical. Sometimes it seems like the entire Internet is fraudulent. I can understand closing a thread and making it read-only, but where I am concerned, admins go overboard with erasing my work or any mention of it, as they did at Wikipedia. That is censorship, and as we saw at Wikipedia, they can simply make it up as they go, in an Orwellian parody of due process, and what a rude a**hole that admin was, to boot. Of course, I am just reporting my experiences, or those of my close circle, or being scholarly and scientific, and I am the one who is attacked and banned. It is just more evidence of my primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). I don’t know that I would call it chimpism, but just plain dishonesty, and to the extent my assailants think that they are being honest, it calls into question their sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#sentience).

It is possible that my own site (http://ahealedplanet.net/home.htm) will be wiped out by some evil campaign, but I am optimistic that it won’t, and I’ll build that choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) one day.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One area where I could have written more “radically” on 30 years ago was how to gain knowledge that was diametrically opposed to the prevailing medical paradigm in the West. If I would have written back then about how our diets affect our health, it would have been treated with derision by medical authorities, and if I had written about how my father reversed the hardening of his arteries by changing his diet (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lessons), it would have been ridiculed as “impossible” and a fraud. Not only did the medical authorities of the day state that hardening of the arteries was a normal aging process (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#pressure), the booklet that saved my father’s life, by challenging that medical dogma, was banned in the USA (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#banned), The Land of the Free.

When I first wrote my medical racket essay, around 2000, the medical establishment still had not a word on how diet could reverse heart disease, but today, diet is the first line of defense (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#mayo). So, I lived to see the medical establishment do a 180-degree turn on its dogma on one issue. I regard it as amazing that in my lifetime, the medical establishment assailed the connections between diet and health. Of course, their leading voices worked for the food processors (http://ahealedplanet.net/simon.htm#stare), etc.

However, the attack-the-tumor paradigm (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#racket) is alive and well (and anything deviating from it is banned (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#suppress)), there is still fluoride in my water (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#compulsory), children are still shot up with vaccinations (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/80-Vaccination/page2?p=1230&viewfull=1#post1230), etc. In Horgan’s book (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/10-Chapter-4-The-Orthodox-Framework-and-its-Limitations?p=1477&viewfull=1#post1477), one of the biggest of the Big Lies, that even Horgan believes, is that scientists are eager to push the boundaries of knowledge, seeking the next big discovery. They do no such thing. Maybe within their paradigm (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#introduction), they do, but anything outside of the paradigm is forbidden, and they can’t even imagine going there. Nearly a century ago, the world’s most powerful microscope (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#rife) was a scientific mecca, in which life processes could be seen at resolutions considered “impossible” to this day. In Canada as I write this, another microscope gets similar resolutions (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#naessens), it also defies optical theory, and outside of a few brave scientists and doctors (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#moss1), nobody in the USA has heard of it, and the findings of those microscopes challenge the foundations of biology and led to cheap, effective, and harmless cancer cures. Where is the stampede of scientists and doctors, checking them out, getting their own microscopes, putting those findings to the test? When one brave man began to go through the bureaucratic process to get the Canadian treatment approved in the USA, he was kangarooed into prison (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#pixley), in a dynamic that I know all too well (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1436&viewfull=1#post1436). That is how the pioneers are treated, and orthodoxy lives on another planet, of denial and indifference, living in their lucrative soft berths, in which the only approved treatments are either worthless (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#racket) or kill the patients (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lehman). Horgan could not be more wrong. Slave profession (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#slave), indeed.

In my writings, several times I have presented test data on Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new) (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#half), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#testify), 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/COP.htm), 4 (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#arizona)), in which it got efficiencies of two and three times (and more) that of conventional heat pumps, while delivering twice as much energy. The inventors had to cut their performance data in half (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#half) so that they were no longer laughed out of engineering offices for reporting their heat pump’s “impossible” performance. It is still the best heating system that has ever been on the world market. Thirty years later, somebody is trying to make another run at it (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=626&viewfull=1#post626), and good luck with that. Where are the scientists and engineers, all over it, to pursue that technology, test its potential, etc.? Once more, the silence is deafening.

Many years ago, Berkley Bedell (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkley_Bedell) (who was cured of cancer by Naessens’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#naessens) “fraudulent” treatment), badgered the Department of Energy (DOE) enough to where they sent some scientists to witness one of Yull Brown’s transmutation experiments, with Geiger counters in hand, and they not only tried to get Brown arrested after the demonstration (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#yull), but turned logical summersaults to explain away what their Geiger counters showed them, and ran away as fast as they could. When I spoke at DOE hearings years later (picture attached), citing the DOE’s own data, the man who ran the hearings told us how the land really lied (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#yull), and the DOE eventually rejected our proposal by stating that the peer reviewed scientific literature did not validate it. Hell, it does not even mention it. A graduate student pursued Brown’s Gas (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/89-Free-energy-psychic-abilities-and-the-skeptics-and-debunkers?p=422&viewfull=1#post422), did what others have done, by running the “impossible” results through a mass spectrometer, and came up with his own Nobel-worthy explanation of how Brown’s Gas does the “impossible,” while the scientific establishment has gone out of its way to ignore it. Where are all of those “cutting edge” scientists that Horgan lauded, eager to push the envelope of physics? They are nowhere to be found, other than in a few unorthodox corners. But nothing is keeping you from gaining knowledge of these areas that are off-limits to establishment science and medicine, while we are fed industrial waste (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#compulsory) each day. People such as Horgan live on another planet.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Quantification of ocean heat uptake from changes in atmospheric O2 and CO2 composition (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0651-8)


Our result—which relies on high-precision O2 measurements dating back to 19916—suggests that ocean warming is at the high end of previous estimates

Wade,
How is the choir doing? It is needed earlier than expected 8)
Just kidding.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1257350&viewfull=1#post1257350):

Either you were peeking, or you just demonstrated your psychic abilities (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/79-Introducing-Michael-Hyson?p=1499&viewfull=1#post1499). Having Michael join up is a big plus, and your article was also synchronistic, as Michael is an ocean guy. Yes, a third of Earth’s reefs have died off since the 1980s. In the history of Earth, nothing has happened like it. Earth lost virtually all of its reefs in the late Devonian (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kellwasser), but that took millions of years. At this rate, all of Earth’s reefs will be wiped out in a century. And I live in a nation with great “skepticism” that Global Warming is real (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/79-Introducing-Michael-Hyson?p=1499&viewfull=1#post1499), and we have long been the greatest contributor of it, as we burn up Earth’s fossil fuels with abandon. It is also here where more free energy inventing and suppressing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) has happened than anywhere else, by far. It is surreal.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi

This will be an odds and ends post. Krishna, sorry, but Drèze and Sen got bumped by Peter Ward’s latest (https://www.amazon.com/Lamarcks-Revenge-Epigenetics-Revolutionizing-Understanding/dp/1632866153), all of the one-star reviews notwithstanding. I won’t bump my other reading for many authors, but Ward is one. I read Ward not so much for the hard-core scientific issues, but more for seeing how a popularizer goes about the business. He was arguably the most qualified person on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=738&viewfull=1#post738) to weigh in on the first half of my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#midpoint), and not because of the science as much as how I did as a popularizer. I’ll get back to Drèze and Sen (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1256256&viewfull=1#post1256256) soon.

On current events, Whitey Bulger’s death (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitey_Bulger#Death) has been making the rounds. We can call it “benign” neglect. Dennis nearly died in similar situations, in which the officials repeatedly put Dennis in position to be murdered by the inmates (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page8?p=741&viewfull=1#post741). That is The American Way, and I have seen it called “execution by inmate” and other terms. The American methods of official torture (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#torture), murder (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398), and genocide (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#early) have their own idiosyncrasies, but they are merely different means to the same ends that are as old as history, as the ruling class gets its way, and anybody in the way is disposable. Of course, the gangsters threaten to make Earth uninhabitable (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth), and at the highest levels, they think that Mars will be their ace in the hole (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mars). Complete insanity, but the good news is that the cabal is fractured (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal), and a disenchanted faction is likely who gave my friend his show (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground).

I don’t want to pick on Horgan (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1498&viewfull=1#post1498) too much. He is just the latest mainstream science author that I have read. He takes on the “skeptics,” (https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/dear-skeptics-bash-homeopathy-and-bigfoot-less-mammograms-and-war-more/) so he gets some points for that, although he is still in his orthodox box, by and large. It would be nice to see him take on Mr. Skeptic’s criminal behavior (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends), but that won’t happen.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi

Before I publish the update of my big essay, I plan to write a short essay on how a family myth bit the dust in this era of DNA testing, and I’ll revise essays that mention that Indian heritage. I was told while growing up that our family had some Indian blood, and that I was nearly one-eighth Indian. I never identified as Indian and always considered myself white, and my writings of the genocide of Native Americans (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide) were always written as somebody of European extraction. I own what my ancestral culture did, and I am a beneficiary of it, living in Seattle, at the terminus of my family’s migrations (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#familyname).

The stories of my grandmother’s Indian blood were always plausible, as she had dark hair and tanned easily, and the family tree was rather sketchy on that hillbilly side of my family (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishinvasion). I have relatives from that side who could have been convincing extras in Dances with Wolves. Our family lore even had the cliché “Indian princess” ancestor in it. But when I got my DNA test results back, attached, there was no Indian DNA. However, there was some DNA from India, which is almost certainly due to British imperialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#bengal), and some from southern Europe. That is likely where that darker complexion came from.

I bring this up in the wake of the Elizabeth Warren controversy (http://theconversation.com/elizabeth-warren-the-pipe-bomber-and-why-so-many-white-americans-claim-native-ancestry-105932). The “I have some Indian blood” idea is common with white Americans, and I have witnessed the kind of posturing that Warren has done. Indians went from being subhumans that were slaughtered with glee (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#sandcreek) to being “noble savages (http://www.darrenreidhistory.co.uk/1902-2-racism-will-fall-what-native-american-history-teaches-us-about-the-limits-of-white-supremacy/),” and it is a standard story among white Americans that there is some Indian blood in the family. I am far from the only American to see that Indian blood myth evaporate via DNA testing.

In contrast, my wife’s family traces its lineage to New Mexico back in the 1500s (and claims descent from both Columbus (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm) and Coronado (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#coronado), and I have the family tree that shows it), and my wife’s New Mexican ancestors strenuously denied any Indian blood, but when my wife had her DNA tested, it came back nearly 10% Indian. So, there was the converse: denying Indian heritage (because they were subhumans, after all), to only have DNA testing show that there is.

The architect of the first genocide of California natives was sainted a few years ago (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#saint), and I attended an elementary school named after him (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#serra). This relates to that history sentence in that possible book preface (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481), in that I was taught some family history, complemented with American and California history, which was false, and I only learned the truth many years later. That is my story, and all people can do similar work to investigate their history, which can puncture some myths. They can come to a place of knowledge, and discard the self-serving fictions that they were fed. Knowing the truth is a far better state than lazily believing self-serving (and in-group serving (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup)) myths.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

The stories of my grandmother’s Indian blood were always plausible, as she had dark hair and tanned easily, and the family tree was rather sketchy on that hillbilly side of my family (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishinvasion). I have relatives from that side who could have been convincing extras in Dances with Wolves. Our family lore even had the cliché “Indian princess” ancestor in it. But when I got my DNA test results back, attached, there was no Indian DNA. However, there was some DNA from India, which is almost certainly due to British imperialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#bengal), and some from southern Europe. That is likely where that darker complexion came from.

I bring this up in the wake of the Elizabeth Warren controversy (http://theconversation.com/elizabeth-warren-the-pipe-bomber-and-why-so-many-white-americans-claim-native-ancestry-105932). The “I have some Indian blood” idea is common with white Americans, and I have witnessed the kind of posturing that Warren has done. Indians went from being subhumans that were slaughtered with glee (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#sandcreek) to being “British imperialism (http://www.darrenreidhistory.co.uk/1902-2-racism-will-fall-what-native-american-history-tea

[QUOTE] However, there was some DNA from India, which is almost certainly due to [URL="http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#bengal), and some from southern Europe. That is likely where that darker complexion came from.

it is a standard story among white Americans that there is some Indian blood in the family. I am far from the only American to see that Indian blood myth evaporate via DNA testing.

In contrast, my wife’s family traces its lineage to New Mexico back in the 1500s (and claims descent from both Columbus (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm) and Coronado (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#coronado), and I have the family tree that shows it), and my wife’s New Mexican ancestors strenuously denied any Indian blood, but when my wife had her DNA tested, it came back nearly 10% Indian. So, there was the converse: denying Indian heritage (because they were subhumans, after all), to only have DNA testing show that there is.


Welcome 1% Indian (asian) . Seriously though the myths of native American blood are recent I assume. Now that people have comfortable lives and little demographic pressure, one wants to believe comforting myths.
The contradiction of denying is interesting too. This has parallels to kids born African American mother's during slavery. It was plain to see who the father was, however that was buried via silence. Sally hemmings the wife of Jefferson suffered this fate. Mere mortals had no chance of being remembered.

Curious about your Indian DNA, children with native women were usually left behind, it is a puzzle. Maybe the mixture is post slave trade when Indians moved as plantation labour all over the world. The plantation labour was little better than slavery, but that is for another day. It could even be what we called Anglo Indians moving.

About Elizabeth Warren her parents and especially her mother faced discrimination because of being different. I respect that experience. Also I should say social identity is flexible any group that one lives in is the in group.

Also the darker complexion could have come from Asia

[Limor Wolf]

Hello Wade,

A question for you, even though, this is a minute part of your work you often emphasized and finished your posts by saying - 'choose love'

What is love for you?

Thank you

Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1257714&viewfull=1#post1257714):

As far as when my family myth began, I can’t say, but to your point, while the Indians were seen as a “menace” that was sitting on land that the “settlers” wanted, yes, few of the invaders would have admitted any kinship with those subhuman savages. It was only as the Indians began disappearing under the guns, axes, boots, and plows of “progress” that their image in the USA began to change to the Noble Savage, and yes, that was likely the case with my ancestors. I have a few books in my library on that changing image, and cited others that I read back when I did the 2002 version of my site.

As far as where that subcontinental blood came from, it is probably an “interesting” story, but one that I’ll never know. The European conquest of Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2) began a great genetic exchange, along with all of the other impacts (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#first), most of which were evil. As I have written, in the Fifth Epoch, geographic isolation will end, as will race (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nations). Everybody is going to look roughly the same, which won’t look like any race today, and their genetic profiles will all look like a salad of geographical origins, at first, but even that will go away before long. It will be one of the many side-effects of the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate).

As far as my family goes, as I wrote, the southern European and subcontinental blood is likely where the “Indian” blood myth arose, and it was likely on my grandmother’s side. My mother was supposedly 100% Scandinavian, but if that DNA map is right, there were some migratory ancestors on that side, too, but not too far of a migration, with Finnish, Russian, and British blood seeming to be part of that mix. A quarter Irish does not surprise me. That map actually does align pretty well with what my family told me as I grew up: English, Welsh, Scotch, Irish, French, German, Norwegian, Swedish, Dutch. Only the American Indian blood is mythical, and the subcontinental Indian blood was a surprise, but not too much. The Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Eastern European DNA is also a little surprising, but probably explains my grandmother’s looks. I am a European mongrel. :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1257837&viewfull=1#post1257837):

Well, I can’t improve on what Roads glimpsed (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), as far as what happens when people choose love, and in my own life, I was a Boy Scout from birth (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts), and my life’s greatest act (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#it) was choosing love when the night was the darkest, which led to the biggest miracle I ever witnessed. That was choosing love, as has been all of my study and writing since then. I have given up millions of dollars of lost income to do it, and never received a dime of compensation. That is love in action, particularly when my goal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is understood.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Thank you, Wade

From Roads -


the city emanates a powerful atmosphere of peace and tranquility.


“Same time frame, different reality.”


“Your perception is more acute now; thus, your experience is expanded. We are traveling exactly as before,"


The human energy field is a powerhouse that can be felt across infinity. Humanity is learning how to develop, expand, and express that power


“Wow! I must use ‘block out’ automatically.”

“Indeed you do. It is part of the human condition.”


The expression of Love is creative and moving; it promotes change. Love looks within and finds the power of Self.”



..trees unlike any I have ever seen. The foliage is sprucelike, with short, thick needles of glittering silver.



..directly into the consciousness of the plant. As you can feel, these trees both approve of and enjoy their movement in physical form.”



Remember, as you change yourself, you change your reality experience.”


Wade, from which of those two realities (minus the 'negative' one) - the consensus reality or the refined reality would free Energy be created?


Many blessings ~

Limor

[Krishna]

Hominin Dispersal into the Nefud Desert and Middle Palaeolithic Settlement along the Jubbah Palaeolake, Northern Arabia (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0049840)

Human relatives found beyond Africa possibly 500,000 years ago. The wanderlust of humans is off the charts, but that too is seen in our relatives at a lesser scale. More interestingly I am sure that we exterminated and absorbed (via mating) all lineages that are closer in time than Chimps and Bonobos.

This extermination happened all over the world (expect maybe Australia and the Americas where there were no human relatives)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1257930&viewfull=1#post1257930):

I am not sure that I understand your question. Free energy technology exists today on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), and in that heavenly Roads world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), free energy technology is obviously an intimate part of their lives, even if their technologies are hard for us to comprehend. That heavenly world is about 300 years into our future, for those who decide to (or are allowed to) incarnate there. My game is about aiming humanity in that direction. Free energy allows those conditions in the heavenly world of abundance to appear, and in that hellish world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115), scarcity is all too obvious, especially for those at the bottom.

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1257934&viewfull=1#post1257934):

The findings in that paper (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0049840) are well within the current paradigm (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#msa), although new digs are always welcome. You have spurred me to write a little summary preview of relevant parts of my coming essay update, on those early humans and their journeys. In the past generation, the views of early humans have changed a bit. As you know, the general trend has been to push back key developments deeper into the past, and this can be generalized to all evolutionary events, going back four billion years, which is now being argued for (https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_life#Earliest_claimed_life_on_Earth). Achieving behavioral modernity (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Paleolithic#Origin_of_behavioral_modernity) is one of them, and that controversy won’t end anytime soon. The evolutionary events that led to Homo sapiens are still considered to have happened in Africa, although more of a pan-African scenario is being favored, and the changes of this ice age definitely introduced rapid evolutionary dynamics, which likely profoundly impacted human evolution. In general, the interglacial intervals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#iceageeurope1) were good times for all, and during the glacial periods, it was a cold, dry struggle to survive. All wet-world populations declined, desert species expanded, and wet-world species survived in refugia, although there was certainly some adaptation to the dryer conditions. There were likely no climactically caused mass extinctions of note after the cooling off period from a 200 million year Greenhouse Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse). The surviving ecosystems were adapted to a dryer, colder world.

Humans, and by that I mean the archaic humans (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaic_humans) of the time, Neanderthals, human line species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#heidelbergensis), and branches such as Denisovans, moved all around Eurasia and even Africa, with migrations that resembled the Miocene ape migrations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#apemigration). There was interbreeding, social learning from each other, and other interactions. But when that Founder Group left Africa (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit), it meant Game Over for everybody else, including the world’s easy meat (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bison). There is probably going to continue to be various groups that are defending their in-group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup), Homo sapiens, from any idea of human agency in those extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climatechange2). I consider their cases very weak, as has any scientist that I have seen look into it, who was not grinding an ax, and the extinction of the Western Hemisphere’s megafauna (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#clovis) is a great example. They all went extinct after the glaciers receded and the world became warmer and wetter. If they had gone extinct as Earth headed into a cold interval, or in the middle of one, maybe those climate change advocates could make a case, but they all went extinct just when the good times returned. Ridiculous. And they all “coincidentally” went extinct just when humans arrived. Imagine that. :)

That Founder Group likely had UP traits (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up), and they presented an existential threat that those other human groups and the easy meat could not survive. I am sure that it was not a gentle tale, as the Rousseauians keep arguing for to this day. I have been reading up quite a bit on the Rousseauian/Hobbesian debates that continue to rage today, which initially surprised me. Societies run by male gangs are violent, and this goes back to chimps (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coalitionary). I don’t buy the Rousseauian view currently in vogue that warfare is an invention of recent humans (http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jun/02-no-war-is-not-inevitable). Mass warfare is (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warfare) relatively recent, because there were not any masses before then ( :) ), but I don’t buy the Peaceful Savage meme that is still getting play. Horticultural societies that became matrilocal broke up the male gangs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1), and those were relatively peaceful, but that was a brief interlude in the human journey. Isolated bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1) achieved something similar, and if humanity is going to turn the corner, women need to step up. Chimpism still rules the day, as you often point out.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Hi Limor (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1257930&viewfull=1#post1257930):

I am not sure that I understand your question. Free energy technology exists today on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), and in that heavenly Roads world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), free energy technology is obviously an intimate part of their lives, even if their technologies are hard for us to comprehend. That heavenly world is about 300 years into our future, for those who decide to (or are allowed to) incarnate there. My game is about aiming humanity in that direction. Free energy allows those conditions in the heavenly world of abundance to appear, and in that hellish world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672115&viewfull=1#post672115), scarcity is all too obvious, especially for those at the bottom.



I am thankful for you leaving this space for interaction, even though there is no evident meaning for you at this time and it appears as if it contradicts or misaligned with what you intend to do. Appearances..

All the best,

Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I have written, I am not done with my Uncle Ed bio project (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1089&viewfull=1#post1089), and this morning, I bought a chapter that Ed wrote (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-1-349-27082-8_12) in a book (https://www.amazon.com/Cold-War-Propaganda-1950s-Gary-Rawnsley/dp/1349270849/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1541334468&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=cold+war+propaganda+in+the+1950s) that I had been hesitant to pay $150 for, and I paid $30 instead to download Ed’s chapter. It is a biographer’s duty. It was vintage Ed. I have written about the overthrow of the Guatemalan government (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#guatemala) for many years, and the genocidal reign of terror that followed it. Che Guevara was in Guatemala when the overthrow happened in 1954, and it had everything to do with his joining up with Castro in Cuba.

With my studies of the JFK hit (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398) and the CIA’s connections to it, I feel stronger than ever that the JFK hit was orchestrated by the Rockefeller/CIA side of the Eastern Oligarchy’s house. One of E. Howard Hunt’s early triumphs was helping overthrow the Guatemalan government, and he ran the operation that got JFK killed (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower).

Like JFK, the Guatemalan government before the overthrow was anti-communist, but anything that did not lick the boots of American corporations was rubber-stamped communist and wiped out, which Ralph McGehee eventually came to understand (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#intelligence). The propaganda campaign against Guatemala was led by Ed Bernays (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bernays), working on behalf of his client, United Fruit, which the Dulles brothers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dulles) both had a financial stake in and which the Rockefellers controlled. The year before, the Dulles brothers overthrew the Iranian government on behalf of American oil companies, and the Rockefellers cleaned up there, too. As Dennis discovered (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888), David Rockefeller kept his hand in it well into his 90s. After JFK was taken out, David handpicked all subsequent American presidents, who were all mere puppets (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#presidents).

As usual, Ed’s emphasis was on how the American media enabled that neocolonial behavior. Bernays literally paid visits to the owner of the New York Times, who happily joined in with the propaganda barrage against Guatemala, as a prelude to the overthrow (it is a time-honored American tactic, used for the invasion of Iraq (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#syria), etc.). When the New York Times’s reporter that it dispatched to Guatemala was not servile enough for Bernays’s liking (the reporter made the mistake of calling the Guatemalans’ support for their government “nationalist” instead of “communist”), Bernays had the New York Times remove the reporter from Guatemala. The New York Times did the same thing with Ray Bonner in the 1980s (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#bonner), during Reagan’s reign of terror (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#central), which was exterminatory in Guatemala (http://www.globalresearch.ca/how-reagan-promoted-genocide/5323774). The anti-Russian hysteria (https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/) is alive and well today, after more than a century of it.

Ed wrote that JFK’s Alliance for Progress initially had a platform very much like Guatemala’s government did before it was overthrown, but by the late 1960s, the Alliance for Progress was little more than a Rockefeller tool, governments in Latin America were overthrown with gusto (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#overthrow), and genocidal dictatorships were installed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On that journey from unawareness to knowledge (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1456&viewfull=1#post1456), I am prescribing the baby steps that people can take, to get from unawareness of many issues that are not really very controversial, when you get into it, to a level of knowledge. Industrial waste was rebranded “medicine” (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#compulsory) that is forced down America’s throat to this day, and that it damages the brain (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#harold) is just a “bonus” for the social-controllers.

The architect of the genocide of California’s natives (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#serra) was recently sainted (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#saint). I attended an elementary school named after that saint, and this year is the 50th anniversary of my winning that school’s first spelling bee, as a fourth grader who beat the fifth and sixth graders, and that feat was the first widespread recognition of where I was going as a student. Speaking of anniversaries, this month is the 30th anniversary of when I finally woke up, on the witness stand, as the prosecution made faces at me (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=681&viewfull=1#post681) all day long.

Coming to understand that money is meaningless, from a macroeconomic perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#neoclassical), is really not that hard to do. The financial economy is fictional, an abstraction with little correspondence to the real world. Economists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists) are little more than intellectual warriors for the capital class. In the Fifth Epoch, money will become obsolete and disappear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange).

In that list for a possible book preface (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481), most of the “radical” statements in it are really pretty pedestrian, for people who are capable of thinking past their indoctrination and doing a little work. I take on many myths of the American Empire (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm), including the preferred fiction that it is not an empire, going all the way back to Columbus’s genocidal enterprise (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide). That the American military is merely imperial muscle (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#early) is not controversial in the slightest, to those not waving their flags (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#flag).

Filling in those gaps between propaganda and reality, and particularly on how the scientific enterprise really operates (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1498&viewfull=1#post1498), will make it so that people who have not played on the high road to free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1494&viewfull=1#post1494) will see little about my reporting from the milieu that will challenge any of their beliefs. It is a small step from understanding how organized suppression works (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) to understanding that the highest-level suppressors know very well where those suppressed scientists and inventors (and entrepreneurs such as Dennis) were heading. What those garage inventors grope toward was developed to a commercial level (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) before I was born. That is really a trivial issue in the field, well understood by anybody with any experience at all on the high road. Not many live to tell the tale, but for those that do, the stories are mind-numbingly similar (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am reviving my thread (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/121-Orthodoxy-the-Fringes-Structuralism-Conspiracism-Materialism-Mysticism-etc?p=1336&viewfull=1#post1336) on Orthodoxy, the Fringes, Structuralism, Conspiracism, Materialism, Mysticism, etc. My last post was in June (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/121-Orthodoxy-the-Fringes-Structuralism-Conspiracism-Materialism-Mysticism-etc?p=1352&viewfull=1#post1352), as I worked on Ed’s Wikipedia bio, and we know how that went (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368). Wikipedia is the very definition of orthodoxy today, and is usually the first site that pops up in Google searches. Subjects and people at Wikipedia have to be “notable,” and if they aren’t deemed so, then the articles will be deleted. The world’s highest councils can convene (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer) to deal with a threat, but since they do it in secret, their target is never “notable” enough to grace Wikipedia’s pages, although he has been the subject of many smear campaigns in the media, ever since the day that I met him (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=602&viewfull=1#post602). With how Ed has been libeled at Wikipedia, my former partner’s not being “notable” enough for Wikipedia coverage suits me just fine.

The articles are supposed to use establishment sources, such as peer-reviewed literature for scientific topics, mainstream media for news sources, mainstream publishing houses for books that can be cited, etc. Of course, there is highly selective enforcement of those principles, which conforms to Ed and Noam’s Propaganda Model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing), and Wikipedia is largely a propaganda effort on key subjects. Ed’s Wikipedia bio today is libelous, calling him a genocide denier, among other Big Lies, while death camp Nazis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page13?p=1472&viewfull=1#post1472) get hagiographic treatment at Wikipedia. The double-standards at Wikipedia can be breathtaking. Orthodoxy obviously does not mean a commitment to the truth (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1389&viewfull=1#post1389), but a commitment to ruling-class goals, and Wikipedia is particularly servile in that regard, especially with a neocon founder running the show, who openly defends what is likely a disinformation effort (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Edward_S._Herman#Philip_Cross%E2%80%99s_edits) by intelligence professionals.

The rude Wikipedia admin not only erased my work on Ed, he also erased much of Brian’s bio, including all of his free energy work, and even further, he erased some of Brian’s work in astronomy, calling it “hagiographic,” as he played judge, jury, and executioner, on flimsy and false pretexts, while calling my work a “f**king mess.” It is a great example of orthodoxy in action.

So, the so-called fringes will never get a fair hearing at Wikipedia, by design. That is what Ed would call a structural constraint (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#career). The world’s most famous intellectual can be relegated to the fringes (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv), in the strange orthodox logic in the USA. So, erasing Brian’s free energy work, erasing nearly everything about Ed, other than attacks on his exposures (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#predictions) of the media’s treatment of “nefarious bloodbaths (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#bloodbaths),” while telling Big Lies about them, is how orthodoxy works. It is a close cousin to Mr. Big Time Attorney’s statement to me, that a courtroom was not the place to seek the truth (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=692&viewfull=1#post692). Orthodoxy has its ideals (http://ahealedplanet.net/orthodox.htm#orthodoxy), but they are rarely realized, and in practice it often delivers the Orwellian opposite of its stated ideals, such as a brain-damaging (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#harold) industrial waste forced down the American public’s throat (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#compulsory) as “medicine.”

But the vast crimes of orthodoxy do not confer integrity to the fringes (http://ahealedplanet.net/orthodox.htm#alternatives), either, which are also filled with charlatanry, such as a “life-extension (http://ahealedplanet.net/bragg.htm#conclusion)” specialist lying about his age (http://ahealedplanet.net/bragg.htm#evidence). Seekers of the truth have a strenuous task ahead of them. My life’s primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) richly applies to any quest for the truth.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am over halfway through Peter Ward’s latest (https://www.amazon.com/Lamarcks-Revenge-Epigenetics-Revolutionizing-Understanding/dp/1632866153), and I see all of those one-star reviews like I see the one-star reviews of Ed and Noam’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv). I have been filling my note pages with Ward’s latest. I didn’t make any notes when I read The Tangled Tree (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/14-Chapter-7-Early-Life-on-Earth?p=1458&viewfull=1#post1458). Ward is a polymath who takes on cutting-edge subjects, writes popularized science, and does not write drily. It is not for everybody, but when I saw one reviewer use Pinker (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#pinker) as a counterweight to Ward, the reviewer made the ax that he was grinding clear. One reviewer wrote of Ward’s “hatred” for Darwin, but I did not see that at all. Like many pioneers (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#steal), Lamarck died a broken man, from the attacks and ostracism that he endured for his work, and the resurrection of his work, two centuries later, is what the title of Ward’s book is about.

I have read several books on epigenetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics) and horizontal gene transfer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer), and the subject will get coverage in my essay update. Basically, Ward makes the case that epigenetic (AKA Lamarckian) processes allow for much faster evolution than Darwinian mutation. Epigenetics is still in its infancy and I’ll say this: science has a long way to go before life is well understood at the cellular and molecular level. Heck, the findings of Rife’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#rife) and Naessens’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#naessens) microscopes have not even been acknowledged yet, and advanced biological understandings and applications, if evil (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#attack), are sequestered in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). Mainstream science is barely scratching the surface.

But as with so many issues, it is the journey that really counts, and Ward does take his readers on a journey. We are centuries away from the genetic mastery seen in that heavenly Roads world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), and if we turn the corner into the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), there will be no foolhardy rush to get there.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Every couple of years in the USA, there is a general election, and yesterday was one of them. I was asked to comment on a recent U.S. Supreme Court nominee (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1252852&viewfull=1#post1252852), but retail politics holds little interest for me. As I stated, only in the so-called red states will abortion ever be outlawed, and two of the most regressive states (https://newrepublic.com/minutes/152103/two-states-approve-abortion-bans-post-roe-america) passed laws to ban abortion if Roe versus Wade (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_v._Wade) is ever overturned by the Supreme Court. A woman will never be denied an abortion in my home state of Washington, or any other progressive state. But those states with one foot still in the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3), when a woman knew her place of subservience to patriarchy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#womenstatus1), are going to try keeping women down, and banning abortion is just one way to help accomplish that.

As Brian O said, retail politics is a dead-end, and he would have known (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#udall). America’s imperial behavior was completely off the table (https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2018/11/05/2012334409/), as the masses vote their self-interest, as usual. American retail politics is little more than theater (https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/how-do-we-keep-getting-dragged-into-this-electoral-spectator-sport/), the political equivalent of watching football on TV.

Uncle Noam, as always, has interesting things to say about the American political scene (https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-future-of-organized-human-life-is-at-risk/), but like Uncle Bucky said (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#politics), there are really no political solutions to the big problems that we face. Noam wants to end the climate change threat; well, I have the answer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate). :) You want to end war (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping), poverty (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive), and environmental destruction? Check, check, check. But enough people have to wake up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309) and care (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308). That is the hard part. I don’t need many (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) for my little plan to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On that journey from unawareness to knowledge (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1456&viewfull=1#post1456), while scientific investigation is a good thing, it can pale to insignificance when compared to experience honestly acquired. Take psychic phenomena, for instance. Contrary to what the “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” would have you believe, there is a mountain of documentation on scientific investigation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#psi) of psychic phenomena. For one example of many, thousands of Ganzfeld tests have arrived at a “guessing” of a value that would have a random “hit” probability of 25%, but they usually come in at about 33%, which is a statistical “anomaly” of one-in-trillions. That is for untrained people. But I don’t care that much about what the science shows, as far as if the effect is real, because I have the knowledge of experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown), which nobody can ever take away. So did Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#remote). When you have spectacular experiences of your own, you know, and scientific evidence and theories are a poor substitute for knowledge.

Take Michael Hyson’s experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/79-Introducing-Michael-Hyson?p=168&viewfull=1#post168) with Dreamer the dolphin (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk1EpnUlKh0). They don’t come any more credible than Michael, as far as his testimony of his experiences with dolphins, and coming up with a “lean (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mirrortest)” interpretation of what Dreamer did would be one heck of a stretch for a debunker to make. How would they even start, other than stark denial? Dreamer not only diagnosed Michael’s condition, but treated it with sound waves. Name a medical doctor on Earth who could do that. My own dolphin encounter (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#dolphins), arranged by Michael, was so spectacular that my highly experienced guide said that he had never seen anything like it. Michael has a lot more to say about “non-local” effects with dolphins, and one day, he will write about it.

When I see scientists testing for dolphin sentience, with their theories of brain structure and activity, while I am interested, I also know that if they put dolphins down there with dogs, then I am going to be highly skeptical of their conclusions. There has been interesting recent research (https://news.vanderbilt.edu/vanderbiltmagazine/brainiac-with-her-innovative-brain-soup-suzana-herculano-houzel-is-changing-neuroscience-one-species-at-a-time/) on neuronal density in birds (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird-brains-have-as-many-neurons-as-some-primates/) (and here (http://www.pnas.org/content/113/26/7255.full)), elephants (http://nautil.us/issue/35/boundaries/the-paradox-of-the-elephant-brain), and primates (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2776484/), and I suspect that that direction of research is going to show a close relationship between “intelligence” and the cerebral cortex neuron count, at least for mammals (bird brains are structured differently). However, spindle neurons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spindle_neuron) are going to be another factor, and neuroscience is still in its infancy. But any theory derived from the research that denies the ability to do what Dreamer did is not going to impress me. When I hung out with the dolphin people, dolphin telepathy was a given, as those people had so many experiences of it.

To briefly return to Schrödinger’s Mind and Matter (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page14?p=1485&viewfull=1#post1485), he said that searches for “God” in our universe would always come up empty, as “God” lives in spirit, which is another way of saying that God does not live in physical reality, and Schrödinger did not deny that something beyond the physical dimension (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#afterlife) existed. How can anybody, really? Not only is there a mountain of evidence that death is not the end, and that our souls hail from a different dimension, to outright deny it is irrational. The best that doubters can do is just doubt it, because they have not made that visit. They sure as heck cannot prove it, and I have experienced so many “non-local” events that I know that materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle) is just another religion, built on a shaky foundation. Materialistic models of consciousness are always going to be woefully inadequate.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

As Brian O said, retail politics is a dead-end, and he would have known (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#udall). America’s imperial behavior was completely off the table (https://original.antiwar.com/danny_sjursen/2018/11/05/2012334409/), as the masses vote their self-interest, as usual. American retail politics is little more than theater (https://www.thedailybell.com/all-articles/news-analysis/how-do-we-keep-getting-dragged-into-this-electoral-spectator-sport/), the political equivalent of watching football on TV.

While everyday retail politics is not useful, a historical understanding of the politics gives insights into the dynamics of society How Republicans went from the party of Lincoln to the party of Trump, in 13 maps (https://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12148750/republican-party-trump-lincoln)

[Krishna]

Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0679-9) is 40kya at least. We were behaviourally modern humans by that time.

I was going through history of British Empire and the independence of colonies. There does not seem to be a pattern in independence of countries and political party ruling Britain at that time. Interesting, just like the US or actually anywhere in the world. People outside the country are fair game, and Labour, Conservative, Liberal mean nothing on that front.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1258634&viewfull=1#post1258634):

This is a post that I never wrote before. I sometimes look back at my life (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm) and find it hard to believe that it happened, but I was there for it. I was told just yesterday that my life has been a little too hard on me, and while I appreciate the sentiment, I have come to accept that it comes with the territory of the journey that I signed up for. I can’t regret any of it.

Part of the “providence” part of my life is being born in history’s most privileged demographic group, and I feel a great responsibility to make the best of that opportunity. I think that that is what I am here for. I have passed up many millions of dollars on my journey, and still will likely end up OK on the financial front, at least compared to my baby boomer peers.

As an American, I take on my nation’s crimes (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm) in my work, in the tradition of Noam and Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv). It is the highest ethical ground (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#ethics) that an American can stand on. I was raised on the lies of American nationalism (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#more), and have spent a lot my adult life exposing them. But as I read that article that you linked to (https://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12148750/republican-party-trump-lincoln), I was reminded of just how interesting and eventful American history is, in ways that I have not really written on much. While the Industrial Revolution began in England (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#uk), the American colonies were not far behind, and soon overtook their parent nation, to become history’s richest and most powerful nation. I know of no more stark contrast of Third and Fourth Epoch societies than the USA on the brink of its Civil War (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#contrast), with an industrializing North and an agrarian South. As that article noted, the slave issue was more about white people’s jobs than it was the condition of the slaves. Conscience was not really much of an issue.

The USA is a declining empire (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), and like Rome (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#romefounded), future historians are probably going to spend many careers studying the trajectory of the USA. It is going to be one of history’s most impactful nations, and maybe its most impactful nation, as nations may well become obsolete soon (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nations). Rome was the epitome of an agrarian empire (a city-empire), and the USA will be the epitome of an industrial empire (a nation-empire). The positive benefits of the legacies of both Rome and the USA were always incidental, just like the end of slavery was incidental: slavery no longer made economic sense (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#southseas) in industrial societies, not because people suddenly grew consciences.

So, that survey of the changing focuses of the political parties (https://www.vox.com/2016/7/20/12148750/republican-party-trump-lincoln), to end up where we are today, is interesting in its own way, and history has no other example of the tumultuous changes of a continental nation that grew as it industrialized, while it profited from the human journey’s greatest demographic catastrophe (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide) and even helped inflict it (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#sandcreek). The USA’s history is like nothing else in the human journey, kind of a classroom for the contrast of Third and Fourth Epoch societies, and that contrast can be seen to this day. An interesting time to be alive. :)

On your post on the cave art (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1258695&viewfull=1#post1258695), I think that it is pretty clear that the Founder Group that left Africa and conquered Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit) was behaviorally modern (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap), and it probably left about 50-60 thousand years ago. In Peter Ward’s latest (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/16-Chapter-9-Speciation-Extinction-and-Mass-Extinctions?p=1510&viewfull=1#post1510), he gets into behavioral modernity a bit, and how epigenetic processes may have been involved. There was definitely something different about that Founder Group. Was it language? Did it allow for a ratchet effect on human culture, raising that Founder Group to a level of social and technical sophistication that nothing else could stand in the way of, including their fellow human species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climateneanderthal)? I consider that the likeliest answer today, but I will always follow the issue with interest. Almost like the USA; what made them so influential on the human journey?

As you note (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1258695&viewfull=1#post1258695), the British political parties were united on their imperial policy, just like the USA’s are. That is how empires work. The imperial subjects always get the short end of the stick, although some groups that played ball did relatively well, like house slaves did, as long as they knew who the master was. :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The USA is turning into a shooting gallery (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2018/11/08/thousand-oaks-california-bar-shooting-307th-mass-shooting/1928574002/), as the imperial chickens (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/30-Chapter-21-Humanity%C2%92s-Fourth-Epochal-Event-The-Industrial-Revolution?p=1514&viewfull=1#post1514) have come home to roost. This latest was inflicted by a former Marine in Ventura County, and the very same community is burning as I write this (https://www.accuweather.com/en/weather-news/santa-ana-winds-to-fuel-southern-california-wildfires-through-friday/70006567). Camarillo is where my family bought our first house, and that town is burning (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-fire-santa-rosa-20181108-story.html), too. An entire town in Northern California burned down (https://www.sfgate.com/california-wildfires/article/Evacuations-ordered-across-Butte-County-as-Camp-13374840.php) yesterday. My home town of Ventura burned last year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Fire), and one of my old neighborhoods burned down. That fire was the biggest in California history, to only be dwarfed by a fire this year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_California_wildfires). One reason why this year was a hiking bust for me (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page14?p=1487&viewfull=1#post1487) was because of all of the smoke from forest fires, and fires impacted my hiking last year, too. The fires and shootings are becoming a blur for me. Crazy times in the USA.

Wilderness is going extinct (https://newrepublic.com/article/151981/extinction-wilderness-untouched-lands-oceans-disappearing), as the Sixth Mass Extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth1) gathers momentum, and the litany can go on. How about The Answer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5)? I’ll keep doing what I do until I can’t anymore. It is surreal to see what is happening, when I know how unnecessary it all is. Not many have to wake up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309) to right the ship (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). Brian’s question (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience) may be answered soon, one way or another.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On Free Energy Follies (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1486&viewfull=1#post1486), Dennis’s journey has been one series of follies. The follies largely result from not understanding how the world really works. The delusions are understandable, but nevertheless are hazards for getting anything done. Dennis was raised as a migrant farmworker (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#dennis) and was forced to leave home at age 13, which was not unusual in that culture. American nationalism was his first religion (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=577&viewfull=1#post577), and he got in fistfights with fellow soldiers who disparaged the USA, as he murdered people for the Empire (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page9?p=778&viewfull=1#post778), as a medic, of all things, who longed to become a surgeon (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=577&viewfull=1#post577). Like all of my fellow Boy Scouts (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts), Dennis drank the Kool-Aid, and that was what really led to our follies.

Dennis studied Utopian societies in college (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=578&viewfull=1#post578) and always wanted to build one. When he polled people door-to-door (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=577&viewfull=1#post577), and found that they feared the government (understandable, in New Jersey), his mistake was thinking that those people cared for something other than their immediate self-interest (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=618&viewfull=1#post618). It was the standard Boy Scout mistake of projecting their motivations onto others (which nearly all people do). Only many years and adventures later would Dennis finally admit the obvious to me: people don’t care (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tailings), not in a world of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming).

Dennis believed the full-page ads (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tickertape1) that the electric companies published, which encouraged conservation. Like Sparky Sweet (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tickertape2), Dennis thought that they would give him a tickertape parade for bringing the conservation that their ads said that they so desperately needed. The opposite happened (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#seattle).

When Brian had me help him write that DOE proposal (http://www.brianoleary.info/Impacts.html), I wondered what Brian thought that we would accomplish. I had already had my sobering experience with the DOE (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1498&viewfull=1#post1498). I think that approaching the DOE merely reflected Brian’s admitted codependency with our nation’s capital (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#early). One hip pal said that that DOE’s cattle call was for them to have all of the naïve (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive) free energy inventors and aspirants voluntarily register for the free energy suppression list, to make it easier to track them. He said that if it got to the stage of inviting them all to some kind of conference (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#conferences), the building might “accidentally” burn down while they were all gathered. :)

Judging the situation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) is counterproductive. It is just how the world really works, not the propaganda version (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing). Until the delusions are set aside, no matter how well-intended they are, any efforts in this milieu will be a series of follies, and deadly follies (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors) all too often. Today, there is no significant gathering on Earth of the “good people,” who truly care (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), are awake (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#awaken), and are trying to right the ship (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). I am trying to build one (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), which might be just one more folly.

Even when I got my energy dreams at age 16 (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse), I doubted that everybody would welcome a new energy paradigm. I figured that some vested interests would be against it, but I had no idea how close to home (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr) they would be, and during the first three years of my relationship with Dennis, I woke up the hard way (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn). Those were my days of folly. I am happy that I woke up, but I would not recommend my path to anybody. There are gentler ways to wake up.

The enemy is us (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#attacks), not the “bad guys.” But the savoir is us, too. It is up to what we do (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus), not what the “bad guys” do, or the masses. The elites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy) (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching1), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/108-The-Global-Controllers?p=1187&viewfull=1#post1187), 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates)) and masses (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10) are both out of the running for bringing any kind of salutary change, particularly Epochal change (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), primarily because all that they care about is their immediate self-interest. I am shooting for a middle ground between the elites and masses. I am looking for needles in haystacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), but I think that enough of them are on Earth for my little plan (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) to have a chance, especially with this new tool called the Internet, at least while it is relatively free (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page14?p=1479&viewfull=1#post1479).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Those topics in that potential book preface (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481) are related to that issue of developing a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing). The universe is one; our world is one. Breaking our world into pieces to study, and trying to reduce them to their primary constituents (scientific reductionism (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#specialists) is the epitome of that approach), is only an acknowledgement of the limits of human awareness. Being a specialist, devoting one’s life to a certain topic, while it can be a valuable process and a kind of mastery can be attained, often leads to tunnel vision, and the lessons learned in the specialties can be lost to humanity in general and other branches of specialization. Generalists can see the connections, patterns, and bigger picture, while specialists can get lost in the weeds. Science has become more multidisciplinary in my lifetime, and is slowly escaping the constraints of overspecialization and siloed knowledge, which Uncle Bucky said was a ruling-class tactic, designed to keep scientists blind (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#slave) to the bigger picture. Level 3s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3), without exception, are highly naïve about how our world really works, as they sit in their comfortable armchairs and play the “skeptical (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” game and engage in other tactics of denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#chart).

While my work covers thousands of topics, it is all related. My recent posts on Free Energy Follies (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1486&viewfull=1#post1486), that book preface, the journey from unawareness to knowledge (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1456&viewfull=1#post1456), and how various branches of endeavor are all related (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/121-Orthodoxy-the-Fringes-Structuralism-Conspiracism-Materialism-Mysticism-etc?p=1336&viewfull=1#post1336), are all about developing a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/63-Developing-a-Comprehensive-Perspective?p=82&viewfull=1#post82), learning how to shift gears between topics, seeing the connections, and attaining that big picture perspective. I am not saying that it is easy, but the people I seek have to reach that larger perspective, or at least be trying. Otherwise, they won’t understand the transformative potential of free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate), understand organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1), and if they ever try to “do something,” they end up traveling the paths of disaster (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) that countless other aspirants have done, to life-wrecking and sometimes life-ending (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors) effect. Being a learning junkie helps. :)

So, this post will relate to several of my threads at once, on one of Dennis’s greatest follies, which was thinking that the legal system delivers anything resembling justice. It was an echo of his surrogate religion of American nationalism (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1516&viewfull=1#post1516). Even after his first conviction (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#conviction), which he was deceived into, and after the attacks by the Attorney General’s office in Seattle on behalf of its electric company patrons (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#scam), and the Kangaroo Court (http://ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#bk) that Bill the BPA Hit Man forced Dennis into, I heard Dennis say in Boston that if you pressed into the legal system far enough, you could get justice. After the Ventura ordeal (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr), which Dennis barely survived (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mistakes), he began calling the American legal system the “Just us system.” When I encountered Gary Wean’s and Rodney Stich’s adventures (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1440&viewfull=1#post1440), they held no big surprises for me; only confirmation of what we lived through. Mr. Big Time Attorney (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bigtime) got the education of his lifetime (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hostage) when he took Dennis’s case. I can understand Dennis’s clinging to his naïveté about how the American legal system operated, until he had it beaten out of him. It was like me and the integrity issue: I resisted the lesson every step of the way, until it was beaten into my head in no uncertain terms (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). It is not comfortable to go down those paths of knowledge, as learning the truth can be life-risking. It is far easier to be in denial, retreat to a comfortable armchair, be “skeptical (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends),” believe what you read in the newspapers (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big) and history books (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#more), and the like.

That former friend of mine buried his head in the sand as far as he could (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page10?p=823&viewfull=1#post823) and still lives in Ventura to this day, where he will likely die. Living with the truth of how our system really operates is not an easy task. I am sympathetic to people who crave living in ignorance and denial, and leave them to their own devices. They won’t wake up (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#awaken) to my message until free energy is delivered into their lives (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink), and that is fine. I long ago let go of any judgment of the situation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1), but I am constantly approached by free energy newcomers who are in deep denial of how the world really works. They rush out to proselytize to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), as they risk wrecking their lives in their naiveté. Naïveté is no crime (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive), but is a potential deadly affliction in this milieu. My fellow travelers (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts) all lost their naïveté the hard way.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I finished Peter Ward’s latest (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/16-Chapter-9-Speciation-Extinction-and-Mass-Extinctions?p=1510&viewfull=1#post1510). Very interesting. It was about epigenetics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics) and evolution. All cells have the same DNA, and cells differentiate due to epigenetic processes that are still barely understood. The most common epigenetic process is methyl molecules (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_group) attaching themselves to DNA, which generally prevents the impacted DNA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylation#DNA/RNA_methylation) from being read, which prevents proteins from being made by that section of DNA (called a gene). That process is called the regulation of gene expression (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_of_gene_expression).

DNA does not leave fossil evidence, but epigenetics had to be a big part of the development of complex life (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#animals), with its differentiated tissues and organs. Bacteria engage in horizontal DNA transfer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer), and it has also been discovered to happen in plants and animals. So, the genetic aspects of life and evolution are vastly more complex than just the random mutation of DNA. And epigenetics has largely been defined today as changes that are inherited. Those inherited epigenetic changes can be passed down to several generations, and The Deeper Genome (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page8?p=958&viewfull=1#post958) reported that some scientists advocate that organisms can “try out” an epigenetic change before changing their DNA, to make the change permanent. That is contrary to the idea of random genetic changes driving evolution. Ward argued that epigenetics was involved with the rapid evolution that often coincided with or followed mass extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctions).

There are fierce battles over epigenetics these days, typical of new sciences, especially those that challenge the idea of Darwinian evolution, which I think is partly behind those one-star reviews that Ward’s latest got at Amazon. Ward is a polymath who writes popularized science, and the end of his book discussed current trends in societies, and that is where he likely earned most of the ire of his one-star reviewers. That last part of the book had arguably the most relevance to my work.

Scientists are finding that conditions that parents face, both mothers and fathers, can create epigenetic conditions that their children will inherit, and especially around conditions such as diet, drugs, and fear states. Starving, malnourished, drug-addled, and fearful (AKA poor) parents can pass negative traits to their children through epigenetics. So, those “positive” feedbacks, which can burden children before they are even born, should largely, if not entirely, disappear in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). Nobody will need to starve or have poor diets, or do drugs to briefly escape their misery, and since nobody will live in fear, especially the fear of violence (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping), that “selective mechanism” will also disappear. When scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) disappear from human societies, the human potential is going to flower in ways that today barely seem possible.

But there is also great peril today due to the Frankenstein nature of genetic “engineering” today, and Ward wrote extensively on it. Genetic engineering has almost entirely escaped government control, and is largely being performed by corporations today, whose only constraint is profits (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#profit). The government’s involvement is also largely evil, as the Pentagon tries to genetically engineer the perfect soldier. This is publically known and something that Ward wrote about, not some “conspiracy theory (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism).” Of course, Ward does not even hint at the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc), and I have long read that the GCs have been working on creating the perfect killer for many years.

I am going to break a little from past practice and identify a scoundrel who is still alive. When Dennis was run out of Seattle, the Attorney General’s (AG) office was one of the hit men (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#scam). Dennis did not go quietly, and gave the AG one of the biggest public black eyes that he ever got (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#reply). Another of that AG’s victims fought back, whose crime was trying to end homelessness in Seattle, and his campaign likely helped that AG barely lose the race for governor in 1992 (I met the man who beat him, as we marched together (https://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#jubilee) on the eve of that legendary WTO conference). That gangster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Eikenberry) AG was briefly on TV, six years ago, flacking for agribusiness companies as they fought having to label genetically engineered foods, and it was no surprise to see him working for them. The forces of darkness won (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Initiative_522_(2012)#Opposition) that round. Dr. Ward (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=738&viewfull=1#post738) and I may discuss that event one day, and I may try to recruit him into my effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). Anybody who does only a little digging could find that AG’s identity, so I am not exactly being very revealing, but he is still alive, in this state, and I don’t need people such as Ms. Pinch Hitter (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#pinch) sicced on me, who is still around, works for the AG’s office, teaches law school, and is a noted “philanthropist (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy).” She worked on that AG’s campaign for governor.

I am back to reading Hunger and Public Action (https://www.amazon.com/Hunger-Public-Studies-Development-Economics/dp/0198283652), which is not dry scholarship, as the authors make wisecracks on the opening pages.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Just finished reading Lamark's Revenge by Peter Ward, it is so much better than The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life. The environmental influences on behaviour, epigenetics, passing on future generations, and eventually speciation is fascinating reading. I understand why Hunger and Public Action got kicked off temporarily :)

The environmental effects on genetic change especially considering chemical pollution is sobering.

Peter Ward gets the human population numbers right this time... it is mentioned only twice, but he cites respectable UN figure. Using Wittgenstein Centre numbers (http://www.wittgensteincentre.org/en/data.htm) would have been better, not complaining though

[Wade Frazier]

It is not easy to stay ahead of Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1259395&viewfull=1#post1259395), on the reading front. :) I am a couple of chapters into Hunger and Public Action, and am making notes already, which is a good sign.

On Peter Ward’s latest (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/43-Chapter-26-Humanity%C2%92s-Fifth-Epochal-Event-Free-Energy-etc/page2?p=1518&viewfull=1#post1518), he is going to tick off a lot of people who are looking for pure science or a class on epigenetics. All I can say is that they were looking for a different book. I have seen Ward’s work disparaged over the years, as critics assail him for books such as Rare Earth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_(book)) and Out of Thin Air (https://www.amazon.com/Out-Thin-Air-Dinosaurs-Atmosphere/dp/0309100615). Ward writes in a strange niche for a scientist. He writes popularized science (which he said has done nothing for his career, as academia does not care about such efforts), while taking on cutting-edge topics and sometimes proposing testable hypotheses in those popular works. That is unusual scientific behavior. He is also a polymath, and his covering a pretty vast sweep of topics, as Ward did late in Lamarck’s Revenge, as he discussed epigenetics and violence, starvation, epidemics, chemical pollution, and the like, is “out there” for a scientist, particularly with Ward’s specializations in paleobiology, mass extinctions, marine biology, and his ventures into astronomy.

As with all scientists, Ward is not going to be right on many of his wide-ranging hypotheses (Einstein was wrong, too), but he does make people think, and even scientists in his specialties, who often spend a lot of energy rebutting his work, ideally by adducing scientific evidence. That is how science ideally works (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#theories). Putting himself out there like that is pretty courageous. Yes, Krishna, for a physical scientist venturing into the social sciences, Ward did fine, and much better than Pinker’s imperial tripe (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#pinker), for instance.

Ward is always a good read, and if there was one author whose work I might be accused of patterning the first half of my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#midpoint) after, it would likely be Ward. Maybe that is why he liked it so much (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=738&viewfull=1#post738). :) But seriously, my work is probably too far out there for Ward, but I have a little hope that he might get it. My work is really not that conceptually difficult; it just flies in the face of so much “common knowledge.” In one of his books, Ward cited Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#paradigms), and when I saw that, it showed me that Ward was worldlier than most scientists are. He often does not get along with his peers too well, tending to have “extreme” opinions, and what he frankly wrote about his colleagues in Gorgon, for instance, ticked some of them off.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

I have been going through Making a Run at Alternative and Free Energy (https://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm)

https://ahealedplanet.net/lamco.jpg this one is puzzling total energy used in 1979 is 218,680,000 BTU, whereas it is 98,494,812 BTU in 1980, even assuming efficiency losses of oil furnace, the gap seems too wide.
Assuming that there is something wrong with the numbers and assuming 218 million BTU is needed, and only lamco system is used to deliver it the savings comes to $600 dollars per year instead of $1800 per year.

But what is the cost of the system? This puzzles me even more, if COP is assumed to be 10 it must come from solar energy which is around 3 kwh/m2 per day in winter, and 70 panels are required which increases capital costs.
If we assume less cop and more energy from environment say 9 kwh/m2 per day and 5 cop then we get 20 panels required.

To get down to 8 each panel should be able to absorb 23.5 kwh/m2 per day which seems like a lot with solar energy being just 1/8th of being directly incident.

Wade what was the cost of each panel?


https://ahealedplanet.net/youngtest.jpg

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1259553&viewfull=1#post1259553):

On that first one (https://ahealedplanet.net/lamco.jpg), you can’t tell by how you are doing it. You would need to know the COPs attained and need to know what the oil furnace efficiency was. Without those, you can’t tell how much energy was delivered to the home. Back then, oil furnaces were not nearly as efficient as they are today. Here is an article on that (http://www.greenhomeguide.com/askapro/question/what-is-the-most-efficient-oil-furnace-for-the-home). Furnaces back then may have been only about 50% efficient. I have attached a calc that shows a 60% furnace efficiency, a COP of 6, and a use of 5,600 kilowatt-hours to run the heat pump. You have too many variables that you don’t know the answers for, to be able to crunch the numbers like you did, but my attached graphic shows how they appear reasonable.

Part of the opportunity that Dennis had for his heat pump back then was that American homes were not built with energy efficiency in mind, in that era of cheap energy. So, they were not insulated, furnaces were inefficient, etc.

On the panels, you are also not calculating it correctly. Direct solar energy absorption (the black body (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body) effect) is a relatively minor aspect of the panel’s heat absorption. If you look at those panel arrays (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#arrays), it looks like 6 and 8 panels were the standard. I heard that before Dennis first got involved, and half of the buyers installed it themselves, so they didn’t work that well, with that kind of quality control, they could have ten panels. Those that Dennis sold always had 8, at least when I was around. As I recall, the panels cost about $100 a pop back then. The panel was always the secret of its performance. But you had to order them in lots of 1,000, so you had to sell 125 systems or none at all. That was part of the conundrum. Only somebody operating at Dennis’s economies of scale could make a go of it, which is why more than 100 companies failed at it. That is why his marketing program (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs) was so deadly. People often became mesmerized by the technology and failed to see the bigger picture. Every time that Dennis’s company was stolen, the first thing that the thieves did was discard his “crazy” marketing plans, which was the secret of Dennis’s success. God, can businessmen be stupid, blinded by their greed (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#greed).

If you look at Brian’s test (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#testify), which he stupidly forgot about when he testified, it delivered 100K BTUs per hour. That was the typical performance that I heard about, or about twice the output per horsepower (25K BTUs) as the refrigeration manuals described (12K). Brian was incapable of thinking past his textbooks, even when he created the data that defied them. When I had conversations with the techs, they said that Dennis’s heat pump delivered twice the pressure that conventional heat pumps did, which was the secret of its success. The exhaust temperature after the pump was over 200 degrees F.

So, to your question about panel absorption, the panels delivered about 10,000 BTUs per hour per panel. You can do your solar incidence calc on that and see how much was direct solar. But there was not much solar gain at night. :) That Gannon’s data (http://ahealedplanet.net/COP.htm) is a good example of how the COPs go up in the daytime. It goes up for three reasons:


The air is warmer;
It is windier;
Sunshine can be directly absorbed into the panels.


Each one of those factors would increase the performance. Also, the other side of the system had its impact. Unless you were taking the heat away from the system as fast as the panels delivered it, it would sap the efficiency, and poorly implemented installations could go off on “high head (https://inspectapedia.com/aircond/High_Head_Pressure_Diagnosis.php).”

The science of that heat pump was still in its infancy when Dennis was repeatedly wiped out. It is big subject, and I would be happy to discuss it further.

I hope that helps,

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Krishna is making me think about Dennis’s heat pump (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1259553&viewfull=1#post1259553). I am making a little thread (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/128-Dennis-s-Heat-Pump-Performance?p=1520&viewfull=1#post1520) for it. I got into the physics of Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=630&viewfull=1#post630) and what we pursued in my journey with Dennis thread (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574). I just looked through Dennis’s salesman’s materials from our Ventura days, and it was not in there, but one system installed in Colorado had a team of engineers studying it. It was a big house, with an indoor pool. That heat pump heated the house and pool while its panels were buried under two feet of snow. They were trying to find out how it did it, and concluded that the snow provided a huge energy sink that could feed the panels, and what was sucked out overnight was replenished by sunshine the next day, so the sunshine heated up the snow so that the heat pump could keep sucking the energy out of it. If you ever described that situation to somebody familiar with normal heat pumps, it would blow them away.

Air-to-air heat pumps (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new) were vastly inferior to one of Dennis’s, properly installed, and the parameters were startling to people only familiar with air-to-airs. Back then, an air-to-air delivered maybe 50K BTUs per hour with a COP of two. It had a few pounds of refrigerant in it. Dennis’s held 60 pounds of refrigerant and delivered twice as much heat per hour and used less electricity, for a tripling and more of its performance over an air-to-air heat pump.

The ideal application was heating water, for hot water tanks, pools, and home heating systems. The best home apps had a pretty large water tank, such as 500 gallons or more. Then the heat pump could work during the day when the COPs were highest, and have that heat ready in the evening and morning, when most people were home and needed that heat the most. The ideal commercial installation was when the system worked 24/7, as it only saved money over conventional heaters when it was running.

Those panels were the magic, and as I have written, when people installed them themselves, it was a crapshoot. When Dennis was flying high, he ran installer schools. The standard student was a Class B refrigeration mechanic. It took a week of installer class, so they could unlearn some of their refrigeration education, and then they needed to install several systems before they began to get the hang of it. That was the craftsman stage, and Dennis could not carpet the USA that way, so he tried to industrialize the process, with the panel arrays built and charged with refrigerant in the factory. His dream was to have it roll off of a truck, like an appliance, set it up, hook up the electric and water lines, and voila. He never got to experience that.

If a system was improperly installed, plenty could go wrong. The panels ideally had uniform cooling, so that all of the panels absorbed that environmental energy. That meant that the refrigerant was running through the panels as it should. If it was not done right, you could see the “frost line” when it operated, where the parts with refrigerant running through them would have frost/ice on them, while the other parts didn’t. If the system after assembly did not have a hard vacuum drawn on it for 24 hours, then when it was charged with refrigerant, “pollutants” such as water and oxygen would wreck the system (https://www.trutechtools.com/Vacuum-Training_c_1100.html)). But once the wrinkles were ironed out, it was the world’s best heating system. There has never been anything on the market that beat it. The pump was the only moving part, and it could last 20 years before needing replacement, just like refrigerators used to.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Traffic metric time. In the past day, this thread went past 2.4 million views. The traffic has slowed down in the past year, but the quality of what Krishna, for instance, brings to the table, is high. It is about quality, not quantity.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1259553&viewfull=1#post1259553):

On that first one (https://ahealedplanet.net/lamco.jpg), you can’t tell by how you are doing it. ... I have attached a calc that shows a 60% furnace efficiency, a COP of 6, and a use of 5,600 kilowatt-hours to run the heat pump. You have too many variables that you don’t know the answers for, to be able to crunch the numbers like you did, but my attached graphic shows how they appear reasonable.


On the panels, you are also not calculating it correctly. Direct solar energy absorption (the black body (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body) effect) is a relatively minor aspect of the panel’s heat absorption. If you look at those panel arrays (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#arrays), it looks like 6 and 8 panels were the standard. I heard that before Dennis first got involved, and half of the buyers installed it themselves, so they didn’t work that well, with that kind of quality control, they could have ten panels.

If you look at Brian’s test (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#testify), which he stupidly forgot about when he testified, it delivered 100K BTUs per hour. That was the typical performance that I heard about, or about twice the output per horsepower (25K BTUs) as the refrigeration manuals described (12K). Brian was incapable of thinking past his textbooks, even when he created the data that defied them. When I had conversations with the techs, they said that Dennis’s heat pump delivered twice the pressure that conventional heat pumps did, which was the secret of its success. The exhaust temperature after the pump was over 200 degrees F.

So, to your question about panel absorption, the panels delivered about 10,000 BTUs per hour per panel. You can do your solar incidence calc on that and see how much was direct solar.


Efficiency of heating oil being 60% is something I missed, also COP 6, + non solar energy, and number of panels is 10.

From my calculations I get 12 kwh per m2 needed, with sun giving 3kwh so 75% of energy gained by the panel is non-solar energy from wind, air temperature.

For this first one (https://ahealedplanet.net/lamco.jpg) the data says 2066 kwh extra was used in year of lamco use, clearly that can't be right, around 6000 extra kwh was needed and using 0.08c/kwh cost we get around $1300 savings if no heating oil is used.

Also using this data we can size the compressor 10,000 btu is 3kwh at COP 6 we need .5 kwh capacity compressor per panel. With 10 panels 5 kwh capacity compressor is needed.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1259675&viewfull=1#post1259675):

That is not a very good data set (https://ahealedplanet.net/lamco.jpg) to be doing those kinds of analytics on. That unit was installed right at the beginning of 1980, on the tail-end of the USA’s second oil crisis (I was in gas lines for that second one), and heading right into the USA’s worst recession since World War II, when I “decided” to graduate from college (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#grad). My guess is that that homeowner was not just Joe Average who happened to get a sales pitch for the heat pump, but somebody who discovered the virtues of conservation, as many Americans did in those days. I consider it likely that that home’s electric consumption declined for non-heating purposes (“Turn out the lights!”), and he might have also done something like insulate. We just don’t know. That was just one of many houses that had that kind of calc done on them. That 100% savings was the “extreme” one. The other examples in Dennis’s salesman’s kit saved between 75% and 90%, which was standard back then.

The other studies that I presented were scientific tests (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#half), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#arizona), 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#testify), 4 (http://ahealedplanet.net/COP.htm)), performed by scientists and engineers, and are better examples, where you can see the inputs and outputs and do a little number crunching. There were many scientific studies made on the equipment. Again, the technology was really in its infancy when Dennis was repeatedly wiped out, with the fledgling industry still stuck at the craftsman stage. That panel introduced operating parameters never seen before. Dennis spent more than $1 million on heat pump R&D himself over the years. DuPont got involved, and I believe that it was their scientists who calculated the right size for the expansion valve. It was, as I recall, twice what typical refrigeration applications used, again, because of that panel.

The irony is that the one that you are crunching on is the one that the public cared about, because it showed them saving money! :) Those others that calculated those high COPs did not mean much to Joe Average. Show them something that saved them money, and they were interested. And that is why Dennis’s marketing plan (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs) was so ingenious. The customer did not even need to know if it worked or not; Dennis’s program removed all of the risk to the customer. It is still the most brilliant thing that I ever saw in the business world, and I have spent my career there.

It was a very remarkable technology, which was wiped out and died out, and your pals (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=626&viewfull=1#post626) at sunpump (https://www.sunpump.solar/) are making another run at it. When I read their site a little more, I saw that they only had 20 installations, so they are still playing the craftsman game. They surely have new data on their equipment. They are either frightened, naïve, or ignorant, however, not even mentioning the industry that long preceded them. I don’t give them much of a chance.

Anybody who does their homework will know that the technology was highly legitimate, and that is all that I am really trying to present. John Spickard (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=604&viewfull=1#post604) and the chairman of the board of American Express (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=589&viewfull=1#post589) understood what Dennis was doing; they were some of the only businessmen who did. Nearly all the rest were blinded by their ignorance, greed (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#greed), etc.

Heat pumps and heat engines (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#industrial), even hydraulic ones (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse), are like donkey carts compared to what is in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). Dennis’s heat pump is just one of many examples (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#impossible) of how superior technology was wiped out (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make), and what is on the market today is dog poop, even so-called cutting-edge high tech. It is cousin to the deadly cancer treatments (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#racket) that we have today, while all the treatments that worked were wiped out (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#suppress). I could go on and on. Reagan’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#reagan) “magic of capitalism” is a fairy tale, like the fairy tales of American nationalism (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#weems). Capitalism is a criminal enterprise (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#capitalism), and what we encountered was capitalisms on steroids (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#steroids). The technology itself is a minor issue. It is all 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, although doing one’s homework is good work. Keep it up.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

It is time for another Free Energy Follies (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1486&viewfull=1#post1486) post. When people find out how the world really works, not the indoctrination and Hollywood version, especially for my fellow travelers, Boy Scouts (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts) that they usually were, there is usually shock and righteous indignation, accompanied by “They can’t do that! (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1440&viewfull=1#post1440)” :) Mark’s adventures (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&highlight=comings#post811647) comprise a great example of that. His mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=312&viewfull=1#post312) allowed him to attain the insight needed to build his free energy gizmo. Then he was framed, fired, arrested, and interrogated in an underground facility. When he was finally deposited on the sidewalk, at about age 24, he was indignant and thought that he could sneak past them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7), to only be rudely abused of his naïveté. I have a great deal of respect for people’s finding out the hard way, especially when they have no other frame of reference. Back in the 1980s, when Mark had his rude awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309), Dennis and I did not even know that there was a free energy field. We had never even heard of Tesla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tesla1). My students who rush out to proselytize to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle) don’t have that excuse, however. Ah, naïve youth (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business)! :)

Once Mark had his R&D materials and papers stolen, he wisely realized that his approach did not have a prayer, and he never tried it again. He gets high marks for trying and quickly learning. Not many have done something like that, or are willing to admit when they are in far over their heads. Mark kept at it, but laid aside his naïve schoolboy notions. Mark still needed years to process what he experienced, however, which is normal. All of my fellow travelers that I most respected began with that naïveté, which is no crime (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive), and we all lost our naïveté honestly.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Back in 1990, when I moved to Ohio and hit the books (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=739&viewfull=1#post739), I spent months studying thermodynamics, Mr. Mentor’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) and Victor Fischer’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#fischer) engine patents, and developed a pretty good understanding of why Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new) was the world’s best heating system. Many variables impacted the heat pump’s performance, and I saw people fail to understand that all along the way.

During that halcyonic summer of 1986 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=611&viewfull=1#post611), I visited Brian’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#young) home, and he showed me a model that he built on the heat pump’s performance (the first time that I saw Excel used, which I have used every day of my career for the past 20 years). It was based purely on ambient air temperature, and he calculated a “balance point,” which was when the system could provide all of a home’s heating needs, as a sales tool. When I got to Boston (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=611&viewfull=1#post611) and mentioned it to Dennis, he said that it was a worthless exercise, which showed how engineers like Brian could get lost in the weeds and produce meaningless technical analyses. On the technical side, ambient air temperature was only one of several parameters that would determine the system’s performance. You had to take into consideration wind speed, sunshine, and on the other side, where the heat comes into the house, you needed to know the temperature differential in the heat exchanger. There were other parameters, but those were the most important ones. So, Brian’s exercise was not only of dubious worth on the technical side, but it also was worthless as a marketing tool. All that the customer wanted to know was if the system saved money, and a balance point analysis was worthless for that.

I saw a number of flawed analyses like that over the years, but I did not fully understand how flawed they were until I performed my studies. After thinking about the issue for years, I came to realize that the inner surface of the panels and heat exchanger on the other end was where the action was for the refrigerant, and the temperature of those inner surfaces was what it was all about, as far as system performance went. But you also had to calculate the heat exchange across those inner and outer surfaces of the panel and heat exchanger (the panel was a heat exchanger, too, but in the industry jargon, only the heat exchanger on the house end of it was called that, and a gas-to-water heat exchanger was usually the best situation), which was dependent on the temperatures on both sides of the exchangers, the thickness of the exchanger walls, if one side was liquid and the other vapor, etc.

For heating a water tank, which was the ideal application, the COPs would be higher as the tank was cold and the heat exchanger water would be colder and have a higher temperature differential across the barrier between the cold liquid and hot vapor. The Carnot equation (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#carnot) was applicable. As the water tank heated up, the COPs would decline. When the Sun came out in the morning, the temperatures rose, the winds blew, and those all increased performance at the panel (increasing the heat captured, as well as the COP), as it was able to absorb more energy, from temperature differential as well as directly absorbing photons (the black body (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_body) effect). When I had my conversation with Mr. Skeptic (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#conversation), he tried to convince me that Dennis’s heat pump would not work well, as the black body radiation at night would completely sap the system’s performance, rendering it worthless at night. As if there was not already a lot of data showing that it performed fine at night, in a Minnesota winter (http://ahealedplanet.net/COP.htm), if not as well as in the daytime. Either Mr. Skeptic was stupider than Brian was, or he hoped that I was, so that he could dupe me with his pseudo-explanation to dismiss Dennis’s heat pump.

There are other variables, such as what the vapor state was at both heat exchanger inner surfaces. Was it far above the condensing point, or close to it? I have seen a virtual textbook that a heat exchanger company wrote to describe how gas-to-liquid heat exchangers work, and what the ideal parameters were. Dennis’s heat pump had far too many parameters for simplistic analyses to predict its performance.

I crunch numbers for a living (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#context), and have constantly dealt with invalid analyses, especially ones where they try to dial in their microscopes, going to three significant digits when the data only allows for maybe two. Ian Morris (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page12?p=1313&viewfull=1#post1313), for instance, is innumerate, taking his numbers out to five significant digits, when the data might allow for two, and he throws swag numbers into his meat grinder, combined with less swaggy ones, to arrive at a metric that he carries out to three significant digits, when one digit is probably appropriate for his exercise. The history of science is plagued with misleading numerical analyses, in which the error rate was larger than the effect being measured. As I write this, a global warming study is getting a great deal of coverage, as the authors blew it in their calculations (https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/07/global-warming-study-oceans-error/).

I have seen it all regarding Dennis’s heat pump, from simplistic and invalid explanations for what performance it would get at what environmental temperatures, to why it wouldn’t work at all at night, and other fallacies, presented by engineers, no less. I have seen some who did not understand that the panel was the magic that made it work.

And this is regarding simple, garden-variety thermodynamics and physics, not some ZPF (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf1) or other unorthodox (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal) theorizing. If the scientists and engineers regularly bungle the easy stuff, how qualified are they to assess the cutting-edge stuff? Not at all, in my opinion, and when I hear pronouncements from scientists and engineers that free energy is “impossible,” and the “laws of physics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3)” are invoked to dismiss it, the dogmatic priesthood has spoken. I’ll refer to a quote in Peter Ward’s latest (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/43-Chapter-26-Humanity%C2%92s-Fifth-Epochal-Event-Free-Energy-etc/page2?p=1518&viewfull=1#post1518), when it was observed that when an old scientist said that something was possible, even though it had not been established yet, the scientist was almost certainly right, but if that same scientist declared something “impossible,” then that scientist was almost certainly wrong.

As Mr. Mentor once told me, very few engineers have any creative talent, somewhere on the order of 1% of them. The rest are trapped by their “education” and unable to think past their textbooks, as Brian spectacularly demonstrated (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#testify). Engineers such as Mr. Skeptic were patently dishonest to boot (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#article).

At this time, stating that one of Dennis’s panels (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#arrays) generally captured 10,000 BTUs per hour is about as accurate as I think is prudent, which is to one significant digit. At eight panels, the pump itself added 20,000 BTUs (at a COP of 5), to get to that 100K BTUs per hour. It is close enough for any meaningful analysis about that heat pump’s performance, with the available data. COPs to the nearest whole number are all that is needed to show how superior Dennis’s heat pump was to conventional ones. Dennis’s got between six and eight when conventional ones got about a two, while also delivering twice as much heat. That is plenty to give an idea of its superiority. In the Minnesota winter, conventional heat pumps would barely work, if at all.

Whether it could make free energy when married to hydraulic heat engines (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#marry) is another matter entirely, and I have my doubts, but we were wiped out before we could explore it very far. I’ll write about that in coming posts.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This will be another Free Energy Follies (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1486&viewfull=1#post1486) post. My list of all of those failed paths to free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) was easy to prepare. I was intimately familiar with all of them and more, from either direct personal experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting), trading notes with fellow travelers, or hearing/reading about them. One tactic of organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) is infiltrating people into the target organization. Those saboteurs will usually wait for their chance to do the most damage possible, and in my adventures, they can be part of what I call the inside/outside job. Bill the BPA Hit Man (http://ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm) and Ken Hodgell (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) both played that game, working with the authorities to put us out of business on behalf of their private-interest employers, striking when Dennis was most vulnerable.

I have mentioned Adam Trombly’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/radio.htm#trombly) adventures a number of times, and his life’s story is the only one that I have heard of that can compare to Dennis’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=576&viewfull=1#post576). I have heard of many events that Adam has not disclosed publicly, including numerous murder attempts, straight from people in his inner circle. He had at least one of those “inside people” infiltrated into his organization, and in one event, that saboteur was Adam’s most enthusiastic supporter, until Adam tried to put together a deal with some big players, and then the saboteur pulled the rug out from under Adam, completely wrecked the deal, and then disappeared. The activities of those saboteurs can range from mere mischief and sabotage to murder attempts. I don’t know just what the calculus is for whom is sicced on whom, but it is probably along the lines of that risk analysis (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#risk) and response (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#graphic) framework that I presented. Adam had a free energy facility raided and cleaned out by the authorities, just like we did (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#raid), on flimsy and false pretexts, of course. Taking everything that you have is a good way to take the wind out of your sails. Only somebody as persistent as Dennis will keep trying, rebuilding from scratch each time.

If people do anything productive in the field, they will come onto the radar, and not just Godzilla’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc), as there are many other predators and opportunists in the milieu. There are innumerable opportunities for folly. :) All of those paths of disaster are why I have been very careful about whom I let into my effort, and gung-ho newcomers are the ones that I am the most wary of. They can launch themselves into life-risking and life-wrecking disaster in no time at all, as they rush out to “do something.” I have designed what I am doing so that it is not very vulnerable to inside people. People won’t be putting their lives on the line in my effort, so the opportunities of inside people are going to be very limited. I was just looking at my site stats, and I have an endless stream of hackers trying to break into my site, but it is a very simple site, with almost no opportunity to break in. I don’t have any ecommerce features or money associated with my site, which would be a great vulnerability in a number of ways. I do my best to limit the chances for folly. :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

If relatively straightforward analysis of Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/128-Dennis-s-Heat-Pump-Performance?p=1520&viewfull=1#post1520) is beyond the reach of most engineers, with plenty of available data, even by people who produced that data (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#testify), how fruitless is debating free energy theories going to be? Even if Sparky (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal) published how he conditioned his magnets, almost nobody outside of an industrial R&D facility could reproduce it. And there are quite a few alternative physics models out there, each proposing their different hypotheses for how the universe really works. Going down that road, while it can be educational in ways, is generally a pretty worthless task. All of the free energy theory in the world is meaningless compared to what my friend saw (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). In mainstream science (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#orthodox), a pretty big backlash is developing against string theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_theory) and other bodies of theory that can’t be tested against anything. They are simply elaborate mental games, with plenty of math behind them, but they have literally no relevance to the world we live in.

As I have stated, Greer has described the same antigravity technology that my friend saw (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=1355&viewfull=1#post1355), and he may be able to discuss the theory behind it some, but that is just not my game. I am more into how the orthodox theories (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fe) have plenty of room in them for the reality of free energy, electro-gravity, and the like. Anybody who says that free energy is “impossible” is not worth listening to, as is anybody who dismisses organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) as a “conspiracy theory (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3).” But many armchair pundits and “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” play that game, and they dupe the gullible (http://ahealedplanet.net/skeptic.htm).

This is a Free Energy Follies (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1486&viewfull=1#post1486) post, as getting into free energy physics debates, dominated by this scientist or that, with this free energy inventor with a proprietary gizmo (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proprietary), or that one applying for a patent (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patent), are all emblematic of the field’s arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested). Those are all roads to nowhere. The only thing that is going to break out of those boxes of futility is an open-source, publicly demonstrated, fully functioning free energy device, one that is far past the proof of concept stage, which is sitting there, making free energy, which can be tested to everybody’s heart’s content, and no independent effort is anywhere near that stage. The masses are not going to be reached in any other way. Put free energy devices on their homes, for free, like Dennis did with his heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs), and then they will begin to awaken to the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink), and not before (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#awaken). Every Epoch was like that (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), so this transition will be no different. The folly is thinking that people will wake up with talk or clever theory. It won’t happen that way.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One of the greatest free energy follies is how people react to the idea of organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). The most naïve (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive) response is to deny that it exists, which is an entry-level perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6). People such as Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tickertape1) and Sparky (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tickertape2) learned that lesson the hard way, thinking that their technologies would be welcomed, to only have the opposite happen. Sparky epitomized how naïve free energy inventors react to finding out that organized suppression is real: they think that they can dance or sneak past it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7). When Sparky began playing secrecy games, writing his notes in cipher, he ended up self-suppressing his work, which died with him, as he played right into their hands. Mark tried playing that game (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1523&viewfull=1#post1523), for a brief period, before he realized the futility of it, and he gets high marks for quickly coming to an understanding.

The mature response is to realize that organized suppression is very real, cannot be snuck past or negotiated with, and the only way to overcome it is to just focus on the goal, with combined positive intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus), and then it won’t matter what the suppressors do. That is my game, but mounting an effort to get to that stage will be no easy task, and building the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) will be the hardest step of all. After the choir is built, the rest will be easy.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new) is the best heating system that has ever been on the world market. Mr. Mentor’s hydraulic heat engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) was considered to be the world’s best engine for powering an automobile. Heat engines and heat pumps work in opposite ways (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#carnot) along temperature differentials. Mr. Mentor’s pressure intensifier (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#worked) turned a low-pressure liquid into a high-pressure one, and then the working fluid could be used to power hydraulic motors. That is pretty simple and uncontroversial. As fate would have it (my “friends (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3)” at work again, I suspect), I work today at a company that takes advantage of that same pressure intensifier concept to get 100K PSI pressures, but they don’t use it to power hydraulic motors. High-pressure liquids have many potential applications. Mr. Mentor’s engine, as I recall, only needed 2K PSI or so. His engine was built and run in the Rose Parade, by a company that stole his engine, and I think that I might have heard of their fate (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#car) a decade later. Kangarooing people like that into prison is an American specialty (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1440&viewfull=1#post1440), especially in California. :)

I brought Mr. Mentor out to Boston, to assess what we were doing. Was Dennis just dreaming? Not only did Mr. Mentor not declare Dennis’s idea “impossible,” but he proposed his own free energy idea: marrying the panels of Dennis’s heat pump to Mr. Mentor’s engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#marry). Before we got very far along that path (Mr. Mentor is why we moved the operation to Ventura, as I later discovered (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=647&viewfull=1#post647)), along came Victor Fischer (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#fischer), who had another hydraulic heat engine that had been more extensively developed (what are the odds of that?), and Dennis jumped onto that horse instead, just before we had the boom lowered on us (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr). Is it possible for hydraulic heat engines and flat plate evaporators to make free energy? I don’t know, but the standard interpretation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics says that it can’t be done. I’ll likely never have the chance to find out, as Mr. Mentor’s engine may not be built again, at least in my lifetime. And compared to what I know is in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), heat engines and heat pumps are cave man technology.

For me, the lessons of Dennis’s heat pump and Mr. Mentor’s heat engine are about the fate of disruptive technologies in American industrial capitalism. The idea that the better mousetrap prevails in the “free market” is a fairy tale, and is one of many (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481) that the public is fed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To briefly return to the post that began my Free Energy Follies thread (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1486&viewfull=1#post1486), my experience was by no means unusual in the field. Betrayal by one’s social circle, and by family members in particular, is standard in the milieu. When I traded notes with fellow travelers, or heard about others relating their experiences, betrayal by family members was a common theme. The story of the Biblical Joseph (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_(Genesis)#Plot_against_Joseph) describes a pretty typical situation. I have murderers in my family, and they generally murdered family members. When I heard that my own mother was campaigning against me (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=896&viewfull=1#post896), it no longer even hurt anymore, as I had received both barrels of that behavior on my journey, and what my former girlfriend did (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=622&viewfull=1#post622) was just a gentle preview. When I see gung-ho newbies rush out to tell their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle) the “good news,” I do what I can to discourage it. They just have to go out and discover the hard way that nobody is home in their social circles. Those in their social circles simply don’t care, even the “hippest” ones, and their feeding that gung-ho newbie to the sharks, if the opportunity presents itself, is normal. Taking the path of sociality (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy?p=925&viewfull=1#post925) for this Epochal effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) is a guarantee of disaster.

Whistleblowers have described a similar process (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#whistleblower1). These are all merely facets of my journey’s primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). There is really nothing remarkable about it, although I would say that the perils and temptations of the free energy pursuit magnify those behaviors by orders of magnitude. For every beacon in the darkness, such as Dennis, Mr. Professor, and Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures), many more act criminally and despicably, turning into Orcs lusting after the One Ring (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page12?p=869&viewfull=1#post869), and those beacons on the darkness often became flaming martyrs, while the mob cheered and roasted marshmallows. I got my first taste of that (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#salient1) when I had been at Dennis’s company for only three months, and it was only a gentle preview of what lied ahead.

One of the greatest Free Energy Follies is thinking that one’s social circle is going to truly support the aspirant, especially when the going gets hard, and it has always been hard, for every aspirant that I ever heard of. Their social circles usually made it harder, not easier.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am about halfway through Hunger and Public Action (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/22-Chapter-15-Mid-Essay-Reflection?p=1519&viewfull=1#post1519), and as Krishna wishes, I’ll make some reference to it in my big essay update, probably around here (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#belle). I’ll probably mention that in the 2,000 years before the British conquest, India had less than one famine per century (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#starve), but under British rule, they had a famine every few years, and that India has not had a famine since it gained independence. That was not unusual, and Hunger and Public Action presented other nations that immediately ended famines once they achieved independence from colonial rule. The entire point of colonialism was exploiting the subject peoples. Even when colonies finally threw off Europe’s shackles, often the USA was right behind them, establishing neocolonial regimes (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection).

All of it is playing the scarcity game, which will vanish in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), which is really the point of my big essay: many, if not all, of the grim aspects of the human journey will become obsolete.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On Free Energy Follies (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1486&viewfull=1#post1486), from what I have seen, Greer’s are ongoing, as he is stuck at the free energy inventor (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=729&viewfull=1#post729) and mass movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10) levels. The free energy field is in arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/111-The-Free-Energy-Field-s-State-of-Arrested-Development?p=1217&viewfull=1#post1217) in a number of ways, and chasing after free energy inventors is one of the greatest follies, especially at this stage of the game. Brian spent years visiting free energy inventors (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#frontiers) and scientists, and he spent his last years trying to educate the public on the idea that a free energy inventor with a proof-of-concept gizmo was pretty meaningless (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demonstrate). When Greer unveiled his $100K reward for a FE gizmo (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/111-The-Free-Energy-Field-s-State-of-Arrested-Development?p=1226&viewfull=1#post1226), I had to shake my head in dismay. Whom was he trying to attract? An inventor with the goods and after the money could do far better than that, as Greer knew well (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#payoff). Was Greer trying to get the “good guy” discount from some inventor with the goods who really cared and thought that Greer was the guy to make it happen? Good luck with that.

When Dennis flew me to that conference in Vegas in 1992, and he mounted a campaign to reach the couch potatoes (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#steal), while watching the ad was kind of fun, as Dennis made a video on the theme from the earliest days of our free energy pursuit (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#flyer), by 1992, I harbored serious doubts about any effort like that. Dennis was trying to harness people’s self-interest, and I came to realize that any effort centered around self-interest was doomed for an Epochal task such as this (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hurdles).

Greer has been slowly learning, going from demanding monopoly rights for any technology that he obtained to open-sourcing it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#utopia) and letting anybody try their hand at it. But I see too many aspects of his approach that I have strong doubts about. I doubt that he is going to be able to shift gears enough in his lifetime to try something with a chance, but maybe I’ll be pleasantly surprised. :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I have long written, I don’t know now “necessary” a mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=312&viewfull=1#post312) is for members of the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). However, I heartily agree that it is a great way to help discard the materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle) of our Epoch. Materialism is a religion, and when you have a mystical awakening, you know that materialism is just another false one built on a rickety foundation. Materialists tend to become Level 3s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3), especially the “smart” ones.

There are many paths to achieving a mystical awakening, but from what I have seen, they have similarities. They involve going within and leaving the five senses behind, so that the sixth can be developed. It also requires a quieting of the mind. I went from zero to awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown) in 40 hours of training. So did Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#remote). Chris, on the other hand, played around for years (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/95-Introducing-Chris-Gilbert?p=747&viewfull=1#post747) before coming to it in a more gradual fashion. I doubt that there is a “right” way to do it, although, as with the Silva class (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva), it has to be grounded in love and in service to others (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving). It can be dangerous to a soul’s journey to misuse mystical abilities (and I may be writing from experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#atlantis) on that issue). Chris and his pal abandoned their “ki blasts” when it seemed that Chris harmed his pal, and Chris is on the path of service today. Mark’s awakening (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&viewfull=1#post811647) led to his building a free energy prototype, and then his adventures began. Mine definitely led to that voice in my head (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3), leading me on my odyssey. My fellow travelers that I most respected had such awakenings (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#mystical), and we were almost always scientists or scientists-in-training.

Unfortunately, the Silva course is a shadow of its former self, and I am not sure that I can recommend it today. I have heard that the Monroe Institute (https://www.monroeinstitute.org/) gives good courses and provides good tools for the aspiring psychonaut. Bruce Moen (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#moen) was Monroe’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#monroe) pupil. There are Eastern meditative traditions. For Westerners, meditation is often called “prayer.” Prayers that come from the heart (http://ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#jesus) can be powerful. For the seeker, there are plenty of avenues to walk to a mystical awakening. It is far easier for older souls (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age) to attain, as they are on the inward journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age3), not the outward one that younger souls are on. Basically, if you are interested in having a mystical awakening, you can have one, but it might take some work.

For me, a mystical awakening is merely part of the spectrum of awakening that is available for people who dare to not settle for their conditioning and indoctrination. None of these myths (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481) need a mystical awakening to see through.

What a mystical awakening did for me, however, as it did for my other scientific pals, was that it opened up doors of perception, sometimes called intuition. Such awakenings could lead to scientific and inventive breakthroughs (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#flash). From what I have seen, the “creative moment” and psychic ability are very close cousins, if not aspects of the same thing. It is also related to the “cosmic religious feeling” that Einstein wrote about (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#einstein).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

My wife was happy that I got involved with Brian O’s New Energy Movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem) (NEM), as I finally got it out of my system. I’ll never join another free energy effort, especially a mass movement, again, unless the effort has completely digested the lessons of my journey and those of my fellow travelers. Even before Eugene Mallove was murdered (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland), I could tell that we were going nowhere. I’ll never attend another free energy conference (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#conferences), and I am so done with the businessman’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=710&viewfull=1#post710), inventor’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=709&viewfull=1#post709), scientist’s, and mass movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10) approaches to this issue.

When I was invited to the White House (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#midlife) a couple of years after the NEM disaster, I instantly rejected the invitation, and a few years later, when I read the FTC’s charges against Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#ftc), I thanked my lucky stars that I did not get involved with Dennis again. Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/128-Dennis-s-Heat-Pump-Performance?p=1520&viewfull=1#post1520) is the best heating system that has ever been on the world market, and his high MPG technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/94-My-last-posts-in-another-forum?p=639&viewfull=1#post639) very likely worked as advertised, although I never really cared about it enough to find out. After Brian was booted out of NEM, he invited me into an effort mounted by scientists, but I was not interested. As I have stated many times, technology is not really the issue, and the multitudinous alternative scientific theories (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fephysics) are not very important. Theory combined with working prototypes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal) is another matter, although that is when the inventor has hell to pay (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bearden), if he survives the experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors). Humanity’s fate rides on the twin issues 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/brianmem.htm#sentience), and all else pales into insignificance. The free energy field’s state of arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested) is symptomatic of those issues, and it is reflected in the many failed and doomed approaches (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) that have been tried over the generations.

Brian’s was my final free energy folly, unless my current effort turns into one, but that would be far down the road, and if this effort turns out to be just one more folly, at least nobody is going to have their lives wrecked (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#pursuing). I still carried Brian’s spears (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#intro) to the end, helping him with his DOE proposal (http://www.brianoleary.info/Impacts.html), writing his NASA bio (https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/oleary-bt.html) and getting it published (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog?p=284&viewfull=1#post284), and improving his Wikipedia bio, at least until this latest act of censorship by Wikipedia (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368), as a side-effect of carrying Uncle Ed’s spears. Brian died while planning to promote my approach (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=918852&viewfull=1#post918852), and if he had lived to see my big essay, he would have immediately understood. My Camelot interview (http://ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm) will likely be my lifetime’s favorite, as I did it with Brian.

I am making it up as I go, as my efforts since 1986 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601) have been a series of trial-and-error events, seeing what didn’t work and why (and having my life wrecked (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr) in the process), and thinking about what might have a chance to at least help. I won’t give up on my choir idea (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) anytime soon, and I might have 30 more good years in me, if I am as fortunate as Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm) was. Geez, Noam is going be 90 himself (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Chomsky) in a couple of weeks. Howard (http://ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm), Ed, and Brian left behind some insanely large shoes to fill, and so will Noam and Dennis.

This will wind down my Free Energy Follies (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1486&viewfull=1#post1486) posts for now.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Hi:
I am about halfway through Hunger and Public Action (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/22-Chapter-15-Mid-Essay-Reflection?p=1519&viewfull=1#post1519), and as Krishna wishes, I’ll make some reference to it in my big essay update, probably around here (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#belle).

I think you should mention Hunger and Public Action around here (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#_ednref868) also in the footnote (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#_edn868) Gideon Polya's name needs to be mentioned.
The comparison between India and China in HPA puts the 2 billion excess deaths in India in context.

In other news, Wikpedia finally responded to my complaint about abusive admin, saying that they found "no administrative misconduct". Haha ha. I did not expect anything different, it only sharpens my perspective about how difficult bringing FE to life is. If trivial matters of Ed Herman's biography can get me banned, I can barely imagine the dangers to FE enthusiasts despite the warnings from Wade.

I am currently reading the book Book of Why (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36204378-the-book-of-why) by Judea Pearl

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1260722&viewfull=1#post1260722):

Ever since I first opened Hunger and Public Action, when I read Uncle Ed mention it in his critique of Pinker’s imperial valentine (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#pinker), I planned to use it to bolster Polya’s case. Don’t worry, Hunger and Public Action will get sufficient citing in my big essay update. In the end, Hunger and Public Action is not too relevant to my efforts to get us over the hump into the Fifth Epoch (well-fed peasants are not going to help much with my effort – my work is late-Fourth Epoch, not early Fourth or late-Third, although I note how the farmer mentality (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574) has helped breed some of my finest fellow travelers), but it shows how easily issues such as famine are dealt with, as long as the people are not subject to imperial oppression. Drèze and Sen took it very easy on the USA’s role in chronic hunger since World War II (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection), to the point of making it invisible.

I’ll have more to write when I finish Hunger and Public Action, but the gist that I gleaned so far is that there is acute and chronic hunger, and there is state intervention as well as profit-seeking enterprises, and that ideological purity is not helpful for dealing with famines, either for prevention or mitigation. Ideological purity is not helpful for anything. It is all about caring (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708), or the lack thereof.

I plan to write a lot more about domestication in my big essay update, and particularly how farms are highly artificial environments that wiped out or commandeered ecosystems to wrench human-digestible calories from the denuded soils. That will all end in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), but the Third Epoch’s energy surplus from peasant agriculture was always thin and vulnerable to failure. Food security was humanity’s primary preoccupation all the way to the Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4). It is a scandal that human hunger exists anywhere on Earth today, and homelessness, etc. I was just reading the other day about the 13 million American households that are food insecure (http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/why-does-america-have-13-million-households-that-dont-have-enough-food-to-eat), in history’s richest and most powerful nation. My favorite trailhead near my home has a homeless camp at its entrance that I walk past each time that I hike on that trail, as I will likely do tomorrow, and I live only a few miles from the richest men on Earth.

On Wikipedia, yes, you got a little taste. :) I have seen Dennis smeared since the day I met him (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=602&viewfull=1#post602), and several national TV shows have been aired about Dennis, which all prominently featured the pathological liar Mr. Skeptic (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends). I have not even bothered to watch them. I learned my lessons on that score 30 years ago and more (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=687&viewfull=1#post687), which primed me for Noam and Ed’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv). That Ed’s Wikipedia bio is outright disinformation (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368) today is actually an example of his propaganda model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing) in action. While working on Ed’s bio, I read somewhere that Noam said that Ed’s model actually did not take it far enough. Ed’s model focused on media performance, but Noam said that it richly applied to academia and “intellectuals” of all stripes.

As far as my adventures at Wikipedia go (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1389&viewfull=1#post1389), the most recent encounter was by far the most unprofessional treatment that I have ever received at any Internet venue, as far as the admins go. The trolls (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll) did not even need to roll out of bed before that admin pounced, with his threats, insults, and flimsy and false pretexts for erasing my work, KGB-style. That rude admin’s work will live in infamy, unless they erase that too, where he calls my work a “f**king mess (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brian_O%27Leary&action=history),” as he erased all mention of free energy from Brian’s bio. That amazing behavior aligns quite well with Ed’s propaganda model, in that that admin probably thinks that he was acting righteously (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#ed), as he literally defended a disinformation specialist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Edward_S._Herman#Philip_Cross%E2%80%99s_edits), who Wikipedia’s founder also openly defended. This is a very close cousin to the McCarthyite propaganda campaign by Washington Post (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#propornot), and Facebook recently took a page out of Washington Post’s (owned by Bezos) playbook by banning sites (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1478&viewfull=1#post1478) on Washington Post’s blacklist, as did other Internet venues, as they used the same “logic” behind my treatment and yours at Wikipedia. They can simply make it up as they go, in an obscene parody of due process, which I am all too familiar with (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1440&viewfull=1#post1440).

We’ll see how much longer a site like mine can last on the Internet. It is besieged by hackers all day long, and I am going to have to try killing all of the bots to my site, as it is sending my traffic through the roof and making it more expensive to host. Other than the Google and Bing crawlers, and maybe a few others, I am going to block all bots to my site. My site is for human readers, not worthless bots, which resemble denial of service attacks.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just realized that today is the 55th anniversary of JFK’s death (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398). How time flies. In keeping with the theme of my previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1534&viewfull=1#post1534), recently I was putting my relationship with Gary on the record in a forum, to only have a troll crash the thread, and then the admin erased my thread (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page13?p=1439&viewfull=1#post1439). Wikipedia is far from alone in its boorish behavior. My work means the end of the world as we know it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), and at some level, nearly all of my assailants realize that, so the trolls come swarming (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll), the admins ban me, etc., and the real reasons are never the stated reasons, which only reinforces my journey’s primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is a little coda to my recent encounters with Wikipedia (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1534&viewfull=1#post1534). One of my free energy trolls (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll) also trolled the free energy “conspiracy theory” talk threads (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_energy_suppression_conspiracy_theory) at Wikipedia. You can see him trolling both venues (he camped on that thread of mine, so he is not hard to find). My thread, before that forum banned me when the trolls ganged up on me, mentioned Sparky Sweet (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal), and that troll idiotically or dishonestly said that he never heard of Sparky at the Wikipedia pages (he made his posts at Wikipedia soon after he trolled my forum thread). That was more than a decade ago. I just wasted part of my morning looking for where he did it (it disappeared years ago), and not only could I not find where that troll wrote about Sparky at Wikipedia. As far as I can tell, all mention of Sparky has vanished from Wikipedia. No big surprise, given my experiences with Wikipedia, but it seems that their erasure techniques can be pretty thorough.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, I did a little digging, after that previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1536&viewfull=1#post1536), and found where I did save that troll’s comment, and you can see how part of the talk page simply vanished. You can see the archived page as it exists today, here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Free_energy_suppression/Archive_2). I also attached what it looks like today. I also attached what it looked like in July 2008, and I also attached an image of that troll’s comment that he had never heard of Sparky (Floyd) Sweet, made long after he and his fellow trolls got me booted out of that forum. Either that is one stupid troll, or he is being dishonest. And as I suspected, yes indeed, that entire section on Sparky was erased at Wikipedia, without a trace. Wikipedia in action.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I don’t want to put too much energy into that troll’s comments on Sparky Sweet (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1537&viewfull=1#post1537), but it is a good example of the quality of free energy debunkery that dominates the Internet. To say that magnets are not an energy source is both obvious and inane. Sparky’s free energy gizmo (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal) indeed was based on magnets, but the magnets were “merely” a way to tap what is variously called the zero-point field (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf1) and other terms. Jeane Manning collected more than 30 names for it (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=846910&viewfull=1#post846910). Scientists call light electromagnetic energy, and the quantum paradox (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann) shows that scientists don’t know what light is.

The so-called unified field theory will weld together quantum theory and relativity, and show how the four “forces” in the universe are related, and it will have things to say about the space-time continuum. What my friend saw (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), which Greer also described (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=1355&viewfull=1#post1355), used free energy technology to produce anti-gravity, or what Greer calls electrogravity. So, right there, you have a welding together of quantum theory with the theory of gravity, and most free energy devices that I have heard of used magnetics. With gravity and electromagnetics tightly related in what my friend saw (Sparky’s gizmo produced antigravity effects), I think that it is safe to say that if and when those technologies come into the open, some kind of unified field theory will either accompany them or be derived from them. The GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) certainly have some kind of theory along those lines. The technology alone will lead somebody in that direction, and the GCs have possessed those technologies for longer than I have been alive. They likely have a pretty developed body of theory, and I can nearly guarantee that the nature of consciousness (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mystical1) is part of that body of theory. The GCs know full well that consciousness is not a mere ephemeral byproduct of brain activity. I don’t know how many “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” are on the payroll, but at least some are. That troll’s boorish behavior is likely an example of Ed’s propaganda model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing), in which most of the debunkery is done gratis, by people who actually believe in what they are doing, and are incapable of understanding how irrational their work is (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#ed).

I don’t know if my friend was also showed time travel, but by the end of their demonstration (which he was “invited” to by kidnapping him (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/108-The-Global-Controllers?p=1173&viewfull=1#post1173)), his eyes were bugging out of his head, and he told his demonstrators that they did not play in his galaxy.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Hi:

Well, I did a little digging, after that previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1536&viewfull=1#post1536), and found where I did save that troll’s comment, and you can see how part of the talk page simply vanished. You can see the archived page as it exists today, here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Free_energy_suppression/Archive_2). I also attached what it looks like today. I also attached what it looked like in July 2008, and I also attached an image of that troll’s comment that he had never heard of Sparky (Floyd) Sweet, made long after he and his fellow trolls got me booted out of that forum. Either that is one stupid troll, or he is being dishonest. And as I suspected, yes indeed, that entire section on Sparky was erased at Wikipedia, without a trace. Wikipedia in action.

Best,

Wade

It did not totally disappear. But few people read all the edits so for all practical purposes it is gone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Free_energy_suppression_conspiracy_theory&diff=prev&oldid=347025882

What they did to you was far worse Wade. They entirely disappeared your content, so that even people who know about it cannot read it.
I understand that Wikipedia does not want to be in violation of copyright. However your edits were very far from any form of copyright violation
a) Quoting the NYT was FAIR USE
b) contributing your own material is not a copyright violation by definition

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1260909&viewfull=1#post1260909):

Glad that you were able to find it. Yes, even though it is buried deeply, somebody like you can at least find it before it got erased. As you note, the typical reader will not even suspect that an entire section of the talk page was erased. Yes, with what they did to my work, you can’t even see what I wrote, and yes, they erased it on flimsy and false pretexts, which can make one suspect that the conspiracy theories are true, and to an extent they are, but my take on that rude admin’s behavior (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1260772&viewfull=1#post1260772) is more along the lines of Ed’s structural model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing) of how the media operates, and Wikipedia is definitely part of the media today.

As I have written (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368), I believe that the quotes that were somehow a copyright violation are all over at Wikiquotes (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_S._Herman), and I can’t wrap my head around the idea that quotes in one part of the Wiki universe are fine, while in another part are a crime worthy of erasure (and yes, any NYT quotes would have been Fair Use protected). And the idea that using my own public domain writings is plagiarism is insane. I think that what it came down to, as far as the justification of the erasure, is that I had a conflict of interest with Brian and Ed, but again, a conflict of interest leading to erasure is also insane. They literally had no rational leg to stand on, but as you experienced, they can make it up as they go, as they “convicted” you of sock-puppetry. Again, what they did to Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr) was a million times worse, so I am not losing any sleep over Wikipedia’s inexcusable behavior. It is just more confirmation of my life’s primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). Diogenes’s quest for the honest man (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes#In_Athens) would be as fruitful today as it was back then.

Wikipedia suppressed the suppression, just like it whitewashed the whitewash in its Operation Paperclip (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1389&viewfull=1#post1389) article. The author of that erased section (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Free_energy_suppression_conspiracy_theory&diff=prev&oldid=347025882#Material_to_include) openly wondered how the suppressors would justify erasing the suppression. They proved him right. A troll recently crashed my thread on JFK (using Mr. Skeptic’s libel (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#article) as his ammo), and the admin then erased my thread (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page14?p=1535&viewfull=1#post1535). A decade ago, another forum that I was invited into erased the entire section of it devoted to my work (soon after a visit from Mr. Skeptic). Another forum that I driven out of has vanished (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/94-My-last-posts-in-another-forum?p=639&viewfull=1#post639), taking hundreds of my posts with it. So, I am used to this treatment. :)

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

We’ll see how much longer a site like mine can last on the Internet. It is besieged by hackers all day long, and I am going to have to try killing all of the bots to my site, as it is sending my traffic through the roof and making it more expensive to host. Other than the Google and Bing crawlers, and maybe a few others, I am going to block all bots to my site. My site is for human readers, not worthless bots, which resemble denial of service attacks.

Best,

Wade


I hesitate to recommend the big cloud hosting providers, but they might be better at dealing with DOS attacks. Keep the data of your website and configuration and everything else on multiple cloud providers, give copies of non-confidential parts of your website to trusted people. This way if any cloud provider kicks you off, you will have a different one to go to, if everything goes off you will have your local copy and copies with trusted parties.

Also the big cloud providers are better at dealing with the technology than you can on your own. And that includes, caching, compression, DOS attack defence etc.
As far as I can tell you are not even compressing the html that you send across the wire, which can be 50% bandwidth savings.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1260923&viewfull=1#post1260923):

Thanks for the tips. If I can just block several gigs a day of bot traffic, I should be fine, and if I have to worry about playing daisy-chain to a host that won’t ban me, it will be some kind of plan B. I don’t expect that the human traffic will be a big deal, even if the choir is built. The bots have driven my bandwidth up by a factor of ten in the past year.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1260923&viewfull=1#post1260923):

Thanks for the tips. If I can just block several gigs a day of bot traffic, I should be fine, and if I have to worry about playing daisy-chain to a host that won’t ban me, it will be some kind of plan B. I don’t expect that the human traffic will be a big deal, even if the choir is built. The bots have driven my bandwidth up by a factor of ten in the past year.
Best,
Wade

You should not have to daisy chain, but given what you are doing we have to think about worst cases. Generally speaking nobody will interfere with you, not sure what happens if GC's get involved and that is a risk no matter who is hosting your site.

All cloud providers have Edge Points of Presence (POPs) which avoid getting data from your servers when they know it can be served from the edge. Think of it as a distribution center in every city, all requests are served locally without needing to climb the highway, it is better for everybody in terms of costs. There are important reasons you must use compression, it saves bandwidth for you as well as the reader, also it loads much faster. Edge caching also has the same advantages. These things are called CDN's (Content Delivery Networks) one example Google CDN (https://cloud.google.com/cdn/docs/overview)

Also no matter what you do, the garden variety bots are going to take up infinite amount of traffic, only CDN's can protect the website.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna:

I’ll discuss with my admin soon.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Some odds and ends from current reading… Assange is in trouble (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/the-empire-keeps-proving-assange-right-about-everything-a34453ad7941), and the big tech companies are at the forefront of the assault on free speech (http://planetfreewill.com/big-tech-greatest-bait-and-switch-in-american-history-free-speech/). Here is an article on how the way that scientists receive credit for discoveries (http://nautil.us/issue/66/clockwork/the-problem-with-scientific-credit) is a very flawed process, which is no big news (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#steal). We are seeing hints (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/lifestyle/led-growing/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1e094d440611) of how agriculture in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#food) might look. There is an effort to grant elephants the rights of people (https://aeon.co/essays/if-elephants-arent-persons-yet-could-they-be-one-day), and it is very understandable (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elephantsuccess).

Best,

Wade

[Chris Gilbert]

The recent crackdown by tech companies on wrongthink is especially worrying to me. While I don't discuss FE in real life or on social media, I do sometimes broach other topics with people like media and mainstream bias and outright manipulation. While there is some acknowledgement of such, by and large it tends to be a disappointment. I was especially disgusted by "progressives" (including those whom I thought knew better) cheering the recent encroachment on free speech, generally under the rationale of combating hate speech and fake news. All the better excuse for cutting ties with those who waste my time.

It makes me roll my eyes at the big fixation on the 2nd amendment and false flag theories here in the US every time there is a mass shooting. While widespread guerrilla war in the event of social unrest would indeed deter the implementation of hard tyranny in the same vein as the Soviet Union, the soft tyranny that is growing in tandem with corporate control is far worse. As happened with Wikipedia and Ed, it's everyday people trying to act as gatekeepers based on their own fear based reactions who do most of the groundwork for the Deep State spiderweb, far more than any outright conspiracies.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Chris (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1261002&viewfull=1#post1261002):

Excellent summation. Yes indeed, it is Joe Average who carries the most water for the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) and friends. It was one of the earliest and most painful lessons of my journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#attacks). A relative few people at the top could never dream of pulling off their agendas, no matter what neat toys they have, if it was not for the masses’ doing most the dirty work, gratis, and that Ed and Wikipedia (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368) situation is a good recent example of it.

Yes, the so-called liberal left is phony in many ways, and yes, so-called “hate speech” is just a handy label to justify censorship, and the NYT is the champion of fake news (https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/). I was recently reading one more discussion (https://www.unz.com/article/why-orwell-is-superior-to-huxley/) of who was more prescient: Orwell or Huxley (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#orwell).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

When I revise my big essay, I plan to list some “emergent” aspects of the Epochs. They are aspects of humanity that were not evident in previous Epochs. I am writing this off the top of my head this morning, and we’ll see how much the final version in the essay update resembles this list.

Emergent aspects in the First Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1) included:


Energy-driven brain growth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpbrain)
Unprecedented tool-making sophistication (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oldowan)
The control of fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1) and cooking (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cooking)
Mastery of language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language) (which is arguably the marker of the beginning of the Second Epoch)
Unprecedented cultural sophistication (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up) for a land animal, including what could be called incipient professions


Emergent aspects in the Second Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2) included:


Sophisticated tools such as boats (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit)
New levels of violent conflict (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warfare1)
A global migration (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#clovis)
Wiping out the world’s large and easily killed animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna) and all other human species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climateneanderthal)
Domestication of plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacefulagriculture), animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dogs), and humans, which led to the Third Epoch
Using fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fires) to alter ecosystems


Emergent aspects in the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) included:


A brief liberation of women (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1)
The creation of civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1) including states (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#legitimacy)
Elites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear)
Literacy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#writing)
Mathematics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#classicgreece)
Professions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#professions)
Mass warfare (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warfare)
Empires (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#akkadian)
Organized religion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing1)
Monumental architecture (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#egyptold)
Slavery (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaverybeginning)
Epidemic diseases (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#athensplague) and other diseases of civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#maillard)
Energy-using technologies (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat1), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill))
Metallurgy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bronze)
Deforestation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#treesenergy) and desertification (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#floods) of civilized lands
The rise of science (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sciencerise)
Unprecedented genocides (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide) of Homo sapiens, once Europe learned to sail the oceans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2)
The subjugation of women (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#womenstatus1) once again
Harnessing coal energy as the wood ran out (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday)


Emergent aspects in the Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) included:


Industrialization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coke)
The demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic)
The end of slavery (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend) as an institution
The liberation of women (http://ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#status) once again
Globalization of elites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) and empires (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#britishcolonies), global rackets (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/forums/21-The-rackets) and global wars (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#worldwaroil)
Global brainwashing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dime) and other population control techniques
Gradual recognition of universal human attributes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up)
A slowly dawning global awareness and modest efforts on behalf of Third Epoch peasants and poor (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#feeding), the environment (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth), and toward global peace – the human in-group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup) slowly expanded
Harnessing electricity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#electricity) and nuclear energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nukes1)
New political-economic systems, such as capitalism (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists), communism (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#marx1), socialism, fascism (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hitler1)
Technological wizardry (computers, space travel) that was unimaginable in the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine4)
The rise of materialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mystical1)
Harnessing the zero-point field (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal)
Incipient Sixth Mass Extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth1)


You might notice that late-Epoch developments led to the next Epoch, such as stone tool manufacturing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stonetool1) as a prelude to the First, the mastery of language and developing a sophisticated toolkit (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#msa) as a prelude to the Second, domestication as a prelude to the Third, the use of coal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coaluse), rise of literacy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#printing) and science (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#modernscience) as a prelude to the Fourth. It we make it over the hump of humanity’s inertia and organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1), harnessing the zero-point field will be seen as the prelude to the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) and the required event, as it will form the Fifth Epoch’s foundation, just as the energy practices of all previous Epochs formed their foundations. Without the establishment of the energetic foundations, the emergent properties could not have appeared.

I have long written of what many emergent properties of the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive) may well be. Some are easily foreseeable, while others are more debatable, but one thing is for sure: nobody is going to accurately predict all of the emergent aspects of humanity in the Fifth Epoch, but visits like Roads’s (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748) give me some stars to steer by.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Emergent aspects in the Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) included:

The end of slavery (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend) as an institution


I would add

A slow gradual acceptance that we are one people (UP), reduced level of in-group identity. Some effort to reduce misery across the world by bringing everybody into fourth epoch.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna:

I made some tweaks to the list.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

New political-economic systems, such as capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism


While the variation in political-economic systems is real. All of it should be tied back to Chimpism, which is a common thread going back 6 million years.

We have tried to rein in the chimps with some success, our societies are not as violent as Chimp societies. However that steep hierarchy and violence shows up again and again in capitalism, communism, socialism, fascism. Propaganda from the leaders of each of those systems not withstanding.

We accept that violence and hierarchy because as things become bigger in scale what we get are emergent properties, and hierarchies and power imbalances are like the weather as seen from the point of view of an individual. Something to be accepted as the norm, and something that cannot really be fought against or changed.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1261192&viewfull=1#post1261192):

It is nice to see you thinking in these ways. How I see it is that dominance hierarchies are the norm for social animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialreason), even bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1). Female simians just don’t engage in the lethal politics that males do. This is more deeply baked than chimps, although chimp coalitionary politics very much resembles the human version, as you well know, but we can even see it in monkeys (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rhesus1). In a world of scarcity, we are going to have dominance hierarchies, as the dominants get more than their fair share of the scarce economic pie. As Uncle Bucky said, politics is no answer to our problems (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#politics). All politics is inherently egocentric, as everybody vies for their self-interest, to get their share of the scarce economic pie.

That last sentence of your post is another way of saying that people are stuck in their Epochs, unable to even imagine it being any different (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine). I seek the few who are willing and capable of it. The vast majority of humanity today is preoccupied with survival and temporarily sating their addictions. Only very rare people (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle) ever raise their awareness higher than that. Those are just the numbers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Soon after I finished the 2002 version of my site, one of Bucky Fuller’s pupils (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller) called my work “comprehensivist,” and I did not know what he meant. Then I read some of Fuller’s work, and the lightbulb finally went on. My work ever since has been more consciously comprehensive.

This morning, I read an article on Ram Dass (https://www.gq.com/story/the-unified-theory-of-ram-dass), and one of his messages was to not get attached to one’s point of view (or stay attached, if you want to :) ), and his life was one of exploring all points of view. That is a key aspect of developing a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing), and it can’t be achieved by mere study. It has to be leavened by the knowledge gained from experience. As far as manifesting the Fifth Epoch goes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#worked), sure, getting the experience of a Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#early), Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=576&viewfull=1#post576), or even me (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601), would be immeasurably helpful, but it is life-wrecking and life-shortening to do it that way, and I always caution people from going out and learning the hard way in this milieu. They can learn in less risky ways, such as by:


Having a mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva);
Swimming with free dolphins (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#dolphins);
Watching UFOs fly over (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm);
Exploring alternative health practices (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lessons) and medicine (including fasting, live food, exercise, communing with nature);
Comparing the history they were taught (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#more) while young to their adult researches;
Exploring some alternative energy technologies (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse));
Learning vicariously from the experiences of those who survived being on the high road (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#adamiak);
Publishing Establishment-exposing writings at Wikipedia (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368). ( :) )


Here are some high-abrasion ways of learning:


Being on the receiving end of media attacks (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/COP.htm#news), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=687&viewfull=1#post687), 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#ftc)), as they purvey disinformation and promote criminally libelous “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” and other assailants (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#libel);
Being subjected to orthodox cancer treatments (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#racket) and other symptom management;
Being kangarooed into prison (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bargain), where the prison authorities repeatedly try to kill you (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mistakes), after you turn down a billion dollar bribe (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer) to cease your efforts;
Having your efforts continually destroyed by organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) and your “allies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#allies)”;
Surviving murder attempts (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors), which often don’t initially look like it (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=847&viewfull=1#post847);
Being ostracized (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=907&viewfull=1#post907) by your friends, family, and colleagues, as you try to spread the “good news (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle)”;
Risking your life for many years on the high road, so that you become eligible to receive “The Show (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/108-The-Global-Controllers?p=1173&viewfull=1#post1173).”


It may well be that Artisan souls (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading) will have an easier time developing that comprehensive perspective, but I think that comprehensive thinking is something that anybody can achieve, if they really try. It took a lifetime of training (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#bookworm), adventure (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm), and study (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=739&viewfull=1#post739) to be able to produce my work, and I am always learning. Developing a comprehensive perspective is not for quick-study artists, but it is a lifetime commitment. It is also not for people who don’t have both feet firmly on the ground. I have watched many people go off the deep end, who merely brush up against my work.

As people develop comprehensive perspectives, they begin to see the connections, the similarities, the differences, and they can hone their powers of discernment, as there is plenty of chaff out there. My forum writings (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/forum.php) may seem to bounce around across unrelated topics, but I am hitting the many facets of what a comprehensive perspective encompasses, and as people move between the subjects and integrate the information, it can begin to form a mosaic that eventually comes into focus. Not many people are willing to do the work to achieve it, but that work will help with my particular effort to help manifest the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Several years ago, I wrote about how unflattering images of George Bush the Second were being scrubbed from the Internet, such as his riding the Enron plane (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=652292&viewfull=1#post652292). Wikipedia is good at spin-doctoring the images and articles. At Bush’s bio at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush), Enron is not even mentioned. Heck, it is not even mentioned in Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush_presidential_campaign,_2000), where he rode around on the Enron plane to his campaign stops. The Enron scandal was huge, and led to laws that I had to enforce at my day job (http://ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#enron), and Wikipedia has swept it entirely under the carpet where Bush is concerned.

I have written plenty (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1047831&viewfull=1#post1047831) about Bush’s Mission Accomplished stunt. In Wikipedia’s article on the Mission Accomplished speech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech), there is not one image of Bush with that banner, when it was the centerpiece of the PR stunt. I attached one of those pictures for reference. It would be like having a Nuremberg Rally article without a picture of Hitler addressing the crowd. Well, at Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Rally), they don’t really have one of those, either, so I’ll attach one for reference.

Wikipedia is spin-doctoring history, which is a fine American tradition (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#more). Completely ignoring Enron in the Bush bio is like how George Washington’s plan to defraud the Indians out of their land (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1389&viewfull=1#post1389) is not mentioned at Wikipedia, but it is not mentioned in the standard biographies of Washington, either, even the supposedly critical ones. Washington provided the blueprint for history’s greatest swindle (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint), and that act cannot be found in his biographies.

As Uncle Noam (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv) has said, invading Iraq is the greatest crime of the 21st century so far, and the invasion’s leader gets his crime spin-doctored at Wikipedia. I just looked at Bush’s Iraq invasion at his bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush#Foreign_policy), and there is not one word on how the weapons of mass destruction that he touted as his justification were never found. Those weapons, which Hussein primarily bought from the West in the first place, had all been destroyed years previously, and everybody knew it. You won’t find Polya’s estimate of nearly 5 million excess deaths inflicted by the USA (https://www.countercurrents.org/polya200313.htm) in the Iraq articles. Those kinds of exercises are not welcome in the Empire. So, erasing my bio on Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368) is just par for the course at Wikipedia.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Wikipedia deleted it because it is not "fair use" A recurring theme at wikipedia :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bush_mission_accomplished.jpg


How I see it is that dominance hierarchies are the norm for social animals, even bonobos.

I agree however, there is also a difference, most of our evolutionary history we were small bands and all of our behaviours are geared towards effects on the local band, and nothing can be done about anything not in immediate physical vicinity. So the weather analogy is apt, for most of human history immediate survival is what we focused on, who has energy for anything else. We carry that behaviour to the present.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1261678&viewfull=1#post1261678):

Well, if that was even the offending photo. Wikipedia can sure get lawyerly with what they don’t want to see in Wikipedia. A coincidence, I am sure. As I stated before, at some stage, Wikipedia can’t hide behind its legalism and is accountable for its content. In the end, disinformation is disinformation, and Ed’s bio is criminally libelous today, while a pretty formidable attempt to correct the record was erased under flimsy and false pretexts (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368). Dennis is libeled across the Internet, and I get attacked for it regularly (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/94-My-last-posts-in-another-forum?p=639&viewfull=1#post639), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page13?p=1438&viewfull=1#post1438)). You have borne the brunt of Wikipedia’s selective enforcement, as have I. What a cesspool.

To your band observation, I don’t think that it is confined to humans. You are merely describing how people don’t care about anything outside of their in-group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup). That is what social animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialreason) do. You say that they treat anything outside the in-group (such as hierarchies and power imbalances) as something like the weather that they can’t do anything about, so they don’t pay attention, heck, often can’t even see it. So, they focus on their immediate self-interest, or maybe the welfare of their in-group, and they don’t concern themselves with anything beyond it. All that I can say to that is that you are echoing my journey’s primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708): people rarely care about anything beyond their immediate self-interest. If we want to provide evolutionary and band-dynamics reasons for it, that is fine, but in a world where people solely pursue their immediate self-interest, everybody is going to lose (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). This is part and parcel of Brian’s question: are we a sentient species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1)?

I overcame that self-serving tunnel-vision, as have you. So, I know that people can expand their awareness and concern past their immediate self-interest. I also know that very few are willing and able to (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), and I relinquished judgment of the situation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) long ago. People can wake up, but it won’t be through talk or writings (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink). Slavery is no longer seen as a hallowed institution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#southseas). We no longer kill our neighbors on sight (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#deathrate) (at least, in most parts of the world :) ). If and when the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) arrives, humanity won’t become enlightened overnight, but many evil aspects of our world, which most people unthinkingly accept, like the weather, will no longer be acceptable. You are also describing why the social approach to free energy will not work (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10). It has to be anchored in caring (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enemy) and sentience, not in-group/out-group dynamics that cater to self-interest. All of that conspiracism (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism) is treating the “bad actors (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc)” as an out-group (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#weakness). Good stuff. Keep it up.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am nearing the end of Hunger and Public Action (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1495&viewfull=1#post1495), will have a bit to say about it when I am finished, and it will definitely make it into my essay update. In the end, it is about ending poverty in Third Epoch societies, sometimes by bringing them into the Fourth Epoch, such as South Korea, China, etc., and for others, to spread around the thin benefits of Third Epoch societies, although there are not really any pure Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) societies left on Earth today, nor are there any Second (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2) or First (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1). The Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) has touched all societies on Earth today.

Third Epoch societies were always on the brink of famine, with their thin energy surpluses. When left to their own devices, they generally kept famine at bay, although chronic hunger was a constant, which is why humans shrank in stature during the Third Epoch. While Hunger and Public Action has been an interesting read, the authors only dealt with colonialism and neocolonialism in passing, as far as I have seen. Those are the primary reasons for the famous famines that we have seen in the past two centuries. Maybe they will redeem themselves on that score by the book’s end. I’ll find out soon.

In a nutshell, for nations that could embark on keeping their populations fed and healthy, largely because they were not operating under American-inflicted subfascist regimes (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection), they could either promote growth through industrialization (or joining the industrial world by finding a useful niche to operate in) or by more equitably spreading around the scarce economic surplus of primarily agrarian nations. There were also combinations of those strategies. For nations that found themselves sitting on huge oil deposits, such as Iraq, Libya, Kuwait, and the UAE, they could embark on huge social programs, providing a minimum standard of living for all citizens. Their successes in raising the standard of living of their populations were extraordinary. Libya (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#chaos) had the highest standard of living in Africa (https://www.globalresearch.ca/sixteen-things-libya-will-never-see-again/27280) before the USA overthrew its government and murdered its leader, and the place is a disaster today. Kuwait and the UAE also embarked on tremendous social welfare programs, and they have been able to negotiate their way to prosperity off of their oil revenues, without overt imperial interference.

And this brings me to the subject that I have written publicly on longer than any other: Iraq (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#jesus). While reading about the success stories in Hunger and Public Action, I decided to poke into the Iraq situation, as I do periodically, and that place is still a catastrophe (https://www.bti-project.org/en/reports/country-reports/detail/itc/IRQ/), courtesy of the USA. In the American media, you can find stories of how Iraqis are actually nostalgic (https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/04/30/605240844/15-years-after-u-s-invasion-some-iraqis-are-nostalgic-for-saddam-hussein-era) for the “good old days” when Saddam Hussein ruled, and even the Washington Post is laying the disaster at the USA’s feet (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/10/15/after-several-high-profile-murders-in-iraq-heres-what-headlines-missed-about-their-cause/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.64f2480351f4). Iraq was the most secular Arab state before the American invasion, and now it is dominated by warring religious factions. The USA did the same thing to Iran in the 1950s, overthrowing its secular government (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#iran) on behalf of the oil companies, to install a king. The imperial powers have been meddling in the Middle East for centuries, but particularly since the British Navy converted to oil from coal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#churchill1). The USA basically beat those industrializing nations back into the Third Epoch, so that they could not reap the benefits of the Fourth Epoch’s fuel supply.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Jean Dreze invited Noam Chomsky to Delhi (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/htmlreader/978-1-78374-092-5/Introduction.xhtml#_idTextAnchor000) and eventually published the his lectures as Democracy and Power. The Delhi Lectures Noam Chomsky. Introduction by Jean Drèze (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/product/300) The book is available online because I asked him to publish it under Creative Commons license (CC BY 4.0 license), people can even make money from it by republishing it, only attribution is required.

Not talking about USA is a deliberate choice, his audience was the public in India and other countries, and what could be achieved with their own resources.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1261780&viewfull=1#post1261780):

I read Drèze’s introduction (https://www.openbookpublishers.com/htmlreader/978-1-78374-092-5/Introduction.xhtml#_idTextAnchor000), and that was fun and typical of Noam’s life: “I have a free week five years from now. Let’s do it then.” And they did. I clearly remember Noam’s tour in India. It created a bit of a stir in Left circles at the time. I wonder where Drèze’s mention of the Free Software Movement came from? :) Kudos to Drèze for making that happen. I just noticed that people can read the book for free on that site, too, so kudos to you. Noam is always worth reading.

On Hunger and Public Action, if it was for the world’s poor nations, why write it in English? Or, I hope that it was translated into the languages of those poor nations, or the British/American dominance is just assumed by the readers, even though they have been the primary authors of the misery. Maybe the preface should have been titled something like, “To those not living under the imperial boot.”

Drèze contacted Noam the year before I first did, and Noam was incredible in his responsiveness. On a related note, this morning, while reviewing traffic to my site, I found an essay on Ed (http://mediatheoryjournal.org/pickard-wolfson-radical-interventions/) that cites my bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm). Other than the eulogies soon after he passed, it is the first article that I have seen that deals with Ed’s legacy (and I then saw an earlier essay (http://mediatheoryjournal.org/paula-chakravartty-us-media-power-and-the-empire-of-liberty/) on that site), and they plan a series of them. After they are published, I plan a minor revision of Ed’s bio. I hope that I live long enough to see a professional biography done on Ed. This is all taking me back, and I plan a post or two on my attempts to interest Noam, Ed, and the Left in free energy. I never found any takers, alas. And their lack of interest was one of the early experiences that I had, post-Dennis, that helped me begin to understand the barriers to perception (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) that nearly everybody labors under, especially intellectuals.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Been reading the book The Locust Effect Why the end of poverty requires the end of violence (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17656566-the-locust-effect) It is a good book talking about the fact that in agricultural and early industrial societies the police, courts and prosecutors are all criminal. They mentioned "colonial" justice systems, but no mention of energy or neo colonialism, or the fact that the wealth of the "developed" world is unjust.

[Krishna]

And also going back to Heat Pumps, if the compressor input is 52 C then we can get a COP of 10 with R22 (this is being phased out or already banned), other refrigerants will be in the same ball park.
A COP of 6 requires compressor input temperature of 42 C. Both doable when the sun is out.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262003&viewfull=1#post1262003):

So, the “justice” system in agrarian societies was criminal then, but is fair in industrial societies? :) One of the greatest lessons of my journey with Dennis is the absolute corruption of the American legal system (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail), from top to bottom. If you know where the honest people live, let me know. :)

On heat pumps (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/128-Dennis-s-Heat-Pump-Performance?p=1520&viewfull=1#post1520), I am not sure what you mean by compressor input temperature. I don’t think that you can use gas temperatures before the compressor as a guide. I think that the pressures vary greatly, which will wreck the kind of analysis that you seem to be attempting. For all COP measures that I have seen, you have to compare the temperatures of the heat sinks, and that is only part of the analysis, as direct solar absorption is independent of heat sink temperature. Refrigerants, heat exchanger efficiencies, and other factors will impact the actual performance.

The kinds of analyses that I am familiar with will take the ambient air heat next to the panels (simply the ambient temperature, the kind in weather reports), and the temperature of the heat sink, which was usually a water tank. If you do a night calc, then you can ignore the “solar gain.” If I use a 10C outside at night (50F) and 49 C (120F) tank temperature, then a COP of over 8 is possible. Dennis’s system probably got around 5 in those conditions. That Gannon’s system (http://ahealedplanet.net/COP.htm) got a 4 at night in January in Minnesota. Again, these are ballpark numbers, and theoretical maximums were not attained, not from pure temperature differential. And when the sunshine hits the panel, it is another ballgame. Again, it was the best heating system ever on the world market, but is Stone Age technology compared to what my friend saw (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). Heat pumps and heat engines are not that interesting to me anymore, other than showing that we were pursuing legit technologies.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

So, the “justice” system in agrarian societies was criminal then, but is fair in industrial societies? :) One of the greatest lessons of my journey with Dennis is the absolute corruption of the American legal system (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail), from top to bottom. If you know where the honest people live, let me know. :)


How about in a certain Seattle home? Fourth epoch (industrial) justice systems are better than third epoch (agricultural) systems, that is as much as can be said.


On heat pumps (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/128-Dennis-s-Heat-Pump-Performance?p=1520&viewfull=1#post1520), I am not sure what you mean by compressor input temperature. I don’t think that you can use gas temperatures before the compressor as a guide. I think that the pressures vary greatly, which will wreck the kind of analysis that you seem to be attempting.


That analysis was assuming zero superheat, and 100% compressor efficiency. In other words that is the highest COP achievable using R22 given evaporator out temperature.


Again, it was the best heating system ever on the world market, but is Stone Age technology compared to what my friend saw (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). Heat pumps and heat engines are not that interesting to me anymore, other than showing that we were pursuing legit technologies.


:)

[Krishna]

Finished reading Homo Deus A Brief History of Tomorrow (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31138556-homo-deus) it has its flaws, focusing too much on economics, not taking enough account of our evolutionary journey, overlooking violence and the role it plays in todays society. Still one of the few books I felt was worth reading this year. Wade, you should add it to your list.

I would say it is somewhat a dystopian book, the opposite of the Fifth Epoch. Also no mention of energy anywhere.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I had a strange weekend, and am just now getting back into action. For starters, it looks like that rude Wikipedia admin (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368) did not have a leg to stand on for deleting my Wikipedia contributions regarding Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1375&viewfull=1#post1375). They have still been reverted (which means that they are not reflected in the articles), and I don’t plan to contribute to Wikipedia again, but at least Wikipedia readers can read what I wrote. The trolls and disinformation professionals still have free reign there, and my relationships with Ed and Brian (my edits there have still been deleted, but that also may change soon) appear to have given me an insoluble conflict of interest. Then Wikipedia asked me to give up all rights to my site, even allow others to sell my work commercially, in order for my contributions to Wikipedia to not get erased, but that was also incorrect, and it seems that sanity has prevailed, kind of, at Wikipedia today. You need to be an attorney to understand all of the ins and outs that my contributions were subjected to. Crazy.

To be clear, I have never tried to pass off somebody else’s work as my own, which is what I consider plagiarism to be. That said, when I revise Ed’s bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm) in the near future, and I plan to rewrite Brian’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianbio.htm), as I have not revised it since he died, I will make sure that anything that is a direct quote from their work is in quotation marks. Sometimes, I may have slipped up there, such as when putting Ed’s work in bullet points. A minor issue, but I want to make it as clean as I can.

But that was benign compared to other strangeness that I encountered this weekend, and I’ll use it as another example of why I don’t want to have anything to do with the free energy field today. As my readers have seen, I generally don’t name names, and wait until people are either dead (David Rockefeller (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888), Ron Waugh (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=623&viewfull=1#post623), etc.) or out of commission (Ken Hodgell (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)) before I reveal their names, and I probably won’t ever reveal many names. But I have written about a situation with Brian before and left names out of my account, but I was made aware this weekend of a situation that is one of the more bizarre that I have encountered in the free energy field, and I want to write about it. It takes a little telling.

When Brian asked me to help found the New Energy Movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem), I visited his house a few times over the succeeding year. Next to his kitchen sink was a lapis lazuli pig, an inch-long or so, and Brian made that pig the inspiration for a theme that he wrote about for many years (http://www.brianoleary.info/lapispig.html). Not only did Brian write extensively of the adventures of Lapis Pig, but he also made a puppet out of it and used it in his public talks. It was funny, and Brian really got into it. I saw it as harmless fun, and one way to deal with the highly charged subject of free energy and our world. Dennis didn’t like it, but Brian surely would not have appreciated Dennis’s Bible Banging, either. We all have our idiosyncrasies, and they sure come out (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patriot) on the big stage of the public pursuit of free energy.

I have written that less than a year after joining NEM, I wanted out, and Brian begged me to stay, and I stayed through the conference (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland) and quit the next day. I did not see that our effort had a prayer. We had barely begun, and Dennis’s libelers (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#libel) and assailants were being invited into the effort, which I was the sole funder of at the time. It was surreal to me, and I wanted out. While I was hanging in there at Brian’s request, I heard what other board members were doing, and one was trying to stir things up in the free energy milieu and went to a conference in Utah, mounted by a man whom I will now name: Sterling Allan. I am about 99% sure that Sterling openly disparaged Brian and his Lapis Pig. It got back to me that somebody was, and I am almost certain that it was Sterling. Fair enough. Dennis did not like it, either, and I can see their point. Many are turned off by Steven Greer’s Charles Atlas impressions, Dennis’s Bible Banging, etc., and I understand and sympathize.

After I left NEM, some board members who came on mounted an attack that saw Brian kicked out of NEM. When Brian told me years later, I was not surprised in the slightest. The advent of free energy will be the biggest event in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), by far, and my ego (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=621&viewfull=1#post621) was challenged at the beginning of my free energy journey, as is everybody’s. I have seen people go megalomaniac, declaring themselves to be the Second Coming (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#_edn3) and Messiah (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah), and it seems that Sterling made similar claims for himself, but that is just where the strangeness begins.

Sterling is a former Mormon who lived in Utah, and with our adventures with Mormons (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=595&viewfull=1#post595), that should have set off the alarm bells for anybody poking into the free energy issue. Utah is the last place on Earth where anybody should pursue free energy.

Back in 2006, I became aware of a web page that Sterling put up (https://peswiki.com/directory:dennis-lee) to discuss the “enigma” of Dennis. It was one of the few efforts that I saw that did not outright libel Dennis. Sterling’s effort wasn’t that good, but it also wasn’t that bad, and I contributed to his page. Also, Mr. Skeptic (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends) once again libeled Dennis on that web page (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#attack2006), and I let Sterling know about it. Sterling defended Mr. Skeptic to me, declaring that Mr. Skeptic was his friend, as Sterling was completely duped by Mr. Skeptic’s affable skeptic charade. Mr. Skeptic really had no defense: he repeatedly libeled Dennis, and made up new lies when his former ones were exposed. He was a psychopathic liar, which was plain to anybody that looked into the matter. The entire free energy milieu knew how slimy Mr. Skeptic was, but Sterling defended him. I made my contribution to Sterling’s pages and withdrew, knowing that his naïveté was suicidal in the free energy milieu.

Brian did not come back into my life for another year, after I wrote this essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm) after my midlife crisis finally waned (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#midlife). Brian’s returning into my life led to my first interviews (http://ahealedplanet.net/public.htm#interviews) and our collaborations (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#intro), which lasted the rest of Brian’s life. Brian was planning on promoting my approach (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=918852&viewfull=1#post918852) when he died. When Brian died, Sterling was the de facto head of the New Energy Movement. During our continual communication in his life’s last years, I mentioned to Brian that I believed that Sterling had privately disparaged Brian (I was probably 90% sure that it was Sterling who made the disparaging Lapis Pig comments), and Brian not only confirmed it, but Brian related an incident in which his Yahoo! account, along with millions of others, was compromised in Yahoo!’s numerous infamous security breaches (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_data_breaches), and the criminals emailed spam to Brian’s contact list. In those days, all of my correspondents who had Yahoo! accounts had similar breaches and spam sent from their accounts. To this day, I use a special email account for all of my Yahoo! correspondents, to limit the damage from the spam of compromised accounts. Anybody on the Internet in those days knew full well what was happening, and when Brian discovered what happened to his Yahoo! account, he emailed all of his correspondents of the issue and we all understood, with the exception of Sterling. Brian said that Sterling went into accusatory tirades against Brian over the Yahoo! breach, accusing Brian of somehow being behind the spam from his account. It was an insane accusation, and when I heard that, my confidence that Sterling made those disparaging Lapis Pig comments went to 99% certainty.

Take in this situation for a moment: the man who ran the organization that Brian founded and was kicked out of not only disparaged and attacked Brian privately, but he also defended his good friend Mr. Skeptic, whom he invited into at least one free energy effort, as the resident “skeptic.” What the hell is wrong with that picture? That situation epitomized what is wrong with the free energy field, and why I have not had anything to do with it for many years, and don’t want to. It is in a state of arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested), and will not get anything of substance done in its current state.

But this situation with Sterling gets far stranger. This past weekend, I was contacted by a free energy enthusiast who mentioned in passing that Sterling had quite a fall from grace, and it was the first that I had heard of it. Then I did a little surfing and found these articles (1 (https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fountain-green-man-sentenced-to-possible-life-in-prison-for/article_dc13e908-b078-58f7-b648-90df5e45d579.html), 2 (https://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/06/05/free-energy-child/), 3 (https://factsaboutdirk.info/2017/07/27/self-proclaimed-professional-hypnotist-sexually-abuses-his-children-and-others-while-they-are-under-his-hypnosis/)). It is bizarre on a few levels, not the least of which is that Sterling apparently publicly confessed his crimes, against his infant daughters, it appears. Millions of dollars were spent to convict Dennis of failing to file a form (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bargain), but Sterling volunteered his crimes to the world, and he now may never live to see this side of the bars again. I have read of pedophile rings in high places since the early 1990s, and nothing would surprise me there, but to watch Sterling essentially commit suicide is one of the stranger events that I ever heard of. He could not have tried harder to give a black eye to free energy efforts, so much so that I wonder what might be behind that incredible series of events. I’ll never know and don’t much care, but it puts an exclamation point behind why I don’t want to have anything to do with the free energy field today.

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

But this situation with Sterling gets far stranger. This past weekend, I was contacted by a free energy enthusiast who mentioned in passing that Sterling had quite a fall from grace, and it was the first that I had heard of it. Then I did a little surfing and found these articles (1 (https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/fountain-green-man-sentenced-to-possible-life-in-prison-for/article_dc13e908-b078-58f7-b648-90df5e45d579.html), 2 (https://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/06/05/free-energy-child/), 3 (https://factsaboutdirk.info/2017/07/27/self-proclaimed-professional-hypnotist-sexually-abuses-his-children-and-others-while-they-are-under-his-hypnosis/)). It is bizarre on a few levels, not the least of which is that Sterling apparently publicly confessed his crimes, against his infant daughters, it appears. Millions of dollars were spent to convict Dennis of failing to file a form (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bargain), but Sterling volunteered his crimes to the world, and he now may never live to see this side of the bars again. I have read of pedophile rings in high places since the early 1990s, and nothing would surprise me there, but to watch Sterling essentially commit suicide is one of the stranger events that I ever heard of. He could not have tried harder to give a black eye to free energy efforts, so much so that I wonder what might be behind that incredible series of events. I’ll never know and don’t much care, but it puts an exclamation point behind why I don’t want to have anything to do with the free energy field today.
After enjoying many years reading the conspiracy theories of Miles Mathis (http://mileswmathis.com/updates.html) (which I find closer to reality than most college textbooks or main stream news reports), my immediate hunch on reading your paragraph, Wade, is that Sterling will live out the remainder of his life just fine, in cognito, having taken the opportunity of his passing from the free energy movement to stick a (another?) knife into its ribs.

My guess (in line with the way Miles often thinks, regarding other dubious characters): The deal is on, it's always been on, Sterling is playing a role, and now is his time to retire from the free energy stage.

[ThePythonicCow]

.. they never mentioned Chomsky (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky), either ...As someone who has often spoken well of Chomsky, you might enjoy this article: A Killer Dies, a Teacher Lives: George H.W. Bush v. Noam Chomsky, by Paul Street December 3, 2018 (Counterpunch.org) (https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/12/03/a-killer-dies-a-teacher-lives-george-h-w-bush-v-noam-chomsky/).

The article spends most of its time on the dubious history of the recently departed George H.W. Bush, but mentions Chomsky, and Chomsky's criticisms of Bush, as well.

The article concludes:

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It speaks volumes about the power of propaganda and thought control in the United States’ “corporate-managed democracy” (Alex Carey’s phrase before (https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/32amb6ff9780252066160.html) it became Sheldon Wolin’s phrase) that Chomsky has been publicly quarantined for decades by a “free” media that heaps undeserved and cringing, boot-licking praise on loathsome imperialist killers like John McCain and George H.W. Bush.

Let them celebrate the criminal life of George H.W. Bush if they must. It’s who they are. Some of us lowly commoners out here in “the rabble (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/947326.Keeping_the_Rabble_in_Line)” have different and better heroes. We prefer to raise a glass in toast to the continuing life and brilliance of Noam Chomsky.
~~~~~~~~~~~~

[Valerie Villars]

Thanks for filling in some gaps about the Mormons, Wade. I do have some personal experience with the way they operate.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262129&viewfull=1#post1262129), I don’t think that you can do it the way that you are going about it, on those COPs. The pressures vary, too, which makes the temps vary. Be careful about getting too geeky (superheating, sub-cooling, adiabatic, isothermal, etc.). There is a lot of invalid and naïve (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/128-Dennis-s-Heat-Pump-Performance?p=1524&viewfull=1#post1524) analysis out there. FYI, when Dennis was in the business, they were usually R-12 units, and I think that there were some R-22s. Other refrigerants are used today. What is relevant to my audience is that conventional heat pumps got somewhere around 10-15% of the Carnot ideal, while Dennis’s could get about half. If you really want to get into the minutia, you could call on your pals at sunpump (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=626&viewfull=1#post626). Well, their site is down today. Maybe they are done? This link (https://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/sunpump-solar-powered-heat-pump-sort.html) presents a COP of 7 in daytime, and less than three at night. ‘Nuff said.

We’ll see if I get that Sapiens’ author’s book (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262167&viewfull=1#post1262167). There is a lot of crappy, dystopian “visionary” stuff out there that does not even mention energy. I never got Sapiens, as I did not see much new there for me, and it looked a little too popular, as in NYT popular.

Hi Paul:

Miles (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262457&viewfull=1#post1262457) is the epitome of a glue-sniffing conspiracist, if an entertaining one. JFK and John Lennon weren’t shot, the Sandy Hook and Vegas shootings did not happen, neither did the Bikini nuclear tests, etc., etc. Why? Because Miles likes to surf the Internet. :) There are some pretty wild yarns there, and Miles is obviously scientifically illiterate, such as his evidence for the Bikini tests’ not happening is that plants grow there today. No wonder people ask him if Earth is flat. I’ll agree that the media is often not much better. :)

On Sterling (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262437&viewfull=1#post1262437), I’ll wager that you can visit him in prison, but I completely agree with how bizarre it is, which really makes me wonder what all was happening. If there was a legit Scalia connection, you could knock me over with a feather.

On Bush and Noam (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262462&viewfull=1#post1262462), boy, Bush the First’s imperial antics (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#prelude), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#attacking)) were the beginning of my public writing career. That is also when I began my Noam studies (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big). Yes, Saint Bush, what an obscene joke.

Hi Valerie (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262477&viewfull=1#post1262477):

Oh, the rank-and-file Mormons have no idea what happens at the top, and the Mormon Financial Empire is not the Mormon Church, per se. Rank-and-file Jesuits also have no idea what happens at the top of the Jesuits. But I’ll say that Mormonism is a business-oriented religion, so it fits great with capitalism. :)

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

Miles (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262457&viewfull=1#post1262457) is the epitome of a glue-sniffing conspiracist, if an entertaining one.
I'm easily entertained :).

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Paul’s recent post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262457&viewfull=1#post1262457) inspired me to focus on conspiracism and structuralism and their relationship to free energy, as I continue a thread (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/121-Orthodoxy-the-Fringes-Structuralism-Conspiracism-Materialism-Mysticism-etc?p=1336&viewfull=1#post1336) that I have sporadically worked on this year. What I discovered was very close to Uncle Ed’s structural model of how the media operates (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing), and as Noam later argued, Ed’s model applies to far more than the media, and can be generalized to academics and intellectuals. The media can generate awesome disparity in its depictions of events (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#ratio), and by and large, there are few conspiratorial activities, if any, producing those results. Over the long years, I developed a rule that goes like this:


“Be hesitant to attribute events to conspiratorial activities when incompetence, irrationality, naïveté, low-integrity, and laziness can also explain them.”


I imagined organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dream) from the beginning of my energy journey, and we were certainly subjected to organized suppression activities (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1), which by definition were conspiratorial, and some of the most extreme ever seen in the free energy milieu, but my greatest education, by far, was regarding the structural aspects of the situation, such as how the prosecutors don’t even care (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#care) if their prosecutorial targets are innocent or not, and lying was a normal part of their profession, and how your allies hurt you more than your enemies do (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#allies).

The entire law enforcement structure in the USA, contrary to quaint ideals of being innocent until proven guilty, is designed to convict people, no matter what the facts may be, which led to Michael Moore’s estimate that up to half of all Americans behind bars today are innocent of the crimes that they were accused/convicted of, which seems to me to be a reasonable estimate. For sure, the system will go into conspiratorial overdrive (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1440&viewfull=1#post1440) to take out key targets, but the evil that the system produces largely results from its structure, such as the “prosecutorial efficiency” metrics used to grade prosecutor performance. With the gradual privatization of the American prison system, you can literally find contracts between the private prisons and the states, in which the states guarantee a minimum number of inmates, and woe to the people who find themselves prosecuted when the state is not meeting its quota. There have been instances uncovered in which judges in the USA got commissions for everybody that they sent to prison. Of course, they tried to cover-up such arrangements, for a conspiratorial aspect of it, but the structures of such arrangements guarantee the outcomes, as people merely “do their jobs.” I saw that repeatedly on my journey, and it was very rare people, such as Betsy (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#betsy), whose consciences finally awoke (when prodded, in Betsy’s case) to the point where they quit their careers, rather than continue to get their hands covered with the blood of the innocent, while others eagerly picked up the slack (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#pinch). Around 85-90% of all men will become capable killers of the innocent (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#browning), if their “jobs” require them to. This is who we are, my fellow humans, but almost nobody has the honesty (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) to admit it.

Conspiracists generally want to exonerate the masses and make some bad actors culpable for the state of affairs, but that is a cop-out. What impressed me from the beginning of my studies of the work of Ed, Noam (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv), and the few like them was how they placed themselves in the company of the responsible, acknowledging that the blood was on their hands, too. We all have a hand in events (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#responsibility), and the good news is that we can also all do something about it (which is what responsibility means), and for Americans, it just means to stop cheering the violence, as if American foreign policy was a football game.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To my recent post on that new heat pump company (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page14?p=1552&viewfull=1#post1552), maybe their site will come back, but my guess is that they are out of business. Even if they are not out of business, their effort is relevant in a few ways to my work, as an illustration, if nothing else. This article (https://www.treehugger.com/clean-technology/sunpump-solar-powered-heat-pump-sort.html) on them was interesting and revealing. When their site was up, they mentioned that the technology was NASA-related. That article said that they were in Canada. Maybe their ignorance of the industry in the USA was genuine, although it means that they were babes in the woods. I think that it is more likely that they wanted to pretend that they had no predecessors, and that article made it seem that way. But let’s assume for now that they were merely ignorant.

Organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) in the American industry was never very overt before Dennis made his run at it in Seattle (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run). The inventors (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#lamco1) not only had no idea how to sell them, half of their customers installed the systems themselves, as some sort of science project, so the quality was terrible. Even then, the inventors cut the performance data in half (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#half), to maintain “credibility” with the engineers who laughed at their “impossible” performance. Dennis had American Express on the brink of a billion dollar deal (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=589&viewfull=1#post589) to carpet the USA with them, before his partners (including mobsters) stole the company (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=590&viewfull=1#post590). If that had happened, either it would have been allowed to happen, or there might have been very high level suppression activities brought to bear on the situation. I’ll never know on that one, but I suspect some kind of suppression.

The bottom line is that introducing any new technology to market is fraught with peril, in many ways, even leaving aside suppression activities. When Sunpump’s site was up, it said that they had sold 20 systems. Companies are not going to stay in business for long at that rate. Dennis sold them by the hundreds (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs), which was the only way to get the economies of scale to make a go of it. Selling onesies and twosies is the quick way to go out of business. With Dennis’s heat pump, you had to have the panels (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#arrays) made at a factory, and they only made them in lots of a thousand, so you bought panels for 125 systems (at eight panels per system) or none at all.

To get a little geeky in the analytics, they got a daytime COP of 7 in Canada, but they also covered the panel with photovoltaics. So, I wonder how much solar gain it really got. It also looked like only one side had much environmental contact. Those are going to reduce the heat pump performance, at least compared to Dennis’s.

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

“Be hesitant to attribute events to conspiratorial activities when incompetence, irrationality, naïveté, low-integrity, and laziness can also explain them.”

...
Conspiracists generally want to exonerate the masses and make some bad actors culpable for the state of affairs, but that is a cop-out.
When one observes rather random breakage, inadequate or overly simplistic structure, and insufficient effort ... then yes, those are signs of incompetence, irrationality, naïveté, low-integrity, and laziness.

Also I'd agree that when we see a consistently malevolent pattern or constellation of patterns (e.g. -- the various ways of getting toxins into our bodies), or corruption across powerful corporations, governments and institutions, or in various arts, sciences and other disciplines, then this is often (but not always) not a specific conspiracy, thought out in detail, by some "men in a smoke filled room", and directed, top-down.

Rather such malevolent patterns are likely toxic belief systems, that have infiltrated the minds of many. Human civilization is not at a point where it does a particularly good job of cleansing and refining its belief systems, for the betterment of living, intelligent, and spiritual beings. Bad ideas and toxic energies fester, replicate, mutate and abound.

Let us each do what we can, in our various ways and by our various means, in our time here, to clean up not just the physical toxins in our food, water, air, and drugs, but also the flawed understandings and spiritual malevolence that afflict our humanity, and by which we thus afflict this planet.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Paul (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262740&viewfull=1#post1262740):

A major theme of my work is that some economic conditions encourage psychopathic rule, and others undermine them. You can see this go back at least to chimps. Chimps (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpsplit) are marginal gorillas that were pushed to the edge of the rainforest, and their staple is fruit trees that are scattered through their ranges. Their foraging parties have to be small and their size fluctuates greatly, because of the widely varying available harvests from the relatively scarce fruit trees. Chimps often forage alone. So, chimps from the neighboring range mount hunting parties into their neighbor’s territory, and if they find lone males foraging, they will murder them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coalitionary). If successful, they will murder every male in the neighboring territory, take the fertile females as booty, murder all of the infants, and take over their neighbor’s territory. Humans are the only other species on Earth that does that, which means that humans likely inherited that behavior.

In the vagaries of our ice age, gorillas, which live in the heart of the rainforest, getting to have the easy life, left one region (or died out) when the rainforest disappeared, and never returned, as a new river prevented it. The chimps that stayed found themselves with a doubled food supply, and evolved to more easily eat gorilla food. The outcome of that situation was that those chimps could form large, stable foraging parties, they never had to forage alone (and be targets for their neighbors), and the females changed the game. They became what we call bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1) today. Although bonobo societies are still patrilocal, the females formed a sisterhood based on sex, and overcame male dominance. Life is one big orgy in bonobo society, and no infant is ever abused in bonobo societies, much less killed. From what we would call psychopathic rule to an easy life where sex is the order of the day, because their energy supply doubled. These “golden ages” of relative energy abundance is a recurring theme (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages) in the journey of life on Earth.

When marginal chimps left the trees, those upright apes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bipedskull) greatly expanded their ranges. When they finally evolved into what we call humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#habilis), if not quite Homo sapiens yet, the hunter-gatherer lifestyle evolved, but it never had a large energy surplus, except for a brief time. Human hunter-gatherer bands had actively managed egalitarianism, so that no man ever tried to become a “big man,” as there was not enough energy surplus to support such. Any man trying to become a “big man” threatened the band’s survival, and he was either coerced back into line or executed. It is hypothesized today that psychopathic genes were gradually eliminated from the gene pool in that evolutionary phase (not entirely eliminated, but reduced). When all of the easy meat was gone, after the brief Golden Age of the Hunter Gatherer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#huntergatherer), as Homo sapiens conquered Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit), people learned to domesticate plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran), and it was likely women, as an adjunct to their gathering duties. Women’s status rose, and for the first time in at least 10 million years, and probably closer to 20, the human evolutionary line became matrilocal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1), and those societies are the most peaceful pre-industrial cultures in the human journey.

Psychopaths (AKA dark pathers (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving)) are predominantly men, and the life of a psychopath was not very successful before the rise of civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1). With the rise of civilization, there was finally an energy surplus big enough to support “big men” and bigger. Elites were born (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear), and the rise of the psychopath (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#legitimacy) accompanied it. There was enough surplus energy to support elites and their enabling professional classes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#professions), but not enough for everybody to live well, so steeply hierarchical political-economic systems appeared wherever civilization did. It remained that way until industrialization, and is even that way in industrial societies, although the “floor” is much higher.

In industrial societies, an unprecedented energy surplus was generated, and the benefits were more evenly distributed. A middle class developed, and the average American today is richer than Earth’s richest human of three centuries ago. However, elites still played their games, the energy source behind industrialization is limited and quickly being exhausted (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil), and only a small fraction of humanity could industrialize, based on the limited energy supplies. The USA has been very active in preventing nations from industrializing (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection), to keep them enslaved to the neocolonial order, or as John Perkins (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#neocolonialist) describes it: corporatocracy.

About the time that the Bolsheviks defeated the Fascists (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#stalingrad) (the USA and Britain were only bit players in that conflict, contrary to the fairy tales told in the USA (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#good)), the global elites came into possession of technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) that could forever end scarcity on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive). But being predominantly psychopaths, they knew that it would be Game Over for them, and psychopaths would once again be relegated to the fringes, seen as sick people in need of help, not the people who should be running the show. Psychopaths make great politicians and CEOs. Like a parasite that seeks to maintain the conditions that give it life, the global elites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) are doing their best to keep the steeply hierarchical game going, which abundant and clean energy would ruin. Sanity may prevail, and I am doing what I can (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). I am not going to wait for the struggles at the top (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal) to decide humanity’s fate, and perhaps the fate of Earth’s ecosystems (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

For the record, it was only Krishna’s persistence that got the erasure of my Wikipedia contributions (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1550&viewfull=1#post1550) reversed. He gets the double gold star. :)

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

But being predominantly psychopaths, they knew that it would be Game Over for them, and psychopaths would once again be relegated to the fringes, seen as sick people in need of help, not the people who should be running the show. Psychopaths make great politicians and CEOs. Like a parasite that seeks to maintain the conditions that give it life, the global elites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) are doing their best to keep the steeply hierarchical game going, which abundant and clean energy would ruin. Sanity may prevail, and I am doing what I can (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). I am not going to wait for the struggles at the top (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal) to decide humanity’s fate, and perhaps the fate of Earth’s ecosystems (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth).

Best,

Wade

:clapping:

[Krishna]

It is hypothesized today that psychopathic genes were gradually eliminated from the gene pool in that evolutionary phase.

Minimized, not eliminated in the First/Second epochs. Third and early Fourth Epochs seem to have selected for those genes.


In industrial societies, an unprecedented energy surplus was generated, and the benefits were more evenly distributed. A middle class developed, and the average American today is richer than Earth’s richest human of three centuries ago.

Did inequality really decrease between Third and Fourth epochs?


About the time that the Bolsheviks defeated the Fascists (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#stalingrad) (the USA and Britain were only bit players in that conflict contrary to the fairy tales told in the USA (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#good)),

The deaths seem to bear it out, although I never paid attention to it, seeing it as a war where colonizers fight each other.


the global elites came into possession of technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) that could forever end scarcity on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive). But being predominantly psychopaths, they knew that it would be Game Over for them, and psychopaths would once again be relegated to the fringes, seen as sick people in need of help, not the people who should be running the show. Psychopaths make great politicians and CEOs. Like a parasite that seeks to maintain the conditions that give it life, the global elites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) are doing their best to keep the steeply hierarchical game going, which abundant and clean energy would ruin. Sanity may prevail, and I am doing what I can (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). I am not going to wait for the struggles at the top (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal) to decide humanity’s fate, and perhaps the fate of Earth’s ecosystems (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth).

the most important evolutionary adaption the psychopaths made is staying relatively invisible. In Chimps violence is very visible, in humans invisible violence is an art perfected by psychopaths



For the record, it was only Krishna’s persistence that got the erasure of my Wikipedia contributions (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1550&viewfull=1#post1550) reversed. He gets the double gold star. :)

Sure it is in the history, but who reads it? If this a real attack then they achieved their goals which is to prevent a good bio of Ed Herman and as a side effect edited out a bunch of other contributions from you and also banned me for life.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well Paul (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262836&viewfull=1#post1262836), I am not sure what is harder after brushing up against this issue: walking away or continuing on. :) I have watched people crash and burn on both paths. The biggest event in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev), beyond the dreams of avarice (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion), which turns the journey from one of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) to abundance and love (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive). That is no small beer. People can wreck (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#journey) and lose (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors) their lives, go megalomaniac (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah), etc., and for those who walk away, they often pour themselves into a bottle each night, like their zombie pals at Langley (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#stockwell) or my close relative (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#cia). You get this bug, and you are never the same.

Hey Krishna:

Nice post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262883&viewfull=1#post1262883). On the first one, “reduced” would be a better term, and what I meant, so I revised my post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262811&viewfull=1#post1262811).

On the second one, many ways to measure inequality. Here is one measure of inequality for you: in the fourth Epoch, you did not have eunuchs guarding harems. Talk about inequality. :) No kings or slaves, either. Even the poorest American is the beneficiary of more energy than a Third Epoch nobleman. As far as economic disparity, in relative terms, it is arguable, but as I said, the floor has been raised. I’ll admit in money terms, the disparity is greater, but money is not a very good measure.

I can understand somebody from India not caring about those white guys killing each other, but yes, the American and British casualties and German soldiers killed paled next to the Eastern Front, where history’s greatest battles were fought, and the German military casualties were 10 times as high (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_casualties_in_World_War_II#OKW_war_diary) on the Eastern Front as the Western Front.

On the invisible violence, yes indeed, the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/108-The-Global-Controllers?p=1167&viewfull=1#post1167) have that one down pat, and the spooks (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/115-The-Spooks?p=1257&viewfull=1#post1257) are very good at it. Other than Greer’s naming some organizations, such as the Mormon Financial Empire and the Jesuit order, you have never heard of the GCs’ members. Hiding in the shadows is their specialty.

On Ed, I’ll write more later, but I don’t see it is a complete bust, and it is far from over. If nothing else, you got some education. :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To Krishna’s observation (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262883&viewfull=1#post1262883) that my assailants at Wikipedia were successful, I fully admit that they won round one, but it is far from over. I won’t contribute to Wikipedia again, but my Ed bio project is not done, and I had some victories. I built a Wikiquotes page for Ed (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_S._Herman), and his voice is heard unsullied at least once in the Wiki-universe, which I regard as a pretty good victory, and it links from his Wikipedia bio. The CRV article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Revolutionary_Violence:_Bloodbaths_in_Fact_%26_Propaganda) is largely mine today, and I was able to introduce Noam and Ed’s framework of bloodbaths (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Revolutionary_Violence:_Bloodbaths_in_Fact_%26_Propaganda#Contents), which I was also able to reproduce at their PEHR article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Economy_of_Human_Rights#Summary). Ed is going to be a significant historical figure, if there is going to be a future history of humanity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). In the Empire, of course, he is reviled and buried, like Noam is (Happy Birthday, Uncle Noam! :) ), but history will treat them very kindly, and I am Ed’s first biographer. Today, if you key Ed into Google, my Wikiquotes page is on page one and my bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm) is on page two, and my bio leads off with what happened at Wikipedia, which I will update when I make my small revisions to Ed’s bio in the near future.

I notified that reasonable Wikipedia editor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Prop9), who seems to have given up for now, and an Avalonian let me know about a Wikipedia alternative (http://speedydeletion.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page) just for treatments like mine, and I may put my articles there one day. I fully admit how slimily Ed’s and my assailants have acted. Ed’s Wikipedia bio as it stands to today is libelous, and I have gone into some detail on that, on Wikipedia’s talk pages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Edward_S._Herman#Philip_Cross%E2%80%99s_edits). That Ed is called a holocaust denier (as is Noam) is libelous and especially egregious as Ed was Jewish, as is Noam. Wikipedia will be accountable for libelous bios, even though they may seem to be skating today. At some point, they can’t hide behind procedural defenses, as that censorious editor did.

I have far bigger fish to fry (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) than Ed’s bio, so I am not losing any sleep over how it has gone at Wikipedia. I had already experienced Wikipedia’s editors and admins playing their jingoist and racist games (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1389&viewfull=1#post1389), so what happened regarding my Ed efforts was no big surprise. I don’t think that what happened in July was the result of some kind of conspiracy at Wikipedia, and it actually conforms to Ed’s propaganda model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing), so what happened was kind of fitting, just like the NYT’s obit on Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#nytobit) confirmed his propaganda model.

The highest councils on Earth have repeatedly deliberated on what to do about Dennis, but he will likely never be “notable” enough for Wikipedia, and even if he was, what Wikipedia has done to Ed so far would seem like hagiography compared to the treatment that Dennis would get. Dennis has been libeled in every mainstream media presentation that I have seen on him, other than that first TV report from Canada (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=602&viewfull=1#post602) and a small local paper in Massachusetts, for our first Greatest Energy Shows (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#barnum). The rest has been uninterrupted slime, and for the past 20 years, they featured Mr. Skeptic (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends), who uttered a stream of lies about Dennis every time he talked. There actually was a Wikipedia article on Dennis long ago, which was soon deleted, and it was all about what a criminal Dennis was. This is the way of the world today, when the mob does most of the GCs’ (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) work for them, gratis, as they have done to Ed’s bio at Wikipedia.

Also, as I have written, Ed looped me into his circle with the last email that I received from him, which I now think was no accident. I got some good feedback from his pals, particularly from a famous human rights attorney who gave my chapter on Rwanda (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#rwanda) the highest praise. But other than that, nobody has helped me out, and I have even notified Noam. So, this is not all on Wikipedia. Only a few of us have tried to correct the record at Wikipedia so far, but we are up against it. Jimmy Wales is a neocon who married Tony Blair’s secretary, and we all saw what a rude a***ole that censorious Wikipedia admin was, and yes, all of my work on Ed’s bio got reverted. They won that round, even before disinformation professional Philip Cross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Edward_S._Herman#Philip_Cross%E2%80%99s_edits) rolled out of bed. Even if the admins played nice, those editors were highly irrational at best. Back in July, I read up a little on the editors who assailed my work, and what a bunch of jingoist rabble. So, I was going to be up against it, anyway. One man was not going to prevail against those people, which might be why that reasonable editor gave up for now. Only some kind of committee is going to prevail against them at Wikipedia.

Also, as I have written, my plan (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1473&viewfull=1#post1473) was for a lot more than just a Wikipedia article, but Ed died in the meantime. So, to a degree, my work on Ed is kind of picking up the pieces, and until a professional biographer takes on Ed’s life, my bio will have to do, and an academic essay just cited my bio (http://mediatheoryjournal.org/pickard-wolfson-radical-interventions/), which I doubt will be the last time.

So yes, the trolls and assailants have prevailed at Ed’s Wikipedia bio for now, but at least my contributions are no longer erased, and I hope that it gets used by people trying to rectify the travesty of Ed’s bio today.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Back to developing a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/121-Orthodoxy-the-Fringes-Structuralism-Conspiracism-Materialism-Mysticism-etc?p=1336&viewfull=1#post1336). It is not easy to develop a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing), for a number of reasons, the most important of which is wanting to. The vast majority of humanity is fast asleep (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309) and they like it that way, thank you very much. It is just what it is, and I relinquished any judgment about it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) long ago. Free energy newbies are in for a rude awakening if they think that they are going to proselytize the “good news” to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle) and see the eyes of their friends, families, and colleagues light up in recognition. The vast majority of humanity cares for nothing outside of their immediate self-interest (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), which can extend to their social circle’s welfare, as their in-group’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup) welfare is the key to their survival. So it is, in a world of scarcity and fear. That was the most important lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708) of my journey, but I still got plenty of education in later years as I engaged the public and the “hip,” and saw how stuck they were in their egocentric conceits. Even well-meaning people got stuck all of the time. To a degree, it also hinged on the integrity issue, as where they got stuck had egocentric aspects to it, and I eventually realized that all of the dominant ideologies, where people got stuck most often, had scarcity as a root assumption (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant), even the root assumption. Abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance) would make them all vanish into history’s dustbin.

The so-called “smart” often fell for materialism, rationalism, and scientism, which are subtler mind-traps (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#subtle) than capitalism, nationalism, and organized religion are. What those traps all had in common was their rooting in scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), and few adherents are honest enough to admit it, even to themselves.

But even those who want to can run into barriers, and one of which is a lack of discernment. One area where so many fall down is in their scientific illiteracy. Without scientific literacy (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=313&viewfull=1#post313), many tend to fall for the latest gossip or clever presentation. In the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), scientific literacy will be like literacy is in the Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4): something that every child learns. But scientific literacy does not mean worshipping science, AKA scientism, just like literacy does not mean worshiping writings, as religious fundamentalists often do. In that heavenly Roads world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), what I spent a lifetime learning, all six-year-olds know.

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

In the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), scientific literacy will be like literacy is in the Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4): something that every child learns. But scientific literacy does not mean worshipping science, AKA scientism, just like literacy does not mean worshiping writings, as religious fundamentalists often do.
Unfortunately, with things like Common Core in US education (and its Rockefeller funded antecedents over the last century), and with toxins in the food, water and vaccines that are forced on our children ... literacy is no longer something we can count on every child learning, at least in the U.S. Perhaps China is doing better.

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I find it useful to remind myself now and then that "Physics" has come to mean the study of the physical, which is taken to mean the study of matter and of various mathematical models for the interactions of matter, with other matter and in particular with the matter of our test instruments.

Work outside those limits is not allowed, not funded, not publicized, and/or taken dark. In particular, any work that exposes some sort of underlying aether, or that studies the important role of electromagnetism on a very wide range of scales, or that casts doubt on the current "big bang", "gravity dominated", Relativity, Quantum, model of the universe is suppressed, somehow.

[Krishna]

Interesting reading about the permian extinction http://science.sciencemag.org/content/362/6419/eaat1327

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Paul (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263003&viewfull=1#post1263003):

I don’t know much about the “common core,” but isn’t it like the 3Rs? Yes, so-called “education (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm)” is a key issue, along with brain-addling toxins (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#harold) and other insults to our biology.

Yes indeed, if we define “physics” in that way, that is fine, but it also constrains what physics has to say about reality, and the greatest scientists knew that very well (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#mystical). It is when scientists try playing priest (Sagan (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#sagan), Hawking, etc.) that they get into trouble.

Of course, what my friend saw (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) turns the physics textbooks into doorstops. If only mainstream science maintained the modesty of Newton (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#newton), Einstein (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#einstein), etc. Einstein reveled in our ignorance, because that meant that there was so much to discover. What we call science today has barely left the cave.

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263104&viewfull=1#post1263104):

Ah yes, the Permian extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction). One more iron in the fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/19-Chapter-12-Making-Coal-the-Rise-of-Reptiles-and-the-Greatest-Extinction-Ever?p=1298&viewfull=1#post1298) on that debate.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Some odds and ends for this post. I am nearing the end of Hunger and Public Action (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page14?p=1547&viewfull=1#post1547), and I’ll write about it soon, but the bottom line, for me, is that in our Fourth Epoch, reducing Third Epoch misery really is cheaply done. The practices that came with the Fourth Epoch, which greatly reduced infant mortality and other life-shortening conditions, such as improved nutrition, sanitation, and hygiene, and widespread literacy, are cheaply achieved in preindustrial nations. All that is missing is the will to do it, but as Krishna has educated me in recent years, there has been progress in recent years, as the Fourth Epoch nations are doing something about it. They don’t do nearly enough, but it is something. Of course, the USA is the leader in exporting misery and death (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection). When reading Hunger and Public Action, I see vaccination given credit, but there is little or no evidence (http://medicinekillsmillions.com/articles/medical_history_truth_about_human_lifespan_increase.htm) that vaccination and drug interventions reduced the deaths from the diseases that the supposedly prevent, as far as industrializing nations go (http://www.drhalvorsen.co.uk/decline_of_infectiious_diseases.html), and I wonder if it has any validity at all for those agrarian nations.

I ordered Harari’s latest (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062464345/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1), and we’ll see if I learn much from it. I also ordered the latest book on the megafauna extinctions, but mostly for the pictures. The scientist-author wrote that the “most supported (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0062464345/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1)” cause of the passenger pigeon extinction is overhunting. With that kind of “caution” on human causation, we’ll see about him. I have encountered way too much of that kind of “caution,” as climate change, etc., gets invoked, to absolve humanity of responsibility. I was just reading another paper (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4760161/) on the Australian megafauna extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna), and the authors rightfully conclude that climate change explanations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climatechange2) are weak, at best.

I was just reading a summary (https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/07/a-brief-history-of-quantum-alternatives/3/) of the alternatives to the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, and that is just a sampling of the mainstream. Einstein and Schrödinger (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann) were unhappy with quantum mechanics, and they were among its few fathers. There are many orthodox and unorthodox challenges to quantum physics, and what my friend saw (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) links gravity with electromagnetism (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=1355&viewfull=1#post1355), and I suspect that in the black projects, they have something like a unified field theory, derived from what those technologies do.

Attached is a picture that I took this morning, less than a mile from my home. We saw it on the way home from grocery shopping, and I returned to snap that shot. The eagle was in the process of flying off, spooked by my presence, to land in a nearby tree in the neighborhood. Eagles in the neighborhood won’t get old anytime soon, but that is also one reason why our cats can’t go outside. :) Bobcats, coyotes, and hawks also frequent our yard.

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

I don’t know much about the “common core,” but isn’t it like the 3Rs?
Unfortunately not.

Common Core is to education as McDonald's is to food: mass produced, superficially uniform, cheap, and toxic. Both contribute to the dumbing down of America.


Yes indeed, if we define “physics” in that way, that is fine, but it also constrains what physics has to say about reality ...
Exactly. You said what I meant to say, only more succinctly and exactly.

[Krishna]

Hi:
The practices that came with the Fourth Epoch, which greatly reduced infant mortality and other life-shortening conditions, such as improved nutrition, sanitation, and hygiene, and widespread literacy, are cheaply achieved in preindustrial nations. All that is missing is the will to do it, but as Krishna has educated me in recent years, there has been progress in recent years, as the Fourth Epoch nations are doing something about it. They don’t do nearly enough, but it is something.

These days I view improved nutrition, sanitation, and hygiene, reduced infant mortality etc as effects of basic education. Yes fourth epoch nations are doing a little bit. Just as there were White abolitionists, and white people who really cared about colonized countries (like Annie Besant who fought for India's independence). I would give 75% credit to the agrarian nations themselves, as they slowly educated themselves. The youngest generation in India today is going to school almost 100%, it took a painful 70 years to get there.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Paul (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263280&viewfull=1#post1263280):

I surfed a little on Common Core, and I see that it is Bill Gates’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates) handiwork. No wonder! :) The left (http://socialistworker.org/2013/12/03/failing-grades-for-common-core), right (https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2018/11/23/author-common-core-worst-large-scale-educational-failure-in-40-years/), and mainstream (https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/24/opinion/sunday/the-common-core-costs-billions-and-hurts-students.html) all hate it. I’ll agree that assembly-line “education” is going nowhere. Americans have not been my target audience since 2004, as they are too brainwashed and brain-addled, and I guess that it is no big surprise that the world’s greatest “philanthropist (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy)” is behind this latest travesty. Even the philanthropists hate it (https://www.philanthropydaily.com/gates-philanthropy-failure-common-core/). :)

Uncle Noam said that all that a teacher could really do is stimulate the interest of the students. I’ll buy that. If people want to learn, they need to do the work. Nobody is going to open up their heads and pour in knowledge. The opposite happens (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#blinded) in the USA.

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263323&viewfull=1#post1263323):

Do you mean education, so that they could learn hygiene, sanitation, basic nutrition, and the like?

This will be an education post. I have long written about the many lies that I was raised with (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm). My business school “education (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice)” was largely an indoctrination into capitalism. Sure, I aced the curriculum, but what was I learning? I still make a living playing the capitalist game, but I also know that it is worthless, as far as helping right humanity’s ship. Getting the basic skill of literacy is not hard. Reading came effortlessly to me, but even my brother with an IQ of 80 or so can read and write. By age six, children can read and write, and they will have the basic toolset which they can use the rest of their lives. Literacy is not hard to achieve. Similarly, achieving numeracy is not hard. My 80-IQ brother could not add fractions, but nearly everybody else easily learned to. Getting a child through Algebra 1 is not hard, and as Mr. Mentor (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) once told me, hardly any engineer ever used anything past algebra in his/her career. All of that calculus and such, while good stuff, is not used in the real world of engineering that often, and certainly is not used in accounting. I have done a lot of system design and inventing in my day job, but never needed calculus. I used algebra at times, but that was it.

All that my formal education did, other than filling my head with lies, was provide me the basic tools so that I could navigate the world. My greatest learning experiences came in the real world, during my days with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). The rest really was noise, even all of that hitting the books for the past 30 years (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=739&viewfull=1#post739). Without my adventures with Dennis, I would likely not have much worth saying, and I would have probably never discovered Noam and Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big), and even if I had, I probably would not have known what to make of it. It took being on the receiving end of the media’s lies for years (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=687&viewfull=1#post687) to prepare me for what Noam and Ed had to say (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv), and even then, it took me years to digest their message.

So, the education that really matters comes through experience, not the classroom. My schooling gave me some basic tools, along with a mountain of lies, which crippled my sense of reality. One week of Silva training (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva), or that booklet that saved my father’s life (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lessons), was more important than nearly all of my years of schooling, and the big class (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601) began when that voice told me to move to Seattle (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2). My tutelage under Mr. Mentor was a key aspect of my journey. Without it, I would have never embarked on it. But all that I really needed to learn was achieved by kindergarten (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#forgetting). :)

What children learn in that heavenly Roads world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748) is the good stuff, not what takes place in classrooms today. I suspect that they were post-literate, in that reading was discarded as a primitive way to acquire information. Post-literacy may well be one of many mind-boggling aspects of the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), which few of us today even dare to try to imagine (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Briefly, to the matter at hand. My work ranges over many subjects (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/121-Orthodoxy-the-Fringes-Structuralism-Conspiracism-Materialism-Mysticism-etc?p=1336&viewfull=1#post1336), and that is an understatement. :) Developing a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/63-Developing-a-Comprehensive-Perspective?p=82&viewfull=1#post82) is key for what I am attempting, which is helping (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) the human journey’s biggest event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) manifest. It is not small stuff, and the usual approaches (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/111-The-Free-Energy-Field-s-State-of-Arrested-Development?p=1229&viewfull=1#post1229) have not come close to working (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches), nor do I expect them to. My fellow travelers and I learned our lessons the hard way (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/127-Free-Energy-Follies?p=1486&viewfull=1#post1486), and if everybody had to learn how we did, almost nobody would survive the curriculum.

I am constantly approached by people who think that they understand, but they don’t, as they drag along their baggage (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) and grind their axes, thinking that proselytizing to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle) is some kind of answer, or that some kind of 100th monkey New Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage) approach will, in which everybody magically wakes up, because a few of us do. It won’t work that way (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10), but there is an approach that has not been tried before (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus), and we’ll see how it goes. The people with the right stuff for my effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) are going to be few and far between, but only they can help with my effort. People have to jettison almost everything that they think they know, to be useful to my effort, especially people who have dabbled in the free energy milieu, as they almost always got trapped in the field’s state of arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/111-The-Free-Energy-Field-s-State-of-Arrested-Development?p=1217&viewfull=1#post1217). We need to raise our games, if we are going to make a dent.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

In another forum (we'll see if this is another mistake :) ):

Thanks Rob (http://jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/post/332/thread):

Well, on the JFK hit, I have written extensively (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower) on the issue. On the who, it was not Oswald. At most, he was the chief fall guy (AKA “patsy,” as he described himself after he was captured) on the fake assassination attempt that turned into a real one. On the why, JFK was a relative outsider in American politics, and was not an eager enough capitalist and imperialist for the American oligarchy. David Rockefeller led the ideological resistance against JFK’s policies (see Battling Wall Street), and if what Rodney Stich reported (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1404&viewfull=1#post1404) is accurate (and it makes sense to me), the Rockefellers led the effort, and one of their chief fixers, Allen Dulles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dulles), led the “investigation” into JFK’s murder, whom JFK had fired only a couple of years previously over the Bay of Pigs disaster, and who despised JFK. When Dulles’s henchman, Angleton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jesus_Angleton), died, one of his legendary safes contained gruesome RFK autopsy photos, which I suspect comprised some kind of macabre trophy.

Most Americans don’t know it, but not only did JFK try to end the Space Race, by proposing a joint mission to the Moon with the Soviet Union (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/104-The-JFK-Assassination?p=1396&viewfull=1#post1396) soon before he died, he tried to end the Cold War. Doug Caddy’s amazing testimony (http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/20494-bill-decker-and-john-tower/?do=findComment&comment=321167), that JFK was killed over the “alien presence” issue, trips the light fantastic, but is not surprising to me, as JFK apparently ran afoul of history’s greatest cover-up (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2), which is conjoined with the free energy issue (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spacemining), which has been my life’s work. To me, the “alien presence” issue was ancillary and more of a “last straw” than the primary reason why JFK was killed.

On the how, I think that two or three shooter teams took out JFK in a crossfire ambush, which was remarkably similar to an attempt that nearly got de Gaulle (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1434&viewfull=1#post1434) the year before, and de Gaulle had no doubt that JFK was taken out in a similar operation. Dulles’s CIA tried to overthrow the French government the year before that de Gaulle attempt (mere days after Bay of Pigs). Many lines of evidence point straight at the CIA, Dulles, and the Rockefellers. David Rockefeller handpicked all American presidents after JFK, and minded the store clear into his 90s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888). Rockefeller machinations likely helped wreck my life (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr). Gary’s testimony (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower) fits right in there.

Obviously, there is plenty to discuss in the above, which only scratches the surface of the issues.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263323&viewfull=1#post1263323):

Do you mean education, so that they could learn hygiene, sanitation, basic nutrition, and the like?

Getting the basic skill of literacy is not hard. Reading came effortlessly to me, but even my brother with an IQ of 80 or so can read and write. By age six, children can read and write, and they will have the basic toolset which they can use the rest of their lives. Literacy is not hard to achieve. Similarly, achieving numeracy is not hard.

All that my formal education did, other than filling my head with lies, was provide me the basic tools so that I could navigate the world.

So, the education that really matters comes through experience, not the classroom. My schooling gave me some basic tools, along with a mountain of lies, which crippled my sense of reality. But all that I really needed to learn was achieved by kindergarten (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#forgetting). :)

What children learn in that heavenly Roads world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748) is the good stuff, not what takes place in classrooms today. I suspect that they were post-literate, in that reading was discarded as a primitive way to acquire information. Post-literacy may well be one of many mind-boggling aspects of the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), which few of us today even dare to try to imagine (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine).


I mean an education that gives basic tools literacy and numeracy, it is not hard but when there are no schools and in the context of demographic transition it is a fundamental requirement.

You did not learn anything by kindergarten that is different in industrial societies vs what parents and society has been teaching kids for more than 100,000 years.

I see basic education to have so much behavioural impact that we are almost a different species vs without education.

I was thinking about the end of slavery and no wonder it came at the same time as western nations were becoming literate. The impulses of empire were partly controlled by the peoples at the centre of empires. Something that was never done in human history before.

[lrgoodger]

" What we call science today has barely left the cave."


Amen to that. The more I learn, the more I realize what we don't know.

Ron

[lrgoodger]

You said, "I found that if people are candidates for the choir, they are so rare that there will not be anybody in their daily lives who also is."

That hit the nail on the head. I don't know anyone, and I spent half my life working with fellow engineers. But I have some ideas.....

Ron

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263608&viewfull=1#post1263608). In bringing Third Epoch peasants into the Fourth Epoch, or at least the fringes of it, I’ll agree that literacy and numeracy is essential and an integral part of the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic). But those lessons that I learned by age five (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#forgetting) were the most important ones, by far, as they were the lessons of integrity, which almost nobody on Earth truly digests (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). The lessons of the Infinite Sprit (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#infinite) are by far the most important lessons to learn in physical reality (http://ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#jesus). The rest is noise. In general, people act with more integrity when they can afford to, with that greater energy surplus (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable), which is why the Fourth Epoch is generally more humane than the Third (such as its “justice” systems, which you recently pointed out (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1262003&viewfull=1#post1262003), no matter how corrupt they are (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr)), the Third more than the Second, and shows what the potential of the Fifth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) can be.

I once wrote about a neighbor’s mother who was illiterate. While she was a nice enough woman, I am sure that a very deep conversation with her about world events was impossible, but not that what I “learned (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big)” was valuable, either. I am not sure that being “educated,” only to be brainwashed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#brainwashing), is all that great of an advance. True education is great stuff, oh, to be a student in that heavenly Roads world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748) for a day, but not much of that exists in our world. I do what I can. :)

I am going to give Ron (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263614&viewfull=1#post1263614) a little introduction. He approached me recently, through Avalon/Camelot. He read my work long ago, thought that I was done during my midlife crisis years (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#midlife), but only recently discovered that I emerged from those years and kept going. I get approached by free energy inventors and others in the milieu fairly regularly, but few have ever gotten on stage with me before, and Ron is going to give it a shot. Having been in the free energy field can be a detriment for my task, as it is easy to get swept up into the field’s arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested), as it is dominated by inventors, scientists, and businessmen, who unerringly travel those paths of disaster (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches), and any other approach is off the table and can even be hard to imagine. I have no intention of ever trying to recruit from the ranks of the free energy milieu. A few may come from there, but I don’t expect many, and neither did Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#new).

I am doing something very different from what anybody else has tried before, and I have called it neo-Fullerian, if I had to give it a name, but not even Uncle Bucky (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller) ever did something like what I am attempting. But the Internet did not exist back then, and if Bucky was alive, he would instantly recognize what I was doing.

Yes Ron, you know that you won’t likely find anybody in your life who will be a candidate for the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). If you find even one, you will be fortunate. Those are just the numbers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), and I stopped judging it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) long ago. But the Internet gives me a global reach that was unimaginable during my first stint with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting). On my strange journey, a voice in my head led me to Dennis and Mr. Professor (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3), and I met Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#meet) by means nearly as strange, and they head my pantheon (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures) today. I doubt that that is a formula that I can give for anybody to follow. :) When I get enthusiastic free energy newbies who want to rush out and proselytize to their social circles, I advise them to instead just send a link, such as to here (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#summary), to their pals, and then just stand back and watch what happens. That approach is low-risk to their relationships, and I actually don’t know of a better introduction to my work than that chapter of my big essay. I have yet to hear of any free energy proselytizers reeling anybody in with their efforts. Heck, Dennis and I stood on the global stage for years, and the people who came to us with the right stuff for our effort you could nearly count on one hand. I have a much more modest level (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#why) of “heroism (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany)” required for my effort, but it will be enough. It won’t start fast, for a number of reasons, and chiefly because I am hunting for needles in haystacks, and developing a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/121-Orthodoxy-the-Fringes-Structuralism-Conspiracism-Materialism-Mysticism-etc?p=1336&viewfull=1#post1336) is not easy.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I finished Hunger and Public Action (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263273&viewfull=1#post1263273) last night, will report on it soon, and will use it for the first update of my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1447&viewfull=1#post1447). I plan to put up drafts of revised sections as I write them, similar to how I posted up chapters of my big essay at Avalon as I drafted them. I will say that the only imperial critique that I saw in Hunger and Public Action came at the very end, and only in passing. It blamed the big powers for their warlike meddling in nations subject to their influence, but they could have stood a dose of Noam and Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection). Communist interventions virtually did not exist, when compared to the West’s (especially the USA’s) vast, genocidal activities (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#toll1). Drèze and Sen both migrated to the imperial capitals in Britain and the USA, and Sen at the heart of American liberalism at Harvard (where Noam is treated like Satan (http://ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#devil)), and I wonder how much of their stance is like Pinker’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#pinker) and Morris’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/45-Chapter-28-What-Has-Not-Worked-So-Far-and-What-Might/page3?p=1457&viewfull=1#post1457), who also both got cush gigs at the heart of the empire: none of them were about to bite the hand that fed them, not when they were migrants to the heart of the empire. Drèze at least moved to India and walked his talk (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Dr%C3%A8ze#Social_activism).

That said, I got some good stuff from Hunger and Public Action, and I think that I may read An Uncertain Glory before long, as their work piqued my interest. But I have to get cracking on my essay update, and nothing in Hunger and Public Action is going to change my big essay’s thrust much. I have already written on how once nations achieved independence from colonialism (but were often then subjected to neocolonial domination), they embarked on independent development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#industrialize), which meant trying to join the Fourth Epoch, which meant ending famine, chronic undernutrition, illiteracy, and other aspects of the Third Epoch. Hunger and Public Action is all about that. Anybody who got a taste of the Fourth Epoch wanted more, as the advantages were obvious.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

I will say that the only imperial critique that I saw in Hunger and Public Action came at the very end, and only in passing. It blamed the big powers for their warlike meddling in nations subject to their influence, but they could have stood a dose of Noam and Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection).

I see them focusing on local elites and focusing on local problems. Focusing on global elites all the time is not very useful. We all have our part in creating the problem. My grandfather was a health inspector in the British Empire, and thus a collaborator. The system is the collective manifestation of all our actions/inactions including the action and inactions of the very poor. Sure they have less power and thus less responsibility for the world as it is today, but everybody has some responsibility.

I read Amartya Sen and don't remember much criticism of the West, however I would say Hunger and Public Action itself is indictment enough. His work on famines got him the nobel prize and the book Poverty and Famines: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation (https://www.amazon.com/Poverty-Famines-Essay-Entitlement-Deprivation/dp/0198284632) says that famines are a consequence of colonialism. Quoting from wikipedia article on Famines (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_famines) "Amartya Sen advances the theory that lack of democracy and famines are interrelated; he cites the example of the Bengal famine of 1943, stating that it only occurred because of the lack of democracy in India under British rule." Sure the criticism is muted and a little roundabout.

I would not put Sen or Dreze in the company of Pinker.

Another book by Jean Dreze this time with a foreword by Chomsky
War and Peace in the Gulf: Testimonies of the Gulf Peace Team by Bela Bhatia (Editor), Jean Dreze (Editor), Kathy Kelly (Editor), Noam Chomsky (Foreword) (https://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Gulf-Testimonies-Team/dp/0851246400)


That said, I got some good stuff from Hunger and Public Action, and I think that I may read An Uncertain Glory before long, as their work piqued my interest.

That is high praise I will take it :) The homework is complete, looking forward to you turning in the assignment 8)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263746&viewfull=1#post1263746):

A few lines before I roll into bed…

Nobody spreads around our responsibility (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#responsibility) like I do. :) I understand your point, and I get that they want to emphasize what each nation could do, but as I read Hunger and Public Action, I could not help contrasting Costa Rica, for instance, and their neighboring Central American nations, who all got ground under our imperial boot, sometimes to genocidal fashion (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#central). Costa Rica played ball with American corporations and never challenged their dominance, and they have their success story, similar to South Korea. Similarly, Kuwait as a nation was invented by Britain’s oil politics, as a way to land-lock Iraq. So, Kuwait has its nanny state and a miracle of “progress,” while the USA committed genocide in Iraq (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), which was developing a similar welfare state, it was the most secular Arab nation, and it is ruins today (or what we recently did to Libya (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#syria), which had Africa’s highest standard of living).

So, as I read their narratives, I was thinking, “How much was their success due to playing imperial ball?” If we want to say that the book ignored imperial meddling in favor of what nations could do, themselves, I don’t have a problem with that, but they did bring up imperial meddling at the end, and rather obliquely elsewhere in the book, so they were aware of it, and yes, Drèze gets big Noam points, but I could almost see another book besides that one, which was a manual on how to avoid the imperial boots and directly help your people. :) But advocating bootlicking probably would not have sold well. :) No, I don’t put them in the Pinker/Morris boat, but I do acknowledge similar conflicts of interest with those migrant scholars.

Even Uncle Bucky (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller) tiptoed around the issue of imperial raping until the end of his life, with his Grunch of Giants, which let it rip. Sen is at Harvard, as is Pinker, and I would not expect those immigrants to the Empire to critique American foreign policy much, and Pinker (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#pinker) is an outright bootlicker. Sen is just rather quiet about it, while his neighbor Noam isn’t. And if Sen was, he would have found himself without a job and maybe even kicked out of the USA, Nobel or not. You get on the USA’s case from within the Empire, like Ward Churchill (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#churchill) did, and it can be career over. So, professorial survival can be like how Costa Rica played the game. :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

In another forum...

Thanks Rob (http://jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/post/338/thread):

You are no slouch on the JFK hit, and congratulations for starting your own forum. I had to eventually mount my own (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/), and I know what it takes to keep the fires going. Best wishes for building something that lasts. I don’t think that NSAM 271 (http://jfkconspiracyforum.freeforums.net/post/186/thread) is off-topic, especially with testimony such as Doug Caddy’s (http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/20494-bill-decker-and-john-tower/?do=findComment&comment=321167). Doug has complete credibility with me. I am sure that you are aware of the great controversies around the MJ-12 documents and their authenticity. Brian O’Leary’s life was shortened (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=847&viewfull=1#post847) because he snooped into the UFO issue, and I have always had great respect for Greer’s Disclosure Project (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort) efforts. Ed Mitchell (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page3?p=416&viewfull=1#post416) and Brian were not exactly a couple of nuts. If Dulles wrote that MJ-12 policy regarding its exposure, then all the more reason why his tenure at the Warren Commission was part of a cover-up effort from the beginning.

But NSAM 271 was dated less than two weeks before JFK’s murder, and the operation that Oswald was part of (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower) long predated that, and I am sure that that op’s interposers were planning the hit long before NSAM 271. JFK angered too many people in high places, and had to go. I have long maintained that if the UFO/ET issue was why JFK was murdered, it was more like that last straw rather than the ultimate reason. Testimony such as Daniel Sheehan’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=938&viewfull=1#post938) is more grist for that mill.

And, of course, the UFO/ET cover-up is conjoined with the free energy cover-up (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spacemining). What my friend saw (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) was likely largely developed from captured ET craft.

IMO, those are all related subjects, and I have written at length on them, but my primary contribution to the JFK issue is likely just lending heft to Gary’s testimony (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398). You can take it to the bank that Gary was reporting the Tower conversation to the best of his ability. Also, Gary’s Jack Ruby connection (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1399&viewfull=1#post1399) is relevant. Ruby was no two-bit nightclub owner, but was a high-ranking mobster, although not high-ranking enough to avoid his suicide mission. :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have thousands of pictures that I use for my desktop and screensaver both at home and at work, so I do a life review every day. All sorts of emotions are triggered as my life’s events are shown to me, which I suppose is what emotionally centered people (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading) need to do. I have an eidetic memory, so my flashbacks are particularly vivid. Back in my 40s, I began to release judgment of the memories of my journey, and began seeing them all as just learning experiences: the good, the bad, and the ugly. I did my fair share of screwing up, and that comes with the journey, and learning from our mistakes is the point of being here, if a great deal of mystical literature is to be believed.

In my picture collection are quite a few Thomas Kinkade paintings, and my boss once laughed when I had to present from my laptop in a meeting at work, and a Kinkade painting was the desktop. He is not regarded like van Gogh is (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kinkade#Artistic_themes_and_style). :) But as his pictures come up each day, along with van Gogh’s, pics of dead friends and relatives, scenes from the wilderness, and the like, I realize that Kinkade depicted what many people’s heavens look like (at least the initial ones), not far removed from those scenes in What Dreams May Come (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/mediaviewer/rm2916702976). So, I think that he performed a service for millions of people, no matter how much his work is critically reviled today. Just my two bits on that.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I have written, my first public writings (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#jesus) were about Iraq. I have written on that subject perhaps more than any other, as far as world events go. I recently wrote (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1558&viewfull=1#post1558) that the “editors” and admins at Wikipedia won round one on Ed’s bio. Philip Cross (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Edward_S._Herman#Philip_Cross%E2%80%99s_edits), a disinformation professional, who is likely a team of them, did not even need to roll out of bed, as Wikipedia’s editors and admins had his back.

While reading the deeply dishonest (and often amazingly incompetent) work of those editors of Ed’s bio, I saw one dismiss the Lancet death estimates in Iraq. When it came out, it was attacked by all sorts of “academics” and media figures. However, it was and still is regarded as the best work that was done back then, by people not on the imperial payroll, which brings me to the chief critic of the Lancet reports, Michael Spagata, who is prominent in the Wikipedia article on the Lancet surveys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_casualties). I started reading his work and immediately thought, “paid shill,” and after only a little surfing, I found that my suspicion was correct (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-pentagon-is-hiding-the-dead-862a7b45ce57). Spagata simply made it up as he went along, under a thin veneer of academic respectability. He is the spiritual cousin of those scientists who 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). Spagata led the attack on the authors of the Lancet studies, tried to scuttle their careers, and was partially successful, in an effort that was not much different from what happened to Ward Churchill (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#churchill). The essay that was the centerpiece of Churchill’s firing, “Nits Make Lice: The Extermination of North American Indians, 1607-1996”, will likely be considered his life’s masterpiece. I often pick up and read his A Little Matter of Genocide, which has “Nits Make Lice” in it. He’ll never top it, and his career was terminated because of it, as they got him on the academic equivalent of sending Dennis to prison because he did not fill out a form (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bargain).

When I recently had my work erased in a forum after (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page13?p=1438&viewfull=1#post1438) a troll attack, that troll led his attack by using Mr. Skeptic’s libelous article (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#article), which comes up first today when you Google Dennis. So, the paid shills craft their disinformation, which is not even very clever, to those who know the subject matter, their fraudulent work gets used as a weapon by trolls and other assailants, and academics have their careers ruined, work gets censored, etc.

As Ed wrote about genocides, there is a division of labor in such efforts. The various players act out their roles as all work toward the overriding goal. Each can feign ignorance of what they are part of, and they often aren’t all that aware, although some certainly know very well what the game is. Ed’s propaganda model of the media (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing) lays out that division of labor. Spagata has a role similar to that of Reed Irvine of Accuracy in Media (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Chomsky), or Steven Milloy (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#milloy) or Elizabeth Whelan (http://ahealedplanet.net/simon.htm#whelan).

Ed and Noam were fortunate, as they only had their work censored (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv). Noam expected to go to prison, and had his wife get her doctorate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carol_Chomsky) in case that happened. So, all the trolls and disinformation professionals watching Ed’s bio like a hawk, ensuring that it remains a disinformation effort, are simply par for the course in our benighted world. I can’t take them on by myself. When Krishna complained of Wikipedia’s Orwellian treatment of my work, he found himself permanently banned from Wikipedia. This is how our world works today.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

I was thinking about why I liked Hunger and Public Action so much. Most importantly it focused me on human development indicators e.g. IMR (Infant mortality rate), U5MR (Under 5 mortality rate), Gender disparity in survival (100 million missing women by Amartya Sen) Basic education indicators. While I was somewhat aware of empire, I never knew what the important indicators of any society were, and simply assumed it was money. No amount of reading Chomsky helped in that regard.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263990&viewfull=1#post1263990):

Yes, Noam’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky) doesn’t really go there much, other than noting how the USA actively defeated efforts to modernize (join the Fourth Epoch, at least in its political-economic structure), which includes the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic). For all of the vastness of Noam’s work, it is not comprehensive (such as free energy, topics such as JFK’s murder (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398) (Noam blew it on that one), etc.), and you helped me understand that there has been significant progress in the past generation to raise standards of living for the world’s poor. I have known since the early 1990s, when I learned about Kerala’s successes, that improving the lot of the world’s poor can be cheaply done, such as sanitation, literacy, hygiene, if there was the will to do so. These were lessons learned in the Fourth Epoch, but the capitalist-imperialist interests (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#neocolonialist) have always resisted letting Third Epoch societies do it, and that is where Noam’s work shines (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection), especially for brainwashed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#brainwashing) people like me.

I’ll add a little on Hunger and Public Action, around here (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#balance) in my essay revision, by noting that since it gained its independence, India has not had a major famine. Less than one famine per century before the British conquest, to a famine every few years under British rule (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#bengal), and no famines since independence; that is a starkly clear imperial scorecard. I’ll probably add a little on how cheap it is to improve the lot of the world’s poor. I am skeptical on how much vaccination has to do with it (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page14?p=1561&viewfull=1#post1561), if anything, and other ballyhooed aspects of helping the world’s poor. Most of my “education (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm)” was a form of brainwashing. I’ll probably move the discussion of the demographic transition to my first Fourth Epoch chapter (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4), as that is when it began, and I can see some more on Drèze and Sen in a brief discussion of today’s demographic transition in the world’s peasant nations, but the pristine instances are always the most educational, IMO.

In the big picture, I regard the past three centuries as just what the transition to the Fourth Epoch looks like. The Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) lasted ten thousand years, and went from huts to empires. The Fourth Epoch is very young, and only a small fraction of humanity truly lives in it. The demographic transition is part of it, the phases of industrialization, representative government (at least theoretically! ( :) )), labor movements, and sadly, global rackets (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/forums/21-The-rackets). We are also quickly making Earth uninhabitable (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth), and the Fourth Epoch’s fuel source is quickly running out (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil). What is coming may be the final test of humanity’s sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1) and integrity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). If not enough of us can pass the test, it may well be Game Over for humanity, as we take most of Earth’s ecosystems with us (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sixth). Those newly educated peasants are likely not going to be able to help much, as they are in early Fourth-Epoch societies (or late-Third, really, with some Fourth Epoch benefits), and the effort that overcomes the organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) and humanity’s inertia will likely be mounted in late-Fourth-Epoch societies. Those are just the odds. But Dennis was raised as a migrant farm worker (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574), and Mr. Professor grew up on a farm, and there may be something to that.

You are from the privileged high castes of India, and you could escape to the West (about three million high-caste Indians live in North America, the last I looked), so here you are. If you had stayed in India, you would have likely never heard of my work, and even if you had, it would have likely been incomprehensible, and you are still fairly early on the learning curve, which I hope is good news to you, as it means that so much is ahead of you, if you choose to go there.

You had a front-row seat and then some to something as trivial as my trying to do Ed’s life (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm) some justice at Wikipedia. That was nothing, compared to how my free energy journey has gone, which is where my life’s greatest lessons, by far, were learned. The free energy journey is not like anything else on Earth, and I hope to contribute to navigating humanity to the finish line, and encountering the Free Software Movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/freesoft.htm), thanks to you, was my final straw in coming to the realization that giving it away is the only way with a prayer, but that is easier said than done. :) What Dennis did (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs) is the closest thing that humanity has yet experienced to free energy, but the real thing will have super-Epochal significance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate), and will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far, and the technology for it already exists (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), while humanity is almost completely oblivious, which is one of the surreal aspects of the situation. Once again, I am in uncharted territory (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), and we’ll see how it goes. I am making it up as I go. :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This post has been gestating for some time, spurred by my adventures over the past year or so. I suppose that it began when Ed died (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1097&viewfull=1#post1097). His pals were able to get some not-too-bad obituaries in prominent places, but, fittingly, the NYT obit was a nice little piece of disinformation (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#nytobit). My bio project on Ed was spurred because his Wikipedia bio (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Herman) was also an exercise in disinformation, which actually corresponded to the propaganda model’s predictions (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#predictions), so maybe I should have left it as is, as a tribute to Ed. These are illustrations of my journey’s primary lesson: personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). When I finally published my changes to Ed’s bio and related articles at Wikipedia, the lesson was driven home in spades. One dishonest editor immediately reverted my changes, to have them reinstated by the only reasonable editor that I saw there, to only have an admin swoop in, like an avenging angel, and erase virtually all of my contributions to Wikipedia (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368), so that the public could not even see what I wrote, while he unleashed insults and threats. Krishna began a one-man campaign to rectify that Orwellian treatment, which saw him banned from Wikipedia forever (on false pretenses, of course), but he kept it up, and some kind of “justice” was served, when it was finally ruled that that that rude admin did not have a leg to stand on (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1550&viewfull=1#post1550) when he erased my work, and today what I wrote can at least be seen in Wikipedia’s history.

Even so, the disinformation version of one of the most outrageous acts of censorship in the late 20th century (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv) is still on Ed’s Wikipedia bio, along with other outrageous lies, such as calling him a genocide denier. That disinformation version of the censorship was written by a disinformation professional (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Edward_S._Herman#Philip_Cross%E2%80%99s_edits), who is likely a team of them, but they hide behind a cloak of anonymity, and Wikipedia’s founder has openly defended that team, to give you an idea of how the ideological wind blows at Wikipedia. But that team is only the ringleader, as all attempts to correct the record at Ed’s bio have been eagerly reverted by the other editors (including the one who immediately reverted my changes). This is very similar to what I saw during my journey with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601). One provocateur, working in concert with dishonest authorities and a compliant media, unleashed into the midst of “average” people, easily turns the entire affair into a witch-hunt, while Dennis was burned at the stake. These are real-world examples of Dostoyevsky’s parable of the Grand Inquisitor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grand_Inquisitor).

I can’t recall all of the events at the moment, but recent months have seen me revisit many issues that I have written about, such as the death toll in Iraq (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), vaccination (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/80-Vaccination?p=184&viewfull=1#post184), Global Warming (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463), and Ward Churchill’s defrocking (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#churchill). Noam began his public political career writing about the responsibility of intellectuals (https://chomsky.info/19670223/), and today, Noam would likely say something along the lines that most Western intellectuals are incapable of understanding the truth (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#trivial), but also that dishonesty was a hallmark of the attacks on Noam’s work.

The pattern repeats itself ad nauseum: if a scientist or intellectual challenges the status quo and dogma, particularly the most lucrative ones, the full might of the system is brought to bear on the issue, and the offender will find his/her career quickly over. As I recently wrote, the leader of the attack (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1263886&viewfull=1#post1263886) on the Lancet studies has been on the military’s payroll for decades (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/how-the-pentagon-is-hiding-the-dead-862a7b45ce57), as he poses as a disinterested scientist whose only pursuit is the truth. When the witch-hunt on Churchill began (https://zeroanthropology.net/2009/02/23/facts-fictions-and-footnotes-revisiting-the-firing-of-ward-churchill/), it was led by a professor whose attacks were accompanied by statements such as that Churchill was lucky that he did not go to prison (https://louisproyect.org/2006/07/03/thomas-brown-ward-churchill-and-prison-terms-for-research-misconduct/). The report by an American professors association concluded, after a lengthy investigation, that Churchill lost his position through a pure witch-hunt (http://www.cu-aaup.org/documents-3/report-on-the-termination-of-ward-churchill-2/). Just like my Wikipedia contributions remain reverted, Churchill still had his career terminated.

I read attacks on anti-vaccination activists mounted by sites with high-minded names like “science-based medicine,” as they portrayed themselves as the paragons of reason and integrity. The attackers always feign standing on the high moral and intellectual ground, as they launch their assaults, and virtually without exception, they have breathtaking conflicts of interest, which they usually try to hide (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page10?p=834&viewfull=1#post834).

This pattern repeats itself on those subjects and more, as the authorities act criminally (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr), often on behalf of their private-interest patrons (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#scam), the media broadcasts their lies (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#deputy), and the barrage begins, but the most dismaying and disheartening aspect of the situations is how the targets’ allies, including their friends and family members, pile on (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#whistleblower1). Dennis’s “allies” usually saw it as a perfect opportunity to steal the business (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=604&viewfull=1#post604), and by the time 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.

These lessons need to be learned very early in anybody’s journey who wants to help with what I am doing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). It is just how our world works today, and denying that reality is a good way to learn some very hard lessons.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, I think that it is safe to say now that that company in Canada, that made a run at Dennis’s technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/128-Dennis-s-Heat-Pump-Performance?p=1554&viewfull=1#post1554), without ever acknowledging its predecessors, is out of business. I noticed ten days ago that their site was down (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page14?p=1552&viewfull=1#post1552), and I am over 99% certain today that it ended up like more than a hundred other companies that made a go of it. Superior technology rarely has anything to do with prevailing, or even surviving, in the marketplace, and their demise almost certainly had nothing to do with organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). It just withered away and died, and never really got going. Somewhere around 99% of all free energy tinkerers never come up with anything worth suppressing (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#graphic). That Canadian company probably sold less than 50 systems, and likely less than 30, before they went out of business. Dennis sold them by the hundreds (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs), which is what made him so dangerous to TPTB. Tinkerers selling onesies and twosies don’t even come onto the radar.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Sen gets a lot of respect for his work on famines, human development indicators and his work on missing women (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_women)


you helped me understand that there has been significant progress in the past generation to raise standards of living for the world’s poor. I have known since the early 1990s, when I learned about Kerala’s successes, that improving the lot of the world’s poor can be cheaply done, such as sanitation, literacy, hygiene, if there was the will to do so.

Kerala is widely known among leftists because it had an elected communist government and good human development indicators, however Sri Lanka (despite a civil war) and Jamaica (despite becoming indebted during the oil crisis) have similar human development indicators. It is the basic education effect.


I can see some more on Drèze and Sen in a brief discussion of today’s demographic transition in the world’s peasant nations, but the pristine instances are always the most educational, IMO.

The subsequent transitions can sometimes clarify cause and effect, it is too easy to get confused. Growing up I learned that India was poor because we had too many children. The real reason is that we had large families because we were poor. Inverted cause and effect.


You are from the privileged high castes of India, and you could escape to the West (about three million high-caste Indians live in North America, the last I looked)

I would estimate atleast 20%-30% of Indians in USA are not from high castes, the most important way people moved to usa is via skills and those have become more widespread.


If you had stayed in India, you would have likely never heard of my work, and even if you had, it would have likely been incomprehensible,

I was in US for only a couple of years when I ran into your American Empire essay + rest of your site, same with Chomsky or Amartya Sen all of those were read in a short period. It helps that I know both societies, I imagine it is easier for Indians to understand your work.


and you are still fairly early on the learning curve, which I hope is good news to you, as it means that so much is ahead of you, if you choose to go there.

And here I was imagining the finish line. Please tell me what I have to learn, I have been diligent reader....


justice at Wikipedia. That was nothing, compared to how my free energy journey has gone, which is where my life’s greatest lessons, by far, were learned.

:)

[Krishna]

Well, I think that it is safe to say now that that company in Canada, that made a run at Dennis’s technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/128-Dennis-s-Heat-Pump-Performance?p=1554&viewfull=1#post1554), without ever acknowledging its predecessors, is out of business.

To be fair, i think they were just importing the system and had no clue how it worked, they for sure had no engineering in that company.

This company in Portugal seems to originate the current technology.
http://www.energie.pt/en/projects/item/105-hostel-in-lisbon
And the Chinese have copied perfectly :)
http://www.smartclima.com/thermodynamic-solar-system


It just withered away and died, and never really got going. Somewhere around 99% of all free energy tinkerers never come up with anything worth suppressing (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#graphic). That Canadian company probably sold less than 50 systems, and likely less than 30, before they went out of business. Dennis sold them by the hundreds (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs), which is what made him so dangerous to TPTB. Tinkerers selling onesies and twosies don’t even come onto the radar.

I see that the panels are poorly designed, I imagine the condenser is poorly designed too. This is normal business failure.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264284&viewfull=1#post1264284):

So, if I understand your point, what you call education enables peasants to partake of Fourth Epoch benefits (sanitation, hygiene)? An educated peasantry will know what to do, or demand it? Please describe just how education helps. I have heard that the influence of industrial nations has been reducing those birth rates, as peasant women have decided that there is more to life than being baby factories, when they see how women in industrial nations live. Is that the effect of education? Again, I understand how cheap it is for basic Fourth Epoch benefits to get imported into Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) societies, and literacy (education) makes some sense for that. How is education the critical missing piece to begin the march of the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic) for peasant nations? I admit that the way that Dennis, Mr. Professor, and my father escaped the farm (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574) was through their intelligence and education, and in the USA, there was someplace to escape to, similar to how you escaped your peasant nation.

Thanks on how subsequent transitions can help, as far as helping make some dynamics clearer. How the Epochs were invented in the first place is the fascinating aspect of them, IMO. Coming from an inventor background, and I suppose being an Artisan soul (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading), the process of creativity (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#flash) fascinates me. Inventing them was the hard part, and once invented, copying them is fairly easy. But the process of invention is also rooted in the realities of its Epoch. A hunter-gatherer was not going to invent a rocket or computer. As far as adopting Fourth Epoch practices, I read up a little on Third Epoch nations adopting fluoridation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoridation_by_country), sigh. At least I see that China (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoridation_by_country#China) and India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluoridation_by_country#India) don’t do it, as they already have a big problem of fluoride poisoning (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#compulsory), and maybe they are smart enough to realize that if they have a problem of fluoride poisoning, that an “optimal” level that is close to the poisoning level (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm#window) is insane. I can only hope. The Fourth Epoch definitely has its issues. And without the Fourth Epoch’s energy levels (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable), Third Epoch societies can only adopt some aspects of them. Again, raising life expectancy in Third Epoch nations, largely be reducing infant mortality, is cheaply done. Some of the Fourth Epoch’s benefits are easy to reproduce in Third Epoch societies.

Well, your post is the first that I have heard that low-caste Indians made it to the USA. Any Shudras (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shudra)? I have yet to hear from anybody who lives in India, or China, at least who identified where they were from.

Thanks on that Portuguese company (http://www.energie.pt/en/projects/item/105-hostel-in-lisbon). I just rooted around in my library. I thought that I had our manufacturing manual from our Ventura days, but I could not find it. Maybe I never had it, and only decided to take a marketing manual, which I have in my office. As I look at those panels (http://www.smartclima.com/thermodynamic-solar-system), I am trying to recall exactly what our panels looked like. There were various panel designs in those days. As I look at those new panels, it seems that less of the surface area is a raised vein. My guess is that the surface area of those panels has half as much vein surface area as Dennis’s panels did, which is going to reduce the heat exchange and COPs. And if the panel is less efficient, then as you guess, it is likely that the condenser will be similarly deficient, at least compared to Dennis’s system. My guess is that those systems (that featured one for that hotel has eight panels, so that trend seemed to stick) hold less refrigerant than Dennis’s did. Dennis’s had 60 pounds of refrigerant in them. My guess is that those Portuguese systems have 40 at most.

It is nice to see somebody pursuing that technology, but just like how I never see Brian’s name come up (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianbio.htm#mars) when human missions to Mars are discussed today, I wonder if I’ll ever see Dennis’s name mentioned in the new attempts to use solar-assisted heat pumps, as Moss discussed regarding medical pioneers (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#steal). Of course, Dennis tried for something far beyond heating water (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#pursuit). :)

On Indians having an easier time digesting my work, I’ll give it a big maybe. I’ll agree that Americans are brainwashed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#brainwashing), and when I see them fail to understand my work, it comes down to wanting to, and shedding our indoctrination is the hard part. I’ll agree that Indians’ heads would not explode when reading this part of my site (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#progress), as it does to Americans. However, there is a great deal of American-philia in many poor nations, even with our imperial bludgeoning of the world’s poor nations (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection). Do you think that a Third Epoch peasant who begins sniffing the Fourth Epoch will more readily understand the Fifth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5)? I see Dennis stuck in the Third Epoch in ways, with his religious fanaticism, and not even he really understands what the Fifth Epoch means.

On your learning curve, I’ll save it for the next post. It is a subject (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1456&viewfull=1#post1456) that I already planned to write more on.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264284&viewfull=1#post1264284):

You asked about your learning curve. Well, in short, reading is not enough. I began a thread on the journey to knowledge (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1456&viewfull=1#post1456), and you really can’t get there by reading. As I have written many times, if I did not have my adventures, especially those with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601), I would not have had much worth saying. People have had to already been awakened in some way (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309) for my work to begin to make sense to them. Otherwise, they are trapped in their conditioning, and it all hinges on the heart (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), not the head.

As I look back at my journey, when my family went health nut (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lessons) when I was twelve, and my father accomplished something that was considered “impossible” at the time, that was the beginning of my awakening, but 1974 was my big awakening year, when I had my cultural (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#europe) and mystical (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva) awakenings, and when I first got my energy dreams (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse). Three years later, a voice in my head (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice) radically changed my studies from science to business, and my journey toward free energy began in earnest, although I sure could not have told you how at the time. Heck, the idea of free energy was alien to me, until after I met Dennis. Eight years of idealism (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#janitor1) and disillusionment (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&viewfull=1#post406928) later, I asked for the voice a second time, and it led me right into Dennis’s company (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2). There is no way that I can recommend that as a practical path to anybody. :)

All that happened before I met Dennis was only a prelude, and my learning curve really began when I was in Seattle with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=614&viewfull=1#post614). It steepened dramatically when I became his partner (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=614&viewfull=1#post614), and what happened in Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr) I only survived because of my youth and Boy Scout nature (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts). Otherwise, I would have crashed and burned, like I watched so many others do. I have watched people crash and burn who have merely brushed up against my work. If you had told me what lied ahead of me when that voice told me to move to Seattle, or when I drove to Boston (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=612&viewfull=1#post612) or Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=652&viewfull=1#post652), I would have never believed you. I had to live through it, and I still look back at my journey and marvel that it happened that way, sometimes wondering if it really did. If I have a hard time believing my journey, how hard is it for John Q. Public to? I sympathize with Americans whose heads explode after reading this section (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#progress) of my site. Those people are not ready for my work, and I intentionally drive them away. Hardly anybody on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle) is ready for my work, and that is OK. They will begin to understand (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#awaken) when they can experience the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink), and not before. It took me many years to really understand that.

Many times in my journey I have encountered what I will call free energy enthusiasts. They usually have some kind of technical job, often in a big corporation, and they encounter my work. They have come to me from different directions, but an Art-Bell-ish (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Bell) fascination with the fringes is common enough, and those enthusiasts had already heard of free energy before they encountered my work. Most of what is on Coast to Coast is chaff. For every kernel of wheat on the fringes, there is a mountain of chaff (such as Velikovsky’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#velikovsky)). But the fringes are also where the real stuff is, the paradigm-busting stuff, the Epochal stuff, because orthodoxy (http://ahealedplanet.net/orthodox.htm#orthodoxy) has relegated it to the fringes, and efforts like ours, which also included my days with Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#meet), is on the fringes.

When I encounter free energy enthusiasts, they often remind me of how I might have turned out if I had not met Dennis. In a word, they are naïve. Naïveté (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive) is no crime, and my fellow travelers all began there, but we all lost our naïveté honestly, if we survived the experience. I don’t recommend that people lose their naïveté on the high road to free energy. That is a life-risking path.

When you tried to crunch numbers on those customer reports (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/128-Dennis-s-Heat-Pump-Performance?p=1520&viewfull=1#post1520), or when you write on how you can’t quite believe in free energy, I get glimpses of how far you have to go. Developing a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/121-Orthodoxy-the-Fringes-Structuralism-Conspiracism-Materialism-Mysticism-etc?p=1336&viewfull=1#post1336) is not easy. I groped toward it for many years, until I encountered Uncle Bucky (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller) and the lightbulb finally went on. Again, where you are today is an example of a key aspect of the free energy conundrum (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#summary). It is far from an easy hump to get over, but I’ll give you some homework that might help, and here goes:


Have a mystical awakening;
Go watch UFOs fly over;
Go vegan (if you have not already – many Indians are vegetarians);
Explore efforts in disruptive technologies, beyond reading about them (but carefully).


Some areas that I recommend staying away from are:


Snooping into the spook world (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/115-The-Spooks), beyond just reading about it;
Mounting a disruptive energy technology effort;
Beseeching governmental (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching1), corporate (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching2), “progressive” or “philanthropic” organizations on the free energy issue;
Telling one’s social circles the “good news” of work like mine, and the coming of the Fifth Epoch;
Mounting disruptive technology efforts in general, as they are highly risky, even leaving aside the organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) that attends various rackets (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/forums/21-The-rackets);
Being on the receiving end of media attacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/COP.htm#news) or experiencing organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr).


You have already done some of that list, and might have a little experience of my list of recommendations. I could write for many days on these issues, but there is nothing like being there. That is when the learning curve steepens insanely, so much so that you realize that if you have not been there, it is really hard to relate to. Experience is where knowledge comes from. That is why Adam (http://ahealedplanet.net/radio.htm#trombly) allowed Mark (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&viewfull=1#post811647) to approach him, as Mark had already been through that meat grinder a little. I have been invited to hang out with Adam, but he is too hot for me. The bullet would miss him and hit me. :) Even being around Dennis much gets too warm for me anymore. My wife dreads it when I see Dennis. Getting too close to the Sun is hazardous for one’s health.

But mystical awakenings or watching UFOs fly over have their pitfalls too, and people will discover what they are when they go do it. Lots of mystical and UFO/ET chaff, even fraudulent chaff. The same goes for disruptive technologies, and the free energy field is in arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested), so much so that I don’t recommend getting involved with it. Studying a little free energy theory is a good thing, but there are also many rabbit holes that can swallow you. There are many alternative physics models out there, with varying levels of validity (as if any of us can put them to the test). Sparky’s gizmo (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sweet) worked, so his paper (http://www.rexresearch.com/sweet/1nothing.htm) can be worthwhile to study.

The Silva class (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva) is a shadow of its former self, and I can’t really recommend it. I have heard good things about The Monroe Institute (https://www.monroeinstitute.org/), and maybe that is the way to go, but you can just develop a meditation practice, and that might be enough (and you are from India, of all places :) ), but I think that I can confidently say that without the Silva course, I might have never had my mystical awakening, and the rest probably would not have happened.

I have heard that with Greer’s courses (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=938&viewfull=1#post938), you can go out and film UFOs, as military planes pursue them. I plan to rewrite my James Gilliland essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm) soon. I visited The Ranch with a student in 2015, and will have a lot to say about the experience of being there. There is likely some chaff there, too (and a great deal of meat), and as with all areas like this, discernment is essential. On disruptive energy technologies, your interest in Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new) is a good way to stick your toe into the water. Nobody pursuing those technologies is doing it disruptively today. What Dennis did in Seattle (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run), or what we attempted in Boston (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#barnum), Ventura, and New Jersey (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting), was disruptive, but in Seattle, Dennis was not trying to be disruptive (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tickertape1); he naïvely believed the full-page electric company ads. What those extant heat pump companies are doing is probably harmless enough that it does not attract any organized suppression, and anybody poking into it can probably learn about their many challenges without risking their lives.

In short, if you go get a mystical awakening, watch UFOs fly over, explore some disruptive technologies (visit Portugal, talk with the company, its customers, see installations, collect data, crunch some numbers :) ), you will begin to close some of those gaps that all the book-learning in the world will never teach you. My students need to get over the hump of the Level 3 objections (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3) and “skepticism”, and come as close as they can to understanding that free energy technology already exists on the planet, developed to a commercial level, without getting the kind of show that my friend did. I had already closed all of those gaps that I refer to, due to my adventures, so that what my friend described to me (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) was no surprise at all (and I had heard of Sparky (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal) years previously), and when I told Brian, he nearly yawned and was actually more interested in my CIA-contract-agent relative (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#cia) than my friend’s show. You hang out with Greer for a while, and you will hear stories exactly like what my friend described to me, and I heard it before I ever heard of Greer.

Again, getting to a choir level (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) is not easy, and you are definitely one of my best students. What you do on my Avalon thread is close to the ideal of what I am looking for. You are doing the work. As always, your heart was in the right place (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), which is what launched you on your journey. You are doing fine. Just moving from a Third Epoch to Fourth Epoch society in one lifetime is big stuff.

As I have written, I have been told by people who would know that my practical vision of the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is like nothing else on Earth, I have been developing it for more than 30 years, and I know that I am only scratching the surface. I know that if I live to see the Fifth Epoch arrive, the learning experience will only begin, and that comforts me, to know how much is ahead of me. I look at my world today, even living in the Bill Gates Bubble (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates), and I regularly think, “And they call it civilization.” The Fourth Epoch will seem as primitive as living in a cave, compared to the Fifth Epoch, when humanity builds a Type 1 civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev). Our journey is only beginning, which is good news to me.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

So, if I understand your point, what you call education enables peasants to partake of Fourth Epoch benefits (sanitation, hygiene)? An educated peasantry will know what to do, or demand it? Please describe just how education helps. I have heard that the influence of industrial nations has been reducing those birth rates, as peasant women have decided that there is more to life than being baby factories, when they see how women in industrial nations live. Is that the effect of education? Again, I understand how cheap it is for basic Fourth Epoch benefits to get imported into Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) societies, and literacy (education) makes some sense for that. How is education the critical missing piece to begin the march of the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic) for peasant nations?

Again, raising life expectancy in Third Epoch nations, largely be reducing infant mortality, is cheaply done. Some of the Fourth Epoch’s benefits are easy to reproduce in Third Epoch societies.

When you say cheap I read it as cheap in terms of energy, other people would say cheap in terms of money. That line of thought is mostly incorrect. Educated mothers have lower U5MR than richer mothers. It is the ability to avoid disease and danger for their kids, ability to navigate the public health system etc.. that are crucial. In other words a change of behavior brought about by basic education.
Regarding sanitation and hygiene they know what to do, their voice also grows and they are less willing to accept status quo, definitely less deferential to alpha males and authority.

Yes women do choose to have fewer kids, all of the women younger than me that I know have 2 or less kids whether or not they work or are wealthy. None of them say I am following USA. This is why India is close to replacement fertility (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_union_territories_of_India_by_fertility_rate), the state of Andhra Pradesh where I was born in has 1.7 kids per woman. Apart from Hunger and Public Action the following papers have been critical in my understanding of the role of education

Education and Health:Redrawing the Preston Curve (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/padr.12141)
Global Sustainable Development priorities 500 y after Luther: Sola schola et sanitate (https://www.pnas.org/content/pnas/114/27/6904.full.pdf) the Q&A (https://www.pnas.org/content/114/27/6879) is interesting too

Also Routes to Low Mortality in Poor Countries (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1973108.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents)


Well, your post is the first that I have heard that low-caste Indians made it to the USA. Any Shudras (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shudra)?

I was just guessing the numbers, definitely members of the laboring classes have made it to USA. If you see Christian Indians (or their churches) in USA it is likely they have a lower caste background, in India they were known as converted Christians, and some of them were solidly part of middle class and well respected while I was growing up. Some of them were not respected as Sujata Gidla (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sujatha_Gidla) writes in her book Ants Among Elephants: An Untouchable Family and the Making of Modern India (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374537828/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0)


I have yet to hear from anybody who lives in India, or China, at least who identified where they were from.

On Indians having an easier time digesting my work, I’ll give it a big maybe. I’ll agree that Americans are brainwashed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#brainwashing), and when I see them fail to understand my work, it comes down to wanting to, and shedding our indoctrination is the hard part. I’ll agree that Indians’ heads would not explode when reading this part of my site (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#progress), as it does to Americans. However, there is a great deal of American-philia in many poor nations, even with our imperial bludgeoning of the world’s poor nations (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection).

Your email address is private, and there is a social distance between you and Indians I guess it makes sense that nobody from those countries contacted you. Also a lot of your writings are USA + Europe focused, which they regard as far from their lives and circumstances. As far as america-philia this is standard worship of power, which is universal, not an easy one to overcome but it can be done. When I speak with anyone in India they easily understand that UK is an empire, and I can easily persuade them that USA is one too.


I admit that the way that Dennis, Mr. Professor, and my father escaped the farm (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574) was through their intelligence and education, and in the USA, there was someplace to escape to, similar to how you escaped your peasant nation.

I don't see Mr. Professor, Dennis or your father as escaping the farm, I see it as a broad trend where people migrated towards energy that filtered down via cities and urban centers. Their intelligence had less to do with migration than you suggest.


Do you think that a Third Epoch peasant who begins sniffing the Fourth Epoch will more readily understand the Fifth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5)? I see Dennis stuck in the Third Epoch in ways, with his religious fanaticism, and not even he really understands what the Fifth Epoch means.

People who are educated can potentially understand the fifth epoch no matter where they are located in the world. The biggest issue I see is the lack of libraries, it is hard to do a deep dive into your material without reading underlying books.
Reading only your big essay and becoming a choir member is a possibility, but as you know it requires super human dedication. And those people are far and few.

Educated people already live in the Fourth Epoch no matter their material conditions, they have the same outlook and behaviors no matter where they live. All the indicators of modernity can be seen in India, from cohabitation, single parenting, attitudes towards sex, #metoo movements, demographic transition etc.. there is a time lag but it will close

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264438&viewfull=1#post1264438):

I’ll read up on your education links, at least those that I can get to (https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1973108.pdf?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents). On the low-caste Indians in the USA, thanks. Been reading up a little on them (1 (http://indianculturalforum.in/2016/05/24/why-dalit-matters-a-dalit-american-argument-for-the-inclusion-of-dalit-in-california-textbooks/), 2 (281938), 3 (https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/04/25/605030018/when-caste-discrimination-comes-to-the-united-states), 4 (https://nationalpost.com/news/we-are-zero-immigrant-says-she-cant-escape-sting-of-indias-caste-system-even-in-canada)). Interesting how Dalits found common cause with American blacks.

Mr. Professor, Dennis, and my father escaped farm life, and did it unlike any of their relatives. If you want to call it migration to cities instead of away from farms, OK, but I grew up around former farmers, including family members (that redneck side), and the smart ones like Mr. Professor, Dennis, and my father took advantage like none of their relatives did and moved out of their state of origin, playing in the bigs (NASA (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary), college professor (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr), whatever you call Dennis’s journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574) :) ). I saw it with my father, Dennis wrote about it, and I saw it with Mr. Professor, too, in that when they went home or hung out with their relatives, they remarked on how primitive they could be, almost like animals in ways, and it was easy to see that they were so happy that they escaped the farm. They saw horizons that those who never left could barely imagine.

Joe Bageant’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#boone), which you have read some of, discussed how the postwar boom (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#postwar) allowed a smart kid like him to escape hillbilly life. I have a close friend who did the same thing, and when she returned home to Kentucky, primarily to see her mother, it was generally a painful experience. She was the only one to escape, as the oldest child (as was Dennis, and Mr. Professor and my father were the only/oldest men in their families, which influenced their journeys), and after her mother died, she invited some of her siblings to her palatial home near Bellingham, and for them, it was like they went to Disneyworld.

The American family farm is an endangered species, as Fourth Epoch economics drove them from the farms, but few ever moved too far away, and usually lived in a nearby town and even one of them would live at the family homestead, but not to farm. I twice visited Kansas (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kansas), where my grandparents were raised, before the Dust Bowl drove them out, and Mr. Professor was raised on a Great Plains farm, and my company today has a factory in Kansas, and I have colleagues there who grew up on farms and work in a factory today. There is a certain “grounding” that I saw in my father, Dennis, and Mr. Professor, which I have attributed to farm life, especially when I hung out with others from the Plains. I have often wondered how much of their character was because of that background. I think that it had a lot to do with it. The Third Epoch was not all bad, but anybody who sniffed the Fourth Epoch’s benefits wanted more.

In my life, with how I have bounced around the USA, in my later years, I have been looking up people from my childhood, seeing what they were up to, and it has kind of been amazing how many never left their home town. Just yesterday, I looked up a childhood friend, whose mother treated me like a second son. I discovered that she died 15 years ago, a few years after our last interaction, and I saw that he has an office in the same building that I was a janitor in (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#janitor), and he got me that job, doing tax accounting. I was amazed.

On India and modernity, I agree that Fourth Epoch practices make their way into Third Epoch nations, especially the ones that are cheaply adopted (literacy, hygiene, sanitation), but India’s energy use per capita is less than 10% of the USA’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita). What perks of American life are not going to be had in India, at their level of energy usage? You have mentioned that India does not have public libraries of note, and I am sure that there is far more, which is ultimately rooted in the energy surplus. I know that when comfortable Westerners go to India, often on some kind of middle-class “pilgrimage” (which is largely delusional), they are shocked. I am sure that it is similar to the shock that I had when working in Skid Row (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&viewfull=1#post406928). It took me a month to adjust to it, but my drinking problems also began about then. :)

Many friends and relatives have traveled the world, lived abroad, etc., and it is not hard to read up on life in what we used to call the Third World. So many things that Americans take for granted simply don’t exist in those nations, like something as basic as travel safety. About a decade ago, a close friend visited southern India as part of his doctoral program, and like any American who goes there, his eyes were wide from the experience, and he is a globetrotter. He flew back from Mumbai and described his cab ride to the airport, as the cab literally ran over people on the way, as it seemed that the cabbie thought that getting there quickly would increase his tip. My friend sat in the back of the cab, horrified, as the cab ran over people and just kept going, as the chauffeur seemed to think nothing of it. That is a different universe from life in the USA.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

India is changing and what used to be acceptable is no longer accepted. It is part of joining the fourth epoch, I think the education effect is as important as the increased energy use.
I think that choir members need to be urban and have basic education. The exposure to different people may be a requirement. Small towns and rural settings might create conformity.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264892&viewfull=1#post1264892):

Yes, illiterate people can’t read my work. :) I have written that it likely has to be late-Fourth-Epoch people that can join the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). Otherwise, the echoes of the Third Epoch ring too loudly (organized religion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing1), patriarchy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#womenstatus1), violent solutions, playing the hero (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hero), etc.). Even Dennis drags around his agrarian baggage and does not really understand what the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) means. If people don’t have Fourth Epoch energy levels, they won’t really join it. Without the energy, the rest can’t happen. Without Fifth Epoch energy levels, the Fifth Epoch can’t happen (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#necessity). It will form the foundation. That is why I have no use for New Age (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage) and other ideas that are not rooted in the practicalities of our world. They often put the cart before the horse.

The developments that you mention - increased literacy, increased life expectancy, the liberation of women - were Fourth Epoch developments (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic). Some cheap aspects of the Fourth Epoch can trickle down into Third Epoch societies, such as some Fourth Epoch technologies and ideas, but Third Epoch energy levels mean Third Epoch societies that can be seen as cheap imitations of Fourth Epoch societies. At one-tenth of American energy levels, that puts Indian society at “advanced agricultural” on my table of the Epochs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable). What we are seeing, where agrarian nations (which almost without exception were conquered by industrial nations, with India’s experience being a primary example of it (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#bengal)) are getting some Fourth Epoch benefits, has not been seen on Earth for a long time. The last big time that Epochs met was with the Neolithic Expansion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#maledna), the Bantu Expansion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bantu), and some New World expansions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mesoamerica), which all happened prehistorically, so scientists try to reconstruct what happened. Generally, farmer men displaced hunter-gatherer men, and probably especially where the invading farmers were matrilocal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1). It would have been like the arrival of the bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1). What woman could resist? :)

Something like that happened in the Fourth Epoch, when Europe conquered humanity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2), and it was quickly genocidal (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#genocide) for the people of the Western Hemisphere and Australia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tasmania), but in the Western Hemisphere, the natives were more Early Third Epoch than Second, and the invaders were more Late Third Epoch than Fourth. That is why the matrilocal societies of the Eastern Woodlands (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mississippian) had such appeal for the invading Europeans (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#running). Those kinds of societies were long-gone in Europe.

For the Fourth Epoch’s meeting the Third, all agrarian nations easily saw the benefits of industrial life, and for those that could, they embarked on industrialization, particularly when Europe lost its colonies. But without Fourth Epoch energy levels, it really could not be accomplished. The Cold War as sold to Americans (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#kennan) was fraudulent, but there were genuine aspects of it, and the main one was that the Soviet Union presented a plan for agrarian nations to industrialize within a generation. Oil-rich nations that tried to chart independent paths of development had hell to pay from the American-led West (Iran (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#iran), Iraq (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#attacking), Libya (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#chaos)), while those that played ball have had a different ride (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, other Arabian peninsula oil states). The oil-price shocks of the 1970s stopped that industrialization of agrarian nations in its tracks, such as what happened to Yugoslavia (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#yugoslavian). The easy oil days (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eroi) are over, and we are mining the dregs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dregs) today.

My studies have shown me how various societies and cultures manifested the Epochal stages. There were differences, but the similarities were far greater (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up3). You can’t build hay-powered rockets to the Moon. Time is short (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth) for humanity to right the ship, and I am doing what I can. I doubt that newly educated Third Epoch peasants are going be able to help much with what I am doing. There are enough people living in industrial nations for me to fish for choir candidates (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), and that is what I plan to do. And the realities of what I do likely means that only English speakers, whether it is their native tongue or later, can help with what I am doing. Ah, the imperial realities…

Best,

Wade

[Chris Gilbert]

This will be an education post. I have long written about the many lies that I was raised with (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm). My business school “education (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice)” was largely an indoctrination into capitalism. Sure, I aced the curriculum, but what was I learning? I still make a living playing the capitalist game, but I also know that it is worthless, as far as helping right humanity’s ship. Getting the basic skill of literacy is not hard. Reading came effortlessly to me, but even my brother with an IQ of 80 or so can read and write. By age six, children can read and write, and they will have the basic toolset which they can use the rest of their lives. Literacy is not hard to achieve. Similarly, achieving numeracy is not hard. My 80-IQ brother could not add fractions, but nearly everybody else easily learned to. Getting a child through Algebra 1 is not hard, and as Mr. Mentor (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) once told me, hardly any engineer ever used anything past algebra in his/her career. All of that calculus and such, while good stuff, is not used in the real world of engineering that often, and certainly is not used in accounting. I have done a lot of system design and inventing in my day job, but never needed calculus. I used algebra at times, but that was it.

All that my formal education did, other than filling my head with lies, was provide me the basic tools so that I could navigate the world. My greatest learning experiences came in the real world, during my days with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708). The rest really was noise, even all of that hitting the books for the past 30 years (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=739&viewfull=1#post739). Without my adventures with Dennis, I would likely not have much worth saying, and I would have probably never discovered Noam and Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big), and even if I had, I probably would not have known what to make of it. It took being on the receiving end of the media’s lies for years (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=687&viewfull=1#post687) to prepare me for what Noam and Ed had to say (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv), and even then, it took me years to digest their message.

So, the education that really matters comes through experience, not the classroom. My schooling gave me some basic tools, along with a mountain of lies, which crippled my sense of reality. One week of Silva training (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva), or that booklet that saved my father’s life (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lessons), was more important than nearly all of my years of schooling, and the big class (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601) began when that voice told me to move to Seattle (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2). My tutelage under Mr. Mentor was a key aspect of my journey. Without it, I would have never embarked on it. But all that I really needed to learn was achieved by kindergarten (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#forgetting). :)



Due to possible dyscalculia, my wife has a hard time understanding fractions, along with how decimals/percentages are different ways of representing the same thing. Remembering budget allocations or time management is also hard for her without writing it down regularly. By contrast, while I'm not gifted by any means, I can remember such things easily. When buying groceries or budging, I can imagine numbers in front of me and move them around like legos.

On the flip side however, when I described to her the focus of your website, such as how large scale human endeavors function as cartels that take advantage of both real and artificially enforced scarcity, how people unconsciously attach to scarcity and why we don't have a better world, it makes perfect sense to her. She's read George Orwell and Huxley in the past, and understood them fully. I can't help but think that if she didn't struggle with math and had a full college education before this point, she wouldn't be able to understand me on comprehensive topics, as the academic indoctrination would have set in.

So, in many respects education is a double edged sword, people need enough to be able to make sense of complex systems, but not so much that they become indoctrinated. Spiritual practice can help, but only to an extent, I know plenty of people who meditate and do yoga or whatever, but still passively absorb what the MSM tells them. People really need to have transformative experiences, painful ones oftentimes, that are then coupled with the awareness shifts from spiritual practice for them to start breaking up the spider web in their minds.

[Krishna]

Otherwise, the echoes of the Third Epoch ring too loudly (organized religion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dancing1), patriarchy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#womenstatus1), violent solutions, playing the hero (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hero), etc.). Even Dennis drags around his agrarian baggage and does not really understand what the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) means. If people don’t have Fourth Epoch energy levels, they won’t really join it. Without the energy, the rest can’t happen.

At one-tenth of American energy levels, that puts Indian society at “advanced agricultural” on my table of the Epochs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable).


The early years have an enormous influence on life, I understand the pull of religion, patriarchy and they are mostly third epoch phenomenon. Playing the hero and violent solutions I see it as part of our evolutionary history, I don't see what it has to do with the Fourth epoch. In the tech world that I live in, it is called disruption and changing the world. The underlying sentiments are the same.

I looked at your table, India is at "Advanced Industrial" stage with influence from "Industrial Technological" stage. The per capita oil consumption of India is 1.73 I estimate that is equal 4 tonnes in 1860 given advances in technology. Age cohorts are also important, the younger generations are not newly educated peasants, they were never peasants at any point in their life, and directly jumped into an industrial life, be it service sector jobs or manufacturing or high tech.


the Soviet Union presented a plan for agrarian nations to industrialize within a generation.
The oil-price shocks of the 1970s stopped that industrialization of agrarian nations in its tracks, such as what happened to Yugoslavia (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#yugoslavian). The easy oil days (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eroi) are over, and we are mining the dregs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dregs) today.

My studies have shown me how various societies and cultures manifested the Epochal stages. I doubt that newly educated Third Epoch peasants are going be able to help much with what I am doing. There are enough people living in industrial nations for me to fish for choir candidates (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), and that is what I plan to do. And the realities of what I do likely means that only English speakers, whether it is their native tongue or later, can help with what I am doing. Ah, the imperial realities…

The soviet plan of industrializing in one generation would not have worked on its own, they also had a plan of educating the kids of peasants, given both conditions it could have worked. India with the temples of modern Indian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temples_of_modern_India) (dams) , China (Great leap forward), Africans nations building massive infrastructure projects were all huge mistakes.

Will there be choir members in India and elsewhere? The possibility exists, however the social distance is great. One advantage you have is the Americans are taken seriously in poor countries, which is why Chomsky got great reception in India. It is to be seen.

[Nine]

Let me set the stage for a play.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19gCLq-Zmnw

Play that file on youtube of Chicago's first album from the university of Chicago's jazz ensemble....

Then read this as I believe you can read these three files in 5 minutes or less to get the gist.


http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?104824-Bill-Ryan-s-personal-Question-and-Answer-thread.-Pile-it-on.--/page30

Remember this I developed talent for America's oldest institution.



Regards

Nine

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Chris (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264947&viewfull=1#post1264947):

Brilliant little post, as usual. In his last years, I told Brian O that the vast majority of people were scientifically illiterate, and that nearly all the rest were scientistically indoctrinated, and he agreed. That is the double-edged sword that you refer to. How to become literate without being brainwashed? It is not easy, as you know. Your post had me looking up scientific literacy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_literacy). I figured that my numbers were a little out of date, and according to articles like this (https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-public/science-literacy-us-college-courses-really-count), they were. I have long said that 5% of the USA was scientifically literate, and in 2010 it was supposedly 28% (tripling in a generation), but in the same article, they said that only 8% could understand the stem cell debate, so my number may still be close. If a person can read Hop on Pop, is that person literate? How many of that 28% were of the Hop on Pop variety?

Of course, while surfing on scientific literacy, I encountered the “skeptics,” who lauded Sagan (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#sagan), Randi (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#randi), and their ilk, equated resistance to vaccinations with scientific illiteracy, etc. Scientific literacy is a pretty charged term these days, and is used for various agendas. Yes, your wife was likely helped in ways by not drinking the academic/scientistic Kool-Aid.

I am currently reading Uncertainty (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400079969/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0), and those scientists featured in it were all youngsters when they had their big breakthroughs. Einstein, Heisenberg, and Bohr were all 26 when they did the work that won them their Nobel Prizes. Newton invented calculus at 22. Old enough to do the work, and young enough to bring a fresh perspective and do it before the ossification of their minds. Like NFL halfbacks, physicists are generally done by age 30, and if they don’t have laurels to sit on by then, they usually never will. Schrödinger was an old man in physics, at nearly 40 years old, when he derived his eponymous equation.

Einstein worked without math whenever he could, as he realized its seductions. I crunch numbers for a living, and I have written that I could have had a career in math, but likely an unremarkable one. Numbers are not reality. The so-called scientifically literate usually become Level 3s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3), if they ever hear of free energy, as they parrot the “laws of physics.” I was reading Greer’s stuff (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=938&viewfull=1#post938) some time ago, and he mentioned the free energy technology that was developed from captured ET technology, and one gizmo can power a flashlight or a city, depending on the setting. My pal saw something like that (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). That demonstration alone would blow the mind of almost any scientist who witnessed it.

On meditating and awakening, you got it. My list of choir-worthy attributes (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/52-Helpful-Prerequisites-for-Forum-Participation?p=69&viewfull=1#post69) was just something that I developed over many years and thousands of interactions, and seeing what attributes led to being on target and what led to getting lost in the weeds. I could probably have a thread of its own on awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309). My jury is still out on how necessary a mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=312&viewfull=1#post312) is for what I am doing, but all of my fellow free energy travelers that I respected had one, usually in their late teens or early 20s. It can’t hurt, and might be a key. Those towering physicists all had a mystical bent (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#mystical), which materialists hate hearing, and my experience is that their flashes of insight (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#flash) were very close cousins to psychic ability. Yes, meditating on Rush Limbaugh’s pithy quotes may not lead to enlightenment, at least directly. :) Waking up is not easy to do, and we have to want to. Few do, as they prefer the comforting fictions of their conditioning. It is just what it is (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1), and is understandable.

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264974&viewfull=1#post1264974):

I can tell that you were not raised in the USA, especially as a redneck. :) They are raised with the idea that they aren’t quite men unless they have been soldiers (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business). Third-Epoch hokum, but does it ever still play. Scarcity, scarcity.

You made me go back to my energy tables, converting numbers, etc. At 2,100 calories a day, which is the American average, India’s energy consumption per capita is a tenth of the USA’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita), or about 9-10 times their dietary calories, which puts India exactly in the advanced agricultural (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable) bucket. India is not an industrialized nation. My company makes industrial equipment, and we have a global presence, but we don’t sell to India (we tried). There is no market there for it. Our primary markets are North America, Europe, and East Asia. Nothing happening in Africa, the Middle East, or Southern Asia, and not much in Latin America, either. Those are the traditional colonized lands, and that has a great deal to do with their state today. The Middle East is a partial exception on the colonization issue, but they have not had their de facto independence since the West began meddling there (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#churchill1). We showed Iran, Iraq, and Libya who the boss was, and are doing it to Syria today, etc.

Yes, those attempts by China and India, to join the Fourth Epoch in those ways, did not work. On Africa, they never entirely broke free of their colonial masters, so their public works were usually boondoggles designed to enrich everybody but the peasants. The World Bank and IMF (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#imf) did not help, and they never intended to (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#neocolonialist).

If/when the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) comes, children will easily adapt, but it will take a generation or two before the chaff of scarcity and fear is finally winnowed out of our societies.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Nine:

I heard that Chicago’s guitarist was having a documentary done on him. I remember reading once that Hendrix said that the Chicago guitarist was better than he was, and then I listened to some of those early Chicago songs (I have a decent collection of them), and listened to him jamming. Not bad. :)

I read your Internet post. Yes, the potential is there, but is largely wasted today. Trying to take advantage of it while I can.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

It is anniversary time again. This month is the 30th anniversary of my life’s worst month (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#it). I got that job at the medical lab (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#experience) that same month, and the feds soon tried to wipe it out, and the media complied, as usual. The next month I met Gary Wean (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1421&viewfull=1#post1421), and his advice was critical in my sacrificing my life (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mortgage) to spring Dennis from jail, which worked (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=689&viewfull=1#post689), in the greatest miracle that I ever witnessed. I still look back at those days and wonder if they really happened like that.

I rarely identify people in my tale while they are still alive, but I will make an exception for Dennis’s first attorney in Ventura, who seems to still be practicing at age 85. Here is an article (http://articles.latimes.com/2000/mar/28/local/me-13329) that reports that he was cited for contempt of court for making gestures. What he did was trivial compared to Mr. Deputy’s performance (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#faces), which the judge pointedly ignored. That is more of that “selective enforcement” at work.

That attorney didn’t really provide Dennis that much of a defense, as he went along with the program, as the fix was in. Dennis had to badger him to argue to have somebody testify in court to the technology, as the prosecution paraded plants, dupes, and idiots (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#young) onto the witness stand, while Mr. Researcher had been driven in hiding by Mr. Deputy’s threats (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hiding). Calling it Kangaroo Court barely begins to describe it (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail). That was the vaunted American legal system in action. I don’t need to tell American Indian tribes (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#blueprint) or other American minorities how our legal system works; they know it all too well. On the international front, Noam has long said that the American disregard for international law is the greatest since Nazi Germany (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#kidnap). Ed noted the incredible hypocrisy when American politicians bring up international law regarding Russia (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#russia), for instance, while the media parrots them.

This month is the 52nd anniversary of my tour of Mission Control (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary), which was probably the peak of the American space effort. The Apollo 1 fire was the next month (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#apollo1). Brian was hired with a Mars mission in mind (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianbio.htm#mars) that summer (the Summer of Love (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_of_Love)), but the program was scrapped to pay for the invasion of Vietnam (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#early). I often think back to those days, and the incongruity of trying to land men on the Moon (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#apollo) while committing genocide in Southeast Asia (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#toll1). I was completely oblivious to those dynamics as a child. This year is the 50th anniversary of Mr. Mentor’s invention of his engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse), and around the 50th anniversary of his invention of the bomb that would destroy weaponry and not hurt people (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#justify3), which the Pentagon quickly suppressed. He was at that ripe age (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page15?p=1577&viewfull=1#post1577) of a scientist’s peak powers. Little did I know it at the time, but my arrow was getting ready for launch. I won Junípero Serra Elementary School’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#serra) first spelling bee in 1968, which showed where my academic career was heading.

This year I turned 60, and an aunt gave me a geriatric birthday card, welcoming me to the club. :) I hope that, like Uncle Ed, I have another 30 good years in me. I plan to keep on doing what I do, until I can’t do it anymore. We’ll see how it goes.

This year marks the 20th anniversary of my first publication of my Columbus (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm) and fluoridation (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm) essays, which were the first that I published in the effort that became my site today. I have had a continual Internet presence since 1998, after my initial foray in 1996-1997. I have assembled quite a little circle of pals from my Internet work. As I just wrote to Nine (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265061&viewfull=1#post1265061), the Internet has vast potential, although it has not nearly lived up to it. I am trying to take advantage of it in a way that I have not seen anybody else try to do, and we’ll see how it goes.

This year is the tenth anniversary of the most recent financial crash (http://ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#subprime), and when I finally realized that when I was with Dennis in 1996-1997, we were being set up by an elaborate sting operation (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting), as the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) took their game to a new level. A crisis that will dwarf the previous one is coming soon. We may be in the early innings of it. The insane cash-printing and negative interest rates by the world’s central banks is going to come home to roost. Of course, in the Fifth Epoch, money will become meaningless (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange), and it can’t come soon enough.

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

As with most significant advances in technology ... the Internet and other recent computation and communication advances based on electronic technology are used for both good and bad.

Bronze, iron, gun powder, dynamite, the printing press, electricity, sailing, improved wood, coal, oil, and nuclear engines for rail, shipping, and industry, ... so forth and so on.

Energy technologies for food production, mining, manufacturing, transportation, and the heating or cooling needed to live in inhospitable regions ... these energy technologies have a long history of influencing the level of development of human civilization and of driving major economic activity.

But materials technologies (stone, bronze, iron, steel, plastics, exotic alloys, ...) have also long played a key role, and computing and communication technologies are taking a more obvious role as well.

As a techno-geek by talent, trade and training, I look to advance (some tiny bits of) the technology, and to apply it in "good" ways. This presently includes a fair bit of time invested in a small Internet forum which you might have heard of.

[lrgoodger]

"On your learning curve, I’ll save it for the next post."

I was patiently waiting for that post when I accidentally found it on the ahealedplanet forum. I've done enough reading on the forums that I think one of the major aspects of what you are looking for is people who are well read on the human condition. While I can't claim to be in the same league as you and Krishna, I have read a great deal and had figured out the enslavement of the population simply by observing my surroundings.

It was obvious that the vast majority of people were struggling to get by while those who exhibited more to offer (middle and upper classes) were better compensated. While the uneducated or little educated cannot rise much above minimum wage, they can make a fairly decent living if they work hard, at least in the US. I have seen many slave away on the production floors of manufacturing facilities just barely getting by, and they just simply give up because they can't get ahead.

Those with higher intelligence levels combined with hard work and higher education can become middle and upper class folk, but they are still cogs in the wheel and mostly blind to the realities delineated in your essay.

Another aspect of your 'choir' is their level of spiritual awareness. I saw where you mentioned something about Dennis' 'religious fanaticism'. I listened to all of his recordings, so I know what you are referring to, but I couldn't attribute anything negative to his position. Everyone has his own way of connecting with 'The One'.

Personally, I have encountered pastors that span the gamut from outright shysters to genuinely committed. It is difficult for me to entrust myself to any of them, even if I think they are the latter. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that an entity exists, most call him God, that is responsible for everything we see around us and probably more that we can't see than do.

I've read the Bible through several times and can see the discrepancies between some of what is presented and apparent reality, but who am I to say? That book was written by men and not the Creator. The book may have been divinely inspired, but men are lacking.

Many passages say people are blinded and don't see truth until God allows it. I will never forget when He allowed me to see the truth of how the government, bankers and elite work together to control the people. I was literally in shock for several weeks because it was a direct contradiction to everything I was taught in school.

People are going to believe what they want to believe, regardless of whether the subject is the Bible, Free Energy, UFOs, NDEs, etc. Everyone has their own reasons. I think the trick here is not convincing anyone, but finding the ones who have arrived at the correct conclusions already. The information is out there, but who has dug long enough and hard enough to find it? Needles in haystacks indeed.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ron:

That was a great post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265166&viewfull=1#post1265166). Thanks. That learning curve post at Avalon was here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264365&viewfull=1#post1264365), at the top of this page. Not sure why you didn’t see it.

I’ll begin my reply by saying that Dennis is by far the greatest human I have yet met, and I don’t expect to find another like him. That voice (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2) shot its wad with me in this lifetime. :) Dennis has proudly proclaimed his religious fanaticism, and for a literalist Christian, he has Jesus’s message, love (http://ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#jesus), down about as well as I know. That would be a very long story, of Dennis and his Christianity, and like everything else about him, it is far larger than life.

I have one goal: helping manifest the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5).

I didn’t even understand the idea of a Fifth Epoch 15 years ago, much less when I got my first energy dreams (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse), when that voice led me on my journey, when I became Dennis’s partner (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=614&viewfull=1#post614), when the fireworks went off in my home town (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr), when I joined up with Dennis again (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting), or even when I completed the 2002 version of my site.

But, as I stumbled forward, the fog began to clear, and while no earthly perspective can ever understand it all, I see what I am aiming for, but one man can’t do it by himself. I played free energy soldier and had my life wrecked, while many lives around me were shattered and even prematurely ended. I was not planning on playing soldier, but that is how it turned out.

I seek singers, not soldiers, and I know that my approach will work, if I can find the people who have what an effort like mine needs (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), and yes, such people are few and far between (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), but I am using this new technology with a global reach, and we’ll see how it goes. The biggest event in the human journey will not be manifested on our lunch hours. What I learned did not come cheaply: it cost me my life. If everybody had to learn this stuff how I did, almost nobody would survive the curriculum, so I have designed a little course, to help people get to where I need them, so that they can help out.

Finding out about the evil in this world, in high places (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc), was not that surprising to me. I imagined them when I was 16 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dream), but those interests were far closer to home than I imagined. My big surprise was how virtually everybody fell into line, either worshipping them, denying them, or playing right into their hands. 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. You think that you know people, even your family members, but when you walk onto that stage, it is a whole other reality. I do not ask anybody to lay their lives on the line like that. This effort will be far more modest. It may help only a little, it may help a lot, and it may be the critical missing piece, but it won’t hurt anybody, although it may thwart some truly megalomaniacal dreams, and for that, I am sorry, but not that sorry. :) The dark path (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving) is not forever. All paths lead home.

Time for bed, but first, Nine, I saw your rant-a-thon before Paul so courteously erased it. I was laughing by the end of them. Calm down, young man! :) I understand your frustration, but Paul said it well (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265115&viewfull=1#post1265115), and I won’t add to it tonight.

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

Nine, I saw your rant-a-thon before Paul so courteously erased it.
I didn't erase Nine's post; rather Bill moved it, to here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105395-LUCIFER-in-the-Temple-of-the-Dog&p=1265103&viewfull=1#post1265103).

Nine: Just now I moved two more of your posts, from this thread of Wade's, to here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105395-LUCIFER-in-the-Temple-of-the-Dog&p=1265181&viewfull=1#post1265181) and here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105395-LUCIFER-in-the-Temple-of-the-Dog&p=1265182&viewfull=1#post1265182), for reasons best explained by Bill's post here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105395-LUCIFER-in-the-Temple-of-the-Dog&p=1265133&viewfull=1#post1265133).

[ThePythonicCow]

I am just a dude
Well ... I am using an option to block you from posting further on this thread of Wade's, and moving the two newest, latest, posts you just made here over to the same LUCIFER (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105395-LUCIFER-in-the-Temple-of-the-Dog&p=1265188&viewfull=1#post1265188) thread that Bill and I moved your previous three posts on this thread.

I have gotten the impression that you're singing to a different song than Wade is singing ... quite different.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Paul (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265185&viewfull=1#post1265185):

I thanked Bill (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?105395-LUCIFER-in-the-Temple-of-the-Dog&p=1265220&viewfull=1#post1265220). Thanks for looking out for me!

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Some odds and ends. Ed wrote (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#kennan) that George Kennan’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kennan) “containment” policy of the Soviet Union was a fraudulent rationale for the Cold War. Kennan’s diaries were published several years ago, which caused a bit of a stir (https://www.spectator.co.uk/2014/03/the-kennan-diaries-edited-by-frank-costiliogla-review/).

New branches of the Eukaryote tree of life (https://www.quantamagazine.org/what-a-newfound-kingdom-means-for-the-tree-of-life-20181211/) are being discovered regularly these days. The discoveries of that kind of diversity on those early branches, which stayed small organisms, will likely continue. On animals larger than microscopic, I doubt that much more of significance will be found. If the ETs come into the open (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ufo2), then a lot of evolutionary theory may be up for grabs.

There is plenty of ferment today (https://www.quantamagazine.org/a-self-aware-fish-raises-doubts-about-a-cognitive-test-20181212/) over the mirror test (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mirrortest).

A new paper (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181123135011.htm) argues that early hominins did not contribute to the demise of large African herbivores, but in my studies, I never came across any arguments for that. Those early hominins were not great hunters, and may have been the hunted more often. Even early Homo erectus (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#homoerectus) was not considered much of a hunter. It seems that only in the past million years did human hunting have a possible impact on large animals, and we only have much evidence of “man the hunter (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hunter1)” in the past half million years or so. My take is that the large animals of Africa and Eurasia had a very long evolutionary time to get used to those hunting hominids, and learned to avoid them. Other than what happened on the mammoth steppe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gravettian), humans don’t seem to have caused much in the way of extinctions of large animals in Africa and Eurasia, at least before the past 10,000 years or so. But in Australia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna) and the Americas (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#westernmegafauna), behaviorally modern humans quickly drove the large animals to extinction, as they had no experience of those hunting hominids, and were like lambs to the slaughter, and slaughter them people did. I’ll be updating my big essay on this subject.

Best,

Wade

[lrgoodger]

Hi:

It is anniversary time again.
This year is the tenth anniversary of the most recent financial crash (http://ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#subprime), and when I finally realized that when I was with Dennis in 1996-1997, we were being set up by an elaborate sting operation (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting), as the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) took their game to a new level. A crisis that will dwarf the previous one is coming soon. We may be in the early innings of it. The insane cash-printing and negative interest rates by the world’s central banks is going to come home to roost. Of course, in the Fifth Epoch, money will become meaningless (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange), and it can’t come soon enough.

Best,

Wade

This post pointed me to a couple of updated sections I had not seen yet. I figured you were on top of the fiat money issue, but I had not seen anything you had written about it. It's a scheme that goes exponential if they don't interfere on a regular basis to bring it back down briefly, but in the end an exponential can't be sustained and it has to collapse upon itself (such as the meteoric stock rise as Y2K approached - I made money on that knowing it could not sustain). You are correct about the impending monster crash. The signs are clear to those who know how to recognize them and I think it's getting really close now. Bob Schulz (We The People) told me personally that every time he got close to the money issue in court, they sidestepped it. He said he ran into a brick wall every time.

Your experience in court in Ventura is typical of what anyone bucking the system runs into. I don't remember the name of that law professor that said the US legal system is hopelessly broken, but he was right. I saw it first hand when I went to Grand Rapids, MI federal court to watch the prosecution of Dan Benham. It had been almost a year since the arrest of Chuck Conces on trumped up charges. A bunch of us went to the federal courthouse there in GR and protested on the sidewalk, because we knew Chuck was innocent. When I walked in the courthouse for the Benham trial, the IRS prosecutor greeted me by name. He had only ever seen me once at that protest (he came out and talked to us because we were making them look bad). That woke me up to the fact that he was watching me. They had been reading my posts on the WTP forums.

I had an internet presence even then as the Michigan State Coordinator for Schulz's We The People. While I was Coordinator in 2006, I set up the first screening in the State of Michigan for Aaron Russo's movie, America: Freedom to Fascism (well worth watching if you haven't seen it). It had only been screened in maybe half a dozen cities across the nation before we did it in Ann Arbor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLwHrxjPT5E

Dan Benham was trying to wake up people to the truth about the IRS, as was Chuck Conces, Irwin Schiff, Pete Hendrickson (whom I know personally) and many others. They put Pete's wife in prison because she wouldn't swear to something they told her to swear to that she didn't believe. That contradicts any concept of justice I ever had. Coerced testimony is supposed to be no good in ANY court, and here it was the court itself trying to coerce her. Her imprisonment was direct retribution against Pete for what he was doing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IagZzFIIymw

And in your search for people of integrity, you should read up on Joe Bannister, whom I know personally. He was an IRS special agent until he ran up against the challenge to prove the IRS had the authority they claim to have. He researched the issue in depth and couldn't refute what the so called 'protesters' were saying. He presented his findings to his superiors and asked them whether they were correct or not. They promptly asked him to resign. He did resign and began publicizing his findings and helping people the IRS was wrongly attacking. The IRS took him to court on multiple charges to retaliate against him and the jury found him innocent of all charges. Joe had left a trail so full of integrity that it was irrefutable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHP_doQ7jXI

Anyway, Dan Benham's trial was a farce that I witnessed first hand. I knew he was in trouble from the get-go because he had a public defender. The prosecution had bank records which they put on an overhead projector and testimony from undercover agents that had infiltrated Dan's meetings. All Dan's public defender had was a stack of papers Dan had given him showing all of Dan's research into the issue.

When Dan was put on the stand to testify, the prosecutor objected and was sustained almost every time Dan or his defender tried to speak. At one point near the end of his testimony, Dan, now very frustrated, kept speaking loudly after the judge sustained and objection, pointed to his stack of material and said directly to the jury, "It's all there! All you have to do is read it!"

I know for a fact you can't take a pile of material like that and read it in a few minutes and come to the correct conclusion about the IRS issue. It takes months, if not years of study. I have done it. There is no way the jury was going to get educated on the issue in time to help Benham. He was convicted not because he was right or wrong, but because the prosecution put on so much better a show. It was well presented audio/visually and was a more aesthetically pleasing presentation. Whether the material was right or wrong didn't matter. Benham was prevented from putting up anything that could be called a defense at all. To me, it appeared as if the public defender was not trying to have any impact whatsoever on the jury, which was what I had been expecting all along.

After Chuck Conces' death in 2008, I backed off from the IRS issue. After a while I realized that battling the IRS and battling the Federal Reserve was only hacking at the branches. There was a better way to put an end to them both at the same time. I had already been studying various FE devices and after spending some time contemplating what the effect of releasing such a device to the public would be, it was obvious. It would change the world. It would make the people independent. They would no longer need to go to a job to get money to power their homes or fuel their vehicles and would have power for greenhouses to raise their own food, if they wanted to go that far. Not having an income, the IRS would disappear. Not needing money, the Federal Reserve would disappear. It would be akin to cutting down the tree at the root rather than hacking at the branches.

One must be careful what kind of FE he releases to the public. In this physical realm, on this planet, any FE source capable of being used for evil purposes will be. Gravity wheels that could turn generators, or a self running generator would be good.

I believe technology exists that would allow one to anonymously release plans for an FE machine onto the internet. It would need distributed to as many computers as possible at the same time so that it would be impossible to erase it from all of them. Some type of peer to peer scheme would probably work. Once such plans were out there and verified, FE machines would be built in every town that had a machine shop that could make the parts, and they are everywhere in the US. I know a lot of guys like myself who have old CNC mills and lathes in their garages, and they would be able to make parts.

I believe it is possible to have an FE design that is simple enough to be made in these machine shops. It would be a basic design that required only wire and magnets in addition to the frame parts, or in the event of a gravity wheel, even simple frame parts could be made. More sophisticated designs requiring circuitry would require more advanced manufacturing facilities.

I firmly believe that such an event (free release of a working FE design) would precipitate the advent of the fifth epoch.

Ron

[Melinda]

There's been a great deal I've wanted to say re: some interesting posts and exchanges on the thread in recent weeks (...thank you Wade, Krishna, Chris.)

But for now, just a quick response...

Posted by lrgoodger, Post #7899 :

“While I was Coordinator in 2006, I set up the first screening in the State of Michigan for Aaron Russo's movie, America: Freedom to Fascism (well worth watching if you haven't seen it).”

Your whole post was an interesting read lrgoodger. Thank you.

Your mention of Russo's film took me back to my early research on the world not being what we're taught by the mainstream.

I recall viewing the film more than once, and also Russo's interview with Jones where Russo detailed being befriended by a well-connected billionaire who, prompted by Russo's political awakening, reportedly tried to seduce him to the dark side (you might say); exuding to Russo a fairly brazen 'you can't beat us so you might as well join us' attitude.

At the time I thought to run the film by someone close to me who had worked in banking at a fairly executive level. Feeling he may not have the motivation to watch the documentary I typed up select quotes from the film, printed them out and handed them to him to read in his own time. He came back with the response that whilst the information seemed plausible, surely if it were true then people would have brought a class action by now.

It's that kind of response that wearies me and makes me wary of trying to convert or engage anyone who hasn't already sought to lift layers of illusion for themselves.

Control of the world's money supply and circulation is a level of worldly power that people will literally kill for. It's that's simple. But there are easier or less lethal ways to deal with people before you start wiping them out, including threatening them, destroying their reputation, bankrupting or imprisoning them etc. Attempting (often succeeding) to destroy a part of the spirit, to serve as a living example to others of what happens if you choose integrity. The fact that I can see that and I haven't even been through the grinder, though tougher individuals seemingly can't, sometimes baffles me. But then I never underestimate the lies we are capable of telling ourselves when our ability to pay the bills, or even something as simple as our pride, depends on it. I also have tremendous admiration for some of the brave souls who have dared to take on that system and have their own mettle severely tested in the process.

The system is rigged, and conducive to people clouding their own minds.

So forums and threads like this, where you can speak these kinds of truths, without fear of a lynching, are an island of reason in an ocean of dissonance.

I was so inspired to find threads on the web that were openly calling for a discussion of Free Energy - the wide-reaching spiritual, psychological and material implications.

I still am :)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ron (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265309&viewfull=1#post1265309):

Many roads lead to free energy. Yes, the IRS boys are little more than schoolyard bullies, and the money issue is small potatoes and an egocentric distraction. The banks are part of one of the cartels (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/119-The-Banking-Racket?p=1264&viewfull=1#post1264), and in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), they vanish (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange). Mr. Big Time Attorney (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=691&viewfull=1#post691) based his career on taking on the IRS, and he cooked IRS personnel, in a case that was ruled on in the USA’s Supreme Court, which had relevance to our case. He mopped up the floor of the USA’s Supreme Court with the IRS, but he was nearly disbarred (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=702&viewfull=1#post702) over our case. Whoever was behind our persecution made the IRS look like street-corner hoods, and Mr. Big Time Attorney was put in his place, and he is still the foremost Constitutionalist attorney in the USA. I know all too well what Kangaroo Court is like, as did my fellow travelers (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1440&viewfull=1#post1440). You saw a little of how the system works, but I doubt that any of your tax/money activist pals were offered a billion dollars to stop what they were doing (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer) or kidnapped and given the underground technology show (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/108-The-Global-Controllers?p=1173&viewfull=1#post1173). How many murder attempts did they survive, and how many serial killers were assigned as their bunkmates (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mistakes)? Playing on that field is where the big lessons are learned, if you can survive the experience.

I need to make it crystal clear, Ron, that I have absolutely no interest in the inventor/tinkerer path to free energy. What you suggest is something that most free energy beginners think of. I thought of that, too, back in 1987, before I woke up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309). IMO, such approaches are all part of the field’s state of arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested). There is no army of honest and capable garage tinkerers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#guerilla), just waiting for blueprints, so that they can go make free energy devices for their communities. The technologies that I am aware of can’t be built in garages and workshops. Sparky (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) did develop something in his home that worked, but he was a career scientist at General Electric, likely got some help from high places, the way that he conditioned his magnets was dangerous (20,000 volts, etc.), and as Brian tried to educate the public on (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demonstrate), even Sparky’s gizmo was at least $100 million of development money from being commercially viable, and that is all before we get to the issue of organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). I am doing something radically different than encouraging would-be inventors and tinkerers to get involved in the free energy field. I get contacted by free energy inventors with some regularity. I don’t want to have anything to do with the free energy field today.

I grew up in an inventor’s workshop (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse), and my initial orientation to alternative energy was the inventor’s, but I left behind the inventor’s path about 30 years ago, and the businessman’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=710&viewfull=1#post710), too. Those are just some of the many dead ends out there (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches). The lucky ones got the Golden Handcuffs (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#payoff), and the not so fortunate ones had their lives wrecked or prematurely ended (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors). More than 95% never came up with anything worth suppressing. There is a mountain of chaff out there, the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) sequester the good stuff, and pronto (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&highlight=comings#post811647), so that what the public generally sees are the hoaxes, deluded inventors, etc.

By the time I was 30, I had strong doubts about such approaches, and after my second stint with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting), I was certain that they would not work. I have had no interest in them ever since, and I began heading toward my current approach (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), with a little detour in helping Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem). What I am doing is not easy to understand. Dennis and Brian immediately recognized (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=918852&viewfull=1#post918852) that I was doing something different, and theirs were the only opinions that I would respect on the subject. They had the right stuff and had been on the high road. Vanishingly few have.

Ron, can you leave that stuff behind? Retail political activism, taking on the tax/banking system: that is all hacking at branches, as you eventually realized. The exchange game is worthless for righting humanity’s ship. I regularly get approached by people who are dragging along the baggage of their journeys. Journeys can be fine things, if we are brave and keep our eyes and minds open, and keeping a souvenir or two for remembrance can be a good thing. When I get approached by people, and they almost always have their bright ideas that I long ago learned were not so bright, after all, I ask them to realize that their path may have taught them some lessons, but manifesting the biggest event in the human journey is not something for beginner’s bright ideas, especially when they have been tried thousands of times before, and sometimes by the best of the best.

My list of what hasn’t worked and why (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) is not something that I dreamed up one day, but is the fruit of a lifetime. I am doing something different, and Epochally so.

Best,

Wade

[lrgoodger]

Wade,

I left that stuff behind long ago. I only told the story to illustrate that I am well aware of how 'they' operate. While not at a life threatening level, I have witnessed how 'they' attack issues they don't want brought into general awareness. They are vampires, sucking the life blood out of the people via taxation and inflation. I finally realized that would go away if their power to implement those things were removed. FE is about the only thing that could do it without destroying the planet, at least in the physical realm.

I've had this question on my mind for some time now. Let's say you find your 1000 'singers'. How do they go about ushering in the fifth epoch and freeing mankind? NDE experiences tell us that we will get there once we leave these physical bodies, but is it possible to get closer in this realm?

Ron

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ron (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265372&viewfull=1#post1265372):

Part of that “stuff” is failing to realize that anonymously publishing blueprints for free energy devices, that some guerilla movement can carry forward today (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#guerilla), is a delusional “bright idea” that free energy newcomers often advocate. The GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) have surveillance capabilities second to nobody, and nobody playing in the free energy field can do it anonymously, at least anonymously from them. That is what I have called Level 7 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7) delusions, or the “sneak past them” strategy, and that hypothetical garage movement is the “stampede” approach (with a bit of Level 7), which I call Level 10 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10).

If and when the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) forms, it will provide a “ballast” that will protect and ground attempts to “do something (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#numbers),” and help steer it clear of the pitfalls (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches), and there are many (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls). Today, free energy inventors and activists walk through a desert of apathy and indifference (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#support) from the public, and if the public does get interested, they come for the show (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#conferences), to steal it (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#steal), to meet their social needs, etc. The organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) rarely needs to become very active or overt, as “nature” takes its course and the effort collapses from within, as people succumb to greed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#greed), fear, megalomania (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah), and so on.

You are handicapped, because you have dabbled in the free energy field and have been caught in its arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested). Once you get stuck there, it is not easy to extricate yourself.

I am going to make a post or two on what being on the high road is like, what trading notes with fellow travelers is like, and how we learned from each other. Mark’s (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&viewfull=1#post811647) and Brian’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#early) journeys are good examples of how naïve scientists (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#naive) got involved in the field, went through the meat grinder a little, and eventually woke up, but even they still never quite shook their backgrounds. Neither played at anything close to Dennis’s level (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany), and Dennis still drags around some of his baggage, for all that he has been through.

On NDEs (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#nde) and the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), I don’t consider this account (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748) to be fantasy. I have known psychonauts who made similar journeys, who then brought back earth-shaking inventions. So yes, the Fifth Epoch is attainable, and for ensouled species like ours (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age3), it is a sign of mastery. A common misconception is that enlightenment just happens on the other side. It does not work that way, and the hells of the astral plane (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#hell) are filled with clever beings. Love is the answer (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#greatest), on that side or this one. Love is the energy of creation, and I have the sense that if a society does not possess enough divine intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#divine) (AKA integrity, etc.), it won’t tap the zero-point field, or not for long.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am going to write what I hope is a fairly brief string of posts on what playing on the high road was like, what it was like to trade notes with fellow travelers, and what we learned from each other.

One problem with playing on that high road is that I don’t have the freedom to be nearly as disclosing as I could be, in order to protect people, both the innocent and the guilty. The highest councils on Earth debated what to do about us, on more than one occasion. Walking on that high road is like nothing else on Earth, and that asphalt was too hot for me, burning right through my shoes. Today, I play at a much more modest level of the game than my days with Dennis, and that suits me fine, but I still think that I can make a dent.

I could throw out names in my journey that everybody would recognize, but I won’t, again to protect people. I decided to reveal David Rockefeller’s name after he died (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888), but I don’t plan to reveal many other names like his. Some names I have purposely not learned, in order to protect people, including me. Some events, I have purposely not asked much about, such my close friend’s underground technology show (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), as my friend has not publicly discussed it, to my knowledge, and the people giving that show certainly risked their lives to do it. The last thing that I want to do is put people’s lives in jeopardy, putting them in the public spotlight, when they just want to quietly live out the rest of their lives. I have heard the names of the military officials who made their “offer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=847&viewfull=1#post847)” to Brian to do classified UFO work, immediately before the event that nearly killed Brian and shortened his life, but I flushed their names from my mind as soon as I heard them, and would not recognize them today. Brian was afraid until his life’s end that they would “finish the job” if he ever revealed their names publicly, and it was not an unreasonable fear.

I have named the names of some who died, such as John Spickard, Ron Waugh, and Joe Starr (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page14?p=1491&viewfull=1#post1491), who were good guys in my journey, and I recently named some who were not so good (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page14?p=1491&viewfull=1#post1491). Most names that I don’t reveal are easily discovered, as many are in Dennis’s books, such as Spickard’s. Some are not so easy. Ron’s and Joe’s names were known to nobody but me, as far as my journey goes, and I waited until they were dead before revealing their names. For anybody who does the slightest digging into my story, they will be richly rewarded with impressive facts, many of which I don’t publicly reveal. I downplay my credentials and pedigree in my public work. I am not that interested in establishing my credibility with the general public. For the people I seek (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#why), there is more than enough meat in my journey to sink their teeth into, if they do just a little homework. But like my thread on my lessons learned with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574), all of that high flying was only important to me if it helped us make a dent, and what I learned from the experiences. Our awareness is all that we take with us.

My grandfather (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kansas) was a poet of international reputation, and I probably have his genes to thank for my writing career. One of his sons became my father, and he has one of those very high IQs, probably around 160-170 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/70-Distinguishing-the-wheat-from-the-chaff-and-my-life-s-journey?p=102&viewfull=1#post102), and I am only the middle child, intelligence-wise, in our family. My father’s talents saw him recruited to work in Mission Control (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary), when those seats were probably the most coveted technical seats on Earth. I was only eight when I toured Mission Control, and I vividly remember watching the Gemini 11 and 12 missions, as Walter Cronkite talked them up (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite#Other_historic_events). At age eight, I sure did not fully appreciate the significance of what my father was involved with, but he made its gravity clear when he ceremoniously gave my brother and me his security badges from those missions, in December 1966, and I still have mine (http://ahealedplanet.net/NASA1966.jpg).

Several years later, Mr. Mentor’s engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) began making waves in the American government, and I first got my energy dreams. He showed me the original patent. It was an impressive document, with a ribbon on the seal. I was a scientific prodigy before that voice told me to study business (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice), and I got the highest test score on the national accounting exam in my university’s history to that time. It looked like I was going places, but my post-graduate years were not very successful (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&viewfull=1#post406928), and I felt trapped in LA, before I asked that voice for guidance again, and it landed me in the middle of Dennis’s company (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2). I don’t know of another story like that, and it is part of the folklore around Dennis’s efforts.

The day that I met Dennis, he spoke that evening at the Seattle Center (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601), with a thousand people or so in the audience, with several camera crews recording his speech. I was able to walk there from my grandparents’ home, and as I walked home, I had little inkling about what I had gotten into, but I knew it was big. For the next three months, I reconstructed the company’s accounting records. Little did I know it at the time, but I was reconstructing the records of the greatest attempt yet made to bring alternative energy to the American marketplace. I still look back on all of that in awe, wondering if it really happened that way, and my adventures were only beginning.

My first awakening moment was watching Dennis’s company get stolen, in a theft partly engineered by my boss, but the big moment for me was when the employees cheered when the theft appeared to succeed (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=604&viewfull=1#post604). They were many of the same people who gave Dennis a stand ovation for his speech at the Seattle Center.

I’ll never know just how much Dennis had drawn the attention of the Global Controllers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) (GCs) in Seattle, but when Dennis later learned that the Mormon Financial Empire was the biggest investor in Washington’s electric companies, and I later heard Greer say that the Mormon Financial Empire (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#mormon) was the current ringleader of the GCs, several pieces of the puzzle fell together for me, as Mormons were instrumental in wrecking/stealing both our Seattle and Ventura (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) companies, and Bill the BPA Hit Man (http://ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm) was definitely a GC asset. So, the highest councils on Earth may have convened early on about the threat that we presented to Earth’s power structure.

I became Dennis’s partner (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=614&viewfull=1#post614), in another series of bizarre events, and a few months later, soon after our first Greatest Energy Shows (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#barnum), we got the friendly buyout offer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=623&viewfull=1#post623), for what I now know was the standard $10 million. We were so ignorant at the time that we did not even know that there was a free energy field, and Dennis and I had not even heard of Tesla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tesla1) in those days. But I brought Mr. Mentor to Boston to assess what we were doing, and he not only did not pronounce it “impossible,” but he eventually proposed his own solution: marrying his engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#marry) to the panels (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#arrays) of Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new). The next thing I knew, Dennis moved the operation to my home town of Ventura, and the next two years were my life’s most eventful.

Those are the barest of facts of my journey, with salient moments punctuating them (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#why), and I can’t really convey what the learning experience was like. Every day brought new revelations, as we took the stage and they called in an airstrike on us (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr). Dennis should not have survived what happened (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mistakes), much less go at it harder than ever when he got out of incarceration.

My ego was challenged (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=622&viewfull=1#post622) early on, and I saw what just being in the vicinity of our efforts did to people. To this day, I have watched people go off the deep when merely brushing up against my work. The first several times that Dennis’s associates tried to steal the business, I was shocked (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#shocked), and Dennis told me to join the club.

Before we were wiped out, we became a Mecca for all manner of activist, from a rich windmill facility (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#windmill) owner to a platinum miner (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#platinum) to health activists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gerson) to tax protestors and Constitutionalists to a representative from the Japanese government to a close friend of the USA’s Attorney General (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#squeaky). The stories could be hair-raising, and before long, we became one more casualty of organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). I can no more convey that reality to anybody than Eugene Sledge (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#sledge) could convey what his life was like in the Pacific Theater. I got an education that you cannot buy, and only my Boy Scout idealism (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts) and youth allowed me to survive what happened.

As I staggered out of Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#books), with my life in ruins, it took years to begin to digest what I had lived through. Soon before I left Ventura, I heard about Sparky Sweet (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#sweet), and the next year, through another series of strange events, I met Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#meet), who was just getting his feet wet in the free energy milieu. Brian knew Sparky, and many years later, I realized that Sparky lived just down the road from us, and why were wiped out with such extreme prejudice began to make more sense to me. It would be another several years before I learned of the CIA’s billion dollar “offer (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer)” to Dennis, before they lowered the boom on us.

When you are on that stage, you don’t know just who might be watching, and my life took on a surreal quality in those days. My note-trading sessions with my fellow travelers come next.

Best,

Wade

[Melinda]

Hi Wade

I know I won't be saying anything new to you at all. But now and then I write to process, and explore the perspective I've grown from interacting with your ideas.

Post #7903 : “Hi Ron: Part of that “stuff” is failing to realize that anonymously publishing blueprints for free energy devices, that some guerilla movement can carry forward today, is a delusional “bright idea” that free energy newcomers often advocate. The GCs have surveillance capabilities second to nobody, and nobody playing in the free energy field can do it anonymously, at least anonymously from them.”

One of the issues that strikes me about this, is to what extent a 'guerilla movement' could even work (I'm not saying it would achieve nothing, just not sure how much) even before the general controllers chose to act on their surveillance data. Whether you're a tough individual with scars and years in the trenches, or a sensitive recluse with psychic insights, the temptation can still be the same to project onto others your own ideals and vision of their potential.

I don't doubt the scope of 'black project' level surveillance in existence, which is probably farther reaching than I've imagined (and I've imagined/considered plenty, including the remote reading of people's thoughts and energy signatures, not merely the scanning for FE tech itself.) Plus, everything I see in the world of technological development, suggests even the publicised technology with surveilling potential is only going to increase.

When the relatively mainstream domain includes a cultural figurehead like Elon Musk suggesting the incorporation of a “neural lace” in the human system, as a viable option for us to keep from being left behind by artificial intelligence - and when the the head of 'Facebook’s innovation skunkworks' openly talks about 'developing technology to read your brainwaves so that you don’t have to look down at your phone to type emails, you can just think them' :

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/19/facebook-mind-reading-technology-f8

then you know you are at the start of a century that is likely going to make 'hacking' human thoughts and even manipulating behaviour, even easier for those in control of exotic technology. Some people will be lining up for the privilege of being more easily hackable - which brings me to my point :

Even if we were talking relatively 'benign', low level energy technology that didn't tap the zero point field, I don't know how much faith I would place in people at large to facilitate the spread of new energy tech based on discovering that some guy in the next village had built one that worked which had reduced his energy bills, etc. People are largely conditioned to look to government and institutions to sanction aspects of daily life. Is the government / media saying it's safe? Well ok then. Has a big company picked up on it to make a fortune? Oh, then it must work. Is it trending on this or that social media? Etc.

I get regular reminders of this when I see decent, educated people clinging with passion to retail politics – choosing one party to side with over another, as the world goes to hell regardless of your government representative's good or ill intention.

Much as I would like to believe it is logical that a working machine would spread from garage to garage, it might take more than a few engineers/tinkerers in every town – it might take large numbers of visionary risk-takers who are both firmly grounded and decent at heart, and who see a bigger picture.

My concern (one of many) is that many people would currently deem those first to line up for a facebook 'thought reading' or a 'neural lace' as being visionary risk-takers. They are primed to have more time for that, with its sci-fi style associations, than an inventor in the neighbour's garage who is trying to buck the system by building an environmentally-friendly generator. They will be more interested in absorbing a foreign language into their brain in under a minute, thanks to a nano-tech or microchip implant, than in the notion that a new energy technology can radically rewrite history by being step one of dismantling the current political/economic system. (Dismantling it in a way that can empower individual freedom, rather than simply making slave life more alluring.)

Do enough visionaries exist yet? I'm really not sure. Could a choir made of the right stuff assist in spreading a frequency that could trigger more of that courage and insight in people? Possibly, it could. The idea that not enough people of that strength exist (and I could well be one of many who is lacking in it) doesn't put me off the choir idea. The idea makes sense. It is worth working towards. Short of a 'White Hat' or unlikely benevolent-alien public intervention, I'm not sure how else we would get there en masse. But, quite obviously, awaiting that intervention doesn't exactly pulsate with the kind of sovereignty that could underpin a healthy Free Energy culture.

Even when I look back through stories of people with vision and talent, who were, by my humble standards, exceptional, I still see the pitfalls of them being too close to one particular line of thinking that held them back. In the past you've cited inventor Spark Sweet as one example – how he thought he would send off his radical invention to a big company and they might crave the fruits of his genius and market it to the world. Brian O'Leary, even with the added dimension and maturity as a scientist that came from his openness to the mystical realms, still tried banging on the doors of politicians.

I've written a few letters to politicians over the years. Perhaps as a form of prayer, disguised as a written-word appeal lined with facts of any given case. But I visited parliament as child and the energetic vibration was, to my senses, akin to a thick swamp, however deceptive its surface shine of material power. That level of vibration is not a foundation for radical change with the good of mankind at its heart.

I don't blame Brian O'Leary for trying. If anyone was qualified it was arguably him. Though I can't help but wonder if, looking back on his life at the very end, or after passing over, he considered what route he would have taken if he'd known better sooner. Perhaps it would have involved helping increase support for your own idea.

If I recall correctly, Brian, with all his experience, talked about how to bring decent FE tech to the world it would take possibly as much as tens (or was it hundreds?) of millions of dollars of research/development. In an era of corporate mass manufacture and consumers used to money-back guarantees, would the masses get active at spreading tech for anything of a lesser standard? I don't know. I tend to doubt it. Not every part of the world has that corporate-consumer relationship infused into daily life, but are developing nation populations really more likely to start a grass roots movement of tinkerer technology, with (arguably) even more survivalist pressures in their environment than their 'developed' neighbours? I have a hard time picturing that. Purely based on what I see of human behaviour throughout what I know of history, and day to day.

I would love to be proved wrong. If I was proved wrong I would celebrate immediately. If the whole of India, or the African continent, came to life with the spread of water-fuelled cars or advanced solar panels forged in the mud-huts, I would smile my way over there to reach for a glimpse.

But to address another layer :

One of my favourite aspects of what has been discussed on this thread, is the idea that zero-point technology taps into a field that is closer to divine source, to a fabric of creation - and that to access that we need to raise our own frequency in a way that is not only sustainable but rooted in a heavenly frequency. The joy of mutual respect, collaboration, and love for another as children of a divine source. Personally, I think that people who read that as hippy sentimentality are missing the point. And perhaps it is precisely because we keep missing the point, that we keep missing the mark in bringing this kind of tech into the public realm for safe development and sustainable use.

Maybe a few people can (and already have managed to) get off the grid, under the radar of the masses (not the GCs), with original tech beyond solar and wind. But for a tech to be radical enough, and spread wide enough, to drastically alter our collective future and our legacy on this planet for the better, we likely do need a wave of thinking and being to manifest that is radically different – strong enough, and bold enough to set a tone that can start to lift us all out of the old ways of thinking.

Imagining zero-point tech because (unlike a more basic FE tech) it could fly us off the earth, isn't the big attraction for me. Though I see that as a longer-term practical aspect. We're again, probably missing the mark if we think flying off into space is going to solve our problems or quench our thirst. It's picturing the culture of freedom and creative harmony, of bliss and deep felt sense of responsibility here on earth - that could be realised from that kind of advanced technology - which enables me to picture a realm made of more heavenly intent. Like invisible colours on the canvas of our future world. A higher range of frequencies through which to function.

Even if the first kinds of tech to be delivered to society are far less revolutionary, understanding the potential of where the FE path can lead nourishes the part of me that grows my understanding. Perhaps it's because, unlike water as fuel, or a far more efficient solar panel, the zero point tech resonates with the inbuilt technology within our own bodies as spirit incarnate. What you have called a level 19. A level some taste glimpses of with telekinesis and manifestation. In that sense it is the most other-worldly and potentially most spiritual of the technologies to contemplate, of those that I know.

(If we could get to level 19 only contemplating and utilising solar panels, that would also make me smile. Just not quite sure how likely it is, given the breadth of the clean-up and rebuild ahead of us.)

In fairness, my definition of a zero-point technology may be very different to that of a seasoned black project employee who has worked with it or with something close. But when I choose to see it as I do, it is divine in both nature and potential. A wonderful place to gaze to inspire our visions, even if those result in a humbler technology as we take our early steps. A wonderful frequency to infuse into our creations. From our interactions with each other, to our tiniest machines. I suppose it comes down to - whatever we are creating, what is our intent?

There is simply something about contemplating that tech that I find healing. Somewhere in my mind it takes me to a place of creational foundations. Like an original blueprint in my soul – resonating with our highest potential.

And thank you for not minding my sharing this. Because I have nowhere else to go with it. When it comes to this topic, for the most part, nobody's home.

[lrgoodger]

Wade,

I figured you might feel that way about the free energy release. I would be more concerned with a Floyd Sweet system or even a well running magnetic generator. The GCs would track those down in short order. I was thinking more along the lines of a working gravity wheel. No one seems to have done one yet that works. It would be useless for vehicles, but it could be coupled with a conventional generator to irrigate fields. I doubt the GCs would spot that, and it could be a huge benefit to backward irrigation systems.

Ron

[Wade Frazier]

Melinda (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265453&viewfull=1#post1265453), that was your usual brilliant, soulful, poetic self. Santa came down my chimney a little early this year. :)

You are one of the few who has an inkling of what I am attempting. More than an inkling, in fact.

Ron (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265458&viewfull=1#post1265458), my goal is not making something that the GCs can’t see coming. The entire “sneak past them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7)” idea is not only delusional (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#guerilla), but that approach carries the seeds of its own destruction within it. I hated the secrecy game when Dennis played it, and I will never do it again. That we played secrecy games meant that our effort was doomed.

As I have written, what I am doing is not easy to understand, especially for those who are somewhat familiar with the free energy field. Todays’ free energy field is rooted in its super-Epoch of scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested), and only recently have some enlightened ideas begun to creep into it, such as open-sourcing and giving it away (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#utopia).

The GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) are going to see what I am attempting from a million miles off. They are watching me today, and have not forgotten about me. I thwarted their plans and gave them some interesting days in the office. But they hide in the shadows, and can’t be beaten at their game. My effort is not going to happen in the shadows. It will be in full view of anybody who wants to look, and if that choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) is built, and it forms the foundation of an effort to “do something,” the GCs will simply slink away, but that is why I need at least 5,000 singers and 100,000 who will do something. Much less will be easily defeated. The only approach with a prayer, as far as I see, is an inventor with the goods giving it to a worthy group, which can bring it to the world. I have never seen an inventor with the goods willing to give it away, and that worthy group does not yet exist. My efforts can be seen as trying to help build it. Free energy inventors are common enough. What I am doing is the unprecedented part, and if not me, then another, but the approach will work.

The hard part will be building the choir, and especially the first singers, as they have to develop an Epochal perspective, which is comprehensive (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing), abundant (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance), and based on love (http://ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#jesus). Today, virtually nobody on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle) can even imagine (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine) what I am referring to, nor do they want to. It is just what it is, and I accepted that long ago (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1).

If a harmless (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping) implementation of free energy arrives for public use, and as Melinda noted, it needs to be commercial-level, where people can just have somebody plug it in (Dennis’s heat pump programs (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs) were along that line), and they even get it for free, then the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) will arrive, and almost nothing of today’s world will survive, including all dominant ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant). No societal institutions will survive, or those that do will not be recognizable. Nations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nations), cities (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cities), races, money (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange), and the like will vanish, and not coercively. Nations, cities, and money will be seen as mere artifacts of scarcity and will be set aside, as a child no longer needs training wheels when he/she learns to ride. Humanity won’t become enlightened overnight, but eliminate scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming) as the background hum of human societies, and the human potential is going to flower in ways that are hard to imagine today.

It is time to hike with some pals to a Christmas tree on a mountain trail. I hike past that tree all year long, but this time of year is the special time, and one pal adds an ornament each year, and I may go again on Christmas morning.

Ho, ho, ho,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

If I think about note-trading, in my early days, I was a pure student, sitting at the feet of Mr. Mentor (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) and others, learning from their journeys. When I was in Seattle with Dennis, the first time that he and I were together, privately, was when I drove him home one evening, probably in May 1986. I worked late every night, which has been a career-long pattern. To this day, I usually do not arrive home from my workday until 7 PM or so. One evening I was working in the office late, Dennis needed a ride home, and I was happy to give one to our fearless leader. On the way to his home in Bellevue, he proceeded to tell me about how his employee died (http://ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#death), courtesy of Bill the BPA Hit Man. It obviously had a great impact on Dennis. I was getting imbued with the reality of Dennis’s pursuit, and free energy was not even on the table in those days, although Dennis had recently visited Joe Newman (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Westley_Newman), which was the first time that Dennis or I had heard of the idea of free energy. In making that link to Wikipedia ( :) ), I just learned that Joe died in 2015. Yes, Joe was the person who thought that he was The Second Coming (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#_edn3). That is just one of numerous cautionary tales that I could tell about the free energy pursuit.

During that glorious summer of 1986 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=605&viewfull=1#post605), Bob Van Der Mass (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page14?p=1491&viewfull=1#post1491), AKA Mr. Inventor (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), gave me my first inkling that maybe inventors weren’t heroes (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#alpha), after all. I just drank it all in, and it helped with my evolving awareness. When I got to Boston later that year, I spent days watching videotapes (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=613&viewfull=1#post613) that Dennis recently made about his journey, and during that winter of 1986-1987, on many nights, I sat late into the night with Dennis in our living room. As Dennis watched TV, he told me his life’s story. I became his partner in January 1987 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=614&viewfull=1#post614), and he saw me as his heir apparent early on (but nobody else can do what Dennis can, least of all me), and I got to hear about his life that winter, including his Southeast Asia days (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page9?p=778&viewfull=1#post778). To Dennis, his life’s unbelievable journey was just what happens when you follow your heart. I just soaked it all in.

Very early on in our partnership, we were approached by all manner of people, putting on our Greatest Energy Shows (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#barnum) and trying to get something going. Dennis got the red carpet treatment from the most powerful electric company executive in New England (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/81-Vignettes-from-my-journey-and-how-I-learned-what-I-did-and-came-to-my-approach/page3?p=248&viewfull=1#post248), we got the friendly buyout offer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page3?p=623&viewfull=1#post623) from what I now know was the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc), Dennis began hearing from the “White Hats (http://ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#white),” and we got visited by activists who had tried to make a dent, particularly in the energy field, and I began hearing the stories. That just a gentle prelude to what we experienced in Ventura later that year, as our business took off.

The rich windmill facility (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#windmill) owner and platinum miner (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#platinum) stories that came to us were just a fraction of what we heard in those days. Dennis always catered to inventors, and we were deluged with inventors and their inventions. The documentation on many such inventions was what the deputies stole in the raid (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#raid), and Mr. Researcher was never the same (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#espionage) after that. One common theme was inventors who had their inventions seized under the national security laws (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patent). We heard stories of those battles. The feds did not always prevail, but it became evident how easily the government could seize inventions, and as Ralph McGehee discovered the hard way (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#secrecy), invoking “national security” is a great device for covering-up crimes. A pretty low-level military official (bird colonel?) could sign those seizure orders.

We also heard of murdered activists and the untimely demises of free energy inventors, and most of it we heard before the raid. It was deeply impacting to watch people tell what they lived through. The leader of the paralegal group that helped us after the raid, to prepare our civil rights lawsuits against the deputies, told us about murdered members of his organization, and how their home was set on fire and bulldozed while they were at church on Sunday morning. That was in Montana, and it presaged Dennis’s involvement in the Patriot Movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#libel).

I am attaching a picture from the show that we gave on January 12, 1988, near our office. That was the show that Mr. Deputy (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#deputy) attended, and he readied his search warrant the next day, and the day after that (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=660&viewfull=1#post660) began my life’s worst year. I think that my friend Lori (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=911212&viewfull=1#post911212) took that picture, as I was chatting it up with some members of the audience.

In my fateful meeting with Gary Wean (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1421&viewfull=1#post1421), I was 30 and he was nearly 70, and I just took it all in. His advice was critical in helping me spring Dennis from jail (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mortgage), in the greatest miracle that I ever witnessed.

In my first stint with Dennis, while I was building my story, I lapped up the tales of those around us. I did not really have many notes to trade in early 1986, but after I staggered out of my home town in 1990 (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#books), I had more than my fair share of them, you might say. :)

When I met Brian the next year (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#meet), I was still in listener mode and trying to heal the trauma of my adventures (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#therapy). If I think about it, the first time that I really traded notes with a fellow traveler, and we had important notes to trade with each other, was my fateful meeting with Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sacramento), after our “meeting (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#sacramento)” with the California governor’s energy advisors.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

When Brian and I had our momentous note-trading session in August 2001 (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sacramento), it was more than five years since I became the biggest fan of his Miracle in the Void (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#miracle), and I arranged for him to meet Dennis at a New Age expo in early 1996, when Dennis was barnstorming the USA (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page9?p=803&viewfull=1#post803). I was interested in how Brian’s ride as the Paul Revere of Free Energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#revere) went. Brian had the kind of access to the tops of the world’s leading scientific, academic, political, and progressive organizations, including environmental (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#environmentalists) ones, that I’ll never have, nor did Dennis. Brian then launched into a litany of crazed responses (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions) from the world’s leading scientists and “progressives,” such as Lester Brown (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/73-Darren-Geffert-s-introductory-posts?p=130&viewfull=1#post130). Brian ended it with the observation that humanity might not be a sentient species (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience). I asked about that elderly free energy inventor that I asked Brian about a decade earlier (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sweet), and Brian told me about Sparky’s grim last days (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky). During that session, I told Brian about my pal’s underground technology show (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), and Brian was not even surprised, saying, “So, he got a show from the spooks.” He was more interested in my close relative who was a CIA contract agent (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#cia), who served on the secret team of a household-name diplomat.

Earlier that day, I met Mark (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&viewfull=1#post811647), Hal Fox (http://www.infinite-energy.com/images/pdfs/HalFox.pdf), and other free energy activists, and Mark’s reaction to my presence was interesting. When Brian got out of my car when we met Mark and other free energy activists, Mark walked up to me and said, “Who are you?” He said it in a way that made it clear that if I did not have some impressive credentials to deliver him, and pronto, that I probably was not going to be hanging out with them for long. But when I said that I was Dennis’s partner, I had instant credibility. Five years earlier, Mark lived in an intentional community that was hoping that Dennis could deliver free energy. In my note-trading session with Brian later that day, he told me about some of Mark’s adventures, and the story was familiar, of his betrayals and traumas. Mark lived out in the wilderness for some time, trying to come to grips with his experiences. Two years later, I heard Mark tell a brief version of his adventures in free energy, and how he was rudely disabused of his “sneak past them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7)” approach. To his credit, he realized that he was in way over his head, and never tried that naïve approach again.

Brian’s and my note-trading sessions during that trip were a big part of his inviting me to help him found the New Energy Movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem) a couple of years later. I hosted Brian at my wife’s parents’ home that night (and we had a very pleasant dinner at a local restaurant, and Brian was nearly euphoric, talking with me), and the next day, before taking him to the airport in Sacramento, we visited a yoga center (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Life_Society) that Brian was a celebrity member of, as he visited and spoke at that organization’s facilities globally. I got to experience Brian the Rock Star for the first time, and he handled the role with aplomb. That picture of Brian and me (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm) was one of my long-armed selfies, taken at that yoga facility.

I had two stints with Dennis under my belt by that time, and nothing that Brian or Mark could tell me was very surprising, but it was informative to hear them tell their stories. It helped flesh out the picture that I saw, provide testimony to contours of the situation that I suspected was the case, which they only confirmed. My list of dead-ends in the free energy field (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) was developed over many years, primarily from my days with Dennis, but people such as Brian, Mark, Gary Vesperman (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/89-Free-energy-psychic-abilities-and-the-skeptics-and-debunkers/page2?p=438&viewfull=1#post438), and other fellow travelers provided grist for my mill, and I encountered a great deal of secondhand anecdotes about the journeys of Greer (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#greer), Trombly (http://ahealedplanet.net/radio.htm#trombly), and others, the kind that the public is often not privy to, which also helped paint the picture that I see today.

In the late 1990s (http://www.cnn.com/US/9901/12/planetary.executive/index.html), Joe Firmage founded a company in Silicon Valley that Mark worked at, as did others in the free energy milieu, as they pursued free energy technology. Firmage used to have a Wikipedia article, which has since been erased, but here is a copy of it (http://www.thefullwiki.org/Joe_Firmage). I followed their effort when it happened, and I later heard from members of the organization about how it got taken down from the inside, infiltrated by people who were similar to Bill the BPA Hit Man (http://ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm) and Ken Hodgell (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). That is a typical story in the milieu.

My experience with Ed’s bio at Wikipedia (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368) I think conformed to Ed’s Propaganda Model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing) more than it did a conspiratorial explanation. However, like Ed, I do not deny that conspiratorial behavior does occur at Wikipedia, and it appears to have been captured by the intelligence community. I have been impressed with how references to free energy and its advocates have been erased at Wikipedia. When that rude admin swooped in and erased my contributions to Ed’s bio, he also erased all of my contributions to Brian’s bio, including all mention of free energy, while calling my work a “f**king mess.”

While Firmage was erased at Wikipedia, they didn’t erase all of his companies, so that people whom he hired have Wikipedia articles on them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Universe), while Firmage’s was erased. Mark’s wife has a Wikipedia article on her (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Targ), which does not even mention that she was married. I have already written how entire sections of talk pages on free energy were erased (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1536&viewfull=1#post1536), so that the subject nearly does not exist at Wikipedia, and anything that does survive is usually disinformation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Edward_S._Herman#Philip_Cross%E2%80%99s_edits), similar to how Ed’s bio looks today.

Firmage was from Utah and mounted his efforts in California, which are arguably the two worst places on Earth to try such efforts. That Sterling Allan (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1550&viewfull=1#post1550) is also from Utah really makes my eyebrows rise. Those states are the heart of darkness.

At an NEM board meeting in December 2003 (in California, of course :) ), I got to hear Mark tell an abbreviated version of his story, and listened to him for an hour or so, discussing his free energy efforts. Mark was connected. Because of his background and Boy Scout demeanor, he knew almost everybody of note in the free energy milieu, similar to how Brian did. Because of Mark’s background, Adam Trombly allowed Mark to interact with him, and Mark brought Greer to Adam, as Greer begged Adam for the rights to his technologies, but Adam refused. Mark talked about how bizarre hanging out with Tom Bearden was. I met Bearden (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bearden) five years previously, in 1998, and his descriptions of the Game Theory tactics of the GCs was not surprising, but it was informative, and it was not until 2008 that I finally realized that when I had my second stint with Dennis that we were subjected to the same kind of sting operation (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting) that nearly nabbed Bearden. That is an example of where I would trade notes, but it could be a decade later when the full implications of what I heard became clear. That is also a common phenomenon in the free energy and related milieus. Brian did not figure out what really happened to him (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=847&viewfull=1#post847), immediately after the military’s “offer” to do classified UFO work, for years afterward. Similarly, it was not until Mark began working in other free energy efforts that what happened to him at Berkeley and in Southern California began to become clear to him in the big picture, and he realized that he was like a kindergartener who ran onto the field in an NFL game, thinking that he could run the ball into the end zone.

While listening to Mark talk that evening, most of what he told, of activists having their facilities cleaned out in raids, murder attempts of free energy activists, and other outrages, were very familiar territory for me. But my pal’s underground technology show is still the only one that I have heard of.

When Greer mounted those secret Congressional UFO hearings in 1997, with Ed Mitchell beside him (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page3?p=416&viewfull=1#post416), I followed the situation with interest, and it was no surprise when he and other members of his team came down with strange and advanced forms of cancer soon afterward. I sent alternative cancer treatment information (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#suppress) to his assistant, but she died a few months later (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#adamiak). Years later, I heard Greer’s Disclosure Project witnesses describe technologies that were just like what my friend described from his underground show. That is some of what garnered Greer credibility with me, as has recent reporting of the kinds of antigravity demonstrations that the GCs can give (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=1355&viewfull=1#post1355). Brian was right in the middle of Greer’s Disclosure Project efforts, Greer spoke at our NEM conference, and I had my wife man the conference sign-in desk so that I could hear Greer speak, and he did not disappoint (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#payoff). His testimony neatly fit with my experiences on the high road with Dennis. Greer is damaged goods, IMO, as he never quite recovered from the events of 1997-1998, and those who knew him said that his personality changed dramatically after that. Whether that was just from the trauma, or whether he had other psychotronic influences, is kind of an open question for me, but I have also seen Greer’s approach to the free energy issue evolve. Back around 2001, he demanded dictatorial control of any free energy efforts that he was involved with, to eventually advocate open sourcing anything that was developed. But his approach, even today, surprised me with its naïveté, such as his $100K reward (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=729&viewfull=1#post729) for free energy inventors to deliver the goods.

Again, I am just hitting the highlights, of trading notes with fellow travelers who played on the high road, hearing firsthand and secondhand testimony, and digesting it over many years. I began putting the puzzle pieces together from age 16, when I first got my free energy dreams (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse). My years with Dennis were the big learning years, the kind that I won’t have again, but it was educational to hear from fellow travelers, as they helped fill in some of the contours of what I learned. In ways, it was kind of like how I approached the JFK issue. If information aligned with Gary’s reporting of the John Tower conversation (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398), I paid more attention to it, and I never saw an important piece of JFK evidence that really contradicted Gary’s reporting.

When I traded notes with those people that I mentioned, or heard from fellow travelers on inside details of events that I had heard of, they almost never contradicted what I learned from my days with Dennis. They usually added to the repertoire of anecdotes that I had heard, which only further fleshed out what I learned. For instance, it was no big surprise to hear how Brian’s ride as the Paul Revere of Free Energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#revere) went. After my first stint with Dennis, I began contacting “progressives” and others myself, such as Uncles Noam and Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv). I never found any takers. I tried to introduce Ed to Brian, three or four times, including during my NEM days, but Ed was never interested. I got the polite brushoff from Noam a decade earlier, and my interactions with Richard Heinberg (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm) and other “progressives” was an eye-opening experience for me. Not only was nobody home on the free energy issue, they often treated free energy like the enemy. The best that I would get was a Level 4 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level4)-ish, “Wake me up when you deliver free energy to my home (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#awaken).”

So, when I heard from Brian, Mark, Tom, and others like them, they largely only confirmed aspects of what I had already learned during my own journey. So, their testimonies gave them credibility with me, as it aligned with my experiences and often helped explain situations that I had been in. There is more to come on this subject.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Hello Chris, Ron, Melinda,
Its great to hear you on this forum.



Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264974&viewfull=1#post1264974):

I can tell that you were not raised in the USA, especially as a redneck. :) They are raised with the idea that they aren’t quite men unless they have been soldiers (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#business). Third-Epoch hokum, but does it ever still play. Scarcity, scarcity.


Yeah, I have an urban upbringing and I don't fully understand rural, third epoch outlook that well.


You made me go back to my energy tables, converting numbers, etc. At 2,100 calories a day, which is the American average, India’s energy consumption per capita is a tenth of the USA’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita), or about 9-10 times their dietary calories, which puts India exactly in the advanced agricultural (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable) bucket. India is not an industrialized nation. My company makes industrial equipment, and we have a global presence, but we don’t sell to India (we tried). There is no market there for it.

Here is a graph of change in co2 emissions since 1800 (https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$time$value=2014;&marker$select@$country=fra&trailStartTime=1802&labelOffset@:0.046&:-0.077;;&$country=gbr&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:0.12&:-0.256;;&$country=usa&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:0.112&:-0.14;;&$country=chn&trailStartTime=1899&labelOffset@:0.032&:-0.086;;&$country=ind&trailStartTime=1858&labelOffset@:0.039&:-0.092;;;&axis_x$which=time&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:null&zoomedMax:null&scaleType=time&spaceRef:null;&axis_y$which=co2_emissions_tonnes_per_person&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:null&zoomedMax:null&scaleType=genericLog&spaceRef:null;;;&chart-type=bubbles) India had .16 tonnes CO2 emission at independence, now it is 10 times that at 1.73 tonnes per capita, were Indians in Epoch 1 at independence in 1947? I prefer thinking in a range of indicators, literacy, demographic transition. age of first marriage, divorce rates, single parenthood, arranged marriage (or not). All of this is dependent on energy, in the Fourth Epoch belly's are full and there is a relative confidence they will remain full, at that point basic literacy and other behaviors can be seen. Anybody anywhere in the world with a high school education (don't need to pass, just stayed in school for 12 years) lives in the Industrial-technological era. There are echoes of the Third Epoch and it took me 20 years and reading your essay + about chimps and bonobos to eliminate most of the echoes.

People with basic education (12 years) won't accept a non-industrial life, and they have the skills to make it happen. Even if it means the planet goes to hell.

Here is an article in NYT (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/climate/coal-global-warming.html) that sheds light on the interplay between education, having a voice, social change and energy consumption.
Five years ago, he said, daily power cuts cursed his state. Ceiling fans cut out on stifling summer afternoons. Factories ran on diesel-guzzling generators. The people of Telangana were furious.

State officials had to do something to fix the electricity problem. They harnessed the sun, briefly making Telangana a leading solar power producer in India. They also turned to what government officials have relied on for over a century: the vast vein of coal that sat underground, stretching across the hills and forests of central India.

Telangana now has round-the-clock electricity.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

In these latter days of my journey, when I trade notes with fellow travelers, or am approached by people, I can name that tune in about one note anymore. In 2005, I went to James Gilliland’s ranch (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm#visit2005), to watch UFOs, and have been back three times since then. That first trip was with a couple of Boeing employees, so we got a lot of quality time with James. I just listened, and I could immediately tell that James had been around the block a few times. The subject matter was wild, such as close encounters with negative aliens, sasquatches, psychics, and alphabet soup federal agencies, and James talked about a scientist/inventor that he worked with named Max, who is German. Max invented a free energy gizmo similar to Sparky Sweet’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal), which defied current ideas of physics, ice formed on it when it ran, and scientists from around the world studied it and scratched their heads. Max said that the first scientist who could explain how his device ran got to keep it, but nobody ever did. They mounted an effort to commercialize it, and the usual story ensued, of the GCs’ minions’ arrival on the scene, people died, and when they finally understood what they were up against, they shut down the operation.

When I visited James in 2015, he said that China was building a city to pursue free energy, similar to what it did with Brown’s Gas (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/89-Free-energy-psychic-abilities-and-the-skeptics-and-debunkers?p=426&viewfull=1#post426), and James and Max were considering the China option. Hanging out with James could trip the light fantastic, and not even James was certain of the legitimacy of what he encountered in his adventures. I don’t personally buy the hollow earth tales that James has “channeled,” and some of his tales seem way out there, but a lot of them may well be legit. One thing is for sure: something very strange is happening in the skies above The Ranch and on and around Mount Adams. I saw too much that mundane explanations just can’t handle, such as the brightest “star” in the sky winking out, just as I try to tell my pals about it, watching flashing lights on Mount Adams for hours one night, and our first encounter (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm#call) knocked my Boeing pals on their butts. One was never the same again. About one minute after James tried to “call” one, in the direction that he gestured to, a “satellite” went off for five seconds, and was the brightest thing in the sky, and immediately afterward, James said that he prayed for a show in the moment before that UFO “powered up.” I did not keep following it after it “powered down,” but others with me that night followed it, and they said that it changed direction and flew away after the show. I think that “orb” pictures and footage are likely artefacts of digital cameras, but it also seems that the craft interact with the minds of people on the ground. It seemed to happen to me, and I heard plenty of wild stories from people at The Ranch on that kind of interaction, especially from James. They also often appeared in daylight, which precludes the standard “satellite” explanations.

A standard feature of the free energy pursuit is the money chase. All free energy efforts are starved of money, and this is an area that newbies travel at their peril. Nothing wrecks free energy efforts more than the money chase. Dennis tried a unique avenue, of leveraging a very legitimate energy technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new) as a way to fund free energy efforts. He was made the billion dollar offer to go away (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer) before they lowered the boom on us (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail). I watched Dennis vacillate between the “fat cat” and Joe Average approaches many times, and the big money people never came through. In Greer’s recent video (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=729&viewfull=1#post729) on his free energy pursuit, he mentioned that he spoke to 100 people in LA once, and ten of them were billionaires. They are never there to help, but sit like vultures (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#oleary), waiting for their opportunity to take it over. Dennis would similarly be swarmed by billionaires when he was flying high, and none of them ever helped, to my knowledge.

One of the deadliest of dead-ends is chasing after big money, and one avenue that is intentional flypaper, IMO, are the big, semi-secret programs, in which some part of the proceeds have to go to charity. I have seen it in inter-bank loans and commodities. They are all phony programs, as far as I know, designed to scam the unwary, or as a way to frame people for scams, as was tried on us in 1996-1997 (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#sting). I have purposely designed what I am doing so that I don’t need money to build the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir).

Einstein got sucked into all manner of alternative theory and fringe subject because of his stature and open mind. Velikovsky’s thesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#velikovsky) was not valid, Reich was onto something (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#reich), and Hapgood’s pole-shift hypothesis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hapgood#Polar_shift), which Einstein endorsed, was soon invalidated by the rise of plate tectonic theory (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tectonics), which no professional geologist seriously doubts today. Similarly, Brian O’s stature and open mind, especially after he left his comfy berth in academia (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#oneill), saw him get sucked into many fringe topics, such as the Face on Mars (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#new) and the Moon landings (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#apollo). I have a hard time buying the idea that the Face is artificial, and NASA definitely landed men on the Moon with conventional rockets (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#apollo), and Brian rued the day (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianbio.htm#statement) that he got sucked into the Moon landings issue. But to be fair to Brian, one of Greer’s contacts alleged that the Face was indeed an artificial artifact, about 40,000 years old, made around the time of humanity’s “Great Leap Forward (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap),” and another Greer contact alleged that there was an Apollo 11 flag-planting ceremony staged in New York, in case NASA needed something for propaganda purposes. Those anecdotes make me wonder about some of Greer’s sources, but they almost certainly influenced Brian. These are more risks of playing on the high road, as you can get fed disinformation and go down the path to nowhere, and there are all manner of fringe theorists and conspiracists who will happily drag you there.

When David Rockefeller (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888) calls you at home, just before the feds (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#ftc) and media are sicced on you while the sitting president’s energy advisor is one of your fans (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=694872&viewfull=1#post694872), you know that you are playing on the high road, and probably none of that was at the GC level (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc), but just national oligarchic interests protecting their rackets. Writing and publishing Brian’s NASA bio was an adventure (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog?p=284&viewfull=1#post284), as was my recent efforts at Wikipedia (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368), and I guess that you could call that the high road, but it is quite tame, compared to riding in the saddle with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601).

I’ll always have doubts about the official version of Mallove’s murder (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#portland), and I did not blame Brian at all for moving to South America immediately afterward. Dennis would have stayed put, but I understood Brian’s fears. Way too many people like Mallove have come to untimely ends (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors), and the GCs have hundreds of ways of making their murders look like something else (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tactics). That is a very real hazard of being on the high road, but the people that I seek have far more to be concerned about from their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), instead of the GCs, and I warn free energy newbies from going out and proselytizing to their social circles, but they almost always have to go do that, and the best of them come back to me, chastened, with tales of ostracism and not one recruit. What I am attempting won’t happen that way. Sociability is a dead-end (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy?p=925&viewfull=1#post925) for what I am doing. We have to come together from combined positive intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus), not sociality.

The free energy milieu is like nothing else on Earth. Newman (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/129-Playing-on-the-High-Road?p=1586&viewfull=1#post1586) and Keshe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah) announce their divinity, your associates try to steal your effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#shocked), entrepreneurs such as Rossi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Catalyzer) and Mills (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Light_Power) try to scale the ramparts, never having a prayer, those with the goods are soon made an offer that they can’t refuse (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make), charlatans abound, contract provocateurs 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) earn their pay, activists commit effective suicide (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1550&viewfull=1#post1550), the public gawks (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10), “skeptics” spin their disinformation (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#article), and calling in an airstrike (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr) is reserved for a select few. The naïve (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7) and paranoid reside in their levels of ineffectiveness, and vanishingly few ever arrive at productive understandings of the issues. I am besieged by people with stunted awareness, caught in those early levels of the free energy onion (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#chart), with almost none of them willing to do the work that is going to assist my effort, as they look for the easy way out and grind their delusional axes. P.T. Barnum (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#barnum) could have never dreamed up the free energy milieu. I don’t want to have anything to do with the free energy field today, but I am constantly contacted by free energy enthusiasts, inventors, and the like, who often try to drag me down their paths to nowhere with them, which can easily result in wrecked lives, before any organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) even needs to be applied, and they just can’t see it, or refuse to, trapped by their conditioning (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant). I don’t see my choir qualifications (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) changing anytime soon.

With this post, I will wrap up my playing the high road (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/129-Playing-on-the-High-Road?p=1584&viewfull=1#post1584) posts for now. Few have ever played on the high road, although many think that they have. I decided in 1988 that it was too hot for me. One could argue that I still play on the high road, but if so, I am creeping along, with a relatively low profile. I surely am not sneaking up on the GCs, and many and even most of them may be cheering for me (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal) and even subtly helping my efforts, but I am not counting on them. The choir has to be prepared to do it the hard way, which should not be so hard, if enough people can learn the song and sing it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir).

Peace on Earth and goodwill to all, even the GCs, on this Christmas Day,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265838&viewfull=1#post1265838):

That is a misleading analysis, on carbon dioxide emissions. I consider usage energy per capita (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita) to be the best measure, if we are going to discuss energy and economy. Carbon dioxide emissions are not going to be a good measure, particularly for an Epochal framework (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable). At zero carbon dioxide emissions, it only means no fossil fuel burning. The USA in 1800, France in 1802, and India in 1858 or the year 1000 BCE, were at zero, but that says nothing about where they were before the Fourth Epoch began in those nations, Epochs 1.0 to 3.2 could be described with zero emissions. Again, that is a poor measure for what I am presenting.

At zero carbon dioxide emissions, people could have had a multiple of ten, five, or one times their caloric food consumption. Those Indian carbon dioxide emissions today are less than the UK’s in 1800 or the USA’s in 1870, or about a third of the UK’s emissions in 1860, when I wrote in my table that the advanced industrial sub-Epoch began.

If we go with energy per capita consumption, then the USA consumes about 80-90 times its dietary calories, while India’s is about 9-10, which is at the advanced agricultural level of my framework, and it aligns very neatly with the state of India today. Sure, parts of India are getting modernized, kind of, but the vast majority of India lives like Third Epoch peasants, with cow pie factories (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=668457&highlight=factory#post668457) providing their cooking needs, etc. That is a very long way from living an industrial lifestyle, and as I have long-written, the pristine instances are the most important ones, and as they spread into societies at earlier Epochs, there was a lot of variation on how it happened, but the basics and outcomes were similar. My software company had an office in Bangalore, which a manager in our office founded, as she went home to India, as I saw many Indian colleagues do between 2004 and 2007, when they saw their chance to go home and make it big. It was a strange experience for our company. That manager immediately became deathly ill from food poisoning when she went home, she had some holy man hold a ceremony to open our office (which was posted to the Internet, and we watched it, in a kind of awe for what a different world it was there), but the quality of the work was poor and we got rid of that office ASAP. I could tell many tales like that.

Again, most features of the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic), which is a Fourth Epoch phenomenon, and certainly not planned, but just an outcome of the Industrial Revolution, are cheaply introduced into Third Epoch societies, and as you wrote, the people of those peasant nations are not consciously trying to emulate the USA, for instance, but they are having the natural reaction to Fourth Epoch practices and mores. Again, nobody really had to sell the Fourth Epoch to Third Epoch peoples; the advantages were obvious, and everybody who could, did. Patriarchal men may not have liked it (they ruled in hell), but everybody else did. But unless they had access to Fourth Epoch energy levels, they were not really going to live Fourth Epoch lifestyles.

I don’t need to tell you about the bizarre contrasts that you can find in India, or China, for that matter, as Third Epoch societies begin to join the Fourth Epoch. When my pal visited Southern India, before his horrific cab ride in Mumbai (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264730&viewfull=1#post1264730), he said that the image that sticks with him of India was when he was on a beach on the India coast, and a man was squatting in the surf, relieving himself, while chattering away on a cell phone. My numbers on China are a little out of date, as its population keeps rising, but in 2005, China had 500 million people along its Pacific Coast, in early industrialization, and 800 million peasants in the interior, about 200 million of which were migrant workers. The numbers boggle my mind. Those ghost cities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under-occupied_developments_in_China) being built were partly to move those peasants to cities, in one of the many surreal aspects of China’s process of joining the Fourth Epoch.

My friend who visited India also visited Cuba. They live as long as Americans (https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/cuba-health/508859/), and their motto is “We live like poor people, but we die like rich people.” So, a poor nation that makes public health a priority can easily bring the demographics of births and life expectancies to Fourth Epoch levels, but it sure does not bring them to Fourth Epoch standards of living. When my friend visited Cuba, with a “progressive” church group, on their last night, the visitors wanted to fete their hosts with a feast, and gave a bunch of money to them to fund the feast. It was a disaster, which caused hard feelings with their hosts. Giving them a bunch of money was meaningless, feast-wise. There was not a Costco down the street where they could buy their feast food. I see this over and over, when my pals travel to those nations.

This entire issue of Third Epoch peasants joining the Fourth Epoch, in fits and starts, is a very minor and peripheral aspect of my work, and I’ll write a little more about it, but just a little. The UK’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#uk) and USA’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#usarise) instances were the instructive ones, IMO, as one invented the Industrial Revolution, while the other industrialized while conquering a rich continent and becoming history’s richest and most powerful nation. I am about getting a few late-Fourth Epoch peoples to help humanity join the Fifth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). I doubt that there will be many from peasant nations in the process of industrializing who are going to help with my effort much. You are only here at Avalon because you live in the USA, which is typical of those in my circles. They all either have an industrial nation background, or they live in one. Not a surprise. I have never heard from somebody from the poor African nations, to my knowledge, or China, or from somebody who lives in India. I’ll hear from college professors in South Korea, for instance, but who are from the West.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have a busy day ahead of me, but one more anecdote on Third versus Fourth Epoch societies. This past summer, I hung out with an elderly couple who devoted many years of their lives to hosting students from poor nations, such as Pakistan, sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, etc. Usually, the students never left the West after arriving, or when they went home, they devoted their lives to migrating to the West. The couple told me that they developed a process of getting those students adapted to living in the West, and the first thing they did was take the students to Costco. Ernie once described his Hungarian grandmother bursting into tears when she first walked into a Canadian grocery store, and I have heard tales of fainting. That mountain of food in a store was beyond their imagination.

When that couple took those students to Costco, it was with the intention of rapidly acculturating them to the USA, and no American kid’s trip to Disneyworld could compare with those students’ visit to a Costco. It overwhelmed them, but unlike Ernie’s grandmother, they were young enough to digest it without needing medical intervention. :) Third and Fourth Epoch societies live in different worlds. That they both exist at the same time shows the contrasts very well to people today. Something similar happened when Third Epoch and Second Epoch societies met (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1), although, as with Fourth Epoch and Third Epoch societies, the later Epoch abused the earlier one, and it could be to the point of extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#first).

For the Fifth Epoch, there is a very good chance that that abuse will not happen. The energy technologies that I am aware (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) of can be cheaply made so that all of humanity will quickly enjoy their benefits. There will be a generation or two of transition, but that will be a fun one. Getting used to abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#abundance) should not be too hard. :)

Best,

Wade

[lrgoodger]

Wade,

I re-read your 'Learning the Truth About the Easter Bunny'. The truth is sobering, is it not?

I was already aware that in addition to inflation and taxation, the populace is being bled by stock market manipulation and commodities market manipulation. These and the auditor/corporation relationship of 'you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours' allows the vampires more mechanisms for sucking blood from the host. Corporate lobbying of Congress is similar.

The problem with this corporate/elite vampire is that it is smart. When it detects that it is sucking blood too fast and is about to kill it's host, it backs off enough to allow a bit of recovery and then starts sucking again in earnest. The recent drop in gasoline prices is one of the most readily apparent signs of such a backing off. The question is whether they have backed off soon enough or far enough. They came pretty close to killing the host in 2008. They may come even closer this time around.

It's chilling to think that the vampires have achieved a balance that will allow them to keep sucking forever without killing the host. The host in third world countries is in critical condition. The host in developed nations is ever weakening.

Something big is afoot. You can almost smell it in the air.

Ron

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ron (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1266128&viewfull=1#post1266128):

I need to be honest with you. From your first contact with me, you have demonstrated an orientation to this issue that is not quite aligned with what I am doing. If you are going to get there, you have a long hill to climb. I believe that it is a worthwhile hill, but it will need to be climbed if you are going to be very useful for my effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir). I was not surprised that you advocated an anonymous blueprint approach (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265309&viewfull=1#post1265309), so that that mythical army of garage mechanics could take it forward. I specifically addressed that approach in my work (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#guerilla), more than once, which you read, but I knew that you were going to suggest something along those lines. That is the kind of approach that gets suggested to me by grade school teachers, retired corporate technical types, and people who heard about free energy ten minutes ago. I am not kidding. It is one of the most common, and naïve (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive), suggestions that I get.

Even if the “coast is clear (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=1355&viewfull=1#post1355),” as Greer seems to have recently alleged, that only means that Godzilla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) might step back and watch, but that doesn’t mean that the T-Rexes and velociraptors have retired (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jungle), and that does nothing about the development hill that would need to be climbed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demonstrate), or the threats that the effort’s “allies (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#shocked)” would present. I left the free energy inventor/tinkerer approach behind 30 years ago (it was my initial orientation (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse), more than 40 years ago), and I call it “inventor-itis” and other terms when people advocate it, which you can see quite a few times if you read this entire thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265309&viewfull=1), which I am not sure that I would recommend, at nearly 8,000 posts, even if most of them are mine. You’ll see free energy newbies promoting Rossi, Keshe, etc., advocating “sneak past them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7),” and so on, and they were almost all, if not all, to the best of my recollection, anonymous cowards. Geez! Anonymous cowards are not going to get anything done in the free energy field. You, at least, are not one of those, which is why you get the courtesy of a post like this.

Those tax activists and “patriots” were the first “alternative” political stances that I encountered in my journey, before we had the boom lowered on us (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail). I had a folder of that kind of material in my desk, humorously titled, “seditious literature (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=662&viewfull=1#post662),” which the deputies seized in the raid and I never saw again. I had many conversations with the tax protestor and “patriot” types, and Dennis was a leading figure in the Patriot Movement (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#libel), so much so that the other “leaders” began attacking Dennis and the Mormon Church threatened excommunication to any Mormons who got involved with Dennis, which was richly ironic (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#mormon). The money from my sacrificing my life (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mortgage) secured the services of the USA’s foremost Constitutionalist attorney (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bigtime), who got the wakeup call of his life (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=703&viewfull=1#post703) on our case, and to this day, he remains the USA’s leading Constitutionalist attorney. The Tea Party is a dabbler version of a milieu that I came to know all too well, and I have not had any interest in it for 30 years. Our very first Greatest Energy Show (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#barnum) was literally staged where the original Tea Party (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party) was planned. It is one of those introductory levels that needs to be left behind early in the journey.

Your latest post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1266128&viewfull=1#post1266128), on the parasitic elite, is a subject that I have written the book on (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/forums/21-The-rackets), but it is really a peripheral aspect of my work. Predatory/parasitic elites are literally as old as civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear), and yes, their game is extremely sophisticated today (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/108-The-Global-Controllers?p=1167&viewfull=1#post1167), but they are not the focus of my efforts (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus), and acknowledging their existence is simply part of the awakening process (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309), as is the realization that virtually everybody, to one degree or another, plays along (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#system). It 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).

Your writings reflect ideas that I have called Levels 7 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7) and 10 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10). You need to get to Level 12 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12) if you are going to be any help for what I am doing, and it is not easy to get there. My estimate is that from where you are today, it would take several years of deep study, contemplation, meditation, and delusion-shedding, for you to get there. People almost invariably get stuck in those lower levels (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6), even for those relative few who get over the early ignorance and denial levels (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level0), and they rarely escape them. I am doing something very different from any other attempt that you have seen (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested). Brian and Dennis immediately understood that I was doing something different (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=918852&viewfull=1#post918852), but not many truly understand, as they drag their baggage (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) along with them.

Very simply, the people that are going to help me have to have developed a heart-centered (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), abundance-based, comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing). I have written at length on the qualities that they likely need to have (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=307&viewfull=1#post307), in order to get there, so I won’t belabor it here. Time is short to right humanity’s ship, which I openly acknowledge (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth), but I am not going to alter my approach, to gain “momentum.” I am not going to water it down to pander to people’s delusions, although I have done plenty to make it a little more accessible (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanityppt.pdf), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#summary), 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/home.htm#public)), and will do more in the future. Mine is not a “do something” approach. Been there, done that. I have had enough of learning the hard way (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601), seen too many lives wrecked and prematurely ended (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures), etc., and I do all that I can to discourage newbies from risking their lives, even if it is only ostracism from their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#why).

Best,

Wade

[lrgoodger]

Wade,

You said, "I need to be honest with you."

I wouldn't have it any other way.

Your essay devotes a large amount of effort to relaying your experiences. I never misinterpreted those experiences to be where you are now. I also have had experiences and gradual levels of awakening. My posts so far have been to illustrate those experiences and awakenings so that folks can understand my own journey. Like you, I am aware of many things, but I no longer try to hack at the branches. If I were not looking for an alternate route, I would not be in this group.

Yes, I did suggest releasing an FE design to the public. If you consider that approach naive, then so be it. I have looked far and wide for a blueprint of an OU engine. I have never found such plans. Insofar as I can tell, no one has ever released such plans into the public domain, so in reality we don't know what the result of that would be. Many years ago someone told me about an idea they had for a magnetic motor that was unique to anything I had ever seen before. I thought it might have potential, so I gave it some study and came up with a configuration that might have worked. It necessitated specially made metal parts that I had no way of making. A cousin of mine introduced me to the owner of a machine shop he knew and I took him some parts and explained the concept to him. I told him how to make the missing parts and implement them. He was excited about it because he could see (and feel) the potential. He worked on it of his own volition and did not charge me anything because he wanted to see it work. When he got done, he called me and said it won't work. I went to pick it up and I could see immediately why his effort failed. He had implemented what I told him to, but in such a way that it had ignored simple things like leverages and forces in the mechanical arrangement that should have been obvious to an experienced machinist. I never said anything to him about what he did wrong. I knew from the nature of what he had done that he did not have a good enough grasp on mechanics (let alone physics) to get the job done properly. I've only had the capability of making my own parts for a couple of years and it's been so many years since that attempt that I no longer have the parts that had been used, and have not had the ambition to re-create the effort from scratch. The bottom line is, judging from this one machinist's reaction to the possibility that it could actually be done, I suspect that there would be tens of thousands of similar reactions across the nation and around the world if a verified, working design were released to the public.

From what I understand of your plan, your idea is to help your 'choir' find such a verified design and let them implement it. I can see the difference insofar as the 'choir' would be much more aware of necessary precautions and should know how to proceed without getting anyone hurt. A bigger problem would be finding someone selfless enough to give away such a design. Can you imagine if Wikileaks had posted plans for a working FE Machine?

Anyway, just because I have given thought to such an approach doesn't mean my heart is set on it or that I am stuck in a rut. There are usually more ways than one to skin a cat. If the theory that one can shape his own reality is true, then why not have the 'choir' all concentrate as one mind on having ET deliver FE to enough places simultaneously that GC can't stop it? Never let it be said that I can't imagine the seemingly impossible! The Bible alludes to power in such unified purpose. Can you imagine what could be achieved by a choir of 10,000 people such as the one described in the verse below, all in agreement?

Mark 11:23-24 - For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

I realized some years ago that all of humanity, ET and the entire universe are part of the Creator. Many atheists subscribe to the idea that 'God is dead.' Such shallow thinkers are blind to the fact that if God were dead (which is not possible in the first place), nothing that they see around them, including themselves, would exist (I find it very interesting that we can simultaneously be part of God and have free will).

You said, “If your heart is not in the right place, the rest will not matter.”
Taking away monetary incentive eliminates 99% of the inventors at the get-go. You can't get a patent on an FE machine and simply going into production presents so many obstacles (GC may be the biggest) that only a well run organization could overcome them. Finding an FE inventor that would give away his work would be like finding a needle in a haystack. The only possible motivation left would be "for the betterment of mankind." There are those out there who have that purpose in mind, but they are few, and I doubt any of them could come up with the FE design they would need.

Then you said, "“You have had some kind of awakening experience.”
Many of what you call 'disillusioned idealists' get called conspiracy theorists because they have seen the truth in what most see as a conspiracy against some well known and accepted perception. That is what disillusions them in the first place. Several of my posts have been about my own experiences with that, although not as traumatic as your own in the FE arena.

Looking at your FE 'onion' (I had skipped over the chart before), I see where you got the 7 or 10 for me. The 7 doesn't fit. What I suggested was more like slapping them in the face with it rather than trying to sneak it past. I don't believe 8 or I wouldn't have suggested widespread release of a machine. As for 9, we can't 'conquer' them because they have us out manned and out funded. I see where you got the 10, but you are talking about a mass of normal inventors (well, not quite normal since they would believe in FE), or 'an army of garage mechanics'. The difference between that and what I proposed is that the blueprint would be developed by an enlightened inventor, so it would already be known that it would work, but you are right that garage mechanics could not do it. The parts would be a little too complex for them. The army would have to be the 'choir', which would bump the effort considerably up on your number scale.

11 doesn't fit because I am no Dennis, and I don't have funds. I would have to participate in a group effort. 13 doesn't fit because I have never actually seen a FE machine. I saw a machine that I believe could have been configured to be one, but I was prevented from doing so by a non-disclosure agreement. That agreement has long since expired. By the logic of the self assessment above, 12 is the best fit, but only if the 'us' in 'enough of us' is the 'choir'. Hopefully Greer is right and the GC has backed off. I hope that is not because they may be preoccupied with a bigger problem and are preparing to flee to their underground cities, God forbid.

I know that all knowledge comes from the Creator and that He could drop FE on humanity in the blink of an eye if he so chose. He has revealed things to past FE inventors already because He wants us to get there through the hard work of developing our own inspired effort. We have seen the results of individual and small group efforts derailed by GC. The Creator would have known this and must be looking for a certain level of cooperative awakening before success is achieved. With the advancement of medical technology contributing to an ever increasing number of NDEs (and that is not an accident), I believe humanity is at an all time high in awareness of the spirit realm. NDEs are awakening people who can't get there by faith, which is pretty much all there was before.

Since you don't know me personally, the only way I have of letting you know where I am on your scale is to write about my experiences. Reading yours is the only way I had of learning about you. I know a lot of people who read all or some of your material think you are nuts, but for whatever reason it has the ring of truth to me. I hope you have enough discernment to reach the proper conclusion regarding my own experiences and writings.

If it is possible, I sincerely would like to help better humanity. I donate a great deal of time to that cause already, as should be evidenced by my https://sites.google.com/site/deadashtreeskillingpeople/ site. That site was built completely out of concern for the safety of others, and I have gained nothing from it other than the knowledge that I may have helped prevent injury to someone. My free time is going to vanish for a couple of months beginning January 5th. That is kick off day for high school robotics, and I give 100% to those kids for free until they have a competitive robot built. At the request of the program director, who has seen what I can do, I have agreed to help them again this year even though my grandson is no longer in the program.

Ron

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I recently finished Uncertainty (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1400079969/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0), and am halfway through Squid Empire (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611689236/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0). I was planning significant changes to the early chapters of my big essay, to flesh it out more, and one was in the area of quantum mechanics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#orbit). Heisenberg’s fevered breakthrough (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg#Matrix_mechanics_and_the_Nobel_Prize) was a triumph of math, as he invented a method that turned out to already exist in an obscure corner of math known as matrix algebra (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(mathematics)). Soon afterward, Heisenberg came up with his uncertainty principle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty_principle), which he will always be known for. Einstein fought against it tooth and nail, and his “God does not play dice with the universe” statement arose from that battle.

Einstein and Schrödinger had a big problem with matrix mechanics, which came up with the right answer but did not say what was happening. They thought that just stating events in terms of probability avoided dealing with the event itself, which must have had a cause, but causality is challenged by today’s quantum theory, as the so-called Copenhagen interpretation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation) prevails, which Bohr and Heisenberg developed. Schrödinger’s famous cat (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat) was part of his protest of the Copenhagen interpretation. By the end of their lives, Einstein and Schrödinger were considered irrelevant figures in quantum theory, as they had backed the wrong horses. But Schrödinger’s “What is Life? (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page14?p=1479&viewfull=1#post1479)” became an inspirational work in discovering DNA’s double-helical structure. Those were fascinating days in science, even though nuclear weapons (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#dropping) were part of the outcome.

Physicists have been wrestling with the meaning of quantum physics ever since, with its quantum paradox (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann), entanglement (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_entanglement) (which Einstein derided as “spooky action at a distance”) and other features. There is a sizeable contingent in physics that asserts that the strangeness of quantum physics means that it is an incomplete theory that will be supplanted by something else, perhaps even by the legendary unified field (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_field_theory).

I’ll say this: the people who gave my friend his underground show (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) likely already have something like a unified field theory. Free energy and electrogravity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=1355&viewfull=1#post1355) technologies render the current physics textbooks into doorstops. I am no physicist, but I side with scientists who think that current quantum theory is incomplete and will be supplanted by something that makes more sense.

There was a recent article in Scientific American that argued that the quantum paradox and other quantum strangeness was about to give birth to an overhaul of physics, something as radical as those days of the early 20th century, when relativity and quantum theory were born. I just read an article (https://www.quantamagazine.org/frauchiger-renner-paradox-clarifies-where-our-views-of-reality-go-wrong-20181203/) on a thought experiment that points out the contradictions of quantum theory, and how it is impossible for all of three currently accepted tenets to be true, which are:



Quantum theory is universal (it can be applied to anything, from photons to galaxies);
Quantum theory is consistent (all observers will get the same answer, once the uncertainty is resolved);
Opposite facts cannot both be true (a flipped coin cannot simultaneously come up both heads and tails).



The next step will be devising experiments to show which aspects are true and which aren’t. We’ll see if I live long enough to see the issue resolved. If the technologies that my friend witnessed ever come into the open, then a lot will change, almost overnight, as the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) will arrive, and none too soon.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Ron (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1266252&viewfull=1#post1266252):

A lot to respond to in that post, but the gist of Level 12 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12) is this: people there are not going to be preoccupied with what the GCs do. The focus will be on combined positive intention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gcfocus), not what the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) do or don’t do. Anonymous blueprints comprise a “sneak past them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7)” approach, and a “slap in the face” is Level 9 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level9). That is an oppositional “warrior” approach that I want nothing to do with. I was never in Level 7 or 9. Once I heard of free energy, I was initially a Level 10 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10) and carried the spears for several attempts (and Dennis said that I threw a few, too, but nothing like what Dennis did), before I finally learned my lesson.

The GCs hide in the shadows. If that choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) forms (5,000-to-7,000 people), they are going to stay in the shadows, and if that 100,000 of “do something” people form (building the choir will be the hard part, particularly in its early days), the GCs will be helpless to stop it and will slink away. I have stated many times that the only inventor-centric approach with a prayer is for the inventor with the goods to give it to a worthy group to take forward. Neither that inventor nor that worthy group exists today. Even if what I do is successful, it is many years away from seeking that inventor with the goods, and if the group is truly worthy, that inventor will approach the group. That is all a long way off.

I treat the GCs as a force of nature. Like a thunderstorm, they can’t be negotiated with or fought, and I do what I can to keep people from becoming lightning rods. So far, I am just assailed by trolls (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll) if I appear in open forums, which is why I don’t do that anymore, and even where I am invited, it has only worked out at Avalon so far. I have not seen people who only write come to untimely ends. What I am doing should be safe for choir-members, which is arguably my top priority.

Also, another possibility is that the GCs will give the choir their commercial-level free energy gizmos (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground), and we leap straight into the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). Most of them want to get off the horse they are on (http://ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#cabal), and an effort like what I have in mind just might encourage them enough to come forward. I am not counting on it, but it is a possibility. Slapping them in the face has never been a goal of mine.

You have been around tinkering inventors, machine shops, and the like, and as I have stated, that gives you a handicap. I had my hands on a working free energy prototype, which produced the ZPF effect, but that does not mean much, as that is a long way (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demonstrate) from something that could power a home. The entire approach today, of tinkering inventors, scientists with their alternative theories, and the like, reflects today’s state of arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested) in the field, and I am doing something radically different, someplace where clever scientists spinning their theories, heroic inventors (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah), anonymous blueprints, and the like have no prominent place, if any place at all. Nearly all people in today’s free energy field are stuck in that vicinity, which is one reason why Brian said that the people in the field today are not going to be the people who will bring free energy to the world (http://ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#new).

To anybody who is unawakened (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309), particularly my “peers” – white, educated, American men – my work seems to be an exercise in insanity. I completely understand that, and they are definitely not my target audience. My work flies in the face (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481) of almost everything that those peers “know.” In the movie Manufacturing Consent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent_(film)), the producer of Nightline was asked why he did not have Chomsky on his show, and he said that Noam was so “wacko” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZJpOOqbozw) that his ideas (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv) seemed to come from “Neptune.” Noam replied that the American media is designed so that anything that is not regurgitating the mainstream pabulum will seem to be wacko, from Neptune, etc. I am in good company. :) There are a million ways to fail to understand what I am doing, and only a few paths to arrive at understanding. I seek the needles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), not the masses.

Dennis does not do much Bible quoting, and I certainly don’t, especially the King James-isms. The choir is not going to be singing the Christian hymnal. Love, yes. Shakespearian English (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Modern_English), no.

Good luck on your winter’s activities.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another year is coming to an end, and it was another challenging one in my life. I may begin a “tradition” of a year-end post, like I did last year (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page10?p=1146&viewfull=1#post1146). We’ll see. On my favorite local hiking mountain, I have hiked with pals to trees dressed up like Christmas trees. Our first pilgrimages were to a tree that I discovered, five miles in, nearly 20 years ago, and it began to become too popular, and when I took Joe Starr (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page10?p=828&viewfull=1#post828) there, just before Christmas 2010, as I recall, some “do gooder” had stripped all of the ornaments off the tree, and I have not been back to that side of the mountain. The next autumn, I scouted around, off-trail, in closer parts of the mountain, for a tree that I could decorate secretly, and found some candidates (and found more of my “secret spots” that I am known for (http://ahealedplanet.net/pics.htm#meadow)), but never got around to it. But somebody began decorating a tree right off of my favorite trail, only halfway as far in as that original tree, and I take people there year-round today. Attached is a pic from my Christmas pilgrimage to that tree. One pal puts on a new ornament each year.

That there are any homeless people in the USA is a scandal. Impoverished Cuba does not have any homeless people, but history’s richest and most powerful nation sure does. I began my acquaintance with the USA’s homeless issue soon after college graduation (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&viewfull=1#post406928), and it is one of my many subjects of study. The Seattle homeless population can be styling for homeless people, and on the East Side (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastside_(King_County,_Washington)), where Microsoft’s headquarters are, homeless camps can have Wi-Fi access, toilets, showers, free food, etc. The homeless camps, called “tent cities”, on the East Side, have a rotation program so that they are only in a neighborhood for three months at a time, so that they do not wear out their welcome.

Several years ago, my favorite trailhead on that mountain got one of those homeless camps placed at it, and I did not go there while the camp was there, as I had to walk through it to hike. Because it is on the fringes of a wilderness area, the neighbors are few (one home is a couple hundred yards away, and the next closest one is probably a mile away or more), so they began “abusing” their position, and the camp has more or less become permanent. I was not going to be denied my favorite local trail, so some years ago, I began hiking through that homeless camp. In the mornings, there seem to be few people there (there are more than 20 tents), as they probably went into civilization for the day.

I have rarely seen women at that camp, but recently I encountered a woman there, about my age, and she smiled at hikers, which is the first time that I experienced that. A homeless woman surely has a difficult life, in a number of ways, and I am not certain that it is her tent, but I am probably 90% sure of it. I think that it was that tent that had a little pottery garden in front of it this past summer, and I am attaching a pic of what I encountered this Christmas season: Christmas lights on a homeless tent. It is kind of a testament to the human spirit, and was quite a sight.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have written plenty on how difficult it is to understand my work. That is not because it is such an intellectual feat, but because it flies in the face of what people “know (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481).” When people encounter my work, for those who don’t attack (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll) or flee, I watch them fly off in a million different directions, seemingly in every direction but the one that my work is about. I am besieged by people trying to sell me their particular brand of “doing something,” and they are virtually all variations of New Age pabulum (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage), inventor-itis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/71-My-stock-answer-to-most-FE-inquiries-about-inventors-and-current-FE-efforts?p=114&viewfull=1#post114), Young Warrior delusions (http://ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#warriors), proselytizing to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), etc., etc. Not only are they not willing to do the hard work of raising their awareness, as they seek the easy way out (which is an integrity issue (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708)), but I have had to think long and hard about why they just don’t get it, which led to my list of choir-attributes (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/52-Helpful-Prerequisites-for-Forum-Participation?p=69&viewfull=1#post69), which I have written at length on (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=307&viewfull=1#post307).

As Dennis wrote, he was only screwed by nice guys (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#shocked). They were the only ones that could get close enough to stick their daggers in Dennis’s ribs. They faked being Boy Scouts (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts), and they just had to do it until they could get close enough to do their damage. I have always written that where a person’s heart is trumps all (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) (the integrity issue once more), and the rest is noise. However, heart is not enough, not for what I am attempting. It also requires high sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1), which includes scientific literacy. But heart and smarts is also not enough, and when I see people fail to understand, as they propose their “bright ideas” that have been tried thousands of times, I finally had to admit that they just didn’t have any experience on the high road (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/129-Playing-on-the-High-Road?p=1584&viewfull=1#post1584), the kind that sends you through the meat grinder and wakes you up in a big way (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309). It seems that this journey requires some of that, in order to shed the naïveté (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive) that the bright idea people suffer from. But that meat grinder can be a killer, and few come out the other side with their hearts and sanity intact. I don’t recommend that people lose their naïveté that way.

As I thought about my journey, I think that I was “fortunate” in that I went through the meat grinder at a young age (by 30, I was a grizzled veteran), so that I could pick up the pieces of my shattered life and keep going. Mark’s journey (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&viewfull=1#post811647) was similar in ways, but there are not many like us.

This is all part of the conundrum (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#summary). How to wake up without having your life destroyed? That is far from easy. I know that people like us are exceedingly rare and that I seek needles in haystacks, but with this global tool called the Internet, I think that I might have a chance to make a dent. We’ll see.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I mentioned earlier this month (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1548&viewfull=1#post1548) that a scholarly essay cited my Uncle Ed bio, and I just discovered that the same organization published an issue largely devoted to Ed (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/issue/view/3), which is wonderful. I’ll be spending today reading those essays, and I had already planned some tweaks to Ed’s bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm), and was waiting for those essays before I did it. So, that is my next little project.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Yesterday I read a very interesting article (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-evolved-to-exercise/) in this month’s Scientific American on how humans have evolved to exercise. Some of the recent findings chronicled in that article will make it into my essay update. The article cites evidence that Homo erectus may have become a big game hunter nearly two million years ago. There is quite a bit of controversy regarding those early days of the human journey, and the issue of when the human line was prey, when it scavenged, and when it became a hunter (and when it became a big game hunter) is still unsettled (https://www.americanscientist.org/article/meat-eating-among-the-earliest-humans). However, there are recent finds that may push back big game hunting to more than one million years ago. It seems that meat became a part of the human line diet (https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/evidence-for-meat-eating-by-early-humans-103874273) about when Oldowan culture stone tools appeared (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oldowan). It is generally accepted that Homo erectus (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#homoerectus) invented the next stone tool culture (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#acheulean), but scientists cannot agree on what those stone “axes” were used for. Some argue that it was a projectile weapon, others that it was the core left over after flakes were made, and other hypotheses are out there. Whoever made them (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/oldest-humanlike-hand-bone-might-reveal-the-origins-of-toolmaking/) was pretty dexterous. My take is still that as the human line learned to hunt, the nearby prey would have learned to avoid people, which is why the African megafauna survived when the megafauna of Australia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna) and the Americas (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#westernmegafauna) quickly went extinct shortly after humans arrived. A member of the Founder Group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit) was a very different animal from the Homo erecti and their cousins that migrated past Africa nearly two million years ago. The Eurasian megafauna had a survival rate between the African and American/Australian rates, and I think that it was because it adapted at a later date to those human hunters. My views could change as more evidence comes in.

The human long-distance running ability (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3356485/) has long been thought to be an evolutionary hunting adaptation, and now there are hypotheses that exercise is a key to a healthy brain (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170626155729.htm). And, of course, the energy issue is paramount (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/evan.21513).

Best,

Wade

[Servant Limestone]

Happy 2019 to Wade and company! May this year be the year of global revolution and emancipation....

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On this New Year’s Eve, I’ll make a year-end post. Like last year (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page10?p=1146&viewfull=1#post1146), this year was a challenging one for me. Nobody very close to me died this year, so on that front, it was not as challenging. I’ll start this coming year on a mission to lose 25 pounds (I lost ten pounds this year from my all-time fattest (except in my life’s first year (http://ahealedplanet.net/pics.htm) :) )), and keep it off, so that I can function at my highest levels, career-wise, until I am 70, I hope. It means a regimen change. I know how to do it, and am almost there. I turned 60 this year, and an aunt sent me a geriatric birthday card, welcoming me to the club. :)

This year, like last year, was kind of a bust on the hiking front. Weather and fires did not cooperate, and being a weekend warrior means that I have to take what I get. That said, I still got out plenty. But I did not get out with some hiking pals this year, and for others, it was only once or twice.

On the writing front, I spent a year of my “spare” time working on Uncle Ed’s bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm), particularly for his Wikipedia bio, but when I published it in July, a Wikipedia administrator infamously erased it all within hours (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368), and Krishna joined the fray (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1446&viewfull=1#post1446) and got banned at Wikipedia, under false pretenses, of course. It turned out that the admin who erased my contributions violated Wikipedia’s rules in doing it (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1550&viewfull=1#post1550), so it got unerased. Even so, all of my changes were reverted, and Ed’s Wikipedia bio as it stands today is libelous, but I will not be allowed to edit it again, supposedly because my corresponding with Ed gives me a conflict of interest. My so-called conflict is trivial compared to Philip Cross’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Edward_S._Herman#Philip_Cross%E2%80%99s_edits), who has led the disinformation effort on Ed’s bio. Cross may well be an intelligence community asset, but he hides behind anonymity. Wikipedia may well have been captured by the intelligence community, and its co-founder who runs Wikipedia is a neocon who has openly defended Cross. The libelous version of Ed’s bio actually confirms his propaganda model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing), so maybe it should be left as is, as a tribute to Ed’s memory. Ed’s bio has a loyal editorial opposition that has actively turned his bio into disinformation, and one man cannot take them all on. Those editors, with their admin allies, can simply make it up as they go, putting tabloid fodder and outright lies into Ed’s bio and reverting any attempts to correct the record. But it was not all bad, as I was able to build a Wikiquotes page for Ed (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_S._Herman), so his voice is heard at least once in the Wiki-universe, and I was at least able to introduce their bloodbath framework (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Political_Economy_of_Human_Rights#Summary) to Wikipedia, and that article on the censorship of Ed’s first collaboration with Noam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-Revolutionary_Violence:_Bloodbaths_in_Fact_%26_Propaganda#Publishing_history), which is partly my work, is not bad, although the disinformation version is on Ed’s bio today.

Just yesterday, I read the first retrospective treatment of Ed’s media work (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/issue/view/3), which cited my bio of Ed. It likely won’t be the last retrospective, and my bio will have to do until a professional biographer does justice to Ed’s life and work. Noam (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky) will go down as one of the human journey’s greatest intellectuals, and his most famous coauthor deserves at least one bio. We’ll see if I live to see it.

I finally wrote a full account of my relationship with Gary Wean (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398), and I also posted them to the most prominent forum that discusses the JFK hit (http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/topic/20494-bill-decker-and-john-tower/?page=2&tab=comments#comment-319908), to only have a troll attack, and then the admin erased my thread. Typical (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/94-My-last-posts-in-another-forum?p=639&viewfull=1#post639). Avalon is the only forum I have ever been in, besides my own, where I was not beset by trolls, some of them were professionals (http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/02/353778.shtml#251272), and then the admins started in on me. Surreal. Yesterday I read the final article by a technology writer in Scientific American, who wrote: “[…] the Internet is becoming more of a cesspool than community pool.” Amen to that. We’ll see what kind of dent I can make, by using this new sewer. :)

In January, I plan to make one more update of Ed’s bio on my site, before I get to my task at hand, which is making the update to my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1447&viewfull=1#post1447). I am not sure if I’ll get it published in 2019. When I finally publish it, it will have been around five years since the previous update, and I may never do an update as significant again, as I am not getting any younger and this update should refine that essay to the extent that major revisions will become increasingly unlikely. I also plan to publish a book, which will be an abridged version of the revised essay. As always, I won’t water it down (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481) to pander to the masses, but it will be a nod toward helping make my work a little more accessible, which have done plenty of over the years (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#summary), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanityppt.pdf), 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/skeptic.htm)). I think that 2019 will need to be a relatively quiet one for me, forum-wise, so that I can work on the essay update.

Happy 2019,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As a kind of addendum to yesterday’s post (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1266841&viewfull=1#post1266841) on how 2018 went for me, at home and in the office, my desktops and screensavers present my pictures stash, which has over 3,000 pictures in it, and I need to update it for recent years of photos, which will be a few hundred more. Most of them are from people and events in my life, so I have a life review every day. At my age, many of the people in the pictures are dead, and I look forward to when we meet again (no pictures of Mr. Deputy (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#deputy) in that stash :) ).

My company shuts down between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day each year, as manufacturing companies often do, so I took this break to get things done and prepare for my work hurricane that begins tomorrow and will blow well into spring. That is the life of accountants like me, and I hope to get in ten more years of it, before I hang it up.

As I have written (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page15?p=1598&viewfull=1#post1598), I turned 60 in 2018, and I am beginning to downsize my life. Over this winter break, I sold off my CD collection to a music store. I digitized my music collection long ago, so carting around those boxes of CDs when I move is burdensome. I am getting about 50 cents apiece for those CDs (many of which I bought from the same store that I sold them to), which I probably paid about $15 on average for. I had not been in a music store for many years, and I was a little surprised to see how large their vinyl record section was. I gave away nearly all of my vinyl records a generation ago. It is a “retro” hip thing to do, I hear, to have vinyl records. The sound quality is not very good (getting CDs was a revelation, back in 1985), but I guess that some people want to be hip.

CDs are dying off, as they get supplanted by digital downloads, so I am seeing the entire life-cycle of that medium. As I went through those boxes of CDs to sell, I had another life review, and realized how much great music that I have, which I have not listened to in years. My collection was 1,600 CDs, which reflected a lifetime of music collecting. I am also going deaf, so we’ll see how much longer I can enjoy that music. I listen to my music for hours each day, but 21,000 tracks is a lot to listen to. :)

I have been planning on updating my Ed bio, once that retrospective publication came out (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1596&viewfull=1#post1596), and because of those accusations of plagiarism and copyright violations (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page3?p=1368&viewfull=1#post1368) by that rude Wikipedia admin, I kind of got paranoid about my previous writings. I have never done what most people consider plagiarism, which is stealing somebody else’s writings and calling them one’s own. I have been plagiarized, and once by a professional Hollywood writer. I have even been impersonated. But in the wake of those accusations against me, I wondered if my writings of a generation ago were unintentional “plagiarism,” in which I reproduced work verbatim that I was citing, and failing to put it in quotes. That is the only way that I might have ever committed “plagiarism,” but since it would have been in work I was citing, with a reference to it, it was surely never in the “theft” category.

So, yesterday, I engaged in a task that had been on my list of things to do, which was collecting all of my Z Magazine issues from my library and using them to beef up my account of Ed’s Z writings. Also, one section of my Ed bio in particular was vexing, which was a summary of some points Ed made (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#yugoslavia2) about serious scholarship on Yugoslavia, which I lifted from my American Empire essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#yugobreakup). Did I “plagiarize” Ed, by having verbatim copying not in quotes? I would only know if I dug up that issue of Z Magazine. So, yesterday, I descended into my library and collected all of my Z Magazine issues that I could find. I needed a pith helmet with a headlamp. :) They were scattered all over my library. I needed a ladder and leaf/cobweb blower, and had to dig through my library multiple times before I collected them, and still have 24 missing issues. I never threw them away, so where those might be is currently a mystery. Among my finds was that issue that I cited, and I was relieved to find that I had indeed paraphrased and summarized Ed’s discussion, but even so, there were some strings of a few words that were directly lifted from Ed’s article, so I tweaked my passages so that nobody could accuse me of “plagiarism.” Also, as I think back, those “copying” instances were not ones in which I straight copied from Ed’s text, but when I wrote about those events, my eidetic memory was to blame for some of Ed’s wording for making it into my writings. I was not consciously “plagiarizing” Ed, but just recalling his phrasing as I wrote. I plan to beef up Ed’s bio a little for those Z articles, and I plan to get that project done this month, and then on to my essay update (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1447&viewfull=1#post1447).

I was also looking forward to the process of digging up those Z issues, to answer a question that I had been in my mind for many years: when did I begin to subscribe to it? I knew that it was related to my subscription to Lies of Our Times (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#loot) (LOOT), but I was not sure how much they might have overlapped. I answered that question yesterday. I had a Z issue from 1992, bought at a newsstand, but my first subscription issue was March 1995, and I can tell that I subscribed because LOOT’s final issue was for December 1994.

I have continually subscribed to Z since March 1995 (and was a donor for ten years, until I lost my job when I took that “sabbatical” to write my big essay) and I recently renewed my subscription, so that I will have subscribed for at least 25 years, which will be my longest subscription to any periodical in my lifetime. Frankly, since Ed passed on, my interest in Z has waned, and I am not sure if I will renew my subscription again.

I have been ransacking my memories of those early days of my media education, to piece together the events. I subscribed to LOOT because I heard about it on the radio in LA, while commuting to my medical lab job (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#experience). I was so ready for its message, after my ride with Dennis, and what happened to that lab was more of the same. But Chomsky was the name that I heard from my roommate back in 1989 (another momentous year, when I met Gary (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1421&viewfull=1#post1421) and sprung Dennis from jail with Mr. Professor (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mortgage), in the biggest miracle that I ever witnessed, which Dennis and I know was a case of divine intervention, so I will be writing of more 30th anniversaries this year). Ed was LOOT’s editor, but I had never heard of him when I subscribed to LOOT. There was an ad for Ralph McGehee’s book (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#synopsis) in a LOOT issue, and I got and read it in 1990, and the next two years was quite an education for me, which culminated in my writing to Noam in late 1992, and we had a brief correspondence. Noam deferred to the “experts” on the free energy issue, but there were not any, so I had to become one myself. :)

I don’t know exactly when I began appreciating Ed’s writings, but it was definitely during the LOOT days. Ed contributed at least one article to every issue. I began my political-economic studies by trying to understand Noam, it took two years to do so, and I was an eager student. What Noam had to say was so far removed from my indoctrination while young that it took about two years for me to really understand what he was saying. It really did seem to come from Neptune (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/45-Chapter-28-What-Has-Not-Worked-So-Far-and-What-Might/page3?p=1593&viewfull=1#post1593). :) When I saw Manufacturing Consent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent_(film)) in 1992 at Ohio State University with my wife (it has never been shown on American mainstream TV, which proves Noam’s point), they had a brief clip of Ed, and I remember knowing who Ed was in those days. I read Manufacturing Consent (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing) back in those LOOT days, but it was a joint effort by Ed and Noam. I think that it was while reading LOOT that my appreciation for Ed’s writings developed, and when LOOT went out of business, Z Magazine was going to be the next best thing, and Ed had an article in every issue. Ed’s articles immediately became the first thing that I read in every issue.

Ed retired from Wharton in 1989 (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#emeritus), and his output in the 1980s and 1990s was prodigious. Ed had established his credentials as an important writer during the Vietnam Era (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#early), which was how he met Noam. After their first joint work was destroyed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv) in 1973, in one of the most outrageous acts of censorship in the late 20th century, Ed hardly published anything until his joint effort with Noam in 1979 (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#second). As I studied those volumes in preparation for writing Ed’s bio, I could tell at times what Ed wrote and what Noam did. Their voices can be distinct. The Political Economy of Human Rights was when Ed really began to come into his own as a political-economic writer, and his work came fast and furiously in the 1980s and 1990s, as he wrote about “terrorism (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#terrorism),” demonstration elections (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#terrorism), and other topics, and almost always in the context of how the media treated those subjects. That Ed became LOOT’s editor in 1990 (he was the only editor that LOOT ever had) was simply a natural follow-on to Manufacturing Consent (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#manufacturing) and his newly retired status.

It slowly became evident to me that Ed was a better writer than Noam was, and Ed was funny, with a wit that I came to love. Ed published his Doublespeak Dictionary (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Edward_S._Herman#Doublespeak_Dictionary_(within_Beyond_Hypocrisy)) in 1992, but his satirical glossaries go back to Demonstration Elections, published in 1984, and his Great Society Dictionary, published in 1968.

Somewhere in the mid-1990s, he began to become Uncle Ed to me. For another example of my fallible memory, I thought that I began my correspondence with Ed in the late 1990s, but I just dug through my email archives and found my first email exchange with Ed, which I reproduce below:


From: Wade Frazier
To: Edward Herman
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 5:15 PM
Subject: Thank you


Hello Professor Herman:

Over the years, I have corresponded with folks like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, but not until today did I know that I could email you so easily. Reading work like yours has comprised a great deal of my political education. The article that I read yesterday, titled "Genocide as Collateral Damage" is more of what has made you probably my favorite author of the left. I refer to your work plenty on my web site (http://ahealedplanet.net/home.htm).

I want to thank you so very much for the work you have done over the years. It has helped many, including me, figure out how our world works. Your impeccable work and often-funny style has made you "Uncle Ed" in my heart. With all the horror we see happening today, I remain an optimist regarding the future of the human race, and work like yours, though doing it can often feel futile, like shaking one's fist at a hurricane, has helped me see beyond my indoctrination. For that, you will always have my gratitude, and your work likely will have a lasting impact on the human race that probably few of us suspect.

Best wishes,

Wade Frazier

Dear Wade Frazier:

Thanks for your note; I'm glad to hear from you, and pleased that you have found my work useful. I like the looks of your web page, and it may help and inspire me to create one of my own, although I guess much of my stuff is available on the Z web site. I'll look at your site more closely in a few days when I get out from under some urgent obligations!

Stay in touch.

Best, Edward Herman


That was the beginning for us, and I have an email or two from him which he signed as “Uncle Ed.” I smile whenever I think of that. Typical Ed. Oh, how I am going to miss my monthly dose of Ed and our correspondence. As I think back to November 2001, it was a month after I contacted Uncle Howard (http://ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm). Howard and I only corresponded once, but it was enough. I was amazed to hear from Howard at all, and I certainly did not want to take up much of the time of people like him, Ed, and Noam. I have people tearing at me from all directions, and I can only imagine with it was like for them. So, the timing of when I first contacted Ed makes sense, and only a few months later, I stopped interacting with the general public (http://ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll).

I also dug up an email from Ed, when I wrote to him soon after Howard died in 2010, and Ed replied:


“Wade: Yes, Zinn's death was a painful shock. He was an awfully good and valuable man.

I hope you are well. The political scene is really stinko!

Best, Ed”


While digging around in my library for my Z Magazines, I had another life review. The hardest part of my residence moves has been moving my library, and last year, I decided that I needed to begin downsizing my library. The meat will remain, but a lot can go. Heck, who needs dictionaries today? I have several of them in my library, including one that is nearly a foot thick. If I could digitize my library, as I did for my CD collection, I would have done it long ago, but in this late-Fourth Epoch phenomenon of digital rights management (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management), it won’t happen. A professional cannot rent his tools, so I have generally resisted online subscription and electronic books, because the whim of the publisher/distributor can see me lose access to them, especially as old hardware and software are no longer used. That Golden Age of free information for all is still ahead of us (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5).

I had planned to jettison most of my dozen years or so of my Sedona Journal of Emergence (https://sedonajournal.com/) issues, and many of them indeed made it into my recycling bin that will be carted away tomorrow, but while digging around in my library, I was amazed at all of the magazines and newsletters that I subscribed to over the years of my scholarly studies, literally dozens of them, from channeling to fringe science to mainstream publications such as Time and Atlantic to Backpacker and Outside to radical political-economic magazines and newsletters, including Covert Action and the Christic Institute’s journal (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#covert), to soulful stuff such as The Sun. Some of what I dug up yesterday I had forgotten that I had subscribed to.

I seem to be doing lots of life reviewing these days. I hope that it does not mean that the end is near, as I have too much work to do! :)

Happy 2019,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I finished Squid Empire (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1611689236/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i0) yesterday, and am back to reading Odum’s masterpiece (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/14-Chapter-7-Early-Life-on-Earth?p=1458&viewfull=1#post1458). Those two works kind of highlight the spectrum of material that I use. Squid Empire is a breezy read, with many humorous asides, while Odum’s book is highly technical, so much so that I hesitate to use it in my work, although it has many important ideas in it. I’ll use it, but likely with some caveats, and I’ll likely treat Clack’s magnum opus (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/18-Chapter-11-Complex-Life-Colonizes-Land?p=1084&viewfull=1#post1084) similarly.

Squid Empire covered the history of cephalopods (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cephalopod), from the early nautiloids to today’s octopuses and squids. As with all popular science books these days, especially ones dealing with paleology, the author wrote at length about new discoveries, new tools, and new techniques, and how there was far more to discover and learn about cephalopods.

Quite a bit of Squid Empire was devoted to ammonoids (ammonoid2), and it discussed an issue that I planned to cover in the essay update more, which was how nautiloids survived while ammonoids went extinct (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ammonoid1). The thinking today is that nautiloids were deepwater dwellers that laid only a few large eggs that hatched miniature adults, and they could eat detritus, while ammonoids were surface dwellers that laid small eggs and lived off of the upper level of the ocean, largely as filter-feeders, similar to baleen whales, which meant a more direct reliance on photosynthesis for their food. In the end-Cretaceous catastrophe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction), which today is virtually unanimously agreed to have been due to a bolide impact, the “nuclear winter” wiped out photosynthesis for a year or more, and animals that heavily relied on the photosynthetic aspect of the food chains went extinct.

One thing became clear in Squid Nation: Peter Ward (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=738&viewfull=1#post738) is a revered luminary in the field. He is one of the leading nautilus researchers, maybe even the preeminent one, did important work on the ammonoid extinction, and his stature reaches far beyond the field of cephalopod specialists, as a globally recognized polymath whose work has extended into many areas, including writing popularized science and appearing on TV shows, TED, etc.

Cephalopods are actually doing well (except that nautiluses are threatened, because humans kill them to collect their fancy shells), as their ancient nemeses, fishes and whales, have been driven to the brink of extinction by human activities, and cephalopods are pretty resilient to the vagaries of Global Warming (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463). Human activities are doing three things to the ocean by burning fossil fuels (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=460&viewfull=1#post460): warming it, which reduces its oxygen content (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#absorption), and making it more acidic (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#acid). Those dynamics are not fearful imaginings by environmentalists, but measurable effects that are happening today. Most of the Great Barrier Reef (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrier_Reef#Environmental_threats) is dead today because of it. Because squids and octopuses don’t need much calcium to make shells, and they have that unique way of breathing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cephalopod), they are less vulnerable to what is happening in the oceans today, so are thriving. It is not a good thing, as they are performing like disaster taxa (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#disastertaxa) today.

All in all, Squid Empire was a good read, if on the breezy end of the work that I use. My work hurricane begins today, and I plan to work on Ed’s bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm) update this month, so I plan to be relatively quiet on the posting front.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I wrote this section of Ed’s coming bio update some weeks ago:


In 1998, Herman wrote a chapter of Cold-War Propaganda in the 1950s, titled, “Returning Guatemala to the Fold.” Herman’s chapter discussed the media-enabled American overthrow of the Guatemalan government in 1954, which served the interests of United Fruit Company, as the Guatemalan government attempted to nationalize unused land owned by United Fruit, as part of land reform activities, to provide farmland to Guatemala’s landless peasantry. As part of its propaganda campaign against the Arbenz government in Guatemala, United Fruit hired Edward Bernays, who actively managed the Times’s coverage, which complied with the “Red Scare” propaganda of the day. Allen Dulles, the head of the CIA and who had a financial stake in United Fruit Company (he once was a member of its board of directors), as did his brother John Foster, who was the Secretary of State of the time, got the Times’s reporter recalled from Guatemala when he reported that the political milieu in Guatemala was “nationalist” instead of “communist.” When the USA overthrew the Guatemalan government, there were a mere 4,000 communist party members in a national population of three million, and who had minor influence on Guatemala’s government. But those communists became the basis for the Red Scare overthrow of Guatemala’s government, which terminated a ten-year experiment in Guatemalan democracy and installed a series of corporate-friendly dictatorships that eventually engaged in genocide against Guatemala’s domestic population, particularly its Mayan peasantry.


I may put up other sections as I draft them.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265838&viewfull=1#post1265838):

That is a misleading analysis, on carbon dioxide emissions. I consider usage energy per capita (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita) to be the best measure, if we are going to discuss energy and economy.

Sure, parts of India are getting modernized, kind of, but the vast majority of India lives like Third Epoch peasants, with cow pie factories (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=668457&highlight=factory#post668457) providing their cooking needs, etc.


Where you see cow pie factories, I saw the background of the image and saw a changing india. I saw brick buildings and auto rickshaw instead of thatched huts and manual rickshaw like I did when I was growing up.

While USA uses 10 times energy of India, Europeans use 5 times as much and that number has not changed much for a century, all the while both societies fundamentally changed, and that I think is an effect of education including college education.

Like with the difference between cooked food vs uncooked and Frugivores vs Folivore, the epochs might better be thought about in terms of energy density. In the Third Epoch energy from sun is dispersed and needs to be collected over a wide area, this takes time that can't be spent on other activities. In the Fourth Epoch gas/coal/electricity are dense resources freeing up time for other activities, the most important use of the time has been basic education which in turn drives down child mortality, reduces fertility rate and increases life expectancy of the person who is educated. This reduction in demographic pressure meant that Europe and its offshoots could not invade and control countries directly but had to depend on local elites even more than say under the British Raj. This is part of the reason why Europe failed to maintain colonialism after second world war.





From http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic
1. Improvements in sanitation and nutrition reduced death rates, and particularly infant mortality;

Women began to receive education, and their “opportunities” were no longer confined to producing exploitable children.


improvement in education drove the improvement in death rates and child mortality, also it is not economic opportunities of woman that reduced fertility rate. In India I noticed that both working women and stay-at-home women have few kids.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1267550&viewfull=1#post1267550):

I’ll see what I can write before I go to work. This will be a little preview of my essay update, although I have written most of this before. I appreciate your concern about India and industrializing peasants, but it is not very relevant to my work.

As I have written plenty, my game is manifesting the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), period. The foundation of each Epoch of the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable) has been the energy practices of each Epoch. Everything else was noise, as it all depended on the energy event, because without it, the rest could not have happened. The pristine instances are by far the most educational aspects of each Epochal Event, each pristine civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1), and each technological breakthrough in the human journey. The later copying and spreading of them is not as interesting to me. Inventing them was the hard part. How they spread is a worthy subject of study, and each instance had its own dynamics and idiosyncrasies, but copying is far less demanding and interesting than inventing.

Not many white people write like I do about the awesome cost that the West has inflicted (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#first) on the world. Ed and Noam did (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection), and Noam is still at it. I can appreciate that Third Epoch peoples are doing their best to join the Fourth Epoch, no thanks to the West, but that is far less interesting to me than the pristine instance of it.

In each pristine instance of the Epochs, there was a new energy source, waiting to be exploited, and somebody eventually discovered how to do it. The First Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1) may well be the most interesting, as several key dynamics happened. I place its beginning around the invention of Oldowan tools (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oldowan), but some could argue going back to the split with chimps (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpsplit) and when the human line became bipedal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bipedskull). It not only increased the human range, which had energy dynamics, as upright walking is far more energy efficient, but it is looking like human biology adapted to a high energy regimen (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/24-Chapter-17-Humanity%C2%92s-First-Epochal-Event-Growing-our-Brains-and-Controlling-Fire?p=1597&viewfull=1#post1597), and the energy-intense growing of the human brain was the key development of the First Epoch. Around two million years ago, there was a migration past Africa (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#migrate1) by those upright apes, for the first since the Miocene (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#apemigration), and their migrating toolset is a source of controversy today. The “hobbits (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hobbit)” controlled fire, and if they did, maybe they all did. The control of fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1) was a First Epoch invention, and as Darwin said, along with language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language), it is humanity’s greatest invention. The Fourth Epoch is still dependent on it. The human brain dramatically grew to its present size in that Epoch, which led to everything that came later. Our so-called modern education is small stuff, compared to that. So, the split from chimps to the appearance of behaviorally modern humans is the Big One, and the only bigger one is going to be if/when humanity becomes a Type 1 civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev). Everything between those two events is just noise and the growing pains of becoming a truly sentient species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1).

Because I am a comprehensivist (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller), I write about the other Epochs, how they happened and why, and the Industrial Revolution is the easy one to study, as it happened during recorded history. The others didn’t, so it has been quite a scientific chore to reconstruct those events, and they are fascinating subjects.

There is a great deal of investigation, study, and controversy over the First Epoch, which is a fine thing. How humans grew their brains, how they learned to control fire, what caused them to migrate past Africa, how their toolset advanced, how and when language was invented – these are all highly worthy subjects of study.

The Second Epoch is also a subject of intense investigation and controversy, but its basic contours are being defined fairly well in my lifetime, with tools such as DNA testing, dating techniques, more archeological finds, etc. It looks like the Founder Group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit) migrated past Africa around 50-60K years ago. They were behaviorally modern (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap), had a highly advanced toolset, and nothing could stand in their way as they conquered Earth. All other human species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hobbits) and the easy meat (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna) soon went extinct. It was no coincidence (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climatechange2). Such a predator had never been seen on Earth before. There was a brief Golden Age of the Hunter Gatherer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#huntergatherer), as all of that easy meat was rendered extinct, and human territoriality took a hiatus as the wide-open spaces of Earth were there for the taking. Once all of that easy meat was gone, then it got territorial again, and violent (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#violence2).

At this time, I find Otterbein’s explanation (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873) of why Australians stayed stuck in the Second Epoch, while nearly everybody else found the Third, to be persuasive, and they were not “discovered” and driven to the brink of extinction until the early Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tasmania). Kangaroos were too fast to hunt to extinction, so big game hunting never died out in Australia, and that was always the province of men. So, Australia stayed patrilocal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1), territorial, and violent, even though bush foods (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_tucker) had many candidates for domestication and Australia had temperate climate zones ideal for a Domestication Revolution. It never happened, however, as hungry hunters could have violently stolen the fruits of all early attempts at farming. Until big game hunting died out, domesticating plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#natufian) could not be achieved. So, Australians hit the energy ceiling (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/107-Energy-thresholds?p=1165&viewfull=1#post1165) of their Epoch and never exceeded it, for more than 40,000 years. If not for the conquest of Earth by Europe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2), and their invention of the Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) in the middle of it, Australians would still be living in the Second Epoch.

I have to rush off to work, and I’ll write about the Third (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3), Fourth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4), and possible Fifth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) Epochs over the weekend.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

I’ll see what I can write before I go to work. This will be a little preview of my essay update, although I have written most of this before. I appreciate your concern about India and industrializing peasants, but it is not very relevant to my work.


sure I think about the current transitions, but when I write on your thread I am thinking about how it happened in the pristine instance.



Everything else was noise, as it all depended on the energy event, because without it, the rest could not have happened. The pristine instances are by far the most educational aspects of each Epochal Event, each pristine civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1), and each technological breakthrough in the human journey.



Not disagreeing with you about the importance of energy regime for each epoch, however you do write about the small stuff as I read it you describe demographic transition as

"energy-> food, sanitation -> reduced infant mortality
energy -> womens education -> womens opportunity -> reduced fertility"

I write it as

"energy-> education -> food, sanitation -> some impact on infant mortality
energy -> womens education -> major impact on infant mortality, fertility"

I am using contemporary data, but I dont see why the pristine instances are different
https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality
https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/under-5-mortality-rate-by-mothers-education-and-wealth-selected-countries-2003-2009-unesco-20110.png
https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/ourworldindata_nm-effect-of-edu-and-gdp-on-child-mortality.jpg

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Today, I saw the first reference to me as Ed’s biographer, here (https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2019/01/04/chomsky-unearned-prestige.html). Sadly, it was in an article that attacked Noam, and I think that I have linked to that author before. I have certainly linked to that site, with its decidedly alternative viewpoints. The author accused Noam of misrepresenting Lippmann’s work. Well, if Noam did, he is in very good company (1 (https://subtlepropaganda.wordpress.com/2016/07/14/lippmanns-propaganda/), 2 (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/05/stephen-bender/walter-lippmann-and-the-phantompublic/), 3 (http://www.walterlippmann.com/aptheker-on-lippmann.html), 4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Almond#Almond%E2%80%93Lippmann_consensus), 5 (http://www.masscommunicationtalk.com/walter-lippmanns-theory-of-public-opinion-formation.html), 6 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Opinion_(book)), 7 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Public)). Reading Lippmann’s work (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/lippman/ch15.html) can be instructive. That author is not the only on (https://clarespark.com/2009/08/19/noam-chomskys-misrepresentation-of-walter-lippmanns-chief-ideas-on-manufacturing-consent/)e to take on Noam’s characterization of Lippmann’s work. However, I think that Noam’s critics on that issue miss the mark. Lippmann was very much an elitist, as even his biographer admitted. While reading some of Lippmann’s work, it did feel kind of Machiavellian at times, which this author (https://www.lewrockwell.com/2005/05/stephen-bender/walter-lippmann-and-the-phantompublic/) also noted.

Many writers noted the inconsistency in Lippmann’s work (http://www.walterlippmann.com/aptheker-on-lippmann.html), as he wavered between descriptive (how it is) and suggestive (how it could be) narratives. His work mentored Ed Bernays (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bernays) in those halcyonic early days of the public relations industry. Uncle Ed cited Lippmann’s media analysis in his last Monthly Review article (https://monthlyreview.org/2017/07/01/fake-news-on-russia-and-other-official-enemies/), so it was a rather complex relationship that Ed and Noam had with Lippmann’s work. Ed cited Kinzer’s work, too, but was not too high on him as a journalist, calling his book on Kagame “hagiography (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#kagame).” I have a few of Kinzer’s books, and he definitely plays it safe when writing about the Empire, as any good New York Times journalist would. In his Overthrow, Kinzer called all of those overthrown governments foreign policy “mistakes” by the USA, not crimes. Noam and Ed wrote at length on that kind of spinmeistering (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#mistake).

Lippmann believed in technocratic governance, as specialists winnowed through the mass of information in the world, summarized it to the leaders, who then sold it to the “bewildered” public. That is basically the opposite of Noam’s ideal of government. That attacking article took Noam to task for signing an open letter (https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/04/23/a-call-to-defend-rojava/) on Turkey’s attacks on a Syrian city. I admit that Todd Gitlin is a very odd bedfellow for Noam, but Noam has long gotten heat for signing letters like that (think Faurisson (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#faurisson), for instance). I can see how that open letter can be construed as a demand for American intervention in Syria, but I think that Noam’s intent was to keep Turkey out of Syria, but I am no mind-reader. Noam must get at least one open letter a day, asking for his signature.

I could write for days on this issue, but will leave it for now. If humanity turns the corner, Ed, Brian, and Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures) will have no shortage of professional biographies about them, and it would be nice to live to see some of them. As far as Noam goes, what is common at those levels of the public intellectual milieu is would-be allies not seeing eye-to-eye on various issues. Not even Ed and Noam always saw eye-to-eye. Noam disapproved of Ed’s taking on the Left, such as Ed’s writings on the Cruise Missile Left (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project?p=1102&viewfull=1#post1102).

When I see specialists in various fields take on Noam, and particularly as they characterize his professional life, they often bungle it pretty badly, and I often see regurgitations of the attacks on his Cambodia writings (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#cambodia), which reflects a poor understanding of the issues, kind of at the tabloid level.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna:

I am going to reply specifically to your posts after I finish this essay update preview.

Hi all:

I have written about my journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601) enough that I don’t need to cover it here, but in summary, my real-world anthropology class was comprised of my days with Dennis. My life’s greatest lessons were learned then (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708), and everything else is the small stuff, including all of my years of study since then. I watched “tough guys” and former soldiers crumble all around me, and came to understand that my Boy Scout nature (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts) and youth allowed me to survive those days with my heart, health, and sanity intact.

That stated, my anthropological studies really began after my mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva), and I became quite the student of spirituality (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#seth). When human nature is the subject, I give a nod to the soul’s journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#michael). A King is going to approach life differently from an Artisan or Server, and Old Souls (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age) look at life far differently from how Baby Souls do. Those concepts are not really “provable” in a scientific/academic way, and I generally leave them out of my scholarly and scientific writings. But that does not make them irrelevant, either.

When I began to hit the books in 1990 (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=739&viewfull=1#post739), my early lessons were how big the lies were that I was raised with, from the news (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big) to history (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#more) to my capitalist indoctrination (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice). In 1997, when I began the studies that resulted in my site today, anthropology was a study early on, as I encountered Guns, Germs, and Steel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns,_Germs,_and_Steel), The Chalice and the Blade (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#masculine), and other works that attempted to explain today’s world from an anthropological perspective. In Eisler’s work, I first encountered the idea of the Kurgan Invasion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurgan_hypothesis), which was first proposed by Marija Gimbutas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marija_Gimbutas). That academic fur has flown for many years over those ideas, but today, they are generally accepted as accurate.

A close relative is a famous primatologist, and early on, I began to study the simian journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#monkeys) and human nature. But I did not really begin to get deeply into it until performing the studies that resulted in my big essay. Dimorphism is a simian trait (as well as many mammals, and dimorphism is common in all kinds of animals, and even plants (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism#Plants)), and human sexuality and gender roles help comprise the basics of human societies. Many human traits today can be seen in monkeys, and studies of chimps and bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1) make many people uncomfortable, partly because so many human traits are blatantly obvious when studying our closest of evolutionary cousins (as well as their highly social sexual behaviors).

Going up the human line to the split from chimps (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpsplit), and seeing the bonobo split, about a million years ago, there is little evidence and a lot of controversy over that journey from our last common ancestor with chimps to Homo erectus (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#homoerectus), which nobody doubts (other than those who prefer Bible stories (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tales) and other folk tales) is ancestral to Homo sapiens. Simian dimorphism is considered to be largely driven by male competition for mates, which includes their large canines. There is evidence of reduced canines and dimorphism (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dimorphism) on the journey from chimp to human, such as Ardi (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ardi), and it has been used in a debate that still rages, of the conflict between the Rousseauian versus Hobbesian (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hobbes) views of human “nature.” My essay update will get into that issue a bit more.

One thing that comes through very clearly is that females have had a rough ride in great ape societies, including human ones. Females in gorilla and chimp societies are very second-class citizens, and their infants are always in danger of being murdered by dominant males. Bonobos overcame it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1) when their food supply doubled. But even female-dominated bonobos were patrilocal. All of today’s evidence is that gorillas, chimps, australopiths and Neanderthals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1) were primarily patrilocal, if not exclusively. Matrilocal societies only appeared in that line, that we know of, in the early Third Epoch, when women began to domesticate plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#natufian) as an adjunct to their gathering duties. When women began bringing in more calories than the men, those societies could become matrilocal, which had likely not happened for at least ten million years. The Neolithic Expansion was one of those brief Golden Ages of the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages), at least for the farmers (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#maledna).

But when food could be concentrated and used for political purposes, men rose to dominance once again, and it is currently thought that slavery began when sedentary populations warred against their neighbors and enslaved them. It was very likely male-dominated societies that did that. Hunter-gatherer people also warred against their neighbors, but murdering them and taking their land was the goal. If you could feed captured people, their economic utility was far greater than just taking their means of sustenance. Enslaved humans became “value added” assets, in economics parlance.

The pristine instances of plant domestication were at least two, and maybe as many as nine. In four places where plant domestication began, the world’s only pristine civilizations formed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1). Women’s status universally declined with the rise of civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#womenstatus1), and their “jobs” were to be the broodmares of agrarian societies, as they spent their adult lives bearing and caring for children, of which only about half would live to adulthood, so several births per woman was the norm, as it also was in hunter-gatherer societies. Virtually no Third Epoch women were literate. Literacy was neither the province of women or slaves, nor of peasants in general. That situation, of subjugated women and slaves, with peasants existing in various states of servitude, lasted until the Industrial Revolution.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The pristine instances of fire control (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1) and crops (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#natufian) will likely never be fully resolved, but I consider it very possible that the control of fire was learned once, and spread. It was the most radical innovation in the history of life on Earth, and the human journey can be aptly divided into Before Fire and After Fire. Our so-called advanced industrial societies are still dependent on it, and fire likely was required for the appearance of Homo sapiens on the evolutionary scene. To a great degree, our tools made us. That said, those pristine instances are fascinating objects of study. Before I meet my maker, I expect to see plenty of new evidence adduced to either support or falsify Wrangham’s Cooking Hypothesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cooking) and the early control of fire. I think that the impact of fire cannot be overstated, but how much it had to do with anatomical changes in early humans is a fine subject of investigation and debate.

As I previously wrote (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1604&viewfull=1#post1604), I’ll have a more to say about the Rousseauian versus Hobbesian views of pre-civilized peoples. In general, I am going to come down on the Hobbesian side of the argument. There has been a great deal of romanticizing of hunter-gatherers (https://quillette.com/2017/12/16/romanticizing-hunter-gatherer/) in my lifetime, and there is little to warrant it, as far as I have seen. That “original affluent society” stuff is wishful thinking. Hunter-gatherer cultures, other than those brief Golden Ages (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages), were generally pretty grim affairs, particularly when viewed from today. Life was often nasty, brutish, and short, and from the hunter-gatherer days to the Industrial Revolution, a child’s chances of dying before adulthood were generally between a third and more than half, and the global chance of death before age 5 was over 40% in 1800 (https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality), and another 10-15% or so died after age 5 but before adulthood, so more than half of all babies in 1800 did not live to see adulthood, so a fertile women had to give birth about five times just to maintain the population, never mind growing it.

Otterbein’s take (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873) is pretty unique, as far as I have seen, and I wonder why. As far as I have seen, necessity was the mother of invention, and people don’t change their ways unless they have to, or the new way is so attractive that they leap after the chance. When a pristine instance of fire control or crop production spread, I think that the benefits would have been obvious to those who saw it, and copying it would have been natural. However, it seems that the Neolithic Expansion displaced hunter-gatherer men (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mendisplaced), not that they gave up their hunting and settled down. The women, however, may well have run to the horticultural life, particularly when they saw matrilocal societies. That was a horse of a different color. It was only later that farming became drudgery, and by then, it was too late to go back (https://www.gnxp.com/WordPress/2017/10/15/why-farming-was-inevitable-and-miserable/).

But those pristine instances were the seminal ones, and one pristine instance happened in recorded history, the Industrial Revolution, and it was obviously born of necessity. Nobody used coal if they could avoid it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday), and the first instance of successful commercial iron-smelting from coal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coke) was an act of innovation due to economic pressure. A newcomer to the area had difficulty getting charcoal for iron-smelting and gave coal a try, and that was the key event of the Industrial Revolution. If not for harnessing the energy of coal, for making both iron and power (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#steamengine1), England would have hit its Malthusian limit and declined and even collapsed, as so many previous civilizations had done.

What seems to be the case is that the physical strength of men made them superior to women in handling domestic animals, and pastoral societies were almost always patrilocal, while horticultural societies were often matrilocal, and when intensive farming with draft animals began, particularly in the Fertile Crescent, men rose to dominance again, and women’s status would not rise again until the Industrial Revolution. Their “jobs” were largely confined to raising peasant farmers, and the infanticide of girls (https://quillette.com/2017/12/16/romanticizing-hunter-gatherer/) even goes back to hunter-gatherers. Early Christian theologians even debated whether women had souls.

Agrarian societies faced absolute energy constraints, which made all agrarian societies very similar in their basics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up3). Of primary importance was that agrarian societies produced modest and constantly vulnerable energy surpluses from crops, which could only support a small professional class, with the elite sitting on top of them (Orwell’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#orwell) “middles” and “highs”).

Krishna’s buddy Ian Morris developed a social development scale, which was a measure of a society’s problem-solving ability, and the factors and ranking were:


Energy capture, with a bullet;
Social organization (urbanity was Morris’s proxy for it);
War-making ability;
And last and least, information technology (and literacy is in there).


I will publicly evaluate Morris’s social development scale at a later date, but while he shows information technology reaching parity with energy capture by the year 2000 in the West, its growth in importance virtually all happened in the 20th century. Also, we need to distinguish between social development and human development. Social development is a society’s ability to solve problems, and human development is about the human standard of living, and human development indexes have access to food, infant mortality, and education as factors, and the formal measures are life expectancy, education, and income (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index#Origins). A society that solves problems but neglects the welfare of its members is primitive, and humanity is still learning that one. I have written plenty about the homeless situation (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page15?p=1594&viewfull=1#post1594) in history’s richest and most powerful nation, and how subjugating the world’s peoples on behalf of corporations has been an American predilection since World War II (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection).

The Industrial Revolution ended chattel slavery and the subjugation of women, not a bout of conscience and “progressiveness” coming out of nowhere. While England is the pristine instance of industrialization, the USA’s experience was not far behind and is more interesting in ways. Today, the USA’s red states still have one foot in the Third Epoch. Dennis, Mr. Professor, and my father (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis?p=574&viewfull=1#post574) were all raised on farms, and all escaped them.

Scholars and scientists have debated for many years over why England industrialized and not China or Ancient Greece or Rome, and that debate will likely not end anytime soon. But I think it is important to understand that Western Europe was riding an energy wave long before industrialization. The explosion of watermill usage in Western Europe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill1) was unprecedented in the human journey, and that happened a millennium ago. Half a millennium ago, Europe achieved the unprecedented feat of turning the global ocean into a low-energy transportation lane (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2), and used it to conquer humanity. Those seminal energy events happened before literacy rose appreciably in Europe, and when it did rise, it was entirely dependent on the protoindustrial development of the printing press (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#printing).

Mainland northwest Europe led protoindustrial development, particularly the Dutch, and England began playing catch-up in the 1500s. Deforested England turned to coal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday) nearly a millennium ago, giving London Earth’s worst air pollution by the 1600s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coaluse). The workforce for the Industrial Revolution was comprised of peasants dispossessed by England’s Game and Enclosure laws (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gamelaw), and the Industrial Revolution began in the countryside, not the cities, as the countryside is where the energy was, such as the water to run mills. Literacy did rise with industrialization, as reading was reserved for elites and professionals from the very first civilizations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#writing), and as peasants became a dying breed in England (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution), literacy rose, as a natural side-effect.

The demographic transition began in northwest Europe, as a side-effect of industrialization. It began with reduced infant mortality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition#Stage_Two), and was largely due to improved sanitation, nutrition, and hygiene, which arose from the nascent scientific revolution. Don’t put your well next to your sewer might seem like common sense, and Ancient Rome and Tenochtitlan piped in their water from nearby mountains, but it took modern Europe awhile to adopt it. Literacy was not required for those practices to take hold.

As far as the liberation of women and slaves went, the key developments of the early English industrial revolution, which was its pristine instance, was using coal to smelt iron (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coke), using it to run steam engines (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#steamengine1), and developing machines that replaced people (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spinning). Spinning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wheel) had been women’s work since the beginning, as their nimble fingers, evolved for gathering, and its ability for use in households, as an adjunct to child-rearing duties, made it an ideal fit. Spinners supplied weavers, and a man’s physical strength was needed (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weaving#Hand_loom_weavers) for protoindustrial weaving. Mill-driven spinners (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_jenny) put human spinners out of business. Only when machines began replacing humans did the movement to emancipate slaves began (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery#Abolitionism). An institution that was hallowed throughout the Third Epoch came under siege when the Fourth began, and it was no coincidence. The USA on the brink of its Civil War (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#contrast) is the starkest contrast that I know of between Third and Fourth Epoch societies, with an industrializing north, in which slavery had been abolished, and an agrarian south that was dependent on plantation slavery. When some slaves were taught to read (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slavebreeding), it was only one book, the Bible, which justified slavery.

For me, so-called education is a very mixed bag, and it does not have that much to do with literacy. I estimate that about half of the “education” that Americans get is brainwashing (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#brainwashing), of one form or another (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#blinded). Chris made a brilliant recent post on how innumeracy may aid in understanding my work (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264947&viewfull=1#post1264947). Einstein worked without math whenever he could, as he understood its seductions. Math is not reality, but a pure abstraction. I am in the top 0.1% of math ability on Earth, and I crunch numbers for a living. I have known those in the top 0.001% of math talent, and I am keenly aware of the limitations of numerical presentations. Morris’s quantification of those factors in his social development scale is kind of innumerate, although I won’t argue against its general validity.

There is a lot more coming on these subjects.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

When scientists study fossils, archeological digs, extant hunter-gatherers, or modern civilizations, they seek evidence for questions such as:


What happened?
When?
Why?
How?


I am currently reading Violence and Warfare Among Hunter-Gatherers (https://www.amazon.com/Violence-Warfare-among-Hunter-Gatherers-Allen-ebook/dp/B01HTW1HKI/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1546963414&sr=1-6), and Richard Wrangham (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wrangham) is considered the dean of the warring savage idea, and Douglas Fry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_P._Fry) is considered the apostle of the peaceful savage. The warring savage appears to have won. :) This is a kind of a painful area of study for me, in a few ways. Fry’s magnum opus (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00EJ34SWA/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1) has the lead blurb on the book cover from Uncle Noam, and Ed cited a study in that book to take on Pinker’s assault on the peaceful savage meme. Having Noam’s blurb on the book cover makes the ideological nature of Fry’s work evident, but Pinker’s work is ideological (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#pinker), too. The debate has literally been called one between “hawks” and “doves.” There seem to be valid evolutionary reasons for human (primarily male) violence, but it has always been mediated by economics. When there is relative abundance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages), there is peace, and when resources get scarce (energy is always the ultimate resource), it gets violent. The chimp (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coalitionary) versus bonobo (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1) studies richly apply to the human journey.

The pristine civilizations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1) all had similarities, but also differences, which could be significant. When scientists study evolution and observe features in organisms that are similar to other organisms, a key issue is whether the feature is inherited (descent) or independently developed (convergent (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#convergent)). When humanity is studied, similar questions are asked, whether it is about language, architecture, or social organization. Why did humans domesticate plants in some places and not others? Why were some societies warlike and others peaceful?

The most influential civilization was the first (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer), in today’s Iraq. Civilization began only after thousands of years of the Domestication Revolution. The early villages were peaceful (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#catalhoyuk), but class systems began to develop early on (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cayonu). The first city (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer) became the prototype for Sumer, where a river met the sea, so marine and estuary resources complemented domestic herds and crops. City-states then arose between the rivers of Mesopotamia, and mass warfare began (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#warfare). In China, it was a bit different (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#china1), as the climate and terrain was different. Settlements, even with urban features, came and went, but around the time of Classic Greece (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#classicgreece), Chinese civilization began looking like the West’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chinacity), which likely reflected the West’s influence. The Egyptian (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nile1) and Harappan (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bronze) civilizations were directly influenced by Sumer, and even before an empire appeared in Sumer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#akkadian), the Old Kingdom of Egypt formed, kind of imperially, and empires accompanied all pristine civilizations, as a convergent feature. The USA is playing a very old game (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#fathers).

In the Western Hemisphere, there were two pristine civilizations (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mesoamerica), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#andean)), which developed in isolation from the Old World, and convergent features (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up3) existed aplenty. What it reflects, I believe, is what behaviorally modern humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap) invented, given their economic conditions. While Mesoamerica had cities that the conquering Spaniards (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#leon) had a high appreciation of, even being overawed by them, with incomparable markets and the like, the Incan Empire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#andean) was run like a communist state, and they had been smelting bronze (an elite prestige good, of course) for a millennium when the Spaniards conquered them. All agrarian civilizations had energetic limits, based on forests and soils, and all of them rose and fell over the millennia, largely as they depleted their energy resources, which were generally vulnerable to climate fluctuations. All agrarian economies had thin energy surpluses, even with their “grain cores,” and all were susceptible to collapse (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#unsustainable1). Women were the broodmares of all agrarian civilizations, as they produced exploitable peasants. Forced servitude was also a feature of all of them, as were standing armies, methods of toting up the elite haul (where writing came from (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#writing)), etc. The Old World had draft animals, while the Western Hemisphere didn’t, with the exception of the llama, which was the only suitable survivor of the holocaust that the first humans inflicted on the Western Hemisphere’s large animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#westernmegafauna). Draft animals definitely played a part in the Old World’s ascendance. The Aztecs invented the wheel, but it was only used for toys. Without draft animals, the wheel did not make much sense for Mesoamerican civilization, but they took full advantage of the low-energy transportation lane that the lakes of the Valley of Mexico afforded, which is likely why civilization began there in the first place.

The Amazon had towns before the Spaniards and Portuguese arrived, and they were likely influenced by Andean civilizations. Mississippian culture (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mississippian) was based on Mesoamerican maize, and it is debatable how pristine that civilization was, such as at Cahokia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cahokia). Another pre-Columbian city has been discovered (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etzanoa), in Kansas.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

more than half of all babies in 1800 did not live to see adulthood, so a fertile women had to give birth about five times just to maintain the population, never mind growing it. The demographic transition began in northwest Europe, as a side-effect of industrialization. It began with reduced infant mortality (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition#Stage_Two),

Data on survival to five years, for UK, USA and India (https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$marker$select@$country=gbr&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:0.16&:-0.014;;&$country=usa&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:0.16&:-0.066;;&$country=ind&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:0.079&:-0.062;;;&axis_x$which=child_mortality_0_5_year_olds_dying_per_1000_born&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:null&zoomedMax:null&spaceRef:null;&axis_y$which=children_per_woman_total_fertility&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:null&zoomedMax:null&spaceRef:null;&color$spaceRef:null;;;&chart-type=bubbles)
Another view
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/Children-woman-death-vs-survival?country=GBR
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/Children-woman-death-vs-survival?country=USA
and for contrast India
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/Children-woman-death-vs-survival?country=IND

Demographic Transition is drawn Birth Rates, Deaths Rates vs Time (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition#/media/File:Demographic-Transition-5-countries.png) this is not a good way to think about causation. A better way is to think about child surviving to 5 years or adulthood.

As linked above the number of surviving children (to 5 years) stayed fairly constant (in UK) or fell slowly (in USA) and by late 1900 was 3 surviving children per woman in USA and UK. At that point the transition in fertility is fairly advanced despite the baby boom of 1960s. This fall in fertility at the same time as fall in child mortality is expected if literacy is the key variable that drives both of them.
https://ourworldindata.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Rising-Education-Around-the-World-School-and-Literacy.png


The demographic transition ... was largely due to improved sanitation, nutrition, and hygiene, which arose from the nascent scientific revolution. Don’t put your well next to your sewer might seem like common sense, and Ancient Rome and Tenochtitlan piped in their water from nearby mountains, but it took modern Europe awhile to adopt it. Literacy was not required for those practices to take hold.

Yes elites built canals to get fresh water from the mountains, I doubt that the common people had access to clean water in Rome or Tenochtitlan. While the scientific revolution was a key player, the spread of new methods and ways of doing things was caused by literacy, which also caused sanitation, nutrition, and hygiene to improve. All of them under gridded by energy use in the industrial epoch.

This is why we find poor educated villages have less infant mortality than their richer neighboring villages.
Literacy is a requirement because it causes changes in behavior and how societies operate, as literacy spread to everyone is society, the voices of the masses got stronger vs the previous illiterate era, this is one of the causes of the absence of harems, slavery or child labor (which is disappearing across the world even in poor societies earlier than would be expected based on energy consumption) https://ourworldindata.org/child-labor

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I will now bring together both halves of my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#midpoint) on some themes, and they include:


Isolation
Innovation
The spread of pristine instances of innovation


You can see the idea of isolation and innovation in Peter Ward’s books. Take his Rare Earth (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_(book)), which posits that complex intelligent life might be very rare in the universe, as it arose in our relatively isolated part of the galaxy. It generated its fair share of controversy, as provocative books can. I will start this narrative a little closer to home, and focus on life on Earth. My essay update will cover this territory more, but how life began is a great controversy among scientists, and seems like an unsolvable riddle. But the general consensus is that life likely had 100 million years of evolution, at least, before it became the life that we know today (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#luca), and ideas like RNA world (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world) describe what life might have been like before DNA was invented. When life reached the stage of features common in our last universal common ancestor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor) (LUCA), no other life survived its spread. Was it too primitive to survive the spread of LUCA? No trace of pre-LUCA life exists on Earth today, so the issue of what the first life was may be forever beyond the reach of science, unless some kind of pre-LUCA life is found on Mars, for instance, which would then lend weight to the panspermia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panspermia) hypothesis of how life on Earth began.

Post-LUCA, life made many innovations, and the greatest, as far as we humans go, was the invention of complex life (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#complex) (although capturing sunlight (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#photosynthesis1) was essential to life’s spread on Earth, as was learning to split water (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#photosynthesis2), and life as we know it definitely would not exist without enzymes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#enzyme)). It looks like the invention of complex life happened once and then spread (or the others died out in our winner-take-all world). My table of early life (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#keyevents1) shows several innovations that are currently thought to have only happened once, and then spread. Unique events may have happened in unique environments or circumstances, and they generally spread because of their energetic superiority. The energy events on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyevents) have always been the most important ones. If we get over the hump and become a Type 1 civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev), it will be an energy event above all. How isolated any of those early events may have been will always be a matter of debate, but in the eon of complex life, such events are a bit less controversial. One key idea is that innovation happens at the margins, as isolated organisms make key innovations on the frontiers, and those innovations spread and dominate.

An early one that means the most to humans is when fish left water (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tetrapods) and colonized land. Plants had already done it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#landplants), or else there never would have been land animals. Today, scientists think that the fish that did that were the losers of aquatic life, pushed to the margins (the shore), and explored land as a means of survival. In the subsequent mass extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#extinctions) on land, the winners after the extinctions were usually marginal creatures that took advantage of cleared biomes, and there was an explosion of innovation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cambrian) in their wake, known as speciation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mendel). A key to dinosaurian dominance may well have been their novel method of breathing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#airsac), which birds exhibit today, which is far superior to how mammals breathe. It was likely a low-oxygen innovation, made during the greatest oxygen crash (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#turbinal) in the eon of complex life. After the greatest extinction event ever (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction), archosaurs rose to dominance and stayed there, and only a bolide event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction) ended their dominance and paved the way for mammals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mammals).

About 160 million years ago, some plants, possibly in response to dinosaurian browsing pressure, decided to use animals and feed them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#flowers), rather than defend against them, and the greatest symbiosis between plants and animals began, and the appearance of primates (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#primate1) was one of its outcomes. As the volcanism waned (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse) that kept the Mesozoic so warm, Earth cooled off, which led to the biggest mass extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mideocene) (so far) in the Age of Mammals, and some marginal monkeys (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#monkeys) left the shrinking tropical canopies and became apes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proconsul). That happened in an isolated Africa, and when Africa finally crashed into Eurasia, apes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#apemigration) and elephants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elephantsuccess) migrated from Africa and prospered, while the biggest migration happened the other way, as Eurasian mammals migrated to Africa and became the iconic megafauna of today’s Africa. In their initial isolation, apes and elephants evolved in ways that saw them become the most successful land mammals ever, while the other African megafauna largely lost out to the Eurasian megafauna. That happened many millions of years after Europe and Asia joined, and most European mammals went extinct (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#endeocene). Before the rise of humans, elephants dominated all biomes on Earth that they could get to. Only Australia and Antarctica remained elephant-free, as they could not swim to Australia or Antarctica, and there was not much vegetation to graze in Antarctica. :)

Many millions of years later, South America crashed into the North American landmass (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pliocene), and North American mammals, which had been repeatedly invaded from Asia (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#asianmigration), quickly dominated South America and drove its megafauna to extinction. Only some South American animals with unique survival strategies – ground sloths with their prodigious claws, glyptodonts with their armor, and porcupines with their quills – survived the invasion from North America. So, isolation was not always a boon, at least when it ended, as more competitive animals prevailed. South American monkeys (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#africarefuge) never left the canopies to become ape-like. There are many examples like that, of only one isolated population making the innovation that led to new species, while the others didn’t change. The human journey is also full of that kind of dynamic, which could be anatomical in the early stages, but later became innovations in tools and social organization, and those with the new methods prevailed against those that didn’t, and frequently drove them to extinction.

What we call the human journey arguably began with the split from the last common ancestor with chimps (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bipedskull). Chimps themselves were marginal gorillas (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gorilla), driven to the fringes of the shrinking rainforest, while gorillas lounged in its heart. Some marginal chimps found themselves pushed to the woodland edge of the ever-shrinking rainforest, as Earth became cooler and dryer on its way to our current ice age (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#quaternary), and began to walk upright in order to navigate the woodlands and eventually grasslands of a drying Africa. More than three million years ago, some australopiths began to make stone tools (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stonetool1), and the rise to humanity began in earnest. Even after colliding with Eurasia, Africa went through periods of relative isolation, as the Arabian Peninsula was often a big desert, and the last remnant of the Tethys (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tethysend), the Mediterranean, along with the Saharan Desert, kept eastern and sub-Saharan Africa relatively isolated from Eurasia.

So, eastern and southern Africa became a laboratory of innovation for those upright apes, and the Oldowan culture (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oldowan) appeared just as our ice age began. At the time, there were several species of upright apes, and they persisted until about a million years ago in Africa. Why did they go extinct? It was around the same time that the human line became Man the Hunter. About two million years ago, something new appeared on the evolutionary scene in Africa, an ape that entirely left the trees (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#homoerectus), and there is no doubt that it is humanity’s direct ancestor.

That first undisputed member of the human line made the first ape migration past Africa in nearly 15 million years, and spread across Eurasia’s temperate and tropical zones. Some made it to the Pacific side of Asia and stayed in their isolation for more than a million years, to only go extinct around the time that Homo sapiens arose. What may have been australopiths migrated to an island off of Asia and became island-dwarfed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hobbits), and lived there for a million years or so, to only go extinct about the time that behaviorally modern humans arrived. There is a great deal of that kind of dynamic regarding the rise of humanity, as long-standing species suddenly went extinct around the time that humans arrived. There is quite a cottage industry of scientists and scholars who exclaim, “What a coincidence!” each time, as they proffer climate change (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climatechange2) and other explanations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#velikovsky) that “coincidentally” absolve humans of responsibility. Somewhere in those early days, somebody learned to control fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1), which was the seminal event in the human journey. When fire was controlled, everything changed, and dramatically. This is a huge area of controversy today, and the debate will likely outlive me.

I consider it very possible that the control of fire was learned once, and spread, for cultural descent explaining its spread, not convergence. The control of fire was an unprecedented feat, which separated the human line from everything that went before it. Stone tools and projectile weapons paled next to the innovation of fire control.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

The pristine instances of fire control (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1) and crops (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#natufian) will likely never be fully resolved, but I consider it very possible that the control of fire was learned once, and spread.

I worry about the emphasis here. Mastery of fire could have taken a really long time of the order of 100 thousand years or more, I assume that it was a relatively gradual process with the rift valley having hot springs all over the place cooking might have been a matter of throwing food into the water, waiting and eating it later, scavenging cooked food is the other way. My guess is that it is a cumulative process, and once a threshold was passed homo genus had control of fire.

[Krishna]

I consider it very possible that the control of fire was learned once, and spread, for cultural descent explaining its spread, not convergence.

It is not convergence, it probably happened once in a cumulative process over a long time. Once can also imply an instant of time, and that line of thought is incorrect. It is not just invention, we have to think about diffusion and whether the new invention lives within the social structure at that time.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

We will never know just how the first fire was controlled and became a permanent part of a society, but the control of fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1) was simultaneously a technical, cognitive, and social act, and was the seminal early achievement of the human journey, which Darwin thought was only rivaled by the mastery of language. Monkeys and apes have social learning (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rhesusmirror), and the spread of the first stone tool culture almost certainly was accomplished that way. But the first time that fire was controlled was the big feat, unprecedented in the journey of life on Earth, and it spread socially. The first time was invention, and the second was mimicking, which monkeys and apes are good at. Fire may have been controlled independently, in convergent events, as apes or people performing similar activities came up with similar solutions. But the control of fire was such an elaborate undertaking for the time, and I doubt that it was learned independently of the first instance. Learning to make fire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_making) probably happened later, and I am going to guess that it happened once, and then spread.

That First Epoch event happened so long ago that the evidence will never be resolved conclusively, of when, where, how, and who. But for the Second Epoch, the evidence is strong that about 50-60 thousand years ago, the Founder Group left Africa (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit) and conquered Earth. The dispersal route is fairly clear. All of the world’s easy meat (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna), as well as all other human species, were driven to extinction over the next 40-50 thousand years. The human genome got Neanderthal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#europeinvasion) and Denisovan (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#denisovan) DNA incorporated into it during that Epoch. When Second Epoch met first, it was all over for First Epoch peoples.

For the Third Epoch, we have very clear evidence that at least two paths were taken to it: the pristine instances of it, and their spread. Otterbein’s graphic (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873) of the two paths to war is also the two paths to the Third Epoch: the pristine ones, and how they spread to hunter-gatherer societies. In the pristine instances (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1), women’s status rose as those societies became horticulturalists after the big game was rendered extinct, and then declined again when men rose to prominence as chiefdoms, then states, formed. In the hunter-gatherer tribes, the introduction of crops, and later the introduction of the idea of states, influenced the development of what Otterbein called “early states,” and women never had high status in those. Pristine states had very different paths of development from early states. Type A and Type B societies were radically different. One was patrilocal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1) and violent, and the other was matrilocal and relatively peaceful. Pastoral and draft-animal societies were dominated by men, because their physical strength was needed to handle livestock. Horticultural societies were the ones where women’s status rose for the first time since monkeys (and a splinter chimp group known today as bonobos (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonobo1)).

When Third Epoch met Second, it was all over for the Second. It did not happen immediately, but when the Neolithic Expansion and other Third Epoch expansions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mendisplaced) happened, it drove male hunter-gatherers from humanity’s gene pool. The farmer men got the women, and the hunter-gatherer women may have run into the arms of the farmers. Australia is a great example of an isolated population that stayed in their Epoch, never inventing the means to leave their Epoch. When Australia was “discovered” by the early Fourth Epoch English, within 60 years, 95% of the aboriginal population of southeast Australia had died off. Those holocausts happened during recorded history, even the modern era, but there is still plenty of controversy, similar to the megafauna extinctions, as nobody wants to own what happened (or what their ancestors owned, which they are beneficiaries of today, as I am (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#familyname)).

There are no pure Second Epoch societies on Earth today, as all have been touched by the Third and Fourth. Similarly, there are no pure Third Epoch societies on Earth today, as all have been touched by the Fourth, and the trajectories of those societies have been radically different from the transitions made by the pristine instances. As a prelude to coming posts on the subject, I’ll quote Paul Bairoch, in his The Economic Development of the Third World Since 1900.


“If the ‘take off’ in the modern developed countries was able to get under way without being handicapped by the low level of literacy of the population, it was because conditions at the beginning of the nineteenth century were so totally different. Industrial technique was largely improvised and based on simple empirical grounds. Today conditions are totally different: science plays an overwhelming part in technology, and thus in economic and industrial life. For this reason the level of literacy has a much greater impact than it did in the early nineteenth century, and this is why of late, particularly in the last two decades [Bairoch’s book was published in 1975] so much emphasis has rightly been placed on education in developing countries.”


And that is really my point, that the pristine instance was radically different from the spread of it. The inventing was the hard part, and what came later, not so much. Bairoch also devoted a chapter of that book to the demographic transition in what were called Third World societies in those days, and he showed that early on, the trajectory of their demographic transition was greatly influenced by Western medicine and Western-grown food. In his later masterpiece, Cities and Economic Development, published in 1988, he wrote that half of the calories consumed in the cities of Third World nations with market economies came from the farms of industrial nations.

As with pristine and early states, in the end, they looked similar (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up3), because they had similar energy levels, but they got there by very different routes, and the imprint of those diverse routes could be quite discernable on those societies. The American path to industrialization has left a deep imprint on American society that can be seen today. The English one was different and the pristine instance, the one that had no previous example to draw on, and their Industrial Revolution was more than a century old before anybody realized that it was a revolution. The demographic transition was similarly unconscious, only evident in retrospect.

With dynamics like that, there is no way that the demographic transition of the world’s poor nations will closely resemble the original one, and I’ll get to that in later posts. How they are making the transition is quite tangential to my work, which is about manifesting the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir), and like the Industrial Revolution, there will be only one pristine instance, but the technologies that I am aware of (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) will make it so that all people will almost immediately have access to Fifth Epoch energy levels, which will make the rest possible (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#necessity). Time is short for humanity to manifest the Fifth Epoch and right the ship (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth). Some nations will have one foot in the Second Epoch, and others will have one or both feet in the Third. The USA has one foot in the Third, as the Fourth Epoch is so young, but all people will find the transition to the Fifth Epoch pretty easy, like getting used to being billionaires.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am going to take a little break from writing about Epochs, pristine instances, the Industrial Revolution and the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1602&viewfull=1#post1602), to write an anniversary post. Thirty years ago today, I was driving to my new job in LA, at a medical lab (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#experience), just before the authorities and media began their campaign to wipe us out. About a year later, I would be the highest-ranking member of administration to survive the takeover by an arm of a Fortune 500 company. People lost their careers with what happened, and fear was in the air, but it possessed a pastoral calm for me when compared to 1988, which was my life’s worst year. I still look back at those days in a kind of awe, and can discern the heavy hand of my “friends (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3),” as they helped wake me up.

Thirty years ago today, Dennis was in solitary confinement (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#solitary), Mr. Researcher was in hiding (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#espionage), and Mr. Deputy was playing King Rat, with his meteoric promotion over the case of his career and his performance at the preliminary hearing (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=681&viewfull=1#post681). With him off the legal hook when the judge remanded the case to trial, it was no more Mr. Nice Guy, and he and his henchmen tried to break Dennis for trial.

Thirty years ago today, Dennis was writing what became My Quest, and he was writing that he did not expect to live to see this side of the bars again, and he nearly did die in incarceration, as the authorities repeatedly put him in position (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mistakes) to be murdered by the inmates. My life’s darkest month (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hiding) was behind me (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#it), and to the untrained eye, it looked like evil had prevailed, but 30 years ago today, I began thinking about what I could do to spring Dennis from jail. Within a week, I had my fateful meeting with Gary Wean (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1421&viewfull=1#post1421). I mortgaged my life the next month (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mortgage), to give Dennis a snowballs’ chance, and six weeks after that, he was out of jail, in the biggest miracle that I ever witnessed, which Dennis and I knew was a case of divine intervention. To this day, public officials and the media lie (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#ftc) about those days, as do “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#libel)” and talking heads in the free energy field (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#libel), and I still bear the brunt of those lies (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/94-My-last-posts-in-another-forum), as they dupe the credulous. And my situation is far more spectacular and harrowing than I publicly write about, which those who do their homework know well.

Simply put, without those adventures and going through that meat grinder, I would likely not have much worth saying. All of the work that went into my scholarly and scientific writings was trivial, compared to what I learned from my days with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=707&viewfull=1#post707). My choir qualities (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/52-Helpful-Prerequisites-for-Forum-Participation?p=69&viewfull=1#post69) won’t change much, if at all. If a person’s heart is not the right place (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308), the rest won’t matter, and if people have not had an awakening experience (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309), they are trapped by their conditioning (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) and can’t help with what I am doing. I rank “intelligence (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/70-Distinguishing-the-wheat-from-the-chaff-and-my-life-s-journey?p=102&viewfull=1#post102),” study, scientific literacy (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=313&viewfull=1#post313), and a mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=312&viewfull=1#post312) below those first two essential qualities. Without those first two qualities, the level of sentience (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sentience1) required for an effort like mine will not be achieved.

Also, those first two qualities are essential to help ground people. Unless a person has both feet firmly on the ground, it is very easy to lose one’s way on this terrain, and I see people stumbling around in the dark all the time, and they are distracted by any bright shiny object that they happen upon, they succumb to fear and scarcity, etc. I have watched people go off the deep end by merely brushing up against my work. Getting to productive understandings of these issues is like walking the razor’s edge. I had to grope around for many years myself, fumbling toward where I ended up, encountering beacons such as Uncle Bucky (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller), Uncle Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm), and Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm) along the way.

Speaking of Uncle Ed, I am not getting his bio update done, writing about Epochs and the like. I am in the middle of reading a book dedicated to Ed’s memory (https://www.amazon.com/Propaganda-Model-Today-Filtering-Perception/dp/1912656167/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547216581&sr=1-1), which is devoted to the Propaganda Model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing). That book, along with that recent journal issue devoted to Ed (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/issue/view/3), along with the stacks of Z Magazines on my office floor, and Ed’s essay on overthrowing Guatemala’s government (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1601&viewfull=1#post1601), will form the bulk of my update of Ed’s bio. We’ll see if I get it done this month. After that, it will be off to the long process of updating my big essay, for what may be the most significant update that I will ever make to it. I doubt that I will finish the job this year, and after that, I plan to write a book based on the updated essay. My work is all about helping usher in (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), and everything else is the small stuff.

I was already planning to move my demographic transition section (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic) of my big essay up to the Industrial Revolution chapter (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4), and with what Krishna has stirred up lately ( :) ), I’ll have to expand on that section a little. I found myself rereading some of Paul Bairoch’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bairoch) books in my library, will weigh in on the demographic transition and the pristine instance of it a little more, and will probably discuss how it was different from what we see happening today in industrializing nations. I’ll get into it more, soon, but I might have to put it aside to get Ed’s bio update done.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This will be a brief one on one of the surreal aspects of what I do. I am currently reading Howard Odum’s masterpiece (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/14-Chapter-7-Early-Life-on-Earth?p=1458&viewfull=1#post1458), Richard Heinberg turned me onto the idea of Peak Oil (http://ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm#catton), and Vaclav Smil is Bill Gates’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates) favorite energy author. All three of those authors were/are supposedly radical, comprehensive thinkers. Odum challenged the validity of the Big Bang hypothesis in his magnum opus, Heinberg at least mentioned the possibility of free energy in his work, and Smil argued for radical energy solutions in his work. It turned out that Heinberg only mentioned free energy so that he could semi-ridicule and dismiss it (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#heinberg), and when I approached him with a very friendly invitation to get educated on the very situations in free energy that he wrote about, even introducing him to Brian O, Heinberg ran away as fast as he could and even treated free energy like the enemy. Heinberg was onboard with the idea that 9/11 was an inside job (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#sept11), but could not seem to imagine the organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) of free energy technology.

Odum challenged the Big Bang. I have no problem with an author challenging the Big Bang, and the “tired light” explanation for the redshift (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redshift), which much of the Big Bang hypothesis rest on, was first proposed nearly a century ago, and if that ultimately proves to be true, it will be no big surprise to me. However, challenging the Big Bang is off the reservation of mainstream physics, a radical challenge to a hypothesis that nearly all scientists subscribe to today. Smil wrote about how unorthodox energy theories should not be dismissed, as no stone should be unturned in the search for an energy solution, an idea which Gates has publicly endorsed.

So, those are authors allegedly at the leading edge of thought on the energy issue, and comprehensive, radical thinkers. Odum never seemed to imagine the idea of free energy, and his prescription was a radical downsizing of humanity as it runs out of fossil fuel energy. I never saw Smil even hint at free energy’s possibility, and Heinberg only mentioned free energy to ridicule and dismiss it, and his “solution” is a 90% depopulation of Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#austerity), to get in line with post-fossil-fuel energy levels. Their kinds of responses, or lack thereof, were partly why Brian O began openly wondering if humanity is a sentient species (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience).

Among the so-called radical left (http://ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm), I at least heard back from Noam, back in 1992, before I got the polite brushoff. Uncle Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1599&viewfull=1#post1599) once admitted to me that as an economist, he had neglected the energy issue (Ed was in good company (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists)), but I tried to introduce him to Brian several times, and Ed was never interested. The bizarre part is that those unimaginable technologies are older than I am (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground). The solution that dwarfs everything else on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev) is treated with denial, fear, etc. It is truly surreal.

Those are supposedly humanity’s leading thinkers, on the energy issue, no less, and I never found anybody home. After receiving or encountering many of those kinds of reactions to the idea of free energy, I began writing about addictions to scarcity (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#misinformation), being blinded by the paradigm (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#blinded), and I eventually made the case that free energy is so Epochal in its impact that people simply cannot imagine what it means (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), or they react in fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level5) and denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1), as all that they can see is their world ending, never mind that the end of their world can mean something like heaven on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate).

And for the vanishingly few who get past denial and fear, they nearly invariably get stuck in inventor-itis (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level6), “sneak past them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7)” delusions, Young Warrior (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level9) delusions, megalomania (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#messiah), greed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#greed), and so on (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested). Navigating past all of those pitfalls (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#pitfalls), to reach Level 12 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level12), is truly like walking the razor’s edge, and I encounter people who have accomplished it, or are even trying to, very rarely. Brian’s statement of how the free energy pursuit is like a walk through the desert (http://ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#lonely) was no exaggeration. Looking for needles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle)…

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I think that I need to emphasize the Epochal nature of my work. My big essay is organized around the energy events of Earth’s, life’s, and humanity’s history (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyevents). I do it for good reason: energy drove those events. The foundation of each Epoch of the human journey was the energy practices of each Epoch. The energy practices were the critical determinants of each Epoch, and my essay is intended to make energy’s role clear over the Epochs and eons. If life did not learn to split water for its electrons (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oxygenic) in photosynthesis, Earth would have lost its ocean long ago and there not would be life on Earth was we know it. If plants did not decide to feed animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#flowers) from their photosynthetic bounty, instead of defend against them, primates would have never existed, including humans. The ultimate cause of our ice age (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#quaternary) was declining carbon dioxide levels (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse), due to declining levels of volcanism, which is primarily due to declining levels of radioactivity in Earth’s interior. In a billion years or so, the radioactivity will decline to the level where plate tectonics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tectonics) will stop, Earth will become geologically inert, and life will begin to die off, and complex life will go first, basically by carbon starvation, which is already happening, as we can see with the rise of C4 plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#grass2). It will happen around the same time that the Sun, as it runs out of fuel, brightens by another 10%, which will boil off Earth’s oceans (http://theconversation.com/the-sun-wont-die-for-5-billion-years-so-why-do-humans-have-only-1-billion-years-left-on-earth-37379). So, choose your poison: plate tectonics dies off due to Earth’s interior running out of fuel, or the Sun expands as it runs out of fuel and wipes out Earth. They are currently predicted to happen around the same time, not that anybody today needs to worry about it. :)

The First Epoch of the human journey was an energy event above all else. Somehow, the human line was able to ingest enough energy to radically alter ape anatomy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpsplit) and grow the human brain (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpbrain) to where it is today. Without the growth of that brain, the rise of humanity would not have happened, and the two greatest achievements of the First Epoch were the control of fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1) and the mastery of language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language). When the Founder Group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit), comprised of behaviorally modern humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap), left Africa 50-60k years ago, humanity’s fellow species and the world’s easy meat (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna) were doomed.

The First Epoch saw the arrival of behaviorally modern humans on the evolutionary scene, and human anatomy has barely changed since then. We have the same cognitive toolset that the Founder Group left Africa with. We are all the Universal People (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up). As far as humanity goes, the chief impact of the Second Epoch was a thousand-fold increase in humanity’s population, as our ancestors conquered all of Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems. Scientists such as Peter Ward (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=738&viewfull=1#post738) don’t deny the megafauna holocaust, and he even argued that it was a good thing for humanity, as sabretooth tigers, for instance, would have eventually learned to hunt humans, and the universal elephants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elephantsuccess) (except for Australia, which they could not swim to) and other huge mammals would have been hell on human settlements. So, ridding Earth of its megafauna was essential for the rise of civilization, in that regard. Ridding Earth of its megafauna also had a different reason for the rise of civilization: it led to the Third Epoch. As the easy meat became extinct (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873), in a few places on Earth conducive to it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran), women began domestic plants, as an adjunct to their gathering duties, and the Third Epoch was born. In Australia, even with many candidates for plant domestication, the aborigines were never able to hunt the fleet-footed kangaroo to extinction, so big game hunting remained the primary subsistence practice, and the Australians never left the Second Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1602&viewfull=1#post1602), at least until early Fourth Epoch Englishmen invaded, and the aborigines were quickly driven toward extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1608&viewfull=1#post1608).

The primary outcome of the Third Epoch was a 200-fold increase in humanity’s population. Farming was vastly superior to hunting and gathering, from an energetic perspective. The Neolithic and Bantu expansions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#maledna) were a time of easy living, at least for those doing the expanding, with their domestic plants, but it also wiped out the hunter-gatherers, or more precisely, it drove hunter-gatherer men from the gene pool. It may have been not all that coercive on the part of the women, as the spreading Neolithic societies were matrilocal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1), which had not been seen in the human line for ten million years or so, and those early horticulturists ate well. Women’s status in those societies was the highest ever seen in the human journey, until the Industrial Revolution (and those were also the most peaceful preindustrial societies), which was, as usual, primarily an energy event.

But as farming became intensive, a few dynamics once again reduced women’s status. One was that the dense human settlements that dense energy practices allowed led to energy surpluses that could be gathered and used for political purposes, and men found a way to exploit that, which led to chiefdoms and then states, in the four pristine instances of it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1). But even they were not all as pristine as it might seem. The South American rise of civilization was influenced by the key Mesoamerican domesticate, maize (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maize#Pre-Columbian_development). So, while the Andean civilizations may have not been culturally influenced by Mesoamerican civilization, they were influenced by Mesoamerican energy practices. The same goes for North American civilization. The Mississippian culture appeared (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mississippian) only after maize was introduced. And as with other horticultural societies, the societies of the Eastern Woodlands were matrilineal.

When the invading English (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#english) encountered the matrilineal societies of the Eastern Woodlands, they witnessed something not seen in Old World civilizations for thousands of years, and they witnessed functioning democratic societies, in which even the children got to vote (their mothers voted for them). An epidemic problem for the invading English was the “settlers” running off and “going native (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#captive),” as the superiority of native societies was evident, especially as the early invaders starved. It is very legitimate to wonder how influential the societies of the Eastern Woodlands were on a European development called the Enlightenment (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#voltaire) today (the French, unlike the English, had a high appreciation of Native American cultures, and the Enlightenment began there, and I doubt that it was a coincidence), but it may never get a fair hearing, with the ingrained racism and bigotry in Western academia. Such “savages” could not influence the high civilization of Western Europe.

Learning to sail the oceans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2) increased Western Europe’s effective hinterland, which enhanced their energy supplies and allowed them to conquer humanity. Without the invention of that low-energy transportation lane, Europeans would not have conquered humanity. Europe had been riding an energy wave for centuries before its conquest, beginning with its High Middle Ages (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hma), which was driven by a warming trend, with the explosion of watermills (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill1), the expansion of agriculture and deforestation, and using them to fuel a great period of city-building. Urbanization finally came to northwest Europe, several thousand years after Sumer (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sumer) invented it. Sumer became the first civilization and its first literate one (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#writing), too (and Sumer also invented the sailing ship (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat1)), and watermills were invented (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill) by the Ancient Greeks. During those High Middle Ages, captured Islamic libraries (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#toledo) reintroduced the Ancient Greek teachings to Europe, centuries after the Catholic Church had completely eradicated such “pagan” teachings, and the rise of humanism began, which led to the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution. Almost none of the developments of that rising Europe were invented by them.

The modern state got its start in what are called the Low Countries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Republic#History), as the Dutch began their rise to world domination. Similar to how Rome was influenced by Eastern Mediterranean polities, Alexander the Great’s empire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#alexander) most of all, England was a backwoods realm in 1500, but the Dutch inspired it to its rise, and the Germanic invention of the printing press (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#printing) a few generations earlier led to the proto-industrial development of the spread of literacy, which Luther’s little revolt took advantage of, not much different from how I am using the Internet in a novel way. As the Dutch threw off Spanish rule, the Dutch and English invented the forerunners of modern corporation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eastindia)s, to complement their nascent imperial efforts.

So, many factors led to Europe’s rise, but it was an energy event above all else. The Dutch did not initially have coal to exploit, so they burned peat (and exploited the windmill in unprecedented fashion), but deforested England (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday) had turned to coal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eleanor) during the High Middle Ages, and although none of them realized it yet, that was the key to the Industrial Revolution. There was not much peat to exploit on Earth, but there was plenty of coal. The Romans mined English coal, so the English certainly did not invent coal mining, but they exploited coal on an unprecedented basis, and that formed the backbone of the Industrial Revolution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coaluse), as one Epoch of the human journey passed to another, which brings me to the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic).

Ever since my radicalization in the 1980s, during my first stint with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601), I have looked at Western scholarship with a very critical eye. I don’t have much respect for economists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists), who are basically intellectual warriors for whoever feeds them. In my opinion, they are largely lost in the weeds, focusing on exchange (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange), as if it was some kind of magic potion, when it is only a peripheral issue. Money is only an accounting mechanism. I am a professional accountant, and am decidedly unimpressed with a lot of the number-crunching that I see performed in academia and elsewhere. Without a scientific understanding of the issues, it is easy to get carried away with minor aspects of the events, seeing them as primary causal, when they are only side effects.

The Industrial Revolution was more than a century old before anybody suspected that it was a revolution, as scholars such as Marx (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#marx1) began to write about it, but even he wrote before the science of energy rose, so classical (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists) and neoclassical (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#neoclassical) economists have largely ignored energy in favor of social theories, when all social changes of note rode atop the energy issue.

Tim Dyson wrote a book on the demographic transition (https://www.amazon.com/Population-Development-Demographic-Tim-Dyson/dp/1842779605/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1547403167&sr=1-1), which surveyed the related scholarship, and like the Industrial Revolution, the pristine instance of the demographic transition was more than a century old before it began to be studied.

Science is concerned with finding causes, not effects. It is easy to confuse them, and the history of science and scholarship is full of the debate between correlation and causation. I found plenty to disagree with in Dyson’s book, but what I found rather amazing was that he put the demographic transition on the shoulders of the Enlightenment, and stated that the Industrial Revolution had little to do with it. The Industrial Revolution was a side-effect of the Enlightenment! I am not the only reader (http://www.theactuary.com/archive/old-articles/part-1/book-review-3A-population-and-development--26-238212-3B-the-demographic-transition-by-tim-dyson/) who questioned Dyson’s Enlightenment explanation of the demographic transition. What Dyson got right, IMO, is that demographers generally agree that the decline in infant mortality came first, and then came the decline in fertility.

As far as the cause of the decline in infant mortality, Dyson credited the decline in infectious disease, which he almost completely credited to vaccination, and I have strong doubts about that (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/80-Vaccination?p=184&viewfull=1#post184). Improvements in sanitation, hygiene, and nutrition get the nod in my book, not vaccination. It is like crediting the decline in tooth decay to fluoridation (http://ahealedplanet.net/fluoride.htm), IMO. For the pristine instance, the idea that women’s education had much to do with it is very marginal, and I don’t buy it myself. For the subsequent transitions, I’ll agree that education played a key role, but that is just to plug peasant societies into an already industrialized world. It happens far faster today (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition#Critical_evaluation), as poor nations can cheaply reproduce key features of the pristine instance, such as sanitation and hygiene, the so-called Green Revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution) has played a key part, and education plays a key role today. In the pristine instance, not so much, but it is far more important today, for those poor nations.

The pristine instances influenced all that came behind them, whether it was the rise of civilization, industrialization, or the demographic transition, which I consider a byproduct of the Epochal change wrought by industrialization, and the so-called Enlightenment did not begin until the processes of industrialization were quite far along, even though nobody recognized it at the time. Adam Smith (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#smith) was an Enlightenment philosopher, writing as England’s Industrial Revolution was really gaining steam (pun intended :) ), but if you had asked him what he thought about the Industrial Revolution, he would have had no idea what you were talking about.

Enough said for now. It is off to other tasks, including Ed’s bio update, and then I will return to industrialization, the demographic transition, and Krishna’s posts on it.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Been reading Squid Empire, it is a fun casual read without a good flow. Also skimmed through Violence and Warfare among Hunter-Gatherers, there is only so much pain I can take, returning it back to library speedily :)
Short summary is that under demographic pressure, which in turns leads to resource pressure violence increases and men do most of the killing. Women choose less aggressive men when and if circumstances allow, thereby domesticating men.


What Dyson got right, IMO, is that demographers generally agree that the decline in infant mortality came first, and then came the decline in fertility.

Have to disagree here. Decline in infant mortality led to decline in fertility at the same time, however the decline was not to replacement levels. the decline was enough to keep the number of children who survived to 5 years (and to adulthood) relatively constant over a period of the 1800's, then in the late 1800's the modern decline of fertility started in USA and UK. Birth rates are the wrong measure when thinking about demographic transition, because it incorporates the age structure of the population and skews understanding of the demographic transition. Much better indicators are TFR (Total Fertility rate), number of kids surviving to adulthood.

I ordered the books of demographic transition, but I am unlikely to change my opinion. Wolfgang Lutz got it right (https://www.pnas.org/content/114/27/6904)

The cognitive revolution brought about by education went hand in hand with the energy revolution of the Fourth Epoch, and each reinforced the other. Without energy there is nothing to reinforce, however the spread of knowledge had a major role to play.


=== added later ===
Here is a graphic showing relationship between birth rates and fertility rate (https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$time$value=2015;&marker$select@$country=ind&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:-0.811&:0.897;;&$country=usa&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:0.086&:-0.184;;&$country=gbr&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:-0.587&:0.396;;&$country=chn&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:-0.713&:0.661;;;&opacitySelectDim:0&axis_x$which=children_per_woman_total_fertility&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:1.43&zoomedMax:3.03&spaceRef:null;&axis_y$which=crude_birth_rate_births_per_1000_population&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:11.01&zoomedMax:26.15&scaleType=log&spaceRef:null;&size$which=child_mortality_0_5_year_olds_dying_per_1000_born&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&spaceRef:null;;;&chart-type=bubbles)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The study never stops. I am about halfway through that book on the Propaganda Model (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1609&viewfull=1#post1609), then I will be going through the stacks of Z Magazines on my office floor, and then I’ll do my update of Ed’s bio. Of course, I play husband, have a demanding day job, and have other demands on my time. It is looking like I won’t get Ed’s bio update done in January, but I still plan to have it done soon. Then I will get back to Epochs, the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic), and related topics, and working on my big essay update, which is likely going to take a year or more. I have also been reading up on “intelligence,” Epochs, and the like. There are arguments that human “intelligence” kept rising with the Epochs (even as our brains shrank – a Cro-Magnon brain was about 10% larger than ours (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_early_modern_humans#Physical_attributes)), and there may be something to that, but in the West, people get plenty of brainwashing (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#brainwashing) with their “education (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#blinded).” The nature/nurture debate is alive and well. In this world (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748), children learn more than 100 times as fast as today’s do, and their IQs probably average 200 or so, and it was because the people in that world chose love. To me, that only highlights the kind of realization of the human potential that can be had in the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). But I can’t overemphasize that without the energy event, the rest can’t happen (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#necessity).

I am also reading Ian Morris’s book on his attempt to quantify the problem-solving ability of societies, which he calls social development. Many have tried their hand at it, and what I will say is that his scale showed the energy wave that Europe rode up to the brink of the Industrial Revolution. Energy capture in the West was about 50% higher in 1800 than in 1000, but even that understates the issue. When energy is used to run machines rather than fuel bodies, ten times as much work can be generated (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyslave), and more. When Columbus sailed in 1492, European watermills performed the labor of about 10 million people (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill1). It was a huge boost to the economy, which had never before been seen in the human journey. When Columbus sailed, it was the early days of Europe’s learning how to turn the global ocean into a low-energy transportation lane (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2), and Europeans used it to conquer humanity. Wind and water power were competitive with coal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#windwater) until about 1850, when the Industrial Revolution was galloping along. At about the same time, a discovery by a London physician (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1854_Broad_Street_cholera_outbreak) helped cities discover the virtues of sanitation. The demographic transition began long before that, but the discovery of the virtues of sanitation was a huge boost to it, and arguably the key one. The ballyhooed germ theory of disease (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#pasteur) had not even been developed yet, although Semmelweis had already discovered what was killing mothers in maternity wards (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#semmelweis), and for that, he was hounded into an insane asylum, where he died from the beatings that he received. Typical pioneer treatment (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#steal).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I plan to slow down my posts while I work on Ed’s bio update, then the big essay update, and I doubt that I will be finished in 2019. The more posts, the slower that progress will be, and I am not getting any younger. We’ll see what cadence I arrive at. I have been very busy lately, too busy to write much on the Fourth Epoch, demographic transitions, and the like, but I will make a post that will be a prelude to upcoming posts.

I have written plenty about my treatment as a prodigy (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#bookworm) as a child, and don’t need to cover it much again. Johnson’s Great Society (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Society) programs began withering away in 1969, and the gifted programs of my grade school ended. A couple of years later, I opened the door at my house when the doorbell rang, and there was my gifted program teacher from grade school, soliciting something door-to-door. That was how far he fell in a couple of years.

In junior high school, which were grades seven to nine for me, there were a couple of gifted classes, called “teamed” classes, which by my ninth grade were on their way out. I recently learned that “gifted” is no longer politically correct (https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/31363/is-it-time-to-redefine-gifted-and-talented), so now the programs for formerly “gifted” students are “discovery (https://www.ltisdschools.org/Page/2440)” and the like. To me, much of the political correctness trend is a smokescreen, to get people focusing on the trappings instead of the reality. American presidents can lead genocidal invasions completely based on lies (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), but don’t utter a racial or ethnic epithet about the people being slaughtered. The American invasion of Iraq is the greatest crime of the 21st century so far, and if there are future historians, our invasion of Iraq might well be seen as the opening salvo of World War III (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wwIII), but hardly a word about it can be heard in the halls of America, as people get all worked up about terminology that seems to slight somebody (or “unfairly” exalts others). Slaughtering them is fine, under the flimsiest of pretexts, but don’t call them an epithet (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#gooks).

My science classes in junior high school through college were never “gifted” classes, but we were all thrown in together, and I was always recognized as the prodigy. In 1971, I was in eighth grade and the recognized prodigy in my science class, and the recognized science prodigy at my school. As I recall, it was some kind of generalized science class. That year there were national science competitions, and when the invitations arrived, the school’s primary science teacher handed me the applications, so that I could represent the school in the contest. One was to think up experiments for the soon-to-be-launched Skylab (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylab), and another was for environmental innovations. I was not really very interested. I really was more into playing with my friends and watching TV (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/70-Distinguishing-the-wheat-from-the-chaff-and-my-life-s-journey?p=102&viewfull=1#post102) during my off-time in those days of adolescence, not entering into national contests. However, I was sent home with the application for environmental innovations, and Mr. Mentor got wind of it. The Clean Air Act of 1970 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_Air_Act_(United_States)#Clean_Air_Act_of_1970) had been passed the year before, and Mr. Mentor suggested that I enter the contest with an idea for a smokestack scrubber for coal-fired electric plants. The first one (https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Scrubbers#History_of_Scrubbers) was only a few years old, he had an idea of how to improve them, and it would be classified as a wet scrubber (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_scrubber) today.

I was only 13 years old at the time, and was not interested in entering a contest. After my notorious winning of the school spelling bee at age nine, in which a fourth grader beat the fifth and sixth graders, I soon lost interest in all academic competitions. Since I graduated from college, I have avoided competitive anything. The only “sport” that I engage in is hiking, and I refuse to play any and all games with people. But, as I look back, that smokestack scrubber was the beginning of my energy journey. Mr. Mentor was at the height of his creative powers in those days, a few years later, his engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) made big waves, and my energy dreams began in earnest then.

It is hard to recall the exact series of events from so long ago, but as a teenager, I realized that not only was there not enough energy for all of humanity to industrialize, but that burning fossil fuels was incredibly environmentally damaging. About that same year, my family went to the museum in downtown Los Angeles. The air pollution was awesome, and I had a headache all day that did not end until we left the LA Basin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Basin) as we returned home. My post-graduate years in the urban hell of LA (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=406928&viewfull=1#post406928) beat my nascent environmental sensibilities into me in no uncertain terms, and definitely had a bearing on my journey with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting).

As I think back to those early days, in my late teens and early 20s, I was not aware of Peak Oil theory (http://ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm#fossil), as such, but I had been in gas lines, I knew that Arabs sat on most of the world’s oil, and that there was not enough to go around. Most of humanity lived in agrarian societies, and only a tiny fraction was industrialized. Even in my early 20s, it was evident that China would one day industrialize (a cousin began learning Chinese then, as she also saw the writing on the wall), and I knew back then that China sat on one of the world’s largest coal reserves (and India was right behind them (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_by_country)). A significant aspect of my free energy dreams was preventing the world’s poor nations from industrializing with coal. I knew that it would be an environmental nightmare, and it is happening before my eyes. Nearly a third of San Francisco’s air pollution (https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/about-29-of-san-franciscos-pollution-comes-from-china-42334/) comes from China. There will be much more on this subject in coming posts.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

A few odds and ends….

On MLK Day, there is a call to reopen the assassination investigations of the 1960s (https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/20/a-call-to-reinvestigate-american-assassinations/), beginning with JFK’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398). I am not holding my breath on anything coming from it, but it was nice to see.

I have read Scientific American magazine for years, just to keep up on new findings and trends. Last month’s issue was the last in its former format, as they cancelled several columns. I was interested in what the new format would be, and this month’s issue had a big chunk of it devoted to a special section on genetic engineering, sponsored by Pfizer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfizer)! Earlier in the issue was an interview of a pharmaceutical CEO. My God, it was Ed’s second filter of his propaganda model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#advertising), on full display. I have written before on the many biases that I saw in that magazine, and we’ll see if I buy many more issues when I do my grocery shopping. That said, there was a good article on how the melting of the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica can happen far faster than previously supposed. Here is a similar article (https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/05/18/climate/antarctica-ice-melt-climate-change.html?_r=0) by the same author (https://news.psu.edu/expert/richard-alley).

I am only partway through my stack of Z Magazines, and I doubt that I will be able to use all of what I wrote below, much less what I’ll likely add to it, but below gives a taste of the vast range of Ed’s writings. I may put them in an addendum essay.

Best,

Wade


General political analysis and commentary

Herman’s political-economic writings, both in collaboration with other authors as well as individually, covered a wide array of topics that were far from confined to media analysis, although most of Herman’s books and articles were primarily concerned with media analysis. Herman’s articles in Z Magazine and Monthly Review provide a sampling of Herman’s range of topics over his 50-year-plus political-economic writing career.

In 1992, Herman wrote about how the imperial powers dominated formerly colonized peoples or weaker nations with “free trade” agreements that heavily favored the imperial powers, which was one of the British Empire’s favorite tactics. In the years after World War II, the institutions of imperial domination included the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (“IMF”), both of which have been controlled by the USA. Herman wrote that imperially subservient nations that neglected the needs of their domestic populations while serving foreign interests could count on generous support, while nations that did not cooperate with corporate-imperial strategies would be subjected to various forms of financial discipline, which ranged from cutting off World Bank and IMF aid to tariffs, boycotts, and seizures of imports to the USA, before the CIA’s methods of subversion needed to be applied, or outright invasion with “Techno-War,” as the USA had recently done to Panama and Iraq. Herman wrote that World Bank and IMF assistance often took the form of Structural Adjustment Programs (“SAPs)”, in which recipient nations were required to curtail spending for the welfare of their domestic populations in favor of imported elite prestige goods and other arrangements favorable to foreign capital. Herman wrote that the SAPs directed the privatization of a nation’s resources, generally under foreign investors, to then be exported to the imperial nations instead of being used for national development. Herman noted that Japan resisted such “denationalization” of its domestic economy, which led to its rise as an industrial power, while the recently collapsed Soviet Empire had Boris Yeltsin as the IMF’s “hit man,” just as Marcos of the Philippines and Pinochet of Chile had functioned.

Far from solely focusing on the USA’s imperial behavior, Herman often wrote about the attacks by corporate America on the USA’s welfare state, such as its initiatives to undermine Social Security while boosting military spending and corporate and upper-income welfare, while opposing any kind of national medical insurance system. In 1995, Herman summarized a 20-volume study prepared by the USA’s State Department, which chronicled the crimes committed by the USA against various groups, beginning with the dispossession of American Indians and use of enslaved Africans to international activities in the Philippines, Indonesia, China, Indochina, Latin America, Zaire, Greece, Iran, and the Middle East. The study concluded that fair American reparations to those aggrieved parties would exceed the USA’s total wealth. Herman wrote that the study was released with a sensational press conference that was well-attended by the media, but that no media reported on the study.

Herman argued that the “immiserating” effects of the global class warfare waged by the West against weaker nations were human rights violations, but the high-profile human rights organizations adhered to a “liberal” definition of human rights that only considered political and personal rights, such as the right to vote, free speech, and freedom from direct state violence, while completely ignoring corporate-imperial assaults on “rights to subsistence, education, health care, housing and employment.” Herman wrote that human rights organizations that strictly focused on liberal notions of human rights were becoming increasingly irrelevant and even “misleading” in a world in which the world’s poor were economically undermined and deprived, particularly in the 1990s, during capitalism’s triumphant period in the wake of the Soviet Union’s collapse. In 1996, Herman wrote that the actual goals of the Republican push for a Congressional “balanced budget,” contrary to media propaganda about them, were:

“[…] to constrain macro-policy and prevent its use in ways that would increase pressure on the labor market and threaten inflation, and to scale back the welfare state.”

Herman often wrote that “war criminal” was a Western appellation reserved for the losers of imperial battles, while there never seemed to be any war criminals among the winners. In 1996, Herman added a new category of war criminal, which he termed the economic division (“ED”), in addition to military division (“MD”) war criminals. Herman published an initial list of 20 ED war criminals, and Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, and Suharto led the list of government leaders (Suharto was also a major MD, arguably Earth’s greatest at that time), and had a division for “middle managers,” such as the heads of the IMF, Federal Reserve, and World Bank, to corporate executives such as the chairman of a transnational mining company that committed crimes in Papua New Guinea in cooperation with the Indonesian invasion, the managing director of Royal Dutch-Shell and its collaboration with the Nigerian dictatorship, and the union-busting CEO of Caterpillar. Herman’s list ended with economists and intellectuals such as neoliberal advocate Jeffrey Sachs of Harvard, Arnold Harberger, who led the Chicago School’s activities in Pinochet’s Chile, and Robert Bartley, the editor of the Wall Street Journal, with his fervent support for supply-side economics and the “death squads necessary to bring it to fruition here and abroad.”

Herman regularly wrote about racism in the USA, such as Z Magazine articles in 1994 and 1996 on the mainstream media’s embracement of The Bell Curve, which argued for the inferior intelligence of American blacks. Herman discussed The Bell Curve’s pseudoscientific predecessors, going back to the Antebellum South, and wrote at length on racist “code language and framing of issues,” racist writings and talk shows, and how racism manifested in all aspects of the lives of American blacks, including hiring, housing, lending, church arson, police behavior and incarceration rates, representation in congress, and even the right to recall such treatment. Herman and Peterson wrote on the media’s demonization of Reverend Jeremiah Wright because of his relationship with Barack Obama, while Obama was running for the Democratic Party nomination in the spring of 2008.

Herman wrote on the selective support of free speech in the West, noting that the media lauded the “I am Charlie” rally in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo massacre, for which the killers were a “solo effort” and “hardly a threat to free speech,” while France had laws that “permit arrests and imprisonment for political speech insulting Israel and questioning the Holocaust, and for giving verbal support for ‘terrorism’ (i.e., what the French state identifies as terrorism).” Herman noted about 70 arrests in the weeks following the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and that, “unsurprisingly, none of the arrests were reported to have been for verbal attacks on Muslim individuals or religious symbols, although attacks on Muslim individuals increased after January 7.”

Herman wrote about how liberal-left dissent was under steady attack by the “market,” in a wide array of strategies and tactics, including flak, often led by AIM, on PBS and community radio such as Pacifica, legal assaults on non-governmental organizations (“NGOs”), such as proposed legislation to prevent NGOs from engaging in any “advocacy” work if they got federal funding of more than 5% of their revenues, while huge corporations receiving vast federal funds were exempted, corporate-funded ideological warfare against academia, Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (“SLAPP”), in which citizens were sued by SLAPPS for attending public meetings and circulating petitions, and assaults on the UN and its agencies, as exemplified by the USA’s withdrawal from UNESCO in 1984.

In 1996, Herman wrote about the postmodernist trends in social analysis. Herman argued that postmodernist analyses ignored the forces behind the creation of media content and instead focused on the ability of the consumers to decide what to digest and how, while ignoring the possible impact of the limited menu offered by the media. Herman wrote:


“Viewers may resist and some may be hard to manage, but some will be confused, and still more will be depoliticized by the barrage of entertainment and replacement of the public sphere of debate with propaganda. Media commercialization and concentration entails serious ‘disempowerment,’ which has to be fought by means beyond individual resistance.”


In 1998, Herman wrote about the myth of consumer sovereignty and the reality of corporate sovereignty regarding the chemical industry and its pollutants. Herman surveyed the growth of the American chemical industry after World War II, with “miracle” products such as DDT and vinyl chloride-based plastics, and noted that before the side effects of those chemicals became publicly visible, the chemical industry had developed huge vested interests in selling those chemicals. Herman listed the tactics that the chemical industry used to prevent infringements on their sovereignty:



Restricting information;
Using science as a public relations (”PR”) tool;
Undermining the regulatory process with its influence;
Lawsuits;
Using the media to “normalize” the right to pollute.



Herman argued that the term “junk science” had been coopted by corporate polluters to describe the scientific findings used in lawsuits against corporate products and pollution, instead of what Herman wrote was the real junk science: the “political, opportunistic, and PR use of science.” Herman wrote that under that definition of junk science, corporations were far and away the dominant practitioners of it.


Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

Hi:

A few odds and ends….

On MLK Day, there is a call to reopen the assassination investigations of the 1960s (https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/20/a-call-to-reinvestigate-american-assassinations/), beginning with JFK’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398). I am not holding my breath on anything coming from it, but it was nice to see.
My guess is that this call to reopen investigations into the assassinations of JFK, RFK, MLK, and Malcolm X is connected, somehow, with Donna Brazile's tweat regarding Pelosi becoming President and MLKWeekend: Qanon Post #8312 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100318-The-Qanon-posts-and-a-Very-Bad-Day-Scenario-for-some-elite-swamp-critters&p=1270720&viewfull=1#post1270720).

However that is a matter perhaps better discussed over on the Q thread ... so I posted this guess of mine over there as well: Qanon Post #8320 (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?100318-The-Qanon-posts-and-a-Very-Bad-Day-Scenario-for-some-elite-swamp-critters&p=1270874&viewfull=1#post1270874)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Paul (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1270875&viewfull=1#post1270875):

I don’t know much about the machinations around Trump and the so-called Deep State. I will agree that he is decidedly a reluctant imperialist, as JFK was (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1398&viewfull=1#post1398) (Hillary might have started World War III by now). But if Trump and Pence were taken out that way, then I would not be surprised if there was a revolution in the USA over it. However, I would be very surprised if Trump was taken out that way. For one thing, nobody would think that two lone nuts did it, unless they portrayed it as a conspiracy of two. But assassinating presidents seemed to go out of style after the Reagan shooting (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#reagan). There is a lot of writing these days on the Deep State and how Trump is cleaning house, but I think that it is largely wishful thinking. The GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) play at a few levels above Trump, and I doubt that they are too interested in the current nationalist saga. I think that JFK was taken out by domestic interests, not global ones, and the same would go for Trump, if that happened.

That said, I think that the call for a new investigation (https://consortiumnews.com/2019/01/20/a-call-to-reinvestigate-american-assassinations/) is well-meaning but is not going to make a dent.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have written about the life reviews (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1599&viewfull=1#post1599) that I have had lately. Going through my stack of Z Magazines was an Ed review. :) The range of Ed’s thought is awe-inspiring. I’ll put up drafts of the sections that are receiving the biggest changes in Ed’s bio, particularly this one (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#subsequent) and this one (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#political). I have a ways to go on that recent book devoted to the PM, and will produce that section as it stands at the moment. I am also adding some external links to Ed’s bio. Making external links is kind of a perilous process, as links go dead all the time. So, I only made links that will likely be live for a while. So, here is that section draft. Actually, it is two sections now, one for assessments by Ed and Noam, and one for others.


In The Propaganda Model Today, it reproduced an interview from the last year of Herman’s life, in which he discussed the PM and its continued relevance, including how it applied to Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign. Herman reviewed the rise of the Internet, and specifically Facebook and Google, stating:


“These are not news organizations, and how their monopoly power will eventually work out as regards the journalism function is unclear, but they are very much advertising based, and they have already shown great deference to the wishes of power entities like the CIA, NSA, FBI, and State Department. Thus, the likelihood that they will serve the public interest seems extremely slim.”

…

Subsequent academic assessments and proposed revisions

In October 2018, The Propaganda Model Today was published, which was dedicated to Herman’s memory. The Propaganda Model Today is a compendium of essays on the PM that dealt with its diverse aspects, from its “theoretical and methodological considerations” to the Internet and digital media to movie and TV entertainment to several case studies regarding applying the PM to international events.

The Propaganda Model Today began with an overview of the historical roots of public persuasion and propaganda, going back to Aristotle and Machiavelli, through early industrial writers such as Auguste Comte to 20th-century writers such as Edward Bernays and Walter Lippmann, which helped form the foundation of the PM. In the book’s introduction, the authors made the case that a media function is normalizing the prevailing economic and social structures so that alternatives to them cannot even be imagined by the public.

A chapter of The Propaganda Model Today dealt with the sociology of journalism, in which its author argued that it needed to be considered in the PM, which Herman and Chomsky explicitly did not do when formulating the PM. The author concluded his essay with:


“Unlike others’ critiques of the PM, examining the discourse of journalists themselves does not refute the PM; in fact, it can more fully explain media performance. Journalists have to adhere to professional standards and face secondary socialisation when they enter the workplace. This, perhaps, gives the appearance of an ugly and anti-normative ‘conspiracy,’ yet from many different angles, this is the basic institutional functioning of the news media.”


The author of a chapter of The Propaganda Model Today argued that prominent modes of inquiry that social scientists often use in analyzing the media completely evade the issue of its structural constraints, which rendered their research irrelevant in helping explain how the media functioned.

A chapter of The Propaganda Model Today dealt with the complete marginalization of the PM in mainstream academic literature, to the extent that academics were advised to remove all references to Chomsky from their work, so that the academics would not risk the “costs” that would come with publicly agreeing with Chomsky’s positions. That chapter stated what Chomsky also stated: the PM can be applied to academia and other intellectual pursuits. The chapter’s author noted, however, that the PM has entered public consciousness, and that:


“The model and their work has been a major service to critical thinking and, ultimately, democracy. It is the experience of this author, with 20 years of teaching in higher education, that many more students today are aware of the structural failings of mainstream media than was the case in the 1990s. Referencing and talking about the Propaganda Model seems to elicit fewer smirks and knee jerk reactions than was the case 20 years ago. Progress has been made.”


A chapter of The Propaganda Model Today presented the case that another filter of the PM could be the USA’s national security state, particularly the activities of the National Security Agency (“NSA”), as recently exposed by Edward Snowden, Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning, and Julian Assange’s Wikileaks. The chapter’s authors argued that such citizen surveillance and related abuses of civil liberties contributed to the information management function of the American propaganda system, and emphasized the flak that those whistleblowers received, as Snowden lives in asylum in Russia, Assange lives in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and Manning was imprisoned.

In December 2018, a section of Media Theory (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/issue/view/3) was devoted to Herman’s memory and the PM. The wide-ranging retrospective included several essays and discussions of Herman and Chomsky’s PM, in which the retrospective’s authors assessed the PM and dealt with its criticisms in the academic literature. The retrospective noted that Herman and Chomsky were open to critiques of the PM and tests of its validity, and that they had modified it somewhat over the years since it was first published, such as adding free-market and anti-terrorism ideologies to the anticommunist filter, to make it more generalized. The discussion noted that academic critiques often emphasized ancillary factors and minor outcomes in attempts to invalidate the PM, but one retrospective author wrote (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/62):


“[…] the authors’ broad claims about patterns of reporting are nevertheless well supported by the evidence they present, of which I am not aware of any convincing refutation.”


One subject of discussion was whether the lack of detailed examination of each media filter in action had a bearing on the PM’s validity. The conclusion was that it did not, while noting that such detailed work was welcome, and when it had been done, it confirmed the PM. The discussion concluded that such work, or a lack of it, could not be logically used to dismiss the PM, as has largely been done in academia and in the media in general. One author wrote (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/68):


“The late Edward Herman pointed out long ago that critics of the PM failed to demonstrate that it violated the principle of logical consistency; namely, that they haven’t shown in their critiques that the PM would explain opposites. Herman further pointed out that the critics failed to explain by means of some alternative explanation why the contents of the American elite media came out in the way that they did in Herman and Chomsky’s study of the media (recall Daniel Hallin’s attempt to explain Herman and Chomsky’s and his own findings through the vague notion of ‘professionalism,’ which itself is quite logically inconsistent); […] For this reason, one awaits a serious critique of the model, and not one which sets an arbitrary precondition for its validity.”


An essay (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/65) in the retrospective presented a detailed analysis of the PM’s filters regarding the 2018 elections in Colombia and Venezuela. It concluded that the American media’s treatment of those elections not only confirmed Herman’s writings about the disparity of how the media treated elections in client and enemy regimes, but that detailed research of the media’s coverage of those elections demonstrated that the filters of ownership, sources, and flak were still very much operational.

An essay (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/63/53) in the retrospective dealt with Herman's writings on racism, and the author began her essay with a racism encounter during her media career, before she had heard of Herman. When she later discovered Herman’s work, her prior experiences with racism made Herman’s work far more relevant, and she wrote:


[…] Herman’s insights become most keen at the points in which they meet my own experience, study, and engagement with the media. It means almost nothing to state repeatedly that the media function as complements and conduits of a capitalist regime without a personal history and context through which one can fully understand the everyday mire of journalism’s entanglements. It is through the mire, I think, that Herman’s theories are most clear.


The final essay (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/69) in the retrospective stated:


“The Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model constitutes the leading analytical tool to theorize and investigate media bias.”


Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am nearing the end of my Ed bio project for now. The revised bio should be published in a couple of weeks, and then it will be off to my essay update, which I doubt will be completed this year.

Here is a little current events item, to show how relevant Ed’s work continues to be.

From my upcoming bio update:

An essay (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/65) in the retrospective presented a detailed analysis of the PM’s filters regarding the 2018 elections in Colombia and Venezuela. The essay’s author, Alan MacLeod, concluded that the American media’s treatment of those elections not only confirmed Herman’s writings about the disparity of how the media treated elections in client and enemy regimes, but that detailed research of the media’s coverage of those elections demonstrated that the filters of ownership, sources, and flak were still very much operational.

Here is a report (https://shadowproof.com/2019/01/29/cnn-undercover-report-from-in-venezuela-example-of-how-media-engages-in-pr-for-opposition/) on how CNN, one of Ed’s media targets (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#degraded), is attempting to “manufacture consent” for a coup in Venezuela.

I have published how great the wealth disparity is in the world, and a recent report from Oxfam (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-01-21/here-come-calls-global-wealth-tax-0) has upped the disparity once again: Earth’s richest people command as much wealth as the poorest half of humanity does. A generation ago, I wrote that the disparity was 10-million-to-one, and it is now more than 100-million-to-one. Of course, the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) are not even on that radar.

I will write about many subjects in my essay update, and one of the more fascinating debates is just when oxygen became important to complex life. A recent paper (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326562355_Model_based_Paleozoic_atmospheric_oxygen_estimates_a_revisit_to_GEOCARBSULF) makes the case that there may have been relatively low oxygen levels early in the eon of complex life, which revises the original model (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#GEOCARBSULF). The new paper’s authors argue that oxygen levels may not have begun their rise to modern levels until the appearance of land plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#landplants). As usual, the paper concludes with calling for more data collection.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Before Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) there was (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1633559/) Alexander Gordon (1752-1799) and Oliver Wendell-Holmes (1809-1894) both of them said came to same conclusions earlier and were ostracized.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

My heavy lifting on Ed’s bio update is finished, and now I will just play editor on it, before publishing it soon. Here is a draft of my new section, which I finished a minute ago, some of which I have published before:

Academic assessments and proposed revisions

In 2005, Filtering the News was published, edited by Jeffery Klaehn, which was a series of essays on the PM. In the introductory essay’s conclusion, Klaehn wrote:


“Herman and Chomsky’s institutional critique of media behavior is forceful and convincing, as is their analysis of the ideological formation of public opinion and the ‘Orwellian’ abuse of language in western democracies. […] If there was ever a time for Herman and Chomsky’s ‘propaganda model’ to be included in scholarly debates on patterns of media performance, it is now.”


The essays in Filtering the News examined the George W. Bush administration’s war propaganda, Israeli propaganda, the Globe and Mail‘s coverage of the tribulations in El Salvador and East Timor, newspaper discussions on the environment, and other topics covered in the American and British media.

In October 2018, The Propaganda Model Today (“TPMT”) was published, which was dedicated to Herman’s memory. TPMT is a compendium of essays on the PM that dealt with its diverse aspects, from its “theoretical and methodological considerations” to the Internet and digital media to movie and TV entertainment to several case studies regarding applying the PM to international events.

TPMT began with an overview of the historical roots of public persuasion and propaganda, going back to Aristotle and Machiavelli, through early industrial writers such as Auguste Comte to 20th-century writers such as Edward Bernays and Walter Lippmann, which helped form the PM’s foundation. The authors of TPMT’s introduction made the case that a key media function is normalizing the prevailing economic and social structures so that alternatives to them cannot even be imagined by the public.

A chapter of TPMT dealt with the sociology of journalism, in which Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman argued that it needed to be considered in the PM, which Herman and Chomsky explicitly did not do when formulating the PM. The author concluded his essay with:


“Unlike others’ critiques of the PM, examining the discourse of journalists themselves does not refute the PM; in fact, it can more fully explain media performance. Journalists have to adhere to professional standards and face secondary socialisation when they enter the workplace. This, perhaps, gives the appearance of an ugly and anti-normative ‘conspiracy,’ yet from many different angles, this is the basic institutional functioning of the news media.”


In a chapter of TPMT, Yigal Godler asserted that prominent modes of inquiry that social scientists often use in analyzing the media completely evade the issue of its structural constraints, which rendered their research largely irrelevant in helping explain how the media functioned.

A chapter of TPMT dealt with the marginalization of the PM in mainstream academic literature, to the extent that academics were advised to remove all references to Chomsky from their work, so that they would not risk the “costs” that they would bear for publicly agreeing with Chomsky’s positions. That chapter’s author, Piers Robinson, stated what Chomsky also did: the PM can be applied to academia and other intellectual pursuits. Robinson noted, however, that the PM has entered public consciousness, and that:


“The model and their work has been a major service to critical thinking and, ultimately, democracy. It is the experience of this author, with 20 years of teaching in higher education, that many more students today are aware of the structural failings of mainstream media than was the case in the 1990s. Referencing and talking about the Propaganda Model seems to elicit fewer smirks and knee jerk reactions than was the case 20 years ago. Progress has been made.”


The authors of a chapter of TPMT presented the case that another filter of the PM could be the USA’s national security state, particularly the activities of the National Security Agency, as recently exposed by Edward Snowden, Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning, and Julian Assange’s Wikileaks. The chapter’s authors, Daniel Broudy and Miyume Tanji, argued that such citizen surveillance and related abuses of civil liberties contributed to the information management function of the American propaganda system, and emphasized the flak that those whistleblowers received: as of 2019, Snowden lived in asylum in Russia, Assange lived in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and Manning spent seven years in incarceration.

Two chapters of TPMT analyzed the PM’s applicability to the media in Spain. One chapter’s author, Miguel Álvarez-Peralta, wrote that the dynamics that led to the Spanish Revolution in 1936 were still evident in Spanish society, so that Spain’s corporate influence was relatively muted for the West, and that the PM did not seem as applicable in Spain as in other Western societies. In the other chapter, its author, Aurora Labio-Bernal, wrote that Spain also saw the rise of anticommunist propaganda in the 21st century, as a reaction to progressive efforts, which helped revive the relevance of the PM’s anticommunism filter.

A section of TPMT discussed entertainment in the media. Matthew Alford discussed the PM and screen entertainment, and concluded that while the same filters were evident in entertainment, the PM was designed for and fit better with the news than entertainment. Tabe Bergman created a PM for American television, which varied from the PM in that the third filter was the processes of show production, the fourth filter was the influence of government entities such as the CIA and Department of Defense, as well as independent pressure groups that policed entertainment content, and the ideological filter was neoliberalism. Barry Pollick applied the PM to media coverage of the National Football League, and his study concluded that it favored owners over players, which was consistent with the PM’s predictions.

In the final section of TPMT, its authors presented case studies of the PM, relating to:


The financial crisis of 2008 in the UK;
The continuing relevance of the PM, 30 years after its initial publication;
The Latin American media;
Barack Obama’s 2016 trip to Cuba and the media’s skewed depiction of it; and
Discussions in the UK on using nuclear weapons, and how the British media normalized the idea of offensively using nuclear weapons on nations such as Iraq, contrary to the prevailing belief in the UK that it would use nuclear weapons only for defense.


In the chapter on the continuing relevance of the PM, its author, Florian Zollmann, discussed the rise of the Internet and its commercial bias, which mirrored the establishment media’s bias. Zollmann quoted Google’s founders, who warned back in 1998:


“We expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers.”


Zollmann also noted the rise of “humanitarian” intervention, of which the Western intervention in the former Yugoslavia was an early example, which was not humanitarian at all, but was merely imperialism under a novel rubric, when the Cold War rationale fell apart after the Soviet Union’s demise. Zollmann quoted an informed estimate that NATO’s “humanitarian” intervention in Libya increased the death toll by “seven to ten times”.

In the chapter on the Latin American media, its author, Francisco Sierra Caballero, discussed the Pentagon’s “unrestricted warfare” against Venezuela, which has the world’s largest oil reserves, and one front of that Orwellian “permanent war” has been a propaganda barrage against Venezuela’s government, to help enact regime change. As this section is being written in early February 2019, the Trump administration is advocating “humanitarian” military intervention in Venezuela. Sierra Caballero also discussed a concurrent campaign against Bolivia’s “communist” government and noted its similarities to the American campaign against Chile in the 1970s. Sierra Caballero discussed the elite-dominated media in Mexico and its extreme double standards of reporting, particularly regarding the Herman-Chomsky dichotomy of “worthy” and “unworthy” victims, as Mexican society has been unraveling in recent years, accompanied by an increase in state violence against its domestic population, guided by the Pentagon and CIA, under a legal façade which has criminalized protest and progressive efforts.

In the chapter on Obama and Cuba, its author, James Winter, wrote about the media’s highly biased account of Obama’s 2016 trip to Cuba, how Cuba was a “playground” for the American Mafia until the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and how the American establishment, including its media, had treated Cuba with unremitting hostility ever since, under the publicly stated rationale of Cuba’s human rights violations. Winter wrote that the real reason for the unremitting assaults on Cuba since 1959 was Chomsky’s “threat of a good example” effect of a prosperous and independent Cuba, which would no longer be an American playground, which could inspire other nations subservient to the USA to gain their de facto independence.

In the chapter on the UK’s discussions of nuclear weapons, its author, Milan Rai, wrote that the UK was just like the USA, in that the propaganda regarding nuclear weapons was that the USA and UK would only use them for defensive purposes. But Rai argued that, in fact, the USA and UK regularly threatened nuclear attack on neocolonial obstacles such as Iraq, and that the UK had frequently and provocatively deployed its nuclear air fleet (called “V bombers”) to neocolonial hotspots such as Africa and the Middle East.

TPMT’s concluding chapter assessed the PM in 2018, found that it continued to be highly relevant, and that key Herman-and-Chomsky hypotheses had been repeatedly confirmed, which included:


When political and economic elites are united in their interests, the media will uniformly echo their consensus and support consequent efforts for domestic and international domination;
In capitalist economies, the PM’s five filters have far stronger influence over media content than governmental intervention does;
Critical studies of the media, which consider structural constraints, will be ignored and marginalized, while orthodox academic studies will avoid acknowledging those constraints.


In December 2018, a section of Media Theory (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/issue/view/3) was devoted to Herman’s memory and the PM. The wide-ranging retrospective included several essays and discussions of Herman and Chomsky’s PM, in which the authors assessed the PM and dealt with its criticisms in the academic literature. The retrospective noted that Herman and Chomsky were open to critiques of the PM and tests of its validity, and that they had modified it somewhat over the years since it was first published, such as adding free-market and anti-terrorism ideologies to the anticommunist filter, to update and generalize it. The discussion noted that academic critiques often emphasized ancillary factors and minor outcomes in attempts to invalidate the PM, but one author, Tom Mills, wrote (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/62):


“[…] the authors’ broad claims about patterns of reporting are nevertheless well supported by the evidence they present, of which I am not aware of any convincing refutation.”


One subject of discussion was whether the lack of detailed examination of each media filter in action had a bearing on the PM’s validity. The conclusion was that it did not, while noting that such detailed work was welcome, and when it had been done, it confirmed the PM. The discussion concluded that such work, or a lack of it, could not be logically used to dismiss the PM, as has largely been done in academia and in the media in general. Yigal Godler wrote (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/68):


“The late Edward Herman pointed out long ago that critics of the PM failed to demonstrate that it violated the principle of logical consistency; namely, that they haven’t shown in their critiques that the PM would explain opposites. Herman further pointed out that the critics failed to explain by means of some alternative explanation why the contents of the American elite media came out in the way that they did in Herman and Chomsky’s study of the media (recall Daniel Hallin’s attempt to explain Herman and Chomsky’s and his own findings through the vague notion of ‘professionalism,’ which itself is quite logically inconsistent); […] For this reason, one awaits a serious critique of the model, and not one which sets an arbitrary precondition for its validity.”


An essay (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/65) in the retrospective presented a detailed analysis of the PM’s filters regarding the 2018 elections in Colombia and Venezuela. The essay’s author, Alan MacLeod, concluded that the American media’s treatment of those elections not only confirmed Herman’s writings about the disparity of how the media treated elections in client and enemy regimes, but that detailed research of the media’s coverage of those elections demonstrated that the filters of ownership, sources, and flak were still very much operational.

An essay (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/63/53) in the retrospective dealt with Herman’s writings on racism, and the author, Khadijah Costley White, began by describing an encounter with racism during her media career, before she had heard of Herman. When she later discovered Herman’s work, her prior experiences with racism made Herman’s work more relevant, and she wrote:


[…] Herman’s insights become most keen at the points in which they meet my own experience, study, and engagement with the media. It means almost nothing to state repeatedly that the media function as complements and conduits of a capitalist regime without a personal history and context through which one can fully understand the everyday mire of journalism’s entanglements. It is through the mire, I think, that Herman’s theories are most clear.


The final essay (http://journalcontent.mediatheoryjournal.org/index.php/mt/article/view/69) in the retrospective stated:


“The Herman-Chomsky Propaganda Model constitutes the leading analytical tool to theorize and investigate media bias.”


Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Earth system impacts of the European arrival and Great Dying in the Americas after 1492 (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379118307261) Authors: Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark M.Maslin, Simon L. Lewis

Highlights
• Combines multiple methods estimating pre-Columbian population numbers.
• Estimates European arrival in 1492 lead to 56 million deaths by 1600.
• Large population reduction led to reforestation of 55.8 Mha and 7.4 Pg C uptake.
• 1610 atmospheric CO2 drop partly caused by indigenous depopulation of the Americas.
• Humans contributed to Earth System changes before the Industrial Revolution.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1272931&viewfull=1#post1272931):

I read that yesterday myself, and will comment about it one day. Genghis Kahn was similarly “credited (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#mongol)” with his slaughters for helping cool the climate.

I have been doing plenty of reading on the demographic transition, and does the academic fur ever fly. Some call the demographic transition a mere coincidence (http://fmwww.bc.edu/repec/sed2006/up.22218.1139898372.pdf), in that it happened when the Industrial Revolution did. Here is a paper (https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1510/1510.00471.pdf) that argues that no demographic transition theory holds up. Here is one (http://faculty.econ.ucdavis.edu/faculty/gclark/papers/Clark%20-%20JEEA.pdf) that says that the Industrial Revolution and demographic transition seem independent, but that there must be some connection. Here is one (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4116081/) that credits the demand for human capital, as industrialization required skilled workers, not strong backs and nimble fingers, as the driving force, which included educating the children. That is the same argument for why slavery ended, in that in a world of machines, unskilled labor became obsolete, and I’ll buy that, and is the dynamic that I have in my big essay today (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic). I doubt that my summary will change much, but I’ll move it to the Industrial Revolution chapter. I’ll get to your posts after I publish Ed’s revised bio.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

After reading a bunch of books and papers on Demographic Transition I think

• Adult and child mortality rates fell to some extent during industrialization (child mortality falls from 30+% to 25+% by 1860 over a hundred years of industrial revolution)
• No dramatic shift is seen in fertility it is high and fairly constant
• Post 1860 universal education for whites begins in USA and Britain (itself an effect of energy surplus)
• Mortality rates of children starts to fall dramatically from 25+% child mortality to 10% by 1928, 3 times reduction in 70% of time.
• Fertility rate starts to fall dramatically, to replacement rate falling from 5 children per woman to around 2
• Both an effect of education.

In short the path of demographic transition goes through universal basic education in all cases.

The Demographic Transition, England and Wales (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/the-demographic-transition)
Child Mortality UK and USA (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/child-mortality?tab=chart&country=GBR+USA)
Primary school enrollment UK and USA (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/primary-enrollment-selected-countries?country=GBR+USA)

HUMAN CAPITAL, FERTILITY AND THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Gregory Clark
"A striking feature of figure 2, however, is the coincidence of the rise in the
literacy of women in England and the onset of the demographic transition."


Demographic Transition and Industrial Revolution: A Coincidence?
By Michael Bar and Oksana Leukhina
"We find that mortality decline significantly influences birth rates."
"Increased productivity has a negligible effect on birth rates"

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1273053&viewfull=1#post1273053):

My take is going to be that without industrialization, the rest would not have happened. The rest could not have happened. Northwest Europe had been riding an energy wave since the High Middle Ages (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hma), and proto-industrialization was necessary for many events, such as the rise in literacy. Without the printing press (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#printing), there was not going to be a rise in literacy, and the industrializing economy created a need for more skilled labor, and the energy surplus of industrialization allowed for those changes. The most dramatic event in the human journey so far rode on the back of the energy issue, and everything else was ancillary. The demographic transition was a side-effect of industrialization. I agree that education played its role (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic), but it was enabled by, and caused by, industrialization. There are pull-push dynamics for events like that. English peasants were pushed off of the land by Game Laws and Enclosure (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gamelaw), and they ended up in the coal mines and became the workforce of the Industrial Revolution. By 1800, less than 40% of the English workforce was involved in agriculture (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#englishworkforce), which was the mark of a new Epoch, unprecedented in the human journey. The peasants were pushed off the land, but they also had opportunities in industrialization and the rising living standards. The rise in literacy, decline in infant mortality, and subsequent decline in fertility were all side-effects of industrialization, as well as the end of slavery as an institution.

From the standpoint of human lives, the demographic transition was a huge boon, and many lessons learned from that experience were cheaply reproduced in poor nations, such as literacy, sanitation, and hygiene, and the industrial nations largely fed the cities of poor nations, with their energy surplus. But without industrialization, which rode above all else on that energy wave, and from fossil fuels with a bullet, the rest would not have happened. Deforested England (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday) would have collapsed after it hit its agrarian energy ceiling, as had so many other agrarian civilizations. Tapping the energy of coal allowed England to industrialize, and the rest was noise.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am done with Ed’s bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm) for now, other than finding the stray typo or formatting error, nearly two years after I offered to revise his Wikipedia bio. Some fun that has been. :) On to my updating my big essay, and I’ll publish section drafts as I finish them, as I did for the original drafts.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have many posts running around in my head. I could literally never run out of topics to write about, but I try to focus on the ones that will make it into my big essay. I am currently reading The Agricultural Revolution in Prehistory (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199559953/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o08__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1). It was the state-of-the-art summary, back in 2006. However, I was surprised to find no mention of the megafauna extinctions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna), or really, much about the differences between matrilocal and patrilocal societies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1), so, no mention of Otterbein’s hypothesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873), of course, even in a book that mentioned the supposed ET influence on the origins of farming. Kind of like how Ed and Noam’s propaganda model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing) has been so studiously ignored by academia (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#marginalized), it looks like Otterbein was an “outsider” who came at the issue from the warfare angle.

I want to write a little on consciousness and intentionality. I know that the materialistic models of consciousness are false (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown). Materialism is just another religion on a shaky foundation. Today’s mainstream science does not even hint at the role that consciousness plays in the universe. Seth (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#seth) said that the bedrock of our reality is a Unit of Consciousness, and I’ll buy that. Mainstream science says that our reality seems to be made of fields, but as a wonderful recent book that I bought (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/026203736X/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o03__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1) ended, if our universe is made of fields, what are the fields made of? The greatest physicists (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#heisenberg) thought that science could not answer that question. They don’t know what the universe is made of: they can only describe what it does. What is light? What is gravity? Scientists do not know the answers. There are plenty of hypotheses and speculation, but no knowledge.

What comes through in studies of evolution or anthropology is that even though consciousness plays a role, it is generally only focused on an organism’s survival. Expanding it beyond survival issues is rare, even for humans. No life form ever consciously thought, “I think that I will speciate today.” Similarly, no human thought, “Today I will invent controlled fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1).” Or “plant domestication (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran),” or “civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#pristine1)” or the “Industrial Revolution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4)” or the “demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic).” The origins of plant domestication and civilization are prehistoric developments, and their investigation is necessarily limited to scientists. Even recent and well-documented events such as the Industrial Revolution and demographic transition have a great deal of controversy over how and why they happened. But one thing is clear: both the Industrial Revolution and demographic transition were both more than a century old before anybody suspected that they even happened. Certainly, nobody planned either event, which are the most dramatic in the human journey, happening in a few scant centuries. Domestication and its spread happened over millennia, as did the rise of civilization. The First Epoch, from the first stone tools (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stonetool1) to the arrival of the world-conquering behaviorally modern humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap) on the evolutionary scene, transpired over millions of years. Nobody planned any of those events: they were just the natural outcomes of people pursuing their self-interest. In that regard, Ed and Noam’s propaganda model makes sense. There did not need to be any planning of how Western propaganda saturates our lives; it is just a natural outcome of how capitalistic societies operate.

That said, I also know that the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) have very consciously managed the global economy, as they attended to their extreme self-interest (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving). They don’t need to micromanage it; they just control the leverage points, and the energy issue most of all (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1). Even if 99.999% of humanity is oblivious, living in ignorance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level0), fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level5), or denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1), the GCs aren’t. Also, what I am attempting is unprecedented: the conscious manifestation of humanity’s next Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). Nobody has ever tried such a thing before, and it requires very rare people (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=307&viewfull=1#post307) to even attempt it. Even imagining the next Epoch has proven to be virtually impossible for people to do (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), and it took me many years to finally realize why that is so. In a world of scarcity and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#coming), people only care about survival. Lifting their minds and hearts past daily survival concerns virtually never happens. People who do that are needles in haystacks (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), and I learned to relinquish judgment of that situation (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1) long ago. It is just where humanity is these days, and the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) will be about people lifting their eyes past survival for the first time, caring about something other than egocentric pursuits. But without abundant and harmless energy, the rest can’t happen (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#necessity). It is just like the Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3) could not have happened without plant domestication, and the Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) could not have happened without fossil fuels, and even the First (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1) and Second (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2) Epochs were energy events above all else. Without the new energy levels, the rest could not happen. That is Job Number One, and the rest is noise.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have a little time, as I am being snowed in today and tomorrow. Time to reply to posts made while I was working on Ed’s bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm), and other correspondence. But first, a little preamble. While I respect proximate causes for events, ultimate causes always trump them. Over my scholarly career, I have seen innumerable instances when analysts get stuck in debating proximate causes while ignoring the elephant in the room of the ultimate cause (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proximate). It is stunningly evident in the retrospectives by Western, particularly American, scholars, on the issue of the American invasion of Iraq (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading). It was all about the oil. Period. Everything else was noise, but all of the analyses (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#ultimate) that I saw in recent years completely ignored the oil issue or minimized it, and as Ed and Noam noted, several years after the invasion of Iraq, not a pundit could be found (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#pm20) at the New York Times that could call what the USA did in truthful terms, which was a crime. That subterfuge has many rich precedents (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#mistake). In fact, the American invasion of Iraq is humanity’s greatest crime of the 21st century so far. Nothing else comes close. That scholarly blindness is often of the unconscious variety, as pundits are incapable of seeing what is so obvious to people without the conflicts of interest that the pundits suffer from. It took me many years to finally understand what I was seeing in the free energy milieu, and Ed’s work helped me see it (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#ed). While some know exactly what they are doing as they dupe the gullible (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/94-My-last-posts-in-another-forum?p=639&viewfull=1#post639), most simply act in knee-jerk fashion, unable to see obvious realities, as that blindness helps feed them. My favorite Upton Sinclair quote (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair) is, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"

It is painfully evident in the Global Warming debate (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463), as people get all worked up debating proximal causes as they try to deny the ultimate one (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse): the rising carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=460&viewfull=1#post460), courtesy of humanity’s prodigious burning of fossil fuels (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#globalwarming). That is the entire ballgame, but “skeptics” and deniers just can’t go there, as they argue for business as usual. I have never seen any major event in the journey of life on Earth in which the energy issue was not paramount (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyevents). Similarly, I have never seen any major event in the human journey that was not primarily an economic event, which always rode on the energy issue. I know of no significant exception. Each Epoch was founded on energy dynamics, of learning to exploit a new energy resource, and all else followed from that. Without the new energy source, the rest could not have happened. Humanity’s first two Epochs happened so long ago that only scientists can piece together the puzzle, and it is also largely that way for the Third, as the domestication of plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran) and animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goat) happened before recorded history.

All of humanity’s closest cousins were driven to extinction (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climateneanderthal) long ago, coincident with the rise of behaviorally modern humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap), and it was no coincidence. Nothing has survived, going back up our evolutionary tree, all the way to chimps (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpsplit). So, piecing together that story has been quite a chore, but, as always, the energy issue reigns supreme, from the energy-fueled growth of the human-line brain (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpbrain) to Ice Age climate dynamics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#iceageeurope1) to exploiting new food sources with the human line’s expanding toolset (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oldowan) to the control of fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1), which civilization still rides atop today.

So, while I acknowledge the importance of proximate causes, they always take a back seat to ultimate ones. I always try to distinguish them, and not get too worked up debating proximate causes. The Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) will primarily be an energy event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal), as usual, as humanity becomes a Type 1 civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev), if we can survive the transition to it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth).

Time to prepare for the storm (https://maps.wunderground.com/news/2019-02-07-winter-storm-maya-seattle-portland-midwest-east-snow-ice-forecast), which will likely make the “permanent (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%E2%80%9319_North_American_winter#February_Ice_and_Winter_Storm)” record at my favorite resource, Wikipedia (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm). :)

Best,

Wade

[Dennis Leahy]

Hi:

I have a little time, as I am being snowed in today and tomorrow. ...

Time to prepare for the storm (https://maps.wunderground.com/news/2019-02-07-winter-storm-maya-seattle-portland-midwest-east-snow-ice-forecast), ...

Winter storm "Maya." Wow, the ancient Mayans were right, but their calendar was off by 7 years! Hope you have hoarded some cocoa! Jammies and a bathrobe for the next 2 days!

Love you, my free energy warrior brother!

[Wade Frazier]

Hey Dennis (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1274039&viewfull=1#post1274039)!

Well, Seattle is no match for your kind of wintry weather (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duluth,_Minnesota#Climate), but when we get it, we are poorly prepared for it. My street is still a sheet of ice from last weekend’s storm, and my yard is still buried, just in time for another 8 inches or so. Not a big deal, compared to east of here on our great continent, but we don’t have a superabundance of snow plows, etc. Last weekend, I worked both days, and my wife told me that it might snow. I was not expecting any snow, in this El Niño winter, and I had the usual Seattle skepticism that it would snow, to be surprised by several inches on the ground on Monday morning. I stupidly did not bring my laptop home on Sunday, and drove to the office to retrieve it that morning. Only all-wheel-drive vehicles had any business being on the roads, and I saw stranded trucks and buses, but the idiot award goes to sports cars. They always get stranded in this kind of weather, and I saw one sports car driver risking his life. If I was not driving a car suited for winter, I would have hit him (surely a man, as women are not that stupid in that regard), as he was driving perpendicular to the lanes on the interstate, going back-and-forth, trying to climb a hill.

Last night, I heard that something was coming, and nearly forgot to bring my laptop home again, not really paying much attention to the forecast. My commute home should have warned me. Bumper-to-bumper, and I heard this morning that all of the Seattle area supermarkets had a one-hour line at the checkout stands. I am working from home today, as long as we have power, and went to the store to buy our weekly groceries a day early, not knowing what tomorrow would bring, and I have never seen my supermarket (https://www.pccmarkets.com/) look like it did this morning. It reminded me of pictures of Russian supermarkets in the 1990s. The produce section was a shadow of its usual self, and the stocker told me that the store was cleaned out, with nothing in the back of it.

Piddly problems to have, compared to the rest of the world, but still, it is a sobering reminder of how quickly cities can collapse. Cut off the energy flows for only a few days, and cities can quickly become uninhabitable.

Love ya back, bro,

Wade

[Helloworld]

Hello everyone.


My name is Aleksander. And I'm from Norway. I'm not much of an extensive writer, so have understanding for that please.


I am very fond of Wade's "A healed planet". In fact I think it is by far the most comprehensive material - dare I say - ever written. And I'm sure it encompasses 98% of what I believe myself and it really is at the forefront of the human race.



After digesting much of his work, I felt a need to produce something myself. And what I felt is needed is a kind of a manual for how to actually go about and implement it, when it is finally eventually out in the open. A sort of an overview. With also some considerations around the topic.


I have called it 'A draft on the implementation of free energy and anti-gravity".


I have written maybe 3 pages, but now feel kind of stuck on how to continue. So I partly come here asking if someone would like to try and help me write it?


One of the things I have not gotten down yet, but that I think is important to tie in, is that when we have anti-gravity, one of the biggest assets to have is property. When you can literally have buildings anywhere. So a discussion or review of what that impact implies is needed.

What principles exist regarding ownership of land under such a scenario? I'm thinking along the lines of how it was ages ago. When large stretches of land was still un-owned and was "for the taking". Was there any good thoughts on how to divide new land that could be taken into consideration seeing this new reality was a fact?


The edit-able link to the text is located here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1drgVFi9Og_q-CGcHvl6ez31la8aVdWdaFJa6YtlER_c/edit


Feel free to read it and to contribute anything you want. Any and all comments or remarks are also appreciated. This topic is a collaborative effort anyway. :)



Also, as a sort of introduction to where I come from. Free energy has been a red thread throughout my life, as when I was 8 years old I imagined how you could build a free energy machine using opposing magnets inside a wheel. I could barely sleep for many days as I was so excited. Then I searched the Internet and it was already invented. Or tried invented. From my late teenage years and early twenties on it came up various places I was reading, and I was always still fascinated with the idea - and always sure that it already HAD been invented. Then now as an adult I 'serendipitously' stumbled across Wade's website and it all came back as strongly as when I was younger.

[Wade Frazier]

To all:

Aleksander first contacted me a couple of years ago, disappeared after a brief exchange, and I recently found his draft (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1drgVFi9Og_q-CGcHvl6ez31la8aVdWdaFJa6YtlER_c/edit) on implementing free energy and antigravity, and invited him to post it here and discuss it with me.

Hi Aleksander (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1274137&viewfull=1#post1274137):

You are in good company, with energy dreams from a young age, although none of my fellow travelers thought of free energy at such a young age. Your dreamed method of producing free energy is a viable one, and has been done before. Properly constructed devices that spin magnets begin to manifest the ZPE effect (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf) at about 2,000 RPMs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal). But those pale next to solid state devices, such as what Sparky Sweet developed, which also worked on magnetics. Like Dennis did (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tickertape1), Sparky naively believed that he would get the tickertape parade (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tickertape2) after he mailed working prototypes of his gizmo to the leading energy institutions. The opposite happened (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky). But what we pursued in Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#marry), or what Sparky developed in his home, or what any free energy inventor has ever come up with, is trivial compared to what has been developed in the black projects world, and much of it was developed by reverse-engineering captured ET technology (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spacemining). They developed free energy and antigravity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=1355&viewfull=1#post1355) (AKA electrogravity) technology to a commercial level before I was born. They demonstrated some of their toys (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/108-The-Global-Controllers?p=1173&viewfull=1#post1173) to a close friend a generation ago. Technically, the problems were solved long ago. There really are not any technical hurdles between us and the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). The problems are political-economic, social, and, ultimately, issues 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/brianmem.htm#sentience).

It took me many years to finally understand, although most of my learning curve was traveled during my first stint with Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hitting), which that voice in my head (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2) was responsible for initiating. After a dozen years of study and writing, in my radicalized state (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=739&viewfull=1#post739), I published my site as it largely stands today. One of Bucky Fuller’s pupils called me a comprehensivist, and I did not know what he meant. He had me read some of Fuller’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller), and the lightbulb finally went on, as the paradigm that I had been groping toward for many years finally crystallized. My work has been consciously comprehensive ever since, but I had a monster of a midlife crisis to negotiate (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#midlife), and the disaster of my NEM days with Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#nem), before I embarked on the study that became my big essay. Over the next year or so, I will work on updating that essay, in what may be the biggest revision that I will ever do, and I plan to then write a book (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book), which will merely be an abridged version of that essay.

As you discovered with your experience of publishing your draft and encouraging discussion, nobody is home out there in cyberspace. All that you will get are nattering nabobs, stuck in the field’s arrested development (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested), at best, and attacks, apathy, etc., and for those with any interest, about all that you will get are beginner’s bright ideas, which have all been tried innumerable times before. They are all life-risking and life-wrecking paths of disaster (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches). I am doing something different, very different. I don’t seek to awaken (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#awaken) the masses with my work. They will only begin to awaken (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink) when the Fifth Epoch is delivered into their lives. As I have written on the Epochs, nobody saw them coming (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), and even the most recent, the Industrial Revolution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4), was more than a century old before anybody realized that it was a revolution. The masses are not going to wake up to the new Epoch until it happens. What I am attempting is unprecedented in the human journey: imagining the new Epoch as a means to help manifest it.

I have written plenty of short introductions to my work (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#summary), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanityppt.pdf), 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/home.htm#comprehensive)), to ease readers into it, but in order for them to reach useful levels for my approach to this Epochal task, they have to do the work, and my big essay is my textbook for the choir, or its hymnal, to take the choir (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) analogy further.

So, I will help you on your summary draft, but also realize that it is going to go over like a lead balloon with the public. I am constantly approached by people who seek to mass market my work, as people rush off and proselytize to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), to “progressives,” and other audiences. All that they get for their trouble is indifference and ostracism. They are stuck in sociality (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/96-Human-sociality-and-free-energy). I am not aiming for the masses. Been there, done that, too many times (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level10). It won’t work. That was one of the greatest lessons of my journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#introduction).

If you are willing to do the work, I am here to help you hone your singing voice. You have already hit some of the notes. But doing the work means being able to discuss this chapter of my work (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#colonize1), or this one (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2), in order to develop a comprehensive perspective (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing). Only a comprehensive song, sung in chorus, is going to attract the people I seek, and only a choir is going to form the stable core of an effort that can get over the hump of the organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) and humanity’s inertia. It might only complement some heroic effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#howmany) that goes over the top, only because such an effort will be allowed to, but my approach won’t risk anybody’s life (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#pursuing). It might only help a little, or it may be the critical missing piece. We’ll see.

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

Properly constructed devices that spin magnets begin to manifest the ZPE effect (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf) at about 2,000 RPMs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal).
Hair-brained, back of the failed lottery tick, speculation: gadgets involving magnets, wire coils and spinning can display such behavior when they spin fast enough that the oscillating currents in the (relatively long) wires end up out of phase with the oscillating magnetic fields, as the magnetic fields travel in a short straight line to the other ends of the wires, while the current moving along the wires has further to travel, in a loopy path, so takes longer to get there. So the electrical currents end up spending more of their time within magnetic fields that accentuate their energy, rather than draining it.

If this speculation is so, then one potentially could adjust not just the rotation rate (the RPMs), but one could also adjust the length of the coiled wire, the size of the apparatus, and the frequency of the oscillations, to get improved effect ... or to negate the effect entirely.

Hopefully the mag-fags (magnetic experts) at CERN know more about this topic than I evidently do.

[ThePythonicCow]

... adjust not just the rotation rate (the RPMs), but one could also adjust the length of the coiled wire, the size of the apparatus, and the frequency of the oscillations ...
... and the shape of the wave. Perhaps the simple sine waves that are easy for those trained in the calculus of infinitesimals to theorize about are not the ideal wave shape for highest efficiency in such devices.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Paul (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1274262&viewfull=1#post1274262):

What you are speculating is probably along the lines of what makes them work. If you encounter what Mark (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&viewfull=1#post811647) did, or Sparky (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal), maybe Troy Reed (http://rexresearch.com/reed/reed.htm), and other devices that I have heard of, and I even got to touch one once, the frequencies and harmonics are key, and I think that what they do is set up a standing wave that is able to extract the energy from the “vacuum,” ZPF (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf), or whatever you want to call it (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=846910&viewfull=1#post846910).

It is one heck of a lot easier said than done, however, and very few serious garage tinkerers, probably around one percent, ever tap the ZPF in any meaningful way, and then they come onto the radar (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#graphic), and in cases like Mark’s, literally. That is not the only way that the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) and friends can detect free energy efforts. Their surveillance capabilities are second to none, which is why the “sneak past them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level7)” strategy is suicidally foolish, in a few ways.

It is not the only way to tap the ZPF, however. Some of the toys that I have heard of seem to run on photonic energy, not electricity. Greer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=938&viewfull=1#post938) has described one of the reverse-engineered ET gizmos that can power a flashlight or a city, depending on the setting. My understanding is that they have fail-safes built into them, so vaporizing a city or planet is not allowed. Kind of like how cars have bombs in them, in their gas tanks, but they are engineered to reduce the “bomb” possibility. Over 70 years of zillions of nukes on Earth, and no accidental detonations yet. I doubt that the implementation of free energy would be that dangerous. Those technologies are into their 35th generation of development or so on Earth, and it is all a crude imitation of the ET stuff.

To mass produce Sparky’s gizmo, for instance, after it was developed to a commercial level, think of an Intel facility, not somebody’s garage. Not a huge technical feat, but far beyond the means of garage tinkerers, which is why I lost interest in that approach back in the 1980s. The inventor/tinkerer’s route is a dead-end (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested), for several reasons (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This coming week is the 30th anniversary of my life’s most momentous decision, when I sacrificed it (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mortgage), to give Dennis a prayer of living to see this side of the bars again. When I did it, I knew what it meant: no family, I would never buy my own home, and other consequences of mortgaging my life in what appeared to be a futile gesture, as it looked like evil had already prevailed. Six weeks later, Dennis was out of jail, in the biggest miracle that I ever witnessed, which Dennis and I knew was a case of divine intervention.

I vividly recall when I made the decision, on a walk with my future wife, near our home. It was after a month of digesting Gary Wean’s sobering advice (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit/page2?p=1421&viewfull=1#post1421). I could not predict all of my life’s twists and turns after that, but it turned out like I thought, in that I did not have a family and never owned my own home, as a consequence of that decision, and others like them, such as taking years off from my career to write my site as it stands today. It has truly been a life’s work. But, as I have stated many times, if not for my journey with Dennis, I would likely not have much worth saying. I would still be naïve (http://ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#naive), full of bright ideas (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches) that do not have a prayer of working in the real world. It took many years of trial-and-error to come to my current approach.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

It is time to read posts that were made during my Uncle Ed hibernation (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page5?p=1622&viewfull=1#post1622). Today, I am going to put away the Ed stacks in my office (pic attached), which will make my wife happy. This coming year, when I work on my essay update, will likely have similar hibernation periods. Something has to give. I work long hours at my day job. It took me a year of full-time effort to write my big essay, and it will take a year of part-time effort to make this update, and my forum postings will suffer from it. I think that most of what I have missed has been Krishna’s posts on the demographic transition and related topics, but here goes…

Hi Krishna:

I am going to group my replies to your posts here. I think that yours begin here (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265838&viewfull=1#post1265838). I kind of replied to that first one before (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1266023&viewfull=1#post1266023), but I think that I need to reiterate that carbon emissions are not a zero-point for human development. Unless they were engaging in prodigious deforestation, such as what the Anglo-American “settlers” did to the Eastern Woodlands (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nainvasion) between 1600 and 1850, there would have been zero net emissions, for every society before the Industrial Revolution, when coal began to fuel industrializing civilizations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coaluse). Otherwise, they were just burning carbon that had been captured by plants that year (or that generation, in the case of trees, but it would have been a net zero, on the carbon emissions front).

At that stage, just before industrialization, advanced agricultural societies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ep32) used ten times their dietary calories at zero net carbon emissions. That is the energy usage that India is at today. Sure, India is also burning hydrocarbons, as all nations do today, as no nation is untouched by the Fourth Epoch, but its energy usage is at Cook’s category of Advanced Agricultural, which also corresponds to India’s demographics today. Even more so than China, India is still a nation of peasants. Here is an article from India (https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article374.html) on that, and it rightfully “credits” British and French colonialism along southern Asia for that situation. Here is a more current article (https://stirringthepyramid.wordpress.com/2014/08/12/how-many-farmers-does-india-have-or-what-percent/) on that situation.

And even for the Indians who do not work in agriculture in some way, they really don’t work in “industry” that much, either. I previously gave an anecdote on that, in that my company, which sells advanced industrial equipment globally, sells very little along southern Asia, and India in particular. Our primary markets are North America, Europe, and East Asia. We sell a little in South America, from our facilities there, but Latin America in general is not much of a market for us, and there is almost nothing in Africa or southern Asia, from the Levant eastward to the Pacific.

Here is a table (https://www.brookings.edu/research/global-manufacturing-scorecard-how-the-us-compares-to-18-other-nations/) of manufacturing output by nation. But per-capita numbers are far more meaningful, and for per-capita manufacturing output, India is not in the top 100 nations (https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Industry/Manufacturing%2C-value-added/Current-US%24-per-capita), ranking a little better than Cambodia. Because India has a mind-boggling population, there are pockets of relative industrialization, but the reason why India became kind of a tech center for Western firms is because the British subjugation meant that high-caste Indians were educated and knew English, and running data lines into India is cheaply done. It was a cheap way to get cheap labor. All of those high-tech immigrants to the USA are here because they are relatively cheap. I live in one of those immigrant enclaves, next to Microsoft’s headquarters, and I have written about my friend who had Bill Gates come to see him (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page11?p=1290&viewfull=1#post1290), when he made a breakthrough in search algorithms.

Bill and I had long talks about Microsoft, and if it could change its DNA. Microsoft was infamous for its cutthroat environment, with stack-ranking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitality_curve#Microsoft) and infighting, and its CEO who replaced Ballmer has been trying, but the dysfunction runs deep. Bill’s going around his bosses, who could not understand what he came up with, even though Gates instantly understood and came to see Bill the day that he got wind of it, actually scuttled his career. He did not go up the chain of command, which outranked everything.

Bill worked for either Microsoft or one of Gates’s other companies for about 30 years, and one day, we discussed India and Microsoft, and it is an anecdote worth telling. My company also had an office in Bangalore, but we got rid of it as soon as we could. Although it cost about half-price to run, compared to doing it in the USA, the quality of work was not there. Bill ran a programming team in India for Microsoft. I am not sure that he ever visited India, but his team was there, and they just did not have it. It was very frustrating for Bill, and one day, he discussed his problems with a colleague, who also had run teams in India. Bill asked what the problem was, as his team was so incompetent, and his colleague told him how it worked, and gave an American analogy. He said that in the USA, the technical brain trusts were at MIT and Cal-Tech, and then you had second-tier brain trusts, such as Harvard and Stanford, which were really more politically oriented than technically. Then you had the next level, with state-level institutions such as Berkeley and UCLA, or private think tanks such as Duke. Then you had schools like the University of Washington (where my father went) or my school (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Polytechnic_State_University). Below that were most state universities and colleges, and below that you would have community colleges, and below that were tech schools and those “mail order” institutions that were simply mills that churned out graduates with credentials, like that law school in Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mill), where Mr. Prosecutor was from.

Bill’s colleague told him that his team was from India’s equivalent of those American credential mills. Bill was getting India’s bottom-of-the-barrel programmers. That conversation was part of one of those “can Microsoft change its DNA?” talks. I have been Microsoft’s customer/victim for over 30 years, and hearing tales like that made perfect sense. I have done plenty of system design (http://ahealedplanet.net/trucking.htm#footnotes) myself, and have been appalled at Microsoft’s shoddy products, which it foisted on its customers in monopolistic fashion. People like me dreaded the release of Microsoft’s new operating systems. A generation ago, there was a scandal, just when Gates reached the $100 billion of net worth level, in about 1999, when it was discovered that Microsoft used prison labor to package and ship its software. They still do it today (http://glitch.news/2017-03-01-left-leaning-microsoft-and-nike-both-rely-on-prison-labor-camps-to-produce-high-profit-products.html), as do many other big-name companies (https://laborrights.org/in-the-news/your-valentine-made-prison). So, using the worst that India has to offer, or using prison labor, and up to half of the inmates are innocent of the crimes that they are incarcerated for, in the USA’s kangaroo court legal system (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail), is a fitting way to become the world’s richest man. Actually, the more predatory Amazon has surpassed Microsoft in the ruthlessness department (both shark tanks are in Seattle, and the stories I could tell), earning Jeff Bezos the coveted title of world’s richest man, who does not even make a pretense of “philanthropy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy)” with his neo-McCarthyite efforts (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#propornot).

There is a lot more to come, as I work my way through the posts.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, the old man has had to shovel the driveway three times this past week, another one will happen this morning, and another maybe later today, before it turns to our “normal” rain. Thank god for ibuprofen. :) We have two-foot icicles hanging from our eves in that attached picture from yesterday, but that is piddly compared to when we lived in Ohio, also attached.

Back to those posts. Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1267550&viewfull=1#post1267550), between 1920 and 1970, Western Europe’s energy consumption per capita more than doubled (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Per-capita-energy-consumption-in-western-Europe-1800-2007-GJ-on-the-right-log-vertical_fig1_272499137). If you take from the end of World War II to the oil crisis of 1973-1974, which ended the postwar boom (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#postwar), it nearly tripled. In the USA, it “only” nearly doubled from the end of World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#/media/File:United_States_per_capita_energy_use_1650-2010.png) to the oil crisis. The postwar boom was not about education. In fact, Americans have been increasingly educated since the first oil crisis, as our standard of living declines, along with our energy consumption (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil). I estimate that about half of our “education” is brainwashing (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#brainwashing), in a number of ways (http://ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#blinded).

India is still recovering from the British raping (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Divergence#European_colonialism), which you have seen me write about plenty (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#bengal), which I first learned about in 1992, from Uncle Noam (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chomsky). I can appreciate that your heart is with India, but my point about cow pie factories is that industrial societies don’t use cow pies for their energy. When my grandfather lived in a sod hut a century ago, in Kansas (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#kansas), they did burn cow pies (and bison “chips” before that, while they lasted (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#bison)). They also rode horses for their transportation. That homesteader life was agrarian, with some benefits from the industrialized East, such as tools, trains, etc. It changed fast, with industrialization, and my grandfather’s son helped put men on the Moon (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary), and his son is pursuing the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). That was an awesome amount of change, in less than a century. It is by far the most dramatic change in the human journey. But without all of that fossil fuel, it would not have happened. In 2010, the USA burned as much oil as the entire world (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#rise) did during all of World War II.

My point about Kerala (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1264284&viewfull=1#post1264284) was that I learned long ago that if a nation really cared to, the demographic benefits of industrial nations were cheaply reproduced in poor nations. I don’t really care about the ideology. My point was that from the pristine instances of industrialization and the demographic transition, key aspects of them could be cheaply reproduced in poor nations (literacy, sanitation, hygiene), which initiated a demographic transition without being industrialized. But they were learned from the industrializing experience. Cuba is a great example of that (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1266023&viewfull=1#post1266023), which they accomplished while under siege by the USA, as it refused to be an American playground anymore (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#cuba). That American neocolonial effort helped lead to a president’s murder (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm#tower).

I’ll have a lot more to write about industrialization and the demographic transition later, but for now, I have to shovel my driveway. :)

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, today is going to be a long day. I awoke, ready to go to work, after several days at home, to find that our neighbor’s tree collapsed across our driveway in the night, from the weight of the ice and snow, pic attached. I’ll spend my morning cutting it up, and I am on ibuprofen before I even start, from all of the shoveling. Several more inches of snow fell, so it will be the sixth shoveling of the driveway in the past week. I’m ready for spring! :)

Time for a current events post. Noam and Ed wrote about the USA’s activities in Latin America since the 1970s, as it overthrew governments (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#overthrow) and installed genocidal dictatorships (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#central). Ed wrote about “demonstration elections (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#demonstration)” in the 1960s in Vietnam, and in Latin America in the 1980s. Latin America was the focus (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#worthy) of Ed’s “worthy” and “unworthy” victims’ dichotomous media treatment, in which murdered priest and nuns in client states (even when they were American victims) got less than a hundredth of the coverage of murders of priests in enemy states.

In retrospectives on Ed’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#academic), after his death, Venezuela was repeatedly covered as an example of the continuing applicability of Ed and Noam’s propaganda model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing) (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#latin1), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#venezuela)). As long as the media is capitalist, Ed’s work is going to be relevant, and what we see in the media today on Venezuela is a textbook example of a propaganda campaign to install a dictatorship beholden to American interests, while promoting it as a legitimate government. I won’t discuss it too much in this post, but will link to current commentary from the best of the Left, which shows quite clearly what is happening, contrary to what the American media consumer is being bombarded with today. I’ll start with Counterpunch, in an article (https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/08/juan-guaido-the-man-who-would-be-president-of-venezuela-doesnt-have-a-constitutional-leg-to-stand-on/) that shows that more than 80% of Venezuelans had never even heard of the Trump administration’s proposed puppet before he announced that he was the new president of Venezuela. This is the USA’s standard banana republic method, of using a puppet that was an American creation, to inflict a dictatorship on a target nation. ZNet has more extensive coverage, with excellent articles on what is really happening (1 (https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/regime-change-made-in-the-u-s-a/), 2 (https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/1017355/), 3 (https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/spains-socialist-government-to-us-coup-against-maduro-were-in/), 4 (https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/the-battle-for-venezuela/)), as we can witness an American-launched coup attempt as it happens.

It does not matter who the president is. Republican and Democratic administrations perform the same imperial crimes, and the media covers for them (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#cataclysm), as it always has. Retail politics is irrelevant, as Uncle Bucky knew (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#politics). Hillary would have done the same or worse (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#chaos), and she might have started World War III (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wwIII) by now.

But what is even more relevant to my work is that the attempt to overthrow Venezuela’s government is another example of Heinberg’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm) “plan war,” as the USA fights over the world’s dwindling oil deposits. The USA’s military presence in the Middle East (Syria (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#syria) and Iraq (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading)) and North Africa (such as what it did to Libya (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#clark)), has control of the world’s last easy oil as the sole motivation, and everything else is just noise. People have to be supremely ignorant or gullible to believe anything else.

Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves#Countries), but that title is a bit misleading. Hubbert’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hubbert) concept of Peak Oil (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil) referred to what is called conventional oil today. Conventional oil is the relatively high-EROI (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eroi) oil that is extractable and refinable by methods that go back more than a century. The extraction of that oil peaked globally in 2006 (and in the USA in 1970, just before the first oil crisis ended the postwar boom (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#postwar)), not far from Hubbert’s initial estimate, and it is all downhill from there. The Canadian tar sands (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tarsands), the ballyhooed American fracking, which supposedly makes the USA “energy independent,” and the like is sucking at the dregs of the world’s hydrocarbon deposits (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dregs). The energy return on investment for that “unconventional” oil is likely too low to sustain industrial civilizations, and Venezuela is another example of this. The USA has been waging economic war against Venezuela since the 1990s, trying to bring it to heel, as it did to Iraq before the invasion (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#continuing), which has been a big part of Venezuela’s suffering. But more importantly, Venezuela’s oil is not conventional, but is heavy oil that the usual methods can’t extract and refine. It is the low-EROI gunk that needs great capital investment to extract and refine. The fight over Venezuela’s oil is an example of declining industrial civilization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#industrialdecline), as we fight over the dregs. Here is a good article on it (https://medium.com/insurge-intelligence/venezuelas-collapse-is-a-window-into-how-the-oil-age-will-unravel-f80aadff7786), which you naturally won’t read about in the mainstream media.

So, how about free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5)? :) This is one of the many surreal aspects of my journey, in which the solution to all of this evil is older than I am, but everybody is either ignorant (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level0), reacts in denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1) and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level5), or has beginner’s “bright ideas (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#approaches)” that are life-risking and life-wrecking paths of disaster. Time to wake up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309), for those capable of it.

Best,

Wade

[Dennis Leahy]

Ugh! You need a vibrant, strong, 20-something kid to cut that tree up for you. I used to take 600mg of ibuprofen for frequent headaches, but then I did a bit of research and drew a line in the sand - no more ibuprofen in my body! Curcumin (turmeric curcumin) works, just more subtly and takes longer, but without the kidney and stomach damage (https://experiencelife.com/article/this-is-your-body-on-ibuprofen/). Hey, "4 out of 5 doctors agree" that what I just wrote is nonsense, and want you to be a good boy and take that Rockefeller-legacy pharmaceutical drug. Indica-based strains of cannabis are strong painkillers, but I suspect you would hate being befuddled by THC, so if you did, I would say only before going to bed. (An edible form, not smoke.) It is legal where you are.

OK, now I need to segue back to free energy. The oil barons, in fascist collusion with the US government, sure have done a number on us. I agree with you that the Big Oil Energy Cabal are the top tier malevolent monsters, not the international Banksters whose gig is simply "skimming" every possible monetary transaction. The globalist banksters wouldn't care what energy source is utilized - as long as it isn't free.

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Dennis (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1275157&viewfull=1#post1275157):

One day, I might look into “natural” painkillers, but I don’t use ibuprofen often. After this week, I likely won’t use any for several months. I still gotta lose 20 pounds or so, which will see me in good stead, health-wise. I have pretty much made the dietary changes needed (just back to my ideal diet, anyway – I have known how to do it right, since I was a teenager (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lessons), but knowing and doing are two different things :) ). Now to lower the portions, do some fasting, and do a little more exercise besides hiking, so I can work the next ten years in good health, and get in another 20 good years after that, if I am lucky.

The good news on the tree front is that the next-door neighbor, whose tree fell over our driveway (it was already leaning, so no big surprise there), had a much bigger tree break in his front yard, so a pal with a chainsaw is coming to take them down. There are trees down all over the neighborhood, and as I looked in my backyard, I saw one down. Attached is a pic from this morning, after my sixth shoveling since the previous Monday. For Seattle, this is epic. The trees came down (and power lines), from the ice and snow on the trees.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

P.S., Dennis:

The Big Oil guys (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1275157&viewfull=1#post1275157) are actually down the food chain a ways. I think that people would have called David Rockefeller “Mr. Big,” in the Big Oil lexicon, but he showed us (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888) that he was not top-tier (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc). The Big Oil boys are pretty big, but the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) outrank them. The banks and oil companies are part of the global cartel (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/forums/21-The-rackets) situation, but not at the top. They are arms of the octopus, and have somewhat limited autonomy. As long as the Big Game is not threatened, what is happening today, in Venezuela (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1275146&viewfull=1#post1275146), for instance, is seen by the GCs as something akin to, “The boys at play.” :)

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Hi:

Back to those posts. Krishna (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1267550&viewfull=1#post1267550), between 1920 and 1970, Western Europe’s energy consumption per capita more than doubled (https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Per-capita-energy-consumption-in-western-Europe-1800-2007-GJ-on-the-right-log-vertical_fig1_272499137). If you take from the end of World War II to the oil crisis of 1973-1974, which ended the postwar boom (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#postwar), it nearly tripled. In the USA, it “only” nearly doubled from the end of World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#/media/File:United_States_per_capita_energy_use_1650-2010.png) to the oil crisis.

My data was coming from Gapminder link here (https://www.gapminder.org/tools/#$state$time$value=2014;&marker$select@$country=usa&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:0.124&:-0.031;;&$country=gbr&trailStartTime=1800&labelOffset@:0.166&:-0.258;;;&axis_x$which=time&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:null&zoomedMax:null&scaleType=time&spaceRef:null;&axis_y$which=co2_emissions_tonnes_per_person&domainMin:null&domainMax:null&zoomedMin:null&zoomedMax:25&spaceRef:null;;;&chart-type=bubbles), but what you say in terms of energy consumption makes sense.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

After yesterday’s digging out, this old man is feeling it. I think that we are done with the snow for now. Two weeks ago, I figured that we would not get any snow this year. I keep my snow tires on until March, however, and that was a good thing this year. I am going to wait for it to melt before I take down broken trees and the like in my yard.

I have written plenty that I crunch numbers for a living. Probably like any profession, you can develop an appreciation, yet also skepticism (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#getting), of your profession’s worth. Keeping score for the capitalists is not what I thought I would do when I grew up. In the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), my profession disappears (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange), and for good reason.

I have written plenty (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#economists) about my skepticism of economists, and here is a nice quote (https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2019/02/the-great-discontent/) that economists are merely politicians. To me, most of the number-crunching that economists do is useless in the big picture. As with any undertaking like that, it is the assumptions that gird the crunching exercises that need to be examined. As I resumed my science studies in earnest in 2003, after finishing the 2002 version of my site, I could tell the disdain that scientists had for economists (http://ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm#scientists), and it articulated the problems that I had ever since college about economists.

Scientists try to carefully distinguish between correlation and causation, but economists just love playing with the numbers, and I was wary of all of the number-crunching that I saw regarding the demographic transition (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1272961&viewfull=1#post1272961), when I recently poked into it. I feel more strongly today about my statement from 2010 (http://ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#succinct) -


“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.”


- than when I made it. A lot of studying has happened since then, when I was just forming my Epochal framework, but the gist of my Epochs has not changed. There was certainly a cognitive aspect of those Epochal phases. The First Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1) happened when bipedal apes (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bipedskull) (pushed to the woodland margins of the rainforests (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpsplit) millions of years previously) achieved an unprecedented level of tool usage (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stonetool1), which led to their formation of a new ecological niche, and the primary upshot was the explosive growth in their brains (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpbrain), which was an energy event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#braingrowth1). The steep climb to Homo sapiens began then, fire was controlled along the way (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1), and when behaviorally modern humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap) appeared on the scene around 60-70,000 years ago, there had never been anything like it on Earth before, and they easily conquered Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit). Their mastery of language (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#language) reflected key cognitive developments, and they were able to communicate ideas like nothing else on land ever did, and human culture took leaps in sophistication.

The Second Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2) lasted about 40,000 years, until the easy meat was gone (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna) and an interglacial interval (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#iceageeurope1) began. I am well into that book on how the Domestication Revolution began (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1273774&viewfull=1#post1273774), and some of it will make it into my big essay update. I was surprised at how there is no mention of the megafauna extinctions or little discussion of the changing gender roles in early domestication. Otterbein’s hypothesis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873) is nowhere dealt with in that book. Part of it was published before that book was, and part afterward, but the role of warfare is lightly dealt with in that book, which is a deficiency, IMO.

The sedentism of agrarian life was a major watershed in the human journey. Everything that we call civilization today arose from the sedentism of the Domestication Revolution. Once cities began forming, and people began associating along professional lines (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#professions) instead of kinship lines, human societies radically changed. But without the energy surplus of domestication, the rest could not have happened. The same goes for the energy innovations of the First and Second Epochs. All of the changes rode on the energy issue. What I have noticed was that late-Epoch energy crises spurred the innovations that led to the new Epoch.

For the first, it is hard to tell, as it happened so long ago, but I consider it very likely that since the split with gorillas (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#migratehome), the shrinking rainforest and woodlands spurred the evolutionary changes that led to chimps and the human line. The innovations that led to humanity were driven by energy needs in an increasingly hostile environment, and new energy tricks were learned along the way. Without those energy tricks, the rest would not have happened. I consider that the Founder Group’s exit from Africa (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit) to have been more born of necessity and survival than a sense of adventure.

What comes through very clearly in that book on the beginnings of agriculture is that inventing domestication was driven by survival needs, not the Victorian notion of “progress.” The initial process lasted for thousands of years and continues to this day, with the domestication of the silver fox (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#silverfox), for instance. The author of that book makes the case that domestication happened independently more than has been previously been supposed, but I have my doubts. There are instances where people “invented” domestication a week’s walk from other peoples who were domesticated, but that invention was supposedly not influenced by their neighbors.

Language was the first “Internet,” sedentism brought many people into close contact, which allowed for the interaction and spread of ideas, which took another leap forward with the appearance of cities, which took another leap with the invention of writing (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#writing), and yes, as Krishna argues, Gutenberg’s printing press (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#printing) allowed for mass literacy for the first time, during Western Europe’s rise to industrialization, which really began in the High Middle Ages (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hma), with the explosion of watermills (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill1) and other energy technologies. When rising Europe achieved the unprecedented technical feat of turning the world’s ocean into a low-energy transportation lane (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2), Europeans easily conquered humanity.

The Second Epoch drove all of Earth’s easy meat and competing human species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#europeinvasion) to extinction. The Third Epoch drove hunter-gatherers to marginal environments where agriculture could not be practiced, and Europe’s rise, and it industrialized (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) during it, was a huge demographic catastrophe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic2), as the peoples of three continents were driven to extinction, while the peoples of the other two were enslaved. But along with the demographic catastrophe, the peoples in the industrializing world had a demographic change that was unprecedented in the human journey, which is called the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic) today.

That correlation versus causation issue is important, and it is also important to distinguish ultimate and proximate causes. Krishna is going to argue with me about it, and that is fine, but I see literacy and what we call “education” today as a proximate cause, at best, for the initial demographic transition. The debates of economists and demographers on those issues can sure crunch a bunch of numbers, but I see a lot of what seems to be a myopic view of the issues. Without that energy wave that Europe rode, the rest would not have happened, and tapping coal energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday) allowed the Industrial Revolution to happen, just as the energy surplus of agriculture allowed civilization to appear. Those are the ultimate causes of those Epochal transformations, and humanity developed the social organization and technical prowess to exploit those new energy sources. But while late-Epoch changes in social organization and technology enabled the exploitation of the new energy sources, it was the exploitation of them which led to the Epochal changes, in technology, in social organization, in demographics, and in the development of new ideas. Riding that new energy wave, with its increasing energy surplus, is what fueled advances in human technology, social organization, and thought.

I’ll get more into the details of that soon, and as I do it, I will be roughing out the upcoming changes to my big essay. There will not be any changes in the gist of my big essay, but I will broaden and deepen many areas of it.

But this snow week put a big crimp in my life, and I will be pretty quiet for the next few months, as my day job will be a hurricane, as I dig out of that hole.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Here is a little addendum to my recent post on Venezuela (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/39-Chapter-23-The-Postwar-Boom-Peak-Oil-and-the-Decline-of-Industrial-Civilization?p=1631&viewfull=1#post1631), as I forgot to add a bizarre footnote to it. Back in the 1980s, Elliott Abrams was the diplomatic front man for the Reagan Administration’s genocides in Central America (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#central). Abrams dismissed the El Mozote Massacre (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#bonner) as communist propaganda and called El Salvadoran “democracy” a “fabulous achievement.” He should have gone to prison at minimum, but since he fronted for genocidists that the USA supported, he got off lightly. A generation ago, I was amazed, in a sickening way, when the Bush the Second administration hired him as a human rights advisor (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#abrams), of all things, and he helped lead the way on the invasion of Iraq (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), which is the greatest crime of the 21st century so far. So, guess who Trump hired as the American envoy to Venezuela? Abrams! It is like Abrams is a hit man who goes into retirement but is brought back to do dirty work, when his particular skills are needed. He will likely be one of Max’s neighbors (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#hell) after he passes, or at least live in the same town.

It was nice to see Abrams get grilled by a new member of Congress (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-13/watch-venezuela-envoy-elliott-abrams-lose-his-cool-during-tense-exchange-rep-ilhan) in recent days, and he had the gall to repeat his “El Salvadoran democracy” Big Lie, and specifically cited their “elections,” which was a subject of Ed’s “Demonstration Elections (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#demonstration)” work. Here we go, with another “humanitarian intervention (https://orientalreview.org/2019/02/11/humanitarian-intervention-and-the-new-world-order-violation-of-the-international-law-i/)” by that most benevolent of all nations (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#record).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

When I quote people in my work, I try to contact them. I generally don’t need to do it for legal reasons, but it is more of a courtesy. I could invoke Fair use laws (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use), but the people that I quote I have virtually always quoted from a sense of appreciation and respect, although I certainly did not contact either of the George Bushes or Madeleine Albright for their permission on these quotes (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#wtc), for instance. :)

But, over the years, when I contacted the “great,” I almost invariably heard from them, and soon, such as Noam, Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1599&viewfull=1#post1599), Peter Ward (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page6?p=738&viewfull=1#post738), and so on. When I published Ed’s “final” bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm) recently, I contacted all of the people that I could, whom I quoted. Once again, last night, I heard back from arguably the most prominent of them, of those that I could contact, and the one whose work I had the greatest respect for, while I only heard back from one of the less-known people. This is a typical pattern. I have very rarely heard back from the less prominent people that I have contacted over the years. The “greats” are/were great for a reason, and virtually always hearing back from them, from emails and letters out of the blue, reinforced my sense that they were also great human beings, in addition to their being great scholars or scientists.

With that prelude, I just dug up my email exchange from Howard Zinn. I sent him the email less than two weeks after 9/11, when the Left was trying mightily to forestall what soon came: the American invasion of Afghanistan, then Iraq (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), as Orwell’s Permanent War (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#orwell) became the USA’s playbook, in its never-ending “War on Terror (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#terrorism).” I did not expect to hear from Zinn for months, if ever. He was nearly 80 at the time, and surely had his hands full. So, imagine my surprise when I heard from him the same day. An academic journal (http://globalization.icaap.org/content/v1.1/wadefrazier.html) published that draft of my Columbus essay the next month, and I began my correspondence with Uncle Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page4?p=1599&viewfull=1#post1599) the month after that.

I no longer make large quotes like that in my work, as my style has evolved over the years, and I had planned to remove that Zinn quote when I eventually updated that essay, but with Howard’s death, I decided to leave it in, in his honor. He was one of the greats. So, here is my exchange with Uncle Howard (http://ahealedplanet.net/zinn.htm), the only one that I ever had, which was more than enough for me.

From: Wade Frazier
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 12:51 PM
To: Howard Zinn
Subject: Quoting your work

Dear Dr. Zinn:

I am sure you have far more pressing issues than responding to this email right now. If you could put it in your stack of things to do one day, I would appreciate it. I am writing you because I have a long quote from your work in an essay I wrote about Columbus's discovery of the New World. My take on the issue is not much different than yours. I do not plan on revising my essay much in the near future, but part of it may make it into my upcoming book. I am asking your permission to publish your words the way I have.

My essay is at:

http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm

The section where I have the long quote from you is at:

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

I hope you are well these days.

Very respectfully,

Wade Frazier


From: Howard Zinn
Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 9:42 PM
To: Wade Frazier
Subject: Re: Quoting your work

I think your essay on Columbus is very well done, thoroughly researched, careful in its presentation of varying points of view while firm in its conclusions. You have my permission to quote from my People's History as you have done.

Howard Zinn


Reading Zinn’s People’s History was when I got the first inkling that the Columbus story that I had been raised with might have been a little askew from reality. It was really the beginning of my iconoclastic studies of American history. As I recall, I read Zinn’s chapter on Columbus soon before I read David Stannard’s (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#wounded) American Holocaust, which is still the one to be reckoned with, and was my big wakeup call on what the “settling” of the Western Hemisphere by Europe was really like (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#before). Several years later, Ward Churchill (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/99-My-Media-and-Political-Studies-What-That-Ride-Was-Like?p=976&viewfull=1#post976) published his masterpiece, and his career ended because of it (http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#churchill). I still regularly pick up Stannard’s and Churchill’s books and read them. They are awe-inspiring, if devastating, reads, but Uncle Howard’s work was my introduction to that subject.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just reread Aleskander’s draft (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1274137&viewfull=1#post1274137) on the implementation of free energy and anti-gravity technologies. Instead of offering suggestions on it, I will write my own version, and people can use it how they will. Here goes.



The reality, promise, and development of free energy and related technologies


What are they?
What is their potential impact on global society?
What are the issues of development and distribution?
What strategy might work?
The bigger picture


What are they?

Even among orthodox physicists such as David Bohm (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf1), it has been hypothesized that what is called the zero-point field and other terms (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=846910&viewfull=1#post846910) is a source of usable energy, and of great potential magnitude. Many scientists have proposed hypotheses regarding that potential energy source, and numerous inventors have allegedly developed technologies that have harnessed that energy, which seems to be an intrinsic aspect of the space-time continuum. In addition, this field has purportedly been tapped and used to create what are called antigravity effects, which has technically been called electrogravity, which was a public field of research by large American corporations in the 1950s, before the efforts disappeared from public view. Some inventions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demonstrate) have been comprised of rotating magnets, while others have been solid state devices (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). According to the inventors, those technologies could be mass-produced at low cost, once the commercial development was completed. Various public figures have stated that they have witnessed the demonstration of those technologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#underground) in covert settings.

What is their potential impact on global society?

The impact of such technologies on human societies is incalculable. According to the theories of modern physics, the entire universe is comprised of energy, and the journey of life on Earth and the human journey has been a story of continually inventing ways to harness more energy. Pound-for-pound, a complex cell burns energy 100,000 times as fast as the Sun produces it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#summary3), and each epoch of the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable) was founded upon and sustained by exploiting new energy sources, from inventing stone tools (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stonetool1) to controlling fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1) to domesticating plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran) and animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goat) to burning fossil fuels (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday). Each new energy source meant a large increase in energy capture, generally by an order of magnitude or so. Tapping the zero-point field might provide abundant, clean (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#immediate), and harmless (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peacekeeping) energy to humanity for the first time, which could transform human societies beyond recognition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cognitive), as all of humanity would live in abundance for the first time.

What are the issues of development and distribution?

In all known instances, the inventors who have demonstrated viable prototypes of free energy and related technologies have encountered covert interests that sought to buy them out or wipe them out (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#make). Many came to untimely and suspicious deaths (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors), others have reported offers to relinquish their technologies, others have been imprisoned on frivolous charges (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail), and nearly all efforts have been betrayed from within (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#shocked), which was often enabled by seeming provocateurs (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#texas) that were infiltrated into the operations. In addition, such efforts have never had much public support. It appears that the same interests who have clandestinely developed those technologies have also been behind the organized suppression of independent efforts to develop those technologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1), although numerous vested interests appear to have acted independently to ensure that such disruptive technologies are not made publicly available.

What strategy might work?

The standard efforts mounted by inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#arrested) have never come close to overcoming their internal weaknesses and what appears to be organized suppression, and the most dramatic and deadly organized suppression seems reserved for efforts with the most promise. A new approach (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir) seems to be required in order for an effort to have a realistic chance of success. Not only will such an effort likely need to be non-profit, but giving away the technology might be the only orientation with any likelihood of success. But since free energy technology would be history’s most lucrative (http://ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion), the field’s temptations and perils have resulted in the reality that finding participants in the field with charitable motivation is nearly impossible. Reaching outside of the small and insular free energy milieu seems to be a requirement for building a viable effort.

The bigger picture

Virtually everything about our universe is a play of energy. Mastering free energy technology would advance humanity, in the terminology of a Russian scientist (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kardashev), into becoming a Type 1 civilization (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale#Type_I_civilization_methods). Almost no aspect of today’s societies would survive such a transition, including our economic (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange) and social (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#family) institutions. That has been a major challenge for mounting free energy efforts, as their implications overwhelm the general public, which generally reacts with denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level1) and fear (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level5) to such ideas, and particularly scientists and the educated (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3).

The challenge is formidable, but the goal is as lofty as has ever been aspired to. Only a specially motivated effort seems likely to have a chance of success, and the people willing and capable of mounting and assisting such an effort will be extremely rare (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle). It seems that this unprecedented event requires an unprecedented approach.


Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Before I go back to addressing posts on this thread, I will sketch out the demographic changes of each Epoch.

The First Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal1):

Many millions of years after leaving the tropical canopy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proconsul), in a cooling and drying world, as volcanism waned (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse), which led to apes, and after millions of years of upright walking (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bipedskull) after leaving the shrinking rainforest, our ancestors, with their freed hands (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#hand) and slowly growing brains began making tools (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#stonetool1) like nothing ever had before, the rapid rise to Homo sapiens began. Those tools allowed for greater energy acquisition in the form of food, and undoubtedly could also be used defensively, but the Big One was the control of fire (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fire1), which was the game changer of the First Epoch. Nothing like that had ever been seen before on Earth, and it directly led to human dominance of Earth. The human line’s brains exploded in growth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#chimpbrain), and it was an energy event above all else, as the human brain is an energy hog, requiring about 20% of a body’s energy. So, the biggest demographic change of the First Epoch was the appearance of Homo sapiens on the evolutionary scene. Without those energy innovations, humans would not have appeared.

The Second Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal2):

The last million years of the First Epoch is still rich in controversy over the cognitive development of the human line. By 500,000 years ago, humans had long since mastered fire and were producing sophisticated weapons (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#msa), and there is evidence of professional butchery back then. But everybody agrees that there was something unique about behaviorally modern humans (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#leap), who arrived on the scene about 60-70 thousand years ago. It looks like Homo sapiens went through a genetic bottleneck (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bottleneck) about the time that behavioral modernity was achieved, and there may have been only 5,000 or so behaviorally modern humans when the Founder Group (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit) of a few hundred left Africa and conquered Earth. The biggest demographic change of the Second Epoch was the explosion of the human population as the world’s easy meat (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#australianmegafauna) and all other human species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#europeinvasion) were driven to extinction. Over the Second Epoch, the population of Homo sapiens grew by a factor of a thousand. It is the greatest Epochal proportional population growth in the human journey. By the Second Epoch’s end, humans dominated all ecosystems that they could get to. Only Antarctica and some islands had not been conquered by humans yet, and they had yet to exploit the oceans past the shoreline.

The Third Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal3):

Actually, the Third Epoch’s primary demographic change was only a continuation of the Second Epoch, in that the human population grew by a factor of about 200, but only over 10,000 years versus the Second Epoch’s 40,000 years, so the rate of increase was about the same as the Second Epoch’s. Evolutionarily, nothing much has changed in the past 70,000 years: we are all the Universal People (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#up), with far more in common than differences. The domestication of plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran) made the Third Epoch possible, and everything else was noise. It was likely that the Malthusian impacts of population growth in a world denuded of its megafauna, as well as the climactic fluctuations (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#iceageeurope1) around the ending of the previous glacial interval, spurred people to domesticate plants and, to a lesser degree, animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goat). Humans were also domesticated, and ideological indoctrination began with civilization, but agriculture was the “necessary precondition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#agciv)” for the rise of civilization, in the parlance of demographers.

For all of the “advances” of the Third Epoch, infant mortality was about the same, with a child having about a 50% of chance of living to be an adult, and infant mortality was actually much higher in cities, which were death traps, as their populations were sustained by a steady migration from the agrarian hinterlands (as well as bringing in captured humans as slaves - slaves outnumbers citizens on that cradle of democracy, Ancient Athens (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#classicgreece)). Women had a brief rise in status in the Neolithic (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran), as horticultural villages often became matrilocal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1), as women began bringing in more calories than the men, and those are the human journey’s most peaceful preindustrial societies, as matrilocality broke up the male gangs.

However, with the rise of civilization, women’s status declined again (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#womenstatus1), as they became the broodmares of agrarian societies, producing the peasants that civilization rode on the backs of. No civilization has ever been energetically sustainable (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#unsustainable1), and the Third Epoch is full of collapsed societies, as they ran out of energy.

After Rome collapsed (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#antonine), which is history’s most influential empire, Europe became an Old World backwater, but they retained the watermill (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill2), which the Greeks invented, and little did any of them know it yet, but it was the first time that humans created land-based mechanical power that did not come from muscles, and that helped lead to Europe’s rise. The rise of Europe was a late-Epoch development, and its energy capture rose by 50% from the High Middle Ages to the brink of the Fourth Epoch, and many proto-industrial developments happened during its rise, and replacing human hands was perhaps the most important development, as exemplified by Gutenberg’s printing press (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#printing). No longer were books written by hand, and an explosion in literacy soon followed. Watermills replaced human backs, and the printing press replaced human hands, as spinning machines (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spinning) also eventually did. Such innovations made unskilled labor uneconomical, and led to the end of slavery (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#southseas) as an institution (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaverybeginning).

Deforested England (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday) turned to coal in the High Middle Ages (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#eleanor). Otherwise, English civilization would have collapsed as it ran out of energy. But coal was the first fossil fuel that humanity used, and its use was the essential development for the arrival of the Fourth Epoch. Without the exploitation of the new energy source, the rest would not have happened. England had already been evicting the peasants from the lands (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gamelaw), and shoving them into the coal mines and cities, and those dispossessed peasants became the workforce of England’s Industrial Revolution, which is the only pristine instance of it.

Demographically, it began changing for Europe in the High Middle Ages, with the explosion in watermills and reintroduction of the ancient Greek teachings (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#toledo) that the Catholic Church had eradicated as “pagan,” and England’s demographic transition began when the peasants were evicted and British agriculture had a proto-industrial revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution), so that by 1800, in the Fourth Epoch’s early days, less than 40% of the English workforce was involved in agriculture.

In Ian Morris’s magnum opus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Morris_(historian)#Why_the_West_Rules%E2%80%94For_Now), he scarcely mentioned the Fourth Epoch’s demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic), other than noting that historians can’t agree on what caused it, but his book was all about the myopia of historians and scholars, and Morris rightfully credited the vast changes to European societies to the Industrial Revolution, which was first and foremost about tapping a new energy source.

The Fourth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4):

So far, the primary outcome of the Fourth Epoch is the incredible rise in the standard of living in industrialized societies. It is by far the most dramatic event in the human journey. Today’s world would be unrecognizable to an English peasant of five centuries ago (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine4). Industrial peoples have greatly increased life expectancies, largely due to the decline in infant mortality. A child in an industrial nation has about a 98% chance of living to be an adult. The human population boomed once again, and has risen by a factor of seven in the past two centuries. Fifty times seven is 350, so the human population has grown at a faster rate (nearly twice) than it did in the Third Epoch. However, the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic) has changed things. Industrial societies, in contrast to short-lived, illiterate peasant societies, are long-lived and educated, and women have more opportunities than being baby factories, so industrial society women are not even having children at replacement rates. If the entire world was industrialized, the human population would likely decline. Even non-industrial nations, with the exception of African ones, are undergoing their own demographic transitions, as side-effects of the Industrial Revolution, such as sanitation, hygiene, and literacy, are cheaply reproduced in them.

However, the Fourth Epoch may be very short-lived. Early in the Fourth Epoch, just as coal overtook wind and water power in the West (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#waterpower), the exploitation of oil began (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oilwell), which is the black gold of industrial societies. However, all of the easy oil is gone (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil), and humanity is already scraping at the dregs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#dregs) of Earth’s hydrocarbon deposits. All conventional oil will be gone in this century. The West, led by the USA, has been inflicting oil-control genocides (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), and as I write this, it is planning a “humanitarian intervention (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#record)” in the nation with the greatest oil reserves left on Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/39-Chapter-23-The-Postwar-Boom-Peak-Oil-and-the-Decline-of-Industrial-Civilization?p=1631&viewfull=1#post1631). The West is toying with a demographic and environmental catastrophe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth) that will make all Third Epoch collapses (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#earlycivilizations) look like picnics.

My life’s work is forestalling that catastrophe and ushering in the next Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5). As with the previous Epochs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), the demographics of the Fifth Epoch are scarcely imaginable to today’s people. In the Fifth Epoch, I expect that the average person will live to be a hundred or so, and be in perfect health all the way. Cities (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cities), nations, and races (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#nations) will disappear, along with most professions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange), and it could look a lot like this (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?32399-A-Future-Earth&p=672748&viewfull=1#post672748). In the Fourth Epoch, about half of our “education” is brainwashing (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#brainwashing), in order to serve the elite agenda, but elites will become obsolete (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear) in the Fifth Epoch, so expect the level of true education to skyrocket in the Fifth Epoch, as the Fourth Epoch’s scarcity-based ideologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) are discarded and suppressed inventions (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ideal) and scientific discoveries come into public awareness and use. It can’t happen too soon. :)

Time to begin my busy day.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One hip pal told me long ago that he was amazed at how everybody had the same wrong answers, as they all parroted their conditioning. I was in a health conversation recently, and I had not had one in years. This person had the patter down pat, as anything alternative was “anecdotal,” and everything orthodox was backed by peer-reviewed, rock-solid research. When I mentioned that the editor of Lancet recently stated that up to half of all medical research was worthless because of conflicts of interest (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/80-Vaccination?p=189&viewfull=1#post189), the person had not even heard of Lancet. When I mentioned how alternatives such as laetrile had been wiped out (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#laetrile), the person had never heard of laetrile, yet talked about how certain therapies were worthless, when I had successfully used those very therapies. And this is somebody who is highly intelligent.

As I thought of that situation, I reflected on my experience with Wikipedia and Ed’s bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm). As an addendum to my recent post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page5?p=1636&viewfull=1#post1636) on contacting the great, I generally heard from Ed’s most prominent allies, while not hearing from the less prominent ones. I have some allies regarding my efforts on Ed’s life, but only a few. Ed’s scholarship is largely unanswerable, which is why it is so studiously ignored or misrepresented by orthodoxy. The few honest and intelligent discussions (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#academic) that I have seen of Ed’s work are all relegated to the fringes, while Ed’s Wikipedia bio is libelous today.

These are obviously not new issues for me, but sometimes I sit back and take it in, pondering how everybody is so brainwashed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#brainwashing), and the amazing thing is that they think that they aren’t. They believe that they are informed, free thinkers, and the rest, while they spout their indoctrination and conditioning, which does not even pass cursory inspection. And when they eagerly file to their deaths (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#doom), willingly sacrificed on the altar of their conditioning, it is not easy to watch.

I recently read some articles on people who advocate alternative views or had experiences such as NDEs and were not quiet about it, and Wikipedia was uniformly libelous. The standard pattern is to very briefly cover their “claims” and then devote the rest of the article to attacks by the “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends)” and other establishment shills. That is the opposite of how it is supposed to work in logic and law. The assailants are not supposed to have the last word. Wikipedia’s articles on challenges to orthodoxy are prosecutorial briefs and exercises in disinformation. And, consistent with Ed’s Propaganda Model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing), or my own experiences in the free energy milieu (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708), it is Joe Average who does most of the dirty work, gratis.

While thinking about it, I surfed a little, and here is a great example of how the common people do most of the dirty work, on a site (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/) that purports to rank media bias and do fact-checking. Wikipedia, which I consider to be a neocon effort, as its neocon founder has openly defended an obvious disinformation operation (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page5?p=1621&viewfull=1#post1621) that attacks the “Left,” is considered the “least biased (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/wikipedia/)” on that media-ranking site! If a site challenges vaccination, that media bias site literally ranks it in the “pseudoscience,” “tin-foil hat,” and “quackery” categories. For Vaxxter (https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/vaxxter/), for instance, it actually recommends a “science” site that calls its target an “idiot (https://scienceblogs.com/whitecoatunderground/2009/12/30/damned-lies-and-idiots)” in the title of its article. Real scientists never stoop that low, not even the worst of them. And that site calls itself an arbiter of media bias and a self-appointed fact-checker. Its founder may even believe it.

That is the Big Lie that I see in all directions, in that Establishment lies, which can be painfully obvious, are portrayed as The Truth, and anything that challenges them is placed in the tinfoil hat and quackery categories. What is happening with the USA and Venezuela today (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/39-Chapter-23-The-Postwar-Boom-Peak-Oil-and-the-Decline-of-Industrial-Civilization?p=1631&viewfull=1#post1631) is a textbook example of our propaganda system in operation. Orwell could not top it.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I really need to get cracking on my big essay update. I’ll get to those posts made during my Uncle Ed quiet time soon. Last night, I was reading a book that is the first that I saw that evaluated Otterbein’s hypothesis on agriculture and warfare (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page7?p=873&viewfull=1#post873), and the authors found it powerfully explanatory. The basic bottom line is this: Men + Scarcity = War, just like Bucky said (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#soldier). Matrilocal societies broke up the male gangs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#patrilineal1), and are the most peaceful preindustrial societies. It is more relative than absolute scarcity that brings on war. The USA is built on warfare (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#fathers), like Rome was (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#romerepublic), like all empires have been. The world is quickly running out of oil (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil), which is the black gold of industrial economies, and that explains everything about what the USA has been doing in Oil Country, from Libya (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#libya) to Afghanistan, and what it is currently doing to Venezuela (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/39-Chapter-23-The-Postwar-Boom-Peak-Oil-and-the-Decline-of-Industrial-Civilization?p=1631&viewfull=1#post1631).

Time to begin my long day.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Real briefly, before I rush off to another long day in the office, people have been badgering me for 20 years to write a book, and they may get their wish (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/126-Publishing-a-Book?p=1481&viewfull=1#post1481) in a few years. Another suggestion has been to build some kind of virtual school in cyberspace. Well, that is what my site is. :) But suggestions have been to make something more elaborate and formal. I am going to resist those kinds of suggestions for now.

I just thought back to my Camelot interview with Brian, and what he had to say about what it took to understand (http://ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#sentience). It is a very close cousin to those choir qualities (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/52-Helpful-Prerequisites-for-Forum-Participation?p=69&viewfull=1#post69) that I have written about at length (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=307&viewfull=1#post307). It is really not about book-learning. The book learning has its place, but I rank it far lower than other qualities, such as caring (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=308&viewfull=1#post308) and awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309). Without those qualities, the rest won’t matter. And people have to have some experience on the fringes to begin to understand. I don’t mean the tinfoil hat stuff, but being part of disruptive technology efforts (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#lamco1) (high-risk, and on the free energy front, it can lead to a shortened life (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#deadinventors)), having a mystical awakening (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=312&viewfull=1#post312), watching UFOs fly over (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm), pursuing alternative health treatments (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#lessons), swimming with free dolphins (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#dolphins), and so on. Knowledge comes from experience, not books. Books are information, at best, not knowledge. That said, for those whose minds have already been awakened by experience, then they are ready for my “class.” Nobody is going to awaken by reading work like mine. They have to come to me already awakened, or well on their way to it. That is why when people proselytize to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), even the “hip” ones, and maybe especially the “hip” ones, it nearly always turns into a disaster, as the proselytizer is ostracized.

I am doing something very different, which almost nobody understands today, and that is fine. The masses will only begin to awaken (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#brink) to a message like mine when free energy is delivered into their lives, not before. It has been like that for all Epochal change (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#imagine), and richly applies to this one, which will be the greatest of all (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Briefly, I’ll likely not be watching the Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vietnam_War_(TV_series)). It repeated the imperial-conscience-soothing “mistake (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#mistake)” framework of the American invasion and genocide (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#early). Nick Turse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Turse) wrote Kill Anything that Moves (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#kill), and he wrote an article (https://theintercept.com/2017/09/28/the-ken-burns-vietnam-war-documentary-glosses-over-devastating-civilian-toll/) on Burns’s stylish whitewash. I have Burns’s documentary on World War II, and we’ll see how much I watch of it. In it, Burns whitewashed the American motivation for dropping atom bombs on Japan (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#dropping). Burns is an imperial enabler, the kind that can count on lucrative media careers, while Ed and Noam’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv) languishes on the margins. Typical imperial dynamics. When asked about Burns’s latest, Noam did not have the heart (https://johnhalle.com/chomsky-responds-ken-burns/) to wade into that mire again.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I finally have a little time this weekend. I won’t have much after this weekend, for the next month, but this weekend, I will finish responding to posts made when I was in my Uncle Ed hibernation. I think that it will be mostly in response to Krishna, but we’ll see. The posts began with this one (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1265838&viewfull=1#post1265838) by Krishna. I addressed it some earlier, but will reiterate it: India is not an industrialized nation. Neither, really, is China. China is industrializing, but it still has several hundred million peasants in it. India is well behind China. You need fossil fuels to industrialize, and China and India have a lot of coal, so they are burning it with abandon these days. China burns five times as much coal as India (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_by_country), and 2.5 times as much as the USA. A third of San Francisco’s air pollution (https://www.zmescience.com/ecology/environmental-issues/about-29-of-san-franciscos-pollution-comes-from-china-42334/) comes from China. Each Epoch was defined by its energy consumption levels (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable).

Energy consumption per capita (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_energy_consumption_per_capita) is going to be the best measure of standard of living. There are some small outliers on the high-energy-consumption nations, such as those sitting on a lot of oil that is getting extracted, and some cold ones such as Iceland, Norway, and Canada, but the champion of energy consumption is the USA, at per-capita consumption of about 100 times a person’s dietary calories. China has roared ahead of the USA (https://www.statista.com/statistics/263455/primary-energy-consumption-of-selected-countries/) in total consumption in the past generation, but its consumption per capita is about a third of the USA’s, which puts it at Early Industrial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ep41) on the Cook scale. India’s per capita energy consumption is about a third of China’s, which puts it at Advanced Agricultural (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ep32).

Just ten years ago, China had more peasants than urban dwellers, and now, nearly 60% of China’s population lives in cities (https://www.statista.com/statistics/278566/urban-and-rural-population-of-china/). China’s rural population now less than 600 million. China has nearly 300 million migrant workers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_in_China). Two-thirds of India today is still rural (https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/sp.rur.totl.zs), for nearly 900 million. 300 million of them don’t have access to electricity (https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/world/world-without-power/?noredirect=on), for humanity’s largest national population without access to electricity. The numbers are mind-boggling.

Bucky Fuller (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller) wrote that if and when nations such as China and India industrialized, they would get a huge boost by bypassing the development curve of industrialization’s pristine instance, which we can call the rise of the West (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal35), led by England, which used its pristine instance of industrialization (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal4) to gain global hegemony (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#britishcolonies), to only be surpassed by its offspring (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#global), the USA. They would not have to use coal-fired trains and steamboats, or biplanes, in their early industrialization, but would leap up on the technological scale, taking advantage of the latest that the industrial nations had to offer. So, we see surreal contrasts today in the industrializing nations. They will never have landline phone systems, like the USA had, as they leapt straight into cellular networks, which are far cheaper to install. You can see scenes like these in Africa (1 (https://www.fotosearch.com/AGE063/zf6-1852943/), 2 (http://mediashift.org/2017/07/savanna-mobile-phones-havent-transformed-lives-yet/)), Asia, Latin America, etc. The Industrial Revolution’s demographic transition is being rapidly reproduced in the world’s poor nations today. Global birth rates have declined by half in my lifetime (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#Parameter_characteristics). Nothing remotely like it has ever happened in the human journey.

There is a lot more to write this weekend.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One aspect of my big essay is already there, but I am going to reemphasize it and add to it, in that in the history of life on Earth and the human journey, the time frames of investigation get increasingly short. That is going to distort what really happened. It is unavoidable to an extent, as the older the evidence, the less there is of it, and the less we can really slice it up and study it. Take the Archaean Eon (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#archaean), which lasted for 1.5 billion years. Scientists know that land existed then, and that the atmosphere was likely oxygen-free, and that early life made key evolutionary progress then (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#luca), and may have first appeared in the Archaean, but there is evidence and arguments that may push it back into the Hadean. But the evidence is very thin for those early years, and little can be said with a great deal of confidence, over a 1.5 billion year period. The next Eon was the Proterozoic (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#proterozoic), which lasted for two billion years, and far more is known today about that Eon, but look at the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proterozoic) on nearly half of Earth’s history. Even Uncle Ed’s libelous bio (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm) is longer than that. But the Proterozoic has been sliced finer by scientists, and the concept of a geological Period (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geological_period) was introduced to the Proterozoic, to slice the Eras (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Era_(geology)) finer. The Hadean has not has officially been sliced into any Eras. The Proterozoic’s Tonian Period (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonian) lasted nearly 300 million years, and is part of what scientists call the Boring Billion years (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring_Billion).

After the Proterozoic is the Eon of complex life, which fossil hunters have had a field day investigating. Now, the Eons get sliced even finer, into Epochs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(geology)), and further still, into Ages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_(geology)). The Cambrian Period lasted for about 50 million years, and had four Epochs and ten Ages. That works out to roughly five million years per Age and twelve million years per Epoch. Since the demise of the dinosaurs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#cretaceousextinction), we live in an Era that is 66 million years old so far. The first Era in the Eon of complex life lasted 240 million years, and the Era of the dinosaurs lasted 190 million years.

The 64 million years from the beginning of our Era to the beginning of our ice age has 17 Ages, or about four million years per Age. The Pleistocene Epoch lasted 2.5 million years, which is about 20% of the length of the Cambrian’s Epochs, and our current Epoch, the Holocene, is less than 12,000 years old, and has been sliced into three Ages (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene), for three thousand years per Age. So, a Holocene Age is less than a thousandth of the length of a Cambrian Age. And now, a new Epoch is being proposed, the Anthropocene (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocene), which essentially coincides with the Industrial Revolution, when the human impact on Earth began becoming profound (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth).

So, how much of that time-compression is that recent times provide better evidence, and how much of that is the human ego? I think that it is a bit of both. To paraphrase Madeleine Albright (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#wtc), we are the indispensable species (https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Madeleine_Albright#1990s). :)

When your aperture is less than one-thousandth the size of another’s, you can confidently say a lot less than you could with the smaller focus. In his Origin of Species (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#darwin), Darwin lamented the imperfection of the fossil record, and he was right. Over 99.9% of all species that ever lived are extinct today, and far less than 1% of those species (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil#Limitations) have left any fossils that have been discovered so far. So, in deep time, broad generalities are the best that scientists can hope for, but for more recent times, they can get into the details of what happened and when with more confidence.

Lately, I have been reading up on the transition from hunter-gatherers to farmers, and on early warfare. Research and digs take place at a breakneck pace, but many areas of Earth are off-limits to researchers, such as war-torn Syria, courtesy of the USA (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#syria). I’ll write plenty more about it in my essay update, and at this time, I think that it will have its own chapter. It will likely be a chapter on the Third Epoch until the rise of civilization, and a chapter after that, to the rise of Europe (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal35). The Industrial Revolution is already split into three chapters, but I am going to make it a little more paradigmatic. The postwar years saw the rise of the Industrial-Technological society (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tech1), of which the USA is history’s only example so far. Other industrialized nations don’t play at the USA’ s level. The USA is where atomic weapons (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#dropping), semiconductors, the Internet, and the like were invented.

As I recently wrote (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/30-Chapter-21-Humanity%C2%92s-Fourth-Epochal-Event-The-Industrial-Revolution?p=1619&viewfull=1#post1619), academics cannot even agree on what caused the demographic transition, which happened in the past two centuries, and what caused the transition to farming is similarly controversial, but it happened long before writing was invented (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#writing), so scientists go at it, with their hypotheses based on the gathered evidence.

I am going to bring my comprehensive perspective to those issues in coming posts, as well as what makes it into my big essay update. Ian Morris had it right in that a broader perspective of trends makes the questions easier to answer, as academics tend to get myopic on those issues.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have often written that I read Scientific American. I do it to keep up on trends in mainstream science, as my work covers most fields of it. I have also written plenty on how corrupt it is getting (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/105-My-Edward-Herman-biography-project/page5?p=1614&viewfull=1#post1614), or, might we say, how much more corrupt it is getting. :)

As Bucky said, scientists are highly naïve as a group (http://ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#naive), and an article in this month’s issue of Scientific American is a good example of it. It was an article on why people believe in conspiracy theories. I am no conspiracist, which would mean that the conspiratorial orientation is my predominant mode of interpretation. Conspiracists do tend to erect elaborate hypotheses on thin evidence, and they tend to have paranoid worldviews. Structuralists often have a heavy bias going the other way, denying that conspiracies even exist. I have written on this topic plenty (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#conspiracism).

That article allowed that some conspiracy theories are true, and the author’s example was Russian “meddling” in the 2016 American election, citing “guilty pleas, evidence-based indictments and U.S. Intelligence agency conclusions.” The Russian “meddling” conspiracy continues to be the wildest and most unsubstantiated mainstream conspiracy theory of recent years, which Noam said was a joke in the first place, as the USA is by far the world’s leader in “meddling (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#demonstration)” in elections. And the “Russian meddling” conspiracy theory is all part of whipping up anti-Russian hysteria in the USA, which Ed wrote plenty about (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#russia), right up to his life’s end (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#death). That author might as well have cited the Cold War’s international communist conspiracy. It has about the same level of credibility. Of course, that so-called conspiracy has the charm of being carried out by foreign interests, when the most important conspiracies, for Americans, at least, are those hatched in the USA. And, of course, in that article, the crazed conspiracists who “believe vaccination conspiracy theories” irresponsibly “put entire communities at risk.” Name one disease today that not getting vaccinated for puts communities at risk. I have not had a vaccination since childhood. Gee, what I am putting my community at risk of, with my unvaccinated ways (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/80-Vaccination?p=184&viewfull=1#post184)? Smallpox? Diphtheria?

Reading Scientific American can be like reading Time, in that you get plenty of propaganda and brainwashing with the “news.” This problem exists across all Western media. Just as Noam and others said that Ed’s Propaganda Model could be applied far beyond the media (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#marginalized), this kind of brainwashing extends into all areas of information systems in the West, and that author is likely just naïve, not a willing conspiratorial accomplice. It is just how our system works.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

If you had told me, or Dennis, or Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#adventures), or Mark (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=811647&viewfull=1#post811647), or Ralph McGehee (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm), where our journeys would take us, none of would have believed you, and all of us would have asked that somebody else be chosen for the “honor.” :) We were just Boy Scouts (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#scouts) who wanted to do the right thing. We didn’t end up on the fringes because we wanted to. We were not into “strange stuff” for the titillation of it. Among our discoveries was the incredible corruption (http://ahealedplanet.net/racket.htm) of our system. We sought the truth, we sought to make the world a better place, and we all paid dearly for those desires.

But on the fringes, we met all kinds, and really, very few who were aligned with our efforts. We got lots of gawking spectators, assailants, parasites, and the like, but few allies. There are many pretenders, and few contenders. If Dennis, Brian, Mark, Ralph, and I had simply played the game, we would have all been handsomely rewarded, as cogs in the evil machine, but our consciences would not allow that. We have to look at ourselves while shaving. Noam and Ed (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv) were able to do their important work while being prominent professors. They were fortunate. The professional fate of Ward Churchill (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/99-My-Media-and-Political-Studies-What-That-Ride-Was-Like?p=976&viewfull=1#post976) is more common.

But, we kept at it as long as we could, and I am far from done. The destination that I have in mind (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is nothing to sneeze at, but I know that it is also about the journey. All that we take with us (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#afterlife) is our awareness. In the end, it is we did with our lives that matters.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As an addendum to the previous post (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page15?p=1646&viewfull=1#post1646), none of my fellow travelers began our journeys thinking about free energy, either. When I met Dennis (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page2?p=601&viewfull=1#post601), neither one of us had even heard of free energy or Nikola Tesla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tesla1). When Brian was advising presidential candidates (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#udall) and crafting the energy program that Jimmy Carter “borrowed,” he had no awareness of free energy. We all stumbled into it. And while we all knew that free energy would be something big, to put it mildly, none of us really realized its Epochal significance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), either.

It was only as I studied for writing my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#paradigm) that the Epochal significance of free energy finally became clear to me. A major purpose of my big essay is to not only show free energy’s significance, but the role that energy has always played in the universe, the journey of life on Earth, and the human journey. My goal has been to ground people in that reality as much as I can, so that they don’t go flying off in all sorts of crazy directions, and I have seen them all. People hack at branches if they hack at all, and I watch people go off the deep end all the time by merely brushing up against these issues. You have to have your feet very firmly on the ground to navigate this terrain, and very few are suited for it (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle).

In recent days, as I have switched gears from my Uncle Ed project (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm), I have been thinking of the changes that I will make for my big essay revision, and I think that I am going to make an early chapter which will briefly present key ideas in the big essay. I already have a timeline on the big energy events (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyevents), but this will be more conceptual. It will go something like this…

It will present:



Energy concepts (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyconcepts), such as power, efficiency (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#efficiency2), temperature (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#temperature), gradients, entropy, energy capture, and recoverable energy;
Ultimate and proximate (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ultimate) causes;
Feedback effects (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gaia);
The scientific method (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#theories) and ideals of scholarship;
The role of consciousness (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#vonneumann);
The basic concepts of relativity and quantum physics;
The gaping holes in orthodox physics (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf), which allows for the idea of free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#fe);
Golden Ages (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goldenages) in the journey of life on Earth and the human journey;
Energy’s Epochal role (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochaltable) in the human journey.



And I am sure that others will come to mind as I work on the essay update. The idea is to get people familiar with key concepts at the beginning, so that they begin thinking in comprehensive terms (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#developing) at the beginning.

With that, I’ll segue to my upcoming posts on the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic). IMO, Wikipedia gets it right at the beginning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_transition), when it states that the demographic transition is an outcome of transitioning from agrarian to industrial economies. It was a mere side-effect, like the end of slavery was (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#slaveryend). Without industrialization, the demographic transition would not have happened, and the Industrial Revolution was completely dependent on increased energy capture, and the most important energy source, by far, was coal. Without England’s tapping the energy of coal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coaluse), the Industrial Revolution would not have happened. Oil came later (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oilwell). England would have hit its Malthusian ceiling (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/107-Energy-thresholds?p=1163&viewfull=1#post1163) and collapsed, as so many agrarian societies had done (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#unsustainable1) over the Agrarian Epoch.

But, England and Western Europe had been riding an energy wave for many centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, beginning with watermills (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill1), and turning the world’s ocean into a low-energy transportation lane (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2) allowed Europe to increase its effective hinterland and conquer humanity. Those were critical energy events. For producing power, wind and water were competitive with coal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#steamengine1) until about 1850. Using coal to smelt metal (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#coke), particularly iron, was more important than producing power in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. There was simply no substitute for it. England had long since been deforested (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#domesday), and there was no way that wood-based smelting (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sussex) could produce industrial levels of metals.

Time to begin what will be a crazily busy day at the office.

Best,

Wade

[ThePythonicCow]

It will present:


...
The basic concepts of relativity and quantum physics;
...



I doubt you'll want to go down this rabbit hole, both because you don't have a spare decade in your remaining productive life that you don't know what else to do with, and also because I'm probably full of bovine flatulence (methane), however in my considered but amateur view (as a voyeur of the work of others, not a hands on researcher or experimenter myself), relativity and quantum mechanics are an unfortunate, deeply flawed side road in the history of physics ... a derailment of public physics for the last century, that has been deliberately foisted on us as cover for ongoing, well hidden, work.

(Public) physics hasn't lost the plot; the plot has been stolen from publicly visible physicists and from (as members of the public) us.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Paul (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1278389&viewfull=1#post1278389):

Oh yes, quite a rabbit hole awaits, but I am going to keep it to the basics:


Time is relative.
Space is relative.
Einstein helped author quantum physics, but hated the directions that Bohr and Heisenberg took it in.
Quantum theory is a sharp break from classical physics, as only certain energy levels are allowed in atoms. The idea of quantization applies to many areas of physics, but the biggest break with classical physics is the introduction of randomness. It had deep philosophical implications that Einstein wrestled with for the rest of his life. Big story, but I’ll only cover the highlights.


Yes, physics took new directions around World War II, and yes, it is mostly under wraps. Electrogravity (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=1355&viewfull=1#post1355) powered by ZPF (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf) energy blows orthodox physics out of the water, and I suspect pretty strongly that in the black projects world, they have something like a unified field theory, but we don’t get any while we collectively sleep. :)

I’ll discuss that concepts such as dark energy and dark matter (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#darkmatter), which have never been observed, but allegedly comprise 95% of our universe, are orthodox constructs. There is plenty of room for something like ZPE, and orthodox physicists of note (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#zpf1) advocated it. Anybody who says that free energy is “impossible” has no idea what they are talking about, but that is a common refrain of denial (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Nearly a decade ago, I stood behind the world’s richest man (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates) in the popcorn line at the theater, and the next week, he began speaking about the energy issue, as some kind of “visionary.” Brian O wanted me to try to arrange for us to meet with Gates, but I was not interested. Over 30 years ago, I had the opportunity to work for Gates, but that voice had other plans for me (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice). Gates is typical of the billionaire “philanthropists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy)” and “visionaries.” The biggest energy take-down in world history (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run) happened in his home town, but you won’t find Gates or anybody else talking about it, unless it is to libel Dennis (1 (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#ftc), 2 (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#libel), 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#libel)).

Brian O tried to get Richard Branson’s attention near his life’s end, but was totally shut out. Any mystery why was removed with Branson’s recent “Live Aid” for Venezuela (https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/americas/richard-branson-venezuela-aid-concerts-intl/index.html). He is either an idiot or a willing imperial tool (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/39-Chapter-23-The-Postwar-Boom-Peak-Oil-and-the-Decline-of-Industrial-Civilization?p=1631&viewfull=1#post1631). Branson is in good company (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-02-20/amnesty-issues-arab-spring-style-venezuela-report-says-protesters-executed-social), as Amnesty International has devolved into a parody of a human rights organization (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#hrw).

Yesterday, I read an interview (https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8503517/amazon-jeff-bezos-space-blue-origin/) with Seattle’s new world’s richest man, and he played visionary about colonizing space, even citing Gerard O’Neill, Brian’s pal (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#oneill). Brian was very active in the effort (https://space.nss.org/reaching-for-the-high-frontier-chapter-4/#vision). Like with the recent publicity about colonizing Mars (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#mars), I doubt that Brian’s name will even come up. The true pioneers languish in obscurity (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#steal), who pursued the very solutions that our “visionary” and “philanthropist” billionaires wax eloquently about, whose lives were wrecked (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr) and shortened (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page11?p=847&viewfull=1#post847). Another surreal day of the media and billionaire “visionaries” and “philanthropists.”

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To that coming chapter (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1647&viewfull=1#post1647) in the essay update on key concepts, I’ll add these:


Push/pull dynamics;
Innovation usually happens at the fringes;
Those innovations usually languish in obscurity, unrecognized, and then will suddenly blossom and dominate.


Those dynamics are seen way back in the journey of life on Earth. Take the migration of fish to land (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tetrapods), for instance. That happened several times before it was successful, and it was likely undertaken by the losers of aquatic life, pushed to the shores. Lobe-finned fish were the big aquatic losers to ray-finned fish (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#bonyfish). The migration to land was more about survival than seeking out new opportunities. The migrants to land were likely pushed there, not pulled. The innovations for land life were numerous, and happened with fringe fish.

Take England’s industrialization. The Game and Enclosure laws (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gamelaw) pushed the peasants off the land, and the British Agricultural Revolution (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Agricultural_Revolution) made them less necessary. Those dispossessed peasants formed the Industrial Revolution’s workforce, and as it got going the peasants were not just pushed into the cities, but they were attracted to them, with the increased wages of industrialization. So, they were pushed and pulled. The Founder Group left Africa (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit) likely due to necessity, not opportunity – a push, not a pull.

The biological innovations that led to archosaurian dominance (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#lystrosaurus1) happened many millions of years before they took over all biomes of significance. It was not until the greatest extinction ever (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction) cleared the ancestors of mammals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#synapsid) from the stage that archosaurs began their rise to dominance. They were marginal fringe creatures for many millions of years.

Northwest Europe had long been a backwards hinterland of Old World civilizations, but that is where the innovations happened that saw them conquer humanity (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#sailboat2) and lead the way into a new Epoch. The rise of Mediterranean civilizations to England’s rise to its Industrial Revolution were all late-Epoch developments, happening after several thousand years of plant and animal domestication. While we live in it, it may seem to take a leisurely pace, but more change has arguably happened in the past three centuries than in the rest of the human journey put together.

In my studies of the Domestication Revolution, I learned that they all began in “fringe” areas where the easy meat had been hunted to extinction, and likely out of desperation rather than opportunity, people began to domesticate plants (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#kebaran), and to a lesser extent, animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#goat). When plants were domesticated, horticulture, and later, agriculture, did not suddenly take over Earth. There was quite a bit of resistance from hunter-gatherers. The spread of agriculture to Europe during the Neolithic Expansion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#maledna) was a combination of invasion and adoption. There is evidence that hunter-gatherers resisted adopting agriculture, sometimes for centuries, and then they en masse went to agriculture in a couple of generations.

For virtually all of those key energy innovations in the history of Earth (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energyevents), they all began as some kind of accident or curiosity. Their energetic advantages, however, meant that they would eventually prevail against energetically deficient practices. It rarely happened with any kind of conscious intent, but the increased “carrying capacity” of the energy innovation would see it eventually prevail.

The Industrial Revolution was more than a century old before anybody suspected that it was a revolution. To this day, academics argue over whether the Scientific Revolution was a revolution at all. I see that as just the navel-contemplation and word games that academics engage in. The Industrial and Scientific Revolutions mark the most dramatic change in the human journey. The seeds were planted in Ancient Greece (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#classicgreece), with their invention of the watermill (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#watermill) (and even a heat engine), a proto-scientific approach, and even a new political form called democracy. But those trends did not reach their flowering for nearly two millennia. Side-effects of those events were the rise the nation-state and the demographic transition (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#demographic).

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

March is going to be a crazily busy month for me, and the entire year promises to be a doozy. Before I begin my busy weekend, a few odds and ends…

When I update my big essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1447&viewfull=1#post1447), it will be about five years since the previous update. The update will definitely be version 2.0, and I wonder if I’ll ever do a revision as substantial as what is coming. The essay’s basic thrust will not change, but I will broaden and deepen several areas.

I will also update several of my essays, to reflect five years of water going under the bridge. Becoming Uncle Ed’s biographer (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm) means that my media chapter (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#big) of the lies I was raised with essay will see some revision. I visited James Gilliland back in 2015, and that essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/ufo.htm) will get an overhaul. I’ll write a brief essay on how DNA testing killed a family myth (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/125-The-Journey-from-Unawareness-to-Knowledge?p=1503&viewfull=1#post1503). I plan to revise my cover-up essay (http://ahealedplanet.net/cover-up.htm) a little, and there will be some other small tweaks.

I’ll likely write another essay on my adventures with Wikipedia (http://ahealedplanet.net/wikimass.htm). I’ll likely still link to Wikipedia, but with a much larger caveat (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#wikipedia), and I likely won’t link to it much as the human journey gets into the modern age, as there is way too much ax-grinding and disinformation on current and recent events. Wikipedia is pretty good for summarizing ideas and evidence for the journey of life on Earth. I don’t know of a better resource for that. But for events that challenge the egocentric conceits of white people, particularly Americans, Wikipedia is often worse than worthless, and my experience with Uncle Ed’s Wikipedia biography (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm) was no great surprise.

Time to get cracking on my busy weekend, but I plan to make a post on my recent comment (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page15?p=1649&viewfull=1#post1649) on “philanthropists” such as Richard Branson. They can’t really be that stupid, IMO, so something else is happening, and I am going to write a post or so on it. Maybe today, or maybe tomorrow. The conclusion is going to be why such “philanthropists (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#philanthropy)” and “humanitarians” are completely worthless (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching2) for an effort like mine, and are worthless in general. It really goes back to my journey’s primary lesson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708); they simply do not have enough integrity to really make a dent. How consciously dishonest they are is a subject for discussion, but I think that it is more along Uncle Ed’s structural model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing). Very few people are able or willing to see beyond their immediate self-interest, even when they play the “charity” game. People who raked it in playing the capitalist game have an inherent ruthlessness, and they never really shake it, even if they try to. They never had the right stuff in the first place, and their journeys damaged them further, even after they “made it.”

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This post will be about “philanthropists (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1651&viewfull=1#post1651)” and their worthlessness, particularly regarding Epochal change. It goes back to the choir qualities that are needed, in that idealists have to have woken up (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309) to be useful for what I am doing. Unless people had a voice in their heads (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice) telling them to do it, or other preposterous journeys (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#dennis), idealists don’t go into the business world. The business world is an ugly place, and all of the big industries and professions are, to one degree or another, rackets (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/forums/21-The-rackets). Even the so-called idealistic efforts in the world are largely phony (http://ahealedplanet.net/racket.htm). Idealists generally wake up the hard way, such as Ralph McGehee in Saigon (http://ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#saigon), or when I was on the witness stand (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=681&viewfull=1#post681).

You would not want to have Bill Gates over for dinner. Oh, the stories I could tell. High tech is relatively new, so you will find more idealists there than in other industries, but all profit-making companies will lose their way, if they ever had any idealistic leanings. “Don’t be evil” loses out to “Make a buck.” Publicly held corporations are required by law to maximize their profits (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#profit). Even if there were any idealistic motivations at the beginning, it is slowly beaten out of them. It is like starry-eyed doctors (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#training) or lawyers (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#law), as they begin their professional school training. They are among the most lucrative professions on Earth, which is primarily why people go into them. I have seen idealists go into those professions, to emerge bitterly cynical years later.

Members of Dennis’s organization once had a lunch with a Rockefeller heir, and the heir said that he did not know of a rich American family, at the dynastic wealth level, who made their fortune honesty. Their rise to riches was largely a criminal enterprise. That is how capitalism really works (http://ahealedplanet.net/other.htm#capitalism). The USA is the heart of capitalism, and the way that the Americans built their empire actually inspired Hitler (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#hitler), and everything that the USA does internationally is with bloody empire in mind (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection).

Other than American presidents, the greatest mass murderer still active today is arguably Paul Kagame (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#kagame). Here is a picture of Gates hanging out with Kagame (https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulkagame/8700226397), and Tony Blair, who played Mussolini to Bush’s Hitler in the invasion of Iraq (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#invading), which stands today as the greatest crime of the 21st century so far. That gathering was hosted by Michael Milken, of all people. That is the kind of “philanthropist” that Gates is. Gates has openly praised Kagame.

Elliott Abrams is an imperial hit man (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page15?p=1635&viewfull=1#post1635), and it was no great surprise to see him appointed as the Venezuelan envoy, and he immediately orchestrated the transparently phony (https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/shocker-humanitarian-aid-stunt-used-to-escalate-against-venezuela-4a0cbc93d209) “humanitarian” aid to Venezuela (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/39-Chapter-23-The-Postwar-Boom-Peak-Oil-and-the-Decline-of-Industrial-Civilization?p=1631&viewfull=1#post1631). Awake Americans have seen that movie too many times already. And right in the midst of that evil charade, Branson held a “Live Aid” for Venezuela concert (https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/22/americas/richard-branson-venezuela-aid-concerts-intl/index.html). He is either a complete idiot or a willing imperial tool.

A decade ago, when Gates began discussing the energy issue (http://ahealedplanet.net/lessons.htm#gates), I knew where his “visionary” path was heading, and he openly promotes (https://futurism.com/the-byte/bill-gates-nuclear-energy) “safe” nuclear fission today, which he is “coincidentally” invested in. I’ll guarantee you that many naïve free energy activists have banged on Gates’s door. Heck, there is even a company named after Tesla (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tesla1) today. You really have to have your head in the sand to have not at least heard of free energy. In all the times that Dennis has been smeared in the national media, I never once heard from one of those “journalists,” investigating the story, and they all used the lying Mr. Skeptic (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#friends) as a chief source on Dennis.

The truth is not going to fall in anybody’s lap. It has to be sought in our world, as Big Lies (http://ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm) issue from all directions. As Orwell said, telling the truth is a revolutionary act today.

So, are “philanthropists” such as Gates and Branson really that naïve and ignorant? Bezos is waxing “visionary” these days (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page15?p=1649&viewfull=1#post1649), but Amazon’s ruthlessness is legendary, and his little paper recently promoted a McCarthyite effort (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#propornot).

When Greer (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=938&viewfull=1#post938) hung out with the Rockefellers, he noted that they had “handlers” who ensured that any Rockefeller efforts stayed within the paradigm. I doubt that they need to work that hard at it (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888). :)

What I have found is that once you go onto the capitalist path, and particularly if you “make it,” you are not going to be inclined to question the system that garnered you your wealth. That tasty Kool Aid runs deep. Once in a while, I’ll see Gates make an admission along those lines, and I wonder about that. I wonder if he has a little cognitive dissonance (http://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#cognitive) and might really wake up one day. I am not holding my breath. Does Gates know how far down the food chain he really (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/108-The-Global-Controllers?p=1186&viewfull=1#post1186) is, and does most of what he does for show, knowing that he really can’t make a dent in the path he has taken?

I lean toward thinking that the Gateses, Bransons, and other “philanthropists” never had it in the first place. They chased their self-interest, and their “philanthropy” is the typical phony version that has a very old pedigree. The very first elites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear) learned to play that game, and all that we have seen in the intervening millennia are variations on the theme. They all have too much self-seeking baggage to lose before they can begin to wake up, for those who aren’t simply psychopaths (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#serving). I doubt that any of them are really awake, but their consciences prod them at least a little, and they can make a show of being “philanthropists,” which surely gives them ego strokes.

In the vast majority of cases, I think that something along the lines of Ed and Noam’s Propaganda Model (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#manufacturing) explains what we are seeing with those “humanitarians,” in that they are not being consciously evil, but just can’t break free from their conditioning, and they don’t really want to. In that way, they really are no different from almost anybody else (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=708&viewfull=1#post708).

In that light, I really don’t want to get on their case much. My thrust is more to help people shed the delusion that there are all of these “progressives” and “philanthropists” out there, searching high and low for the answers, ready to lay it on the line, cut the big check, and the like. That is a beginner’s delusion (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#beseeching2) that that needs to be shed quickly, in order to truly try to make a dent. I see newbies run out all the time, not only proselytizing to their social circles (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialcircle), which is invariably a disaster, but trying to “spread the word,” bang on the doors of “progressives,” and the like, to only get dismayed by the experience, if they did not wreck their lives in the process. Nobody is home out there.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

In my public writings about my journey, I generally keep names private until the people die, both the good guys (Spickard, Waugh (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=670&viewfull=1#post670), Starr (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page10?p=828&viewfull=1#post828)) and the not-so-good guys (Rockefeller (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page13?p=888&viewfull=1#post888), Pregerson (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/123-Gary-Wean-Me-and-the-JFK-Hit?p=1399&viewfull=1#post1399)), and those in-between (Van Der Maas (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page14?p=1491&viewfull=1#post1491)). I named Hodgell (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) when he seemed to be defanged enough, but I certainly won’t be naming Bill the BPA Hit Man or Mr. Deputy while they are alive. Bill is a killer, literally (http://ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#death), and Mr. Deputy (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#deputy) is an armed psychopath. Many other names I’ll likely never name, for various reasons. Almost all of the names can be discovered if people do a little homework, but my work is not for the idly curious (http://ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#curious), so I don’t make it easy for gawkers and others who might stumble where they shouldn’t.

I keep tabs on people, to see who might still be alive that I write about, and I just discovered that a key figure of my days before meeting Dennis recently met his maker, and I’ll make some posts about him. His name was Owen Dykema. Owen was the rocket scientist that the federal government brought in (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#flicker) to assess Mr. Mentor’s engine, and he soon became its greatest champion. I just discovered that Owen died in January (http://www.nrtoday.com/obits/owen-wood-dykema/article_1208638a-1e51-5f55-be66-22e0a644d09f.html), at a ripe old age, so now I am free to write about him a little.

“Rocket scientist” is a cliché that gets thrown around to denote high intelligence, but Owen really was a rocket scientist. He helped save the USA’s space program. You can see some of the papers that he wrote back then (1 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235140562_AN_ENGINEERING_APPROACH_TO_COMBUSTION_INSTABILITY), 2 (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270688008_Effect_of_a_cavitationg_venturi_on_wave_propagation_in_a_duct)). When my father worked at NASA (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary), he knew of Owen’s work.

Owen worked at Rocketdyne (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_Rocketdyne), as you can see in this (http://articles.latimes.com/1994-09-20/business/fi-40746_1_environmental-technology) LA Times article. Owen’s story, and how it relates to mine, takes some telling, and I’ll spin the yarn during this coming week.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As you can read in Owen’s obituary (http://www.nrtoday.com/obits/owen-wood-dykema/article_1208638a-1e51-5f55-be66-22e0a644d09f.html), he was a fighter pilot in Korea, flying Corsairs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vought_F4U_Corsair) from the USS Princeton (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Princeton_(CV-37)). He is in books on the subject (https://books.google.com/books?id=AWuoAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT193&lpg=PT193&dq=owen+dykema+engines&source=bl&ots=8yC5dv4ijE&sig=ACfU3U03A4QfbNjN3GuRMpoGzfTAm35lFQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj61-mzmefgAhVE654KHcYSAisQ6AEwBnoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=owen%20dykema%20engines&f=false). When my father worked at NASA (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary), the “nerds” at Mission Control were flight enthusiasts, and I heard that they were also pyromaniacs. So, Owen had the right orientation for becoming a rocket scientist.

I will likely never know for sure, but I heard from Mr. Mentor more than 40 years ago that Owen’s chief contribution was identifying inconsistent combustion in rocket engines as a big problem, both with early rockets blowing up, as well as the “pogo (https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4203/ch7-2.htm)” effect that was preventing NASA’s rockets (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II#Launch_history_and_development) from being “man rated,” which meant that they were safe for humans to ride on. In this 1965 paper (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/235140562_AN_ENGINEERING_APPROACH_TO_COMBUSTION_INSTABILITY) by Owen, he referred to the program to eliminate the pogo effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGM-25C_Titan_II#Launch_history_and_development). So, he definitely was involved in solving the pogo effect, and while those early rockets’ blowing up was also related to inconsistent combustion at times, I don’t know if Owen was part of that or not.

The story that I heard from Mr. Mentor was that on his own, Owen had studied and solved the problem. It was inconsistent combustion, like how the flame from a match flickers, but magnified zillions of times in a rocket engine, and the stresses of inconsistent combustion blew rockets up and caused the pogo effect. Owen wrote a virtual textbook on the problem and how to solve it, and delivered it to the man in charge of the effort to solve the problem. Owen got a “not invented here (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here)” response from the man, who practically threw Owen’s book back at it him. It was not Owen’s job to solve the problem. Owen and his team eventually had to sneak out the blueprints, change them, and put them back, to fix the problem. To this day, Owen never got the recognition that he deserved, but you can see from his numerous patents (1 (https://patents.google.com/patent/WO1989004861A1/ko), 2 (https://patents.google.com/patent/US6908298B1/en), 3 (https://patents.justia.com/assignee/tansalta-resources-investment-corporation)) and papers (https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/2029844237_Owen_W_Dykema) that the problems of combustion were his forte. You can see in the LA Times article (http://articles.latimes.com/1994-09-20/business/fi-40746_1_environmental-technology) that Owen sang the typical inventor’s lament: not enough money for development, as he tried to develop a clean way to burn coal. You can see the same complaint from Mr. Mentor, in the article on his engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#article).

I have often written that my initial orientation to the energy issue was the inventor’s, and now I am making it clear in a way that I was not at liberty to do before. If I outlive Mr. Mentor, my public story will become far more spectacular.

Mr. Mentor’s engine came to him in an instant (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#flash), at a stop sign, fully realized. He drove home and sketched it out in a half-hour. He had made so many earth-shaking inventions (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#introduction) by that time that even admirals lay in wait, seeing what he came up with next, so that they could steal credit for it. One thief had such a poor understanding of what he stole that he built one of Mr. Mentor’s patented inventions upside down. That is how the real world of inventing works. Everything that Mr. Mentor invented was either suppressed or stolen, and his engine eventually suffered both fates.

But his engine was such a radical departure (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#worked) that nobody could really understand it at first, and the Navy brought in Owen to assess it. Mr. Mentor told me that he had to write on a blackboard and wave his hands before Owen began to understand. When I interviewed Owen many years later (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#dykema), he said that he came to understand it on his own, without Mr. Mentor’s help. It was probably a little of both, but it was very clear that Mr. Mentor and Owen had a great deal of respect for each other. Owen soon became that engine’s greatest champion, and the engine created a great stir in the federal government. It was then that a high-ranking official told Mr. Mentor that if he thought that his engine would make the internal combustion engine obsolete, that he had better make his funeral plans (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#funeral), because Detroit did not play fair.

Nevertheless, Mr. Mentor and Owen kept at it, and an industrialist offered to form a company to build cars based on that engine. The industrialist’s offer (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#hoopla) was that he would own 95% of the company, and Mr. Mentor and Owen could split the other 5%. With a “deal” like that, nothing further was done. However, a company stole the engine design and built a prototype that they drove in the Rose Parade a few years later. I strongly suspect that they were somehow related to that industrialist. Incredibly, I think that I heard of their fate when Dennis and I hit Ventura a decade later: they got cement shoes from the auto oligarchy (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#car). When I heard that, I had already heard about Mr. Inventor’s tenure with General Motors (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#inventor), as he unwittingly helped them steal patents. Those were real-world preludes to my radicalizing days in Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr). Our system is essentially run by gangsters, and the GCs (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#gc) are merely the apex predators (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#jungle) in a political-economic jungle filled with them. Ed and Noam’s work on American imperialism (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#connection) was no great surprise when I read it.

There is more to write about Owen, but it is time to start my busy day.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have written about some of this before, especially in this section (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) of my energy essay, which I will now put on my list of essays to revise (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1651&viewfull=1#post1651).

Owen marveled at Mr. Mentor’s engine, and said it should have taken a team of engineers a career to develop what Mr. Mentor invented in that moment of insight (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#flash). But if you get Mr. Mentor’s original patent, you will see him use 150 PSI for part of the cycle (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#worked). Owen said that 150 PSI was a thermodynamically terrible pressure to use, and Mr. Mentor replied that the number was not really that important. The idea of his pressure intensifier was important, but the 150 PSI he just put in there, to put in something. They later used different pressures. The first patent was Mr. Mentor’s personal patent, but the federal government spent huge sums on the development for a second patent (the prime mover in that one was a double-acting piston), and on the patent, you can see the government’s claim on the engine, in that the government would not have to pay any royalties to manufacture the engine. Mr. Mentor retained the commercial rights.

That engine created quite a bit of hoopla, and I visited Owen’s home with Mr. Mentor in the summer of 1973, as I seem to recall. I was only about 15, but the experience stuck with me. But, as I wrote (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/130-Owen-Dykema-Rocket-Scientist-and-Key-Figure-in-My-Journey?p=1654&viewfull=1#post1654), after that industrialist’s “offer,” the whole thing kind of died, at least as far as Mr. Mentor and Owen were concerned. If you read that newspaper article on Mr. Mentor’s engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#article), you can see where Owen is referred to, although not by name. In that article, you can see a reference to try interesting politicians, to no avail. That changed. During the USA’s oil crisis that ended its postwar boom (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#postwar), a huge federal study was launched, to find alternatives to American gas guzzlers. The study quickly focused on Mr. Mentor’s engine, spent man-years analyzing it, and concluded that it was the best engine on Earth, by far, for powering automobiles. In the study’s wake, Senator John Tunney (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/53-Wade-s-Blog/page10?p=1161&viewfull=1#post1161), who had a reputation as the “energy” senator, repeatedly called Mr. Mentor at home, asking him to come to Washington D.C., to speak at Congressional hearings, to get his engine developed.

That was also when Brian began getting very politically active (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#udall), and particularly on the energy front. Our paths crossed numerous times (http://ahealedplanet.net/paths.htm#oleary) before our fateful meeting (ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#udall).

By the time that Tunney called, Mr. Mentor was retiring from his career, angry and bitter at how he had been treated, while also waking up to the evil that he was part of (http://ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#justify3), and he was not interested in any Congressional hearings. He also did not want to abdicate the commercial rights to his engine, which he would likely lose if he spoke at those hearings, and he did not forget the “make your funeral plans (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#funeral)” advice.

I got my energy dreams at about the same time, and rehabilitating Mr. Mentor was high on my list of priorities, arguably at the top. What I could do about it at age 16, I had no idea, but I know that that dream is what my “friends” used to change my studies (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice) and land me in Dennis’s company (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2). I hear from people who think it was such a great blessing to be guided in that way, but it was a very mixed blessing, let me tell you. After I buried Mr. Professor (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3), I did not want to hear from the voice again, and I haven’t. I have never heard of another story like mine. No regrets, but I would like to sign up for something a little easier next time. The biggest event in the human journey (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5) is a bit much to have on my plate. :) It devoured my life.

Owen’s tale is not yet finished. More is coming.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

After the hoopla over Mr. Mentor’s engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse) died, and he became a handyman in his retirement, Owen just became a legendary figure from my teenage years. The year after meeting Owen, I had my cultural (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#europe) and mystical (http://ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#silva) awakenings, and a few years after that, that voice (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice) changed my studies from science to business, and my path was set. Eight years of idealism (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#believing) and disillusion (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#getting) later, that voice (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2) led me straight into Dennis’s company, and my wild ride began.

Southern California was the last place on Earth where I wanted to live, but Mr. Mentor and Dennis cut their secret deal (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=647&viewfull=1#post647), and my life was soon ruined. My days of study and writing (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page7?p=739&viewfull=1#post739) began when Dennis was in jail (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#jail), after I sacrificed my life (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mortgage) to give him a chance of living to see this side of the bars again. I began those days of study to prepare any expert witnesses that we might be able to get onto the witness stand with my legal fund. I obtained Mr. Mentor’s patents, Fischer’s engine patent (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#fischer), and began a document hunt, diving into the library stacks at UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. Mr. Mentor said that the federal study of his engine had been read into the Congressional Record, and I hunted for it. In the spring of 1990, the judge took Mr. Big Time Attorney hostage (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#hostage), to force Dennis to capitulate, entering into a plea bargain (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bargain) that the courts never honored, as a way to kangaroo Dennis into prison, and that time, to kill him (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mistakes). I got married around then and planned to leave California, but first, I decided to pay a visit to Owen, to see if he could help with my document hunt.

I worked at that medical lab (http://ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#experience) in the San Fernando Valley (“the Valley” in LA jargon), and one day I called Owen at his home, and he invited me over. I was able to drive there on the way home from work. It had been 17 years since I saw Owen that first time. He still lived in the same house, in a neighborhood that I recognized from all those years ago, as he lived across the street from an elementary school. Owen ushered me into his office in his home. Owen was no intellectual slouch, obviously, and I saw Isaac Newton’s Opticks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opticks) on one of Owen’s bookcases, which is the only time that I have ever seen that book. Before long, I was reading Newton’s Principia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophi%C3%A6_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica), as I hit the books in Ohio, but I really had not studied Mr. Mentor’s or Fischer’s patents at that time, not like I did later, as I began my studies of what we pursued before being wiped out.

I went there to see what Owen might have remembered about some of the documents that I sought, not to tell the tale of what happened in Ventura (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#mr). And somehow, Owen turned it around, and he wanted to hear about what we had been doing. Owen began our conversation by making some kind of legal statement, in that I was going to waive the rights to secrecy over what we were about to discuss. I have never had such a statement given to me before or since, and was not quite sure what to make of it. But I began the story, and early in it, Owen reacted like most engineers and scientists do: the organized suppression that we encountered was like nothing that he had ever heard of before. He had great respect for Mr. Mentor, as Mr. Mentor had for him, but what I was telling him tripped the light fantastic, in a horrifying way. At one point in our conversation, he wondered if some corporate changes in their stances that he had recently seen were reactions to our effort, but it was more along the lines of idle speculation.

He was very familiar with Mr. Mentor’s engine, to put it mildly, and when I told him of Mr. Mentor’s idea, of marrying the panels of Dennis’s heat pump to Mr. Mentor’s engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#marry), to produce free energy, I could see the wheels spinning in Owen’s head. And when I described Fischer’s engine and the idea of Fischer steam (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page4?p=659&viewfull=1#post659), in which only a percent or two of the working fluid ever became a gas, some kind of switched flipped in Owen’s head. He immediately ended the interview. I then repeated that I did not come to discuss our adventures, but to see what he knew about that federal study and other documents that I was hunting for, and he said that he did not know anything about them, as he stopped following the issue after that industrialist’s “offer.” He then got me out of his house in less than 30 seconds, almost like I was being thrown out. As I walked away from his home, I wondered what had just happened. That weekend, I mailed Fischer’s patent and some other documentation to Owen, and never heard from him again. I followed Owen’s life over the years, of his retirement to Oregon, of his promotion of the military and his telling war stories, and I wished him well. When I saw that he died, I was then freed to write this series of posts, and will name him publicly in my energy essay revision.

So, what happened in Owen’s office? I think that I witnessed the first reaction that I came to call Level 3 (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#level3). The second law of thermodynamics (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#carnot) states that marrying the panels of Dennis’s heat pump (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#arrays) to Mr. Mentor’s engine cannot make free energy, as entropy would prevail. So, the “laws of physics” objection likely reared its head with Owen, and he was definitely a thermodynamics expert. Also, what happened in Ventura was a case of organized suppression (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1), perhaps history’s most spectacular instance of it, particularly after what happened in Seattle (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#run), and it was far beyond Owen’s sense of reality. He was a flag-waving patriot, proudly wearing his military uniform in his life’s last years, and bragging that it still fit him. Owen’s head likely would have exploded if he digested Ed and Noam’s work (http://ahealedplanet.net/herman.htm#crv). My guess is that both subjects of that conversation triggered Owen to end the conversation as soon as possible, and it became a preview of why I really don’t like discussing my journey with people: almost nobody can begin to understand it. Almost nobody wants to, in the first place, and even if they want to, there is a very long learning curve to travel before it really begins making sense. They have to jettison their indoctrination before they can even begin, which is why I say that people have to have already been awakened (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/86-More-on-the-helpful-prerequisites-for-forum-participation?p=309&viewfull=1#post309) before they are going to be any good for what I am doing.

It never got to that stage with Owen, as he ended the conversation so quickly, but when I discuss my journey and can see people’s “skepticism” and denial rear its head, I want to end the conversation, as it always turns out badly. Their sacred oxen (http://ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant) are getting gored, so they need to dispense with the threat, ASAP, and making me into some kind of crackpot, liar, or criminal is the easy way out.

Very ironically, as Owen was ushering me from his home, one of his neighbors in the Valley was discovering the hard way how our world really works. I heard of Sparky Sweet (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#sweet) for the first time literally a week or two before visiting Owen. Sparky had a corporate career like Owen did, and he mailed working prototypes of his free energy gizmo to the leading energy institutions, expecting the tickertape parade (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#tickertape2). The opposite happened. Sparky sat in rapt and horrified attention as we were wiped out in Ventura. He was further along the awakening curve than Owen was.

The next year, I met Brian (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#meet), who told me Sparky’s name (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sweet), but it was not for another twenty years, long after Sparky came to a grim end (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sparky), that I learned that Sparky lived in the Valley, just down the road from us. When I learned that Sparky lived so close to us, and was subjected to some serious harassment, which may have escalated to his murder, what happened to us in Ventura began making a lot more sense. The threat that we presented was not so much hydraulic heat engines and super heat pumps, but building a business infrastructure that could bring pigs like Sparky’s to market. That was the real threat that we presented (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page6?p=706&viewfull=1#post706), so we had to be taken out with extreme prejudice. That reality is far beyond what Owen could digest, for all of his technical brilliance.

My meeting with Owen was one of my earliest post-Dennis lessons. When Brian decided to play the Paul Revere of Free Energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#revere), I was his biggest fan (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#miracle), and I knew that Brian had far more access to the world’s scientists and “progressives” than I ever will. I was interested to hear how it went. Five years later, when Brian told me how his ride as Paul Revere went (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#reactions), I was unfortunately not surprised, and my meeting with Owen eleven years previously was an early experience that showed me what we were up against with scientists and engineers. When Brian began openly wondering if humanity was a sentient species (http://ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#sentience), I sadly understood.

In finishing, when I have seen Dennis repeatedly slandered and libeled, by the media (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/93-Lessons-learned-from-my-journey-with-Dennis/page5?p=687&viewfull=1#post687), “skeptics (http://ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#libel),” and talking heads in the free energy field (http://ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#libel), they rigorously avoid the two key aspects of Dennis’s effort in Seattle:


Dennis sold the world’s best heating system (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new);
He put it on customers’ homes for free (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs).


The Seattle and Ventura events always form the focus of the attacks on Dennis, and for Ventura, I have never seen even one assailant begin to discuss Mr. Mentor’s engine (http://ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse), or how a literal rocket scientist was involved, as they portray Dennis as a con man who never promoted or sold any legitimate technologies. Bigger lies have seldom been told.

That ends my little segment on Owen for now. He is still in my pantheon. One day, I may be able to discuss the aftermath of my visit with Owen: it was a key event in the ruination of my life.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Back to my big essay update (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1447&viewfull=1#post1447); other subjects that I’ll add to the “concepts (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/124-Updating-My-Big-Essay?p=1647&viewfull=1#post1647)” chapter will be social animals (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#socialreason), the idea of in-groups and out-groups, and the human version of them (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ingroup), as well as class systems. Elites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitesappear) are a product of scarcity, but they only appeared when there was enough energy surplus (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#energysurplus) to concentrate. Eliminate scarcity, and you eliminate elites (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elitedisappear). They know it, too, which is why they have been behind the high-level suppression of free energy (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#levels1) and related technologies (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/97-Steven-Greer-s-Latest-UFO-ET-Disclosure-Effort?p=1355&viewfull=1#post1355). I’ll likely also mention the distinction between real and financial economies (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#realeconomy). In the Fifth Epoch (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5), the financial economy disappears (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#exchange), as it is also a product of scarcity.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

A little science news this morning. The issue of when Earth’s atmosphere was oxygenated has been quite a source of contention (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#challenges). I’ll be updating my big essay on the latest on the issue, and here is some of it: 1 (https://phys.org/news/2018-10-evolution-earth-ecology-oxygen.html), 2 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06383-y), 3 (https://phys.org/news/2017-02-oxygen-earth-middle-ages-evolution.html). The gist of the most recent paper is that until land plants appeared (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#landanimal), there was not enough oxygen to allow animals to move onto land (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#landanimal). The latest paper is an attempt to refine GEOCARBSULF (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#GEOCARBSULF), which models both oxygen and carbon dioxide levels over the eon of complex life (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#ecosystem). It is a fascinating issue, and goes back to the first Great Oxygenation Event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#oxygenation), billions of years ago. The controversy will outlive me.

The other gas that GEOCARBSULF models is carbon dioxide, and getting familiar with paleoclimate studies makes carbon dioxide’s role in Earth’s climate very clear. When people begin to understand paleoclimate studies, one thing becomes clear: how vapid and misleading today’s Global Warming (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#globalwarming) “skepticism” is. The so-called “debate (http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/90-Global-Warming-Peak-Oil-and-related-topics?p=463&viewfull=1#post463)” is largely fraudulent, led by shills from the hydrocarbon lobby, as they dupe the credulous and say what self-serving humans want to hear: business as usual, because we can’t really impact Earth’s climate, and even if we could, the economic costs are too great to change our hydrocarbon-burning ways.

Industrial humanity is toying with (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#spaceshipearth) turning Earth from icehouse (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse) to greenhouse (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianwarming) conditions in a couple of centuries. There has been nothing like it in Earth’s history. The last time that happened, Earth had its greatest extinction event (http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#permianextinction). We have our toes over the edge of the abyss, and hardly anybody knows or cares.

We’ll see if my life’s work helps make a dent in that area.

Well, this is post 8,000 to my Avalon thread (http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?10672-WADE-FRAZIER-A-Healed-Planet&p=1279718&viewfull=1#post1279718). I did not imagine this when I began it, more than eight years ago, and it has been fun. Kudos to Bill and company for being such gracious hosts.

Best,

Wade