WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

Wade,

If I might, some mystics who study astrology seem to turn up the death card while doing Tarot readings on their " customers"...Ahem...

It would appear to me that our Earth is heading towards extinction or at least life as we know it is and, so how did life pick the right path? Many mystics that I do know believe that something big is in the works and though only through intuition do they speak of such things!!

From the words of Jesus:


Matthew 17:19
Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?



Matthew 17:20
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.


So maybe even Christian fundies are playing their role....

Dearest Wade, I was wondering are not the global elite or Godzilla or whomever operating under the principle of scarcity since they are hoarding all of the "good stuff" as far as tech goes?

And so they are no different than any of us....as it were....

Nine

Hi Nine:

Yes, we are heading toward a brick wall at warp speed, in a "race of the catastrophes" scenario. The ultimate cause is burning up our primary energy resource a million times as fast as it was created, but humans have been causing the Sixth Mass Extinction for the past 50,000 years, and it might get a lot worse.

The smart money has World War III being fought over the dwindling oil supplies before we wipe out the environment (with the USA leading the way, as we have been taking a blowtorch to the powder keg in Hydrocarbon Country). Of course, none of that has to be that way, and is why I do what I do. Part of me accepts that idea that many want to hit that brick wall, for the experience, as crazy as that seems.

Probably the main point of my work is to get across the idea that there is a way out. Not only a way out, but a path to heaven on Earth. But people are so addicted to scarcity and fear that they are certainly not going to wake up with talk. A clear example of that addiction was Michael Ruppert. He fell in with the Peak Oil crowd and openly challenged the idea of FE. I tried to reach him, as I did his pal Heinberg, but they are probably harder to reach than the general public, because they are so bought in to their beliefs, in order to sell them. Peak Oilers like Heinberg beat the drums of doom. At best, they promote a kind of "downsizing" vision of austerity. If there were no alternatives, I would be sympathetic, but I know there are. Ruppert recently killed himself in his despair. So, I have to wonder if Ruppert did not have a death wish all along, as he dismissed the solution that dwarfs everything else, but clung to his bleak vision to the end. Another good example is that Venus Project guy blowing a gasket when Brian merely mentioned FE, and that guy is supposedly some kind of "visionary."

Godzilla is addicted to power, and by that I mean power over humanity, such are the seductions of the dark path. I have written about it here before, I think, but Godzilla's organization has a lot of heredity in it, for the same reason why elites had family members take over the empires, as a relative was less likely to screw them over and could be trained from a young age. But for all of the inbred evil in those ranks, they do not have as much control over what soul comes through as they would like, and many in Godzilla's ranks have become disenchanted with the power game, as it is threatening Earth's inhabitability and they do not want to live on Mars. I am virtually certain that members of that disenchanted faction are those who gave my friend that little show.

Nearly everybody on Earth either denies Godzilla's existence or obsesses about it, and neither is a healthy reaction, as both are based in fear and thinking like victims. A loving reaction just acknowledges his existence, marvels at his undeniable "talent" and dedication, and keeps going.

As a species, we are facing a choice: love and life, or fear and death. There increasingly seems to be little middle ground. As Fuller said, we are facing Utopia or Oblivion, and it is more that way today than when he wrote that book.

I think that I am making my choice clear, but I cannot do it alone. If 0.0001% of humanity also made that choice, simply in their heads and hearts, and learned to sing, we would easily get over the hump. The surreal part is knowing that almost nobody is home, anywhere on Earth, and I had a sad sympathy when hearing Brian openly wonder if we are a sentient species. Humanity is presently addicted to scarcity and fear, I am trying to change the game, and we will see how it goes.

Best,

Wade

Hi:

This is territory that I have covered plenty, but will summarize it again. Few dark pathers achieve the "mastery" of a Genghis Kahn, and the dark path is not forever. Eventually, everybody wakes up.

But the evil of our systems is deeply institutionalized and baked into the structures of our organizations, which encourages the success of the dark pathers. The dark pathers who were sicced on us, such as Bill the BPA Hit Man, Mr. Texas, and Mr. Deputy, were very talented, and knew that they served evil interests, but were delighted with it, which is something that "normal" people have a hard time understanding, but about a third of all men become sadists when the opportunity presents itself. It is one of the reasons why women have to step up, if we are going to get over the hump.

But those evil-minded people, whom Godzilla finds so useful, are only the most accomplished members of the dark team. Most who do the dirty work are "normal" people, like that prosecutor who did not care if people were innocent or guilty, and he lied as much as he needed to in order to get that conviction.

But those who do the most damage believe in the cause, as they drank the Kool-Aid, such as Ralph McGehee and my relative who was a contract CIA agent. The CIA's halls are filled with dupes who got their hands bloody, walk through the halls like zombies, and count their days to retirement.

Average people cannot even distinguish the psychopaths from the saints, in "Give us Barabbas!" style, such as my mother making a scrapbook of her son the criminal, who took that scrapbook on tour to my friends, family, and investors.

Humanity has sold out its sentience for security. So it is, in a world of scarcity and fear. It does not have to be this way, and I am doing what I can.

Best,

Wade

Hi:

One last post before I get to chores.

What made Heinberg's and Ruppert's denial of FE, even their semi-ridicule of the idea, strange was that both were proponents of the "inside-job" aspect of 9/11, and Ruppert even wrote a book to make the case (which Heinberg endorsed).

So, there are two self-admitted conspiracists, alleging that Godzilla-like interests made 9/11 happen, so that they could stampede the American people in any direction they wished (such as invading oil-rich Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11). But they could not fathom why Godzilla would want to suppress FE.

Heinberg bizarrely wrote about Sparky Sweet, Detroit buying up the patents in high-mpg carburetors, and the ET angle on FE, and I had inside information about all three situations. Heinberg immediately rejected a very friendly offer from me to find out more about the very situations that he wrote about (in semi-ridiculing fashion, but I was giving him the benefit of the doubt). I really looked forward to introducing him to Brian, and so did Brian.

Probably the most bizarre aspect of all was that "progressives" feted Heinberg endlessly, as he beat his drums of doom, while Brian was shut out of the very same venues. Brian was quite dismayed, and that was when the light bulb really went on for me, as I saw how addicted to scarcity "progressives" were.

So, I have to thank Heinberg and Ruppert for helping me see the light about "progressives." Progressives will be no help at all for making FE happen, as they are all Level 2s and 3s, and Level 3s like Heinberg are the most dug in of all against the idea of FE. You may really have to see it to believe it.

Best,

Wade

Hi:

I cannot help myself, and will write a little about it, and provide some anecdotes that I have not publicly provided before.

My wife understandably gave me an ultimatum in the summer of 2002 to get my site done by summer's end, and I raced to the finish line at complete it in September. The last essay that I finished was my American Empire essay, as I recall. I finished at as the war drums for invading Iraq reached a deafening crescendo.

A year previously, I squired Brian around in California, and 9/11 happened the next month (probably partly because of my squiring, Brian moved to the area the next year). By early 2002, I had stopped directly interacting with the public, as the attacks became more irrational and vicious from crazed Americans. Kind of paradoxically, 9/11 woke many Americans up from their slumbers, and many cyberpals came to me in the wake of 9/11 as they began to question the official narrative. One was one of Fuller's pupils, and he called my work "comprehensivist," and I did not know what he meant. He then directed me toward Bucky's work. I read the two works that Bucky's pupil recommended to me, and the paradigm that I had been groping toward since childhood finally crystalized. I cannot overemphasize how valuable encountering Fuller's work was at that time. My tune has really not changed much since then, and I would have to say that that experience was the juncture that led me to eventually writing my big essay.

By February of 2003, I had digested Bucky's work and crystallized my paradigm shift. Right then, Heinberg began to make waves, and the next month I read this essay by Heinberg. It coincided with the publication of his The Party's Over. I eagerly read it, and gave him the benefit of the doubt about writing about FE like he did.

I had been publicly writing about the upcoming invasion of Iraq since late 2002, and I read The Party's Over literally as we were invading Iraq. Invading Iraq may have been the single greatest emotional agony that I ever experienced, and that is saying something. Although 9/11 really sent me into the dark phase of my midlife crisis, Mr. Professors' death in the spring of 2002, and the invasion of Iraq, really sent me over the edge. I was an emotional wreck for several years, and Dennis's invitation to the White House paradoxically spurred the end of my midlife crisis.

Just as the dust settled from Iraq's invasion, Brian invited me to help found NEM. We founded NEM in June, and the next month I resumed my career and funded NEM for its first year. Right in the middle of those events, an activist who was promoting my work also promoted Heinberg's, and she introduced us. I had those exchanges with Heinberg, discovered that he really was not interested in FE after all, and would later dismiss the entire idea as he churned out book after book on Peak Oil doom. He became quite the celebrity in "progressive" circles in those days, and it was hard to even escape it. I vividly recall seeing the cover story of Earth Island Journal featuring Heinberg, as I was buying groceries. It may have been this article (Ha! As I looked this post again, I see that Heinberg wrote that in May 2014, not 2004, so he has been featured in that magazine for a more than a decade (1, 2). I just surfed and could not find it, but if I recall correctly, the cover story was in 2004). We were trying to get Brian exposure as NEM's spokesman, and we tried to get him access to some of the very same organizations that feted Heinberg. We found no takers, to Brian's dismay. When I read a Heinberg interview in my Z Magazine (which I have subscribed to for more than 20 years) in May 2004 (just as Mallove was murdered and NEM began coming apart), that was the final straw, and I wrote my Heinberg essay.

I have to give Heinberg credit, however, in that I first really studied the Peak Oil issue through his work, and studied his influences, such as Tainter and Catton. It was a great learning experience, all in all, and the light bulb finally went on for me, in how addicted to scarcity such people were. Brian O found out as he played the Paul Revere of FE beginning in 1996, to receive all of those crazed reactions from alternative energy, environmental, and scientific luminaries, and I mean people of world renown. It was only after five years of playing Paul Revere that Brian began openly wondering if humanity was really a sentient species.

Just look at all of the "progressive" and "environmental" organizations that feature Heinberg (1, 2, 3). I found those after about ten seconds of surfing. That is why I have no interest in "progressive" organizations, and will have to roll my own. FE organizations are plagued with naïveté, dishonesty, and arrested development. A couple of years after my NEM fiasco, one longtime post-9/11 reader had me contact a leading voice in the Free Software Movement. Free software, free energy – you might have thought that they would be natural allies, but you would be wrong. :) After a series of exchanges with that luminary, I gave up. He was perhaps the most entrenched Level 3 that I personally encountered, and that is saying something.

I am just hitting the highlights of many years of FE activism, after my first stint with Dennis. I have consciously embarked on my present path since 2007, although I did not predict that I would take a year off from my career to write that big essay, but looking back, I could not have done it if I had not. It was a lot of heavy lifting, but I am supremely happy that I did it, even if it cost me $1 million or so. I will not do anything like it again in this lifetime. Now, it is just helping people learn to sing. :)

OK, now it is time for chores. :)

Best,

Wade

Hi:

I guess that I have kind of written why certain groups are not suitable to help FE along. Heck, I do not know of any group that is, but virtually all FE newbies, after they have worked over their social circles, often to ostracizing effect, then begin banging on the doors of every organization that they can think of. I have written how I carried Dennis's and Brian's spears to the DOE. Even crazier is banging on the Pentagon's doors, which plenty of FE newbies have done, if they survived the experience. Dennis tried to talk Stan Meyer out of it, and Stan scoffed and died while having a meal with some NATO guys, for one of the many untimely deaths in the field. People bang on those doors out of naïveté or ego, or both.

But the one that blows away all newbie FE activists is how environmentalists treat FE as the devil. I began to see that only a few months into my FE journey, and eventually, as I traded notes with fellow travelers many years later, they told me that all environmental groups have been that way since the 1970s. Mind-boggling, but true, and it is not because they fear an unenlightened implementation of FE as much as it is their jaundiced view of humanity. I think that if self-extermination was a viable option for cleaning up Earth, most environmentalists would sign up. Heinberg and others have been flacking for that for some time. They would protest that that is not what they advocate, but just reducing Earth's population by 90%. Imagine that being a peaceful and enlightened process. I guess that environmentalists had better get with it, then, and show us the way. :)

When we founded NEM, Alden Bryant was involved, who is the only environmentalist that I ever met who "got" FE. But even Alden thought that he could get his pals at the Sierra Club to join up. Alden knew all of the Sierra Club's wigs personally. I did not hang around to find out, and really did not care to, but I never saw the Sierra Club get on board, or any other environmental organization.

So, I will have to build my effort from scratch, and I had no illusions about it. It will be a long, hard road, but I designed what I am doing so that I can do it in my "spare" time from here on out. The hard work will be done by those learning to sing.

Best,

Wade

Just finished reading Heinberg's essay.

According to him, US and Russia (with China not far behind) are playing a "game" whose goal is control over energy resources most of which are in Arab or Muslim countries.

While the goal of the game may appear to be global domination, it is in fact a goal of survival, as without energy the "great powers" would turn overnight into so called "third world countries".

I have to assume that both US and Russia know of and have developed (to a degree) devices and systems that are not depending on fossil fuel. And yet they do not use them publicly nor do they threaten with them. They continue to act as a starving organism whose food supply (fossil fuel) is about to end. (Putin did referrer somewhat to some new tech in a recent video, but that could mean anything).

So why are they playing this game? Why focus so much on oil when they both know they don't really need it? Is this just for show? To keep people in fear, like the Orwellian war?

The likely reason is addiction to power. If either one of these countries acknowledges that so called "alternative energy sources" have been developed for some time now, the population will what to know why were they forced to live in lack and war for so long, if this was no longer required? And this would quickly lead to the dismantling of the current power structure.

It is ironic to have the solution in your hand, but not be able to play that card because it will mean the end of your rule over others. :)

Another theory could be that both Obama and Putin are so down the food chain and so indoctrinated that they are not aware of alternative energy sources and they honestly fight for the survival of their "in-group" by turning the world against the other. And this false perception would be quietly maintained by "Godzilla".

In conclusion it was interesting to read that essay. It was very rational and made logical sense (unless you know Free Energy is already here). The ending was amusing: "In the future we will leave in communities around solar power plants if everyone is able to behave" (paraphrase). Extremely unlikely... we are unable to behave right now, let alone after a huge reduction in resources and therefor comfort.

Hi Ilie:

Heinberg's article was published about a week before we invaded Iraq, and about a month after I finished reading Fuller's book. As you can see in the notes of that article, he had already published The Party's Over. Heinberg gets credit for leading me to study Peak Oil, the collapse of civilizations, and other topics in my big essay that are not evident in my site as of 2002. Heinberg gets plenty of credit there, and he even wrote about FE, although with a whiff of ridicule.

So, for somebody like him to run the other way, as fast as he could, when somebody with the inside dope on the FE subject approached him, and who offered to connect him with Brian and other big FE names, was somewhat surprising. It was not surprising to see that reaction from an academic, as Brian knew well. But it was surprising to see from somebody like him who at least said that he was interested in FE.

It is a small world, and Heinberg was once Velikovsky's assistant. Maybe because he was on the wrong end of fringe stuff like that with Velikovsky, he took the FE position that he did. It is hard to know, but my experience has been such behavior reflects a person's addiction to scarcity that I write about so much. That addiction can manifest in many subtle and insidious ways, especially with the "smart."

Regarding Obama and Putin, for instance, neither is anywhere near the top of the food chain. They certainly know about FE at some level, but Godzilla is a private interest and plays a level or four above people like American presidents. I doubt that any American president from Teddy Roosevelt (and maybe earlier) until today got elected unless he was blessed by the Rockefellers, and the Rockefellers are not at the top. So, whatever "battles" that neocons and Clinton may have had, it was nothing more than which sheep in the herd was dominant, and the rancher and his sheepdogs could only look on in amusement, and the "winner" was just the new lead sheep used to control the flock. That geopolitical game, even though it involves the lives of billions, is below where Godzilla plays, as far as I have seen. As long as people are focused there, they do not see the big game that is happening (i.e., they hack at branches if they hack at all, and do not even imagine that there is a root). People like Heinberg get credit for seeing the importance of oil (duh!, but so many are blind to it, even today), but they really have not developed an epochal perspective.

OK, picture time. Attached are pics from yesterday's hike, and I will repeat a theme that keeps arising in my life. In my personal life, if I do not organize and plan events, they do not happen or they are not fun. When I was younger, I allowed myself to be badgered into planning trips that I did not think were good ideas, and they became either miserable outings or even life-risking. Yesterday, I nearly bought the farm, and somebody else got an injury that may have been crippling, because the organizer (not me), really did not think through what the risks may have been, and I asked him about it before we left. It turned out that I was the only person prepared for the conditions that we encountered (trails turned to ice), but I only had gear for three of us, and the other two were seriously injured, and for a few scary moments (as I slid down a mountainside toward oblivion), it looked like I might have become the third.

This is the not the first time that I allowed pals to plan trips and they got us in trouble. Each time, I helped save the day, but it was no fun. In my old age, I do not plan anything in which there is any risk. I am too old myself for "adventure." Five extra miles because of something that my pals did not anticipate has hampered my hiking seasons, and some risks in the mountains could be deadly, such as what we faced yesterday.

This is a nice segue to my FE effort. I am a veteran of five FE campaigns and have turned down offers to be in several others. I mopped up the blood from failed campaigns, and have no desire to be a part of something like those again. I am going about my choir work with highly specific intentions. I constantly field "suggestions" and observations by people who are trying to water it down for the masses, use it for their agenda, and the like, and what they all reflect is the desire to take some shortcut and not do the work that my choir curriculum demands. What those making such suggestions do not understand is that their short-cut ideas greatly raise the risk to the participants, although they are too inexperienced, naïve, or what have you, to recognize it. I have not made up my curriculum just to make it "hard." It is kind of like you have to learn arithmetic before algebra, and algebra before calculus. Without getting the prerequisites out of the way, the student will completely fail with the more advanced lessons. I will respect the opinions of those who have some experience on the FE front lines, but nobody making those suggestions has had any.

I watch people play with dynamite all the time, and oblivious to the idea that they are. Humans are notoriously poor at assessing risk. I respect when somebody knowingly risks their life, like Dennis regularly has. What I do not have much respect for, and which is the scary part of FE and similar pursuits, is when people have no idea that they are engaging in risky behavior and blithely charge ahead, oblivious to what awaits them. I have seen this many times in other areas, as I have watched people piss away their life's savings and have other catastrophes, and I tried to caution them, to no effect. I really did not want to watch as they cratered in screams and flames. I have encountered that same scenario in the FE field, and it is one big reason why I do not want to have anything to do with the field today. Almost nobody in it has the right stuff or any experience on the playing field, as they doggedly pursue the same paths of failure that thousands of others have.

Best,

Wade

Hi:

Quickly, before it is off to some chores, I have written plenty about how shale oil and tar sands are typical dregs-sucking activities of resource depletion scenarios, which all collapsed civilizations have in common, going back to the first ones.

Here is another take on the shale-oil boom in the USA, which will be very short-lived and end very badly.

Best,

Wade

Hi:

A pal sent me this last night, on how criminals on Wall Street play the biomedical game. I am a lot closer to that situation than it may seem. That was a local company and somebody whom I supervised in my last job worked there, and he witnessed the company's trajectory. It is a great article for post material, and I will try to sketch a much larger picture, and I will begin at the beginning. The earliest life on Earth learned the biochemical tricks that make all life today possible, and DNA and enzymes were two necessary molecules. DNA and protein are also held together by hydrogen bonds, which the fluorine ion attacks, which is why fluoride is so hazardous to health. When complex life began, so did specialized cells, and the nervous system was one of the first systems developed, to coordinate cellular activity. Nerve cells are energy hogs that use about ten times the energy of muscle cells. When people die, the death mechanism is the nervous system's shutting down from a lack of oxygen, as the voracious nerve cells die first.

As scientists began investigating at the molecular level in the 20th century, the mechanisms of many life processes began to be understood, and one of those frontiers of exploration was what drugs do to biological processes. Basically, drugs manipulate biological processes. They inhibit enzyme activity and neuron functioning, alter membrane permeability, and other aspects of biological processes. People have known for many thousands of years that certain parts of certain plants could induce cognitive effects, including hallucinogens and painkillers, but it was only in the 20th century that scientists began to explore what was happening at the molecular level. All drugs are chemical interventions that alter biological functioning, and the entire paradigm of violent manipulation of biological processes rests on a pretty shaky foundation. I have called it part of the male-based interventionist paradigm. As Ben Franklin said, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but prevention is not lucrative. Therefore the Western medical paradigm is not interested much in prevention, but in lucrative, "life-saving" intervention.

I have stated it many times, that if the West was sane, humans would devote nearly all of their health-related efforts to being well, and virtually all disease and illness would rapidly disappear, along with today's medical establishment. A little investigation of today's Western medical paradigm shows how it was established by diversifying robber barons, led by the most notorious, John D. Rockefeller. The same year that his strikebreakers were machine-gunning women and children, the great "philanthropist" founded what became the American Cancer Society, and he soon began giving dimes to everybody he met, to try to counteract his evil public image. What Rockefeller was really doing with his "philanthropy" was building Earth's most lucrative racket next to the energy racket. History's greatest energy mogul and richest man also funded the institution that made energy largely invisible in economic theory. What a coincidence.

What that article that inspired this post shows is that there are many levels of the food chain that the medical racket creates, like hyenas and vultures arriving at a lion's kill, and the author of that article was oblivious to the larger framework. He hinted that those corporate raiders, junk bond "philanthropists," and others may have influenced the FDA, but the author did not understand that the entire medical edifice, and especially the FDA's role in it, is evil from top to bottom.

I see that author's limited perception as very similar to those geopolitical analysts that I recently discussed, who only see the "retail" political picture, in which Obama and Putin play their games, with "chess masters" like Brzezinski in the background, making his moves. That is all down a few levels from where Godzilla plays, but when he sees those kinds of maneuvers by Milken and gang to take down the biomedical company, he takes a "boys will be boys" satisfaction in that kind of activity. As long as people think that biomedical companies have some kind of magic bullet, and it is all subject to the many capitalistic plays that can be made, all is well in Godzilla's world, as nobody focusing on those levels of the game is going to ever wake up to the big picture of what is really happening.

Again, climate scientists and biologists see where this is all heading, and they are terrified, and members of Godzilla want to terraform Mars as their ultimate survival enclave if it all goes south, and almost nobody is brave enough to even imagine the way out, which is so obvious for those who jettison their scarcity-based baggage.

This past weekend, I was thinking about the epochal perspective some more, and will write a post on it, maybe today, about why the FE approaches today all suffer from the tunnel vision that their scarcity-based baggage prevents them from seeing beyond. This view literally cannot come into being for those addicted to their scarcity-based perspectives, or if they glimpse it, their immediate reaction is fear, denial, and running the other way as fast as they can, as Heinberg did. And they can keep running, for all that I care, as they will be no help for what I am trying. I seek people who do not react like that, and those that I seek have their hearts in the right place and have had some kind of awakening experience so that my work does not turn their universe upside down. I know that they are needles in haystacks, and that is OK, because I only need one-in-a-million for my plan to work. They may be as "abundant" as one-in-5,000. We will see.

Best,

Wade

Hi:

Quickly, I am reading George Friedman's America's Secret War, and we will see if I decide to finish it, but it was surprisingly naïve and uninformed in places. For instance, it repeated the canard that the USA bombed Iraq in 1998 because of Hussein's "belligerence," when the reality was that the Iraqis cooperated with the inspections, but when the "inspectors," now known to be spies who were trying to help murder Hussein, wanted access to the imperial palace (To search for WMDs! Wink, nudge.), the Iraqis balked, and then we bombed them. Iraq did not expel the inspectors, but they were withdrawn by the USA to prepare for the bombing. I was writing about that stuff in 2002, as were others, so, when Friedman repeated the fairy tale version of the events in his 2004 book, he lost a lot of credibility in my eyes.

Also, he takes the vanilla perspective regarding the USA's interests in the region. Oil is given minimal treatment, and the USA is just regarded as a big customer who wants to oil to keep flowing at a reasonable price. None of the larger perspectives were anywhere in evidence. Iraq's oil fields constituted history's greatest material prize, and the Bush administration was filled with oil industry executives, including its three highest-ranking officials (president, vice-president, and secretary of state). Friedman really had to strain to make any kind of connection between the "war on terror" and invading Iraq.

Anyway, I have never found political "realists" making convincing explanatory arguments, as they accept many retail presumptions and tend to subsume the economic motives below the political, which is never that way in a world of scarcity. Economics is the dog, and politics and statecraft is the tail, as Bucky noted. Retail politics is the puppet show, a version of the bread and circuses routine used for millennia. And Godzilla sits far above those petty games.

Best,

Wade

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Posted by Ilie Pandia

If either one of these countries acknowledges that so called "alternative energy sources" have been developed for some time now, the population will what to know why were they forced to live in lack and war for so long, if this was no longer required? And this would quickly lead to the dismantling of the current power structure.

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Good point, Ilie. I've been thinking that if a world leader attempts to trot out FE, it would be the oligarchs in the energy industry that would be threatened by it, and that leader would have those folks to deal with. But you're right. That leader would also have his entire populace after himself/herself if people ever realized that the technology has been around for years.


Wade,
Regarding your trip:
"It turned out that I was the only person prepared for the conditions that we encountered (trails turned to ice), but I only had gear for three of us, and the other two were seriously injured, and for a few scary moments (as I slid down a mountainside toward oblivion), it looked like I might have become the third."

That explains all the "polar vortex" monkeybusiness going on this week. :-) They knew you would be on that mountain and tried to GET ya! (Twisted humor. It's a Monday.)

Joe

Hi Seeker:

That may seem like a good joke, but unfortunately, I have encountered people with levels of paranoia not too far removed from that. Just this past weekend, I was invited to meet with somebody who heard of FE and wanted to talk with me. I declined the invitation. I have written about one person who ended up in a rubber room after a couple of conversations with me, convinced that the "Big Boys" were out to get him.

I have been writing publicly about FE since 1996, and while I almost went to prison when the Big Boys raised the level of the game, and Mallove's murder spurred Brian to move to South America, and I did not blame him, and I have had my own Internet stalkers, I have never been subjected to violent organized suppression for just writing. Heck, other than the stalkers, I am not aware of any games being played with me, although they can be so subtle that you do not know that you are being messed with.

But, as I have stated plenty, people are notoriously bad at assessing risk. I assessed risk professionally, and see people all the time blithely head toward disaster, oblivious of the risk, or get paranoid and hide under the covers so that the monsters under the bed can't get them. That is also reflected in the "Left" and "Right" not having a balanced reaction to the idea of Godzilla. They either deny his existence or obsess about him. Both reactions are based in fear. A loving perspective just acknowledges his existence and treats him like a force of nature that cannot be negotiated with or defeated, but just planned for, to try to reduce the risk of exposure and develop contingency plans if the storm blows through.

As far as I have seen, people like me, just writing about FE, do not get Godzilla's royal treatment, which is why I am going about this the way that that I am. So far, most people around me want to stay anonymous because they fear Godzilla. Well, anybody interacting with me is not anonymous, as far as Godzilla is concerned. I am on his radar, and nobody on Earth can interact with me anonymously, as far as Godzilla is concerned. But he just watches. :)

Best,

Wade

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Hi Seeker:

That may seem like a good joke, but unfortunately, I have encountered people with levels of paranoia not too far removed from that. Just this past weekend, I was invited to meet with somebody who heard of FE and wanted to talk with me. I declined the invitation. I have written about one person who ended up in a rubber room after a couple of conversations with me, convinced that the "Big Boys" were out to get him.

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Sounds like a good example and reason why some sort of mystical awakening is a requirement for the choir. I just read a terrific quote from another Avalonian today: "We need to remember also that we are the infinite on an excursion into the finite."

I think if you haven't yet grasped and assimilated that fuller perspective of Life, then your reactions to many things will be tainted by negative programming. Too fast too soon with some things can provoke greater emotions than they should.

Hi:

I will probably get to an epochal post or two today, but as an addendum to the previous post, I have written how Mr. Professor suspected somebody in our operation being a plant because of his law enforcement past, and Mr. Professor's suspicions actually helped lead to the man's violent death. Conversely, I watched Mr. Engineer and Mr. Researcher sign up with Mr. Texas and friends, and Mr. Texas very likely did work for Godzilla. And nothing I could say would dissuade them from jumping in bed with the real cutthroats as they abandoned Dennis. Their jumping in bed with Mr. Texas helped wreck my life. So, that is another set of examples of how paranoia and denial can be deadly afflictions in this field.

I know too many of those kinds of cautionary tales, I am sorry to say, and those fates are a big reason why I am going about this how I am. To help keep people out of trouble.

Best,

Wade

Hi Seeker:

The "funny" part of that person ending up in a rubber room was that he had traveled the world and his father tried to give him a mystical awakening the year before he met me. That mystical "awakening" may have helped send him over the edge. You have to keep both feet solidly on the ground to begin to engage Wade's World. :)

I have found that a general awakening is more important than a mystical one. Ralph McGehee is no mystic. He was just an overgrown Boy Scout who pursued experiences that led him to his devastating realizations. Like most of my fellow travelers, Ralph woke up the hard way.

While my mystical awakening was highly relevant to my path, the most important part of it was just realizing that the Golden Rule is pretty damned good advice. The wisdom of the masters is largely common sense (or uncommon, when seen in one way). When I saw Mr. Texas make his play, I could smell it a mile off, because I had seen it before in Seattle and elsewhere by that time, and I knew that it was dishonorable. Mr. Researcher and Mr. Engineer were both more than old enough to be my father, and supposedly smarter and worldlier than I was, and Mr. Engineer saw what happened in Seattle, too. I initially could not believe how easily Mr. Texas duped them, and nothing that I could say made a difference with them. But it was their lack of integrity more than their naïveté that saw them sign up with Mr. Texas. For a successful navigation of the FE milieu, truly the most important lessons we learned by age five. Just remembering the basics is the most important part.

I have been asked if I had some mystical radar that allowed me to spot the psychopaths, but it was not that at all, but just learning Jesus's maxim: "By their fruits you will know them." Good guys don't slit throats. When I saw them get their knives out, they announced who they were for those with eyes to see, but we have long tradition of "heroes" vanquishing the "bad guys," but those are folk tales. The "good guys" are not violent, or when they are violent (or backstabbing, etc.), they are not being "good." I have seen many people unnecessarily make it into some kind of mystical game, when it is just really ethics. Living by the Golden Rule, and loving the enemy, are about the most enlightened messages ever given to humanity, and there really is not much mystical hocus pocus about them.

The basic truths are really pretty simple, and it takes great gamesmanship and mind-f**k to lose sight of them. I see them as the love/fear divide. Anybody can rationalize anything, but the means become the ends, which is another bit of mystical advice that is really common sense. The mystical stuff is really pretty simple, or at least the worthy parts of it.

Back to chores.

Wade

Hi:

As an addendum to the dregs-sucking activities taking place in the USA, here was a little news item that I just read. When I took my Bucket List road trip last year and saw many people including Dennis, three different times when I met friends, they told me about how fracking in their state (West Virginia, Montana, and New Mexico, if I recall correctly, but friends in about a dozen states that I visited could have said that) was going to be an environmental disaster, and I heard a relative in another state talk about it recently. I am not even bringing it up, but I hear it from people, and they are just concerned with the "unintentional" ramifications of fracking. Injecting fracking fluid into the water supply are the kinds of "oops!" moments that we can increasingly look forward to, and the Gulf Horizon spill and Fukushima might only be warmups of what we will experience in coming years. So, how about FE? :)

Best,

Wade

Hi:

OK, on to epochal change, which is a major theme of my essay.

The first epochal event(s), the development of stone tools and the control of fire, may well have each been invented once each, and their use spread. Whatever the order or dependencies may have been, they would have both been instrumental in changing the human journey, as they both allowed for an enhanced food supply, protection from predators, and the ability to leave Africa. They were also likely key events in gaining the energy needed to grow the human-line's brain. The australopith who made the first stone tools could have had no conception of what the next half million years or so would lead to: a being that would have seemed magical to that Tesla of australopiths. Although millions of years of evolution and upright walking led to that momentous event, when the event happened, the human-line changed in radical ways and led to the human brain. Although an unprecedented development led to that australopith Tesla making the breakthrough, the major cognitive developments, driven by enhanced energy practices, were in the future.

More than a million years of "boring" life attended the reign of Homo erectus, but gradual "advances" led to larger brains, more sophisticated tools, and about 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens appeared. But it would be another 100,000 years or more until humanity became behaviorally modern, and the mastery of language was likely a key development, and maybe the key development. When a group of a few hundred of those humans, probably one marginal community in the struggle for survival in East Africa, left Africa, nothing could withstand them. So, in that instance, great cognitive changes largely preceded the Epochal Event, but the energy of the world's large animals fueled the human expansion across the planet. Even so, that founder group could not have imagined what the next 50,000 years would bring, as a few hundred people became several million, and humanity began to evolve into races.

When all the easy meat was gone, in a few overhunted places, and in as few as two, humans began to domesticate plants. The domestication of plants meant that sedentary populations could develop, and the land's carrying capacity under agriculture was about 200 times greater than under hunter-gatherer subsistence methods. Where agriculture appeared, civilization was not far behind. Cities are the great invention of domesticated humanity, and professions, literacy, and much of what is good and terrible about humanity came with civilization. The cognitive/social changes that the Domestication Revolution wrought were incredibly dramatic, compared to what came before.

Civilizations then rose and fell for millennia around Earth, especially in Eurasia, and particularly around the Fertile Crescent and Mediterranean. Eurasian civilizations in China, India, Southeast Asia, the Fertile Crescent, and Mediterranean had cultural and technological exchanges, including domesticated plants and animals, and those interchanges spurred relatively rapid change, even as civilizations rose and collapsed. Greeks began something that could be called proto-scientific, and their inventions, such as the watermill, windmill and rational approach would influence the rise of Europe more than a millennium later. Civilizations collapsed because they ran out of energy, usually in the form of food and wood, and as Europe learned to turn the world's oceans into a low-energy transportation lane and thereby conquer Earth, one deforested imperial contender turned to coal, and the Industrial Revolution was born. The Industrial Revolution led to changes every bit as dramatic as the previous revolutions.

For each Epochal Event, if members of the societies that authored the event were asked what lied ahead, none of them, even the inventors, would have the slightest idea of what radical changes were coming. The coming changes would have been unimaginable, and if you had tried explaining those changes to those pre-event societies, you would have received blank incomprehension in return, if you were lucky. If you had actually tried to drag long those beings into that future world, they would have likely fought you the entire way and would kill you if they could to prevent ending the world as they knew it.

Of course, each event was predicated on tapping a new energy resource, and each Epochal Phase was an order of magnitude shorter than the previous one, and the energy tapped for each phase was generally an order of magnitude greater or more than the previous one. Without the energy event, the rest would not have happened, and likely could not have happened. The journey of life on Earth is actually similar, in that there were great energy breakthroughs in biology that led to the appearance of humanity on the evolutionary scene.

The biggest energy event of all will be the arrival of FE. Somewhat paradoxically, the technical breakthrough has already been accomplished. But a phenomenon as old as civilization, called elite rule, has actively prevented the dissemination of such technologies, because FE will make elites obsolete. The elites know it will, and keeping FE and what can come with it unimaginable to the masses is their greatest accomplishment. Their games also threaten to make Earth uninhabitable, and the crazier among them plan to use Mars as their "ace in the hole" if their games make Earth uninhabitable. But sanity might prevail.

The FE epoch will dwarf all that came before it. FE, antigravity, and other sequestered technologies will make humanity a space-faring species, no longer confined to Earth. Humanity will become what is called a Type 1 civilization on the Kardashev scale.

And you will have about as much success telling your social circles about the FE Epoch and what it would look like as you would have if you had tried to tell an English peasant of 1500 about London in 2014. That peasant's initial reaction would have been incomprehension and fear. While I have been living with the potential of an FE-based civilization since the 1980s, when my FE adventures began, I slowly came to understand that the vast majority of humanity is indifferent, as they are egocentrically focused on surviving in a world of scarcity and sold out their sentience for the promise of security of some kind. In ways, I am sure that it is little different than the enforced norms of chimpanzees and other social apes. People are focused on survival and temporarily sating their addictions in their quest for a brief respite from the rigors of life on Earth. It is easy to judge such tunnel vision, but that judgment is a trap. But it is quite OK to just acknowledge where humanity's attention is focused and to realize that average people will not even begin to comprehend FE and its ramifications until it is delivered into their lives. In that way, today's humanity is no different than any other peoples immediately before the Epochal Events.

We are on the brink of oblivion or manifesting something that can look a lot like heaven on Earth, and it will be reliant on the collective integrity and sentience that some tiny fraction of humanity can muster. The previous Epochal Events had extremely few authors, and it will be similar this time. It does not have to be me, but if somebody can mount a high-minded, comprehensive, heart-centered effort, of 100,000 people or so, it will easily overcome the organized suppression and humanity's inertia. I wish that I was not the only person trying that approach, and I expect my effort to start small, like all efforts begin, but if I can find people who can learn the curriculum and hit the notes, we will be on our way to helping make something happen. Imagine being alive during the biggest event in the human journey. Well, you are here, now, when we are at the cusp. Heady stuff, and so heady that there are many casualties of just thinking about it. This is not a task for just anybody, but for an extremely tiny fraction of humanity with rare qualifications. Only people like that have a prayer of making a dent. Otherwise, they easily fall prey to the many perils and temptations that attend the process.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

Hi:

As I have stated, the choir will not just make Q&A posts, but also more involved and thoughtful efforts. I do not expect peer-reviewed quality scientific papers, although such could be welcome, but what Melinda did, here, is an example of the work that I encourage, or what David has plunked along on. My shorter essays (1, 2, 3) are also examples of what I also encourage. I truly hope that choir members write like that. The choir is intended to be a home for public writers, and the primary subjects will be abundance and planetary healing.

But there will also be conversations, and here are some more examples of what I seek.

Q. Hi Wade: You have covered your position on the abiotic oil hypothesis. Is there an abiotic coal hypothesis?

A. Yes, I have seen such a hypothesis. Similar to what I have seen with the abiotic oil hypotheses, the abiotic coal hypothesis is not taken seriously in scientific circles, and seems quite weak to me. One hypothesis that I have seen argues for the abiotic nature of the coal and oil deposits because they can be so thick, sometimes miles thick. But millions of years of deposition and shifting tectonic plates easily account for such thickness. For oil deposits, particularly those around the margins of what was the Tethys Ocean, the reconstruction of the tectonic plate movements shows that plates that continually migrated northward squeezed out the Proto-Tethys, Paleo-Tethys, and then Tethys Oceans over several hundred million years. When plates collide like that, the heavier oceanic plate gets shoved under the lighter continental plate, and those anoxic ocean sediments (from those many anoxic events that led to mass extinctions) get buried. That process is what leads to sedimentary layers that are miles thick.

Coal is similar, but the process was different. Coal was formed by the first forests. In a principle that peppers my essay and is key for paleo-biological understanding, a biological feature developed for one purpose can be "drafted" into another use. Lignin was drafted for that double duty. Lignin is a polymer, and plants "invented" it to provide the tubes that water can flow through, which made vascular plants possible. Plants soon used lignin for more than nutrient tubes: lignin became the structural basis for trees, similar to how steel beams are necessary for skyscrapers. And similar to steel beams, lignin does not degrade in the environment easily. For a hundred million years, nothing on Earth could degrade lignin, so tree after tree in the Carboniferous Period's swamps fell and were buried by more trees. That happened as the continents were crashing together to form Pangaea, so those trees that would not rot got continually jammed into the earth and piled up deeply in places, sometimes thousands of feet thick.

One purpose of my big essay was to develop a comprehensive perspective, and bringing geology, biology, and physics together, to see how the evidence can mutually reinforce each other, can really help understand oil and coal formation, and can show how the abiotic hypotheses rest on shaky ground. I have seen many hypotheses floated, mainly to impress lay audiences, as the theorist will state, "and we know of no mechanism that can do that." I have seen it invoked in numerous areas, from 9/11 to artificial satellite management to coal and oil formation.

I have not seen anything about the accepted coal and oil formation hypotheses that have some kind of fatal flaw that topples the hypotheses, and independently converging lines of evidence strongly buttress the accepted hypotheses. For instance, oil and coal have carbon 12/13 ratios that show that they formed from dead organisms. That alone presents a very high hurdle for the abiotic hypotheses, but reconstructions of plate movements, chemical markers, and other evidence has painted a very persuasive picture that geological processes working on marine and plant remains formed the oil and coal deposits that humanity is burning today with such abandon.

Most of Earth's known oil deposits were formed during anoxic events at the margins of the Tethys Ocean during the Mesozoic Era (when dinosaurs ruled Earth), especially in the Middle East. Most of Earth's coal deposits were formed during the Carboniferous, before fungi learned to digest lignin about 290 million years ago. Natural gas largely comes from marine sediments that got "cooked" too much, and all the carbon-carbon bonds were broken, which left methane. Humanity is burning up those hydrocarbons a million times as fast as they were created, and the conditions for coal and oil formation, particularly in the amounts that exist in the deposits that humans have been mining, may never reappear on Earth.

I have snooped into the alternative hypotheses for coal and oil formation, and they are far from persuasive. And even if they were correct, mining and burning hydrocarbons to power the industrial age is an insanely dangerous practice. Humanity is in danger of artificially inducing another greenhouse Earth phase, and the last time that it went from icehouse to greenhouse conditions, Earth had its greatest mass extinction event. The smart money thinks that World War III over the dwindling oil deposits will do us in before human-induced environmental collapse does.

You cannot explore those subjects without encountering all sorts of challenges from the fringes. You will see arguments and evidence for vertical plate tectonics, challenges to the absolute dates of the geological timescale, and challenges of an even more current nature, such as Fomenko's challenge to recent chronology. But when you poke into those fringe hypotheses, they generally fall apart upon close inspection. The movements of tectonic plates can be measured by satellites today (they move about as fast as fingernails grow), and the mountain chain that the Hawaiian Islands are the leading edge of, for instance, provides very clear evidence for how the plates move, and provide another line of evidence to support the absolute dates developed by measuring radioactivity.

Not all fringe theory is created equal, and where wealth and power are impacted you will find the most suppression of alternative theory and data, such as in understanding cancer dynamics and treatment, and free energy theory. There is when you begin to see organized suppression being brought to bear, as economic empires are defended. What really happened to the dinosaurs does not threaten any empires today, so the investigations can progress without "national security" and commercial interests fouling the waters. I have encountered many fringe hypotheses that even if accurate did not have much political-economic impact, and certainly nothing remotely like what effective, harmless, and cheap cancer treatments can wreak on the medical establishment, and nothing like what free energy and antigravity technology would do to the world's power structure.

Take the moon landings. If they were faked, it would be newsworthy, but how would it impact anybody's daily lives? I looked long and hard into the moon landings evidence, and I never encountered persuasive evidence of faked moon landings, and a vast amount of robust evidence that showed that we really landed men on the moon. But like Flat Earth "theory" faked moon landings "theory" will likely outlive me.

Take John Kennedy's murder. I had inside information on his murder, and I am certain that Oswald was no lone nut. With what I have seen, I will side with the hypothesis that interests in the military-industrial complex (which Eisenhower warned the USA about) were behind JFK's murder and cover-up, but nobody is ever going to "solve the crime" and put perpetrators behind bars. Probably the key finding that we can take away with us about JFK's murder is that all American presidents since then have been outright puppets, and they know it. The power is not vested in those who sit on the throne. The throne is just for show, as Bucky Fuller noted.

And I am not writing this as some kind of academic, but somebody who was in the FE and related milieus and survived to tell the tale. My fellow travelers, for those who survived the experience, report experiences starkly different than what John Q. Public can see from his cubicle or on TV, and untimely deaths are common. So it is, when you poke around with making Epochal Events happen that will make elites obsolete. Many megalomaniacs are in their midst, and they are not ready to give up their games of power and domination. But cooler heads may prevail.


So, that is another example of discussions that I hope to see as the choir takes shape.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

Hello,

I've been around coal most of my life. And I still have to handle coal when I travel to my parents home. Yes, around here, coal is the main power source that keeps the home warm and to a larger level provides provides some of the electricity.

I've seen coal being mined (from "surface mines" did not dare go into the "hole"). I've seen it transported and broken down. And once it got home, sometimes I would have to break it down even further to get it into storage. Later on, more breaking would happen so it would fit into the stove.

While doing such activities I would find "tree branches" or "tree trunks" embedded into the coal structure :). As a child I though that coal was poured over some poor trees and they were caught in, but later on I learned about the origins of coal.

So to me, is plain as clear day, that the coal I have been handling is pretty organic in nature. If you have ever split wood for fire then you will know how to break down coal as well.

I also understand that are a couple of forms of coal. I've worked with Lignite.