WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is a short chapter, and the next to last one in my upcoming essay. I am shooting for a May publication, which means that it “only” took six months. It is going to weigh in at around 150 pages. I originally thought of it as a book preview, but it is book-length itself.

The 21^st Century: Imperial Rampages, the End of Fossil Fuels, and Ecosystems Collapse

The 2000s opened with a non-event: the Y2K issue. In the USA, the 2000s began with a presidential election decided in a state that a candidate’s brother was governor of (Florida, and Jeb Bush also signed the PNAC manifesto). George Bush the Second won both of his presidential elections with voting irregularities. I saw how Al Gore was all talk, I supported Nader in 2000, as did Herman, but we learned our lesson, and I have not voted for president since. The system is rigged, likely irredeemably, and the 2024 presidential horserace is already an obscene joke, with the same geriatric, corrupt candidates (they are all corrupt, always – it is only a matter of degree – as vested interests run the show) as for the previous election. Husseini is trying to make headway on that issue.

Less than a year into Bush’s presidency, the first major event of the 21^st century happened – the 9/11 terror attacks, which Bush used as carte blanche for an imperial rampage, in the name of “fighting terror” (with terror). As I noted earlier, there is legitimate doubt that bin Laden was the 9/11 mastermind, and nothing would surprise me about 9/11 – anything from an inside job to allowing it to happen, like Pearl Harbor seems to have been (among many incidents like them). Afghanistan was bludgeoned once again, but the big imperial move was invading Iraq, which had nothing to do with 9/11. The WMD canard was the biggest media scandal until the pandemic origin scandal, which is ongoing, but the media will never hold itself accountable. All of Bush’s stated rationales for invading Iraq were lies. Bush, secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, and vice president Dick Cheney were all oil-industry executives. Of course, it was all about the oil. A decade later, even the mainstream media admitted it.

Many millions of lives were shattered and shortened by the USA’s actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Those crimes initiated this century and millennium, and the USA had a hit list of governments to overthrow right after 9/11, which included Iraq, Syria, and Libya, which have all been devastated by American-led military interventions. Iran is the only nation on the hit list that has not been militarily devastated (although the American-instigated war between Iraq and Iran killed hundreds of thousands of Iranians), but they have so much oil that we may see a bona fide World War III over Iran (or Ukraine, or some other imperial hotspot). Sudan and Somalia were also on the hit list. Sudan has long suffered under the West’s neocolonial ministrations, as has Somalia (1, 2) (and other East African nations), while the final nation on the list, Lebanon, has long been under the American thumb.

As I wrote this chapter, Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria, as Israel tries to drag the USA into open warfare in that region, while it commits genocide in Gaza. In one of the oddest situations of the 21^st century, Germany has once again been taken to court over its genocidal behavior, and this time it is over enabling the Israeli genocide in Gaza. No ethnicity has a monopoly on atrocities.

To put our military adventures in Oil Country into perspective, the world reached Peak Oil in 2006, and we are increasingly mining the dregs of Earth’s hydrocarbon deposits, such as with fracking shale oil and mining tar sands. Under current trends, by the end of this century, oil will be gone, likely to never return on Earth (or wait for 100 million years and see what might happen). That explains everything about the West’s involvement there, as well as any other international involvement, as history’s greatest material prize is vied for.

Beginning around the USA’s Peak Oil days in the early 1970s, when the American standard of living began declining, industries moved from the USA, to where wages were far cheaper and labor and environmental laws were lax-to-non-existent. The USA’s economy began to become financialized (called the FIRE economy). Repeated financial scandals have accompanied that process, particularly the savings and loan and junk bond scandals, the Enron scandal, and the financial collapse of 2008, while the Federal Reserve madly printed money and reduced interest rates to zero to try to cover it all up, which most of the West’s central banks did, too, as well as Japan’s. Those nations are all headed toward bankruptcy as their currencies are debased and their debt skyrockets. Worthlessness has always been the fate of fiat currencies, as debasement is the easy way out, for a time. Rome did it on its way to collapse, as have many polities since then. Such actions reflect a decline in real wealth, which is always rooted in energy.

There is no such thing as a free market, a free press, a democracy, or an uncorrupted implementation of the scientific method. They are all nice ideals, but in a world of scarcity and fear, they cannot exist for long, if at all.

As Chomsky noted, by the standards of Nuremberg, all American presidents from Truman onward would have swung at the end of a noose. But unconquered empires are never subjected to meaningful war crimes trials. Similar to how war criminal Kissinger won a Nobel Peace Prize, so did war criminal (1, 2) Barack Obama, and there are other Orwellian Peace Prize recipients, notably some Israelis, such as the mass-murdering terrorist Menachem Begin.

Earth’s largest nation, land-wise, has long been Russia or the Soviet Union, and it has vast natural resources. The Soviet Union also embraced communism (or, at least, a version of it), which made it doubly important to the West, with constant attempts to undermine and control it since 1917. American propaganda has always attacked Russia, except for the 1990s, when the West was able to rape it, and while the Soviet Union was defeating the Nazis. Putin put an end to the West’s rape of Russia, and has been demonized in the West ever since. Russia has been repeatedly invaded by the West since Napoleon, and Hitler’s invasion only has the Mongol and European (globally, but particularly in the Western Hemisphere) invasions to compete with, as far as being history’s most devastating.

Ukraine’s suffering has been immense, and like how the USA used Afghanistan to undermine the Soviet Union, it has used Ukraine and others against Russia or the Soviet Union ever since World War II. The neocons worked long and hard to overthrow Ukraine’s government, to harry Russia. In 2014, it worked. The war in Ukraine is an American triumph, it prominently used neo-Nazis (1), and Putin “took the bait.” The USA is trying to defeat Russia without formally entering the war, as the USA fights “to the last Ukrainian.” Nuclear war is on the table as it has not been since the 1960s, as the USA once again takes a blow torch to the powder keg. The Biden family is up to its eyeballs in the corruption.

In this chapter, I will begin to wax a little “mystically.” One of my favorite mystical sources has stated that for ensouled species that can manipulate their environments, a third of them wipe themselves out. When they do, a third of the time it is through warfare, and two-thirds of the time by destroying their environments, and they do it at exactly the stage of spiritual evolution where humanity is today. But we sure do not need mystical sources to understand that planet Earth is in crisis. Fuller called our home Spaceship Earth, and it is coming closer to crashing each day, even if the USA does not succeed in goading Russia into a nuclear war. Right-wingers are expecting it, for good reason, the real left wonders if it can be avoided, and they are not optimistic.

Humans and Big Ag livestock now account for 96% of mammalian biomass (here is another visual presentation), at the expense of virtually all other mammalian species, many of which have been driven to extinction. We have already killed off half of the coral reefs, and we have reduced plant biomass by half (1), which have primarily been the destroyed forests. But the rise of fossil fuels saved the forests of industrial nations, kind of. Where I happily hike today would have been clear-cut again (and still is), if not for fossil fuels, as we no longer get our energy from razing forests. But as fossil fuels run out, and the “solutions” in the mainstream are not solutions at all, we’ll see how much of the forests survive. The only mainstream energy solution with promise is fusion. Cold fusion was fraudulently dismissed and hot fusion is a long way off, but it seems to be a Plan B of the global elite, as an expensive and elite-controlled solution that may save capitalism and their global dominance. Will we exterminate ourselves through warfare, environmental destruction, or both?

There is only one solution to this situation: harmlessly produced and used abundant energy, which will permanently banish poverty, crime, war, and environmental devastation. The technology to produce such energy is older than I am, but is sequestered from public awareness and use by the global elite. Anybody in the field for long at the high levels knows this. Fuller said that ending scarcity was the only solution, and I agree, which is the subject of this essay’s final chapter.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I was driven from my sleep to write this, at 4:30 AM (I was composing it from about 2:30 onward, I would guess). I am working on the final chapter of my upcoming essay, and was in the middle of writing about why the people I seek are so rare: almost nobody cares and is awake. It is literally that simple. I have seen mystical explanations for this, and I’ll buy them, but I found myself thinking of my awakening and the awakenings of the pals that I have met over my journey.

I am a member of history’s most privileged demographic group: a white, male American professional baby boomer. But it was not all wonderful. I was raised in a racist and bigoted household, like so many of my peers, and I left home as kind of a rube. But, to the positive, I was raised to be a scientist from the time that I could walk, had my mystical awakening the same year as my cultural awakening, when I spent the summer in Europe, and it was the same year that I got my first energy dreams, when my first professional mentor began making waves during the Oil Crisis after inventing the world’s best engine for powering an automobile.

I was a Boy Scout by nature, and was a raging idealist with a zeal for learning. That explosive combination was in large measure responsible for my journey. When I had my first existential crisis at age 19, and that voice in my head changed my studies from science to business, maybe I should not have listened. But I dove deeply into my capitalist studies, drinking that Kool-Aid and trying to square it with my mystical studies (likely an impossible task ). I got those record test scores, and was seemingly destined for great things.

I now look back at a speech that my accounting department chairman made the week before class began in my first quarter at the university, and marvel at the charming naïveté of it. The gist of his speech was that the accounting profession did not need governmental regulation, and that it was able to regulate itself (in other words, we were the good guys). Two years later, he was the professor of my final accounting class. I was his paper grader and tutor, golden boy that I was, but he told a joke in class that puzzled me when I heard it, and it betrayed how he really felt about our profession. The joke was as follows. There was an opening for an accountant at a company, and they interviewed candidates. The candidates were asked one question: “What is two-plus-two?” The accountant who got the job answered, “What do you want it to be?” I remember being befuddled by that “joke,” and really did not understand it. Looking back, it was a hint of what was to come.

Even while in school, I could see how the tax system was kind of a scam, and vowed to never become a tax accountant. In one of the many ironic lessons that my unseen “friends” set me up for, I graduated during the worst recession since World War II, did not want to work in LA, where the big accounting firms had laid out the red carpet for me, and ended up doing nothing but income taxes for a small CPA firm in Seattle in my career’s first months, where they laid me off a few weeks after the filing deadline. I crawled back to California, defeated, and began my career in LA the next year. I was thrust into an urban hell, and my three years in LA were my life’s unhappiest. But I began waking up. In my first class as an auditor, I asked the existential question: “How did our activities benefit our society?” That question is answered on the first day of college auditing class: we were financial policemen who ensured that profits (the Holy Grail of capitalism) were not overstated. Everybody laughed at my question, as if I was a slow learner, and I laughed along with them. Two years later, I saw how the partner who answered my question really felt about our profession. It was in the middle of the audit of the world’s largest savings and loan bank.

I was a lost waif in the office that was put on that audit, which nobody was volunteering for, as lawsuits were flying over the previous audits of that bank. It turned out to be the biggest scandal that the accounting firm Arthur Andersen had to that time, and the next one, the Enron Scandal, put them out of business. I could get into illuminating detail about some of the events, but the moment that stuck with me was like that joke that the department chairman told. The partner who ran the audit told me that we would have approved the same phony financial statements that Arthur Andersen had approved (two-plus-two was whatever the client wanted it to be). Like with that joke in class, that partner’s confession puzzled me. I did not understand what he meant until the Savings and Loan Crisis became a scandal four years later. All of the big savings and loans banks were cooking their books, and all of the auditors played along, letting two-plus-two be whatever their clients said it was. It did not become a public issue until after the 1988 presidential election, as both candidates kept it quiet until after the election, as both camps were into the scandal up to their eyeballs.

That month was also the turning point of my life, as Mr. Deputy made faces at me when I was on the witness stand. Years later, I studied the Savings and Loan Scandal, and somewhere along the line I finally understood. Auditors cannot render independent opinions when the people that they audit hire them. How obvious, in retrospect, but it was the elephant in the room that everybody ignored, and that fatal conflict of interest persists to this day, making my former profession worthless.

My days with Dennis comprised the education of my lifetime, and 90% of my lifetime’s learning curve was completed by age 30 (when I was on the witness stand), but in looking back, I began learning a lot about the ugly underbelly of our society long before I met Dennis. I knew about my close relative’s employment as a spook for Henry Kissinger. One of my LA friends was an aspiring filmmaker, and he regaled me with Hollywood war stories. The slime factor was high in Hollywood, even putting aside the casting couch. Another pal was an aspiring screenwriter who became a porn movie producer to make ends meet, waiting for his big break (which I believe never came). The star of his movies was an 18-year-old Quaalude addict, a beautiful young woman who moved to LA to become an actress, but who met the fate of many who come to Hollywood. One of my later roommates spent his career in LA as a writer, and I financially helped him several times between his sporadic paydays. Half of my LA friends were either in entertainment, had been in it, or were trying to break into it. Oh, the stories I heard over the years, of the criminality, debauchery, drugs, orgies, and the like. What a den of iniquity LA was, and I hope that I never see it again.

While my days with Dennis were the education of my lifetime, my learning curve was far from over, and while Dennis was in solitary confinement, I met Gary Wean, whose advice was critical in my springing Dennis from jail a couple of months later. Gary heard from John Tower three weeks after JFK’s murder that Oswald did not do it. JFK was murdered in a backfired CIA operation, and it was all covered up. While Gary was giving me his advice, I worked at a medical lab in LA, which was being attacked by the same kind of corrupt government/media alliance that attacked my company with Dennis in Ventura. I was being beaten over the head by our society’s evil and corruption, and I have to thank my “friends” for that. I saw many lives shattered and shortened, and the only reason why I survived those years with my sanity intact was my youth and Boy Scout idealism.

It was only after all of the real-world education that I began my years of study, which never ended. I quickly began learning that what I saw was “normal.” It began with my media studies, at Ed and Noam’s scholarly feet, and I soon read Ralph McGehee’s memoirs. Ralph was a fellow naïve Boy Scout, an All-American football player who was a prized CIA recruit. It took Ralph over 15 years to finally understand what the CIA was all about, and Ralph barely survived his awakening moment. Dennis had a similar awakening moment, after his Vietnam days, which he also barely survived.

Looking back, my awakening really began when my family changed its diet to whole food to save my father’s health, when I was 12. Nearly the entire medical system does not deserve to exist. It is a huge racket that feeds off of misery and death while raking in trillions, and the masses obediently file to their deaths. I had to see it to believe it.

I became quite the mystical student after my mystical awakening, and used those studies to try to make sense of what I was seeing. As I looked back over my studies, even before I met Dennis, I could see hints of what I was about to learn. I had a headache every waking hour of my brief tenure as a tax accountant, which I now know was my first of many bouts with stress. In my LA days, my drinking problems blossomed, and I often staggered home from my days at work, trying to recover from the trauma and bewilderment of my workdays.

One day, I told one of my closest college friends how attractive just driving a truck seemed, as their lives were simple. My friend agreed, and said that at the end of day, as he would be at a bar (work-related socializing), he would see blue-collar guys hoisting their beers, seemingly happy, and it looked like they had the better deal. Around the same time, however, I read Autobiography of Yogi, in which the author asked his guru the same question. His spiritual studies and discipline were so demanding, and he saw the working class seemingly happy in their inebriated states after their work days, and their lives looked comparatively attractive. But his guru replied that however attractive their lives may have seemed, they “slept the fitful sleep of ignorance.” It took me many years to finally understand what that guru meant.

When I finally woke up through my journey with Dennis, and learning from Ed, Noam, Howard, Ralph, and other great scholars and the heroically awakened (such as Brian), I slowly came to find that virtually nobody around me in my daily life was awake or wanted to be. They had found the safety of the herd, or so they thought, and that was good enough for them.

I read of the zombies at Langley, but a pal recently informed me that all of Washington’s bureaucracies were filled with burned-out imperial zombies who counted their days to retirement. I guess that that should not have surprised me. I saw these dynamics over and over, in every big industry and profession that I encountered. It is a human universal.

Anyway, to cut a very long story short, one of my favorite mystical sources stated that what I discovered was normal, as almost no souls awaken in a lifetime, but shuffle through their lives in the “waking sleep,” and learn their souls’ lessons through the painful fires of karma. It is a legitimate path, and all roads lead home to the godhead, but what a lonely feeling to be awake in our world, to see past the indoctrination and conditioning that all humans are subjected to, to develop societal “cohesion” so that their societies can survive in a world of scarcity and fear. I am trying to end the scarcity-and-fear game, but maybe I am in the wrong universe.

In the end, I suppose that my life’s work is showing the world that love, joy, and living in abundance and enlightenment is also a legitimate path, and arguably more fun. Who is with me?

Back to bed, three hours later…

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This morning, I was inspired to race to the finish line, or, at least, one of them.

Below is my initial draft of my upcoming essay’s final chapter. It currently weighs in at 134 pages, but I have a huge mess of links and notes to go through, and the “final” version will likely be around 150 pages, and then I will send it my team that helps me edit stuff like this. They will be at it for weeks, I’ll be chewing on everything, too, and I hope to have it published by the end of May. Then, we’ll see. I may try to do some interviews again, but my big push will be after I publish a book, which is some years away. I have a lot of posting to catch up on, too, largely about books I have recently read.

Best,

Wade

The Fifth Epoch or Oblivion?

When I began writing this essay, I had been working on a new essay for years, and will resume working on it after I publish this essay. I had hoped to publish it this year, but writing this essay will likely delay it. I was 15 when the USA had its first oil crisis, and most of my free energy colleagues and fellow travelers could trace their involvement in free energy to that crisis, which ended humanity’s most prosperous era. When I became Dennis’s partner, I began having visions of what I call the Fifth Epoch, and it would obviously be founded on harmlessly produced and abundant energy. We stumbled into the free energy issue through the commerce route, but it was easy to understand the dominance of the energy issue in our lives. I did not know it at the time, but my days of study were a key part of my journey to becoming a comprehensivist. I did not understand what that meant until I was introduced to Fuller’s work. Fuller stated that energy is wealth, and that if we priced oil at the benefit that humanity received from it, it would cost a million dollars a barrel. I have tried to make that clearer in this essay.

In my upcoming essay on humanity’s Epochal transitions, my central point is that without exploiting new energy sources, the Epochs of the human journey would not have happened, and we would still be bipedal apes with relatively small brains. Below I summarize the energy breakthroughs that allowed each Epoch to transpire.

Walking upright is far more energy efficient than the four-limbed way that today’s great apes travel on the ground, and it allowed the human line’s hands to become more dexterous. That surely contributed, and may have been solely responsible for, the crafting of stone tools and other sophisticated tools that did not survive in the artifactual record. I have made those first crafted stone tools the line of demarcation to initiate the Epochs of the human journey. It is no coincidence that the human line’s brain began growing at the same time. The subsequent Epochs were based on these energy breakthroughs:

• The First Epoch, between the first australopiths and behaviorally modern humans, was made possible by the improving toolset that increased food availability, as humans became superpredators; cooking food was a key event, and maybe the key event;
• The Second Epoch was fueled by Earth’s megafauna, mainly mammals, and was an acceleration of the African and Asian megafauna extinctions inflicted by Homo erectus; without that easy meat, humanity would not have conquered Earth like it did; our ancestors may still have conquered Earth, but it would have taken far longer – easy meat fueled Earth’s conquest;
• The warming of Earth in this interglacial interval, and its increasing carbon dioxide levels that helped plant growth, combined with the extinction of Earth’s easy meat and Malthusian population levels, led to the domestication of plants and animals, which made sedentary life feasible for all humans and led to the rise of civilization; I call that 10,000-year period the Third Epoch;
• The Fourth Epoch was made possible by the use of fossil fuels, which England was the first nation to exploit like it did, but it was part of a several-century trend of tapping new energy sources, particularly wind and water power, like no other culture ever did; it was no coincidence that the Industrial Revolution began in the European culture that was conquering Earth;
• We are quickly running out of fossil fuels, just like how we depleted the easy meat in Africa and tropical Asia in the First Epoch, how we ran out of it globally in the Second Epoch, how we decimated forests and fertile soils in the Third Epoch, and we stand poised on the brink of either riding free energy technology, which is older than I am, into what I call the Fifth Epoch, or we all take the fast train to oblivion.

In the 37 years since I became Dennis’s partner, it has been quite an education on how people react to the idea of such an energy breakthrough, which would lead to the first absolute abundance in the human journey. There is even a popular term for it: post-scarcity economy. However, far more than 99% of the reactions that I have encountered have been variations of denial, fear, paranoia, complacency, hopelessness, anger, megalomania, and so on. Most people are ignorant of the issue, almost nobody has productive reactions when they encounter the situation, and that is the biggest problem of all. We are the enemy, not the global elite. Focusing on the machinations of the global elite, both real and imagined, is an exercise in delusion and futility. The only productive awareness in this milieu is focused on bringing forward the solution. The rest is noise, which often traps people into meaningless behaviors, as they hack at branches at best.

What I have called retail politics is useless for solving this Epochal dilemma, which will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far. Today’s politicians do not make the important decisions. Reshuffling the deck of scarcity in favor of their patrons is their primary role, and they will be of no use whatsoever in helping establish what I have called the Fifth Epoch. But they are far from alone, as no profession or existing organization is going to help, either.

This essay has chronicled the journey of life on Earth and the human journey, using the best and most recent findings that I am aware of. Although some might be shocked by the information, be skeptical of some of it, want to attack it or attack me, it is presently the best scientific/scholarly approximation of the truth that I could find. I don’t expect all of it to be seen the same way in a hundred years or even a decade, but I doubt that the trends discussed in this essay will change much in their basic thrust.

Humans are social animals, driven to survive and reproduce, as all life is. I got my anthropology training in the real world before I began my days of study, and about all that they did was help me see how we got to where we are today. Human behaviors, to a degree, reflect our heritage as social animals, and it was educational and could even be startling to see so many human behaviors in primates, especially chimps and bonobos. Bonobos enjoyed a relative abundance that chimps did not have, and it is reflected in their culture and biology, as they had a million years of evolution to adapt to relative abundance.

Chimps are hundreds of times more aggressive and violent than humans are, and it was a long evolutionary journey that bred out our aggressiveness and violence, although that is relative. Comfortable Westerners can barely imagine the daily privation and resultant violence and oppression that dominated the human journey until only the past few centuries. Hunter-gatherers killed their infants, slaughtered their neighbors, and stole their women, which was the root of slavery, although chimps do the same thing.

Those violent hunter-gatherer practices gave way to arguably milder forms when plants and animals were domesticated, which led to civilization in places, but slavery became big business and wars became larger, which reflected the larger populations. Societies became gentler and more humane, but that is again relative. When domestication provided a vast energy surplus compared to what nomadic hunter-gatherers experienced, then we had the rise of people who violently and cleverly appropriated their disproportionate share of that surplus, as elites rose.

The masses alternately revered and resented elites, and there was a constant “churn” of rising and falling civilizations, and they plundered each other when they could. Ornate ideologies to justify violence and oppression inflicted on outgroups likely came with behavioral modernity, to put an ideological veneer on those scarcity-and-survival-based decisions. Racism is just another way to identify outgroups and justify their ill-treatment.

With the radical changes that accompanied industrialization, especially the end of childhood death, life became immensely more humane, but again, it was a matter of degree, and it was a fitful process. The song of scarcity still plays in industrial societies, but is more of a background hum than an oppressive daily reality, when survival was always in question.

After many years of study in my awakened state in the West (I wrote this while drafting this chapter), it is no longer very mysterious to me why Europe conquered the world when they were able to, why the USA is an empire that pretends that it is not one, or why billionaire “philanthropists” are almost completely phony, as they pursue their egocentric ways, manage their public images, and engage in social engineering that they benefit from. That we have a global elite that operates in the shadows, who are largely psychopaths, is also not too surprising. My statement on these “conspiratorial” situations that hold humanity in thrall is that they are 1% conspiracy and 99% complicity. All of the global rackets have the same basic sociology, in that the people in them largely unwittingly abet the evil that is inflicted on humanity, as their focus is on keeping their jobs. But it is at least partly intentional, and is easily explained by the lies that people tell themselves daily, to live with their consciences as they pursue their self-interest.

Only the naïve Boy and Girl Scouts eventually traveled to Oz and peeked behind the curtain, as they did not settle for the pabulum of our indoctrination and conditioning (which all societies do to their children, as it helps societies survive and prosper) and pursued the truth, in ways that were sanity-and-life-risking. I was one of those naïve Boy Scouts who believed in the Easter Bunny (or, at least looked for it) long after my colleagues pushed those stories to the back of their minds, like believing in Santa Claus, although few were able to consciously admit it. I asked the most important question: did our society really benefit from our activities? The answer was no, but it paid well. Nobody wanted to hear the real answer and considered the question silly.

Similarly, nearly everything that medical professionals do is either worthless or harms the patients, often to their deaths, but it is the vanishingly rare medical professional who admits it or even wants to consider the question (and those who refuse to remain silent have hell to pay). Similarity, the American military is the greatest force of evil on Earth, but Americans are trained to worship it as the light of the world. We attack and destroy nations on behalf of imperialist-capitalist interests, we portray the leaders of the targeted nations to Hitler (1, 2), and then we kill them while bludgeoning those nations, often while shattering and shortening millions of lives, especially those of children. Ironically, Hitler’s progenitors were held up to me as heroes, saints, and fathers of my great nation, and we eagerly protected and hired Nazis by the thousands. We didn’t just overlook their death camp activities, but hired many of them because of them. In every direction that people can look, this pattern repeats itself, in every industry and profession, as we make our planet uninhabitable, while inventing and swallowing lies at every turn.

Idealists, asking their “naïve” questions, who eventually awoke to the grim truth that few dare think about, are the only people fit to right humanity’s ship, and they are the people that I seek.

When we discovered the depth of the lies that we were raised with, some of us nearly did not survive our moments of truth (1, 2). But we reached levels of awareness almost never seen in the world today, and some of us did not stay quiet about it. There were often moments of righteous indignation and even disgust, but the best of them got over it and relinquished any judgment of the situation. It did not mean that they did not want to change it, but they came to accept what they saw. To wax mystically again, most souls on Earth sleepwalk through their lives, herd animals from cradle to grave, which brings up Brian’s question of whether humanity is really a sentient species. It is a fair question, and I call humanity semi-sentient; the potential is there for all of us, but it is rarely realized, and it must have been a far rarer achievement in the previous Epochs.

I doubt that I need to write much more about it, but we have our toes over the edge of the abyss, in many ways. Every day I read about the latest outrage, whether it is the escalating medical racketeering, the wars that my great nation inflicts or abets, our collapsing ecosystems, the media’s incessant lying, the absurdities and obscenities of retail politics, the self-serving antics of billionaire “philanthropists,” and on and on and on. The middle ground of muddling through our existential problems, carpeting Earth with windmills, solar panels, or even fission reactors, is swiftly disappearing, to the point where it is becoming increasingly likely that it will be the Fifth Epoch or oblivion for humanity.

I have been envisioning what I call the Fifth Epoch since I became Dennis’s partner, and the basic bones of it – the end of scarcity – were laid down in the 1980s. Long before I invented the term “Fifth Epoch,” I described it in some detail around 2000. My version a decade ago put a little more meat on the bones, and last year, I wrote an essay on what the first century of the Fifth Epoch might look like. I do not regard accounts such as this (a visit to the Fifth Epoch or something like it) to be fiction, as I have known psychonauts who have made similar journeys, and such reports have helped inspire me over the years. Make no mistake – I want to live in those worlds.

The basic upshot of the Fifth Epoch is that there will be no more scarcity, poverty, adversity, crime, warfare, disease, or environmental destruction. None of it will make sense any longer, especially economic sense. Even visionary works such as Star Trek barely hint at what is coming. But it won’t come unless a sufficient number of humans attain the requisite integrity and sentience that can overcome humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression. It may seem like a tall order, but really, the task is not that overwhelming. The technical feat of delivering free energy technology to humanity is comparatively trivial. Such technology, at a commercial level, is older than I am, and working prototypes have been built in basements and spare bedrooms. The technology is not really the issue, nor is the organized suppression; humanity’s lack of integrity and sentience is the problem that dwarfs everything else.

If we can get over our self-created hump, I think that we are going to see a new kind of human, and the human potential will begin to be realized in ways that people today can barely imagine. When abundance and love reign, instead of scarcity and fear, levels of enlightenment will be attained that are currently reserved for religious figures such as Jesus and Buddha. And if it won’t quite work out that way, I sure would like to give it a shot. It sure beats what I see promoted by the media, governments, “philanthropists,” and “visionaries.”

When I became Dennis’s partner, we did not even know that there was a free energy field, in our ignorance, and I had never heard of Nikola Tesla. For a brief time, our Ventura operation became a global mecca for inventors and activists, until we were wiped out. I learned my life’s most important lessons in those days, and came to learn about our professional ancestors. While our treatment was extreme, it was really not unusual in the field. The global elite used most of their bag of tricks on us, and it was effective, but we miraculously lived to try another day.

Not only did I become familiar with the free energy milieu and its history, but I came to see that it had been in a state of arrested development for a century, going back at least to Tesla. To this day, the free energy field is stuck in that state of arrested development, focused on inventors with their gizmos, scientists with their theories, promoters, and who all bang on the doors of the rich and powerful, hoping for help, when the best that they can really hope for are the golden handcuffs. I have tried, witnessed, or heard about countless failed efforts to crack this nut, and I have summarized dozens of doomed approaches, which free energy newcomers invariably try, to life-ruining and shortening effect all-too-often. It is like watching a parade of insanity, and I have done my best to ignore that milieu for many years. As Brian said, the people in today’s free energy field are not the people who will succeed.

When the dust cleared from the Ventura disaster, I began to take stock of the lessons I learned. I then had strong doubts that the businessman’s path to free energy would work, that inventors had the right stuff, that Americans had the right stuff (but neither did any other nation), and I suspected that that the mass movement mentality was unworkable for this task. Dennis appealed to the three primary population management ideologies in the USA: capitalism, nationalism, and organized religion, but it took me many years to realize what they had in common (scarcity and fear) and why they would not work. I had not articulated it yet, when Dennis finally coaxed me back to work with him in 1996, and I should have turned down his invitation. However, my strong doubts about the inventor/businessman’s path to free energy in the 1980s became a certainty after my second brief stint with Dennis, and I still nearly went to prison for my trouble.

I became Brian’s biggest fan that year, and eventually carried Brian’s spears, which were fortunately far lighter than Dennis’s. While Dennis tried to whip up a movement among the USA’s right wing, Brian tried it with the left. Once again, nobody was home, and like with Dennis, Brian’s most formidable adversaries were his “allies,” who kicked him out of the organization that he founded (where had I seen that before? ). I have watched Greer’s efforts since 1997, and he was trying to whip up a mass movement based on ET contact, his elite contacts, and beseeching politicians (and his effort today). He is still at it, and from what I hear from the inside, his latest effort is going to be capitalist, and he is trying to ally with Hollywood and social media influencers. Sigh. While he is doing some of the right things, I see so many weaknesses in his approach (although he seems to have learned some of the lessons from his previous naïve forays into the field) that I do not give it much chance (I don’t give any mass-movement effort much chance)), but I would love to be wrong.

In his later years, Brian taught a class on what he called the Four Cultures of the Phoenix, which were comprised of:

• Truth Seekers;
• Deep Ecologists;
• Pragmatists;
• Spiritualists.

In the ideal world, everybody is a truth seeker, but it is far from the case today. My Easter Bunny question in auditing class was a truth-seeking beginner’s question, but it was the question that nobody really wanted to hear. Scientists and scholars are theoretically truth seekers, but as Chomsky pointed out when he went public with his political stance, most intellectuals fail in that task. Ed Herman and Howard Zinn were truth seekers of the highest order, as are many of a vanishing species: the investigative journalist. Even conspiracists are truth seekers in their own way. All ideologies can attract truth seekers, but the more honest seekers will always come away disappointed.

Brian’s deep ecologists are also called environmentalists. Brian, like the rest of us, soon found that environmentalists treat free energy like the enemy. All free energy newcomers think that environmentalists would be natural allies, to only be shocked at the hostile reception that they received. Most reactions reflected an addiction to their scarcity-based frames of reference (which virtually all humans suffer from), while others were phony to begin with, on the elite payroll to appear to be concerned about the environment, as long as the “solutions” served elite interests above all.

Brian’s pragmatists are the “do something” people, such as free energy inventors and entrepreneurs such as Dennis. Dennis is the Indiana Jones of Free Energy, but nobody else came close to his level of the game. Nearly all free energy inventors are trying to get rich and famous, and the entrepreneurs are almost all going for the big capitalist kill, seeking to become trillionaires from free energy.

Brian’s spiritualists are those who had their mystical awakenings, rejected the dogmas of all organized religions, and see physical reality as just one tiny part of Creation. They see that materialism is the religion of the Fourth Epoch, and that materialists pretend that it is not a religion. Materialism’s inquisitorial foot soldiers have been blinded by their fanaticism, for those who are not on the elite payroll in some way, to enforce the establishment’s framework.

Brian’s point about those cultures is that while truth seekers, deep ecologists, and pragmatists can play important roles, their perspectives are all stunted in one way or another. Only spiritualists can see the big picture and provide the ballast for a successful free energy effort. I have long written that my jury is still kind of out on whether people need to have mystical awakenings to be useful for a task like mine, but Brian was probably right: unless people have had mystical awakenings, their awareness is too stunted to really help much.

Brian’s opinion was that a combination of the Four Cultures of the Phoenix, grounded in the spiritualists, was the only path with promise, as it would focus on combined positive intention, seeking the goal, refusing to get caught up in elite manipulations, retail politics, self-seeking, and other self-defeating distractions.

In the end, that is what I am really attempting, to unite those Four Cultures and focus on the task at hand, which is bringing free energy to public awareness and use. It is essentially Fuller for the 21^st century. I am currently seeking people who can learn to hit the notes of abundance and a healed humanity and planet, to attract others like us. As I have stated plenty, I can’t help with the caring or awakening, but my work since 1996 has been to try make the intellectual lift easier, so that the choir will not be limited to geniuses and scientists. If that is the case, then I doubt that my approach will work.

I have been told that my choir will likely be mostly people like me: white male Western professionals – as we are comfortable enough and educated enough to be able to master the material well enough to hit the notes. I hope not, but that may be the case. I have encountered few scientifically literate women, which is a blot on our culture, and I see that as a vestige of the Third Epoch, as women still have to fight for basic rights, such as reproductive decisions with their bodies, and minorities have similar problems, as they struggle for equality in a white-dominated world. I see it every day in my life. Like it or not, it looks like a tiny portion of humanity will have to carry this ball over the finish line, but mine is the lamb’s path, not the warrior’s.

This essay was originally intended to be about ten pages long, but it took the typical trajectory of my writing projects, fool that I am. As it began to balloon into this essay, I tried to make it a preview of my planned book, which I hope to publish by age 70, after I get a lot of essay work done (some new essays, but also a site revision, to get it all aligned with my current thought). For those who aspire to sing with me, they can today at the Avalon forum, on my thread. Some longtime pals have joined my choir, but there are only a few, and most of my pals hang back in the shadows, which I understand. It is not easy to stand on the global stage with me and hit those notes. But once I get that writing done (before I am too old to do it ), I then plan to spend most of my time hunting for singers and being visible enough so that they can find me and the choir. As the choir grows, it will attract those who have yearned for that song for their entire lives. We’ll see how it goes.

Peace on Earth, goodwill to all,

Wade