WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This morning I will take a little break from evolution and geophysics. I have been a reading junkie from the time I could walk, there is a bookstore next to my office, and I go there almost every day. I often pick up a magazine for reading on the bus home, to take a break from the latest books I have been digesting, and this week I picked up Wired magazine, which I do about once a year.

Wired is one of those popular magazines where the writers have a hip style. It usually focuses on the latest high tech developments (at least for White Science! ), and emerging sociological trends relating to high tech. Whenever I read Wired, there is usually a story or two that makes me nod my head, thinking, “Yes, they are moving in a good direction.” For instance, in this month’s issue (August 2012), they featured a robotic strawberry picker. It uses microwaves to determine which strawberries are ripe, and then it gently picks them with a robotic arm. This is one of the farms of the future, putting an end to human stoop labor. It is an embryonic version of this farm:

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

Another article was on near-misses and challenging the all-too-human response that it was a success because disaster was averted. At NASA and in air travel, near-disasters are now treated like almost failures, and they are devoting a great deal of effort to studying near-disasters as a way to avoid actual disasters. There has been an 83% drop in air fatalities in the past decade in the USA by taking that approach.

I see stuff like that and I think that there may be hope for us. Another article was how the former president of McDonald’s is trying to make a fast food chain that is green, fair-trade, gourmet, and nutritious. It is all about making a tighter supply chain, being smart about it.

This was an area, however, where it was obvious how energy scarcity is the basic constraint that shapes everything about that enterprise. With abundant, clean energy, most of the reason for that enterprise to exist would go away. When I examine efforts like that, the energy-scarcity nature of their enterprise not only becomes evident, but it also becomes obvious that energy scarcity is the root assumption of capitalism. Even in our industrial age, with so much energy available:

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

it is still an energy scarcity paradigm. They aren’t making any more of what we are wringing our energy from, and the fast-depleting fossil fuels make the logic of the USA genocidally invading hydrocarbon country:

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

painfully clear to anybody who is not waving their flags. In the end, capitalism is all about profits, which means that somebody who controls the game rakes off the gravy. Greed and fear are actually exalted in capitalist ideology:

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

But those are dysfunctional responses to scarcity, just like with all the other dominant ideologies:

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

As Scott mentioned in my first interview with him:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=dYth4...feature=relmfu

when he asks people what they would do if they lived in abundance, the number one answer was “I don’t know.” The conditioning and indoctrination systems are so effective that most people cannot begin to imagine what the end of scarcity looks like.

After most of a lifetime of thinking about these issues, here is what I think is very likely if we abolish scarcity. But, as always, you aren’t going to abolish scarcity without abolishing energy scarcity, which is where FE comes in. Way too many New Agers and others try to play the abundance game without addressing why we have scarcity. The foundation needs to be laid before the house can be built. And in the current environment, that foundation is sure not going to be built by tinkerers. If you follow that FE tinkerer post that Ilie moved to another thread yesterday, it is the same old story, ad infinitum, where some tinkerer is going to change the world with his gizmo. There have been literally tens of thousands of efforts like that (and those are the ones who really had something – most really don’t), and none have worked yet. Godzilla has not even rolled out of bed yet, for efforts like that. On those related threads, one of the Asian tinkers who had great plans, which have been posted on this thread, had his stuff seized by the police last year after a big announcement. How familiar.

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

I really don’t want to watch, when I hear about another tinkerer who is going to change with the world with his gizmo.

If enough of us can all push in the same direction, we can get over the hump, and what might the other side look like? Imagine that you did not have to do anything. All of your immediate needs were provided for, because FE and the attendant technologies provide all the food, shelter, clothing, transportation, and communication you would need with almost no human effort, and no impact on the ecosystems. If you wanted to lie in bed all day long, you could. But who would really do that? Again, when scarcity is gone, people will likely move up Maslow’s Hierarchy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%...archy_of_needs

a few notches, like Bucky predicted. They would be more into self-realization than survival, and what almost certainly comes with that change is an end of egocentrism and more caring about the whole. There will be more big picture thinking, because people will care more about the whole than their slice of the pie. Greed will cease to become the primary motivation of the dominant system, and people will instead be motivated to improve the lot of everything. I am looking for those people now, but they virtually do not exist in a world of scarcity; that is why they are needles in haystacks today. With FE and abundance, they won’t be.

So, will there be social organization where people cooperate on huge projects, like the Manhattan and Apollo projects? I think that there will be, but their motivation will not be to win a war or a nationalistic race, but to make life better for everybody. Again, in a world of scarcity, such a world is literally unimaginable to the masses, but in a world of abundance, what makes people tick is going to change, and radically. Getting from here to there is the hard part, and when I read of that fast food dream in Wired, it is inspiring and sad at the same time, because I see what could be if FE and the related technologies escaped the organized suppression, and the impetus behind that fast food dream would be realized on a level where the dreamer cannot even imagine today. Making it imaginable is my goal.

Off to work now.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I want to do a little more on the Wired magazine issue that I just read. The cover story was Steve Jobs, and if entrepreneurs really wanted to be like him. Jobs was all-too-human, and will history will put him in there with Ford, Edison, and Disney. They weren’t saints, either. Jobs ran his companies like dictatorships, like Ford, Edison and Disney did. Capitalism is by nature dictatorial. The owners call the shots. But what Jobs understood was that he needed to work from the consumer backward. He was ruthlessly devoted to making the best user experience that he could. It was the opposite of what Microsoft did, which was to use its monopoly power to ram its shabby products down the public’s throat. There was an article in that Wired issue that cheered the thought that Microsoft was due for a comeback, and the article was titled, “Be evil.” The subtitle was, “The old Microsoft was never afraid to knife its friends in the back.” Boy, there is something to cheer about. I live next to Microsoft’s campus, and my neighbors all work for Microsoft. Interesting times…

But the article that I want to focus on for this post is one on rabies and how some people survived it. The article frankly acknowledged that there is great medical uncertainty about rabies today. This broaches one of the most difficult issues that I have grappled with on my site. What is disease? Is the germ theory accurate? There is far more than the wacky fringe involved with that issue. Pleomorphic subcellular dynamics have been seen for 150 years:

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

and microscopes have been developed that have achieved “impossible” optical resolutions that show life turning from viral to bacterial to fungal forms:

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

and surviving micrographs show that Rife’s device got his “impossible” resolutions:

http://www.xenophilia.com/zb0012a.htm

and Naessens’s scope also does so today:

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

Those scopes can see life processes that White Science is completely oblivious to today, because it does not have the tools to see life processes at those resolutions. It is like how Galileo’s telescope showed in no uncertain terms that not everything orbited Earth. It took a long time for observation to overturn dogma. In sometimes startling ways, it is the same today, and arguably worse.

If the basics of life processes are not understood, how can the “medicines” of the day hope to really help? There is precious little evidence that vaccination gets any credit for vanquishing the diseases that are claimed for it:

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

Improvements in sanitation and nutrition get lion’s share of the credit, not vaccination. I am not saying that Rife, Naessens, and Béchamp had all the answers, but entire lines of investigation, lines that can upend the dominant paradigm have been buried, and Rife’s case was particularly egregious. Fishbein was basically a gangster:

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

and he wiped out many doctors and their cures with his racketeering.

What the “right” paradigm looks like, I am not entirely sure, but I have my guesses:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/medicine.htm#paradigm1

and what a joy it should be to explore those frontiers. One speculation around the somatid is that it may be where the divide between life and non-life is. Instead of speculation on what may have happened nearly four billion years ago, the situation can be explored literally right under our noses. I hope that I live to see the findings of those microscopes even acknowledged in the halls of orthodoxy. So far, orthodoxy has acted like Galileo’s tormentors.

Back to the age of birds and mammals soon.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, back to mammals and birds. Studying the fossil record, using new tools such as mass spectrometers, and studying the geophysics of the moving continents (including tools such as paleomagnetism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleomagnetism ), and many other areas has led to multidisciplinary synthesis that have allowed for new understandings of the history of life on Earth.

The line that led to mammals diverged from its other reptilian relatives almost from the time that reptiles appeared:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post528765

From more than 300 million years ago to 200 million years ago, when what are now called mammals appeared:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal#The_mammals_appear

those reptiles were evolving. The proto-mammals ceded center-stage to the other reptiles, who dominated for about 250 million years. Our ancestors lived on the margins, eating insects at night, catching small fish. As I stated before,

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post530020

reproductive strategies were based on cost-benefit situations. An evolutionist will usually say that there is no evidence that anybody planned or designed it, but it was just a case a natural selection favoring the most successful strategies. Again, the origins of life and speciation are two of the most poorly understood areas of evolutionary theory. Whatever the mechanisms of speciation will ultimately prove to be, the confidence is high that speciation is a fact, and that geographical isolation is a key aspect of speciation. Members of a species get isolated from their fellow members, and they adapt to their geographically-isolated environment, and diverge from their root stock and go their own way, becoming a different species than their home population. A species is defined as one that can successfully reproduce fertile offspring. Today, you see humans creating new animals like ligers:

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

and mules:

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

but the females are almost always infertile, and the males are always infertile. So, a Liger is not really a species, but more of a human-induced curiosity.

I won’t belabor what defines a mammal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammal#...shing_features

as we all learn that in school. Mammals can sweat, and milk glands are modified sweat glands. Some mammals still lay eggs:

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

while marsupials give birth to tiny, unviable offspring, that they nurse to viable size. Because of that parental care that mammals give to their offspring, mammals are far more social than reptiles are. The mother-offspring relationship is the closest one in the animal kingdom. There are “investment” theories of that outcome, but I don’t want to get too clinical here. There are mysteries and mystical aspects of that situation that White Science will likely never do justice to. And what interests many people is that mammalian brains are different, and placental mammals have marked brain differences from marsupials and monotremes:

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

While insects can form pretty amazing social organization, especially the hive insects:

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

and some spiders:

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

mammals are generally highly social, as are birds, and so-called intelligence has something to do with it. In fact, a leading theory of human brain development was that it was needed to navigate socially, with all the subtleties of social organization, and a great deal of research has been performed on the great apes, who are our closest cousins, biologically-speaking.

But I get ahead of myself again. That social nature likely began with the mother-offspring connection, and sociality and group behaviors are pre-sentient behaviors. There is a highly-controversial aspect of evolutionary theory called sociobiology:

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

where genetics play a large part in animal behavior. The arguments revolve around the good old nature-nurture idea. The controversy will not go away anytime soon, and works such as Barbara Marx Hubbard’s ideas of conscious evolution is part of the milieu, although Marx is considered on the mystical end of the spectrum. Brian O was a colleague of Hubbard. I don’t plan to go there too much in my upcoming essay, but I will give it a nod.

But back to the Cretaceous extinction. About 300 million years ago, one supercontinent was formed, which ended the Carboniferous Period:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post528765

The leading theory is that when a supercontinent forms, it kind of plugs the upwelling of heat from the mantle, and volcanism eventually breaks up the supercontinent, and the pieces of the continents then scatter across Earth’s surface, and rebound and come back together. The cycle is thought to last about 500 million years, but we are not quite to what is considered the maximum spread. It is expected to happen in the coming few million years, and as the continents start to come back together, it will end our current ice age, as the Arctic Ocean will get freed from its currently largely landlocked state. In human terms, that is so far off as to be meaningless, as far as the problems that humanity currently faces.

As the continents broke apart, many populations became separated, and there was a great deal of speciation in the increasingly isolated landmasses. That isolation had a great impact on the development of life, and one of the more fascinating situations is what happened to New Zealand. It separated from the Australian continental fragment about eighty million years ago:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology..._from_Gondwana

when dinosaurs were in their heyday. Eighteen million years later, Earth got rather sterilized from that impact event, and New Zealand was repopulated only by animals that could swim or fly there, and birds took over the ecosystems, inhabiting all the niches that the dinosaurs and even mammals had. When the Maoris invaded less than a thousand year ago, they found an almost fairy-tale-like place, nearly totally populated by birds. Huge flightless birds:

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

that were only hunted by the world’s largest eagle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_Eagle

dominated the New Zealand ecosystem.

The Maoris exterminated all of them before white people, in their turn, invaded.

More to come on the age of mammals and birds, but it is off to work for now.

Best,

Wade

[bluestflame]

just found this link , not sure of the validity but posting for perusal

"Evidence That Giants Once Roamed The Earth: 38 cm Long Finger Found In Egypt"

Read more: http://www.vyperlook.com/amazing-inc...#ixzz22PBNZ7Oj



hope it's ok to post here seeing as you were talking about fossil records

http://www.vyperlook.com/amazing-inc...rthed-in-egypt

[Melinda]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
...and some spiders:

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

I do love this thread. I'm quite sure I didn't know about social spiders before. Probably I don't get out enough
The theme of evolution always, always gets me thinking about the leaf insects. The Phyllium Giganteum has evolved not only to look like a leaf, but also to include the browning around the edges that come naturally with leaf decay.
You can see one in action in this 30 second clip: http://youtu.be/huHSyCv6zdk
When I first saw one in a documentary the film-maker described the Phyllidae camouflage as an example of 'intelligent evolution'. Not sure how social they can be. Just thought it might be fun to share for anyone who hasn't seen one. They're rather wonderful.
Here's a picture of an insect from the Phylliidae family.

They really get me thinking about how separate we are from nature in urban environments. Imagine evolving to look like a lamp post or a wheely-bin. It raises all sorts of questions about what kind of 'conversation' (nature of information transfer) the Phyllium has had with its environment in order to mimic it so well.

But I don't mean to digress. So, back to mammals ...

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Bluestflame, that is the kind of picture and story that the Weekly World News would run. There is a ton of that kind of garbage out there. At least 99.99% of that kind of stuff is hoaxed in some hillbilly’s basement. There is a whole cottage industry that plays on people’s gullibility for that kind of stuff. That is why tabloids sell. Ancient crystal skulls, giant humanoids, secret caves housing alien technology – those are all nice tales without a shred of evidence to back them up. Not that the good stuff can't get sequestered, but for everything that might be real in those realms, there are thousands of hoaxes.

Hi AWP:

Yes, you see stuff like that, and the blind watchmaker theories sure seem pretty farfetched. More age of birds and mammals posts coming soon.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

I recall seeing a documentary on discovery about an ancient crystal skull. I am not so convinced that is a hoax.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

Do you mean this skull:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal...l-Hedges_skull

that is not allowed to be subjected to scientific tests? As scientific tools become more refined, many hoaxes have been exposed, people have been let off of death row with DNA testing, and so on. There has been so much hoaxing happening that artifacts that suddenly appear on the scene should be presumed hoaxes until authenticated. And when people make claims of mystical properties of artifacts, artifacts that are not subject to testing to determine if they may be genuine, it starts getting way out there, fast.

When I was a kid, I was into the strange stuff. There is plenty of strange stuff, but there is plenty that is not so strange, when the veneer is stripped away. Way too many people fabricate alleged footage, artifacts and the rest, or people fly off into realms of fancy based on the slimmest evidence. On alleged ancient stuff, if it does not come from a professional dig, I am going to be very skeptical. I have spent way too much of my time pursuing stuff like that, to see it evaporate upon further inspection, or be admitted to be a hoax, or be beadily exposed. Again, organized skepticism is largely a fraud, too. Again, that rare commodity, personal integrity, is the crux of the issue.

Even if the skull was real, then what? It sits in somebody’s drawer. It sure is not going to help solve the world’s problems (it falls a bit short of FE ).

Going to bed now.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Klaus dona, a renowned Austrian scholar who collects "exceptional" archaeological discoveries which are inconsistent with the written history of the world, speaks here about the hoxed giant skelatons... but, on the real ones as well. from aprox 00:50

https://youtube.com/watch?v=fNNBA...eature=related

[Ilie Pandia]

Wade wants to keep to facts that can be easily checked out and confirmed . Otherwise we risk going down various rabbit holes with no end, loosing sight of what it's really important, for indeed: hoax or not crystal skulls and giant skeletons are a "non-issue" when compared with Free Energy.

So let's get Free Energy first, and then we will be free to explore our past and probably future to our hearts content.

[David Hughes]

Hey,

On the subject of "Phyllidae camouflage", check these pictures out:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...e-experts.html

My view is that the genome changes that have to occur to result in the expression of phenotypes like those in the animals pictured are induced by the organism itself in response to its environment, not by some blind, unconscious, automatic process as folk like Richard Dawkins think. He would have you believe that all those camouflaged animals got lucky, and all the mutations they underwent to to arrive at their present state happened by pure chance. Forget about it.

On somatids and disease, based on my intuition and what I have read, it seems that disease manifests because homeostasis is out of balance. Tiny life forms like somatids act as a means to help regulate and restore equilibrium in nature. They essentially morph into whatever strain of 'germ' is required to clean up and restore balance to the living system with the aid of our immune system. Disease manifests in our bodies as a result of all the toxins and chemistry that we introduce to them from our environment. All the harmful chemicals we swallow, breath, and absorb through our skin all accumulate in our bodies throwing homeostasis out of balance. There is a certain tipping point at which the body can no longer defend itself adequately against the barrage of toxins that it is constantly exposed to. The influx is greater than the outflux. The liver, skin, kidneys, spleen, and lymphatic system become overtaxed and as a result disease states ensue. You are what you eat.

Once a disease state has been diagnosed we have been conditioned to then turn to pharmaceutical companies and toxic pills to treat our ills, rather than addressing the root cause of the problem. Pills don't have side-effects, they have toxic effects. These medicines add to the bodies toxicity which builds up over time and ultimately culminates to a whole host of degenerative diseases - and big bucks for the pharmaceutical industry.

Domesticated animals like dogs, cows, chicken and pigs develop diseases such BSE, swine flu, bird flu, rabies and all the rest largely because of what they ingest and the environments they live in. Consider the battery farms that chickens live in and some of the crap pigs and cows are fed. Disease manifests when the ideal circumstances present themselves. Humans and other animals are not supposed to be sick. It is not solely just a natural part of growing old and the role of a dice or the wrath of God.

This website has a nice basic overview of Pleomorphism:

http://www.sun-nation.org/merkl-pleomorphism.html

Check out that microscope Rife built to view live bacteria, virus and fungi. A labor of love and a work of art.



Based on his findings from what he observed through the lenses of the microscope, he discovered that bacteria and viruses could be selectively destroyed by subjecting them to their own resonance frequencies. The process is similar to how a glass can be shattered when a singer hits the right frequency. His discoveries were subsequently suppressed by the FDA and AMA and remain so today.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Brilliant posts, guys. David, thanks for the post. Yes, it is a big stretch to buy the blind watchmaker explanation of those camouflage experts. Your perspective of pleomorphism seems accurate, from what I know. I doubt that I was aware of Merkl. I was reading up on his work, here:

http://www.rexresearch.com/merkl/merkl.htm

When inventors play the secretive, disinformation game, they are sunk in these fields. Of course, here is where we come to the conundrum, which is the same one that we have in the FE conundrum. Interesting how Merkl’s theories relate to the ZPF, and his energy theories about subcellular life and disease.

But when you go for patents and play the proprietary, secrecy game, you are easily taken out. Sparky Sweet played the same game:

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

It is a big mistake to think that there is an eager public out there, ready to take your work forward. The pioneers have to make the dent themselves, as they eventually discover, and they have few allies and most who approach them are thieves, opportunists, or gawkers. Because we all need to eat, the inventor tries to make money with his invention/discovery, and if it is the good stuff, then here comes Godzilla. Money hungriness and self-seeking are the two easiest routes to defeat in these realms. Again, this conundrum has many parents, from the foibles of the pioneers to the apathy of the public to the total ignorance of orthodoxy, in their blinded/herded state, to “allies” that do more harm than good, to the many entrenched interests that would have their rackets threatened, with Godzilla being the apex predator. Any inventor/discoverer in these fields needs to be able to let it go and give it away. Not many are worthy to give it to and take it further; that is true, but some are.

As I have stated plenty, the only prayer that an FE inventor has is to give it to a worthy group. I never met the inventor with the goods willing to give it away, and I have never heard of that worthy group, and my efforts at Avalon can be seen as baby steps in trying to amass that worthy group. My effort really has not started yet, and we will see how it goes.

When I get this narrative finished, it will become evident, if it is not already, that it covers one heck of a lot of territory (which will make my tardiness more understandable), and the intention is to have people begin to think comprehensively. The astute reader will see the energy thread that runs through it, and it should become evident by the end how FE will provide the means to totally break the cycle of exploiting Earth and her ecosystems to get our energy. FE can completely unhook humanity from that deadly and self-defeating cycle, and also, because FE would provide energy abundance that has never come remotely close to being experienced on this planet, many of our underlying assumptions will evaporate, because they are virtually all built, however subtly, on the idea of energy scarcity. It took me a long time to finally figure that out:

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

I will be hiking in the next few days, so I may not get much posting done, but briefly on the mammals and birds, in the aftermath of the Cretaceous impact extinction, which must have been horrific to behold, the survivors found a world cleared of the giant reptiles that dominated Earth. Mammals and birds quickly became the dominant life forms.

That time after the Cretaceous extinction is called the Paleogene Period:

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

The geological time scale can be sliced finer than Periods, and the idea of Epochs tends to dominate, and even get sliced into a finer gradation called an “Age":

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

During the Paleocene Epoch, the radiations of mammals and birds really took off. The next Epoch, the Eocene, may have been the time when life on Earth was the most diverse. Peter Ward devoted plenty of Under a Green Sky to the Eocene. During the Eocene, the entire planet was warm, with deciduous forests all the way to the Arctic Circle. Crocodiles and palm trees lived where I do today, and Antarctica had a tropical climate.

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

In the early Eocene, the largest predator on Earth was likely a bird:

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

The gigantic land animals of the dinosaur days would not be seen again, but large mammals that capture the imagination of children today began to appear in the Eocene, such as the uintatherium:

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

As with some of the dinosaurs that went back to the waters of their primordial ancestry, some mammals went back to the seas, and cetaceans began evolving back in the Eocene:

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

Then a likely life-induced event about fifty million years ago lowered carbon dioxide from levels of about ten times today’s concentration to nearly modern levels:

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

Antarctica kept moving south, and its icecap begin forming about forty million years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarct....80.9323_Ma.29

and about 34 million years ago, there was an extinction event related to the cooling Earth:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene%...tinction_event

It has been cooling ever since. Climate scientists such as William Ruddiman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ruddiman) suspect that the primary culprit has been declining carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide starvation is thought to be perhaps the primary determinant of how Earth will eventually become uninhabitable, as the plants die from carbon starvation (See Ward and Brownlee’s The Life and Death of Planet Earth, for instance).

Plants have adapted to those lowering carbon dioxide levels, and the first grasses appeared during those times, as the forests shrank, and around 30 million years ago, some grasses developed a more efficient way to get carbon, and C4 plants were born:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4_carb...the_C4_pathway

C4 plants are angiosperms (flowering plants), and flowering plants came to dominate the landscapes, with gymnosperms (conifers) being pushed to the marginal climates.

As the Paleogene ended in an ice age, the Neogene followed it:

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

The largest shark ever appeared during that time:

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

and on land, the largest flying bird ever made its appearance:

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

and gigantic mammals:

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

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

that capture the imaginations of humans today. The megafaunal era was born.

Also, and here is where we begin to cut to the chase, those tree dwelling primates were evolving too, with their opposable thumbs that allowed them to easily navigate in trees and pluck fruit. The divergence of what are called hominoids happened during the Oligocene ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligocene ), around 30 million years ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape#Cla..._and_evolution

Gibbons split off about eighteen million years ago, the ancestors of orangutans about fourteen million years ago, gorillas about seven million years ago, and the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees existed between three and five million years ago.

But I get a little ahead of myself once again. I’ll back up a little, to cover some of the fascinating aspects of the age of birds and mammals. Who could have predicted that the monkeys would spawn the creature that would come to dominate the planet like no other animal ever did, an ape that shaped the world to its liking and eventually drove almost all competing animals to extinction and is threatening itself with extinction and taking most of the biosphere with it. But that is for later posts. I’ll revisit those days of the mammals and megafauna in coming posts.

It is off to work now.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am home doing chores today, and have a few minutes.

Hi AWP:

I remember that Seth once talked about spiders in one of his books. He said that spiders considered themselves artists and were always delightfully surprised that insects flew into their artwork and provided a meal. I have never been able to ask a spider if that is how she thinks, but that is an interesting twist on it.

Hi Limor:

On giants and such, there are all sorts of people who claim giant bones and other evidence, but I am not aware of any solid evidence. And even if so, it would likely not be from one of Earth’s denizens, but an alien. We are definitely not alone in the universe, and plenty of people try to make a fast buck in these realms, hawking their wares. There are self-styled “anthropologists,” replete with pith helmets, who have never been on a dig in their lives, who hold forth on ancient advanced civilizations that they discovered, etc. I consider that stuff the tabloid fringe, and wherever rotund Americans buy their groceries, they can pick up magazines with tales of ancient civilizations, ETs who came to dinner, giants, and the like. There have been so many hoaxes on that stuff that it almost beggars the imagination. It is similar to the three-ring circus that surrounds the JFK hit, 9/11, and other “conspiratorial” topics. JFK was definitely not killed by lone nut Lee Harvey Oswald:

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

but the fiftieth anniversary of the crime is next year, and it is guaranteed that there is almost nobody alive today who was part of the operation that got JFK killed. And does it really matter who killed him? The American president is down the food chain a ways:

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

What is more important is the system that produces such obvious fiction as the Warren Report. When Ted Kennedy recently died, I read that Ted had no doubt that Lee Harvey Oswald did it, because the CIA told him so. Either Ted was an idiot, or he was covering for the family. Bobby Kennedy approached the CIA when Jack’s body was still warm and accused them of doing it.

But while it would bring some closure to those who recall the JFK hit, it really is not important to know what aspect of the power structure did it. JFK made a lot of enemies; he was a rich president who could not be bought, who went on the rampage against corporate America, the mob, was a relative dove regarding the Cold War, and so on. My guess is that he was taken out from the top, by somebody at around the Godzilla level, and maybe because he planned to make the ET issue a public one. Maybe we will find out in my lifetime, but I am not holding my breath.

The vast majority of “conspiratorial” musings and fringe topics are pure chaff, to titillate those who like tabloid fodder. If we don’t solve the energy issue, and pronto, the rest simply won’t matter.

Peter Ward has charted the mass extinction events and the carbon dioxide levels, and he shows that at 1,000 PPM the dynamics can be put into play that create Canfield oceans and then hydrogen sulfide events:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post524477

What I did not mention is that Ward also states in the stark conclusion of Under a Green Sky that the carbon dioxide levels are rising asymptotically, similar to Al Gore’s warning, and 1,000 PPM could be reached in a century if it continues to be business as usual. Not only do we risk that event that can take out the ozone layer, but if it rises that fast, then we will likely get something like a 25-foot rise in the ocean level in the next century as the ice caps melt, and more than a quarter of humanity will lose the land they live on. Those events will make World War II and the Bubonic Plague look like picnics. And almost nobody is doing anything about it. Almost everybody is hacking at meaningless branches, temporarily sating their addictions, trying to get rich, and all the other stuff that amounts to admiring the view from the deck of the Titanic, Champagne glass in hand.

Back to chores.

Best,

Wade

[David Hughes]

Hey Wade,

Thanks for that link: http://www.rexresearch.com/merkl/merkl.htm

I'll have to print it out and have a proper read.

Just had a quick browse of it there. This part is nice.


"Gaston Naessens has made the following observations concerning the Composition of the Somatid: "The somatid may be the link between the biological sciences and the physical sciences."23

This study of Life is fun, exciting, and not dead like medical school. Without the protit/somatid life is atheistic, dust-to-dust. With the protit/somatid, as a transducer of energy from "beyond"... the ying and yang of religion and science become the complements they are, not opposites.

Scientists have broken matter down into smaller and smaller pieces, the atom, the proton, neutron, electron, then quarks, antiparticles, etc. In today's giant cyclotrons, what they have found though is that as they break these 'pieces' of matter down further and further, the pieces just finally disappear, "pop in and out of existence" as stated above. The particles enter the fourth dimension, just as they are supposed to, according to these now corrected twelve dimensional formulas of Einstein.

What is even more fascinating is that when these particles disappear and get into this fourth dimension, which is a supra physical, mental dimension, the scientists find that whether these particles even exist in this dimension or not is controlled by the thought of the observers, by the thought of the scientists themselves.

Quantum theory demands the inclusion of the psyche since the observer effect of any phenomenon will instantaneously alter its state. Einstein, Rosen, and Podolsky postulated this and supported it with flawless mathematical proof; it was called the ERP Effect (Einstein, Rosen, and Podolsky).

The process of observing and being observed become one. The process of observing does not just effect the results of the experiment, as per the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, it determines them. The observer and that observed have become One. This is Wholistic."

I see that Dr. Merkl was seemingly murdered in the end, no surprise there.

The following is taken from here:
http://sun-nation.org/merkl-dr-george-merkl.html

"Unfortunately he was not well received by the power elite of those in control, and there were a number of attempts on his life, ending in his murder in 2004 during the same time period that 64 other microbiologists were murdered within the USA. These attempts on his life began as early as the mid to late 1960’s, when he presented his revolutionary cold fusion discovery on the floor of the United States Senate (yes, cold fusion in the 60’s!) and was poisoned, only to save himself with pentoxihydrate (a powdered oxygen invention of his). After being continually harassed, including a number of raids on his home laboratory and Life Crystal factory, Dr. Merkl decided to leave the U.S. .........

In the early 1970’s, Dr. George Merkl conducted his first, successful cold fusion experiment. Following this discovery he was invited to the senate floor, where he eagerly planned to present his findings. His goal was to gain congressional support in diverting science from its destructive course of fission technology, and refocus the world on fusion, which provides clean and free energy and instantly eliminates the need for nuclear power plants.

While waiting his turn to speak on the senate floor, he was given a cup of coffee that was laced with cyanide. George explained that he had brought along in his shirt pocket another one of his inventions, pentoxihydrate, a form of highly concentrated, powdered oxygen. In his personal testing of this powered oxygen he was able to alleviate almost all types of poisoning, if administered within a certain amount of time. While keeled over his cup of poisoned coffee, with mere moments of consciousness left, he grasped for the packet of pentoxihydrate and was able to inhale it before he passed out. He did pass out and was quickly taken to Bethesda hospital in Maryland. There in the emergency room he shocked everyone when he stood up in a rage and walked out! He immediately relocated back to West Germany for 11 long years, swearing to everyone he would never return to the US. But, as fate had it, he found himself returning to the US to fulfill his destiny........

Dr. George Merkl was murdered in 2002, through a slow poison. Before his passing, he stated that he was having dreams and nightmares that his time was almost up. He said that he was called and asked to be driven to a meeting in a limo that was being sent up to his house as 'they' wanted to talk about something. He said that the whole backseat of the limo was wet and cold with a smell of a harsh chemical and when he hopped in the back seat of the limo he realized that he had been chemically posioned from the seat and the long ride they took him on.

When asked why he was choosing not save his own life with pentoxihydrate, Dr. Merkl stated that if he didn't allow the poison to do its work they would not give up, and would come after his family next. Up until his death, Merkl refused to identify who 'they' were for this reason."


You have to box very clever with all this stuff. The warrior path to toppling the medical and energy rackets really is a non-starter.

Imagine a world and what could be achieved if the likes of O'Leary, Merkl, Trombly, Naessens and all the rest could work freely together without harassment and the threat of being murdered. A FE based society would allow that to happen.

I’m increasingly noticing that the deeper I dig in whatever the subject matter, be it biology, math, economics, physics, chemistry, religion etc, all roads lead to free energy and its suppression, and consciousness and it's suppression.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi David:

Yes, that beginnings of life part about the somatid is what I mentioned as one of the speculations about it. When you begin to understand what information might be there and how orthodoxy acts like it does not exist, it can be mind-boggling.

On Merkl, yes, that path that he tried is a complete dead end. The going-to-Washington approach for FE, cancer cures, UFOs, or simple muckraking is life-risking behavior.

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

http://www.all-natural.com/mikewolf.html

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

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

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

I have no interest in playing those games, which is partly why I turned down that invitation to the White House:

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

In the 1940s, Gerson paraded a bunch of cancer patients that he had cured with his treatment on the floor of Congress, trying to get the politicians behind him. Big mistake. He was poisoned a couple of times at his conferences.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...son#post492188

and his treatment was eventually run out of the country. When I watch medical radicals with cancer treatments (always safe, effective, and cheap, when compared to the abominations of orthodoxy) approach the authorities, or I see FE people approach Washington D.C., or I see them approach the money people or the energy institutions, I always want to look away. Those are all suicidal approaches.

I played the game and lived, just barely. If you ever get a good head of steam going, they approach you, but it is still the same game:

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

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

Only people like Dennis and Adam have any business playing those games, as they constantly lay their lives on the line, surviving murder attempts and other outrages. And newbies are nearly invariably in denial about all of that, rushing out to go find out the hard way, like eighteen-year-old boys eager for the battlefield:

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

The murder attempt that Brian survived was over the UFO issue:

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

and the lid is kept on UFOs primarily because it is joined at the hip with antigravity and FE. Brian O became an honorary member of the FE suppression club with that murder attempt.

These are not areas for the faint of heart, and I am trying a different approach, one where the participants are not risking their lives. I could still be wrong and they take me out. It is one reason why I will have to get into an invitation-only forum, because there is too much naïveté even at Avalon, and we can’t afford to be naïve playing this game.

You are one of the few people that I have seen on Avalon, David, who wants to do something but has an appreciation of the kind of risks that it entails. I don’t encounter that very often. Conspiracists go off the deep end on the other side, with paranoia, etc. I very rarely encounter a balanced response to the situation. I almost always encounter denial or obsession. Both are fear-based reactions. I acknowledge Godzilla and his greatness, and do what I can so that I don’t get stepped on again.

That balance is also needed in that exploration of life arena. Acknowledging the mechanism without worshipping it – that is the trick. The scientifically illiterate wave away evolution and instead bang their creationist Bibles or believe their New Agey tales. Those in orthodoxy are almost all materialists. Both miss the boat, partly because both are in denial. The energy game is about the only one that matters at this time. Everything else is just a sideshow and distraction. But if we are going to arrive at productive understandings, we need to do the work. We need to be willing to question everything that we think we know. We need to muster sufficient personal integrity, and get beyond our egos. Not many can presently do that:

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

but those are whom I seek. But I am not looking for heroes and soldiers, but only pupils and singers. This may turn out to be as foolish a quest as those inventors and doctors who pounded on doors in Washington and on Wall Street, but I have never seen anybody try it.

We will see how it goes.

Time to go hiking.

Best,

Wade

[mosquito]

Posted by Limor
.. I couldn't help but wonder how dinosaurs reproduced.. ?

Noisily ? !!

Posted by David Hughes (here)

I’m increasingly noticing that the deeper I dig in whatever the subject matter be it biology, math, economics, physics, chemistry, religion etc, I keep ending up back at FE and the vacuum. Odd that

Not that odd David - I find the same thing, the vacuum (is that really still the correct word for it ?) is where everything springs from.

I can see why lots of people argue that free energy will be the precursor to a paradigm shift, but I can't help thinking that surely it's the other way round. We (as a species) won't embrace free energy and abundance until we've realised that scarcity is not a done deal and that a state of competition is not necessarily the only way for us to exist together. Are we biologically/physically able to do this ?

[Melinda]

Posted by mariposafe (here)
..I can see why lots of people argue that free energy will be the precursor to a paradigm shift, but I can't help thinking that surely it's the other way round. We (as a species) won't embrace free energy and abundance until we've realised that scarcity is not a done deal and that a state of competition is not necessarily the only way for us to exist together. Are we biologically/physically able to do this ?

Thank you for commenting Mariposafe. What I want to say isn't in direct response to your comment, but you words inspired some thoughts. I can't claim to be saying anything new, but I'm grateful to have a place to share what comes to mind.

There seem to be many cases where technology enters into the mainstream that seems to influence how many of us perceive, function and communicate dramatically. The printing press, television, the internet. The changes are tangible. Despite the fact that technology advancements have not given us the ideal world they could have (we still have war, disease and people work even longer hours), we have still moved forward. I know it can seem like the more things change the more they merely stay the same, but even though its saddening to look at a technology that should have taken us ten steps forward and think how it only took us one or two steps (and even did some damage), the fact is... those one or two steps still took us forward and they still count.

Of course, unlike free-energy, all these inventions (which are tiny in comparison) had the benefit of having powerful entities allow and even encourage them because they felt (or soon realised) they could engineer the use of the inventions to support the status quo that kept them powerful. Perhaps the internet is the exception because of the revolutionary, possibly unexpected, way it has freed up the exchange of information between individuals on such a vast scale. If it has been more of an asset to our growth than was predicted, then perhaps that is a sign that a shift in our collective consciousness is indeed occurring for the better. If that's true, it would be proof that we can change. I feel like many people are trapped in accepting our destructive/competitive scarcity-based thinking as an unchangeable aspect of life because they do not see an alternative. For many of us it is painful to acknowledge a problem exists if we cannot see the solution straight away, or can just about see it but fear we lack the strength to implement it. So if enough of us can see it, and support each other in seeing it, if we can hold the vision and share the vision, then we can help bring it forward so that gradually others will have the courage to lift their heads and see what is possible. On my better days I don't resent them for being unaware, I look forward to the day when they feel free to let go of the old illusions - so they can remember who they really are.

Often I look at people who act aggressively due to a rigid, scarcity-based mind-set and my first thought is how different they might have been if they had grown up and been nurtured in a world where there was enough for everyone; in a world where they had not had to fight so hard. I look at them and see their body transformed, their scars dissolve, their muscles relax. I imagine all the good memories of wonderful times replacing all the imprints of hard, bitter difficulties, and the light returning to their eyes. I believe, deep down, that healed world is what we all want for ourselves and others, even though we get caught up in our fear of what we've become and how we fear we may not have the strength to change ourselves. I'm often frustrated by how my own scarcity-based fears surface in my thoughts or behaviour when I thought I knew better. When I remember how many of those fears have been compounded by the culture around me it just makes me want a global solution even more. Even if its too late for me to heal some of the damage done from growing in this environment, it is not too late for many people, especially the children; and it is not too late to physically clean-up this beautiful planet and show our gratitude. That's why I'm grateful for this thread, and for all you for being here, and sharing this vision. As someone once said, where focus goes, energy flows. This small seed can grow in to an awe-inspiring, life-giving Oak, ringed with time and patience and strength. We are not the only ones believing in and examining these solutions, and the numbers are growing ever-larger, every day. We are changing, simply because we want to, and because we want to enough.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Mariposafe and AWP:

I have posed the question that Mariposafe provided his answer for for many years:

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

AWP, you are as poetic as Sandy is, and thank you for the beautiful post. Yes, FE would dwarf every other energy revolution in human history:

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

In none of those others did the inventors really understand what their inventions would lead to. It was never a conscious design. The most recent one, the Industrial Revolution, is the only one with historical documentation that we can study. England was the birthplace of capitalism and the first place to industrialize, and it had nothing to do with any grand vision of the future. Coal was used because all of England had been deforested, and coal was available. Capitalism was really born in rural England, as lords began kicking people off the land so that they could grow crops for the market:

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

Capitalism has always been an ideology based on greed, which is rooted in scarcity. Ideology virtually always followed reality. Yes, the powerful often sponsored technological breakthroughs to further their hegemony, only to see them backfire. The Catholic Church supported the printing press as a way to spread Christianity, but it led to the Reformation.

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

I have been at this for most of my life, and I believe that the vast majority of humanity is not going to begin to wake up to the idea of FE until it is delivered to their homes. Machiavelli’s words are as relevant today as they were five hundred years ago:

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

As I have stated for many years, the greatest triumph of Godzilla is making FE and abundance unimaginable, and my goal is to simply make it imaginable:

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

And it has been a very difficult task. For those of us trying to lead the charge, we really had to see the deeply entrenched denial of FE and abundance to believe it. It can be incredible to witness, and it encompasses the educated, the illiterate, the rich, the poor – literally all walks of life. It is a universal condition, all except for Godzilla and his minions (and that tiny fringe of FE activists, whom Brian O estimated was less than a thousand people), who run their coffeemakers with FE and plan to terraform Mars if they make Earth uninhabitable with their evil games.

Godzilla likely began forming when Europe began to conquer the world. Until then, the aspirations of megalomania and the dark path had limited routes of realization. Godzilla has been familiar with the idea of FE for at least a century, going back to when Tesla tried to make an FE device and Robber Baron J.P. Morgan pulled the rug out from under him:

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

As long as FE and abundance are so vehemently denied by the masses, with their allegiance to scarcity-based ideologies:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level1

Godzilla has the game well in hand. If several thousand people woke up to simply the idea of FE and abundance, I think that it would be enough to catalyze the shift. Also, there will be no proselytizing. That is the old way. If enough people can learn to sing the song, it will be heard by those who have yearned for it their entire lives. I have been trying to begin to write that hymnal, and it has not been easy, but when I do, I will need others to help. At Avalon, I have seen that some understand. Not many, but some do. That is a start.

One of my planned tasks, after I get this life-on-Earth narrative finished (I am a long way from there), is to make a series of posts that further outlined the FE levels of awareness. I have been continually besieged by people who think that Levels 6, 7, 9, or 10 will work. You can see many such posts on this thread, but I wrote that list long before joining Avalon, and I wrote it from decades of often-heartbreaking of experience in this milieu. When Brian O saw that list, he discussed it in his interviews after that. I will give some more color on them. When Godzilla watches FE tinkerers in their garages, inventors applying for patents, efforts that try to sneak past Godzilla, thinking that he is asleep or dead or imaginary, Godzilla knows that the game is well in hand. How many thousands of fools have to keep going down those rabbit holes? What the Internet has helped, is that all of those that Godzilla has taken out are not dying in isolation and silence. When I was with Dennis, we were almost totally ignorant of the fates of the other aspirants. We began waking up as the parade came to our facilities.

The ability of the Internet to bring the disparate threads together has given Godzilla, and those predators down the food chain, challenges, so Dennis is smeared on national TV every few years.

In finishing this post, it is my opinion that if enough people simply woke up to the idea of FE and abundance, and simply focused their awareness and formed my mythical chorus, it could be enough to catalyze the change. I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks, and my experience at Avalon has only reinforced the notion how rare such people are, but I know that some are out there. The ability to comprehend abundance begins in the heart, not in the head. I believe that enough people exist on this planet whose hearts can hear the song. I am here to help their heads catch up. I highly doubt that FE is going to come via a bunch of Level 19s:

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

but via enough Level 12s:

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

who can form that nugget of heart-centered sentience. At least, that is what I am trying to help manifest, and we will see how it goes.

I plan to continue my life posts today.

Best,

Wade

[mosquito]

Thanks Wade and AWP, yes that really was a beautifully poetic post !

I'm not arguing with anyone here, I'd just like to make some observations. Of course I agree with what you say in the above link Wade, the mindset and the technology will feed of one another, we don't need to be "enlightened" first. But technology of the power we're discussing here certainly requires us to have responsibility, to one another and to our home. A look at the history of nuclear fuel should make my point clear.

Free energy, here and now, in the hands of the military-industrial complex ? No thanks.

In my last post I asked if we were "biologically/physically" able to embrace the abundance consciousness, and therein lies the key to what I'm trying to say. Metaphysically, spiritually and from a heart perspective, abundance is a relatively easy thing to embrace. But on a deep, primal level we are still animals, competing with one another in order to survive. Before anyone shoots me down in flames, let me ask you - have you EVER been in the situation where you don't know where your next meal is coming from ? I have, and believe me it isn't a nice place to be. When it happened to me (probably not a topic to discuss in depth here) I found myself reacting and behaving in ways that I would never have thought possible. What I learned is that there is still, within me and all of us a hard-coded set of survival instructions which most of us raised in the West have NO idea exist.

Almost certainly, abundance technology would, over time, lead to our evolution away from those instinctual behaviours, but how long before they completely disappear ?

As I said, I'm not arguing with anyone here, I welcome the opportunity to discuss this, and to hear everyone's views. I agree, the first step has to be to open people's minds to the possibility of real abundance and free energy, thank you to everyone here for making that effort. (Chuckle, the perfect quote has just been sent to my cellphone !!!) .....

"In all human affairs there are efforts and there are results, and the strength of efforts is the measure of the results". James Allen

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Mariposafe:

You are bringing up a big subject, and I have some time for it. During my days with Dennis, I fasted because it was cheaper than eating (like a 45 day fast, still my longest), so I can claim a little familiarity with the state of desperation, but not anything like the desperation that the world’s poor face every day. My goal has been to abolish it, and yes, I am aware that there are going to be challenges, and people using FE from the unenlightened state that has dominated the human journey could be catastrophic. I am an American, and we sure love our wars. I don’t deny that there are potential downsides, and I deal with them plenty in my work (we have an entire thread devoted to it here at Avalon https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...No-way-in-hell), but the crazy part is that the “smart” people can only see the downside, before instantly dismissing FE with great fear and proposing “solutions” such as mass austerity. The neo-Malthusians, Peak Oilers, and environmentalists all sing that dirge:

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

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

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

and it initially blew me away that the so-called “progressives” could not get enough of the doom and gloom of Heinberg and friends ten years ago, while completely shutting out people like Brian O:

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

Godzilla and those “progressives” make for some very strange bedfellows, and conspiracists have accused Heinberg of knowingly working for Godzilla, but I think that an addiction to scarcity, and more than a little bit of the Judeo-Christian guilt trip, the kind that manifested in self-flagellators and Calvinists, explains those strange reactions. “Free energy and Heaven on Earth? Hell no! Get away from me! Back, Satan!” I am not overplaying it for rhetorical reasons, either. You really have to see it to believe it.

The caution that you speak of is partly why I am going about this the way that I am. It is partly an enlightenment test for humanity. If those several thousand people cannot be found who can muster a sufficient level of heart-centered sentience to gently help this happen, then it will be strong evidence that humanity is not ready for the next step, which will be more like a quantum leap. But the downside of not having FE is planet-threatening. On that score, I have little doubt that the Peak Oilers, Chomsky, Peter Ward and other smart people are not far wrong on how badly it can go. If we keep going with business as usual, and the wars over the dwindling hydrocarbon supplies escalate, along with the climate-destabilizing effects of venting pollution to the atmosphere, it could easily make it game over for the human species (which is why Godzilla has plans to terraform Mars as a backup plan). I don’t like emphasizing the abyss that we stand on the edge of, but it is real, and FE can move us back from the edge in ways that nothing else can hope to achieve. And Godzilla knows this well. Artificially-enforced scarcity is how he keeps people in those “primitive” states that you refer to, and keeping people there is how Godzilla stays on top. Mass enlightenment is his worst nightmare, such are the perils of the dark path.

Going to bed now.

Best,

Wade