WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

From the earliest writings known, the devastation of the temperate forests has been a theme:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...esh#post554340

The civilizations of the Fertile Crescent, China, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Crete, Cyprus, etc., etc. all razed their forests, and it was noticed by observers of the day. In the early days of the razing, it was not necessarily seen as a bad thing, but it was also noticeable. It was usually only after the forest was destroyed that attitudes changed and their loss was lamented, and writers pined for the good old days when the forest still existed. Then, a conservation ethic could take root, although it rarely made much impact, not when there was “progress” to be made.

After the Spanish conquered the Aztecs and began to bring in their crops, animals, and attitudes, they began to turn the region into a desert:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#_edn83

as they had already done to Spain. Forests were more than a source of wood for fuel and structure, and fertile, sun-exposed soil after the trees were removed; they also absorbed water like a sponge, and slowly released it. Before the forests were removed, the water that was absorbed was slowly released as it percolated through the ecosystem, and the streams ran year-round. The streams also did not swell so much when it rained, as the forests moderated the watershed, preventing floods and droughts.

All of those medieval European tales from the forests, with dangers in its darkness (Hansel and Gretel, to name one example of many - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansel_...y_and_analysis ), were not so new.
“Dangerous” forests that disappeared under the axe happened with Rome:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ian#post562534

and many other cultures.

In the early days of the English invasion of New England, and as the invaders began to deforest the land with fervor, the impact on the environment was noted. Where only one flood was noted between 1635 and 1720, between 1720 and 1800, six floods were noted (See Cronon’s Changes in the Land, p. 124). Visiting Europeans, who came from deforested lands, were shocked at the rapacity of the New Englanders. In 1749, Peter Kalm wrote,

“We can hardly be more hostile toward our woods in Sweden and Finland…than they are here: their eyes are fixed upon present gain, and they are blind to the future.”

As the streams dried up and the land became desiccated, in 1860s, the Vermont naturalist George Perkins Marsh wrote,

“In many parts of these States which have been cleared above a generation or two, the hill pastures now suffer severely from drought, and in dry seasons no longer afford either water or herbiage for cattle.”

The drying up of New England’s streams and ponds were noted by many observers of the day, but that did nothing to stop the juggernaut that began to race across the continent.

It was not until the “frontier” was about gone that a conservation ethic began, and in 1872, the first national park was established at Yellowstone:

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

Again, I am fortunate to live in Washington, which is the last place in the continental USA to begin to feel the axe, and some forests in the mountains were saved before they could be razed. John Adams, whose family lands were on Morton’s Merry Mount

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#adams1

once “boasted” that his family had probably razed more trees than any other family in America. In the first 200 years of the European invasion of North America, North America lost more woodlands than Europe lost in a thousand.

So, on one hand, the English “settlers” of the Eastern Woodlands were able to plunder forests that those back home could only dream of, and the “frontier” character of American culture was established early, and in the Western USA, that mentality is still alive and well, though anachronistic and quaint, pining for a time that is long gone. But the early days of the English invasion coincided with the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution, and English technology began to come over early on, even though England outlawed cutting-edge technology leaving its lands. The world’s first integrated cotton mill was established in Massachusetts in 1814:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mo...entor)#Waltham

and all the rivers and streams of the Eastern Woodlands had watermills erected on them in short order. Coal began to be mined by the 1790s in Pennsylvania, where anthracite coal could be mined, which is the best coal to burn:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthrac...mining_and_use

But coal was always only resorted to when the wood was gone. Coal soot was nasty stuff, and everybody preferred wood for fuel instead of coal, but deforestation was always the friend of coal.

In those early days of industrialization, electricity had yet to be harnessed, so the only way to transfer the energy captured at the waterwheel or steam engine was by straps, pulleys, and gears, so the mechanical energy had to be used where it was generated, usually in the same building where the power was harnessed. So, the streams and rivers of the Eastern Woodlands, especially the hilliest parts, where the power from the gravity-drop was the greatest, were the sites of mill towns, where the workers all lived a short walk to work, with their dwellings virtually carved into the steep hillsides. As the steam engine began to overtake the watermill in the late-1800s:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post653078

those mill towns were abandoned. In the early 1800s in Providence, Rhode Island, for instance, there were no textile mills, but there were more than 120 in the surrounding hills.

Although the Indians always came out on the short side of any war, their resistance to extermination and removal, along with Machiavellian “assistance” by the French in particular, was an obstacle to rapid American expansion over the Appalachians. The land between the Appalachians and Mississippi was set aside for Indians by the Proclamation of 1763, when the British won the Seven Years’ War:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763

but was totally ignored by the “settlers,” with Daniel Boone illegally penetrating into Kentucky by 1769:

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

By 1840, all the land set aside for the Indians, from the Appalachians to the Mississippi River, was in the hands of Americans, and virtually all of the Indians exterminated or removed:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#extinct1

Washington’s genocidal plan worked brilliantly:

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

European “settlers” began flooding into the USA to take that free land. The Irish had a population explosion with the introduction of the potato, but unlike the Indians who developed three thousand varieties of potatoes, the Europeans subsisted on only a few, with the Irish subsisting solely on one variety, and they became vulnerable to the Great Potato Blight that began in 1845:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

More than a million Irish died:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_F...nd)#Death_toll

and the famine initiated another great wave of immigration to the USA:

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

and the Indians were easily swept aside. About that time, an ideology grew, which is one of the oldest in civilization. The Israelites had their “Promised Land” tradition, which meant annihilating the inhabitants and taking their “promised” land, and the Old Testament is perhaps the most genocidal book in history:

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

The English and Americans often lifted pages from the Old Testament to justify the slaughter and dispossession of the Indians, from the very beginning of their invasion:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#underhill

even invoked by U.S. presidents:

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

By the 1840s, after the Indians east of the Mississippi were eradicated, the American ideology became “let’s go for all of it,” and Manifest Destiny was born:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#steal2

Hitler later took inspiration from the American example with his Lebensraum ideology, and the Japanese also developed the same ideology toward China:

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

Again, it is probably impossible to overstate the effect of being able to plunder an entire continent, on the rise of England and the USA. American industrialization lagged behind England’s, partly because their effort was divided between its nascent industries and dispossessing the Indians and “settling” their lands. As I wrote recently, America’s Civil War was certainly not about freeing the slaves:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post658651

but it did highlight, probably better than any other event that I can think of, the contrast between industrial and pre-industrial economies. Slavery vanished as the North industrialized, while slavery was the heart of the Southern economy, as it was all about plantations, which had always been conducive to slavery, for the entirety of pre-industrial civilization. The North won the war because its industrial capacity could just grind down the South in a war of attrition. The USA eventually won against the Japanese in World War II the same way, and the Allies in general:

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

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Beautiful post, Darren. I'll respond later,

Wade

[sandy]

Hi Darren,

Love your post and information on Perma culture. I have been reading quite abit and watching video's as well and believe there is real merit in being connected to nature and natural systems that have sustained Mother Earths existence despite her inhabitants

Thank you for finding your voice, I have very much valued hearing you and enjoyed listening to your ideas regarding abundance, perma culture and FE.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Darren, that will take me a little cyber-ink to respond to, but let me say that you are exactly the kind of “freak” that I am looking for.

On a more general note, I don’t think it is just me, but I seem to be hearing choral noises on this thread. Keep it up, is all I can say.

If I may be bold, let me guess on what you have been encountering. FE is way too threatening to tell your parents about. They would not only have a Level 1 response:

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

but it would likely be one of those torches-and-pitchforks Level 1 responses, where heretics who espouse crazy and dangerous stuff like FE are only good for burning at the stake (and the level 5s will be glad to help get the fire going).

Even in an intentional, progressive community like yours, on FE you are probably totally alone. You may have broached the subject to some. If they are scientifically illiterate, their response will likely be Level 2. But being that you have scientific credentials, they might kind of listen to you, but they may also think you lost your marbles, and will give you a wide berth in the future. The scientifically literate will give you a Level 3 response, and because you have a scientific background, they may even tell you that you lost your marbles, heretic that you are ("Don't you remember your physics classes?!"). The open-minded will usually come in at Level 4, where your community sure could use an FE device, so if you know how to get one, the community sure could use one. Even an open-minded scientist might say that if you can put a working FE device in his hand, he might believe that FE is possible.

The worldlier will realize that the mechanisms of capitalism probably won’t welcome something like FE, so they may think in Level 8 terms, that even if it was possible and even developed to some degree, that the boys at the top will make sure that nothing like it will ever come to market. Of those whose reactions went beyond Level 5, you can count them on one hand, and maybe even one finger, or even no fingers. If you have more than that, then you are truly blessed, and I would be interested in hearing your stats. I have seen and visited plenty of planned communities. Some were cults, and I was once driven from my home by a hippie cult that took over my neighborhood. I never saw one that seemed like a fertile field for FE, often because communities like that were into the shared austerity models that Bucky spoke about:

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

Permaculture is definitely a step in the right direction, and FE would take it up an octave or four. This world has permaculture down to a true science:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#roads1

and far more. As I have written, one of the most fun things if FE made it past the inertia and suppression is getting in a room with a permaculturist, or engineer, or architect, and other hands-on professions like that, especially the most talented and creative in their field, and ask them what they could come up with if energy, gravity, materials, water, etc., were not constraints, and see where their imagination takes them. But it probably will only work when they know that FE and antigravity are real, otherwise it will seem silly and maybe even dangerous. With FE it then becomes a real exercise, not a crazy fantasy. Harnessing the imagination and experience of people like that to FE is where it can really get to be fun. I hope to live to see some of that happen. As Sandy said, if not in this universe, then in another.

Time for playing husband, and then bed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One last note on forests, which I have mentioned before:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ion#post555848

is that trees also circulate water through the soils via transpiration, and actually keep a negative pressure on the soil, sucking water into it. When trees are razed, that dynamic is killed, which also can kill the soils. There are many consequences of deforestation. I am not saying that every square inch of land needs to be covered in forest, and it never has been, but forest ecosystems are friendly to life in ways that no other land-based environment is. The “boundary layer” that the first plants created provided the foothold for animals to leave the oceans:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post561092

Tree roots stabilized the soils and created the rivers we see today. Without trees, the rivers would all be braided, without any riverbanks:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post561092

Deforestation wrecks ecosystems in many ways, and even destroys the basis for land-based life.

Back to Darren’s post. For those who get past Level 5 responses:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5

then it can really become dangerous. The pitfalls are numerous:

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

and I have either fallen in some of them myself, seen others disappear into them, or I inspected the edge of the pit warily, heard screams coming from deep within the bowels of the pit or the caught a whiff of decay, and decided that I did not need to explore it any further.

Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 have swallowed up innumerable aspirants. Most did not get ten feet down the path before they disappeared into one of those pitfalls.

You really have to start thinking big, and by that, I mean you have to have a personal paradigm shift, to really even handle thinking about FE and what can come with it:

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

It is easy to become overwhelmed, dive into the first rabbit hole that comes along, etc. And none of those early-stage pitfalls have anything to do with Godzilla. You usually have to be well on your way to Oz before the flying monkeys come for you, and they are actually invisible monkeys for the most part, or they first appear to be butterflies, so people can go to sleep among the poppies, become paranoid, fight with each other, and defeat themselves before the monkeys even need to arrive. That is why I keep stressing that getting to FE and abundance is like walking the razor’s edge, and why all the good stuff sits in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard today.

I am not saying that the singers in the choir will never “do anything” in the FE field. What I am saying, however, is that almost nobody has ever proven themselves fit for the task of chasing after FE, and the only people who have a prayer would meet most of these qualifications:

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

It is just what it is. With humanity and Earth in the balance, that level of commitment and virtue is needed to right the ship, for those few who will be on the leading edge, and I will ask that level of commitment of nobody, but even being in the choir will be hard, thankless work, on a worldly level, but the soul-fulfillment will be grand, and it just might make a dent when all is said and done.

I have seen a thousand pretenders for every contender, and I am not looking for heroes. It is possible that some heroes will come from the choir, but nobody who thinks they are a hero will really be one. The greatest heroes that I ever met became heroes just because they were trying to do the right and decent thing, not because they wanted to be immortalized in song and legend. People like Ralph:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/mcgehee.htm#saigon

Dennis:

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

and the few others like them had their moments of truth that nearly ended their lives. I would rather have been anywhere else on Earth than on that witness stand that day:

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

Being a hero is not like it is in cowboy movies.

There is nothing about solving the FE riddle that is easy, but if enough people do the work, we may be able to make some harmonic noise that shakes something loose, in a good way.

I have a little more time before work, so back to the rise of Europe and the USA. As I stated earlier, England was the first out of the gate on industrialization, and had the field to itself for the better part of a century, before other nations joined the fray:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...and#post653078

and that big lead ended up making England the world’s leading imperial power. France helped carve away England’s most successful colonies in the American Revolution, and England’s offspring had surpassed it within a little more than a hundred years. In 1880, the USA’s per capita level of industrialization was in second place to Britain, but was less than half of it. By 1913, the USA passed up Britain in per capita level of industrialization (see Kennedy’s The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, p. 200), and by 1928 the USA’s per capita industrialization was 50% higher than Britain’s. And in absolute terms, it was far more dramatic. In 1928, the USA’s industrial capacity was four times Britain’s, and was about equal to the combined industrial capacity of Britain, Germany, France, Russia, Italy and Japan combined. Those were the primary belligerents in World War II, and the USA was as big as all of them put together. World War II saw the destruction of the industrial base of all of the USA’s rivals, and in 1945, the USA possessed fully half of the world’s measurable wealth. There has been nothing like that in history. I was born during the post-war boom in the USA, which is history’s biggest economic bubble, and it ended when energy-consumption per capita peaked in the USA in 1973-1974, with the first oil crisis. Peak Oil is now upon us, with fracking, mining the tar sands, deep-ocean drilling and the like being the dregs-sucking activity that accompanies every resource depletion event in history.

But I get ahead of myself a little. I want to go back to some of the details of the rise of England and the USA, with its rivals trying to play catch-up. Again, stealing a hemisphere was crucial to the rise of both England and the USA, and it was fitting that the biggest energy prize so far, oil, was first drilled in the USA, in 1859, just as the USA began its steep ascent of industrialization. The USA was the leading oil-producing nation for a long time. The USA still provided more than half of global production in 1950:

http://www.americanforeignrelations....rld-power.html

Today, it is about ten percent:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...oil_production

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

I've stumbled today over this video, a testimony from "survivors of the Canadian Residential Schools"

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kCkA8Op0-ek

These men are looking for someone to at least admit what was done to them, how their lands were stolen and their culture destroyed.

While listening to this interview I had sudden understanding of this quote that Wade refers to in his essays:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it."

Most of the American population will never ever give a fair hearing to the "natives". To do so would mean that they would have to admit that they are currently living on stolen land, they would have to admit how horrendous it is to have other humans live in "reserves". They would have to seriously consider that the native may have more "rights" on this land than what was granted to them. They would have to talk to the native people as equals and deeply apologize for the genocide that took place so that they can have their comfortable lives...

The same is true for oil. How could they afford to even consider the Middle East their equals when their entire life style is dependent on the stolen oil? I am sorry to be picking on Americans in this post, but it looks like their high standard of life is at the expense of the rest of the planet . How could they ever admit to this? One way would be to help bring free energy to the world, to make it so that apologizing, acknowledging and healing past mistakes does not have to lead to more people suffering... until that happens there will only be denial, because the truth is incredibly hard to face. How would "Americans" feel if they would be forced to live on a reserve?

[sandy]

Hi Ilie,

What you say is very true! However if abundance for all was alive and well in this world it would not take long for people to apologize to one another for wrongs and harm done. At least from my experience in life I could not right the wrong I had done until I understood why I did what I did and that given another choice, chances are I would have acted different.

Being a Canadian and having worked with many First Nations peoples, bands and councils the devastation is pretty well complete as far as conditioning and total victimization. This has happened all over the world to all indigenous peoples however the reserves are visible in North America and invisible on many levels in other countries IMO.

I'm not sure that they will ever get their due coming from a victim stance but the one thing I do take heart in is the fact that they are coming together with support from other cultures and peoples on many levels, resulting in building cooperation versus division. First Nations now have to work toward stopping the lateral violence and prejudice they have with one another even within a Tribal Council that formulates a number of tribes. When I worked in the Yukon in Northern Canada and in the heart of the Province of Alberta as well, I worked for council's that oversaw 4-5 tribes and within that system they had a hierarchy just like white society with the most industrialized band looking down on those farther down the line. The scarcity paradigm is alive and well in all cultures and the indoctrination of the indigenous people validated warring as a way of means. Many indigenous were warring before Europeans came on the scene as the scarcity theme was already alive and well.

As the process of freeing civilization continues, the steps we all take makes a difference. When I say it does my heart good to see the indigenous people coming together around the world I mean it, as the strength they possess is something to behold and admire and to see them publicly come forth including the "Idle No More" movement here in Canada is admirable IMHO. In essence it may not work or be the answer to recognition of their sovereignty as a First Nations people or right the wrongs been and being done to them, but it is a step in self actualization and moving out of the state of victim hood............scarcity!! I just keep saying Way To Go!!! With an Irish heritage (Grandfather immigrated from Ireland or may have been running from the law :D) it never crosses my mind that the English and other oppressors should apologize to me for the attempts of genocide and generations of dysfunction my lineage has experienced. This is the world of Scarcity, so deep rooted as Wade's writings depict daily.

In a group setting one day there was a very heart rendering session on the abuse from residential schools that the individuals participating shared openly and their experiences where as horrendous as in the above video. Their trauma and pain was palatable. The shame and guilt I felt at the time was overwhelming. Being the only white person in the room and through heart felt tears I apologized for the insurmountable harm my prejudices and societies prejudice's and oppression has brought them from generation to generation. They as a group of fellow human beings rushed in to take care of me and to nurture me as we walked together to a place of mutual understanding and forgiveness. Our hearts met each other that day and there was no distinction of color, race, creed, etc. Our energies safely and freely intermingled!! That is just one experience that will be repeated over and over again with individuals and groups around the world with the advent and the implementation of Free Energy. I can feel the joy and connectedness already or maybe it is just re-living the memory of the above experience, but some how I don't think so as I sit here with a big grin on my face envisioning the abundance of Love.

[Wade Frazier]

I wrote almost all of the below before I saw Sandy’s masterful post. That just might be the post of the year here, so far. Keep singing, my dear.

Hi Ilie:

Pick away. Of course, those charges have more gravity when an American makes them, which is partly why I do it. Yes, the natives of Canada had a similar experience, if not so bloody and overt. Much of the American experience was comprised of outright extermination campaigns:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#goldrush

But Canada and the USA share that English heritage, which was not pretty:

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

The Huron people lived in what became Canada:

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

The Indian “schools” in Canada and the USA worked similarly (we did sterilizations, too http://muse.jhu.edu/login?type=summa...3lawrence.html ). The rubric of “education”,” philanthropy,” great “humanitarian” works and the like make nice cover stories for theft and genocide.

The most forceful writer on the American version of those “schools” is Ward Churchill:

http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Indian-Sa...ndian+save+man

and as I have written, the establishment terminated his career for writings like that:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post637484

The Canadian genocidal activities did not get as much press as the American ones, but it was also evil business:

http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org/intro2.html

and the Canadians did it under the tent pole of education and the like.

Unlike the USA, the Canadian government at least made a show of an apology:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadia...rnment_apology

The USA never apologizes for anything:

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

The USA has used all manner of subterfuge, with a veneer of “humanitarian” motives which never survive the slightest scrutiny:

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

But the USA was far from alone:

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

Our humanitarian record is among the worst on Earth today, if not the worst on Earth:

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

I want to, however, draw the connection that may not be obvious to all, on this issue and how it related to the FE conundrum. Again, the primary lesson my journey was that personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity, and that is the reason why we do not have FE today:

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

Not Godzilla’s antics, not because there are technological issues, not because FE is “impossible,” and so on.

When I see all the denial by Americans that any more than a handful of Iraqis even died in Iraq due to our invasion, much less the fact that millions died:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post652292

or that virtually nobody in the USA today (at least white people) wants to admit what instruments of genocide the reservations still are, it is all egocentric lack of integrity, plain and simple, and scarcity reinforces that egocentrism, as people just want to be on the “winning team” no matter what. Even if they rationalize the fate of the losers, they really know, deep down, that the differences are inconsequential. My status as a member of history’s most privileged demographic group is an accident of birth, but my “peers” – white, educated, American men – almost never want to admit it. We are all riding a bubble, a bubble that has been slowly deflating for forty years, and may pop soon, and globally, unless enough of us can wake up.

When economic scarcity becomes a thing of the past (only FE has a chance to make that happen), the games people play to “get theirs” while ignoring the suffering that they inflict on others in order to “get theirs” will be seen as something akin to slavery and other “primitive” behaviors, relegated to relics of our past, a past that we will all be happy that we overcame.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One pal says, “Take the best, and leave the rest.” That has been my approach for a long time, too. The positive and negative developments can be seen in every stage of the human journey, and it depends on the perspective. Only so much sunlight hits Earth, and when humans ramped up their energy consumption, before industrialization, it almost always meant that energy was taken from another life form. The expansion of humans to all inhabitable continents ended up driving most of the world’s megafauna to extinction:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#_edn5

Domestication favored the “thriving” of animals that were domesticated, but their lives became something for humans to consume. Humans also became “domesticated” along with their animals, and the world became less wild, in a number of ways, when the Domestication Revolution happened. The human mind was also domesticated. Agriculture always led to cities, and cities always led to elites, who clambered to the top of the economic hierarchies. Because energy was scarce, even though more energy was being wrenched from the land, economic hierarchies developed. Those hierarchies have yet to go away, but they have become less pronounced in ways. Chattel slavery ended with industrialization, and women became far freer, which helped lead to what is called the demographic transition:

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

The world’s richest man goes to the movies by himself and nobody notices him:

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

which is a far cry from the entourages that have accompanied elites from the beginning. From the very beginnings, ideologies were concocted to justify the situation of scarcity and the elites receiving their disproportionate share. The elites were granted divine status in the day’s religions. They had monuments to themselves, harems, palaces, fancy clothing and the like. It was not only elite status that ideologists labored to justify, but the slaves at the bottom also had ideological arguments aimed at them, to justify their treatment. All civilizations had some kind of ranking, which could be an outright caste system, feudal lords with serfs, etc. Until industrialization, all civilizations were subject to famine, and the primary preoccupation of all peoples for all time until industrialization was getting enough food to eat, which is something that fat Westerners are not familiar with.

Although elites were always parasites on the body politic, serving little or no useful societal function, people came together in cities for the benefits that they provided. Cities are where the energy was concentrated. People could easily communicate and learn specialized skills that rural life could not make possible, and the hinterland was always subjugated to the benefit of the city. Many aspects of civilization, such as writing, could not have been developed and sustained in rural environments. The opportunity to become wealthy was primarily in cities, as the aspiring elites quickly discovered. All early writings were urban accounting, to tote up the elite haul:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post540992

With changes in the economy came ideologists to justify it, usually so that they could find a place at the elite table, or at least eat their scraps. That dynamic is with us to the present day. What passes for economics today is obsessed with the exchange aspect of it, which is only meaningful in a world of scarcity. Because the focus is on exchange – who gets what – the focus is on exchange-related subjects such as money, banking, and taxes. All of that is really pretty meaningless and will not solve our problems in the slightest, mainly because it has nothing to do with the real economy.

When Europe began to rise and as England began to industrialize, levels of energy use previously unattainable were achieved, (wind in ocean-going sailing ships, whales, watermills, windmills, increased productivity with horse-drawn plows, etc.), and new ideologies took root. And like Court historians and elite accountants that tagged along and made the elite privileges seem as natural as the sunrise, ideologists began to erect the framework that justified the new economic regime, and capitalism was born, which succeeded mercantilism. As Michael Perelman made very clear in The Invention of Capitalism, capitalism was a highly coercive economic ideology, but the classical economists labored mightily and deceptively to make the new economic order seem another force of nature. In order to do that, they had to puff up the seemingly positive aspects of capitalism while actively covering up the highly negative and coercive aspects of it. When writing among themselves, the classical economists were frank about the nature of their enterprise, which was to put a happy face on a plunder system, and one of the chief mechanisms of coercion was the so-called free market. There has never been such a thing as a free market, but like nursery rhymes and bedtime tales, the early capitalists made the market an object of worship, and that religious conviction is with us today. People such as Ronald Reagan literally called the market “magical.”

The “market” is all about exchange, and the early classical economists knew that once the capitalists had seized the means of production, which was primarily fertile land in the early days of capitalism, then the “market” became a great coercive mechanism that could seemingly run on its own, and if it seemed like a pure mechanism, then making the case that it was some form of nature at work became easier. Also, the English were the first out of the gate with industrialization, and if they could establish their primacy with their weaponry and industrial capacity, then their ideology could become the new, dominant religion.

A fact of colonialism is that it made the colonized lands subject to the imperial headquarters, so the subjugated peoples had their economies redirected to serve the “crown.” This was universal for all peoples that the Europeans conquered, but England began its “free market” evangelizing as it got the upper hand, and what it did to India and China is the classic case. Bengal is the first place that Britain conquered in that region, it was probably the world’s richest region, and it was largely a textile center. The de-industrialization was severe in Bengal, with the British literally amputating the thumbs of Bengali weavers. Bengal quickly became the most starved and poorest part of the region, a status that continues to this day:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#bengal

Then India’s textile industry moved to Britain, and the people of Bengal, and later India, were enslaved to produce plantation goods, such as tea, indigo, cotton, and the like, and the most notorious “product” was opium. The Chinese, like the Japanese, had successfully avoided European intrusion and conquest, but the British conquered the Chinese via “free trade” and it demanded the right to addict China to opium:

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

Once it broke through with its opium wars, and Indians were enslaved to grow opium, the subjugation of China began. Because Japan and China were able to resist the Europeans the longest, they have the largest economies of non-white people today. In Paul Bairoch’s Cities and Economic Development, he wrote of the British gunboat policing of China’s waterways, as keeping China conducive to “free trade.” He put “free trade” in quotes just like I did, meaning that there was nothing free about it. In the 1980s, the Reagan administration repeated the British strategy by forcing open several East Asian nations to American tobacco companies, again touting “free trade,” but only getting their “free trade” via open threats, if not the “free trade” invasion that the British inflicted on China:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#stat

On the USA’s West Coast I constantly encounter tobacco-addicted East Asian tourists, young ones who are casualties of Reagan’s “free trade” inflicting of a deadly addiction on women and children.

I discovered the hard way that there is nothing resembling a “free market” in the USA’s energy industry:

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

and I eventually discovered that it is a global phenomenon, and Godzilla is only capitalism taken to its logical extreme:

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

but the game, as always, is power, with economics merely a means to it. The reason why all the good stuff is kept under wraps:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground

has nothing whatsoever to do with trying to be responsible and keep powerful technologies out of the public’s "stupid" hands. Godzilla has many unwitting allies/dupes amongst the Level 5s:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5

but the only reason why Godzilla keeps the lid so tightly on the goodies, and FE technology is chief among them, is about maintaining his power, plain and simple. And so far, humanity is obliging him, and in the capitalist heartland, greed has literally been turned into a virtue:

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

So, the situation that we have today, where we have our toes over the brink of the abyss, is not like some new trend, but the logical conclusion of the trajectory that we have been on ever since our ancestors learned to control fire:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post538665

As long as we get our energy by raping the environment and each other, our trajectory to self-extinction will continue. But if enough of us can muster some heart-centered sentience, we can help lead our benighted species from the edge of the abyss, and those who do the leading will be taking humanity toward this world:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#roads1

But if not enough of us can muster it, I don’t want to be here when it hits the wall. Whichever outcome is on its way, whether we hit the wall or get over the hump, will likely happen in my lifetime, at least for the trajectory to be set. It is quite a time to be alive. What will we do?

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Sunny-side-up]

Hello to you Wade.
I was sitting here trying think of a meaningful welcome message to you but just wen't blank. So I shut my eye's to think harder and SIGH!
My mind just spread out and forward into a Deep Meditative Bliss for about an hour.
Thanks for that Wade it was unexpected.
I hope you have many a Bliss time here in Avalon.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi

This series of posts that I began in July will come to an end before long, perhaps this month. Then, it will be a several-month sabbatical from my day job. I will be getting a bunch of bucket list chores done, but writing that essay will be the big event. I will likely be fairly quiet while writing it, and will try for one post a week here while I am doing it. After I publish it, then we will see what is next.

This thread and the related ones comprised an experiment that I was not intending to perform before I got my essay written, but Bill made a troll-free forum, and it was close to what I was thinking of. What has taken place here have been baby steps toward what I intend to get going. It took time from my essay, but it was time well spent. Whether my strategy will work or not for what I have in mind, I will find out, but I am optimistic. Whether it fails or makes a dent, nothing like it has been attempted before, and I want to thank everybody who read and contributed to this and the related threads. 350K+ page views is a lot of reading. Also, “failure” in what I am doing should not mean wrecked and prematurely ended lives, but there will be hazards if what I intend begins to gather any steam. Angels fear to tread in this realm, and it is no place for gung-ho newbies. Dennis and I were two of the most gung-ho people in the field, and Dennis is still incredibly at it, playing Indiana Jones, while I am retired from playing spear carrier.

The members of the choir will have to go deep if this is going to work. Superficial, quick study will not get it done. People such as David have studied my work for years, and some of his stops on his globe-trotting had some of my work in mind, as he checked stuff out. Ilie has been doing his homework for the past two years, and he is singing. Sandy has been spending lifetimes learning to master her emotional energy. My work is new to them, but they brought plenty to the table. This subject matter is far more than any one person can digest in a lifetime, but the “collective intelligence” that Bucky wrote of is what the choir will be all about. My work should not be the last word, but more like the first.

More important than getting the choir going is doing my best to make sure that it does not go astray. I will try to shut down the choir before I let it become a vehicle for people to wreck their lives and the lives of others. I have lived through too much carnage already, and I don’t know that it ever did any good, other than to show me what definitely does not work in the FE milieu. I don’t need another disaster on my resume, and maybe some people need to be on the battlefield for a few minutes before they begin to sober up to the realities, but I am not trying to lure anybody onto that dying field. There are plenty of people trying out their FE strategies, and people need to go see them, if they just have to go “do something.” Godzilla’s agents will happily play Pied Piper for naïve newbies, sending them off into unproductive activities and dire fates. I have seen many at Avalon and elsewhere who are susceptible, and I feel a great deal of responsibility to help keep them out of trouble, and not get an effort going that will attract much trouble.

Even the people who did not understand what I am attempting, tried to disrupt it, kept hammering on the inventor of the hour, and so on, played their divine role, and I am always learning. I see where I need to raise my game, and I am getting even more particular on what I am planning to do.

Ilie was my first indicator that what I intended might have a chance, and people like Darren lurking, doing his homework, and trying to find his voice, is part of what I am looking for. I am going to use Darren as an example, if I may. He will likely not find anybody in his progressive community who is willing and able to reach Level 12, and Darren is not so sure that he himself is fit for the task. He has been cautious with his FE talk, and has seen how deeply-baked scarcity is, and about all that he has found has been an assortment of various flavors of denial, from the knee-jerk kind to the sophisticated denial that characterizes Level 3:

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

What all reactions below Level 12 have in common is that they are mired in scarcity. Some more obviously, some more subtly, but they all are. Moving from scarcity to abundance, even in one’s imagination, is something that almost nobody on Earth is willing or capable of doing today. They will only begin to understand abundance when it is shown to them, and the best way to show it is with FE. FE makes abundance possible. Nothing else comes close, and Godzilla understands this very well, hence the immense cover-ups of everything related to FE, including the ET presence.

How to demonstrate FE, however, is the hard part. Somebody like Darren, who may not have heard of FE before he encountered my work, or who first heard about it via the many other conspiratorial musings that dominate “alternative” forums, with most of it invalid, is still trying to get used to the idea of abundance. If he really begins to embrace the idea, one outcome is that in his daily life he will be utterly alone. Brian O said how lonely this journey is:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#lonely

and I know the feeling all too well. I am not trying to get something going where people tell their friends, family, and colleagues, the “good news” about FE. I can’t even do it in my life. If I can help the Darrens find their voice, help the Ilies on the path of their learning, help the Sandys think more scientifically and comprehensively, and so on, the choir will be on its way to forming. But my target audience is not the public via the mass media, via some “movement,” or by any one group existing today, as I have yet to see one with the right stuff. The target audience will be people from all walks of life who are interested in the truth, are interested in love, are interested in healing humanity and the planet. And it will be like finding needles in haystacks, but I believe that enough needles exist on the planet, and I am trying to take advantage of this new medium called the Internet to find them. There is no group on Earth today that is really all about love, abundance, and healing Earth and humanity. They are all trying to butter their bread somehow, in our world of scarcity. I am not looking for heroes, not ones that play at this level:

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

or even a few below that. The talent and courage to sing the abundance song is all that I seek.

The choir may be able to help the heroes, and that could be seen as one of the choir’s goals, but I really hope that we don’t need heroes to save us from ourselves, partly because if we do, then we likely won’t get over the hump, or not the hump to abundance. It is time to claim our responsibility and sentience. If enough of us can learn the song and sing it, we may be able to make a dent, and even if we don’t, it beats watching TV.

I am trying to not just help FE move past humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression, but to initiate an awareness that can handle and maintain abundance. As I have stated, every child age six and older in this world:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#roads1

knows more about the human body and how to be healthy than anybody on the planet today. If they took our IQ tests, they would go off the scale. My comprehensive writings will be seen like cave drawings to their world, but will be seen as primitive perceptions and yearnings that eventually helped lead to the world that they live in. And maybe, just maybe, I will live there, too, in a future life.

Hi Sunny-side-up: I am not sure that I can take any credit for your experience, but I am glad you had it.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

By 1840, the American Indian was virtually extinct east of the Mississippi River. The passenger pigeon was also on its swift trajectory to extinction. The woodlands bison had been extinct for generations by that time, and the plains bison’s turn was coming. The USA soon stole Texas and most of what became the western USA from Mexico:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post656277

I want to make clear that that was all primarily economic in nature, and also imperial. The USA had what is called a “territorial empire,” like the Mongol or Median empires:

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

The difference was that with the empires of the Old World, they generally did not exterminate the inhabitants, although the two greatest extermination campaigns of all time were performed by the Mongols and Hitler’s regime. Because the Mongols slaughtered about ten percent of the world’s population, people have made the case for all the benefits that the Mongol hordes produced, such as reforestation:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...s-dropped.html

The American experience was different in that they primarily wanted the land. The inhabitants did not have civilizations that could be enslaved and milked like a cow. The wealth was in “virgin” land that had not been deforested and put to the plow, and later, the coal, oil, and minerals that lied below it. So, when I hear stuff like the USA was “nation-building” or that it really did not get going with the imperial game until it conquered Hawaii:

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

and stole the last imperial possessions of Spain:

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

that is not really an accurate reading of the events. The USA was engaging in a rather new form of imperialism, of annihilating the inhabitants and stealing their land, but it was still imperialistic. When the USA began conquering past the North American continent, then it was coming to the same table that Britain sat at, but it had been playing an imperial game for a long time before that.

Britain was also engaging in a new form of imperialism, a maritime empire that spanned the globe, which eventually boasted that the sun never set on it. As I have already discussed, industrialization allowed Britain to prevail over its rivals, and when the USA passed everybody up by a long way on the industrialization curve:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post660425

that led it to becoming the world’s leading imperial power by far. But as early American “nation-building” is never really discussed in terms like “empire-building,” today’s empire is similarly not called an empire, except in frank admissions once in a while:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post651262

Orwell’s lessons have been learned, and well. We don’t call ourselves an empire, but some kind of leader of freedom, with several hundred military bases scattered around the world, and we call it all “defense.” And whoever does not allow us to base our military there can be counted on to need a little “liberating” by our forces of light, with Yugoslavia:

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

Iraq:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post652292

and Libya:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post659038

receiving our loving bombs, and the “liberation” goes on, with Syria being a recent target:

http://www.zcommunications.org/beyon...dward-s-herman

as Iran has been, ever since they overthrew the dictator that we installed, and they have all of that oil that we covet:

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

Venezuela is never far from our attention, with their oil. Because Great Britain is the USA’s parent and the War of Independence was really not all that bloody, the imperial relations were always somewhat cordial, although the Brits burned Washington D.C. during the War of 1812, which the USA started:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812

That war was little more than a sideshow for the Brits, who were busy fighting Napoleon’s France, but the ascent of American nationalism began after that war:

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

to reach orgiastic dimensions by the end of that century:

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

While the USA was expanding, the European rivals were busy conquering the rest of the world. During the 1700s, it was mainly the Brits against the French, with the Brits getting India, Australia, and New Zealand, and taking most of France’s colonies from it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...t_with_Britain

The French got a second wind in the 1830s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_...281830-1960.29

and by the late 1850s it was conquering Southeast Asia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam...French_Vietnam

China was gang-raped by the imperial rivals, and the so-called Boxer Rebellion was novel in the multinational troops that went there:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_R...national_force

By the late 1800s, the only places of significance not conquered by the whites were Japan, Africa, and the Ottoman Empire. Japan was not finally conquered until the USA dropped atom bombs on them:

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

and the imperial rivals began fighting over the Ottoman lands with the Crimean War, where the first steamships and railroads were used in warfare:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ean#post624099

The Crimean War can be seen as the first industrialized war, with the USA not far behind in its Civil War. The “Eastern Question” over the Ottoman Empire’s fate dominated European “diplomacy” during the 19th century:

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

and when it turned out that the Ottoman Empire was sitting on an ocean of oil, and the imperial powers were all adopting that highly superior fuel for transportation in particular:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post653586

the Ottoman Empire was quickly carved up by the imperial rivals after World War I, and they never really left, with the American/British invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan (and any other mercenary nations that want our scraps) just the latest energy wars inflicted on the region.

The late 1800s saw the imperial rivals carve up Africa, in an event now called the Scramble for Africa:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/lies.htm#scramble

Tiny Belgium even joined the game, launching a “humanitarian” genocide in the Congo, as the rubber boom took off with industrialization:

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

There was also a rubber boom in the Amazon which preceded the African boom, with the usual genocidal effects:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_...ous_population

Like India, Africa was soon laced with railroads, and like India and in stark contrast to Europe and the USA, the railroads were not centered around cities and between them, but were lines that led from the mines and plantations to ports, to be shipped to the imperial capitals. They were outright plunder routes. The rape of the Congo by Belgium began one of the first true humanitarian protests in the imperial heartland, as the nature of the “trade” between Belgium and the Congo became evident. All that Belgium “exported” to the Congo were men and weapons, and all that came back were blood-drenched “goods” for Europe, such as ivory and rubber. See King Leopold’s Ghost for more (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Leopold%27s_Ghost ). A European protest movement began in that era, centered in Britain, and the Brits kangarooed its leader into prison, etc., which is a familiar enough theme, but that the protests were centered in Britain had significance, I think. Some of the world’s richest people developed a conscience. Their protests were not exactly new on the imperial front, as Spanish priests protested the genocide in the Caribbean from its early days:

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

and there were even protests in colonial America toward the genocidal effects of Britain’s “trade” with India:

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

but the protest movement against Belgian imperialism in the Congo got the big names of literature involved, such as Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, and Arthur Conan Doyle:

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

It is argued that those protestors were usually protesting some other empire’s excesses, and there is merit to that argument, but it was not always the case. Twain was prominent in the American Anti-Imperialist League ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America...rialist_League), although his efforts are virtually unknown today:

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

The crimes of the industrial empires are long and sordid, but there was also significant resistance to the rape-and-plunder program, which was something new, and those early humanitarian impulses have matured into the protest movements that we see today, although they are largely impotent and victim-oriented, about how the imperial state is victimizing others. But I can write about my nation’s awesome crimes and nobody has come to cart me off to prison yet. But that is because almost nobody listens. Try to do some real economic activism, such as bring FE to market, and the response is a little different:

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

It is only activism that threatens to have a real economic impact that is taken out. Otherwise, the protestors are largely left alone, although journalists and peace activists in the USA have had a pretty rough ride in the USA since 9/11, as the imperial activities have gone into overdrive. The violent invasions and other activities of the USA since 9/11 are the sign of a declining empire, and the USA today is suffering from imperial overstretch, with its invasions of Hydrocarbon Country costing several trillion dollars:

http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/iraq-...ollars-report/

as the USA’s standard of living continues to decline, which has taken a dramatic drop since the financial crisis of 2008. I read up on that disaster nearly every day. Millions of Americans have dropped out of the workforce:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3028135.html

More are getting free food than ever:

http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/04/pf/f...high/index.htm

as they live on the edge, and thousands of Americans literally live underground in scenes out of some nightmare:

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a...ets-of-america

But as Europe and the USA industrialized, it was noticed that the industrialization process was not entirely dependent on raping foreign peoples or even domestic ones. Economic advance was no longer the zero-sum-game that it used to be, at least as far as what people did to each other. The energy surplus provided by fossil fuels obviated the need to enslave entire nations, although it was still done for no other reason than the industrialized peoples could. The non-industrial peoples never had a chance.

In the 1800s, two newcomers came to the imperial table: Germany and Japan. They were late to the game, and did not have vast lands and peoples to plunder like the established powers did, and any analysis of what led to the World Wars that does not have that fact at its center is going to be deficient. The World Wars were wars of rights of plunder between the imperial powers, plain and simple. No other motivation withstands the slightest scrutiny, and the USA came out on top, with all of its rivals wrecked, due to the wars. Germany was literally carved into pieces by the victors, and Japan was rebuilt under the USA’s total control. In the controlled parts of Germany, the Soviets literally dismantled German factories and rebuilt them in the Soviet Union. Germany and Japan both starved in the war’s aftermath, with the victors executing their leaders after war crimes trials. Germany and Japan committed heinous atrocities, there is no doubt, but they were merely emulating their imperial “betters,” and the German attitude toward Eastern Europe, and Japan’s attitude toward China and the Pacific Asian rim, were simply retreads of America’s Manifest Destiny ideology:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post660018

Their crimes were doing it to their own races, when there were no distant races to inflict their imperial crimes on. The USA commits imperial crimes today that Hitler and Tojo could not dream of, sending military juggernauts to the far reaches of Earth, plundering foreign peoples at will, to steal what we want from them, killing millions on the process. We are trying to actively militarize space today:

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

but the ETs are being disruptive, keeping us animals in our cage.

Germany's and Japan’s conquests were local in nature. The British and Americans attained truly global imperial status.

I have a busy day ahead of me, so we will see if I get another post done.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am starting to get hit repeatedly, understandably, by people announcing Greer’s new movie:

http://www.sirius.neverendinglight.com/

as they ask me what I think. I would like to deal with it here, and direct my correspondents to this post. I have written about Greer’s odyssey more than once:

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

In the UFO community, Greer has been a lightning rod, both pro and con. His Congressional hearings in 1997 is the only one of its kind, and in my circles there is little doubt that the strange cancer cases that Greer, his assistant, and others in the Disclosure effort got right after the hearings and around them were no coincidence:

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

Playing the Washington D.C. game, where people are “merely” exposing corruption among the retail elites, is dangerous enough:

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

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

but when people go to Washington to try to blow the lid off of the biggest issues that humanity faces, then the big guns come out. That is partly why I turned down my invitation to the White House:

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

I will likely never fully buy the “tenant” explanation for Mallove’s murder:

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

It spooked Brian O so much that he immediately moved to South America, where he spent the rest of his life. Brian’s life was shortened because of his “innocent” involvement in the UFO issue:

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

Brian wrote the forward to Greer’s latest book:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianbio.htm#_edn24

and Greer gave blurbs to Brian’s books:

http://www.brianoleary.info/Synopsis.html

I consider Greer to be a casualty of the battle, in ways that may seem bizarre. By numerous accounts, Greer’s personality changed after his bout with cancer. He went from being relatively soft-spoken to going Über-warrior in his approach. I don’t know if that was because of using exotic technology on him, a strategic decision, his particular reaction to his meat-grinder experiences, or something else. I have seen people go through less than he did who were never the same, being crippled in mind and spirit. That Greer is still trying at all is amazing. But I have seen Greer have falling outs with former allies, and there is another “disclosure” effort happening, with Greer’s participation, although his bio is a little short :

http://www.citizenhearing.org/dr-steven-greer/

So he may not be as estranged from the UFO community as some think. I know three people who applied to be his personal assistant, and one did it for a short time, but Greer’s personality issues were generally too great for them to deal with. He and I have crossed paths many times, and I have heard all manner of scuttlebutt about him.

Using receipts from his movie to build an FE lab is one way to go about it, and his strategy and mine are not all that far apart, although he is really playing the Level 10 game (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level10), and I know that he has mixed feelings about it. His approach is very much like Dennis's.

He is not pursuing a phantom or promoting a myth. My friend got this show:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground

well before the 1997 Disclosure hearings, and my friend does not even believe in UFOs. The FE and ET connection seems to be very real, and I have hopes for Greer’s efforts, although I am not going to be distracted from mine. If I get a choir going, it will create a safer environment for people like Greer, Brian, and Dennis to operate in. That is one of the goals that I have for the choir, but far from the only one.

I know that Greer has been trying to make this movie for about a decade, and this is his life’s work, and I can only respect it. Many in the FE and UFO fields do not like Greer, and in my brief encounter with him (he did not know who I was), he nearly barked orders at me within seconds.

I can only respect the journeys of people like Greer, Adam, Brian, and Dennis. If there were a hundred like them, we would already have FE, and defending Brian’s legacy, and probably Dennis’s before long, takes plenty of my “spare” time. When I see the pot shots come from the peanut gallery at Greer, I look to see what efforts in that field that those in the peanut gallery have made, and the answer is usually nothing at all. I have not seen anybody who has really played at the high, meat-grinder levels get on Greer’s case too much publicly, although I have heard plenty in private. Greer is human like all of us, and his suffering has been great at times, and it shows, as it does with all of us who survived the meat grinder. There were many years when I was not fit to engage the public, or even the quasi-public at Avalon.

I will stay tuned to how Greer’s efforts and those “disclosure” hearings go. They are likely the most important subjects on the planet today, and deserve widespread attention.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Hi Wade,

Thanks for writing your thoughts about "Sirius" and Dr. Greer. I am again surprised by by your balanced writing (although I should know better by this time ).

As the date approaches I am getting more and more enthusiastic. I may set myself up for disappointment though. Most of the people I've told about this movie get stuck on the ET issue (dismissing it or being fascinated by it) totally missing Greer's note about "how did they get here?!" (tech wise).

Anyway, I am curios as to what impact will it have, now that Greer has Facebook and YouTube to spread his message, and how much will it be about energy and how much about the ETs.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

This entire milieu is filled with potential distractions, and if any of us got hung up on them, we would not have gotten anywhere. When I participated in the remote viewing experiences that initiated my mystical awakening:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#brown

the training had conditioning statements that those abilities were to only be used to assist humanity, but I later saw the man reading those statements abuse his abilities:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/orthodox.htm#silva

Early on, when you become exposed to the paranormal and other “weird stuff,” it can be seductive to get caught up in the spectacle, to try to use it for personal gain, and so on. There is no bigger issue on Earth than FE and the conjoined ET issue, and it can present immense challenges to our little egos. I wrestled with delusions of grandeur early in my FE days:

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

and I have seen others get swallowed up by them. Brian O admitted how his astronaut and politically-active days tended to inflate his ego:

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

I have seen Dennis and Greer both wrestle with the issue. Those are hazards of walking these paths, but a little meat-grinder action helps keep one humble. I have seen Greer keep trying to establish his credibility, when the seeker was past that. One reality of this milieu is that Dennis, Greer, Brian, Adam and others have been pilloried by the media, have constantly fielded pot shots from the peanut gallery, and have dealt with the derision of the masses, while Godzilla takes them very seriously, and has tried to take them all out at one time or another, usually repeatedly. The “battle” takes place with the masses entirely oblivious, as well as the “allies” of those FE heroes. That can lead to those moments of disgust with humanity that we have all had to deal with:

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

On this playing field, one of the bigger pitfalls is conspiracism. It can be a seductive yet toxic mindset that combines delusions of grandeur, paranoia, and titillation. Dennis is a conspiracist, for instance, but he has some reason for it, but conspiracism is a disease of the uninitiated and uneducated, IMO. If some ETs showed up at my house tomorrow, after a moment or two of surprise, I would probably ask them why they are at my home. Sitting and chatting with them would undoubtedly be interesting, but I would quickly want them to cut to the chase, and ask: “Are you here to help us turn the corner? We need help. If you aren’t here to help, I am not too interested in hanging out with you.”

What you are referring to, with people getting hung up on the ET angle, is a variation of people getting hung up in the early layers of the FE onion and never sniffing Level 12. Level 12 is about getting over the hump, not getting rich, becoming famous, and so on. Level 12 is about developing a mature, comprehensive perspective.

There are immense challenges with the path that Greer is taking. There are people in my circles that would have rather seen Dennis or Brian lead the effort instead of Greer, and I understand their sentiments, but this is about getting over the hump, and Greer has been trying. There is no monopoly on any of this. Anybody could have tried what Greer has been doing, or Dennis, or me. It is easy to sit in the peanut gallery and hurl opinions at them, but getting out of our easy chairs and doing something - that will always have my respect. Again, anybody interested in really doing something in the FE field has plenty of opportunities to do so, with Greer’s efforts being the latest on the scene, trying to scale the ramparts. Will he get the hot oil poured on him again? I don’t know, but I am standing way back.

It is very possible that somebody like Greer will get The Muppet Movie ending. He is on my short list of people that deserve it. But he is playing the Level 10 game, which is extremely perilous, and I know that his heart has not always been in it, and Dennis has had the same struggles. The masses will come for the spectacle, to take advantage, and so on. The bread-and-circuses mentality comes with Level 10, and I have strong doubts that it will work, but I am always ready to be pleasantly surprised. However, I will keep on with my Level 12 efforts, because if FE actually appears on the scene, the Level 12 mentality will be needed more than ever.

Dennis has played the game at a higher level than Greer has, or anybody else in the FE field, because he was putting disruptive energy technology on the market:

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

and that is when class really begins. The entire FE field suffers from arrested development, obsessing on the technology, with the scientists and tinkerers dominant. Greer understands a lot of that, but he is about to venture into new territory, and I wish him the best. His effort won’t be a Thrive, so there is reason for being optimistic, but the odds, as usual, are long.

Greer is hip enough and experienced enough to realize that the ET connection is part of the whole. To deny the ET connection, because the masses can’t get past that fact, would be playing the Level 10 game to a T, so Greer’s conjoining them is Level 12-ish, and is to be applauded. People who can’t handle the connection will “self-select” themselves out of the scene, and that is a good thing. Comprehensive perspectives are needed here, where the various facets are seen for what they are, and are all part of the whole. Getting hung up on any one aspect of it is a big reason why so many have failed.

Let’s say that Greer’s effort leads to Godzilla letting some of the goodies out of his Golden Hoard, and an FE device is on Oprah or Ellen next week. Most of the masses will be focused on stuff like:

1. The ET connection;

2. The “It defies the laws of physics!” connection;

3. The “Why has nobody done this before?” connection;

4. The “How can I get rich off of this?” connection;

5. The “This can blow the planet up!” connection;

6. The “We can beat the Chinese/Japanese/etc.!” connection;

7. The “Let’s string up whoever kept this suppressed!” connection;

and others that hail from those mentalities in the lower levels of the FE onion:

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

While those circuses would go into high gear, what needs to happen, ASAP, would be for enough people to reach Level 12, where their primary concern is,” How we can put this to the highest and best use of humanity and Earth?” That would be something that a pre-existing Level 12 choir would be instrumental in initiating.

Whether it is Greer or another, whether FE happens this year or in a hundred, as humanity is at the brink of self-extinction, that Level 12 choir needs to exist, or something a lot like it, if we are going to turn the corner. I can see this discussion taking some time, and I don’t mind if those exchanges happen on this thread, but I am also trying to get to the end of the narrative that I began in July:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post518761

which will be an outline of my upcoming essay.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Hi Wade,

Like Ilie, I read your thoughts about Greer and his tremendous efforts and found it balanced and unjudgmental. Why would anyone likes to judge him? some will say because he rubbed shoulders with government officials and as you mentioned on your essey on the FE activists, even higher than that. He is initiating his own profound projects as an individual with his name on it which are subject to scrutiny from some of the Alternative milieu and he claims that all Extraterrestrials have benevolent intentions towards earth (which is somewhat problematic ).

However, What Steven Greer has been going through is quite unbelievable for the fact that he still keeps on going, the fact that you have mentioned him, Brian's and Dennis'e name under the same breath, kinda makes one wonder what type of DNA those people have?
Their tireless pursuit for bringing the knowledge of FE out is more than admirable, it is in fact awe-inspiring, and your name can be added to the list of those tireless persuers that hold the vision of FE infront of their eyes at all time. Each and their own unique style.

Electromagnetic weapons can cause a noticable impact on people's behaviour when harassed with it. And it may cause a person to become more militant in their approach even if they are gentle at heart. Experiences of mind attacks, psychic attacks and other harassments of this type sometimes do not leave much choice and there comes the need to develop a thick skin and adopt some kind of a warrior approach.

Hi Ilie, the "Sirius" movie project is indeed very exciting, I guess the only thing left is to wait and see, and as you hinted it will be pretty interseting to find out how much attention was given to the ET'S and how much to the Free Energy part, although, they are both tide together by the hip as Wade always say. This (yet another) sreious attempt for disclosure from Greer can potentially bring very high waves, although, same thing was said on a couple of other disclosure attempts in the past (see: https://youtube.com/watch?v=3jUU4Z8QdHI )

How high the waves will hit? who knows, but it is the only time I think that we are willing to pray for a tsunami

==Edit==

Sorry, didn't see Wade's post above before I pressed the send button, I assume Wade's response can also be suitable for my post.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

I don’t know anybody in this field that thinks that the ETs are 100% benevolent. I doubt that Greer has said this, and I have watched him deny it when people said that he was making the case for 100% benevolent “space brothers.” What he has said is that if the ETs here had malevolent intention toward humanity, it would take them about five minutes to exterminate our species, and that our military’s attacks on them are the height of stupidity. What he and others I have interacted with have stated is that the baddies are not in charge of the operation, but they still can play their games. There are struggles that happen, and I even heard of the “goodies” taking out a “baddie” after he/she/it attacked somebody (and I talked with that “somebody”). Greer also has said that many seeming ET abductions are actually carried out by humans, and “false flag” operations have been planned. It does not take long in the milieu before you see quite a few different viewpoints on the situation, and I would be wary of “insiders” telling us what it is all about. There is lots of disinfo out there, too.

My understanding is that the ETs are of primarily benevolent or neutral intent, but we also need to learn to paddle our own canoes. The space brothers are not going to save us from ourselves, although there is at least a karmic connection and maybe even genetic, so they have reasons beyond mere curiosity for being here. Even terms like “ETs” are problematic, with “inter-dimensionals” probably also describing aspects of the situation. Creation is a big place, and all I know for sure is that our perspective here on Earth is pretty stunted. Whatever the “real” case is, following the Golden Rule and acting from the heart is always the best policy, IMO.

In very real ways, Godzilla and the masses are playing a game, and because I am here, I guess that I am playing too, in my own way. The masses have almost 100% abdicated responsibility for their existences, playing the victim game, and Godzilla lusts for power and gladly takes responsibility for our entire species. If we lay it down, he is more than happy to pick it up. And then Godzilla screws us over with our own power that we gave away as we played the victim game. And that might be the entire point of this dance – to learn to take back our responsibility. But I think that it can only be done with love, because that is how creators operate. Victims operate in fear. Again, if this was something that the Creator dreamed up one boring day in eternity, she and I will have to have a little talk. But if this is a way to regain my original state after some kind of “fall” (or leaving the Tao, etc.), then it makes sense, but I want my memories back!

And not just the memories of other lifetimes, but the memory of why I even decided to play this incarnation game. Many NDE experiencers say that those kinds of memories are available on the other side, but when they return to physical reality, they are not allowed to take that knowledge with them. It is for our own good, or so I hear.

On my role in the FE milieu, I am only a spear carrier who got tired of the blood and guts and saw the futility of it all, or, one could say, I saw the awesome cost of the approach and decided to pursue a different one. One thing is true of Greer, Dennis, Brian, Adam, and me: if you had told us what lied ahead of us as we began our journeys, we would not have believed you. And even if we had some faint idea of what was in store for us, the reality was something far beyond our imaginings. I never lusted for the battlefield, although I nearly had my rite of passage in the military myself:

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

but I can relate to how 18-year-old boys who pray to see “action” in the military get sobered up quickly by ten minutes on a hot battlefield, and then they want to go home ASAP, get the million-dollar wound, etc. We all got far more than we bargained for, in our FE journeys. Watching Dennis take off his prison garb and go right back at it harder than ever was awe-inspiring to witness, and more than a little mind-boggling.

I am trying to find out if we can get there without battles, heroes, villains, and the like. I am trying out the lamb’s route. That may be a recipe for lamb chops ( ), but I think that enough lambs can overcome Godzilla and the other predators, and they won’t have to die, either, but can become vegetarians.

Best,

Wade

P.S. Tom B. gives Sirius a thumbs up:

http://www.cheniere.org/correspondence/041013.htm

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The economic/social/political changes in the various stages of the human political-economy are easy to spot. From social organization like chimpanzees (which is still with us), to the relatively egalitarian but very violent hunter-gatherer phase, to subsistence agriculture (where people had poorer diets, but the land could support more people), to the development of cities (where professions developed, elites and slaves appeared, and women’s status declined), the dynamics are obvious. At the very beginnings of the development of cities, city-states developed, and they usually competed with each other over readily-depleted resources.

In Sumer, it was wars over forests:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post554340

and territory, and controllable soils, water, and people were common themes in all early civilizations. The hunter-gatherer phase was proportionally more violent, but the population density that agriculture provided allowed for organized violence on scales not possible before, and the first known battles came from the first cities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagash#Conflict_with_Umma

Ironically, history’s most recent wars, this time an invasion over the primary energy resource of our time, oil (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post652292 ), were perpetrated on the very same soil where the first battles were recorded. More than four thousand years later, the very same lands are slaked with blood as people fight over energy resources, with the stronger taking it from the weaker.

It is legitimate to wonder if we really have evolved much since our chimpanzee days:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post552272

But as energy became more plentiful, or more accurately, as we were able to plunder more of it, civilizations changed dramatically, and civilization never changed more dramatically than in the past two centuries of industrialization. Slavery stopped making economic sense, breeding farm hands and pension plans stopped making economic sense, and slaves and women were liberated during the Industrial Revolution. It was always primarily about the energy surplus and always will be:

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

More than a hundred years ago, as the USA completed its theft of temperate North America, it began to engage in a variation of imperialism now called neocolonialism:

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

where the subject peoples got to fly meaningless flags as the symbol of their “independence,” while the American overlords controlled the economy. That has been the American model ever since. After World War II, as the European powers lost their empires, the subject peoples generally had one goal: industrialize as fast as possible. The benefits of industrialization were obvious, and while the capitalist propaganda machine has always misrepresented the real threat that communism posed, the attraction of the Soviet system to the world’s “developing” nations was that the Soviet Union said that a nation could industrialize in a generation. Of course, the Soviet methods were brutal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History...on_in_practice

But their goal was to catch up to the West (like Japan’s goal in the late 1800s), and as the colonial world was “liberated” at the end of World War II, their goal was industrializing as fast as possible.

Court historian Arthur Schlesinger said it this way, about the “battles” between capitalism and communism in the mid-twentieth century:

“Meanwhile, the Soviet Union hovers in the wings, flourishing large development loans and presenting itself as the model for achieving modernization in a single generation."

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/199711--.htm

The problem, however, is energy. Industrialization is not possible without great amounts of energy, and fossil fuels have provided nearly all of it for the entire period of the Industrial Revolution. In 2008, hydrocarbon energy provided 81% of humanity’s measured energy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_e...Primary_energy

In the USA, for instance, the number is 86% hydrocarbon energy, about 6% each for nuclear and hydroelectric energy, with alternative energy about 1%. The rest of the industrialized world is in a similar range. Oil will always be the most coveted hydrocarbon, being highly superior to coal and gas, and that explains everything that the West has been doing in the Middle East for the past hundred years. The USA came to oil imperialism a little late because it had such great oil deposits of its own, with it still producing more than half of the world’s oil in 1950:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post660425

But it became evident early on that the big prize was the Middle East, and the USA played the neocolonial game there soon after World War II when it overthrew the Iranian government on behalf of British Petroleum:

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

The British-American partnership in raping that part of the world for its oil has been a firm one ever since, with the Americans being the dominant partner early on, with the Brits today little more than toadies who carry our bags. Tony Blair’s antics on the eve of the invasion of Iraq comprise one of history’s more embarrassing imperial spectacles. What a puppet. That “summit” on the eve of Iraq’s invasion:

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..._at_Azores.jpg
(http://community.seattletimes.nwsour...ebiraqsummit14 ), in the only place in the world that would host it, will go down in history alongside the Third Reich’s conferences. From the Bush family’s open support of the Third Reich:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#bush1

to Aznar’s fascist credentials:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%...nar#Politician

it was quite a nauseating spectacle to see them hold a “summit” in the middle of the Atlantic before invading Iraq, when no place else on Earth would give them even a fig leaf of legitimacy. But as long as the cheap oil rolls in, Americans don’t mind. Yesterday’s bombing of the Boston Marathon:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Bo...rathon_bombing

is just more noise of empire. Of course, if this is one more example of “asymmetrical” warfare by peoples who cannot withstand our imperial juggernaut, it will once again be labeled “terrorism.” Within an hour or so, there were reports of a “Saudi” being in custody:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_16...boston-attack/

Saudis were blamed for 9/11, being the majority of the “hijackers,” although we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq over it. I seem to see a pattern here.

Heinberg has been calling this imperial era “Plan War,”

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hooked.htm#_edn7

as Peak Oil is reached and the world’s nations fight over the dwindling hydrocarbons. The EROI has fallen from over a hundred, when Americans were mining East Texas oil:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...roi#post624651

to under twenty today, with ten coming with a few years, with stuff like mining Canada’s tar sands, fracking, etc., getting EROIs of less than five. So-called biofuels have always been an insane “solution,” with an EROI of about one, and even less than one in some measures. I probably need to spend some more posts on the simple mechanics of energy production, preservation, and consumption. The historical trends are obvious, but what is not so obvious to most is what it all rides on. The human journey has always ridden on its EROI and surplus. In agriculture, it is called productivity and yield, but the physical reality is the same: how much human effort goes into extracting how much energy from the environment. That is the story of the human journey. Everything else is a sideshow.

Time to run off to work.

Best,

Wade

[kudzy]

If there's anything I've learned from living in a community it is that 'It takes many minds to come up with a good solution'.

Personally I think the main message of Wade's narrative is; Hey folks, Based on my knowledge and experience, this is the playing field as I see it. How can we all get up to speed, on the same page, get on board and open up this playing field? Who understands that we need to create the fertile ground that will allow free energy to take root, the heart, wisdom and integrity to be able to nourish those fragile seeds, the love and attention that's needed to see those seeds to fruition?

Personally I think Wade has already planted those seeds and I'm honored to be among one of those who is being attentive to it's needs, nurturing it slowly and lovingly, into the magnificence that it will surely become.

I just watched the documentary " Searching for Sugar Man", which I can't recommend enough. It was truely inspiring. There are heros among us, unsung and unnoticed. Watch it and you will see how it relates to this thread.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searching_for_Sugar_Man

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Darren (AKA Kudzy):

I am putting that movie on my “to watch” list. Thanks.

Yes, you have the gist of it. The heavy lift is actually getting on the same page, and it needs to be a page that is each person’s page. When Dennis would be riding high for a few moments before he was swatted down, there was a seeming unity of purpose (making a business opportunity come to fruition), but it would get quickly torn apart as everybody tried to “get theirs,” even as Godzilla’s foot was grinding the operation into dust. There are so many ways to go astray on this issue, and I found that people flew off in all sorts of directions, none of them productive, for two primary reasons:

1. Their heart was not in the right place;

2. They did not see the big picture.

Our hearts are either in the right place or they aren't. We all grow and learn in our lifetimes, but our personalities are formed by age two or so, and we don’t come in as blank slates. If a person’s heart is not a loving one when he/she comes in or soon thereafter, he/she is not going to develop it all that much in a lifetime. The needles that I am looking for already have their hearts in the right place, and it is by far the most important criterion. Now, FE and abundance is a wild card that can change a lot of things, and drastically, and it will be easier for people to get in touch with their hearts in a world of abundance, but at this stage, the fearful masses are no help for what I am trying out.

The second one, I think, can be cured in a lifetime, but it takes hard work. As I have stated repeatedly, in order for people to really begin to understand my message, they usually have to have had some kind of radicalizing experience that broke them out of their societal conditioning, or at least made them question it. And that, believe it or not, is the most important aspect of being able to see the big picture: it means leaving aside the picture that the social managers have painted for us, as it is designed to control us.

That radicalized perspective can then get pointed at all areas of our indoctrination, and it took me many years to understand that what I was seeing, in all areas, was a paradigm of scarcity, and until people could leave that paradigm behind, they really could not glimpse abundance.

That big picture perspective is what I call comprehensive, and as I think I am making clear in my writings, it crosses many disciplinary boundaries. I know that it is not easy to really grasp that big picture, even for those willing and able. This is not easy stuff by any means.

Those are the basics as I see them, and as you point out, and I agree, that if enough people can get on that same page, then we can all bring our particular talents to the project. If I may wax Michael-ish, I am an Artisan soul:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#reading

which means that I am an idea guy. This work of mine is likely the result of many lifetimes on this journey, and I am finally getting to the point where I can do this kind of work. Because of overleaves and the like:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#overleaves

it is not always easy to divine somebody’s soul role, but I will hazard a guess and say that Sandy is a Server or Priestess. Brian O was probably a Sage. Dennis is probably a Warrior or King, as Greer probably also is. When everybody can bring their talents to the table, in full flower, then we will be getting somewhere. A bunch of Artisans, or a bunch of Warriors, or a bunch of Kings, cannot get this job done. It will take all of us to get over that hump.

I am tired from a long day at the office, so going to bed now.

Best,

Wade