WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Hughe:

Permaculture is a baby step in the right direction, but FE is a million times more important. The shift that FE brings is a paradigm shift from scarcity to abundance, which will be the biggest transition in the human journey, and could be the biggest one that humanity will ever experience. With FE, the human footprint on Earth’s ecosystems can approach zero, and humanity’s agricultural practices can go far, far beyond ideas of permaculture.

As an addendum to my prior post, I have seen the same pattern, ad naseum, during my studies since 1990, where people investigating events from the past have an inherent conflict of interest, and absolving their group of crimes, or corrupt motivation, etc., seems to be the goal, whether it was one’s species, race, nationality, and so on, and that absolution seems to be a standard pattern. The results can be starkly fraudulent, such as making Columbus:

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

Washington:

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

and Serra:

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

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

into heroes and saints. The scholarly crimes, in those cases, were mostly of omission, although fairy tales were also concocted:

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

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#irving

The primary accomplishment of those men was theft and genocide, but a reader of their biographies would never know it. That kind of “history” is epidemic and always has been, with the aphorism “History is written by the winners,” an apt description. It is just one of countless instances of personal integrity being the world’s scarcest commodity:

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

As Zinn stated:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#zinn

when such faux objectivity and/or justification comes from a scholar, academic, scientist, or other supposedly objective professional, it is all the more deadly. Many times, I have encountered scholarly whitewashes, whether it was the Warren Commission:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post615419

the innumerable works that make the genocide of the Western Hemisphere some kind of unintentional side-effect of Europe’s invasion, sanitizing the images of mass murdering thieves, etc. The Global Warming denial was funded by the hydrocarbon lobby, and now, when Global Warming can no longer be denied, their fallback position is not attributing it at all to human dynamics.

On the subject of humans driving Earth’s large animals to extinction, I have seen a similar pattern. This goes back to when the hypothesis was first proposed back in the 1960s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_S....ill_Hypothesis

and continues to this day. The fact is that in every instance where humans invaded a previously unpeopled land mass, virtually all of the large animals quickly went extinct:

http://www.anthropology.hawaii.edu/F...cation%204.pdf

It does not take a Sherlock Holmes to suspect that humans had something to do with it. The megafauna would have been their primary food source, a veritable mother lode of energy. When it is the only constant variable, and it only happened once in the history of the world in all of those instances, all other factors will have secondary importance. When I have seen scholars and scientists try to explain the extinction of the megafauna as solely due to climate change or some catastrophic celestial events, the red flags shoot up. I consider it very likely that the scientists and scholars who concoct such tales are rarely conscious of their bias. Some undoubtedly are, but most just unthinkingly accept the prevailing egocentric assumptions and go about their business.

The denial of human agency in the megafaunal extinctions has been waning in the past generation, but there still is a great of obfuscation in various corners, trying to rank human agency below climate change, bolide impacts, and so on. Relatively recently, scientists have been considering the change to Earth’s ecosystems and geophysical processes due to the extinction of the megafauna. From their effect on cycling nutrients through the ecosystems:

http://theconversation.com/megafauna...rs-later-16977

to the reduction in methane production, which is a key greenhouse gas:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megafau...hane_emissions

to radical changes in the vegetation:

http://www.nioz.nl/press-release-rea...alianmegafauna

scientists are finally beginning to grapple with the big picture of what the human impact was on the world long ago. It helps put today’s impact in perspective, which dwarfs everything that has gone before:

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

Related to the denial of human agency, Clive Finlayson’s The Humans Who Went Extinct chalks up the Neanderthal extinction to climate change, as did a study published in 2004:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...dertals_2.html

But take a look at the “battle of the studies” regarding the Neanderthal extinction:

http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=7545&tid=3622&cid=32168

http://notexactlyrocketscience.wordp...kely%E2%80%A6/

http://www.livescience.com/4446-clim...nderthals.html

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/329235

http://www.science20.com/news/did_gl...l_neanderthals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0921171412.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0225110942.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0510153942.htm

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smar...-neanderthals/

In Finlayson’s book, he quickly mentioned the mammoth extinction, giving the impression that climate did them in, even for the last ones at Wrangle Island:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth#Extinction

which “coincidentally” coincided with the earliest evidence of humans on the island:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrangel_Island#Prehistory

When I see treatments like that by scientists, my radar goes on high alert. There is far too much of that out there. When a leading “skeptic” tried to debunk Brian’s Martian credentials:

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

I was stupefied by the sloppiness and unread manner of the debunking exercise, as if Brian never wrote about his astronaut interview a few years after it happened:

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

As if the astronauts themselves were not aware that Brian was picked with a Mars mission in mind.

I don’t need to belabor the dishonesty of the “skeptics” here, as I do it plenty in other places:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...itz#post410817

but they are in good company, as they grind their axes, impudently ignoring evidence that stares them in the face.

Back to chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I was finally able to see Sirius last night. It brought up many thoughts and feelings. The bottom line is that I am doing something else. It did not seem to be a movie by Greer as much as it was a movie about Greer. Again, I have a lot of respect for what he has been through and accomplished. Also, however, for he is trying, I have been there repeatedly and have no desire to take that route again, or encourage anybody else to, either. When I was with Dennis, we had three “inventors’ sanctuaries,” and all three were criminally violated, and I have never met an inventor who really had the right stuff:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post594610

In the end, the Sirius thrust was largely Levels 7 and 10:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level7

and I am finished with playing those games in this lifetime. I am familiar with or encountered pretty much everybody interviewed in Sirius. Some are the Real McCoy, others I have strong doubts about, and some I know do not have the right stuff. That is just the terrain that exists in this field, and it is not easy to navigate. The “skeptics” nearly invariably have no idea what they are talking about, or are dishonest, so most criticisms from that crowd are invalid, to put it mildly.

Dennis tried to warn Stan Meyer about the military guys that he was hooking up with, but Stan did not want to hear it. His naïveté and bullheaded ignorance probably cost him his life. Banging on the Pentagon’s door, or corporate America’s, or Capitol Hill’s, or the patent office’s, is like walking into Godzilla’s lair. Mallove’s murder spurred Brian O to leave the USA:

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

and so on. Did anybody notice Brian’s signature at the top of that petition that they gave to Woolsey/Clinton?

When I saw Valone say that sneaking up on them might work, I shook my head at that Level 7 notion. Godzilla is not asleep.

I think that Sirius can be pretty good information for newbies who are just getting their feet wet. Maybe Level 10 can work with the right stampede, but I have no interest in it. For anybody who wants to try the tinkerer revolution route, Greer’s milieu beckons, and I wish them the best, but an insanely steep and dangerous learning curve awaits them. Few survive it.

Time to go hiking.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I am writing my essay, I realize that it is going to be intellectually challenging for most people. But if people are going to develop comprehensive perspectives, they need to do the work. There will be a great deal of science in it. I am writing it for non-scientists, but the concepts can still be challenging. The hard part of developing a comprehensive perspective is holding the many pieces of the picture in one’s head, and then seeing how the pieces interact. It is also called a systems perspective, and few people on Earth today have one, but the choir will be comprised of people who have achieved it. Not many will to want to try, largely because the picture that I will be painting will be very challenging to people’s ideas of how the world works.

In most instances, people do not even know what orthodoxy says about how things work, so their beliefs will not be challenged by the orthodox tale, and my essay will largely hew to it, while also showing some of its limitations. My essay won’t be some kind of fringe science treatise. Just understanding the orthodox story will be plenty for most people to wrap their minds around. Only when the orthodox story is understood can critiques of it make sense. Even for those whose hearts are in the right place, and have no doubt that they are my target audience, it will require nimble minds and deep thinking to understand the picture that I will paint.

One deficiency of thinking that I have encountered repeatedly during my journey is the inability of people to develop an integrated point of view, as they ricochet between the poles of divergent schools of thought. They seize on one pole, then the other, while never grabbing both at once and understanding the continuity between them. In many, many situations, it is not either/or, but both, and there is a continuum between them. In many instances, a person camps at one pole and does not even begin to understand the other one. Instances of that kind of thinking can be found in materialism/spiritualism, structuralism/conspiracism, orthodoxy/alternatives, and so on.

Or a person will seize on one aspect of something and try to relate it to something else which is only superficially similar. As an example, in Concetta Bertoldi’s Inside the Other Side, she states that a psychologist pal said that what she does – bring messages in from discarnate beings, particularly departed loves ones – is similar to schizophrenics hearing voices, but the difference is that she can control it.

As my readers know well, a voice in my head led me on my journey, and very dramatically:

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

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice2

But I asked for guidance. But the last time I heard from that voice, I did not ask for it:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#voice3

and I don’t want to hear from it again, and I haven’t. Because I have had that voice in my head, I have seen myself compared with a schizophrenic. I have written about others with voices in their heads. But I doubt that anybody would call them schizophrenics:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post633527

There is a world of difference between asking for guidance and receiving it, or in those other instances linked to above, the voice could be considered a type of divine intervention, and somebody who is schizophrenic. But, particularly for those how have never heard their particular voice, they find it convenient to lump all voice-hearers into the schizophrenic camp, so they can dismiss it all with a wave of the hand. That is not practicing clear thinking.

Another example is the conspiracist/structuralist duality. My life was wrecked by the people who run the world, and they almost always stay in the shadows, with lackeys doing the dirty work. Mr. Deputy is a dark pather, but he likely neither knew nor cared who was behind dangling the carrots in front of him to do his dirty work. The carrot was all he cared for, and for people like him, inflicting suffering on others is a “bonus.”

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

But because I acknowledge conspiratorial goings on, largely because I was subjected to them, I have been constantly derided as a conspiracy theorist over the years, and many conspiracists think that I am one of them, when I’m not. Conspiracists try to explain all events through a conspiratorial framework, and they consequently tend to have a very twisted and paranoid view of the world. The structuralists understand the big picture much better than the conspiracists do, although they have their blind spots, too:

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

If people are going to see the big picture, they need to put either/or thinking behind themselves, particularly when dealing with the complexities of the real world.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

It’s current event time. My first public writings were about the USA’s attacks in the Persian Gulf, back in 1991:

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

and writing about the USA’s imperial offenses ever since have taken plenty of my time. There are numerous writings of mine scattered across the Internet before I began to concentrate on my site. This thread makes a handy outlet for when I write about those subjects when they come up.

Today, John Kerry, the USA’s Secretary of State, made a speech about Syria using chemical weapons (AKA “WMD”) on the “rebels.” It can really challenge one’s sanity to be an aware American and hear that tripe. In the past generation, I have watched my nation destroy one nation after another, killing millions of people in the process, most of them children. Our day of reckoning will be a dark one, perhaps similar to what Germany got to experience at the end of World War II. I doubt that anybody on Earth, except for brainwashed Americans, believes anything that the USA has to say about WMD.

At least, today, my fellow Americans are not supporting the idea of invading another nation over the WMD issue:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/...97O00E20130825

http://www.pewglobal.org/2013/05/01/...e-will-spread/

Not that it will stop the bombs. As everybody on Earth knows, our hands are anything but clean, and we are certainly no knight of the light, spreading peace, justice, and prosperity. A joke making the rounds is that “democracy” is the USA’s deadliest export. Several million dead, as well as several million orphans, is the USA’s legacy in Iraq (and the privatization of Iraq’s oil, which was the goal in the first place, millions of deaths be damned):

http://www.globalpolicy.org/politica...temid=id#40722

https://sites.google.com/site/iraqih...e/polya-gideon

a similar story in Afghanistan:

https://sites.google.com/site/afghan...ghan-genocide/

and so on. We “helped” rip Yugoslavia apart:

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

The “rebels” in Libya were like the “rebels” in Kosovo, and the probably just like the “rebels” in Syria, who are armed mercenaries, Al Qaeda-style. Those goons are all ours.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/terrori...squads/5317564

Some of the same people who were involved in the Central American genocides of the 1980s are involved in the Middle East today:

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

Attached is a picture that I saw the other day on Rense. How apt.

The USA is taking a blowtorch to the powder keg once again, as if World War III is the goal. As Albert Einstein once said, he did not know what weapons would be used for World War III, but he was certain that World War IV would be fought with sticks and stones:

http://www.quoteworld.org/category/w...lbert-einstein

Praying for peace,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Not to derail this thread, and thank you very much, Wade, it will be extremely interesting to dive deep and try to have a grasp of the tapestry you are weaving with your essey, some of which you have touched here. Do you have any time estimation of when you will be able to publish your work and when are we able to read it?

One small note about 'conspiracism', I think this is a point we touched in the past, you said:

Originally posted by Wade Frazier: "If people are going to see the big picture, they need to put either/or thinking behind themselves, particularly when dealing with the complexities of the real world"

Posted by Wade Frazier: " Conspiracists try to explain all events through a conspiratorial framework, and they consequently tend to have a very twisted and paranoid view of the world"

Can it be that this generality of a comment may fall in itself in the either/or thinking? particularly when dealing with the complexities of the real world..
The world is complex and has various conspiracies in it, quite large in effect, it is good to recognize them and not fall into obssesion with them, certainly not to explain all events through a conspiratorial eyeglasses, but the opposite may not be favorable as well, it may abduce the comprehensive seeker from paying (some) attention to 'conspiratorial' evidences, some of it is much needed to understand the "complexities of the real world" as you yourself chose to word it . I know that you have extensively researched through some of this stuff such as : the moon 'hoax' the JFK murder, 911 etc. and that your work is mostly focused on understanding the grievances of our past and present looking via different set of eyes and a birth of something new, but when we come to examine any one subject, isn't it more valueable to examine it from every angle and direction? (within reason of course)

Thoughts and schizophrenia which you touched on, are a complexed subject in itself. and if taking into consideration only divine (or other) intervention, or the maladie itself without considering other things such as this -

http://www.jeffpolachek.com/mind-con...plant-new-ones

Because of the concern to be considered a 'conspiracist', then the picture and conclusions may not at all be complete

All best, always,

Limor

[Limor Wolf]

I think my above post about conspiracism can be ignored, there are more important issues in the world today. Re: Wade's last post # 3064
An appropriate response from the American people. Prayers for sanity and healing of the world.

Israel is the little finger of the American hand, maybe not to steal the natural resources of another country or thrusting a stake in such a demonstrative way, but it has it's own concentrated evilness in the guise of 'protecting it's own interests'. We can say that again.





Prayers from the heart to the Children and adults in Syria, Afganistan, Palestine, Lybia... the list is endless : (

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

I hope to have the essay done by the end of the year, but there will also be an editorial process. We’ll see when it gets published, but in the winter, I hope.

My posts on conspiracism probably have something to do with making posts in what is largely a conspiracist forum, but it is also far more than that. I have been dealing with conspiracist stuff for nearly thirty years. Again, no denying that there are “conspiracies,” and that they have their effect, but conspiracists way overplay their hand, all the time, with the recent Boston Marathon attacks being a highly relevant example.

Conspiracism reflects itself in how most people that I encounter on the FE subject are fascinated with Godzilla and his machinations. Godzilla is not the problem; we are. Structuralists and conspiracists are united in their victim-oriented mentality:

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

Only a creator-oriented perspective is going to get us over the hump, IMO. I am all-too-familiar with MK Ultra and its roots. I was likely zapped with some of their brain-scrambling toys when I was with Brian O:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/brianmem.htm#_edn57

MK Ultra has its roots in the death camp Nazis that the USA brought over in Operation Paperclip:

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

and those mind-controlling technologies are a dark pather’s dream, but probably about 0.0001% of schizophrenic cases might be attributable to MK Ultra and related stuff.

Yes, any perceptive observer will see that how the Israelis are treating the Palestinians is about like how the Nazis treated the Jews in the 1930s, or how the American Indian was treated, etc. Grim times.

Best,

Wade

[CdnSirian]

This is a flashback to the cow pie topic and was posted today on http://www.bubblews.com/news/1002395-cooking-oil-scam. The author is an 18 yr old Kuwaiti. I think I prefer cow pies...

"Cooking oil scam

Submitted by djmubeen on August 24th, 2013 – Flag this news as inappropriate
Category: Crime

In our everyday life we eat deep fried foods and enjoy the taste of life but when you will know how the cooking oil is made you will possibly start to vomit .
Now i am not talking about the famous brands .

I am talking about the oil used in this small restaurants or hotels.They all use the cheap oil which they get from small factories.

Now a million dollar recipe OK open your books these people use:

INGREDIENTS:

* All types of Animals fat which t hey get it from any slaughter house.
*All the animals intestines .
*In FACTORIES WHEN OIL GET MIXED WITH SAND T HEY USE SAND T O EXTRACT EVEN THAT OUT.
*Chicken feathers.

METHOD:
Just throw them in big saucepan a boil and melt till get oil and sell then to people in cheap prices.

So people this the truth they use a ll t his leftovers to make cooking oil .Now please dont worry if you use a famous brands oil you are safe but please be safe the healthy cooking oil makes you fat but t his oil is extreme. This usually happens in every country with poverty like Pakistan ,India and even other countries but this oil is used in cheap hotels or restaurants. BE SAFE"

Just in case you're travelling on the $5.00 a minute budget...

[Wade Frazier]

Hi CdnSirian:

Thanks. Oh boy, all the horrific stuff. I can only imagine what going through the kitchen of the restaurants of the poor nations must be like. Ah, it is horrible all around, how our food is produced:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#mcdonalds

With FE, of course, all of that can go away, and quickly.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have been reading a lot of anthropology lately, and recently finished Clive Finlayson’s The Humans Who Went Extinct. I am probably going to skip ahead on my essay for a little, and write the early human part now. These areas are highly controversial, in many ways. But there is also a lot of agreement on the broad trends. The multidisciplinary works impress me the most, but they virtually all have blind spots that seem to come from the predilection of the authors. For instance, Finlayson was big on the climactic aspect of the Pleistocene extinctions, but was surprisingly ignorant about human-agency in the megafaunal extinctions.

Finlayson had some novel interpretation of the evidence that he was familiar with, but most of his stuff was pretty orthodox. Everybody agrees that anatomically modern humans first appeared in Africa, and the time is now thought to be 160K-200K years ago. What they did from there, to the end of the ice age, is where the controversy is. Neanderthals and humans had a common ancestor around 400K-600K years ago, which is called homo heidelbergensis:

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

Homo erectus likely first appeared in Africa about two million years ago, and quickly migrated across the tropics, all the way to Java. Whether homo erectus appeared due to the taming of fire is an open question today:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2...ution-question

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

but nobody is arguing against the idea that homo erectus was something different, the first large-brained hominid that spread across Africa and Asia, who mastered fire and lived the first hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The ones who stayed in Africa are called homo ergaster:

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

and they are considered to be humanity’s direct ancestor. After anatomically-modern humans appeared, they seemed to stay close to home for quite some time, not leaving Africa until about 100K years ago, during the warm period of the previous glacial minimum:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timelin...glacial_cycles

One area of huge controversy is human intelligence. The human braincase back then was about at large as it is today, but they obviously did not have much in the way of modern culture. The first evidence for symbolic art is about 70K years ago, and is about when humans seemed to spread to India and South Asia. They arrived in China about 10K years later, and they seem to have made it to Australia about 50K years ago. It seems that the aboriginal Australians quickly drove all the Australian megafauna to extinction:

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

generally by using fire. At Niah in Malaysia:

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

it appears that humans burned the forest to create artificial savannahs, like they had in Africa. Something similar happened in Australia, which resulted in the extinction of the megafauna. Around this time, the Neanderthals were dwindling in Europe. Around 35K years ago, the Châtelperronian culture appeared:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2telperronian

It is controversial if it was associated with Neanderthals at all, but today there is definitely Neanderthal DNA in the human gene pool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neander...y#Neanderthals

so there likely was cultural influence. One recent hypothesis is that the injection of some Neanderthal DNA into homo sapiens around Europe is the key ingredient in what happened next: a rapid advance of culture and invention, leading to the first art:

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

That culture was quickly succeeded by the Gravettian culture:

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

which appears to be the one that began to master living on the tundra below the ice sheets. It looks like those peoples drove the mammoth to extinction in Central Europe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_...ey.2C_and_diet

That culture initiated the Golden Age of the hunter gatherer. Finlayson is adamant that the Neanderthals went extinct before modern humans arrived in their last refuges in Spain, but others are not so sure. One theory is that Neanderthals were just one more megafauna that modern humans drove to extinction, although some interbreeding happened along the way. Other megafauna went extinct in Eurasia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatern...rthern_Eurasia

There were plenty of African and Asian extinctions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quatern...frica_and_Asia

but Africa and Asia were spared the total extinctions that happened when humans intruded into Australia, the Western Hemisphere, and islands around the world. It is thought that that was because the megafauna in Africa and Asia learned to avoid humans before they went extinct. The others never had a chance to.

A rule of evolutionary theory is that when a life form finds itself in a biome where there is no competition for resources (energy resources above all), it will breed up to the maximum carrying capacity that it can. Those events happened many times over the course of life on Earth. It could be because the species survived a mass extinction so that all of its competitors were gone:

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

or because a biological innovation created an advantage that made previously unexploitable niches available. For instance, oxygenic respiration allowed for complex life to evolve, and complex life then ascended to the top of all ecosystems, and all complex life respires oxygen, except for a few small animals that respire hydrogen, which was likely respired before oxygen was:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#_edn2

So, humans quickly expanding across all of Earth’s ecosystems is nothing new, and humans have been compared to any species taking advantage of opportunities that present themselves. I have even seen humans compared to pond scum and the spring blooms that happen in the world’s waters, where life goes nuts until all the nutrients are used up, and then it collapses back, waiting for the next influx of nutrients.

Collapses of ecosystems have happened many times, often brought on by life itself, such as the hydrogen sulfide events that seem to be “revenge of the anaerobes” episodes:

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

A prominent theme that Finlayson harped on was that the innovators came from the fringes, as they had to be nimble and innovative to survive – that “necessity is the mother of invention” idea. The apes that left the trees and learned to eat other food besides fruit (nuts, roots, leaves, etc.) were the “losers” of rainforest life, and their adaptations are what ultimately led to humans. Protohumans adapted to more meat eating, but as with all such changes, it came with a price. Finlayson makes the case that Neanderthals or other “primitive” humans were no less intelligent than those modern humans, particularly the Gravettians, and just made do with what they had available. But others are far from sure. Several hypotheses have been developed to account for the “Great Leap Forward,” which include that Neanderthal DNA, cultural complexity that encouraged greater brainpower to navigate, the specialist/generalist interaction that raised generalist awareness, etc. The leap definitely happened, whether it was purely a social/technical construct reacting to a changing environment or something happened to the human brain. I think it is a variation on the nature/nurture argument. However the advance happened, it was real. To say that others had the potential for it, but not the “opportunity,” I doubt is understanding the point. For instance, in these two worlds:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post672115

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post672748

the people were likely indistinguishable, genetically and morphologically, but their civilizations were like night and day, as would their measured “intelligence” have been.

Those Gravettian peoples had the toolset and flexibility to conquer all of Earth’s terrestrial ecosystems, and they did. The megafauna fueled their expansion, and when they were gone, then the Domestication Revolution happened. The revolution did not happen immediately, and it happened all over the world, within a five-thousand year window, from about 12,000 to 7,000 years ago. Most were offspring of that Gravettian culture. It is generally thought today that population pressures from the successful hunter-gatherer lifestyle brought on the Domestication Revolution.

Finlayson finishes his book with a common plaint, which is that modern industrial civilization is clearly unsustainable, with the masses glued to the tube, where gossip and entertainment are the primary predilections of the vast majority of humanity, and the apple cart will crash soon in an unprecedented catastrophe. Finlayson thinks that the world’s poor, eking out their existences at the margins, sifting through trash heaps, will be best suited to survive what is coming.

My experience is that nobody like Finlayson has ever been reachable on the FE front, as they are dug into their “scientific” perspectives. Scientists and academics will not lead us away from the abyss. They are too mired in their perspectives, for all of the insight that they often manifest. My work is not really aimed at them. It would be nice to wake some of them up, but if Brian O couldn’t:

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

I sure can’t. If I had to think about what audience I am the likeliest to connect with, it will be young adults whose minds are not ossified into their paradigms yet. I can’t really interact with minors, or I will be burned at the stake, but young adults are likely going to be my target audience, as Fuller also discovered:

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

Best,

Wade

P.S. I have looked at a great deal of the evidence that the fringe has put forward on technologically advanced ancient civilizations and the like, and none of the evidence I ever looked at really held up. Stone Age peoples could be very clever, and the monumental architecture that has survived is indeed impressive, but I have seen nothing where advanced or ET technology needs to be invoked. There is an entire cottage industry based on that stuff, but I consider it a distraction at best.

[Wade Frazier]

As the USA is about to bludgeon another nation in the way of our imperial, oil-based ambition, I saw some tripe on the Wall Street Journal’s site:

http://live.wsj.com/video/opinion-no...7-AD4DF57EED4E

repeating the big lie that Noam Chomsky was somehow a supporter of the Khmer Rouge or was a genocide denier. Neither claim is remotely true, but there is an entire cottage industry devoted to perpetuating that lie:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#crv

Noam dealt with the Cambodian issue recently:

http://ki-media.blogspot.com/2009/04...m-chomsky.html

Establishment hacks such as Sophal Ear have made a career out of attacking Chomsky:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yraS_HzdezQ

That Ear did it at TED is one more reason why I don’t have much respect for that forum.

I have never seen Ear rationally deal with the issue, and others have deconstructed the hack attacks:

http://www.flagrancy.net/khmerchomsky.html

http://www.flagrancy.net/?entry_id=393

http://www.oocities.org/soho/9879/jamesd.html

But Wikipedia is dominated by Ear’s and the other hacks' disinformation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Ch...de_in_Cambodia

Noam dealt with this Slovenian “scholar” in typical Noam fashion:

http://www.zcommunications.org/fanta...m-chomsky.html

but there is no end to hacks who aspire to make Noam wrong. None of them can tie his shoes on the intellectual end of it.

I have written that the structuralists, and Chomsky is definitely one:

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

have really missed the boat on important issues, FE chief among them, but Chomsky’s detractors regarding his political writings can almost never string two rational thoughts together before they fly off the handle as they defend their egocentric conceits.

When I dip into the attacks on Chomsky, it reminds me of all the big lies that I constantly see told about Dennis:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post410817

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post634680

It is like Diogenes’s quest for the honest man, and stuff like that makes me wonder sometimes if humanity is really worth saving.

Just this morning, I saw this article on particle physics, where the scientists are trying to popularize it,

http://www.livescience.com/39212-why...s-matters.html

and compare themselves to mass murdering thieves and front men for empire such as Columbus:

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

and Lewis and Clark:

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

How oblivious.

On little gentler note, I am getting no help at all regarding getting Brian O’s final statement on the moon landings published:

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

where Wikipedia’s “editors” do not erase the reference to it.

I am not done trying, but nobody in the milieu wants to help, as they all grind their particular axes where Brian was concerned. Personal integrity is indeed the world’s scarcest commodity.

Best,

Wade

[onawah]

I just saw a great show in PBS's Nova series Making Stuff, this week's installment called Making Stuff Cleaner, which you can watch free online at:
http://video.pbs.org/video/1768954299/
I don't know if this has been posted on the A Healed Planet thread as yet, but even if so, it's probably worth a bump.
It's a pretty great series, in 4 parts:

Program Description

What is the strongest material in the world? Is it steel, Kevlar, carbon nanotubes, or something entirely new? NOVA kicks off the four-part series "Making Stuff" with a quest for the world's strongest substances. Host David Pogue takes a look at what defines strength, examining everything from steel cables to mollusk shells to a toucan's beak. Pogue travels from the deck of a U.S. naval aircraft carrier to a demolition derby to the country's top research labs to check in with experts who are re-engineering what nature has given us to create the next generation of strong stuff.

The other programs in the "Making Stuff" series are "Smaller," "Cleaner," and "Smarter."

.
See:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/ma...stuff-stronger

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks onawah:

Readers probably realize that I very rarely refer to multimedia presentations, particularly those of the mainstream media, and PBS is definitely MSM. Watching stuff like that only makes my blood pressure go up. When I hit the link, up came a Boeing ad. Even the alternative multimedia presentations are virtually never up to snuff, and I very rarely watch even them, and usually only after I am badgered into it.

I mentioned Greer’s movie recently, and of all the FE-related presentations that I have seen over the years, that was about the best I have seen, but for what I am trying to teach, it was not all that good, as it was stuck in Levels 7 and 10, and kind of for beginners (I think that arguably any movie about any subject is for beginners):

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post719870

I have mentioned The Secret on this thread, and do so on my site:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose.htm#newage

When it came out, my wife and I were bombarded with it by people in our lives. I tried to tell those around me that I was not really interested, and some really took me to task for it, with stuff like, “Hey, unless you watch it, you don’t know what you are missing,” etc. My wife eventually bought it, and we finally sat down to watch it. About three minutes into it, I paused it and looked at my wife in disbelief. “This is what people are raving about!” It was the kindergarten level of spirituality, and very narcissistic. It was about the worst crap that I have seen on the subject. Some years later, I was hectored enough so that I saw What the Bleep?. Again, a load of bilge. The MO seems to be a spoonful of truth helps the BS go down. A few years ago, somebody virtually forced me to watch that documentary on Searl, and it sent me through the roof, it was so bad, and I wasted two hours of my life. Similarly, Thrive was another huge disappointment, and I later found that Foster definitely does not have the right stuff, promoting libel about Dennis:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post633801

The only reason I watched Sirius is that I have a lot of respect for what Greer did in the 1990s. I was watching when his team all came down with cancer:

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

He was never the same, understandably.

I bankrolled the NEM conference in 2004 where Greer spoke:

http://newenergymovement.org/recapsa1.php?p=recapsa.php

and took a break from working the registration table to listen to Greer speak, and it was highly informative. Greer and I have been in the same milieu for quite some time.

But something like Sirius is about all that I will watch anymore, when I have the time. People continually post links to YouTube videos and the like on this thread, but my work aims a lot deeper. A picture can be worth a thousand words, and a video even more, but in the subject matter that I am dealing with, MSM and other presentations do not cut it, IMO.

I posted a link to a YouTube video from TED in my previous post, but to show what tripe it was:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post721663

Best,

Wade

[onawah]

I agree that most PBS stuff isn't much different from other MSM, but I liked that show because it demonstrated get-off-the-grid technology that is being used now, and ideas that are being developed now to help individuals and companies get more off the grid.
Sure, there are much more advanced technologies out there, but they are being kept secret and it will be awhile before they become public.
In the meanwhile, it's encouraging to see inventions that are more sustainable than the mainstream and that are helping to improve the way we live NOW.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Onawah:

I hear you on the encouraging baby steps that some are taking, but I am trying to do something very different. When I see people promoting hybrids or electric cars, or windmills, direct solar, and what have you, I stay away from it for a few reasons. One is that they are all way too little, too late. In his last years, Brian O was looking for a research assistant to help him crunch the numbers on wind, solar, and the like. Brian crafted the energy policy that became Jimmy Carter’s:

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

Brian later lamented what a small view it was:

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

Those so-called energy solutions are rooted in austerity, are not really going to solve humanity’s energy problems, and are far, far short of abundance. When Dennis pursued high MPG carburetors several years ago:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...rec#post694872

for me, it was like going the full circle to when I was sixteen:

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

and a little older:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#carb1

I get why Dennis did it, trying to get a leg up, but I had no interest in it, and am very glad that I did not get involved. Wringing more energy out of a gallon of gasoline, or getting a windmill or solar panel going in one’s yard, is not really even a baby step to helping this world manifest:

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

and the danger, to my thinking, is thinking that it is. So, that solar/windmill/etc. stuff has its place, but I am trying to do something very different. I am going after the Big One.

To my other readers, what I am trying to help people understand will be anything but easy. It is challenging on several levels. For starters, people need to relinquish all the seemingly comforting fictions that they were raised with. While they may seem beneficial, they are actually mind-traps, indoctrinating people into scarcity:

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

Most of my original site is trying to help people shed their scarcity-based indoctrination. I put plenty of positive vision stuff there, too:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/visions.htm#can1

but I have found that for people whose minds are mired in scarcity, they really can’t imagine it, because they are dragging their scarcity-based baggage with them.

Darren is in an off-grid community, or at least partly so, and he has found how they are still mired in scarcity. Darren is doing his best to get beyond the scarcity mindset himself, but it is hard work. Scarcity is virtually baked into our DNA here on Earth. Abundance has never been seen before on Earth, and I am interested in nothing less. Nobody else on Earth is trying what I am, and I need to give it a shot, and not get it bogged down in the small-ball stuff that is a distraction at best.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I bang away at my essay and think about the subjects that I cover, I don’t think that I can overemphasize how different what I am attempting is from anything that I have seen before. Building a choir is vastly different from building an army. I have the highest respect for the life-risking efforts that people such as Dennis, Greer, and Trombly have performed over the years. They are among the survivors of the murder attempts and other outrages that have been inflicted on people like them, not only by Godzilla’s minions, but by the numerous other predators in the milieu. As Dennis recently admitted to me, his allies have hurt him more than his enemies have. I knew it many years ago, and it was “nice” to see Dennis admit it. The enemy is us, not Godzilla.

The FE field is dominated by scientists and inventors, nearly all of them men, and the entire field is in arrested development, IMO, thinking that the inventor of the hour or some scientific theorist is going to somehow storm the ramparts. Dennis is the Indiana Jones of the field:

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

but I saw, up close and personally, how futile and painful that path has been, and I put very little hope in it. Almost nobody on Earth has the right stuff to walk ten feet down that path. Those scientists and inventors have never come close to putting disruptive energy technology on the market, in a disruptive way. The game ascends a few orders of magnitude when you begin to do that, and nobody has ever come close to what Dennis did:

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

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...rec#post694872

and I saw that he/we did not have a prayer. A few lashes of Godzilla’s tail (or the other predators in the milieu), and it was all over. An inventor with a gizmo has not even gotten onto the playing field yet.

It took me a lifetime to arrive at my present views on the issue and what I think might have a prayer of making a dent. Once you get bitten by the bug, there is no turning back, unless you can drown yourself in alcohol or other inebriant, and so I plunk away.

Again, I am not looking for heroes, but people who can just lay aside their scarcity-based conditioning long enough so that they can imagine abundance. That is far, far harder than most can believe, because it means jettisoning their favorite beliefs, which usually feed them, in one way or another:

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

and virtually nobody on Earth today has the courage to do that. Merely imagining abundance is plenty on the heroism scale, believe me. I am looking for needles in haystacks, and plan to take advantage of this new technology called the Internet to find them. And then we will see how it goes.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One issue that repeatedly arises when writing my essay is when I try to define a phenomenon, and find that science does not define it very well, if at all. Feynman said that we really don’t know what energy is:

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard...ics_.281964.29

and Heisenberg voiced a similar caution:

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

Scientists really do not know what energy is, what matter is, and so on. Science can only describe their effects. A great book for the lay audience on the controversies over the meaning of quantum physics is Rosenblum and Kuttner’s Quantum Enigma:

http://www.amazon.com/Quantum-Enigma...7967821&sr=1-1

When quantum theory made its appearance in the 1920s, a debate between Einstein and Bohr ensued until Einstein’s death. Einstein and Schroedinger wanted to know what was really happening, and Bohr and his “Copenhagen interpretation” sided with the fact that the equations of quantum theory could predict what could be measured, and that what was really happening was irrelevant. It was similar to Newton’s equations on gravity. Newton’s did not know what gravity was, but his calculations could predict its effect (at least until Einstein came along and the effects of gravity in large bodies such as stars had to be accounted for). The quantum enigma, where light is both a wave and a particle, and the act of observation resolves light into one or the other, is the “skeleton in the closet” of quantum physics, where consciousness appears to be necessary to make the universe “objective.” That conundrum has yet to be unraveled, and scientists largely shy away from the implications of quantum theory, and just run the numbers.

The view of what is really happening is a matter of personal preference for physicists:

http://www.gizmag.com/confusion-basi...chanics/26216/

who have not come to agreement on the fundamental issues. They have been able to demonstrate the nonsensical nature of quantum physics, where something can be in two places at once:

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/1003....2010.130.html

http://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stori.../120608_1.html

which will likely lead to practical applications. It is nonsensical but true. Einstein believed that there was something fundamental that quantum theory was missing. FE, antigravity, and other exotic technologies kept under wraps upends today’s mainstream physics, which is partly why it is all dismissed as a “conspiracy theory,” “contrary to the laws of physics,” and so on, in classic Level 3 fashion:

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

So, it can be like nailing jelly to a wall to present the orthodox perspective. One area that I have been scratching my head over for 25 years is the concept of temperature. Even in the field, temperature is a slippery concept:

http://temperatures.com/wit.html

Temperature seems to mean the energy of motion, but as with the quantum enigma, temperature breaks down at the atomic level:

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/0408...s040816-4.html

So in practice, temperature is a macroscopic definition of the mean translational kinetic energy, meaning the energy of moving molecules. The scientific endeavor ends up saying, with disturbing regularity, “We don’t really know what it is or what is really happening, but we can measure the results and have equations that can successfully predict them.” That kind of slipperiness is very much related to why people such as Schroedinger knew that science would never really be able to answer our most important questions, such as “Where did I come from? Where am I going?”

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

Best,

Wade

P.S. This post is reposted after the hack. This is the only one that I had to repost. Bill and gang are very prudent, with a daily backup. I have seen far more professional organizations fail to do it. In fact, at every company that I have ever been at, they did not get the backups done properly. I have designed the backup processes at my companies, and monitor and test them. Avalon is a “charity,” and that it was able to quickly restore from a backup is impressive.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I plunk along on the essay, I keep up on current events, as always, and am constantly struck by how deeply the scarcity-based paradigm is baked in human awareness, particularly when the energy issue is addressed. As my readers know, every FE attempt that I ever saw or heard of was based within the scarcity framework, to one degree or another (Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6). As I write my essay, I am constantly thinking about what I am attempting to get across to my readers. Again, reading my essay will only be a baby step along the path, but it is a path that has never been blazed before.

If people think about what human life was like before and after the control of fire, or before and after domesticating plants and animals, or before and after the Industrial Revolution (which we are really still in, as we continue to use fossil fuels as our primary energy source), the way people thought and how their worlds worked were so vastly different that it is almost silly to compare them, as each one operated under a totally different paradigm due to their level of energy use. We can see a lot of that even today, where some hunter-gatherers still exist, as do pre-industrial societies (none have escaped the West’s influence, but we can still see vestiges of how their societies used to be).

If/when the FE Revolution happens, it will make virtually everything that we see today obsolete. We can see hints of what that world can look like, with TV shows such as Star Trek:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/abund.htm#trek

but even those are very pale imitations of what abundance can look like, and that future Earth that Roads visited:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post672748

is the best example of abundance realized that I have yet encountered. It is obviously an FE-based society, and it operates on the love principle. There is no way that I can overemphasize the changes that will happen with FE; I can barely imagine them myself, and I have been living with the idea for half of my life.

Imagining abundance in a world of scarcity is no easy feat. I have almost never encountered anybody who was willing to even try. My upcoming essay is intended to help people understand the energy issue and how life on Earth and human civilization has always ridden on it. That really is the first goal. My second is to help point people in directions to where, if they do the work, they can realize how close FE is to being publicly manifested. Again, Godzilla’s greatest triumph is making FE and what can come with it unimaginable, and, in that respect, I plan to be a fly in the ointment. But probably my most important goal is for people to begin to shed, at least in their minds, the scarcity-based baggage that we are all burdened with from the cradle (and learn to sing the new song ). When people can do that, then they can free up their minds and spirits for the potential of abundance. I know that my musings on the subject:

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

are only baby steps, at best. If I get this going, I fully expect people like Ilie to take it much further in their lifetimes. But until FE is manifested in the public sphere, the masses will stay mired in scarcity, and that is OK. I am not trying to reach them with my work. A person mired in scarcity cannot even begin to comprehend abundance. I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks, and I have found a few. I think that this might have a chance to make a dent, but we will see.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I took the attached picture of that lake yesterday, and woke up on that lake’s shores this morning. It is right off the Pacific Crest Trail. The night before, we slept in the meadow at the bottom of that valley in the other picture. Nobody was within miles of us when we slept in that valley. We could have stayed there a month and not have seen a soul. To Europeans, that seems like something out of a fairy tale, and I fully appreciate being able to do that in my backyard. My hiking pal had to work in Switzerland a couple of years ago, and when his Swiss coworkers knew that he hiked, he was regularly asked, in tones of awe, if he had ever seen a bear. I brought a friend here from Spain this past summer, and his goal was to bring back pictures of deer for his friends. He probably got tired of seeing deer by the time the trip was finished, but in one meadow that I took him to, a yearling bear was ambling through, and my friend took the attached picture. I don’t run into bears that often, and that was a bonus encounter that he will never forget. There is nothing like that in Spain, to put it mildly. He was slackjawed regularly.

I’ll make a post before the week is out.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I have stated repeatedly, I am bombarded with the latest news in the FE field. I really can’t escape it; if it is not the inventor of the hour on this thread, then I get it via email, personal contacts, and so on. I got some when I came home from the mountains and read my email last night. And without fail, it is the same old, same old, where newbies and the naïve, greedy, and otherwise unqualified keep trying the same paths to disaster that I have been a part of or have witnessed since 1986. Raising money does not work, conferences do not work, the inventor of the hour does not work, applying for patents does not work, tinkering in garages does not work, scientific testing does not work, sneaking around does not work, etc., etc. The entire FE field is stuck in arrested development, and is largely a Boys’ Club. I have no interest in trying out the strategies that won’t work, or luring newbies into learning those lessons the hard way, which can be life-threatening. It is really maddening to see everybody in the field go down the same ruts, over and over, thinking that they somehow have some magic answer or unique virtue that will see them succeed where 50,000 before them have failed. I have watched them scoff, come up with a bright idea that has been tried a hundred times before, and so on. I really don’t want to watch anymore.

I once stated on this thread that I would go into the details of the Levels to show why each of those approaches below Level 12 has not worked and is highly unlikely to:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6

but I doubt that I did it. Each level has a number of variations on the theme, and the levels are not mutually exclusive, as aspirants can rattle around between them and can be in thrall to elements of more than one of them at once. For instance, Level 6 is the most naïve level of all, for those that get past the initial denial and fear of FE. When inventors tinker in their garages, try to raise money, and apply for patents, they are in Level 6. They may have heard something about the organized suppression, but they either are in denial of it, dismissing as a “conspiracy theory” or just paranoid reactions to innocent situations, and so on. Nearly all inventors dream of becoming rich and famous from their inventions, and when the invention is FE (which is a Level 11 delusion), their dreams can quickly go beyond the notions of avarice:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/risk.htm#quadrillion

and delusions of grandeur can take over, with the inventor thinking that he is The Second Coming (I am using a literal example here):

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

When an inventor applies for a patent, he announces his weakness: he is trying to make money off of it. That is the easiest path to defeat, and thousands of energy patents have been classified:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post514878

and those inventors are some of the lucky ones. The “luckiest” get the golden handcuffs:

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

but that is an insanely dangerous lottery to play. The inventor can instead see his life wrecked or prematurely ended. Usually, the inventor will be betrayed by himself and his allies, and the entire thing collapses in a bloodbath of greed and fear, and Godzilla never even needs to lift a claw.

Level 7 is only slightly worldlier, and there are shacks, garages, and warehouses around the world with FE aspirants in them, thinking that they can build an FE device and sneak past the predators. There are variations on that theme. The most typical is trying to develop it in secret. Other tactics are to distribute it in secret, such as a battery-operated gizmo where the batteries never wear out, or put it on the market with little fanfare, thinking that it will catch Godzilla sleeping or him thinking that it is just another gizmo that might save a little energy. All of those have failed, repeatedly. What is doubly frustrating when I bring up that situation, to move on from it, newbies and others won’t let it go, but spout their bright ideas on how the sneak-up-on-them strategy can work. Without exception, such people have exactly zero experience in the field, acting like adolescent boys watching war movies:

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

and some of them have been observers of the field for many years, and still can’t get past their armchair general approach.

The Level 9 approach is perhaps the most deluded, in thrall to Young Warrior fantasies:

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

like those boys watching war movies, eager to get on the battlefield. Godzilla does not hang his shingle out. You don’t find him; he finds you. And even when you are snuffed out, you rarely have any inkling of what really happened.

I have been a key member of several Level 10 efforts, with Dennis and Brian, and those were agonizing learning experiences, to put it mildly. There are many, many Level 10 approaches. There are ad campaigns on TV and the print media (Dennis is the master of that), mass funding via capitalist or charitable routes, and rallying around scarcity-based ideologies to get some traction (Dennis has tried the capitalist, nationalist, and religious routes, repeatedly, and all were disasters - http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant).

One of the deadlier Level 10 strategies is the conference. If you attend an FE conference, you will be surrounded by Godzilla’s agents, delusional inventors, greedy opportunists, groupies, the inexperienced, and almost everybody else will be a naïve gawker. Almost nobody there will be the Real McCoy, and if they are, they are risking their lives. The allure of conferences seems to be some human social need, where people can press the flesh, meet the legends, and so on, but the downsides are enormous. I have been to far too many conferences and shows, and they all went nowhere, and if anybody had something going, the boom was lowered on them, either before, during, or afterwards.

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

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

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/hitman.htm#global

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#philly

Brian almost did not survive one of his earlier conference experiences:

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

and it shortened his life.

Another Level 10 approach is telling your friends, family, and colleagues all about FE. That is the trap that virtually all newbies fall into. If you understand anything about what I am writing, you will know that you are absolutely alone in your daily life; there is nobody like you in your life, and none of them are going to do much waking up at all on the FE front, and you can wreck family relationships, friendships, and careers by talking up FE with those around you. If longtime members of the field can’t do it, newbies sure can’t.

There seems to be no end to newbies who race at the pitfalls, thinking that they found The Way. That is the ego talking. The people whom I respect in the FE field all began their journeys naively, and it is no crime. If they survived the process, they eventually shed at least most of their naïveté. I have seen it with Dennis, Brian, Adam, me, and some others. But it is hard to shed one’s initial naïveté unless one has been on the battlefield:

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

Naïveté is a failing that can be overcome in a lifetime. The others are not so “easy,” and the most important one, by far, is a person’s level of personal integrity, and all the people whom I respect in the field had that quality when they began. Almost nobody can really learn the integrity lessons in a lifetime. I have seen people try, but they usually stumble badly as they backslide when temptation beckons. I think that you have to come in that way to make the grade that I think is needed. Those people are needles in haystacks, and those are whom I seek. Personal integrity is a quality of the heart. You either have it or you don’t. That lack of integrity manifests in thinking like a victim, with a fearful outlook, and other deficiencies.

There are many ways to get off course on the FE issue, if a person can overcome their denial in the first place. One example is the conspiracist/structuralist dichotomy:

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

The reason why we don’t enjoy the benefits of FE today is about 5-10% due to the organized suppression, and the rest is humanity’s inertia. The enemy is truly us, but conspiracists fixate on the organized suppression, attributing nearly the entire situation to Godzilla and his minions, when they are rarely involved in FE effort failures, as almost all efforts collapse from within, as greed, delusions of grandeur, and the like raise their heads. While conspiracists vastly overplay the importance of the organized suppression, the structuralists have an ideological aversion to the very idea of organized suppression:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/radleft.htm#religion

and so miss important dynamics, too. The structuralists are almost all heavily entrenched Level 3s, if they ever hear of FE:

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

Both the conspiracists and the structuralists miss the FE boat, as they both think like victims:

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

As I have stated, love and FE are joined the hip, in physical, ethical, practical, and mystical ways:

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

Nothing about making FE happen will be easy, but it all starts in the heart.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade