WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I think I will do one more post on awakening. I have generalized it, so that it applies to any in-group ideology or conditioning, whether it is nationalism, capitalism, the tenets of organized religion, etc. I’ll save awakening from materialism for my mystical awakening post. The awakenings that I have encountered are those when people first understand that the world does not work like how they thought that it did, usually because they were taught falsely, and they had to find out through their experiences, not because a new teacher comes along.

Awakenings are not necessarily general or permanent, and Orwell said that trading one dogma for another wasn’t really an advance. In-groups necessitate out-groups, and in-groups treat out-groups terribly. If there has been a constant of the human journey, it might be that one. When people trade organized religion for New Age nostrums, they are not necessarily moving closer to enlightenment. Love is the answer, not what somebody believes so much. Conspiracism generally makes elites into an out-group, and conspiracists heap all responsibility for the world’s ills onto those bad ol’ elites. In my experience, it is just another way to think like a victim. Godzilla is playing a role, and he represents the most deeply fearful and delusional aspects of humanity, making self-service into a science. He is not going to be defeated in battle by FE aspirants, exposed, and so on (those Young Warrior delusions), but he can only be made obsolete, and a loving approach is really all that I am interested in.

It has been said that the news is the first draft of history, and as I began waking up to how the mainstream media shamelessly lies, realizing that the history I was taught was a pack of lies was not far behind it (I already realized that the tenets of capitalism were fairy tales, through my brutal experiences). I was born in Washington State, went to Junípero Serra elementary school, and worked in Columbus, and early in my studies in the early 1990s, I came to understand that Washington and Columbus were mass-murdering thieves, aptly named the fathers of my great nation, and Serra (who was recently sainted), was the commandant of an ancestor of Hitler’s death camps.

Boy, was it ever “fun” to find out those little tidbits that my history lessons failed to teach me. I never drank the red, white, and blue Kool-Aid as deeply as Ralph, Dennis, Brian, or Mr. Professor did, so I was able to write my American Empire essay, which I doubt that any of them could have done, nor could hardly any Americans. It was a product of my awakening. As Darren once said, most Americans would go into convulsions reading it. I don’t recommend it to any Americans who have not begun to wake up, but if they have, then it can be very helpful.

It seems like history, because it deals with the past, usually the long-gone past, goes deeper than the news, which is about current events, as that sense of history often girds a person’s sense of being, particularly if it is about their in-group, whatever it might be. So, when notions of history are discarded, it can have a deeper effect than realizing that the media continually lies to its audience. So, it can be more liberating. The sooner that people realize that we are all The Universal People, with far more in common than we have differences, the sooner we will get over the hump, but almost nobody is really going to achieve it in a world of scarcity and fear, when in-group status means getting the gravy.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have written before that I am not sure how vital a mystical awakening is to understanding FE and abundance, but everybody that I respected in the FE field had a mystical awakening. Ken Wilber wrote that the greatest scientists of history became mystics when they saw the failures of science in explaining reality, but I have known some Einsteinian minds, and their mystical orientation seemed at least partly responsible for their scientific and technological breakthroughs.

A mystical awakening can be valuable in a few ways. One of them is that a mystical awakening shatters the religion of the Fourth Epoch, which is materialism. Materialism comes in a few different guises, and I have also called them Enlightenment ideals and the rationalist-materialist paradigm, and the openly-displayed greed on Wall Street is also materialistic.

As with the other awakenings I have written about, people can’t get a mystical awakening through a received teaching or literature review, but it has to come via direct personal experience. Enlightened mystics know that people have to achieve their own mystical awakenings, and the best of them help people achieve them. Younger souls have a particular challenge in attaining a mystical awakening, as they are focused outwardly more than inwardly, and a mystical awakening comes from focusing within. We live in a Young Soul world, so outward focus and materialism is the order of the day. Baby Soul societies have organized religion, in which such souls can achieve a kind of group high, and the New Age can be seen as an effort to move past materialism, but it drags the baggage of materialism with it, as epitomized in the movie The Secret, in which getting rich is one of its themes.

Also, most of my FE fellow travelers received their mystical awakenings in their late teens or early 20s. I received mine at age 16. Like other awakenings, experience brings knowledge, not theories or beliefs, which is what materialism is based on. While the population control ideologies are blatantly egocentric, as they form obvious in-groups at the expense of those not in them, materialism, rationalism, and scientism work on a subtler level and appeal to the “smart.” Carl Sagan was a notorious practitioner of materialism, scientism, and “skepticism,” while his colleague Brian O’Leary began exploring the frontiers of science after his mystical awakening.

Some mystical awakenings, such as Mark’s, directly led to the insight necessary to build a working FE prototype, and Mark’s harsh political awakening began the next day. Flashes of insight were responsible for some of history’s greatest breakthroughs in science and technology. Scientists have called it “The Creative Moment” and other terms, but my experience is that it is a close cousin, if not identical, to mystical insight. People such as Einstein wrote about “cosmic religious feeling” and the similarity of scientific geniuses and spiritual masters.

The primary message of all spiritual masters is love, and the most enlightened message from the godhead is that we are all one, which was also Jesus’s message (“love the enemy” – or in other words, there is no out-group), and I have found that without a mystical awakening, that message is not easy to comprehend, because people live in fear, in our world of scarcity. Only abundance is going to get people to let down their defenses to love.

Materialism is a subtle way to form an in-group and appeals to the smart, as materialism is founded on the five senses and logic. But deductive logic’s fruits are only as good as its assumptions, and a mystical awakening falsifies the assumptions of materialism. Again, I can write for years on the subject, but until people have their own mystical awakenings, my words will be meaningless. I only began reading spiritual literature after my mystical awakening, and I came to realize that my mystical training and awakening helped give me the foundation to survive my journey with Dennis, and I never doubted the truth of Seth’s statement on being a practical idealist, and my journey drove it home with me in no uncertain terms. Again, those mired in materialism cannot comprehend it. Noam Chomsky has arguably been the world’s most towering intellectual for the past 50 years or so, but he, like almost all leftists that I ever saw, advocated violence as a solution. In my opinion, that is because they did not have a mystical awakening. The advocacy of violence is classic Young Warrior behavior, in thrall to their particular delusion.

Materialistic assumptions (or evil mentalities) justify practices such as vivisection and animal experiments (which Hitler’s henchmen took further, and some became American heroes). There are also religious justifications, such as that animals are soulless, so comprise an out-group that can be abused at will. Materialists certainly do not corner the evil market, but they can be high “achievers” in it.

It is certainly possible to have a mystical awakening and go to the dark side, and that is why I rank where one’s heart is above all other qualifications for choir membership. The hells of the astral plane are filled with “smart” beings, and if you want to spend 50 lifetimes or so in penance (and I may be writing from experience here), then have a mystical awakening and use your new skills for selfish ends or hurting others. When I took the Silva course, when I had my mystical awakening, we were subjected to conditioning statements, and one was that if we misused our mystical abilities, we would lose them. It is similar to my advocacy of a peacekeeping force of grandmothers, to ensure that FE technology is not misused to harm others or the planet, until nobody has to be reminded anymore.

Another term for that creative flash is intuition, which is an internal knowing not related to the senses or rationality. After my mystical awakening, my imagination grew by leaps and bounds, and likely is significantly responsible for the visions that I present. I reward hard study and writing on my site’s material with fantasy literature. Until I was 14, I did not “get” fiction, until my father handed me The Hobbit, and before long, I was quite the science fiction enthusiast.

If you have had a mystical awakening, this post may make a lot of sense, but if you haven’t, it may not mean much, if anything. Again, I am not sure that a mystical awakening is required, but it helps avoid many traps that I have seen the “smart” fall into, and on the FE front, the two most common are the denial of FE for the “laws of physics” and “conspiracy theory” reasons.

The first one is ludicrous, as there are no “laws of physics,” as Brian was fond of saying, but only theories. Calling theories “laws” invests them with a quasi-religious certitude, when science is ideally about doubt, not faith. Dismissing evidence of organized suppression as a “conspiracy theory” is similarly irrational, not to mention naïve (which scientists suffer from, as Fuller noted), but it is endemic among scientists and academics. Their denial (and often sophisticated denial) puzzled me for many years, until I resumed my science studies. I gradually realized that in the worldview of the scientific establishment, there is no intent behind the universe’s creation or functioning, but is the result of the “laws of physics” and random events playing out. The best scientists reject that idea, noting that science has nothing at all to say about intent, but is about discovering history and process.

Conspiracists tend to be paranoid and shallow-thinking, and structuralists tend to be boxed in by their materialistic assumptions, and generally deny that anybody in powerful positions consciously produces the outcomes that we see on the world stage today, but they are merely the result of anarchic battles, just like Darwin’s theory of evolution stated (see the end of Origin of Species). The radical Left rejects the idea of evil-minded ultra-elites as an article of faith. Well, those imaginary elites stomped on me and my fellow travelers, so we know that they are real. Conspiracists and structuralists are united in thinking like victims, making elites the root of our problems when they are only a symptom. Elites will become obsolete in the Fifth Epoch, just like materialism, conspiracism, and the other “isms” will.

Those who have played on the high road know that FE, antigravity, and other technologies that turn the physics textbooks into doorstops are on the planet today, so that staunch denial and certitude by scientists and academics can be amazing to witness, as they sit in their armchairs and spin their circular logic. In my opinion, their materialism is largely responsible for their stunted perspectives, and a mystical awakening could do them a world of good.

In finishing, is a mystical awakening required for what I am doing? I am still not sure, but I know that it can be immensely helpful, and people who have it can avoid the pitfalls that I have seen snare materialists, and their awareness also can expand in ways that are very useful, such as awakening the heart, intuition, and even unlock the abilities of geniuses.

Best,

Wade

[Billy]

Hi Wade, Just dropping in to inform you that the post above was Avalon's one millionth post. A wonderful post indeed.

Congratulations my friend.

The party is here.
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post1021756

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Billy:

I made a celebratory post on that thread. When I got home from shopping and I saw the flurry of activity on my thread, I wondered what was happening. Well, yes, I agree that that was a good post of mine for the millionth, and it is an honor to be here. I am still laughing at this situation. Limor may have something to say about the numerical significance of it.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This one will be short, as I have to go hiking soon. Somebody has to do it!

The final choir-member quality that I listed is scientific literacy. I listed it last, because it is far less important than the first two qualities that I listed, and if a mystical awakening is required, then it is also more important than scientific literacy. My approach requires at least some mental horsepower, along with a lot of hard work. I purposely wrote my big essay so that people do not need to be professional scientists or scholars to understand it. Scientists are currently the biggest fans of the essay, some of global stature, but if they are the only people who are going to be able to discuss my big essay, then I will have failed in my original intention. My goal was for laypeople to understand it. My big essay is close to what I think that Bucky Fuller would have written if he were alive and had the time to do it. Our journeys were curiously similar.

During my own studies, I found that keen discernment was required, especially when traveling the fringes, as there is a mountain of chaff for every kernel of wheat. All sorts of bogus scholarship is on the fringes, and if people cannot distinguish the genuine from the bogus, they are easily led astray and get lost in the weeds. I have spent a great deal of time studying topics such as Velikovsky’s scenarios, ideas whether we landed men on the moon, and ideas that Antarctica and Greenland were ice free in the Holocene, and while for some alternative scenarios, there is something to it, such as Jack Kennedy being murdered by a conspiracy and the highest levels of American government covering it up, most is invalid. But most scientific hypotheses are invalid, too. That is the nature of the scientific process. Rupert Sheldrake and Brian O’Leary are/were scientific heretics, challenging the fundamental assumptions of mainstream science, but they still believed in the scientific process. The ideal of science is a worthy one. Unfortunately, just like everything else in a world of scarcity, the ideal is rarely achieved.

I spent a great deal of effort dismantling the media’s lies and the lies of the history I was taught, wrote book length essays on the American myths of World War II, how the medical racket works, dismantling the myths that gird American nationalism, and I lived through how the energy racket works. I fully admit that if I had not been radicalized by my adventures, I would likely not have much worth saying, and my radicalized state was responsible for spending several years of my life, without compensation, writing the material on my site. There is more to write on this subject, but it will have to wait until I get back from hiking.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am currently reading Lisa Randall’s Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs, in which she makes the case that mass extinctions have happened about every 30 million years due to celestial events (bolide events), not related to how ecosystems interact with Earth’s processes. That hypothesis has come and gone over the years, and she is trying to revive it with a new agent of destruction: dark matter.

I’ll have something to say about her hypothesis when I am finished with the book, but it is relevant to these scientific literacy posts. Randall is a cosmologist, and the first part of the book is devoted to cosmology, which is how our universe came to be. Today’s cosmologists think that they know how old the universe is, within 10 million years (13.77 billion years), and think that they understand the processes by which the galaxies and stars were born. According to cosmologists, everything came from nothing, that the universe began as smaller than a grain of sand and then exploded into what we see today, and cosmologists think that they know what happened in the first second of this universe’s life and understand key events that saw it grow into what it is today.

Scientific literacy does not mean believing that story, but understanding the story and why scientists think that it may be accurate. The stories of how things came to be are just that, stories. They may be accurate, and they may not, but some stories have more evidence for them than others. Cosmologists cite a great deal of evidence to support their story, and that evidentiary body continues to grow as more tools are used, such as state-of-the-art space telescopes and planetary probes.

Not all astronomers bought the Big Bang and related cosmology, such as Halton Arp. Many astronomers are far from sold on the current cosmology (such as here), but the prevailing hypothesis today is the one that Randall presents. At the universal level, there is still plenty of scientific controversy, and at the bedrock of the atomic level, it is also far from settled, with the dual nature of light, electrons, and other particle/waves presenting an enigma that is still unresolved. Also, some optical microscopes have resolutions that call into question today’s theories of light.

There is a great deal of evidence that agrees with the models and formulas, but Einstein and Schroedinger, for instance, were very unhappy with a quantum physics that could make accurate predictions but did not say what was happening. Today’s cosmology invokes dark matter and dark energy, which have never been observed, but their presence is inferred by certain data and the prevailing theories about phenomena such as gravity.

Randall conscientiously stated that there are areas where science cannot currently go, such as what happened before the Big Bang and where it all came from in the first place. Prudent scientists have an appreciation for science’s limits. When scientists try to play priests, such as Sagan and Hawking, then they can fall off the rails. The best scientists know that today’s science has nothing to say about any intent (or not) behind the universe’s creation or functioning. It is not a question that today’s science can address. But when Rupert Sheldrake made a tame challenge to the assumptions of the materialistic paradigm that dominates mainstream science today, he was hounded and censored by the “skeptics,” who are attack dogs for establishment science.

When I get painted as Mr. Orthodox or Mr. Fringe, I have found that the labeler is usually defending his/her faith. I am not into faith, especially the blind kind. As I see it, there are some big flies in the ointment of orthodox science today, and until they are addressed and resolved, mainstream scientists will be playing a small game.

First and foremost, in fundamental areas of inquiry, there is anything but free inquiry. FE scientists and inventors, from Tesla onward, have had a rough ride. Those who have played on the high road to FE all had hell to pay, and one of my fellow travelers got a peek at Godzilla’s Golden Hoard, and what he was shown turns the physics texts into doorstops.

A related area is UFOs and ETs. While the popular press is a three-ring-circus on the issue, as it is with many similar issues, a close pal, who was an astronomer and astronaut, held a UFO conference and nearly died soon afterward, immediately after rejecting the American military’s “offer” to perform classified research on UFOs. His health never recovered and the incident shortened his life. If we are being visited by technologically advanced civilizations from other star systems, and if they are humanoid, then entire bodies of evolutionary theory are going to go flying out the window.

Again, pipe-smoking and sherry-sipping scientists and academics are not going to find out any differently, as they sit in their gilded cages. As long as there are national security states and wholly unaccountable private power, which makes the sitting American president nothing more than a stooge (and easily disposed of if he presents a problem), scientists are not able to engage in free inquiry, and those who have pushed the envelope of science and technology have been unceremoniously wiped out, in what has been called COINTELPRO for scientists and inventors. Of course, establishment members usually irrationally dismiss the evidence as a “conspiracy theory,” and it is the adult equivalent of pulling the sheets over your head so that the monsters under your bed cannot get you.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am taking a little break from choir qualities posts, and I am going to add this to my vignettes. Somewhere in my reading today, I happened upon something that spurred me to think about my days in Boston with Dennis, when I encountered my first Astroturf organization. I have written plenty that I gave up TV at age 18, but I have never lived alone and none of my roommates ever gave it up (one eventually worked in television), so that if I wanted to hang out with my roommates, I often had to sit with them in front of a TV. Dennis is an incorrigible TV watcher, so that winter of 1986-1987 in Boston, with the snow deep on the ground, I sat with Dennis in our living room late at night and heard the story of his life. If they ever made a movie out of it, nobody would believe it. His journey makes Indiana Jones’s pale in comparison. Dennis was not trying to play the regaling raconteur, and as I look back, he was preparing me to be the heir apparent. I could never do what Dennis does. You really have to see him in action to believe it.

I raised the money to be Dennis’s partner in early January, as I recall, and we began to plan our Greatest Energy Shows on Earth, with the first one held in the building where the Boston Tea Party was planned. For more than a month, we prepared for that first show, had the demo model built that you can see the deputies taking in the raid, with me supervising, and I hooked up a trailer to my Pinto and towed it to the shows.

Beginning about the time that I raised the money, in those late-nights, we began seeing the ads run by the Coalition for Reliable Energy, that first Astroturf organization. The ad blitz ran for the entire month before our show. It was not a response to us, by any means, but it was highly ironic, as I look back at it (and a lot more than meets the eye was happening, even if it was just my “friends” orchestrating my journey). It was soon after our first shows that the Coalition was exposed as an Astroturf organization, and the Massachusetts Attorney General sued them. That was a New York Times article that I linked to, but I first read it in the Boston Globe, which never mentioned us, but two weeks after our first shows, they ran an article on solving our energy problems by mining moon dust.

Godzilla made his first friendly buyout offer a month or so later, Dennis had an audience with the Seabrook nuclear plant’s chairman of the board, New England’s electric companies had secret meetings to decide what to do about us, and local officials were sharpening their axes. We left before they could strike.

When I saw Dennis in 2013, we talked about those halcyonic days in Boston. For all that I had been through already, Boston is where I really began to lose my innocence, and the attacks from my former girlfriend, whom I once considered marrying, was a gentle preview of what lied ahead for me. I have written that when I rescued the hooker, if you had told me what the next few years held for me, I would not have believed it. If you had told me, when I chased Dennis out to Boston, what was ahead of me, I would not have believed it. If you had told me, when I raised the money to be Dennis’s partner, what was ahead of me, I would not have believed you. If you had told me what was ahead of me as I drove the truck to Ventura, with all of our company’s assets in it, what was ahead of me, I would have denied that the most of all.

I look back to what happened in Ventura and I still have a hard time believing that it all happened, in my home town, of all places, and what I tell publicly is far from the entire story, and one day, I may be able to tell it all.

Anyway, digging up that New York Times article was another trip down memory lane for me.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am burrowing through Lisa Randall’s book. I use “stuff” a lot, but only used it once in my big essay (and not the way that I usually do in forums), as I tried to write a little more formally. Randall uses “stuff” every few pages, in that catchall way that I informally do. Kind of surprising, but maybe because she is writing to the laity, she feels like using “stuff,” along with many popular allusions. It is kind of funny and a little glib, but I have read that her popular books are like that.

Carl Sagan used all sorts of hifalutin words in his writings for the laity, and it came off as pompous. I began reading The Canon some years ago, and I was put off by the way the author regularly interspersed the book with anecdotes that seemed like they were written for truck drivers. I find that many scientists and academics really miss the mark when writing to lay audiences, writing down to them or unnecessarily using big words to make mundane stuff ( ) seem sophisticated and full of meaning.

I remember reading something long ago that Tolkien wrote, that when he deliberately wrote to children as if they were children, they did not like it and neither did he, and he gave up those artifices by the time that he wrote The Lord of the Rings, which was dramatically different from The Hobbit.

I think that people have to be treated as equals for work like that (or any work, really), and not talked down to, or over their heads. I use as little scientific jargon as I can. I think that Peter Ward is a great popularizer, and his works are a labor of love. It seems to be a rare talent for scientists, who can write to the laity without seeming like fake populists or coming off as pompous.

Best,

Wade

[Servant Limestone]

Meow Meow:

Before I go to bed, I just want to say congratulations to Project Avalon for getting into a million posts! That's kind of rare to happen. Though I am actually a member of a forum since 2011 which now has 15 million posts and counting. But that site has been around since 2001, I believe. And it's not actually a forum discussing common topics related to pop culture or anything. Hehehe. It does that but that's for the chat section of the forum.

And it's indeed a fitting millionth post for the site by an unsuspecting Wade Frazier! I actually have something to say about awakening too in relation to that post and I might do that tomorrow night, Manila time. It's nothing as great as Wade's post though. I don't know if my apparitional experience counts as some form of mystical experience. And it doesn't matter. It's enough for me to stop embracing materialism. I'm sorry but I also can't promise that I can post about it tomorrow. We'll see.

See yah,

Serg

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am nearing the end of these “choir qualities” posts, and will continue on scientific literacy (and scholarly literacy is a close cousin). The scientific method is something new in the human journey. Anthropologists have found that people in all human societies have beliefs that are demonstrably false. If we put it in scientific terms, people continue to support hypotheses long after they are falsified. It turns out that scientists can do it, too (and do it often), as they are people, after all. But the best scientists try to never get too attached to any idea that can be subjected to scientific testing, as any of them may be falsified.

Most of my early writings were produced to falsify popular “truths,” and it was not until I encountered Bucky Fuller’s work that I could look back at my writings and see what they had in common, in a paradigmatic way. I was taking on the convenient yet deadly lies of my society, such as that “attack-the-tumor” is the only way to treat cancer, that knives and drugs are the only ways to treat artery disease (or any disease), that the USA is a beacon of light to the world, not just another imperial marauder, raping and pillaging its way across the planet to secure plunder, that the news and history presented to us resemble the truth, that capitalism is such a wonderful system, and so on. I was taking on the in-group ideologies of my culture, which elevated the in-group at the expense of the out-group, which could then be treated terribly with a relatively clear conscience. To the extent that humans engage in that kind of “thinking,” we are not a sentient species. Monkeys do that, and they are not considered sentient.

If humanity is going to turn the corner instead of crash and burn, taking most of Earth’s ecosystems with it, some group has to let go of its in-group ideologies so that it can overcome humanity’s egocentric inertia and the organized suppression, to help manifest the human journey’s biggest event. I am trying to build that group. In a world of scarcity and fear, the masses of humanity are not going to awaken. Only when the means of abundance are delivered into their lives will they begin to, and it has been like this for every Epochal Event.

Practicing the methods of science and scholarship takes self-discipline, a willingness to be wrong and lay the ego aside in a quest for the truth, not to justify self-serving fictions. It takes keen discernment and a certain level of mental horsepower to not only handle the many pieces of information that scientific hypotheses are based on, but to also understand the dynamics of how those pieces may fit together and work. That is not easy. The sine qua non of science is the formulation of a falsifiable hypothesis. In order to do that, it takes a mind that can grasp all of the known evidence regarding a phenomenon and the creative insight to propose a dynamic that explains them. Those who can do that generally have IQs that are way up there, and I have encountered quite a few during my journey. While those people are way ahead of the rest of us in important ways, for efforts such as those, it is also quite possible to eventually understand what they came up with, given enough time and effort, at least for those with enough mental horsepower.

Take calculus. Two men, standing on the shoulders of their professional ancestors, invented calculus, and it has been taught to countless millions of people ever since. How many who learned calculus could have invented it? Not many. The physics of the 20^th century, which still dominates today, has very few authors, and they generally had an outlook that could be called mystical.

The structural feature of science, in which only hypotheses that survive attempts to falsify them graduate to becoming theories, has tended to turn the scientific community into a shark tank, as scientists fight over obtaining grant money and tenure, aspire to Nobel Prizes, scientific pioneers suffer greatly at the hands of their peers, etc. So it is, in a world of scarcity.

However, for areas where vested interests are not actively mischievous, the evidence will tend to win out, although the pioneer is often dead and buried when he/she is vindicated, and stealing credit from them is unfortunately typical. One of Mr. Mentor’s scientific colleagues was recruited by major universities for faculty positions, and one perk dangled before him was that if a brilliant graduate student came up with something good, the professor could plagiarize it and call it his own. It was standard behavior back in the 1960s-1970s. In the American military, any paper written by a scientist was openly stolen by his supervisor and presented as his own. It was standard procedure. One of Mr. Mentor’s colleagues was an oceanographer who wrote a paper, which his boss then called his own and presented in a professional forum, and that oceanographer at least had to satisfaction of attending the forum and watching his boss receive the accolades from his “peers” for “his” brilliant work. Mr. Mentor was repeatedly invited to present papers in international forums, and his bosses told him that anything that he wrote would be presented by them as their own work. Given those options, Mr. Mentor refused to write any.

Nobody needs to look to the scientific establishment as some beacon of light, and it is completely irrelevant today on the critical issues that humanity faces, but its ideal process is a worthy one.

What I have noted for many years is people’s almost complete lack of discernment. They don’t practice critical thinking, and if they ever stop believing one set of lies, they embrace another set just as uncritically, as Orwell noted in the censored preface of Animal Farm.

Not only are Establishment “truths” often a series of lies, and big ones, but the fringes are also filled with chaff. Very few who travel the fringes practice any discernment, and instead swallow whatever is put in front of them. The scientific ideal is to subject every idea and statement to the crucible of critical thinking and falsification (and verification). When I read Gary Wean’s account of John Tower’s conversation on Oswald’s real role in the JFK assassination, even though Gary helped me bust Dennis out of jail and he had my implicit trust, I read thousands of pages of JFK-related material for a dozen years before I said anything publicly about it. I never saw a convincing piece of evidence falsify Gary’s story, and over the years, evidence kept coming to light that further verified it, such as the Operation Northwoods documents.

As far as I am concerned, the idea that Oswald was a lone nut has been falsified. That also leads to the idea that the Warren Commission was a sham, and the Kennedy family came out in 2013 and called it that. The Kennedy family never believed the lone nut theory of Oswald’s involvement, but fear kept them silent for nearly 50 years. Gary was a professional detective, so solving the crime is what he did for a living, and he ventured his own ideas about who was behind Jack Kennedy’s murder. His opinions are not easily dismissed, and were in fact partly vindicated by arguably the best JFK book of the 21^st century so far, endorsed by the Kennedys, which argues that JFK was killed by the MIC because he tried to end the Cold War. The man who led the Warren Commission’s “investigation” was actually one of the prime suspects, who led the CIA before JFK fired him over the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Gary’s idea that Jewish mobsters were behind it cannot be too far from the mark, as Jack Ruby was a Jewish mobster.

The JFK affair also falsifies the idea that the American president is anything but a puppet, and is easily disposed of if he becomes disobedient. But the subject is not for quick-study artists, and my opinions on those subjects are not something that I dreamed up one day.

My father worked in Mission Control during the Space Race, and my pal Brian O openly stated his skepticism that NASA landed men on the moon. I spent a decade, on and off, reading all of the books that argued that there were cover-ups related to the moon landings, or that they were faked. I then spent a few months, full-time, trying to get to the bottom of the issue, before I decided that there was not much to the faked moon landings evidence. Nothing that I ever saw was compelling evidence of faked moon landings, and most fell apart pretty quickly upon inspection. For a few days, I thought that I stumbled onto something interesting, but I soon decided that it wasn’t. However, going through a process like that is invaluable for honing one’s discriminatory chops, to winnow the wheat from the chaff. I also found positive evidence of moon landings, and today I have virtually no doubt that NASA landed men on the moon by using conventional rocket technology, about at the level of doubting that Oswald was a patsy in a conspiracy. There may well have been cover-ups of UFOs and ETs during the Apollo missions, but that is a different issue and might have something to do with people thinking that the moon landings were faked. I am sure that it shaded Brian’s thinking, as he almost died at the hands of the USA’s military soon after hosting a UFO conference and rejecting the military’s “offer” to perform classified UFO investigation.

Those are examples of how I approached fringe topics. It is also very important to understand scientific controversies, from the hypotheses to how the evidence is gathered and assessed. I present many such controversies in my big essay, and go into a bit of depth into the Snowball Earth scenarios and the rise of complex life on Earth.

Acrimonious disputes seem like the order of the day in many areas of science. But in many areas, the disputes are mild or confined to tiny areas amongst wide areas of general agreement. For instance, almost no climate scientists on Earth, other than those who sold their souls to the Hydrocarbon Lobby (and their dupes), have any doubt whatsoever that increasing the carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere will warm Earth and is likely doing so today, and none doubt that humanity’s burning hydrocarbons to fuel the industrialized world is entirely responsible for it. There is really no dispute, but the media has allied with their Hydrocarbon Lobby patrons to fabricate the appearance of a controversy, when one does not really exist. Nobody in the field seriously doubts that declining carbon dioxide levels are responsible for the Icehouse Earth conditions that have prevailed for the past 35 million years, and the so-called Global Warming debates are over proximal causes, not the ultimate one.

There is more to come, and I plan to finish these posts this week.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

For all of you dinosaur-lovers out there, I am finishing the part of Lisa Randall’s book that deals with the dinosaurs’ demise, and I am surprised that she spent so little time on it, her treatment of the mass extinction events was rather perfunctory (and I feel a little misled by the rave reviews), and she is obviously not very well read on the Cretaceous Extinction. She wrote that sauropods were extinct by the Cretaceous Extinction event, but that is not the opinion of many specialists, if any, as far as I know. This is also a chance to venture into the kinds of discussions that I hope that the choir will engage in.

Sauropods are one of the most fascinating lines of dinosaurs, partly because they were the largest, but there are other reasons. They had the air-sac breathing system of birds, so were well adapted to the low-oxygen times of the Triassic. They are also likely the first and last line of herbivores that browsed large conifer trees, as their long necks and bulk allowed them to do. They were the least encephalized dinosaurs (which meant that they were probably not too bright), and in the higher oxygen times of the Cretaceous, the rise of ornithischians likely did put pressure on sauropods, but sauropods thrived all the way to the Cretaceous Extinction.

As with all lines of animals, sauropods rose and fell, and their Golden Age was in the late Jurassic. The late Cretaceous was notable for the rise of ornithischians, which were better adapted for eating the new kind of food: flowering plants. By the late Cretaceous, the titanosaurs were all that was left of the sauropods, but they had a nearly global distribution. In the late-Cretaceous, sauropods tended to dominate the southern continents while ornithischians tended to dominate the northern ones. The classic Cretaceous battles between T-Rexes and triceratopses happened in North America.

Theropod dinosaurs had feathers, opposable thumbs, and high encephalization, and it is legitimate to wonder if today’s Earth would be dominated by space-faring dinosaurs if not for that bolide event of 66 million years ago.

Best,

Wade

[Servant Limestone]

Meow:

Again, before I sleep, I am dropping by here just to try to write something about what I said that I am going to write about, which is awakening. I really don't have anything to say so far except that the circumstances that lead to my sort of an awakening is most likely not that as unique as the life stories of Wade, Dennis, Brian, etc. And yet, somehow, I managed to stumble upon "Wade's World" a little over three years ago in one ordinary afternoon reading about American imperialism. But as I've written before (which you can all see in my signature), there is a bit deeper background that lead me to Wade's site. The American Empire essay happens to be the most viewed part of Wade's site, if I am right, but being exposed to the crimes of global capitalism and American imperialism beforehand, through experience and simple reading, definitely helped me out in understanding much of what is written there. However, the process of further radicalization for me is not that easy. It took me a whole year to really chew out what's written in the entirety of that site. I know that subconsciously, I am trying to find a way to forget what I've seen there. But as you can all see, I'm not successful. It also took me two more years before gathering the courage to speak up and join this forum. I am not sure but it seems that I am the first person that truly responded to Wade's Open Letter to the Radical Left from his site. It may not be an accident that I managed to get here, if we are going to go a bit deeper in developing a spiritual explanation for this. God knows what's truly in store for me in this resurrection. My apparitional experience before strengthened that spiritual side of me and I know that I may be an anti-capitalist, but I am not going to be able to accept the materialist tendencies of the Left. I am that far along. I am not saying that I am special, but somehow, I managed to embark on an extraordinary inner journey that not a lot of people, especially people more intelligent than me, had gone through or have a courage to go through. My family have no idea. My friends (except for one) have no idea. My clan has no idea. Wade has an idea (after all he knows my face and real name). It's incredible. It's unbelievable! I am also not sure if having a mystical experience is truly required but it certainly helped me get here. That "white lady" experience is probably not that mystical or unique, but it is certainly enough for me to get past New Age material like the Secret, which I encountered back in 2007. Being into fantasy and science fiction literature also helped me out. I am a Star Wars fan since I am 10 years old and I am personally creating fantasy worlds in my mind and in writing since I am 8 years old. I still do make fantasy worlds from time to time and I have a creative outlet for that, through the forum with 15 million posts that I am talking about. By the way, that forum has been in existence since 2001. I am correcting that post I've written above. So, I guess it has a head start over Project Avalon so that is why it got to that level. I am not saying anything about that site because I just don't want to take any chances and be banned there for discovering me here by the admins, even though I am keeping my mouth shut there over advocating "conspiracy theories". I've been kicked there for a week once because of talking about water fueled cars made by Filipino inventors, which is true.

To put it simply, it took me living in a Third World country being victimized by American imperialism for over a century, a sheltered, semi-First World personal lifestyle in a semi-religious household that's not exactly rich that made me understand the concept of "energy slaves", a fondness for science fiction and fantasy worlds since I was young, a local TV show in 2005 that moved me emotionally about a 83 year old guy looking for work, an apparitional experience in college around 2007/8, two books called the Secret ("spiritual") and the Rogue State (geo-political), an Atlantis related "New Ageist" documentary, disillusionment with Obama and curiosity about the aims of the Occupy movement and an Internet forum topic related to socialism in America that fed upon my Amerophile feelings that all brought me to "Wade's World". All of those made me a bit ready to chew on the varied topics of the site when I first encountered ahealedplanet.net. I am hoping that one day, somebody like me will also post here and write something about his/her experiences that lead to encountering Wade's site. It may take something along my experiences for that future fellow radleftist to come here. Hopefully, it's through not that too narrow of a life experience just for somebody like me to get here. But I wouldn't be surprised if one day, that person turned out to be somebody like me. But it doesn't have to be that way. After all, I am just 21 years old when I first read the American Empire essay. Am I lucky that it took me just 21 years of my life to develop a basic understanding of "neo-Fullerianism"? Maybe. If that future person is quite older than me, I am sure that he/she has something more to say about what lead to him/her as a radical leftist to get into the "neo-Fullerian" stuff of Wade Frazier. I guess that I just have to be patient.

On a side note, I just encountered a crime scene on a way to work for the first time! It's about a shooting of a driver of a public van... I just saw the body with my own eyes, with the person shot in the head. It's all real, with all the blood. It's not in our city, though. It's on the next one on the way to Manila. It's incredible. I prayed for him silently afterwards. Hey, I am young! This is my first! I am living in a "semi-ghettoish" neighborhood since I am two years old but this is my first time seeing a bloodied corpse of someone shot in the head with my own eyes, or even a bloodied corpse of any kind. Our place is not exactly crime-ridden, thank God. And the "numerology phenomenon" continues. Basketball game score: 55-55. Plate number: 4444. Watch: 12:34, 3:33.... all unexpected. Wow. It's everyday now. And it's been for quite some time. Wait, just right now... 11:11 pm. Wow. On that note, Good night from here!

Thanks for reading.

Meow Meow,

Serg

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Serg:

My site’s server is currently down, so no links to it in this post (my tool for putting links in my posts are on the server that hosts my site). Seeing a dead body like that leaves an impact that you will never forget. I’ll never forget my first dead body, and the environment was so horrific (where I worked for six months) that we did not even comment on the body, but just walked around it on our way to lunch. But those days were a big part of inspiring me on my journey, to abolish earthly hells like that.

At my forum, I have a section for people coming to me telling their stories, as they are important, and yours is important, too. While we all have different circumstances, how we woke up is similar. Since you are not a white guy living the West, it is easier for you to wake up to American imperialism, especially when you live in one of the nations that we bludgeoned. But we all are imbued with in-group ideologies, being social animals in a world of scarcity, and waking up from any in-group ideology is not easy.

I’ll write more when my site is back up, and thanks for writing,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

On the issue of scientific literacy, the issue of “skepticism” is important. Again, doubt instead of faith is the guiding principle of science, at least ideally. A skeptical eye is what scientists hone, and if somebody comes up with a pretty argument, it is only a pretty argument (AKA “hypothesis”) until it survives the crucible of skeptical thought and scientific testing, which ideally can falsify the hypothesis.

The great breakthroughs in science came from creative insight and skepticism directed toward science’s assumptions. Einstein’s relativity is the classic instance of this. Einstein was skeptical of Newton’s assumptions of absolute time and absolute space in his Principia, which is the most influential book in the history of physics. Relativity is based on the assumptions that time and space are relative, not absolute.

Skepticism is an important aspect of scientific orientation, but that is not what organized skepticism practices, as it defends the assumptions of science from challenge, with “skepticism.” That is the opposite of what Einstein did. In practice, the “skeptics” are attack dogs of establishment science, defending the Fourth Epoch’s religion, also called materialism.

The “skeptics” have given skepticism a bad name. My encounters with organized skepticism led me to regard it as a criminal enterprise. Dennis’s “skeptical” assailant libeled Dennis in the house organ of organized skepticism, and simply made up new lies when his old ones were exposed. He stalked me on the Internet, heaving his slime at me whenever he could, and he was likely on Godzilla’s payroll. That he became a famous “skeptic,” featured on several national TV shows that smeared Dennis, is almost all that I needed to know about the “skeptics.”

I began studying organized skepticism in the early 1990s, and stumbled into the Velikovsky controversy while looking into Carl Sagan’s “skeptical” career. I am still on the controversy’s fringes today. Einstein gave Velikovsky his ear, and Velikovsky’s Worlds in Collision was the only book open on Einstein’s desk when he died, but Einstein never bought Velikovsky’s scenario of wandering planets that had near-misses with Earth that caused events in the Old Testament such as parting the Red Sea and manna from heaven (and neither does any professional astronomer that I have heard of). It has been written that Velikovsky’s ideas have had a far longer life on the fringes than they should have because of Sagan’s scurrilous “sneak attack” on Velikovsky in 1974. One of the more sober voices on the Velikovsky affair said it this way:


“…although I think there are plenty of rational arguments in refutation of Velikovsky, Sagan didn't make them; or if he did, they were so buried in irrelevance as to hide them well. And I completely agree that a valid confrontation of Velikovsky in 1974 would have ended the matter: the slick job done which ignored Velikovsky's arguments in favor of "trust me I'm a scientist and this man is mad, ho ho ho" did little to reassure those who thought Big Science incapable of thinking outside the box...”


True skepticism means thinking for one’s self and not accepting anything on faith, especially the blind kind. True skepticism has been an invaluable aid in the progress of many disciplines, and science in particular.

True skepticism relies on critical thinking, honest use of logic, and keen discernment. Those qualities are vital for navigating both orthodoxy and the fringes. Being orthodox does not automatically mean that it is valid, or being fringe does not mean that it is invalid, or vice versa. The greatest breakthroughs in science and technology often came from the fringes, and the treatment of the Wright brothers, or the continuing treatment of Rife’s and Naessens’s microscopes (or Dennis’s heat pump), highlights the failings of establishment science. But the fringes are also filled with chaff, and it takes keen discernment to navigate the fringes.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Serg:

My site is back up, and that section where those in my forum can tell their stories of how they came to me is here. I had to badger Darren and Ilie to tell their stories, as they did not see that they were important or relevant, but they are. I am using them as “bait” to attract more like them. I have had people coming to my work for nearly 20 years and, as I have written, my “peers” can only handle a few pages of my work before their heads explode, such as this section of my site. I do a lot of that intentionally, to dissuade people from reading my work who are not ready for it, as they usually are deeply immersed in their in-group ideologies, which comprise their religion, as it feeds them and bolsters their egos.

Most of my best students came to me like you did, where you stumbled into it and then chewed on it for months or years before you came forward. In order to really begin to digest what I am saying, it takes years. Yes, my American Empire essay has likely been my site’s most popular since 2002. Every year, when American kids go back to school in September, my Columbus essay becomes my site’s most popular, and it gets several thousand hits in a few days around Columbus Day, and the American Empire essay, because it is related, gets almost as much traffic. But my big essay has been my site’s most popular for the past year (and it should be), if we remove that Columbus Day traffic.

Yes, a mystical experience will shatter the assumptions that materialism is founded on, and as you know, I highly stress the importance of staying grounded while navigating that terrain. I have seen many crash and burn, even go insane and get locked up. You need both feet firmly on the ground to navigate Wade’s World.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

A little NASA chat over here:

http://universalspectrum.org/forum/s...ll=1#post19065

today.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To Serg’s recent post, when the USA begins playing the Empire Game more visibly, my American Empire essay gets an increase in traffic, and with us on the brink of World War III, my American Empire essay has more than 7,000 visits so far this month, more than twice as many as my big essay, as it comes in a distant second (and my war essay got a big spike, too).

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

More on scientific literacy. Following scientific controversies can be very educational, and I am going to present some that I have written about. The first will be on the megafauna extinctions. The “stars” of the megafauna extinctions are wooly mammoths and mastodons, and the idea that they were killed off by humans was first proposed in 1799. The idea was also proposed at various times during the 19^th century, but it was not revived until the 1960s, by Paul Martin, an American scientist. It coincided with a cultural awakening in the USA, and it immediately became a political football. A prominent American Indian activist dismissed the idea and preferred a celestial explanation, which had been proposed by catastrophists such as Velikovsky. No astronomer takes Velikovsky’s scenarios seriously, and I strongly doubt them myself, but it had the charm of absolving humans, and particularly the ancestors of American Indians, in the North American mammoth’s and mastodon’s cases, from any responsibility for driving such iconic animals to extinction. All humans who deflect responsibility from humanity have a conflict of interest.

It quickly began to become evident that megafauna across Earth, not just North American mammoths, had also recently gone extinct. In the end, megafauna went extinct everyplace on Earth except for Africa, and Martin proposed that because humans evolved in Africa, African megafauna had adapted to them (avoided them), and that is why they survived when most other megafauna went extinct, especially the largest ones.

As anthropology progressed, the human journey became better understood, and what sealed it for me was when I saw the migration pattern that had been established for behaviorally modern humans, particularly with the rise of DNA testing, and the megafauna extinctions perfectly matched it. Whenever humans arrived, the megafauna quickly went extinct. The human line first left Africa nearly two million years ago (and more than a million years before they became super-predators), but never migrated past Eurasia. So Eurasian megafauna had experience with the human line before humans became the super-predators that behaviorally modern humans did, and Eurasian megafauna had the next best survival rate, after Africa. But when humans arrived in Australia, which had no primates, much less humans, virtually all of the megafauna quickly went extinct.

About 15,000 years after humans invaded Australia, they developed the toolset that allowed them to invade the cold regions along the Eurasian ice sheet, where mammoths lived, and Eurasian mammoths quickly went extinct. Around the same time, the most successful human species, adapted to hunting the megafauna of Europe and vicinity, went extinct, and today’s scientists generally think that Neanderthals were just one more species of megafauna that fell to behaviorally modern humans, as all other human species did after humans left Africa. Nothing could withstand the onslaught of behaviorally modern humans: neither Earth’s easy meat nor competing human species.

Several thousand years after Neanderthals and Eurasian mammoths (and other megafauna, such as the Eurasian wooly rhino) went extinct, humans began migrating to the Western Hemisphere, which also had never seen humans before, and the pattern was repeated. The megafauna extinctions were sudden and total. The elephant line was the most successful mammal in Earth’s history before the rise of humans, and they lived the length and breadth of the Western Hemisphere, but they all went quickly extinct after humans arrived. Also, it was far more than just the elephant line that went extinct. North America was the evolutionary home of camels and horses, and they quickly went extinct in North America, along with entire herbivore/predator assemblages. The plains of North and South America resembled the plains of Africa, megafauna-wise, but their megafauna quickly went extinct when humans arrived.

I made the conquest of Earth by behaviorally modern humans the Second Epochal Event in my framework, and it was fueled by Earth’s easy meat. The idea that humans drove all of Earth’s easy meat is not original with me, or some idiosyncratic fringe hypothesis. I have yet to see a disinterested scientist examine the evidence and not conclude that humans were primarily, if not solely, responsible for the megafauna extinctions. I write “disinterested” because a clique of scientists have made a small cottage industry of denying human agency in the megafauna extinctions, and their preferred culprit is climate change, not humans. I have looked at the evidence for a long time, and I doubt it. I present my arguments and evidence in my big essay, and do not need to belabor them here (such as megafauna remnants surviving on isolated (AKA “human-free”) islands for thousands of years after their continental cousins had been driven to extinction), but that is an area where observing the debates, examining the evidence, and thinking long and hard about the issues can be very good work in honing one’s scientific literacy. My writings on the megafauna extinctions are not the least bit fringe, although my Second Epochal Event concept is original, to my knowledge.

An area of debate today, which is more speculative but well within the boundaries of orthodox science, is the role that fire played in the human journey. Darwin called the control of fire humanity’s greatest achievement, along with the mastery of language, and there is keen controversy today regarding how early the human line mastered fire, and what impacts fire had on the human journey. In this area, I am sticking my neck out a little, as I write that I think that there may well be something to Richard Wrangham’s Cooking Hypothesis. Probably the key area of controversy regarding Wrangham’s hypothesis is how early the human line controlled fire. When Wrangham proposed his hypothesis, that the human line controlled fire as long as two million years ago or more and led to the appearance of Homo erectus, the earliest accepted evidence of controlled fire was 800,000 years, and Wrangham was widely pilloried by his peers for his audacious hypothesis. However, new tools and findings are pushing back that date, and I will be following the controversy with interest, as more evidence is amassed. Wrangham’s Cooking Hypothesis is one of those “big idea” hypotheses that don’t come along very often, and I consider it very likely that even if his two million year number is not the one that future evidence supports, that plenty about his hypothesis will survive in new hypotheses, and it is already happening. The role of cooked food in the human journey was very likely seminal, and the related benefits of fire. I consider it likely that the control of fire was learned once, and then spread via social learning, like stone tools spread.

I have a post or two to yet make on scientific literacy, but today is a day of feasting in the USA, as if history’s fattest humans need an excuse to feast.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The scientific and scholarly processes are different, with different goals quite often (such as why something happened versus what happened), but there are similarities. Professional scrutiny is something that they have in common. A historian ideally uses primary documents whenever possible, and weighs evidence. If evidence conflicts, the historian will ideally present that conflict to the audience, and if one piece of evidence is weighted over another, the historian should say why. Again, that is the ideal, and historians, like all professions, in our world of scarcity and fear, regularly prostitute themselves and bow to the winds of wealth and power.

In the legal system, there are standards of evidence, how it is handled and interpreted, and what it can be used for, but as with historians, the legal system is only as good as those who work in it, and the legal system in the USA is corrupt almost beyond imagining, used as a weapon by the powerful. I had my face rubbed in it, and repeatedly. This is not something new. The USA’s legal system was corrupt and arguably evil before there was a USA, as exemplified by its first president and its first Supreme Court Chief Justice. The USA has long been the most lawless and inhumane international actor.

Science, like history and law, has theory and practice, and in the area of FE, the differences can be like night and day. Anybody who develops genuine FE technology, which upends the “laws of physics” and Godzilla’s global empire, has hell to pay. The “lucky” ones get the Golden Handcuffs, while the unlucky ones have their lives ruined and prematurely ended. That just comes with the territory of playing on the high road.

None of my FE fellow travelers began their energy journeys thinking about FE. My initial orientation was squeezing more energy out of a gallon of gasoline. After having his first business wiped out in the mayhem of the USA’s first energy crisis, which ended history’s most prosperous era, Dennis’s initial orientation was low-flow showerheads, then graduated to foam insulation, and then the world’s best heating system before he ever began thinking about FE. Brian’s initial orientation was standard alternative energy and trying to prevent nuclear power plants from being built. Our paths overlapped several times before our fateful meeting, and by the end, we were close colleagues. That proposal that Brian mentioned in that video clip is here. I wrote “The Big Picture” and “Further Obstacles” sections, and my big essay is the slightly expanded version of the The Big Picture section. We all pursued FE before it was over, and we all discovered that FE technology is likely older than I am and was developed to a commercial level generations ago.

All three of us have very well documented journeys, and more than anybody else, I became Dennis’s and Brian’s biographers. This brings up issues of how historians perform their duties. The FE field is full of people without the right stuff, trying to get rich and famous, announcing that they are the Messiah, and so on. There is really no barrier of entry or minimum standard of professional behavior in the FE field, and long ago, I stopped having anything to do with it, as it is in arrested development and I am trying something else, which Dennis and Brian immediately recognized as something different.

Related to the FE issue is the UFO/ET issue, as they are joined at the hip. What my friend was shown was almost certainly at least partly developed from “captured” ET craft. When Brian hosted a UFO conference in his early days of exploring the fringes, he nearly died soon afterward, immediately after rejecting an “offer” from the American military to do classified UFO work. The incident ruined his health and shortened his life. Dennis should be dead dozens of times over, and his health has been damaged by his preposterous journey.

Steven Greer mounted an effort so that UFO and ET witnesses could come forward without fear of reprisal, and held secret Congressional hearings. Brian was heavily involved. A man who walked on the Moon co-chaired the hearings, and one witness was one of the original astronauts. Witnesses testifying under oath to Congress, especially of that caliber, are highly impressive. Soon after the hearings, several principal members of the effort developed advanced and unusual forms of cancer, including a Congressman and high-ranking military official, and Greer was the only survivor. I followed those events as they happened and tried to get alternative treatment information in the hands of Greer’s assistant, who soon died. In my circles, nobody seriously doubted that Greer’s crew had been subjected to some of Godzilla’s dirty tricks. His bag is deep and sophisticated, and it was no great surprise when they were taken out like they were. Greer was never the same, and I consider him damaged goods, from his mental/emotional wounds. Many with the right stuff have fallen by the wayside on this quest, often taken out quite brutally.

But because of the lack of publicly available documentation in the cloak-and-dagger world of the national security state and Godzilla’s private realm, virtually anybody can step forward, without a shred of documentary support, and spin the most outrageous yarns. Most such stories are bogus, either by phonies vying for attention or insiders who are knowingly or unwittingly purveying disinformation. I take all such testimony with a huge grain of salt. When such people testify to their experiences under oath or provided impressive documentation, I begin taking them seriously, no matter how bizarre their stories may seem, such as David Adair’s. But it does not take many of them before you begin to learn how the land lies, and I got tired of watching such tales long ago. When you survive such events, listening to the war stories of others is not fun and often gets you reliving your own traumatic events. Soldiers who have actually been on battlefields do not regale their social circles with their tales (and the social circles don’t really want to hear them, anyway), and usually try to forget about them. Almost nobody who ever walked on the high road has done what I have, as they just want to lick their wounds and quietly live out the rest of their lives. Among my circle, I am the last man standing in the USA.

There is all manner of clip on YouTube of alleged insider tales, and a person might want to see a few of them, but listening to those stories can become counterproductive, as most is the chaff of the fringes and part of the three-ring circus that prevails these days. YouTube is the TV of the Internet, and even my interviews that YouTube hosts can only skim the surface. My email inbox is flooded by alleged tales from people who are almost certainly phonies, but the conspiracist crowd seems unable or unwilling to try to separate the wheat from the chaff, and will swallow any fringe tale that comes along.

My story is heavily documented, with firsthand testimony by the participants, and anybody who digs into my story just a little knows that I am underplaying my credentials in order to protect people. That is almost the opposite of what the conspiracist talking heads do, spinning wild yarns with no credible supporting evidence. I have watched Dennis get smeared and libeled almost since the day I met him, and watched public officials lie out of both sides of their mouths and receive promotions and other perks for their criminal activities. Officials told us to our faces that they were lying and proud of it, but they had the power and we did not, and having my face rubbed in their evil deeds was the turning point of my life, when I became radicalized.

What I do is the furthest thing from what conspiracist talking heads do, but I am often lumped in with them, because the subject matter is often similar. The New Age crowd has a similar lack of discrimination, eagerly eating chaff, thinking it is wheat, and in recent years my fellow travelers began pronouncing “New Age” to rhyme with “sewage,” and I immediately got the point.

Navigating orthodoxy or the fringes takes the kind of discrimination (AKA “skepticism” – the real thing, not what “skeptics” practice) that scientists ideally use. It is only one quality of many that have propelled science and technology forward, and creative insight is infinitely more important. That creative insight has to come first, before the powers of discrimination can be brought to bear, for any of the big kinds of breakthroughs that have happened.

This ends my choir qualities posts for now.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I put my recent choir qualities posts on one thread, and I am going to post a few photos from this autumn’s hikes. Because I live in a rainforest, mushrooms come up in all seasons but the winter. Autumn is actually a great season for mushrooms, as our grocery stores feature locally picked mushrooms. The attached photo is a typical stand of mushrooms on a log. Without fungi decaying logs, this would be a very different world. The squirrels are going crazy, getting ready for winter, as those outside my garage door, in my backyard, show. The picture with a chimney is all that remains of a homestead house that was built a century ago or so, and the family gave the land to the state for a park, a substantial one, with many miles of trails on it.

I can never see all that there is to see in this state, mountain-, lake-, and trail-wise, as there is an embarrassment of riches to choose from, which I will never take for granted. My favorite winter hiking mountain would be condos today if not for the efforts of conservationists, and there is a statue to the most active of them. Part of the mountain is being logged as I write this, alas, but most has been saved.

I also attached a picture that I took yesterday, when I hiked before going to my family’s Thanksgiving feast. That is what those woods look like in winter, when there is not any snow (which those woods get every winter, at least a little). It is a far cry from the winter woods in the northern Eastern Woodlands, which are all shades of gray and brown in the winter, without a living thing to be seen (but makes spring all the more spectacular). I will never take hiking in evergreen forests for granted.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade