WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Alan]

Wade, do you use trekking poles when you hike? I used them for the first time when I hiked Half Dome at Yosemite 2 years ago, and they were great for helping keep me upright on uncertain terrain.

[Wade Frazier]

I have used poles since 2000. Wasn't using them on the flat trail. Maybe I should have.

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

Writing yesterday with one hand and voice recognition was not easy. Without voice recognition, I would not have tried. My posting volume (including the size of the posts) will decline until I can use my left hand again for typing. I am under the influence of some pretty good painkiller right now, and will be for the next couple of days. This will not be a scholarly post.

When I recently saw my old partner, Dennis Lee, we had deep discussions, some of which we had not had before. Dennis talked about his military days in depth, like I had not heard before. Dennis’s IQ is unsurprisingly higher than mine, the military recognized and utilized it, and Dennis put it to good use on his journey. He came close to being kicked out of the army, as he had not yet learned how to follow orders. He was a paratrooping medic, but he turned it around and his medical dispensary passed an inspection that had never been passed before. That led to his being named soldier of the month on his base, he was inducted into Special Forces, and he got a nice letter from Lyman Lemnitzer, which stated that he owed Dennis a favor. Dennis used that favor to avoid being deployed to Vietnam, but he went anyway. Dennis eventually realized that the USA committed epic crimes in Indochina, and he is not proud of his military days.

When Dennis mentioned Lemnitzer, my ears perked up. Lemnitzer was the author of Operation Northwoods, which gave Gary Wean’s tale of Oswald and JFK eternal credibility when it was declassified. That was another one of the many “Isn’t it a small world?” moments of my journey. I long ago accepted that I was on some kind of special assignment, and my so-called free will seems to be limited to reacting to whatever crazy situations my “friends” throw at me. During this stay, Dennis said that my mission on Earth is what I’m doing with my writings. I won’t disagree, or I sure have wasted my life.

If I can find enough of those disillusioned idealists and help them learn to sing the song of abundance, the effort that I have in mind won’t be stopped, and the Fifth Epoch will soon arrive. No denizen of the Fifth Epoch will miss today’s world.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

My previous post was about hearing Dennis Lee talk about Lyman Lemnitzer, and how I was already familiar with him. It was not the only surprising name that came up in our conversations. Another was Amory Lovins. I first heard of Lovins a long time ago, maybe about his hypercar, which was a pale reflection of my mentor’s engine. A generation ago, I either heard Brian O’Leary talk about it or I read about it. It was during Brian’s ride as the Paul Revere of Free Energy. Brian encountered Lovins when they were both on the same flight. Brian knew Lovins from encounters at conferences and the like. At baggage claim, Brian asked Lovins what he thought about free energy. Lovins nearly soiled himself and quickly fled.

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis (which I saw coming), I began reading a lot of financial analysis, and began regularly reading the work of quite a few financial bloggers. The better ones understood the relationship of energy and economy, and several years ago, I decided to contact several of those bloggers on the free-energy issue. The only significant response was to direct me toward Richard Heinberg, who held court at an organization very similar to one that Lovins heads. Heinberg was not as bad as Lovins, but his interest in free energy was feigned, as he beat the drums of doom.

My views on Heinberg and Lovins have never been too conspiratorial, as I largely saw them as boxed-in intellectuals, trapped by their ideologies, and they had classic instances of what I call Level 3 awareness of the free energy issue, where mainstream “experts” usually reside. I recently wrote a series of posts on reviving Dennis’s heat pump in North America, and I got into the technicalities to a degree, such as the physics and performance data. I have covered his effort in Seattle for many years, and I have made Substack posts on it. It is still the greatest attempt ever made to bring alternative energy to the American marketplace that I know of, and it was the first time that the global elite undeniably took notice of Dennis. During our recent conversations, Lovins’s name came up.

As I have written at length and discussed it in my recent interview, that because of the biggest municipal-bond default in American history to that time, because of an ill-advised attempt to build nuclear power plants, there was suddenly a market for the world’s best heating system in Dennis’s home state. Because it once had the cheapest electricity in the world because of all of its hydroelectric projects, Washington hosted energy-intensive industries and many thousands of Washington households heated their homes with electricity. Jimmy Carter’s tax credit was about to expire at the end of 1985, and Dennis saw one last chance to make it happen and build an industry around that heat pump. Washington’s electric companies were promoting air-to-air heat pumps that would save 50% of the electricity used in electric resistance heating. Dennis’s heat pump saved 85% over electric resistance heating.

Dennis saw the full-page ads from the electric companies about saving electricity. Dennis figured that if the electric companies were promoting 50%-savings technology, they should be ecstatic about 85% savings. Dennis thought that the electric companies would throw him a tickertape parade. What Dennis had yet to learn was that he had stumbled into a scam of the public by the electric companies. If a customer with electric heating got a heat pump (which the electric company’s subsidized by raising everybody’s rates), their electric consumption for heating would decline by 50%, but it would prevent them from changing to a gas furnace and losing 100%. This was a scam that Dennis stumbled into, he inadvertently threatened to ruin the game, and this is where Lovins comes in. Just as the electric companies began wiping out Dennis’s company, Lovins popularized the idea of what he called good load and bad load. Lovins writes a lot about electric-grid loads, as you can see here.

Dennis told me that Lovins provided the rationale for why his company needed to be wiped out, as 50% savings with using air-to-air heat pumps was “good load,” but 85% savings with Dennis’s heat pump was “bad load.” I don’t know the particulars of what Lovins did, and if he did it at the prompting of the electric companies, then he was the intellectual equivalent of Bill Delp. Maybe it was just another coincidence.

Anyway, it sure was interesting to hear Lovins’s name come up.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

In my 2014 essay on energy in the human journey, I briefly summarized some of the issues that Spaceship Earth is facing. Humanity is toying with making Earth uninhabitable. I referred to a 2015 paper on the issue, and I just saw the most recent summary. I am also attaching the graphics. The measure that triggered the 2025 article, ocean acidification, was safely in the green in 2015, and it passed into the danger zone in 2025. Unsurprisingly, no measure got better, and most got worse.

2015



2025

Humanity has its toes over the edge of the abyss, and the solution that makes it all go away, almost overnight, is ignored, denied, or feared by nearly everybody on Earth, even though it has been on Earth for longer than I have been. That is a surreal part for me.

I have a plan that will work, if I can find the people for it, and I know who I’m looking for. This is why I am at Substack.


Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

My previous post briefly discussed reports a decade apart on the state of the world’s environment and its ability to host life. This post will get into the details and the impact that free energy would likely have.

For nearly everybody on Earth, the arrival of what I call the Fifth Epoch is not primarily going to be about healing the planet, but about an unprecedented skyrocketing of human standards of living. Poverty, violence, crime, war, childhood adversity, and nearly all diseases will quickly vanish with the Fifth Epoch’s arrival. All global rackets will collapse and elites will vanish, as that social role will no longer make any sense. Human societies have become far less violent and far more humane over the Epochs, because they could afford to be. Those trends will reach unprecedented heights in the Fifth Epoch. The most dramatic changes will be for people who do not live in the industrialized world today. But everybody’s world will end with the arrival of the Fifth Epoch, and nobody will miss it. I have seen estimates that it would take a generation to eliminate global poverty with free energy. It could happen faster.

Just as the elimination of childhood death was a side effect of the Industrial Revolution, the elimination of environmental destruction will be a side effect of the arrival of the Fifth Epoch. I see a great rise in human conscience. Vices will no longer be virtues. When people are no longer pitted against each other in a battle for survival, people will not abuse each other and develop their self-righteous rationales for it. I am fully aware that almost nobody on Earth can understand what I am discussing. They will not until the Fifth Epoch arrives, and that is normal.

I once heard Noam Chomsky discuss how efforts to establish animal rights comprised a positive development. In my lifetime, there has been a vast improvement in the treatment of animals in the West. Unfortunately, tens of millions of animals are still sacrificed every year in the USA for research purposes, including vivisection. I regard that as an evil practice that will end in the Fifth Epoch. I have been a vegetarian since the 1980s. In the Fifth Epoch, I think that probably everybody will become vegetarians. If people do not need to eat animals in order to be healthy, I doubt that anybody will. Like Chomsky, I have high regard for human decency, particularly when it doesn’t cost anything to be decent. As I have written, I think we will see a new kind of human in the Fifth Epoch. Today’s geniuses will be average people in the Fifth Epoch. Enlightenment previously only seen in spiritual masters will become commonplace.

Edward O. Wilson proposed that half of Earth should be given back to nature. In the Fifth Epoch virtually all of it could be, and human interactions with nature will largely be those of appreciation and symbiosis. I know that it is hard to even imagine from where we stand today, but it will become obvious in the Fifth Epoch that that is the direction that humanity will take. Indoor farms will easily be able to feed all of humanity with perfect diets, primarily based on whole foods, particularly fruits and vegetables. Today, there is a fledgling indoor-farm industry. Its main limitation is energy. In the Fifth Epoch, that obviously will not be an issue. The day is fast arriving when indoor farms, with AI robotics doing the work, will easily be able to feed humanity, if free energy is available for public use. A tiny portion of Antarctica could have indoor farms built (with AI robotics, of course) that could easily feed humanity 100 times over. Or on an artificial continent in the Pacific, or in orbit around Earth, or in everybody’s basement, in homes that can be moved anywhere in the solar system. The possibilities are endless, and all of humanity eating whole, fresh food would be the norm. All degenerative diseases would quickly disappear. The infectious-disease and degenerative-disease rackets would soon end, along with all the other rackets.

I have seen objections to the idea of indoor farms because it is somehow unnatural. Nothing about farming is natural. Domestic crops and domestic animals only exist because of human intervention, basically through selective breeding. I doubt that plants will mind living in perfect growing environments. I foresee the end of domestic animals. Humans may still partner with animals, as with pets, but the relationships will be far more enlightened than what we have today.

Since the beginning of the Domestication Revolution, Earth has lost about half of its plant biomass to human activities. Today, 96% of mammalian biomass on Earth is humans and their domesticated animals. In the Fifth Epoch, humanity will no longer need to exploit Earth’s ecosystems in order to live well. Nature can have it back.

I have been thinking along these lines since 1987, when I became a partner in a free-energy effort. In 2001, Steven Greer wrote an essay on the environmental implications of free energy. Around the same time, I wrote one of my earliest essays on what the Fifth Epoch can look like, and I have only refined it in the years since then.

Greer’s perspective has doubtlessly evolved since 2001 when he wrote that essay, as has mine. Greer understands full well that the arrival of free energy (and to a lesser extent, antigravity), will be the biggest event in the human journey. I foresee the end of cities and nations. I doubt that there will be politicians in the Fifth Epoch, and since Jimmy Carter presided over the greatest proportional genocide since World War II, I’m not sure how wise I would call him, as Greer did.

Those issues aside, I will now deal with the measures of planetary health in this report, and what will happen to them in the Fifth Epoch.

Atmospheric Particulates and the Ozone Layer

I’ll start with the two good news boundaries: the ozone layer and particulates in the atmosphere. Both were in the safe zone 10 years ago and remained so, and they even improved a little. I described the hellish air in Los Angeles in my youth. Those days are largely gone. Even Shanghai’s and Peking’s air are far cleaner than they were a decade ago. Humanity is burning more hydrocarbons than ever. The reason for particulates (AKA aerosols) going down is because we are burning them more cleanly, but that does not reduce the carbon dioxide. The ozone layer is less damaged than it was a decade ago and scientists lay this at the door of banning various chemicals that harm the ozone layer. So, some progress has been made.

In the Fifth Epoch, humans will not burn anything, and the human contribution to atmospheric particulates will end. If people need flames for some reason, I would suggest burning hydrogen. People could endlessly split water into hydrogen and oxygen and then burn the hydrogen, which results in water. In the Fifth Epoch, I foresee that anything that causes environmental harm will not be done. Since everybody will be richer than Bill Gates, nobody is going to be arguing that their survival relies on damaging the environment. Harming the environment will be seen as stupid, even evil, and nobody will need to be reminded for long. If humanity wanted to replenish the ozone layer from our damage, it would easily be accomplished. So those problems would be permanently solved.

Ocean Acidification

The crossing out of the safe zone on this issue is what spurred the article that I read. Carbon dioxide in the air is removed by rain water, and it forms a weak acid. Also, chemicals such as sulfur have been burned with oil and coal, which also creates acid. Earth’s ocean has borne the brunt of the acidic rain. Organisms that use the calcium in the water to make their shells, as well as the world’s coral, will begin dying off as the ocean becomes more acidic. Of course, there will be no combustion that creates carbon dioxide in the Fifth Epoch. It would also be easy for Fifth Epoch humanity to bring the ocean acidity back to normal levels.

Freshwater Changes

That report distinguished between stream changes (blue water) and soil-moisture changes (green water), and both are out of the safe zone. In the Fifth Epoch, freshwater will be a universal for humanity. Freshwater can be recycled indefinitely with free energy, and ocean water can be desalinated with free energy, in ways that do not harm marine ecosystems. Soil moisture is a concept related to agriculture, but when humanity gives Earth back to nature and the ecosystems recover, measuring soil moisture won’t be very meaningful. As with all of these areas, humanity in the Fifth Epoch can easily heal nearly all the damage that has been inflicted on Earth. Species driven to extinction by humanity will not return, but Earth’s plants and animals will once again flourish, and not be subjected to plundering by humanity.

Land System Change

The vanishing forests, as Earth is turned into one big farm, ranch, and city, have had devastating ecosystem impacts. Much of the Fertile Crescent has been turned into desert by human activities over the past 12,000 years. The forest-to-farm-to-desert trajectory is very evident. I know that along with free energy and antigravity, many exotic materials have been developed. Humanity will have no need for animal skins or wood or wool or milk in the Fifth Epoch. I see Earth remediated back to nature, almost in total – cities, roads, dams, etc.

Climate Change

The report had two areas of climate change. One was rising carbon-dioxide levels, and the other is called radiative forcing, which is how carbon dioxide sends infrared photons back at Earth, instead of escaping into space. That is the primary dynamic of Global Warming. Carbon dioxide is nearly in the high-risk zone, and radiative forcing is way into the high-risk zone, as the second-highest risk on the list. Of course, with the arrival of the Fifth Epoch, this will become an obsolete issue. Climate will have no impact on human welfare anyway, but it would also be easy to reverse the damage. Humanity could bring carbon-dioxide levels down to pre industrial levels easily, like setting a thermostat.

Modification of Biogeochemical Flows

Nitrogen and phosphorus were the two areas related to this. These are both well into the high-risk zone, and nitrogen is the furthest into the high-risk zone of all of these topics. It comes from farming pollution. Again, with pristine indoor farms that produce zero pollution, this is another issue that immediately goes away. The current damage could also be easily remediated.

Introduction of Novel Entities

These are industrial chemicals, including plastics. I foresee a world in the Fifth Epoch in which no industrial chemicals are introduced to nature, or novel materials, and what exists can all be cleaned up.

Change in Biosphere Integrity

This had two subcategories, of functional integrity and genetic diversity. These are just more impacts of human domination of Earth’s ecosystems, which wrecks them, drives species to extinction, etc. Once humanity no longer exploits and destroys ecosystems for human benefit, this will recover. As usual, humanity can help along the process.

Summary

For humans who live on the brink of survival, enthralled by greed, in-group ideologies, and other ego traps, they don’t care about any of this. But I seek the people who do, and I know who I’m looking for. They are the people who care for something other than their self-interest and have broken free from their in-group ideologies. They are relatively rare on Earth today, but I believe enough of them exist so that my plan can work. That is what I am trying to find out.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

We’re all responsible for the world that we live in. The word responsible has its roots in the ability to respond. To me, that means that all of us can do something about the world that we live in. We are all capable of responding.

I just looked up the definition of activism, and it seemed to be always be a reaction to what somebody else was doing. I did not see much of the combined positive intention that Brian O’Leary wrote of, for instance. The definition of activism changed in my lifetime. Today’s definition of activism seems to preclude actually doing something independently toward a goal, such as carpeting the USA with the world’s best heating system or the pursuit of free energy. Activists seem to cheer, boo, and try to influence others, but they are not really direct actors. They try to influence officials to do their bidding. Today’s activism seems to be conflict-oriented, like a contest of wills. The Wikipedia article was largely about that. If that is what activism is, then I have never really been an activist. I am about doing something, and I am not looking for anybody’s permission. My intention is to give history’s most lucrative technology to the public, which will end the world as we know it.

When I recently saw my former partner, Dennis Lee, he agreed that if I could amass 5,000 comprehensive thinkers who focused on the goal and mounted a global conversation that has never been seen before, the global elite could not stop it. That task is probably the most difficult one on Earth, which is appropriate, for the biggest event in the human journey. Community building seems to be one aspect of activism, so in that way, I am arguably an activist. Conflict is not my goal. I do not seek to influence any officials. They just need to get out of the way, and with a strong enough effort, they will.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

Today, Jane Goodall died while on a speaking tour, in Los Angeles. She was 91. In 2010, Howard Zinn also died in LA while on a speaking tour. He was 87. The great ones are like that: active until they drop. I watched the National Geographic documentary on Goodall and chimps in the 1960s. She was a path-breaking scientist, including paving the way for women scientists.

Goodall was the first scientist to observe an animal use a tool, and her mentor Louis Leakey replied to her finding with: “Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human.”

Chimps have long been a central topic of my writings, as studying them has shed a great deal of light on humanity. Richard Wrangham began his extraordinary career while working for Goodall. Frans de Waal, who died last year, had long been one of my favorite writers. I have female relatives who studied great apes in the wild, and one of them knew Goodall. The entire field of great-ape studies owes a great debt to Goodall. If humanity does not drive chimps to extinction, Goodall will have played an important part of that.

Goodall was not just a scientist, but she was a passionate activist, particularly regarding Earth’s environment. Her efforts led to the planting of millions of trees, as she tried to protect Earth’s forests. She also had great optimism about the human future. She was as much of a secular saint as I ever heard of.

Her passing marks the end of an era. R.I.P. Jane.

Best,

Wade

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
From Substack:

Today, Jane Goodall died while on a speaking tour, in Los Angeles. She was 91. In 2010, Howard Zinn also died in LA while on a speaking tour. He was 87. The great ones are like that: active until they drop. I watched the National Geographic documentary on Goodall and chimps in the 1960s. She was a path-breaking scientist, including paving the way for women scientists.

Goodall was the first scientist to observe an animal use a tool, and her mentor Louis Leakey replied to her finding with: “Now we must redefine tool, redefine man, or accept chimpanzees as human.”

Chimps have long been a central topic of my writings, as studying them has shed a great deal of light on humanity. Richard Wrangham began his extraordinary career while working for Goodall. Franz de Waal, who died last year, had long been one of my favorite writers. I have female relatives who studied great apes in the wild, and one of them knew Goodall. The entire field of great-ape studies owes a great debt to Goodall. If humanity does not drive chimps to extinction, Goodall will have played an important part of that.

Goodall was not just a scientist, but she was a passionate activist, particularly regarding Earth’s environment. Her efforts led to the planting of millions of trees, as she tried to protect Earth’s forests. She also had great optimism about the human future. She was as much of a secular saint as I ever heard of.

Her passing marks the end of an era. R.I.P. Jane.

Best,

Wade

[Servant Limestone]

Hi everyone,

It's been a long time.

I just made my very first post in Substack as well, following Wade's footsteps in having my own creative outlet.

Here it is, without the embedded links.

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Greetings.

I’ve been following the work of this amazing free thinker, probably one of the most important and consequential thinkers of our history, named Wade Frazier, who just started posting in Substack a year ago. It is his decision to post in Substack that made me decide to create my own Substack account to try my hand in this, but it is mostly for me to have my own creative outlet and to be freer in expressing my opinions on a variety of topics, not just on free energy. But it is his work on the existence of free energy and its century-long suppression, along with his own adventures related to it, that motivated me to create my own account and naming it “The Free Energy Communizer”.

But my story with Wade dates back thirteen years ago when I first encountered his American Empire essay in his website, ahealedplanet.net. Wade said that the American Empire essay happens to be the most read section of his website so he’s not surprised as to how I encountered his work. But it’s more than just that. Reading on his website over the course of a few months around mid-2012 has changed my life (for the better, I am sure) and a lot of my beliefs have been challenged regarding the way that our world works and all of this was happening on the backdrop of the failures of the Occupy Wall Street movement and my own dissatisfaction with the Obama administration’s reluctance to introduce more economically progressive policies, which we are paying the price today. But it is Noam Chomsky, Pearl Jam, Chris Hedges, William Blum, Richard Wolff, Cornell West, Nirvana and Rage Against the Machine that moved me away from Obama liberalism to socialism around 2011. So as a baby leftist, Wade’s “Open Letter to the Radical Left” resonated with me and it cemented my acceptance of Wade’s life story as something that really happened. The very few interviews that Wade did back then that I found in the Internet also further cemented my conversion. Steven Greer’s “Disclosure Project” also helped me in this when I first encountered it in Youtube around early 2012, if I remember correctly, and I even remember watching him talking about UFOs and aliens in the Joe Rogan podcast, among his other material in Youtube. That Joe Rogan interview is probably something I watched for the first time either in Youtube or in Daily Motion but I can’t remember anymore. This was before Joe Rogan became the Joe Rogan that we know today. Of course, my own life story assisted in this process. Without the things that I’ve experienced and encountered before reading Wade’s work, I wouldn’t be able to believe Wade’s life story and accept his ideas and digest them properly. And even then I don’t think all of his ideas have truly sink in with me until a little over a year ago on the backdrop of the post-Covid years and the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the war in Ukraine. My guess is that I just need more life experiences after encountering Wade’s work until I feel like I have a good emotional grasp and acceptance of such writings.

Seeing the defeat of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn along with the suppression of the Left in my own home country further disabused me of lingering beliefs that left-wing activism can provide an indirect avenue towards giving us free energy. I already know of this, in theory, since I identified myself in the past as an anarchist or a libertarian socialist, and you can see this nominal acceptance of the futility of such activism if you read my writings in Wade’s thread in Project Avalon back then in the late 2010s but it hasn’t truly sink in yet and it hasn’t hit me yet emotionally. I accepted them intellectually since 2012 but I don’t think I truly accepted that there is no political route to free energy discourse, however indirect or accidental the path might be, and I continued hoping that the world can become a somewhat better place that it allows a road to disclosure to suddenly open, maybe miraculously, despite the challenges that a Bernie Sanders administration in the United States or a Jeremy Corbyn government in the United Kingdom may face from the capitalist elites. I was still hoping that a social democratic government in a core capitalist country can stumble into the world getting free energy.

So I have to see for myself the defeat of a resurrecting social democratic movement and this surge of far-right politics everywhere in the world before I can truly accept that the electoral/parliamentary political road is an absolute dead end. I should have known better but I was still trapped in the Left vs Right paradigm. “Left is Best”, as said by the renowned Left thinker and podcaster, the late Michael Brooks. Michael Brooks died in mid-2020, which I personally believe is more a “deep state” assassination rather than a rare blood clot. Nobody questioned the cause of his death from among his friends and his loved ones but I believe that whatever suspicions that they may have about Michael Brooks’ death that they just chose to keep it to themselves privately due to their Left audience’s general conspiracy-phobia. Of course, I can accept it if it’s truly a medical condition that killed him. But I really have my suspicions. He was gaining more and more followers and admirers, especially after he did his tours in early 2020 before the Covid lockdowns. There’s a question on Israel that he answered quite splendidly that you can see here. Within the resurging online Left back then, he was beginning to become its best podcaster. He’s becoming the best and most effective articulator and disseminator of Left ideas online before Hasan Piker took off (who was not as good) among the young kids and he was becoming a unifying figure within the online Left. He’s becoming the center of it since he was friends with everybody. A lot of these online Left political content creators have spats with each other. But they never have spats with Michael Brooks. So he’s bringing them together. And I believe he was killed because of it, which was in the middle of George Floyd protests. So if I happen to be right about this, the people that killed Michael Brooks are invested in making sure that the online Left can never coalesce as a pressure group within the Democratic Party voting coalition and continue to focus more on their internal spats and factionalism. The bigger tragedy though is that I know that even if he remains alive, he will be caught in the middle of the debacle regarding the Russia-Ukraine conflict that caused a lot of splits between these online Left personalities. He’ll not be escaping those spats and divides.

Going back, I encountered more of Wade’s writings in Project Avalon and that is when I decided to open an account and reach out to him three years later, around mid-2015, and a conversation and correspondence that now stretched for about a decade has started. Though I don’t know why it took me three years to reach out to Wade. I think part of it is because I was still in college when I encountered his work for the first time and that I had fears in the consequences of reaching out to him and talking to him about myself. I don’t feel that I’m safe. I was a little more paranoid about this back then. But more importantly, I think I just know that I still have a lot to learn through having more life experiences and in doing further readings in the Internet before I can have the confidence to talk to Wade. I’m just discovering all of these things in roughly the same time period. I need the time to digest them and then gain the courage to reach out.

My goal in opening this account is to help shorten this process of digestion that I once went through before and make it easier for the entrance of a prospective leftist into “Wade’s World” since I can share my own life story and discuss ideas and experiences that may be familiar to this prospect.

I also remember that my personal difficulties accepting that I’m no longer in college and that I have to live in the “real world” and work in a capitalist workplace along with the beginnings of what I now know as my medical condition that these difficulties motivated me to reach out to Wade in Avalon for the first time. So they’re a blessing in disguise because otherwise I’ll be content to just lurk in Avalon and not reach out at all. I made the most out of it in making my very first post in there so that I can leave a good impression on him. I think it all kind of worked out in the end. Otherwise I wouldn’t be posting here ten years later.

My views on free energy since that time has not changed that drastically and my belief in the existence and ongoing suppression of free energy has only solidified year after year as our planet is heading into the abyss.

“Communizer” is in reference to communization theory, which I’ve been trying to study more now as I write this. Communization theory is basically believing that our existing capitalist society can move immediately to building communism that Marx and Engels wrote about in their writings without going through transitional stages like that of a dictatorship of the proletariat. The communizers believe that we can build communist relations almost immediately during a social revolution. This is a good article discussing this further. Given my belief in the existence of free energy, and with Wade Frazier’s concept of Epochal stages, with our civilization currently living in the industrial Fourth Epoch and with the potentiality of free energy starting the Fifth Epoch, it is kind of obvious that we do not need a transitional period anymore. And if the accounts of a free energy device already around in the 1900s is to be believed, a communist transition has been a possibility even during the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. This is the solution towards the question of immediate communization that communizers have been grappling with today. So this is why I’m using the word “communizer” rather than communist, aside from the negative connotations about the label “communist” that doesn’t help. This comes from my previous background as someone identifying their politics with the “far Left” for my entire adult life and me dabbling in political theory in my free time. I consider myself to be at least competent at this despite not graduating as a political science major. My college background did include studying political theory and this is how I encountered Noam Chomsky’s work for the first time. It is my classmate’s presentation about him around 2010 that introduced me to his work for the first time and I probably encountered the name but just didn’t recognize him through my elder sister who graduated as an English language major. My political views today are not as aligned with “Uncle Noam”, as Wade endearingly calls him, as it once was, for sure but without encountering Uncle Noam’s works, I wouldn’t be able to digest Wade’s own work properly. So I’ll be forever grateful to Uncle Noam’s contribution to my personal journey and political evolution.

A fictional work in the Internet that I am reluctant to reveal introduced me to the fringes of the communist left/left communism and as a big fan of this fictional work, I got introduced to the works of the Italian communist theorist, Amadeo Bordiga. I read his Wikipedia article way before, I’m sure, but I know very little of his ideas aside from what Wikipedia can tell me and as a “libertarian socialist” back then, I’m obligated to not like his “organic centralist” and “anti-democratic” views. My views are different now though I’m sure that no “Bordigist” organization is going to endorse my personal takes on the “class party” today, not to mention calling myself a “communizer”. But I was still in the cult of democracy for the longest time. Then I started to slowly learn more about Bordiga but it did not start by me reading Bordiga’s works himself (at first) but rather through the personal appeal of this fictional work and gaining glimpses of the authors’ belief system through their occasional statements in social media in a variety of issues or in particular passages in their occasional posts related to this fictional work. And then I started reading some of the works of one of Bordiga’s former proteges, Jacques Camatte, who just died this year. I learned more about what Marx called the “Gemeinwesen” through Camatte. The concept of the Gemeinwesen stuck with me because it reminded me of Wade’s Fifth Epoch. Another important work that introduced me to communization theory is the main thinker behind this fringe tendency himself, Gilles Dauve or Jean Barrot, and by reading one of the major communization publications, End Notes. My own interactions and engagements with online leftists, which became a more common feature of my online life from 2021, also helped shaped and strengthen my convictions in the futility of left-wing electoralism and activism towards a free energy revolution. My lingering social democratic hopes, despite understanding the futility of such a political route to even getting the most basic Sanderista/Corbynista economic goals, came from a personal belief in non-violence as a way to make free energy a reality. I also carried these false hopes in my own country’s politics and hoping that the 2022 presidential election might led to a miraculous victory by the Left’s main candidate back then against the combined force of the the ruling Right establishment and Right populism. And then I got exposed to the fractious debate within the Left on the Russia-Ukraine war that involved online Left influencers that I was, and continue to follow in social media today and also involving many Left politicians and activists that I also closely follow.

The epiphany for me that I’ve finally moved on from the almost all of the Left’s basic political viewpoints happened in early 2024 when I arrived early for a job interview and while I was waiting, I was reading End Notes 1’s “When Insurrections Die” by Gilles Dauve. (I did get the job on that day but I only lasted two months in it before resigning). This was a political evolution that started in late 2022 related to these online engagements that I was talking about and in relation to this fictional work in the Internet that I’m following but reading that essay was the moment that finally made it happen for me. It completed the transition. This is the work that gave permission to me to finally drop all of my lingering beliefs in anarchism and libertarian socialism as some kind of a more positive and benevolent version of radical Left ideology because they happen to have been espoused by the people that I admire like Uncle Noam and Chris Hedges. It may have been a more positive and benevolent vision than let’s say, Stalinism, but the anarchists and left-libertarians may have been the most ideologically trapped people in the Left today for a lot of reasons. But in relation to free energy, it is mainly because the furthest extent of their vision of a free society is that of a more ideologically pluralist and decentralized state management, which they’ll never call a state, with labor-time accounting. Gilles Dauve’s “accounting” on the Spanish Revolution in that article demolished my lingering beliefs about the supposedly great role of the anarchists in Spain doing a “social revolution” and the sabotage that the Stalinists did to make this social revolution fail when the fact is that it is the anarchists’ own ideological blindness and naivete because of the contradictions of their ideology that prevented them to tackle on the very thing that they thought they wanted to smash, the state. In fact, it is the opposite that has occurred. The decision of the Spanish anarchists to keep the Republican governmental apparatus intact is what led to the defeat of this so-called revolution from within because of the anarchist obsession of keeping a united front with the forces of the liberal bourgeoisie in order to fight a war in the name of “anti-fascism”. This passage below is the one that stuck with me;

But even so, some people might object, anarchists by their very nature are vaccinated against the statist virus. Isn’t anarchism the arch-enemy of the state? Yes, but…

Some Marxists can recite whole pages of The Civil War in France on the destruction of the state machine, and quote the passage from State and Revolution where Lenin says that one day cooks will administer society instead of politicians. But these same Marxists can practice the most servile state idolatry, once they come to see the state as the agent of progress or historical necessity. Because they imagine the future as a capitalist socialisation without capitalists, as a world still based on wage labour but egalitarian, democratised and planned, everything prepares them to accept a state (transitional, to be sure) and to go off to war for a capitalist state they see as bad, against another they see as worse.

Anarchism overestimates state power by regarding authority as the main enemy, and at the same time underestimates the state’s force of inertia.

The state is the guarantor, but not the creator, of social relationships. It represents and unifies capital, it is neither capital’s motor nor its centrepiece. From the undeniable fact that the Spanish masses were armed after July 1936, anarchism deduced that the state was losing its substance. But the substance of the state resides not in institutional forms, but in its unifying function. The state ensures the tie which human beings cannot and dare not create among themselves, and creates a web of services which are both parasitic and real.

In the summer of 1936, the state apparatus may have seemed derelict in Republican Spain, because it only subsisted as a potential framework capable of picking up the pieces of capitalist society and re-arranging them one day. In the meantime, it continued to live, in social hibernation. Then it gained new strength when the relations opened up by subversion were loosened or torn apart. It revived its organs, and, the occasion permitting, assumed control over those bodies which subversion had caused to emerge. What had been seen as an empty shell showed itself capable not only of revival, but of actually emptying out the parallel forms of power in which the revolution thought it had best embodied itself.

The CNT’s ultimate justification of its role comes down to the idea that the government no longer really had power, because the workers’ movement had taken power de facto.

“…the government has ceased to be a force oppressing the working-class, in the same way that the state is no longer the organism dividing society into classes. And if CNT members work within the state and government, the people will be less and less oppressed.”16

No less than Marxism, anarchism fetishizes the state and imagines it as being incarnated in a place. Blanqui had already thrown his little armed flock into attacks on city halls or on barracks, but he at least never claimed to base his actions on the proletarian movement, only on a minority that would awaken the people. A century later, the CNT declared the Spanish state to be a phantom relative to the tangible reality of the “social organisations” (i.e. militias, unions). But the existence of the state, its raison d’être, is to paper over the shortcomings of “civil” society by a system of relations, of links, of a concentration of forces, an administrative, police, judicial, and military network which goes “on hold” as a backup in times of crisis, awaiting the moment when a police investigator can go sniffing into the files of the social worker. The revolution has no Bastille, police station or governor’s mansion to “take”: its task is to render harmless or destroy everything from which such places draw their substance.

This is another passage that hit home to me, seen below;

The alternative upheld by Bordiga: “Shall we take over the factory, or take over power?” (Il Soviet, February 20, 1920) can and must be superseded. We don’t say: it does not matter who manages production, whether an executive or a council, because what counts is to have production without value. We say: as long as production for value continues, as long as it is separated from the rest of life, as long as humankind does not collectively produce its ways and means of existence, as long as there is an “economy”, any council is bound to lose its power to an executive. This is where we differ both from “councilists” and “Bordigists”, and why we are likely to be called Bordigists by the former, and councilists by the latter.

The anarchists are trapped in “capitalist socialization” and not abolishing the value-form. Wade calls it “shuffling the decks of scarcity” and ALL political ideologies today do the same thing. Not even the communizers are exempted.

But the realization for me here is understanding that the anarchist solution does not work in the same way that I still imagined that it can work given the limitations of the time period and the circumstances. It is the moralization of the conflict that affected my thinking, with anarchists being the “good guys” and Stalinists being the “bad guys”. At that time, I already understand that the Bolshevik solution does not work through its own reasons that the adherents of the communist Left was able to articulate succinctly. But it’s the anarchist version that continued to baffle me as to what went wrong. It does not anymore. The pieces have finally fit in my head. There are no “good guys” vs “bad guys” in the Spanish Civil War story. It’s all a tragedy from its very beginning. Looking at it, the only available route for the anarchists to win the civil war without succumbing back to capitalist restoration, at least succumbing not too quickly, is for them to betray the very principles on which their ideology is based on and to forcibly capture and destroy state power by completely destroying the state’s institutional forms as well as to move towards building communist forms of exchange and organization, which is inconceivable and inaccessible to them. But the anarchists did not do anything remotely close to both and they end up opting for collaboration with bourgeois political and social forces in the name of “anti-fascism”. It became apparent that collectivization and socialization is very different from communization. That is what I am not getting before. So this changed my thinking about everything. My lingering romanticization of Spain 1936 ended there.

With that complete evolution, I realized that a synthesis of the Italian Left’s language that inspired the communization theory with Wade’s free energy beliefs that I share with him that has given me a justification to Leftists as to why I am comfortable to continue working in a capitalist workplace and why I can now allow myself the permission of trying to gain personal wealth and to become rich. There has been an ongoing conflict in my brain between the New Age prosperity gospel beliefs that I acquired when I entered college in the late 2000s and with the “socialism” that I acquired in early 2010s, with Wade’s life story involving evil capitalists not helping matters, and it was something that I was never truly able to reconcile and acknowledge in my mind until after Covid. Now I can reconcile them. I can accept that working for a living and more is completely fine because not only it allows me to help other people in my life willingly but it also gives me the tools to be able to write things like this. This synthesis in my brain has also given me the permission why I can be more of a “quietist” in today’s issues rather than an “activist”. Activism is the last thing that you want to do in introducing free energy to the world where the power discrepancy between ourselves and the Powers That Be that suppress the introduction of this technology are astronomical. They cannot be fought through barricades and bullets. And they also cannot be fought through “mass movements” and “direct action” either. People in the free energy milieu have tried the mass movement approach and their faces all fell flat to the floor after doing it. This is the greatest suppression effort that our world has ever seen because the people leading the suppression effort knows what’s at stake. Wade himself was part of such mass movement efforts and seen how they failed and why they failed. So we don’t have any path of salvation here. Working alone as renegade inventors in garages in the middle of nowhere hoping that you’re not going to get caught doesn’t work either.

I believe Wade’s effort to gather a “choir” that “sing the songs of abundance” has a great chance of working. But Wade needs the people and they need to put in the work. I am not in this “choir” and chooses not to be in it, but I can help bring potential people in it.

Going back, this synthesis in my head allows me to identify as “apolitical” or “libertarian” depending on the circumstance in public and to comfortably reject the official communisms and socialisms of today. I can even link this to Amadeo Bordiga’s own life story as to why he left politics after getting imprisoned with Gramsci during the height of Italian fascism. Many “Marxists” thought that his postwar writings and criticisms on activism were partly to justify why he himself got quiet during Italy’s fascist era while a lot of them are in the Resistance movement. Well, it’s more than just that. I think that he just developed some kind of a proto-understanding about something that took a Wade Frazier of today to articulate. And that is that all the prevailing ideologies of today are scarcity-based state management and population management ideologies. “Dictatorship” and “democracy” are not that different. So we cannot build on these ideologies in developing a more correct framework of thinking revolving around free energy.

The “communizer” part is more of having acquiring an online political identity than anything. But it’s the Italian Left that has allowed me to “leave the Left” and say comfortably that “I’m not a leftist” because I cannot continue to identify myself with a fundamentally capitalistic political compass and be placed either on its Left flank or Right flank. There is an uncompromising energy-based determinism that I can now embrace. Wade Frazier’s discussion of Epochal stages was something that I accepted but I did not have an existing academic political theory translation available for it as a guide until I encountered the works of the Italian communist Left tradition. It is the Italian Left that dashed my lingering beliefs in left-wing activism but everything did not truly sink in and click into place until on that fateful day in March 2024. And now more than a year later, after unsuccessfully trying to influence the thinking of leftists in other social media platforms that I am in towards a more energy-centric thinking due to the limitations of these platforms and the very ideology of these people that I’ve talked to, I am trying this approach.

We need free energy. But we want it to be thinkable and imaginable for people first. Those platforms that I’ve been in do not allow me to do that. And I have to self-censor as well so my arguments have big holes in them and I have to get abstract. Through this platform, I can be more open and straightforward about it.

My goal through this and my future writings is to help people that know their Left theory and consider themselves on the Left to get into “Wade’s World” through using their own lens on viewing the world and then to encourage them to go beyond the limitations of their Left ideology.

The Italian Left, in my opinion, provides these transitionary tools towards thinking past the Left vs Right paradigm, which is a product of capitalism, and then towards free energy as the critical missing ingredient that unlocks the possibilities of communization.

We’ll also explore other things to talk about that helps makes the Fifth Epoch more imaginable but I can be boring in trying to take readers deep into the political theory. Wade considers “scientific training” to be a critical part of getting into the “choir” and his website and writings do not require for people to have advanced knowledge in the sciences in order to get that training. He’s trying to make it very accessible. On my end, I’m not going to pretend that I am scientifically trained enough but I can help prospective leftists in terms of what I can call “political deprogramming”. It is about dropping that political identity as someone from the Left willingly and going past the tribalism. We cannot let these available tools that are given to us become our new political identity.

However, those that consider themselves to be on the Right are very welcome here. I share a lot of their beliefs on the existence of God and the afterlife, hating the cancel culture and “woke-ism” perpetrated by college-educated elite liberals and their allies in the progressive bourgeoisie, the suspicion on central banks, Big Tech and Big Pharma and deconstructing the administrative state. I will be glad to write more in the future about ideas as to where I may align with the so-called Right and then encourage them to go beyond the limitations of their own Right ideology. Using Wade’s Epochal stages, the main issue I have with the so-called Right is in terms of how the broad Right ideology is more firmly attached to the Third Epoch and romanticizing parts of it as some form of instinctual but unacknowledged anti-capitalism. This is understandable given the historical development of liberalism on the cusp of industrialization and decline of feudalism. There is an underlying tension between the Third Epoch and Fourth Epoch within the Right, especially the American Right, while the Left is more firmly entrenched in Fourth Epoch thinking already.

But we are looking to get past them all and get to Fifth Epoch thinking. Thinking about the Fifth Epoch is part of making the Fifth Epoch happen.

Those that consider their politics as “independent” or in the Center are even more welcome, to say the least.

A lot of these writings will not make sense to a lot of people and I do not seek a mass audience. Wade’s efforts to form the “choir” are not designed for that. But Wade just wants to get the right people that can “sing the song of abundance” with him and that song will then resonate and listened to by a bigger group of people that then can bring free energy into the open and for the world to start communization the correct way.

So let’s get into it.

Best Wishes,

The Free Energy Communizer [also Communizer, Servant Limestone (SL), Limestone/LM, Free Energy Dude/FED, Serg]

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https://ahealedplanet.net/america.htm
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[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

When I published my first website in 1996, I had a long way to go as a writer. Hiring an editor was one of the best things that I ever did. My basic ideas were there from the beginning, and I needed an editor to help me with my craft, to get out of my own way, to ruthlessly strip my writings of all unnecessary baggage. The ideas and information are what is important to get across, but there is such a vast sweep of my writings that it has always been challenging to winnow it down so that I do not overwhelm my readers. I have been writing daily for 15 years, and I think that I am finally getting the hang of this.

Some pals encountered my work back in the 1990s, and most of my close circles, as far as my public work goes, have been reading my work for at least 10 years, and more than 20 years is common. I still get surprised sometimes, when people contact me for the first time, after first reading my work over 20 years ago.

One of my most brilliant pupils made his first Substack post today. I will call him “Communizer” in my public writings. He does not live in a nation that has as much free-speech protection as the USA does, so he uses a pseudonym. There is a lot to unpack in this first post.

The very short version is that his initial political orientation would be called the Western left. He is far better read in Marxist and anarchist writings than I will ever be. People have called me a Marxist, as a kind of insult, but the accurate label would have been to call me a capitalist who discovered how fraudulent capitalism was. It was like I went to Oz and peeked behind the curtain, to finally understand the illusory aspects of my indoctrination and conditioning. I only began reading Marx’s work many years after my initial adventures in capitalism, after being raised to become a scientist.

If Marx had written a century later, when there was a science of energy, and if he had lived in gentler times and had a mystical awakening, his work might have been very similar to mine. If I had to label my work, I would call it Neo-Fullerian, or Bucky Fuller for the 21^st century. My approach and message is very similar to Fuller’s. Fuller realized that the so-called right and left were merely slicing up the loaf of scarcity in their favor. I have called it reshuffling the deck of scarcity. A world of abundance, AKA post-scarcity society, would render those struggles meaningless. But the world as we know it would end in what I call the Fifth Epoch, so a lot will become meaningless when scarcity is left behind.

I believe that Communizer intends for his efforts to help his fellow leftists abandon their orientations and do something truly productive with their lives. I believe that no activity on Earth is more important than helping the Fifth Epoch arrive. Every little bit helps, and time will tell how many leftists Communizer will reach with his work. It is an honor to help him, and we will see where this goes.

I won’t be able to type with my left hand probably for another week or so. Voice recognition is definitely helpful, and I will probably use it more in the future. But being a one-handed writer is taking it out of this old man, so I’ll end here for this evening.

Best,

Wade

[Servant Limestone]

Thanks for the heartwarming post, Wade. You're correct about my intentions in doing this important writing. I want to attract leftists like my old self and help them in their evolution towards a more "Neo-Fullerian" thinking as you call your own orientation. Free energy is the critical missing ingredient towards that evolution.

As for my name in Substack, there might be a little confusion. "Communizer" is acceptable for me but as you know, I've been called a few names here in Avalon. Feel free to address me there in Substack based on your preference.

Best Wishes,

The Free Energy Communizer [also Communizer, Servant Limestone (SL), Limestone/LM, Free Energy Dude/FED, Serg]

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

My broken arm has been catching up with me, which is primarily why my posting frequency has declined. I was a little too optimistic on how fast I could get back into action, and I will be one-handed probably for a few more weeks. Going through my day on painkillers is no way to live.

I arguably began exploring the fringes when I was 12, when my family changed its diet to whole food to save my father’s health, which resulted in a health miracle. My first paranormal experiences at 16 definitely sent me into the fringes, and ruined me as a scientist before my career even began. Then I had my wild ride with Dennis Lee, and I would never see the world the same way again. I spent the next dozen years doing my study and writing that led to my website largely as it stands today. I take on a great deal of the conventional wisdom. No topic was off-limits in my radicalized state.

While I discovered that Western medicine is a racket, the media is a racket, the energy industry is a racket, etc., I also learned that the fringes are filled with ideas that I consider invalid. I sifted through a great deal of it in the 1990s. I have written about what I think is important in my work and what is not, and what my confidence levels are. I have provided my assessment of numerous fringe topics. I recently read of a strategy that the best scientists use. On any scientific issue, they entertain multiple hypotheses at once, to not get too attached to anyone of them, including their own. In that way, their pursuit of the truth is relatively unfettered by personal conviction, self-interest, etc. They go where the evidence leads them. That is a rare mentality and takes a lot of work. All too often, people fixate on a hypothesis or ideology, and it does not matter what the evidence is. This is common in science, and in the popular culture. It is a trap that few escape.

Lately, I have been exposed to all manner of fringe claims. It is wearying for me that these are subjects that I have often investigated at length and written about extensively. I am not saying that my views are necessarily correct, but I did the work to form my views. I have had many experiences that few people will ever have, and direct personal experience is always the best evidence. But the process of science and scholarship is usually more impersonal, as nobody alive today knew Napoleon Bonaparte or saw a T-Rex in the flesh. All that we have are scientific and historical evidence for such issues. I recently gave my views on what I call Holocene catastrophism (1, 2), and the idea that the pre-industrial megaliths could have only been built by technologically advanced civilizations. My bar is very high to reconsider the issue. Even if there was some validity to it, I do not favor a global effort today to ward off a bolide or solar event that may never happen. And, in fact, the arrival of what I call the Fifth Epoch would largely ameliorate any concerns that people would have about such events.

Orthodox Rubbish

I’m going to begin with mainstream rubbish, and I will be brief, as these are subjects that I have covered in the past.

Measles and Vaccines

When I was a child in the early 1960s, there were no deadly infectious diseases in the USA, especially polio. There were no vaccines for measles, mumps, or chicken pox, which I got along with everybody else that I knew. Nobody died from those mild childhood diseases, and they arguably trained my immune system for a lifetime of good health, which I have enjoyed. I received a few worthless vaccines as a child, for diseases that no longer posed a threat.

Today, American children are pincushioned by more than 70 vaccine injections by adulthood. I have read Joe Mercola’s work for a long time and get his articles daily. It is generally pretty good, if often repetitive. He recently published an article on the American Academy of Pediatrics and the perverse incentives of Big Pharma. Children are basically profit centers for the medical racket, and they are targets for a lifetime of medical procedures, virtually all of which are useless or harmful. In his article, Mercola mentioned that measles had ceased being a deadly disease by the time vaccines were rolled out. My favorite statistic on this issue is that the measles death rate in England had declined by 99.96% by the time the measles vaccine was introduced. But the American Academy of Pediatrics takes the initial position that vaccines are mandatory, and they seek to eliminate all exemptions. That is a hallmark of a totalitarian system.

It was really something to see the media hysteria over measles outbreaks earlier this year. It is like the reality of measles when I was a child went into Orwell’s memory hole. If the medical racket and media can turn reality upside down like this, it makes me a bit more sympathetic to fringe claims, even when I think that they are invalid.

The Violent Human Past

It was a dogma in anthropology in the 20^th century, until about the 1990s, that prehistoric humans were largely peaceful and that prehistoric warfare did not exist. I have read that that dogma formed partly as a reaction to the extreme violence of the world wars, as scientists sought a happier, more peaceful time in the human journey. It was not until the 1990s that the body of evidence became so overwhelming that scientists had to finally begin acknowledging that prehistoric humans were far from peaceful. But to this day, there is still a faction of anthropologists that portrays prehistoric humans as peaceful, living idyllic lives. The fact of the matter was that about 25% of hunter-gatherer men died violently, perhaps a quarter of all infants were killed by their parents, because the parents could not afford to feed them, and the favorite war tactic was the night/dawn raid, in which the men of one society would sneak up on their neighbors and slaughter them while they were asleep, while taking their women. That was not far removed from what chimps do. The fact is that human societies have become far more humane and less violent as the energy surplus grew over the Epochs, because people could afford to be. I regard those scientific fantasies as a disservice to humanity, as they helped obscure how much better human societies have become.

The Extinctions of Our Fellow Human Species and the Megafauna

I see this issue as related to denying the violent human past. When behaviorally modern humans began to conquer Earth as they left Africa about 60,000 years ago, most of the world’s large animals and all other human species quickly went extinct. The extinctions closely matched with the arrival of Homo sapiens. And as with the denial of the violent human past, there was great effort among scientists to deny that Homo sapiens drove all other human species and the megafauna to extinction. I have called these related hypotheses the Anything But Homo sapiens Hypothesis. More than 50 years of scientific denial is finally coming to an end on this subject, in light of the overwhelming evidence.

If medical science and anthropology could be so corrupted, supporting ideas that have little credible evidence for them, no wonder the fringes could be filled with such unsupported ideas. At least the ideas of a peaceful human past and non-human explanations for the megafauna extinctions are dying a deserved death. The medical racket, however, is going down fighting, and it has never been more apparent than the daily smears that I have seen in the media on the efforts of RFK, Jr., as he tries to overhaul the medical bureaucracy.

The Fringes

I will now review several fringe topics that I have covered before in my work. But they keep coming up from people who contact me and from other situations that I have found myself in.

The Moon Landings

After a decade of my looking into the issue, on and off, my astronaut colleague sucked me into the Moon landings issue and I spent about six months in 2001 going deep on the evidence. I concluded that the Moon landings happened as popularly presented, although ET encounters may have been covered up. I published my findings in 2001, my views have not changed since then, but I am regularly contacted on this issue, even by scientists, who wonder if the Moon landings were faked. One issue in particular has been Bart Sibrel’s Apollo 11 footage, because Bart keeps making the rounds on Internet shows. I’m going to get into a little detail here, to make it clear why Bart did not have the smoking gun of faked Moon landings.

The bottom line with Bart’s footage is that it is easy to see that it was not taken in low-Earth orbit, which is Bart’s entire hypothesis. Anybody with Internet access has likely seen footage taken from the Internet Space Station (ISS) as it orbits Earth. Earth is clearly moving in all footage taken from low-Earth orbit, and this goes back to the Space Race days. It is really the spacecraft that moves in relation to Earth, but I think that you get the idea. Earth does not move in Bart’s footage. That alone precludes Bart’s idea that it was taken in low-Earth orbit, but there is more. In the transmissions from Apollo 11, on the way to the Moon, for each day’s transmission, the same part of Earth was visible, namely California. The reason for that is because the main antenna that NASA used to track the spacecraft was in California. It was called the Goldstone antenna. It was one of three antennas that NASA used during the Space Race. The other two were in Spain and Australia.

Incidentally, my father’s job at NASA was managing the data that came from those three stations into Mission Control. After only being there a month, he diagnosed a problem in the global tracking system, after 10 minutes of thinking about the symptom (it was the Australian dish, I believe). Mission Control officials were astounded that the guy who had only been there a month solved the problem that baffled NASA. NASA began begging my father to move to NASA’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., but my father declined the invitation and soon moved back to California, where he remains to this day.

Once somebody knew the details, it was obvious that Bart did not have anything of consequence. However, Bart gets some grace here. I had a three-hour conversation with Bart back in 2001, during a few days when I thought that he might have had something.

Bart was given his footage by NASA, and when he saw the Apollo 11 footage from inside the command module, he thought that he had the evidence of faked Moon landings. Let there be no misunderstanding, the global elite and the USA’s National Security State have covered up plenty, and a lot of it relates to exotic technologies that probably came from reverse-engineered ET technologies. The Apollo 11 astronauts may well have encountered ETs on the Moon. As Bart raced to a TV station, eager to air his footage, he was intercepted, abducted, drugged, and placed into a mental institution. Bart obviously triggered a security response. I see it as being similar to what happened to us in Ventura when we were raided, and the deputies stole all the technical material from our researcher’s office. We didn’t really have anything worth stealing like that, but they didn’t know that. When it comes to what Bart tried to do at that TV station, the elite policy seems to be better safe than sorry.

Because of what happened to Bart, he will never believe that he did not have the smoking gun of something that the powers that be wanted to remain secret. But for anybody with a modicum of understanding, it is easy to see that Bart did not have anything. But he keeps making the rounds on conspiracist Internet shows and I keep getting asked about it. Sigh.

A related issue is the shadows in the photographs taken from the Moon. Just enter “Apollo shadows not parallel” into a search engine and see the many sites that deal with the issue of shadows in the Apollo photographs. Not one of the so-called shadow anomalies is evidence of faked photographs, but I still get asked about it.

Moon rocks have been dated with spectrometers to be older than any rocks on Earth. If you understand mass spectrometers and radioactive dating, it boggles the mind to imagine a scenario in which those rocks could have been faked. I doubt that it was possible to fake Moon rocks. Faked-Moon-landing conspiracists then argue that robots could have brought the rocks back. If robots could have done it, why not people? The radiation arguments are not convincing, not for missions that lasted a couple weeks. If anybody spends much time on the fake-Moon-landings evidence, it all falls apart upon close inspection.

The faked-Moon-landings issue comprises a classic issue on the fringes, where the same rubbish keeps being recycled indefinitely. It is not far removed from Flat Earth theorizing.

The Germ Theory of Disease, Viruses, and Contagion

Louis Pasteur was a self-promoting scoundrel, serial plagiarist, and author of the germ theory of disease. He also was the first great commercializer of vaccines. I have written on these subjects at great length. There is very good reason to be dubious about the germ theory, vaccines, and orthodox ideas of how immune systems work. I think that the orthodox positions are often fraudulent on these issues. I think that the scientific views of immune systems, health, and disease will be very different in the Fifth Epoch. I think that there is a great deal of unexplored territory on these issues. Biomedical science is far too corrupt to be trustworthy on these issues. Any scientific research, in which the researchers expect to profit from the research, is of very dubious worth. But most biomedical research on Earth operates under those profit-seeking conditions.

While medical orthodoxy deserves a very wary eye directed at it, I have encountered quite a bit of fringe medicine and biomedical science that is also very dubious. These are some of the challenges of pursuing the truth in today’s world.

Many orthodox scientists and medical doctors have challenged orthodox practices, such as many medical interventions, including vaccines. There is a lot to be said for those perspectives. But I also became aware of authors on the fringes who denied that viruses even exist or that contagion was real. I am dubious of those ideas. I have asked around on persuasive bodies of work on those ideas, and one of the more prominent was by somebody whom I did not trust. I will wait for a convincing body of evidence for those ideas, and that might be a long wait.

Peak Oil, Global Warming, and Abiotic Oil

In the early 1990s, I became aware of a handful of scientists, who worked for oil companies, who denied that Global Warming was real, or that humans caused it (another Anything but Homo sapiens hypothesis), or that it would have significant impact on human societies (or their society, Maldives be damned). Fred Singer was the leading proponent of that nonsense. It would be generous to declare that Singer was disqualified because of his prodigious conflicts of interest. I believe that a more accurate argument would be that he was engaged in criminal activity. But our worthless media often gave Singer and his cronies a platform, to create the illusion of discord in the scientific community over this issue. I have written on this issue at length.

On the eve of the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, to get Western hands on that oil, I was introduced to the Peak Oilers. I interacted with the leading Peak Oiler of the day, and I saw that his professed interest in free energy was less than genuine. It was one of my journey’s many sobering moments. But I had no reasonable doubt that Peak Oil was a very real phenomenon, and the world in fact reached Peak Oil in 2005. As soon as I heard of Peak Oilers, I heard of Abiotic Oilers. Abiotic Oilers argue that Earth’s oil was not produced by geological forces operating on the remnants of marine organisms, but was either there at Earth’s formation or is produced in Earth’s mantle. I have written about all that I’m going to on abiotic oil. With the rise of plate-tectonic theory, abiotic-oil theory largely died, along with pole-shift theories. That is how science is supposed to work. There are still scientists, primarily Russian, who argue for the abiotic-oil idea. Even if abiotic-oil theory was accurate, there is no way that abiotic oil can power human societies for very long. It would be too deep and too difficult to extract, to power industrial humanity for millennia.

But Global Warming, Peak Oil, and abiotic oil, have become political footballs. I certainly will not line up for any solution proffered by somebody such as Bill Gates, but Peak Oil is a reality, as is Global Warming. I have noticed that denial of Peak Oil and denial of Global Warming have largely been embraced by the right wing. If they embrace both ideologies, it has the happy effect of justifying our profligate ways: we can drill and burn oil forever, with no consequences. I regard that as highly wishful thinking. We are in the middle of what I call the race of the catastrophes. There is one and only one solution that I’m aware of, and my life’s work has been pursuing it. Nobody else on Earth is trying what I am, so I have to give it a college try. I do my best to not get very distracted by fringe issues that I have already dealt with, as people dump their rubbish at my feet and expect me to sort through it for them. As Noam Chomsky once said, people need to do the work, if they want to really learn how our world works. That takes time, effort, and keen discernment. I seek people who will put in the work, although I am trying to shorten their learning curves with my work. If everybody had to learn how I did, almost nobody would survive the curriculum.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

I was only 15 years old when Henry Kissinger won his Nobel Peace Prize, and I was oblivious to world events in those days. Mere weeks before Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize, the coup in Chile, which he instigated, sent that nation into many bloody years. Gore Vidal would later call the Peace Prize committee a bunch of “ironists.”

Kissinger had the blood of millions on his hands in Indochina, and in 1975, he and Gerald Ford gave Indonesia’s dictator, Suharto, the green light to invade East Timor, as Indonesia used American weapons in its unprovoked invasion. What happened in East Timor was the greatest proportional genocide since the Jewish Holocaust. After JFK was murdered, the USA did a 180-degree turn on its Indonesian policy, and Suharto soon came to power in a genocidal coup that had the CIA’s fingerprints all over it, as it even drew up kill lists for Suharto. Ed Herman noted that the mainstream media considered Suharto to be a good genocidist, while Pol Pot was a bad genocidist. Ed and Noam Chomsky used the East Timor genocide as a case study of how the media reports bloodbaths. East Timor was a benign genocide and Cambodia was a nefarious genocide, in Ed and Noam’s bloodbath framework. Suharto also committed genocide in New Guinea, and his genocide deaths were in excess of one million people.

Early on in the East Timor genocide, Indonesia began running out of bullets, and that human rights saint, Jimmy Carter, generously provided Suharto the money, weaponry, and diplomatic support he would need to complete his great labor. Carter was just another blood-soaked emperor, who won his Peace Prize in 2002.

Menachem Begin was a mass-murdering terrorist, who may well have been involved in JFK’s murder. Begin won his Peace Prize in 1978.

Christopher Hitchens was a leftist apostate, who lustily cheered on imperial atrocities such as the American/British invasion of Iraq, which is the greatest crime of the 21^st century so far. Ed called Hitchens a founding member of the Cruise Missile Left. Before Hitchens went imperial and admittedly preferred writing while drunk, he did some decent work on the left. One was a documentary on Kissinger. One of my close relatives was a contract CIA agent who worked for Kissinger, and his spook duties ruined his life. I narrowly escaped an attempt at being recruited into the family “business.” In that documentary, I looked for my relative, when Kissinger traveled with his security entourage. Kissinger once came to my home, but I am glad that I never met him.

Another effort by Hitchens, when he was still kind of a lefty, was a book on Mother Teresa. Hitchens’s charges against Teresa have been corroborated by other works. Teresa’s legacy is far more image than substance, and she really didn’t seem to care much about the earthly comfort of the people she was “helping.” In fact, her main mission seemed to be to get them to die as quickly as possible, in agony, but sent to the Christian heaven. Teresa won her Nobel Peace Prize the year after Begin won his. Teresa was hastily sainted after her death.

The year before Teresa was sainted, Padre Junípero Serra was sainted. My elementary school was named after Serra, and I watched a movie of his holy life when I was in fourth grade. In my radicalized days of study, I first read of blemishes on his image, around the same time that I first read of blemishes on Christopher Columbus’s image in Howard Zinn’s masterpiece. Serra’s primary achievement was the final expansion of the Spanish Empire, and his chief legacy was a 90% depopulation of California’s coastal tribes south of San Francisco Bay. Serra was the Hitler of California, but that somehow escaped the “history” I was taught. There was also an attempt to make Columbus a saint.

I could go on and on, on ironic Peace Prize recipients and Catholic saints, such as Barack Obama, the destroyer of Libya. Back in 2004, after he was elected to the Senate and before he took office, Obama penned an opinion piece which argued that Iran may need to be bombed. That article told me all that I needed to know about Obama, so his receipt of a Peace Prize was not surprising. I suppose that the case could be made that Carter and Obama were Good Emperors.

Such are the ironies and obscenities of awarding Peace Prizes and sainthood, which brings me to this year’s spectacle. Venezuela has the world’s largest oil deposits, and that explains everything about American foreign policy toward Venezuela. One of Ed’s worthy successors has been Alan MacLeod, although I doubt that anybody will ever fill Ed’s huge shoes. When I want to know what is happening in Venezuela, particularly regarding the American media’s treatment of it, I read MacLeod’s work.

Like Bill Gates, Donald Trump has long coveted a Peace Prize, and he openly campaigned for it this year. Trump lost to an activist in Venezuela: Maria Corina Machado. As soon as I heard that a Venezuelan won it, it smelled like another imperial Peace Prize. I looked to see what MacLeod had written about her, and I was not disappointed (1, 2). Those articles were written last year, and clearly show that Machado essentially works for the CIA. If there is a silver lining this latest Nobel outrage, at least they didn’t give the Peace Prize to Netanyahu.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

From Substack:

I am beginning to hear from people who are concerned about me, as I have been uncharacteristically silent. I appreciate the concern.

The reason for my silence is that recovering from my broken shoulder has been difficult. I am in pain 24/7, often agonizing, and I have not slept normally for nearly a month.

I asked the medical assistant on the night of my injury what the worst day would be, and she replied with Day Two. Then I read somewhere that the first week would be the worst, and then it would get better. My wife’s sister broke her shoulder a few years ago, and she laughed at my optimistic prognosis, that I would be out of the woods in a week or so. She was on opioid painkillers for a month. That will likely be my fate, but the medical profession has gone overboard in reaction to the opioid scandals. Now, they only give patients three days’ worth, and the patients have to keep begging for more. I have been stretching mine out to six days, and my latest prescription will run out on Friday. I am on six different kinds of painkillers right now, but the opioid is the one that packs the punch. I hope to not have to go begging for more opioid painkillers this weekend, but we’ll see. I have improved in ways, but I am often in as much pain as I was on the first day.

I saw a specialist last week, and he said that my break is clean and should heal normally. My arm will be in a sling for two more weeks, but full recovery is six months from the date of injury, which will include lots of physical therapy. Before I broke my shoulder, I had already scheduled medical tests, which were my first since 2009. I have seen nearly as many doctors in the past month as I’ve seen in the rest of my lifetime combined. I had the tests at my wife’s insistence, and the results are about what I expected. I have nothing that cannot be remedied by losing 20 pounds and keeping it off. That has been my goal for years, maybe this ordeal will inspire me to finally tread the straight and narrow, and it is all about diet.

I have promised my wife that I will no longer hike by myself, except for the local mountains, and I will no longer talk while going downhill, which is always when I’ve injured myself. I have had several bad spills while going downhill over the past generation, but this was by far the worst. My life has been on hold since the accident and I don’t want an experience like this again. In this past month, my mortality has been obvious, as I can clearly see my life’s end coming. I am going to age as gracefully as I can, but I have to be much more careful.

Eight days ago, I began a post that will be fairly ambitious, but I have not had the energy or headspace to complete it. This morning, I decided to do a short post on a different subject, and I only got two paragraphs into it. I am on opioids right now, which is the only way that I could have done this post.

Household chores came to a halt, and I have a lot of catching up to do when I get better. My guess is that in about two weeks, I will be able to write fairly normally again. On a positive note, voice recognition might become an integral part of my writing efforts. During this ordeal, I made my final migration to my new computer, as Microsoft forced me into upgrading from my 15-year-old computer. So my tools have improved.

The video interview that I did last summer is the first time that I have ever been on video. I had never seen myself talking like that before. Some of my fidgeting was because it was 86 degrees in my office – Thank you, Global Warming. I was surprised to see how well I came across. I can do this. When I saw Dennis Lee last month, he said the same thing. I think that my writing is more important than anything that I could say, but I can see a place for speaking in my work. I really want to have a robust discussion of my work. I would love to be able to have a discussion of every chapter of my book-preview essay. That essay is the essence of my work today, and I think that a discussion of it could be very helpful for the people that I seek. But I do not know of anybody on Earth who can have that conversation with me. I do not expect anybody to know the material as well as I do, but the people that I seek need to become familiar with the ideas in that essay. I think that a discussion can help make the material more accessible, and some pals have agreed with me. I have been trying to make my work as easy to digest as possible. So, this may be a future direction that my work will take. Maybe I can tag-team the chapters with various scholars.

Best,

Wade

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
From Substack:

I am beginning to hear from people who are concerned about me, as I have been uncharacteristically silent. I appreciate the concern.

The reason for my silence is that recovering from my broken shoulder has been difficult. I am in pain 24/7, often agonizing, and I have not slept normally for nearly a month.

Wade, so very sorry to hear that.

I've been fortunate never to have had this kind of problem. But if I was ever in that situation, I have to say I'd 100% definitely stay off opioids if there was any other possible solution.

• CBD oil might help. (I've heard it's helped many. There's a ton of info on the net, and it can be applied topically as well as taking drops orally. It doesn't contain any 'cannabis', is totally safe, and is just the oil from the plant. I've given it to my dog before when she had a sprain. )

• This might be worth checking out. The folks at Redacted (an 'alternative' current affairs program, and a very good one) strongly recommend something called Conolidine, which isn't a pharma drug. They say it works wonders for pain relief when all else has failed. The link is https://www.trycono.com/Redacted (the '/Redacted' suffix being a discount code).

[sdv]

A comfrey poultice (using dried leaves) could make a significant difference to the pain. I don't know if you can get dried comfrey in the US to make such a poultice, and the creams or ointments would be less effective. It is a powerful herb and can damage the liver, so I always use it sparingly (only at night). However, your continued pain might mean that a sliver of bone is trapped in tissue and perhaps pressing against a nerve? The use of a comfrey compress would not draw out such a sliver. (It would reduce inflammation and heal broken bones, torn muscles and ligaments, and you would feel a significant difference after using a compress for two nights.) I had such a problem at the back of the heel of my foot (a sliver, so the comfrey compress made no difference), but quite deep and with no external sign of injury. Handfuls of mustard seed powder in a hot foot spa (three times in a week) finally solved the problem by drawing out that sliver (after more than two months of unbearable pain and being unable to sleep ... in despair I was swallowing a cocktail of pain meds every night ... during the day I could distract myself from the pain). I never got proof of the sliver, which must have been so small that I threw it away with the water in the foot spa, but the results were miraculous! I don't think you could give your shoulder a mustard seed foot spa, and it might be so deep that even a mustard seed compress would not remove it, so this information probably is not helpful!

[Ernie Nemeth]

Ivermectin is a proven anti-inflammatory as well.

At our age, skeletal injuries might never fully heal.
Mine healed very slowly (for about a year I couldn't reach into my front pants pocket or raise my arm without help from the other arm), but still hurts when it rains or the weather changes.

Coming face to face with our own mortality is quite sobering, and humbling.
The insult of old age is an ego numbing ordeal - and it only gets worse.

Makes you wonder about all sorts of things never before on our radar, and re-evaluate priorities that seemed so all important earlier in life...

Hope you recover quickly.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

First of all, thank you all for the heartfelt concern and suggestions. My first reply is that I don’t mind taking opioids, once in a great while. Up until this accident, during 2025, I took one dose of ibuprofen. That was it for any drugs in my body, including caffeine. I have never had coffee in my lifetime.

But I’ve had to choose my battles. When I take a shower, I am bombarded with fluorine ions, because of our corrupt medical system. To completely escape fluoride ions in my society is probably impossible. Last year’s courtroom victory, and Kennedy’s helming of the USA’s medical bureaucracy, gives me some hope that one day I will stop being bombarded with fluoride ions. They have certainly damaged my biology over my lifetime. I likely have a teaspoon of plastics in my brain. I spend my days bathed in an electromagnetic haze. I have not had a CRT monitor for many years, but my house has Wi-Fi in it. Am I better off or worse off? Breathing LA’s air 40 years ago I’m sure damaged my lungs. I could go down a long list of these kinds of industrial insults to my biology. It used to be far worse.

In what I call the Fifth Epoch, none of this will happen. Vested interests will no longer inflict profitable yet harmful chemicals on the public. The medical racket, and all rackets, will cease to exist.

As I learned from the work of Weston Price, my dental health was ruined by age 10, because of the atrocious American diet. My shrunken jaw crowded my teeth, which led to braces, which led to nerve damage, which led to root canals. There is a movement against root canals, because it introduces long-term infections, and just have the teeth removed. It is hard to keep track, but I believe I have had four root-canal surgeries in the last five years. I have veneers and crowns, and I basically can trace it all back to before I was 10 years old. It is just one of the many prices of my journey.

I was an athlete, and I am extraordinarily healthy for a man of 67. My broken shoulder seems to be healing normally, and I should be back to writing normally in a couple weeks. But we will see. In my previous post, I mentioned my recent video interview. I had not seen myself like that before. I was pleasantly surprised at how I was able to present my material. I am a nerd, I’m not sure how I would do in front of 1,000 people, but I sure can do a video interview. But my first reaction when watching myself was thinking that I was looking at an old man. I have old-man facial expressions.

The man who gave me my root canals calls me his favorite patient. Because I was an athlete, I just think of my body as a tool, and have never obsessed about my health. I see it as a vehicle to do my work on Earth, and one day it will fail. I always knew that my pain tolerance was high, but that surgeon considers it extraordinary. So, I rarely take any kind of painkiller, but when I need to, I don’t mind going with the big guns. It is called choosing your poison. A month of opioids at half-dose is small stuff, as far as my health goes.

What I have not disclosed before is that I have what is called Tech Neck, which comes from a lifetime of staring at computer screens. It is common in my tech-dominated community. Back in 2022, when I was hiking up to five days a week and thinking nothing of the 20-plus pound day pack that I carried around, my shoulders finally started paying the price. I just kept ignoring it until it got debilitating. Then I finally had a few physical therapy sessions, and for six months, I religiously did my daily exercises and rehabbed my shoulder. That was my right shoulder, and now I have broken my left shoulder. When my neck started bothering me this year, I went early to physical therapy, which was a good idea. It is one more thing to manage.

I have world-class legs and I am a cardiovascular marvel for a man my age, from all of that hiking, and doing more upper-body work has been on my list of things to do for years. So when I finally start rehabbing my shoulder, I expect to get onto a regimen that I won’t stop, similar to how I hike all the time. I hope to get at least another 20 good years out of this body before I cash in my chips, and see if I can make a dent with my work. Providing my wife comfortable last years and making a dent is really all that I have left on my plate, and it is plenty for this old man.

Hi Bill: That link did not work to conolidine, but I looked into it more, with very mixed views at Amazon. I will keep it in mind.

Hi sdv: The good news for me is that my pain seems to be normal and I should heal normally. If I need to try to pull some sliver out, you’ll hear from me.

Hi Ernie: Yes, none of us gets out alive. The specialist said it will take six months for me to fully recover, and as I mentioned, I will probably now have a permanent upper-body regimen. Jack LaLanne did his two-hour morning workout the day before he died. I hope to hike the day before I die. But unlike Jack, I know when I need to see a doctor. As I mentioned in my previous post, I had some medical tests done, at my wife’s insistence. That was the first time since 2009, but my wife will likely pester me to get more regular ones. Once I got into their system, it has been an effort to keep from getting sucked all the way in, such as getting vaccinated, screened for hepatitis B, and other nonsense. I’ll keep the medical system at arm’s length, but I also need to take care of myself better. I am likely in 95^th percentile or something for Americans my age, but I need to take it to the 99^th percentile if I’m going to get another 20 to 30 good years out of this body.

Best,

Wade

[Ernie Nemeth]

I hurt my shoulder exactly like that - pushing myself into advanced yoga poses. I was watching my shoulders grow almost day to day. Then one day I went a bit too far and, well I don't know what, but it hurt real bad. I never went to a doctor. I couldn't even do a single push up for months after. Slowly it has come back but it has a dead zone that most likely will always be present. If it gets in the dead zone I loose all strength and my arm drops in a spasm of pain.

Take it easy on yourself. 95th percentile is far, far beyond good enough. Let your goal be to maintain it.
My advice. Who needed big shoulders at my age?