WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

What an insane time to be an American. A year ago, I had a crunch at work that saw me work every day for a month, finished off with a hundred-hour week that included an all-nighter. I am getting way too old for that. It is a long story, but on the nights that I worked past midnight, I ended up having to walk to the Bellevue Square complex. That is where I ran into Bill Gates in the popcorn line in 2010:

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

As I walked over to the mall, I passed by a nightclub that opened last year, and was shocked at the nightclub scene the sprouted up at Bellevue Square. It was hopping at midnight. Bellevue has been slowly turning into a metropolis while I have worked there:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/savings.htm#next

while it got swept up in the insane building boom and got way overbuilt, with several empty, or nearly empty, new buildings dotting downtown. I have mentioned my athletic past:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post574307

I also worked for the Seattle Supersonics NBA team in 2003, not long before they moved to Oklahoma City:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle..._Oklahoma_City

The Seattle Kingdome was razed to make way for two new sports stadiums that were built with taxpayer money, in what was a kind of extortion by the local baseball and football teams. They threatened to do what the Sonics eventually did: move away unless the city/state ponied up big dollars to build them a new stadium. If you ever had any doubt that the USA is a plutocracy, watching how Paul Allen got the money for the football stadium would remove any doubts. The former Seahawks owner threatened to take the team to Southern California unless he had a new stadium built for him with the public’s money. Allen rode to the “rescue,” saying that he would buy the team (with his petty cash) if the state would build the stadium for him. He was actually allowed to pay to have a special election mounted for just that issue (and the ability for him to mount election for just his issue was challenged in court, and the state supreme court declared such a rich man’s gambit legal), and then he mounted an ad blitz across the Washington media. That cost him about $10 million. He was worth around $40-50 billion at the time. The special election barely passed his initiative, and he thereby got a stadium built for the team he was going to buy, with the help of $300 million taxpayer dollars.

http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm...m&File_Id=3582

That is called the investment theory of politics at its starkest. The baseball team played the same game a few years earlier, and the public actually voted down a new stadium, to only have the legislature overrule the public’s will and give the Mariners the money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeco_Field#History

As usual, it went far over budget, and ended up costing about a half billion dollars.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/bas...eattlestadium/

Why do the professional sports teams say they need the money? As I saw from my days at the Sonics, it is to pay the astronomical salaries of their athletes, most of whom piss their money away so fast that they have increasingly been going bankrupt even before their careers end:

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...ine/MAG1153364

The entire professional sports system is insane, but I suppose that it only reflects the general insanity in the USA, which I have chronicled enough on my site and on this thread, so I will not belabor it. I have been invited to games at both of the new stadiums a number of times, but I refuse to go, vowing that I will never walk into either one of those stadiums. But I have a curious relationship to sports. I once beat out the controller of the San Francisco Giants for a job, and the Seahawks used to have their practice facility right over my back fence, and while they were good neighbors, they woke me up more than once on a Saturday morning as they were practicing for a Sunday home game, with the whistles and cheers. My town was going to go pretty wild if they had won the Super Bowl several years ago:

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

I eventually moved away from that town, and so did the Seahawks. Growing up, I was a USC football fan, and I think that O.J. Simpson was the first USC athlete that I can remember watching. I was also a big fan of Jerry West and the Lakers, back when they lost to the Celtics in the finals every year.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post406928

I encountered both West and Simpson during my LA Days, West when he ran the Lakers, and Simpson before he really became famous.

While I will not darken the door of those Seattle stadiums, I keep track of how the teams are doing, and the former USC football coach began to coach the Seahawks two seasons ago, and he has built a team that threatens to go to the Super Bowl again, and last night was a big win over the San Francisco 49-ers. Football fans are the craziest in the USA, and the Seahawks' are particularly rabid, literally shaking the ground a couple of years ago with their cheers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Se...Orleans_Saints

I watched part of the game last night, the first time that I watched them at home in years, and several of the Seahawk players partied at that new club in Bellevue last night. There were six hundred people there, obviously most of them football fans reveling in the victory, and then shots rang out, killing one person and injuring another:

http://www.king5.com/home/One-person...184675001.html

They have yet to catch the shooter. I walked past that bar at least a dozen times in the past two weeks. Sigh.

I try to read one of Dickens’s Christmas stories every year, or watch A Christmas Carol (I have a few versions of it at home), and I think that I will watch the redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge tonight, to reflect on the human potential. I need it.

Peace on Earth, goodwill to all,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I was at a family gathering on Christmas Eve, and the man murdered near my office was a close relative of my cousin’s co-worker. I predicted that the shooter would be some black man from the “hood,” and it looks like I was right:

http://www.bellevuereporter.com/news/184684741.html

He murdered somebody while a juvenile, so was let out early. This time, he is going away for a long time (if he did it, and the case is probably a strong one). I have lived and worked around and in Bellevue for about ten years, and I have seen the cops arresting people whose “crime” was being black or looking like a street hood. We will see what the response is to this. The USA’s deeply racist history has created a class system based on skin color that is still with us, and while mass shooters are usually white men, using violence to resolve altercations and rob people is an inner-city black phenomenon in the USA. Violence like that is a product of poverty (as is what we see in the Mexican-American communities and those Mexican ones associated with the drug trade). With FE, that should go away.

Back to how I came to my perspective today. I am leaving the framework issue behind for now, and will recount some events that shaped the perceptions that I have today on FE efforts. Make no mistake, FE is my goal, or one could say that my goal is heaven on Earth, and I see FE as the most important step to get there, as it has the potential to transform the human journey in ways that are truly hard to comprehend:

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

and humanity can live in true abundance for the first time. If nothing else, it will crumble the foundations of Earth’s dominant ideologies, which are all based on scarcity:

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

But on to the tale. For all the incredible adventures that Dennis had already been through, including surviving a few murder attempts by organized crime in Alaska and New Jersey:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#mafia1

he still had plenty of naïveté to lose, and I know that feeling. Overgrown Boy Scouts are guilty of projecting their awareness and motivation onto others. Everybody does it, to some degree, and it is especially hazardous for the Boy Scouts, because they are freaks, far less than one-in-a-thousand in the general population. They actually believe the tales and ideals of their indoctrination. Virtually everybody else “grows up,” and relegates the tales of their indoctrination to just that, tales, and they kind of believe them, when it suits their purposes, but they really treat them like fairy tales for children. Those who walk the path of their ideals very far, and only the overgrown Boy Scouts do that, can eventually get to meet the wizard. Ralph figured it out in his hotel room in Saigon, and he nearly killed himself when he finally understood:

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

Dennis had early experiences that helped him shed his naïveté, even after being a soldier in Vietnam. His initial awakening experience happened with his gun in his mouth, as he was about to kill himself, with his nationalistic illusions shattered:

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

That event began experiences that were truly hard to believe, and they should have allowed him to shed his indoctrination, but like the rest of us, he always gave a person the benefit of the doubt, never wanting to believe the worst, or really, that the person was not motivated like virtually everybody else. After having his companies stolen several times, including his heat pump companies, Dennis’s improbable journey found him in Seattle in late 1984, in a beat up station wagon, $20 in his pocket, and nowhere to sleep for him and his family. Less than a year later, his paper net worth was $50 million, less than a year after that, he left Washington with only the clothes on his back, and has been hounded by the authorities ever since.

But in his early days in Seattle, Dennis labored under the same delusion that Sparky did. Dennis only came to Seattle after reading the full page ads run by the electric companies, and he literally thought that they would throw him a tickertape parade. They were advertising that conservation was the cheapest form of energy generation, and they were subsidizing a "weatherization" program that would save homeowners around 25% of their energy bills for heating. Dennis thought that the electric companies would be ecstatic with the 80% savings that his heat pump provided. He had actually stumbled into a huge fraud that the electric companies were perpetrating on the public, but he had no idea what the real game was. After several attempts to get the attention of the electric companies, he went so far as to rig up one of his heat pumps on the back of a truck, and park it in an electric company's parking lot, and then went in the building and begged them to come out and look at the solution to their problems. They knew all too well about his “solution,” and it would indeed save the customer 80%, and it qualified for a $4,000 tax rebate to boot, but all they saw was losing electricity revenues. Actually benefitting the customer was the last thing on their minds.

After they ran him out of the state, the BPA conservation department admitted that all they thought about for a few months was Dennis:

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

and the BPA and friends called in all of their favors to take Dennis out, including siccing Bill the BPA Hit Man on him:

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

Not everybody was a dark pather. The dragon lady at the Attorney General’s office had a bout of conscience after getting her hands bloody, and quit:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post400492

and another woman stepped up to work her evil. They both teach law school today. I am not sure if the pinch hitter believes in her mission (she would have to be incredibly stupid to honestly believe it) or is a dark pather. She is probably like the investigator in Ventura, where she could not care less if Dennis was innocent; all she cared about was her kill ratio:

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

But when the dragon lady fled, with her conscience assailing her, the pinch hitter began to dog Dennis wherever he was, and within days of Dennis hitting Boston, Ms. Pinch Hitter contacted a Massachusetts partner in “protecting the public,” and he came swaggering into Dennis’s office soon thereafter and made several officious threats, saying how he cherished the day when he would put Dennis behind bars. In one of the more telling documents to ever surface in Dennis’s adventures, that investigator admitted that he tried mightily to find something that he could arrest Dennis on, but Dennis was not breaking any laws:

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

Those were some of my early events of awakening. Before my adventures with Dennis were finished, I came to understand that protecting the public is Earth’s biggest protection racket, and the sheeple play right along with the “protection,” being herded into the slaughterhouses and stampeding right over the cliff. Godzilla prefers dead sheeple over free sheeple.

When those events were playing out, the “loyalists” from the Seattle operation were dropping out, one-by-one, and by early August 1986 I was the only one left. Dennis tried to talk me out of chasing him to Boston, but I would not be dissuaded, and in November, after moving back in with my grandparents and taking a temporary job to get enough money to pay for the gasoline to chase him, I drove out to Boston. Just leaving Seattle to chase him was one the hardest things I ever did, leaving Seattle in tears:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...est#post406935

In one of many synchronistic events on our journey, when I was driving to Boston, somewhere around the Great Plains, Dennis was giving a talk at a Department of Energy event, and he was talking up his heat pump. Dennis doing that a couple of months after being run out of Washington is an indicator of a few things. One of which was his mind-boggling persistence. Another is that he constantly tried to work with the energy establishment. His “rebellious” stance only came after being repeatedly skewered by the energy interests. After the talk was over, a man came up to Dennis, and said that he worked at a company that had a generator that made electricity from 200 degree Fahrenheit water. He invited Dennis to their company on Monday to meet the CEO. On Sunday, I rolled into Boston, and the next day, I took Dennis to that company. Dennis's heat pump created a 200-230 degree exhaust temperature, and on that day, Dennis got his first FE idea.

It was not the first time that either of us had heard of FE. In the spring of 1986, just before Dennis’s Seattle company was stolen, Joe Newman was making waves, and Dennis went to Newman’s place and tried to form a working relationship, but was rebuffed. I consider Joe to be an FE casualty. He is kind of mentally ill, and that is one of the hazards of playing on this field. Delusions of grandeur rear their heads when somebody pursues FE:

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

My turn to wrestle with that delusion was coming, but when I drove into Boston, after having driven for 24 hours straight from Tennessee, the first thing that I told Dennis, who was mystified at why I chased after him, that I was there due to Mr. Mentor’s influence:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post578559

When Dennis was in Boston the previous summer and autumn, he was trying to bail out the family of the salesman who got them into the “business,” and they had mortgaged the family home and were going straight into bankruptcy. They had me put together their books, and they lost hundreds of thousands of dollars before Dennis hit town, and after Dennis got there, they did not spend any more, but they fought him all the way, treating him like some wayward salesman. Of course, the lead salesman on the team that Dennis created tried to steal it all.

Before I got there, Dennis made several hours of video tape of his story for some heiress who was planning to help out with her money. I watched the tapes, and began to understand Dennis’s background. Dennis is a wildly entertaining speaker, and he punctuated his talks about his past by showing documents to the camera. Those were pleasant days of innocence for me. For the first month, I lived with that salesman’s family, along with Dennis and his family.

Watching the tapes, and having long talks with Dennis into the night during that winter of 1986-1987, I learned plenty, not only about Dennis and his past, but how he looked at business problems and built companies. He is extraordinarily talented, and by far the best I have ever seen in much of what he does. While I received plenty of education during my LA years, my years with Dennis is when I really learned about the business world, especially about building companies. I was also learning about the energy industry on the ground. I don’t want to get too redundant here, and will refer to events that I wrote about before, but within two months of hitting Boston, I became Dennis’s partner when his investor pulled the rug out from under him:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post578559

But one of the lessons that I learned that that time was that the so-called investor with the wad of purely helpful cash is as prevalent as a unicorn, particularly in the FE field. While watching those video tapes, made for that heiress who disappeared long before I arrived, I heard plenty about Dennis’s adventures, and his troubles with his investors and business partners. Plenty of rich people have been involved with Dennis, or planned to, but I never saw that any of them really understood what it was all about. The problems with their understanding generally revolved around three things -

1. Their selfishness; there is no such thing as an altruistic investor. Investors “invest” with the idea of getting a return on their investment.

2. Dennis was truly a business Einstein that was solving problems of technology development, marketing, and financing, that were new and unique, if unorthodox. Genius is rarely recognized when it appears. If I had not already been a student of genius with Mr. Mentor (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy.htm#glimpse ), I may not have been able to recognize the scope of Dennis’s genius.

3. What Dennis was pursuing was nothing short of heaven on Earth, and as such, was far, far, beyond the wildest imaginings of such investors, and they really could not understand what Dennis was doing very well, as they projected their “investor” awareness on the situation.

There were other problems with those investors, and often arose from a combination of those three things. The “investor” would often try to manage the business, shoving Dennis aside. That is like what happened when Steve Jobs got ousted at Apple, because the “suits” did not think that a young kid could run Apple. He came back to rescue Apple when the “suits” ran Apple into the ground. A Dennis or a Jobs had a genius that the “suits” and “investors” could never recognize, because of their orientation. Genius often appears “crazy” at first glance.

Dennis also came to understand where a person’s motivation was, so he would play to the capitalists as a capitalist. The magnitude of just his heat pump’s potential was so vast that his partners and associates would be overcome by greed from the beginning, and attempts to steal his companies was an endemic problem, even before he was involved with the energy industry.

Dennis invented a shared savings card as a way of uniting the consumer and giving them a real voice in the marketplace:

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

He built that company from nothing, and the mob tried muscling in more than once and tried to kill him, but the way that he survived the hit attempt earned him "respect" from the mob, and they left him alone after that:

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

and it is anecdote time, and I will give the details of that hit attempt and how Dennis survived it. Dennis fled Alaska with a contract on his life for busting the mob there, after two failed hit attempts:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#mafia1

I try to not tell any Dennis anecdotes that are not mentioned in his books or I think are innocuous and/or I witnessed myself, but I just looked through his My Quest, where he would have mentioned it, and found no mention, but here goes. I mentioned it briefly here before, and have on my site:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post264203

Of all the places to flee from the mafia, New Jersey had to be about the worst place, but the mob is not really a global or even national organization. Godzilla is (one channel called Godzilla “highly organized crime,” and I think that is an apt description), but the mob plays at a lower level of the game, far lower. I already mentioned Dennis’s encounter with Skinner that caused him to drop out of college on the brink of graduation:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post569113

and Dennis then began his idealistic journey in the business world. His first effort, at bringing fine craftsmanship back into homebuilding (that is ironic, as one of his great talents was industrializing new “industries” that were really at the craftsman stage), was begun in New Jersey, and he began his baptism by fire in the real world of business.

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

It is a shark tank everywhere, but doubly so in New Jersey. Dennis’s first business was wiped out in the mayhem of the USA’s first energy crisis, and his next venture was that shared savings card. The mob tried muscling in on his businesses several times, and one of the earliest attempts progressed to where the mob lieutenant eventually took off his mask and admitted that he worked for the mob. Dennis still had a lot of Vietnam soldier in him and threw the mobster down a flight of stairs. When he did it, Dennis realized that it was probably not the smartest move in the world, and he went home and moved his household in about a half hour. Dennis did not leave the state, as he probably should have, but moved a few towns away.

With what he was trying to do, there was no way that he was going to lie low enough to evade detection, and about two weeks later, he was leaving his new apartment building when a couple of men approached him in front of the building and asked if Dennis knew somebody named Dennis Lee. Dennis replied that he never heard of the guy and kept walking. The next thing Dennis knew, he was staring down the barrel of a pearl-handled revolver. The hit man said, “Nice try, but we are going to go back into the building now, nice and slow.” And they backed Dennis back into the building. It was one of those old buildings that had an internal stairwell that spiraled around the inside of the building, with the apartments lining the outside. Dennis lived on the top floor, and his wife was in the apartment. The hit men were obviously planning to take Dennis up to his apartment to make the hit, and Dennis was probably more afraid that they were going to also kill his wife when they found her there. So Dennis thought fast and began pleading for his life, with the pistol in his face, as he walked backwards up the stairwell. He did it loudly, hoping that his wife would hear and figure it out. She did. Just as Dennis reached the top of stairwell, right in front of his apartment, Dennis was going to make his move. There was no way that he was going to let them kill his wife, and Dennis had no desire to die himself, so he was about to make a soldier move (he was trained to kill people with his bare hands in Vietnam), and either he or the hit men were going to die in the next few seconds. Just as Dennis was about to make his move, the policemen burst into the bottom of the stairwell, announcing their presence. Dennis’s wife figured it out and called the police, and said that there was a brawl happening in the building. The hit men froze. Dennis called out to the policemen and said that there was no fight, and that he was just having a lively conversation with his friends, who were just leaving. Dennis put an arm around each hit man and descended the stairwell with them, and escorted them out of the building past the cops. He escorted them all the way to their car, and put on a convincing, “these are my friends” act. After they got into their car, with the police watching, Dennis told the triggerman, “I don’t know how much they were paying you for this job, but it is not enough. One of us would have died before I was going to enter my apartment.”

The hit man drove off, and they never tried to kill Dennis again, at least that mob family. Years later, another mafia lieutenant tried his suave approach to muscle into Dennis’s business, and Dennis replied with,

“Hey pal, I know what you are up to. I am too honest to work with you guys. In fact, I once threw one of your associates down a stairwell and broke his arm. You need to go find someplace else to do your business.”

The mobster’s eyes widened, and he replied, “So, that was you! OK, I’ll be on my way now.” By the way that Dennis survived the hit attempt and did not have the hit men busted, Dennis earned the mob’s “respect.” The “funny” thing about that is that Dennis eventually learned that the mob acted with more integrity than the authorities did who have hounded him to this day, as they “protect the public,” running a protection racket far beyond the wildest dreams of the mobsters.

But when Dennis hit Washington, he never again had to deal with the mob again, even though other mob families stole his companies on the East Coast when he was in the heat pump business, which was partly why he ended up in his home town of Yakima in 1983. His son died when they were there, visiting with his family at Christmastime. Dennis spent a great deal of time in Manhattan during his East Coast days, trying to put something together. That is one hell of a way to get educated in how capitalism works. I initially learned via the academic route and then a trial by fire in an urban hell, while Dennis skipped the academic part of it. Dennis also began on the entrepreneurial end of it, and was Indiana Jones-ing it from the very beginning, which was really just a continuation of his Indian Jones background. It is partly who he is. He does it not because he likes to play Indiana Jones, but that path is how he gets things going. Virtually nobody on Earth is qualified to take that path and survive for long. Only overgrown Boy Scouts can really play that game, because they are doing it by answering to a higher call, although almost nobody around them can really understand what motivates somebody like Dennis, as they project their self-serving awareness onto him. This is something that all the overgrown Boy Scouts that I have known have had to deal with, and it usually wrecked their relationships with their friends and family, because they could not fathom the motivation of the Boy Scout. That is why Jesus said that prophets do not have any honor in their home towns, because those they grew up with think that they are just like them, so must be motivated similarly. Those who saw the prophet grow up literally can’t understand the prophet. Some get glimpses, but it is only a glimpse. Only the Boy Scouts can really understand the Boy Scouts. It takes one to know one.

But somebody like Dennis, with his world-saving motivation, would also design business models that were ingenious but often at cross-purposes with the capitalist imperative, at least the lower levels of the game. At the lower levels of the game, capitalists go for the quick kill. They do not think long-term, but want to make their pile quickly and then go away and enjoy it. That quick-kill mentality has also infected Wall Street to where a corporation’s stock is only as valuable as its latest quarterly results. Corporate America is not encouraged to think very far ahead. But the best of them do, and they are rare, or play at the very highest levels, like Godzilla does. Godzilla has a very long view, which is largely why there has been so much dissent in his ranks of late, because the trajectory we are on, as Godzilla worships power above all else, is a destruction of humanity and the planet. Anybody with a long view can clearly see it coming. Those so-called White Hats understand, and that has been where the surreptitious defections have been happening:

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

After years of pitching Wall Street, Dennis finally got in front of somebody who truly understood. He was the CEO of a household name corporation, and he saw the genius of Dennis’s marketing plans:

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

and was about to commit $1 billion to a program to carpet the USA with Dennis’s heat pump.

It would have been the first significant energy savings program in world history. It would have shaved hundreds of billions of dollars from the USA’s energy bills, and deliver the savings that Jimmy Carter talked up as he mounted his war on energy. There is no telling what might have happened if that deal had been allowed to go forward, because at that very moment, Dennis’s business partners stole the business from him and also cleaned him out.

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

Years later, when Dennis discovered that the stolen patent ended up in Seattle, with the thief himself bragging to Dennis about how he stole it, Dennis could only laugh, and figured that his God decided that the time was not right with that household name corporation.

So, that billion dollar deal never manifested, but Dennis’s later adventures showed how worthless and even counterproductive the rich people were who got involved. In Yakima, as Dennis was recovering from having one of his East Coast companies stolen again and the death of his son, the local robber baron wanted to work with Dennis, getting a quick sense of Dennis’s extraordinary talent. But Mr. Rich never stood aside and let the master work his magic, but he thought that he had to run things, and he promptly ran everything that Dennis was trying to do into the ground.

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

In October 1984, Dennis had had enough, and that is when he began to experience high adventure in his energy journey, and the next year of Dennis’s life comprised the greatest effort yet made to bring alternative energy to the American marketplace. That voice spoke to me for the second time in February 1986:

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

and I got to watch the end of those fireworks in Seattle. That voice likely knew what it was doing; I am not sure if I would have followed Dennis to Boston if I had been there for the entire Seattle trajectory. Many lives were shattered during that effort, and mine could have been one of them. The timing of my move to Seattle saw me get my feet wet and the appetite for chasing my dreams awakened, but for all the mayhem I still saw during the Seattle company’s dying throes, 1986 was still the happiest year of my life. In Seattle, another hard-nosed businessman sensed the profit potential of what Dennis was doing and became Dennis’s financier, but before it was over, he would have his company stolen from him, too:

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

by the same Mormon swindlers who stole Dennis’s company.

But let’s get back to Boston, after that little diversion. In Boston, Dennis trying to marry that salesman’s family to an investor who could bail them out. They were extremely naïve, delusional, and egotistical, and they literally thought that they were what was making things happen. One potential investor that Dennis brought in to bail out that family saw where the real talent in the effort was and immediately began courting Dennis. He was the investor that pulled the rug out from under Dennis, just before I came to the rescue:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post578559

In the end, Mr. Professor and I were the only two investors that Dennis ever had to that time who did not try to control him, thinking that we knew better than he did how to run the show, or did not try to kick him out and essentially wreck the effort. That is almost certainly why we began to fly very high very quickly in Ventura, and why Godzilla needed to directly intervene. It is hard to say who all was behind what happened in Ventura. Ventura is one of the most corrupt counties in the USA, regularly making the top ten list of the most corrupt, and has even been ranked number one more than once. But I doubt that when we were raided and the sheriff’s deputies ransacked Mr. Researcher’s office and stole everything that they could, that it was due to their initiative.

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

Somebody wanted a good look at what we were up to, as they also rained the first death blow at us, and those stolen documents undoubtedly went somewhere into Godzilla’s food chain. When Dennis received the billion dollar offer to go away a few months later:

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

that was certainly an offer made on Godzilla’s behalf (as is the first one that we received http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#ten ). I came to find out years later that a billion dollar offer was no big deal to Godzilla, almost pocket change at the level that he plays at:

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

Godzilla has probably paid out about $250 billion by now in quiet money, and you might call those who took the money the lucky ones, but Dennis and I would have been selling our souls to take that money. Dennis was never tempted for an instant. Dennis thinks that his jailing a few weeks after declining Godzilla’s offer was their response, their “final offer,” so to speak. Then the nightmare truly began, and less than a year later, we had some divine intervention after I sacrificed my life to try to spring Dennis from jail, and it incredibly worked:

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

But I am getting ahead of myself. The inquiry that began this thread tangent this past week was asking why I don’t cheer on the FE inventor of the hour as he tries to scale the ramparts with his gizmo, getting patents and chasing after large corporations, making grand announcements of an impending demonstration or announcing the results of the scientific tests. The inventors doing that are almost all Level 6s, if they even have anything:

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

and do not have a snowball’s chance in hell, not unless Godzilla died in his sleep. If they get “lucky” they will get bought out and disappear from the scene like the other 20,000 like them have, or they will become another one of the 4,000 energy-related patents that have been classified in the USA and also disappear (it then becomes illegal, under penalty of prison, to further develop or even discuss their technology). If they are not so lucky, they will become just another one of the FE martyrs that have strewn the field for the past hundred years. One on hand, their blindness and naïveté may contain a certain charm, but when I hear that the inventor has applied for a patent, I already know that he does not have a prayer. The only way that the patent route will work for FE is for a Fortune 500 company to do it, and that will only happen if they have Godzilla’s blessing. Anybody who thinks differently simply has no experience in this milieu, and I continually see people mount FE awareness efforts that reek of extreme naïveté. I get invited into stuff like that with some regularity, but I always decline, and even try to talk them out of it if I get the opportunity. FE tinkerers and scientists are not the answer, but are a very tiny part of the puzzle, and newbies only rarely understand. I sympathize, but that is a delusional mindset. Maybe my choir idea is another delusion, but nobody has ever tried it before, and I am not asking anybody to risk their lives. I have to take a break to do some chores, but I will get back to what I learned during my days with Dennis, and how I learned it.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Boy this post was a cold shower...

Reading your previous posts about the Energy Story on Earth it's easy to picture you like an old historian in an arm chair telling stories.

I had lost sight of your life experience what has brought you where you are today!

I stand again amazed at yours and Dennis' experience. Dennis has looked death in the eye a few times while my most dramatic trial was burning my fingers trying testing out some FE designs...

I certainly do not have an early death wish and I am in awe at Dennis' resolve and inner strength! I really can't imagine myself in his shoes, so hopefully there is a more gentle path to learning all this and staying focused.

[geoffbyrd]

I see this has been around for awhile, I am new and just finding my way around. I do so appreciate this work and it prompts me to wonder what folks here with a free energy focus think of Mehran Tavakoli Keshe at www.keshefoundation.org? He intuitively seems to be a rather heart centered engineer, on the other hand I cannot tell if he actually has any working models. Supposedly he was distributing 4 KW devices this month if purchasers could find a way to take delivery. Any information/experience with this? Thanks!

[Ilie Pandia]

Hello Geoffbyrd,

Welcome to the forum . Yes this thread is more about the potential of Free Energy and how energy runs the world and not so much about Keshe or other Free Energy inventors.

You can use the search function to find some Keshe threads and you can ask your questions there or take part in the conversations.

Here are a few threads like that:
- https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ighlight=keshe
- https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ighlight=keshe
- https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ighlight=keshe
(and so on...)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

Well, I have a few more posts to go, I think, in getting to the end of this little narrative, but you are hitting on one of the problems with what I am trying, in that even my star pupil can lose track of why I am doing this and my background, if even for a minute. It is far from a crime, but it highlights problems that I even have with those close to me, and I have repeated this plenty on this thread: without my adventures, and my time with Dennis definitely comprises the years when my learning curve was the steepest, I would likely not have anything worth saying.

There is great difficulty in what I do, and what I plan to do with that essay, in navigating between a scholarly presentation and weaving it with my radicalized perspective that came from my experiences, to come to the vision that I have and how we might be able to get there. I even have people very close to me, who are even sympathetic, who really don’t understand what I lived through, not in the slightest. Heck, I was there, and I have a difficult time understanding what Dennis has lived through. And one of the biggest problems is that our experiences are so far beyond what the armchair enthusiast, or “skeptic,” or historian has personally experienced that they literally have no idea of what we learned, and that is why I often say, ruefully, that what I learned probably cannot be taught. People can read the words, but unless they have an awareness that has been raised by some personal experience beyond the mainstream, it will only be words to them, the meaning lost to them. But I am going to try to get as many as I can to at least learn some of it, enough so that they can relinquish their indoctrination long enough so that they can simply imagine abundance, yet also gain some kind of appreciation for the kind of terrain that people have already trod in this milieu so that they:

1. Refrain from their instant analysis and bright ideas on what nobody has ever thought about, as far as how FE can happen (this is one of the most common reactions from people who hear about FE – that is the ego talking);

2. Get seduced into some Level 6, 7, 9, 10, or 11 effort, because they have now heard of FE and want to “do something;”

3. Gain a proper appreciation of the magnitude of the task and its potential; this will be the biggest event in human history so far, by far, and because people see somebody like me writing about it, it makes it familiar to them, often too familiar, in that they think that making FE happen is probably a lot easier than people like me think it is, in that I maybe do not have as much talent as I think I do, or Dennis does not, or that we are stretching the truth in order to tell a big story.

On that last point, I have gotten on Dennis’s case more than once about stretching the truth of our adventures when he is pitching. The straight facts and plain truth are plenty, believe me. As with my framework:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post604255

I am telling about my FE adventures very conservatively. The facts of them are pretty easy to obtain if somebody does a little homework, and if somebody does, they will realize that my role in Dennis’s story is a lot bigger than I let on in my public writings. I hold back a lot that would make my story far more credible, but I have to do it to protect both the innocent and the guilty, and anybody who has sailed in waters like these knows exactly what I am referring to. This is not kids' stuff, or the conspiracist’s flavor of the day.

Dennis is truly the only person on Earth that I know of who can successfully complete this application:

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

which is why the hundred heroes model for bringing FE to the world will not work; there are not a hundred to find, not at Dennis’s level. So, my choir idea is to find the ten thousand lambs who can simply imagine abundance, and before I am finished with this narrative, my reasons for thinking that way may become clearer.

Off to run errands and do chores.

Best,

Wade

P.S. As I was about to post this, I saw Keshe post number twenty on this thread. Thanks, Ilie, for directing traffic!

[geoffbyrd]

Oh, thanks, I see it now. Apologies for the misplaced posting. May I reiterate my appreciation for YOUR work!

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As an addendum to my previous post, and this will be made clear in my essay, if it is not clear already, there is simply nothing that I am aware of that has the transformative potential of FE, short of us becoming creators on Earth, able to manifest whatever we want to at will. We can all do that on the astral plane, but doing it here is another matter. The only two Earthly events that I am aware of that could make news as big as FE are:

1. ET spaceships landing on the White House lawn and having tea with the USA’s president, and then the ETs walking among us, coming to our houses to play cards, etc.

2. The Ascended Masters coming to Earth, first probably having that obligatory tea session, and then walking on Earth among us.

But both of those, by themselves, fall far short of the transformative potential of FE, and the upside of those encounters of either of those “superior” types of beings is FE. If the ETs or Ascended Masters arrived and were acknowledged for who and what they really were, what would be the impact, other than the world’s elites being taken down a big notch? Would the acknowledgement of their presence fill one empty belly? Would it make one gallon of gasoline? Would it prevent one war? Think about it. Those two events would only make it clear that humans are far from the ultimate life form in the universe. And anybody who watches Star Trek or innumerable other science fiction tales is pretty familiar with the idea that humans might be far down the pecking order of the universe’s life forms.

The only other idea that I see coming from their appearance might be the awareness that our consciousness survives the deaths of our bodies, but most of us believe that anyway. Even though the scientific establishment’s official view is that human consciousness is dependent on a functioning brain, more than 70% of the citizens of the most materialistic nation in history believe that there is existence after death:

http://www.libraryindex.com/pages/60...TER-DEATH.html

and many NDE survivors would not say that they believe in life after death, but that they know it. So, while that may be comforting, does it really help with our daily lives? Does it put food in the belly? Does it make our daily lives easier? With all that I have experienced, I have no doubt that my consciousness will survive the death of my physical body, but I suppose that I will not really know until I take my last breath, and if my consciousness does not survive my body’s demise, would I have regret as my final thought? I don’t think so. If I only go around once or a million times, I have been living my life as I see fit, and doing what I think is the right thing to do.

Back to the ETs and Ascended Masters. What would their presence really do to make our lives better? I can virtually guarantee that they would have far better things to do than take over the White House, Wall Street, and the Vatican, and run things, after they dethroned Godzilla, in one way or another. My understanding of both of them, and I have little doubt that they not only exist but some of them are aware of what I am writing this night (not that what I am writing is so special, but that their awareness has an immense span, and humanity is at minimum, an area of interest for them), is that they have an interest in us learning to paddle our canoes and becoming what I call a fully sentient species. But what is walking among us and playing cards with us going to do, really? Unless they can have a concrete impact on helping us live harmlessly and abundantly on Earth, I really don’t see them helping out much. And that brings us to the crux of the FE issue.

Anybody who runs around in my circles for very long understands very clearly that the ET/UFO cover-up is joined at the hip with FE, antigravity, and related technologies. That comes through very clearly with the Disclosure Project witnesses, for instance:

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

The reason why the ET/UFO situation is covered up is not because of some fear of a War of the Worlds reaction, but to keep the lid on FE and related technologies. People such as Victor Marchetti acknowledge that keeping the lid on that stuff is a power structure goal, for self-serving reasons:

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

but really, if people no longer respect the world’s institutions and the elites behind them, does that make their hunger vanish? Does it make them so that they no longer need to put gasoline in their tanks? Humanity would still be dependent on who supplied the energy, whether they revered them or not.

FE has the easily-understood potential of making every person on Earth economically independent. FE alone would not do it, but it would be by far the most important ingredient, making all the rest possible. For instance, what my friend saw probably came from electrogravity research that went deep black in the 1950s:

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

and from what I know of electrogravity, it takes a lot of energy to make it work (and reverse-engineering ET craft may be a big part of our advances in that area). In the end, it may be as energy intensive as if everybody that their own rocket ship. It could be, but I don’t know for sure. What I do know is that it does not seem to have environmental effects when it runs. All of the world-transformative effects of FE, and there are far more than I can recount at this time:

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

would not happen because the ETs and Ascended Masters walked among us. The transformative aspect of the ETs would be for us to be able to use their advanced technologies and begin to learn their advanced notions of what we call science, and I can guarantee you that they would not be the materialistic notions that we see in our science texts today. Similarly, if the Ascended Masters showed up, they would all be bunch of Level 19s and higher:

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

and when we asked them how we could be like them, their response would almost certainly be something along the lines of, “You could start by loving yourselves and each other.” Love and FE are joined at the hip:

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

similarly to how FE and the ETs are joined at the hip. As people such as Greer discovered, to even think in terms of ETs versus advanced spiritual beings is to create a false dichotomy to a degree, as they are closely-related beings. It is also related to the fact that all of my FE fellow travelers that I have a lot of respect for have a mystical orientation, similarly to how the greatest physicists did:

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

This stuff is all connected, but FE is the Big One, and Godzilla knows it. Keeping that one under wraps is Job Number One, and keeping the ETs at bay is part of it.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Looking at the history and lives of our ascended masters they probably don't have much motivation to visit . They'd most likely give us a fly by and shake their mystical heads in disbelief: "They are still burning fossil fuel, aren't they?... well.. the good news is that there is not much of it left... I'll guess I'll visit again in a few years or so to check how nuclear power and tidal waves are working for them."

[modwiz]

I could not agree with you more about FE, Wade. I am still unpleasantly surprised by how many who have everything to gain from it, (most of the planet) still seem to get hung up on any number of issues. Thanks for keeping the water (information) flowing. Canyons are proof of the tactic.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

Ra (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#ra) says that beings from the “higher” dimensions, at least on the service-to-others path, have something like Star Trek’s Prime Directive guiding them, and they do not interfere with our development, but they encourage it. The “higher” dimensional service-to-self beings to not intervene for a different reason; they usually only appear to service-to-self initiates, but those lower-dimensional initiates (as in here on Earth) only “summon” those beings here so that they might control them and put them to use. The higher dimensional beings know this full well, and usually do not want to play that power struggle game with the beings on this plane, so they rarely come. If they ever come, it is to serve themselves, not the “summoner.” Those visitations have probably made it into tales of demons over the years. On the service to others path, the higher level beings may also intervene, but it is rarely, and when it happens, it is in the form of “divine intervention.” But there is definitely interest from the higher planes, even though this may seem like Creation’s sewer. According to many sources, only the bravest souls are here right now, although it can sure be hard to see from down here.

Hi Modwiz:

It took over twenty years and thousands of interactions, observing reactions, trading notes with fellow travelers, and the like, before I could see what the many flavors of denial and unproductive reactions had in common: scarcity. Scarcity was obviously behind the denial of the reflexive reactions of Level 1:

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

but it played out more subtly with Levels 2 and 3:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level2

and if people got beyond denial, then they nearly invariably had the unproductive reactions of Levels 4 through 11:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level4

To say that they were all rooted in scarcity is accurate, IMO, but they were also all rooted in fear. Love and FE are joined at the hip, in ways that can seem very subtle. Abundance will come from love.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, back to what I learned and how I learned it. In Boston in 1986-1987 is when I began my steep learning curve with Dennis, and I suppose that it really began when I raised the money and became Dennis’s partner:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ing#post578559

After I raised the money, we were off and running, building a demonstration model and mounting our first Greatest Energy Show on Earth:

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

That Dennis called it that shows how much P.T. Barnum is in his blood. Holding the first show at the Old South Meeting Hall, where the Boston Tea Party was planned:

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

shows Dennis’s nationalistic roots that he has never quite shed. I was more Dennis’s servant than partner in those days, but that was fine. I was not bringing much experience to the table, not in the realms that we were exploring, not at 28 years old. I was more of an eager apprentice. But my learning curve started to become insanely steep, and we were drawing a lot of attention, especially for an effort operating from a small office. It was not long after that first series of shows (I think there were four original shows, and I towed the demo unit behind my Pinto and ran the demo at the shows and bought the dry ice for the condenser) that we received that visit from that non-descript group of “businessmen” who offered us $10 million dollars for the rights to Dennis’s bright idea of hooking up Dennis’s heat pump to a low temperature turbine to make FE. I now know that that was Godzilla’s initial friendly buyout offer:

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

I brought in Mr. Mentor before long, to see if what Dennis was thinking had any merit. I did not know it at the time, but Dennis also saw Mr. Mentor’s genius and was eager to work with him, and Mr. Mentor told Dennis that if he wanted to work with him, Dennis would need to move the operation to Ventura. So, a few months after our first Greatest Energy Show on Earth, we were moving the operation to Ventura. I always thought that we moved to Ventura because Dennis tied into more money with Mr. Professor:

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

I did not know that it was because of the deal that Dennis and Mr. Mentor made until I read it in one of Dennis’s books. They did not tell the Young Green Kid everything in those days, and some of that secrecy ended up costing me later, although I understood why they did it. In the end, the Young Green Kid had the coolest head of all those on the outside, as Dennis rotted in jail, while virtually everybody else either betrayed or abandoned Dennis, but I get ahead of myself.

In Boston, we held a show a quarter-mile from the Seabrook nuclear reactor’s front gates:

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

and Dennis made a plan to buy the Seabrook plant and never put nuclear fuel in it, and use it instead for heat storage from all the FE machines on the public’s homes. While that may seem like quite the quixotic gesture, within an hour of receiving Dennis’s proposal in the mail, the Chairman of the Board of the Seabrook Association called our office and offered to come over to discuss our proposal. About a week later, they rolled out the red carpet for Dennis and Mr. Engineer at the Chairman’s palatial office. This was soon after the Seabrook Association mounted the first Astroturf campaign that I ever saw:

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

At that time, we tried to work with an environmental group that was protesting Seabrook, and they admitted to Dennis the corrupt motivation behind the interests funding them:

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

I had many sobering moments like that in Boston. We also had connections on the inside, and we heard that all the New England electric companies held secret meetings to decide what to do about us, and their consensus was that they might have to work with us. And while that county prosecutor was trying to dig up something that he could prosecute us with:

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

late in that spring of 1987, we received the first fishing expedition that looked like it would eventually turn into a bloodbath, as we received an inquiry from the Massachusetts Secretary of State that wanted our records of people we solicited money from, to see if we were breaking any securities laws. It was obviously not due to any public complaint, as we did almost no business with anybody from Massachusetts. All the action was happening from people in New Hampshire. Boston was really dead, on the small-time entrepreneurial front. The only person from Massachusetts that became involved with us also became an employee, as he became our machinist and ended up working for us in Ventura.

I also met my first billionaire that spring, when he came to our office. He controlled most of the marketing network of one of the USA’s leading multi-level marketing organizations. On the way to Ventura in June, we stopped at the company’s headquarters and had them test our heat pump. It turned out that that salesman whose family took in Dennis’s family damaged our mobile heat pump due to his inexperience, and it did not perform very well in the test, so that company declined to get involved with us, which actually relieved Dennis, as he would lose his freedom. The college professor who tested that damaged heat pump was one of the prosecution’s “expert witnesses,” to make their case that the heat pump really did not work as advertised. It only got a COP of 3 in the test. However, one of the Ventura kit owners who tried to build his own competing network hired that Boston salesman to install the heat pump that he bought from us. It was a betrayal of Dennis, but that guy who built the competing network became another one of Dennis’s “victims,” yet he testified that that unit attained a COP of 9 (a COP of 12 is the highest that I heard of with Dennis’s heat pump) and thought that he was close to making FE himself with Dennis’s idea. Some victim:

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

That billionaire was an opportunist, not a philanthropist. Over the years, I watched Dennis vacillate many times on the “fat cat” versus “Joe Average” way of funding the project. The fat cats never came through, or when they did, they proved to be disruptive influences, throwing their weight around. Also, Godzilla watches efforts like ours closely, and many years later, I heard Greer state that when rich people have tried to poke their nose into the ET/UFO situation to genuinely help, Godzilla would put a horse’s head in their beds or some similar kind of warning, and the rich would scurry back to their estates. That made perfect sense to me, as we were presented an example of that in Ventura:

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

Over the years, I regularly heard tales of the rich getting involved in FE-related activities, and if they ever parted with a dollar, they usually wrecked it with their control games. Dennis has interacted with a number of billionaires, and none ever came through that I am aware of.

In Boston, I became Dennis’s protégé, and the events of the first half of 1987 found me wrestling with my own delusions of grandeur. They were fleeting visions, but I recall thinking that it could lead to my becoming the USA’s president one day. But I was disabused of those delusions pretty quickly, on several fronts. One of those was that the sharks quickly began circling, as with that letter that I opened one day from the Massachusetts Secretary of State, on that fishing trip. I had to come to peace with the idea that this adventure might cost me my life, and in a way, it ultimately did (and I am at peace with it). I also began to get attacked by my investors:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post578559

By the end of winter of 1987, I began to drink again, and increasingly heavily. And Dennis drank his fair share. My drinking problems were always directly-related to how much stress I was under. My drinking career was a little odd, I suppose. I had alcohol available to me while growing up, but I never really saw the point. While my friends were getting drunk as teenagers, I stayed away from that. I did not get drunk until my twenty-second birthday, to finally see what the fuss was about. Then I got plastered nearly every week of the rest of my college days, with my roomies and friends. In my final year of college, I was finally acting like a college kid! After I graduated, I stopped drinking, to only start again in earnest when I began my career in LA, where drinking after work was part of the job, in the endless phony cocktail parties that I was expected to attend (which gave me a social phobia that I still have; I avoid nearly all social settings where I am supposed to interact with people – I should not work in a skyscraper in a big city, but that has been my fate). That is where I developed my drinking problem, and it waxed and waned, directly related to the stress that I was under. I tried to stop a few times in my thirties, but it never lasted for long. In my last years of drinking, I became a sad drunk instead of a happy drunk, and I really wondered what was the point, if all I did was get sad. I finally stopped when I was 42, in 2000, and have never been tempted since. I get a sad feeling if I even think of drinking, and would probably gag if I took a drink of an alcoholic drink, similar to how whenever I accidentally get some meat in my mouth, it is a very unpleasant experience. There is no willpower in my being a vegetarian:

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

or abstaining from alcohol. I also heard the story of Dennis’s life, as we drank into the long nights in the winter of 1986/1987, in front of the TV, which was Dennis’s constant companion at home. I not only came to understand the incredible odyssey that was his life, but I also began to learn how Dennis operates. Building companies from nothing is an amazing talent. Dennis and his wife have it down to a science, as their companies had been stolen and destroyed so many times. Almost nobody can survive their companies being destroyed even once. That Dennis and his wife have kept picking up the pieces, at least a dozen times, is mind-boggling, and doing it from scratch, with no capital to begin with, is a talent that only a few have.

I was also learning the technical end of it, and my scientific background came in very handy. But it was the way that Dennis maneuvered in America’s entrepreneurial waters, and the kinds of marketing programs that he designed, with his understanding of the human condition, where he shined the brightest. He was an Einstein in those realms, but it was always his great heart that made him great. You really have to see it to believe it. I have never met or heard of anybody like Dennis. His package of talent, guts, and heart made him unique, and he is truly the Indiana Jones of FE; nobody else comes close. Adam Trombly has had an incredible odyssey, but nothing like Dennis’s; building companies from the ground up, from the ashes of his destroyed efforts, rising like a phoenix time and again, surviving all manner of outrage to take him out, was awe-inspiring to witness, time and again. His faith had something to do with it, and his overgrown Boy Scout ways, but as I know, if you had to ask us what made us tick, it would not be an easy answer, and I am not sure that we know ourselves.

Dennis also knew the technology better than the engineers who worked for him:

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

and perhaps Dennis’s key genius in these realms was industrializing processes that were stuck at the craftsman stage:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post425888

Because Dennis did not have any business education or training, he would not describe what he was doing that way, but I came to see and understand it. What he was doing was masterful, which is what made him such a threat to Godzilla, the kind that no other FE inventor/promoter ever was.

All of my fellow travelers who have played at the high levels have all had bouts with their egos, and it was no different with me. We all had to deal with that fairly early in our journeys. It was often due to our early accomplishments, be it being named an all-American football player like Ralph McGehee:

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

or an astronaut like Brian O:

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

or becoming an instant millionaire like Dennis did a number of times, from his migrant farmworker roots. No matter how noble our goals, being lionized for our early accomplishments presented challenges for our egos, in history’s most arrogant nation, and we did not always handle them well. We all got over it, sometimes brutally. But we also eventually discovered that if we allowed our egos to take over, it would wreck what we were trying to do. Getting humbled was not only “good for the soul” ( ), it was also important for us to keep walking our path. An unbridled ego is fatal in this field. Walking that razor’s edge to FE is partly about seeing the big picture, bringing the welfare of every living into the framework, and that means that self-serving motivation needs to be far down the list of priorities, and as ego-bound as we are as a species, in our world of scarcity, almost nobody can do it these days. If we turn the corner and manifest a world of abundance, the ego will no longer feel so threatened, and will begin to take a back seat to our souls and we will develop an expansive awareness that leaves the tunnel vision of the ego behind. The choir will be made of people who are consciously on that path. It is another way of saying that they will operate from the heart.

By June, when we left Boston for Ventura, I was reeling, pretty beaten up by the events, and the stress symptoms that went away in 1986 came back in full blossom by the summer of 1987. I lived on about $50 per week in those days, enough for food and gas in the car. But I had learned a great deal in Boston, even though our effort failed there.

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

When we moved to Ventura, all I had seen with Dennis so far was bloody ruin. Little did I know what I was in for when I drove the moving van with all of our company’s assets into Ventura. The next three years would be my life’s pivotal days, and when I staggered out of Ventura with my life shattered in 1990, I had been radicalized. I would never see the world the same way again, and that was good thing. If not for the days in Ventura, I would likely not have anything worth saying. My Ventura days will come in future posts, but it is off to chores for now.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This post will be a little synthesis that will connect some of what has seemed to be disparate in the past six months of my human journey posts, and it will also contain the germ of why I am not with Dennis any longer.

When studying the rise and fall of life over the eras of the geological time scale:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologi..._geologic_time

as evolution marched along, with life forms adapting to their environments, life forms changing their environments, life forms going extinct when the environment could no longer support them, perhaps due to the activities of life itself:

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

the events and path of evolution was very contingent. While it was an energy game above all else, the ways that life forms acquired, preserved, and used their energy were diverse and always changing. And those changes led down paths of adaptation that could be one-way tickets. Once a certain kind of respiration was adopted, such as oxygenic respiration, which virtually all complex life does today, it formed the foundation for all subsequent complex life forms. It is highly unlikely that complex life on Earth could adapt to non-oxygenic respiration. Even if complex life could adapt to respiring using hydrogen, for instance, there is not enough hydrogen to support much life on Earth. Virtually all complex life would go extinct if oxygen vanished from our atmosphere. The evolution of complex life forms would need to begin all over.

Perhaps some plants could survive by switching to an alternate chemistry, as it has been known to do in limited instances:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitocho...rgy_conversion

but it is likely that virtually all complex plants would also go extinct, along with all complex animals. Complex life went “all in” with oxygenic respiration over a billion years ago:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post523407

and it would virtually all go extinct if oxygen went away, and atmospheric oxygen is provided by photosynthesis. If photosynthesis stopped, it would take about six thousand years for Earth’s life to use up all the oxygen. But life would not last that long, anyway, as all animals rely on plants for their energy, as well as the oxygen that allows them to use the energy. The history of life on Earth is one of contingency and adaptation, extinction and survival, and nothing is guaranteed.

Similarly, the history of humanity is one of energy acquisition, preservation, and consumption. The levels of energy consumption have defined the epochs of the human journey:

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

and have deeply influenced human evolution, as well as humanity’s culture and social organization. There is scarcely a facet of our existence that was not shaped by the energy situation. But like the history of life on Earth, it was also a process of contingency, extinction, and survival, and nothing is guaranteed. The historian ideally realizes the contingent nature of history and refrains from writing history in “Whiggish” terms:

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

with the tale being one long ascent of progress. I have been showing how humans have wiped out one energy resource after another over the millennia, with civilizations rising and collapsing. The rise of Europe was only a grand tale of “progress” from the standpoint of the Europeans. For the rest of the world’s peoples, the rise of Europe was a tale of conquest, enslavement, and genocide. Tapping the energy of fossil fuels led to the greatest rise in human economic fortunes in world history, making all previous revolutions look puny. But we are also burning through the fossil fuels about a million times as fast as they were created, and they will never be created again, and we will run out of the good stuff in my lifetime. We are already plumbing the dregs, with heavy oil, tar sand, shale oil, and other marginal deposits being exploited. It can all come crashing down very easily.

But if you look at the history of the rise of Europe and industrialization, it was a very contingent process; you could almost call it lucky. Various technical, economic, and social dynamics converged, and England industrialized. Some historians have addressed the question of why Ancient Greece did not industrialize, or Rome. The answers seem to convince, but we are also looking backwards with the benefit of hindsight. Various social, environmental, and technical dynamics seem to have “prevented,” if we can really use that word, Greece from industrializing. Two thousand years later, England did, and the world was radically transformed. There is some good that came of it, and a lot of bad. Industrialization certainly was not a planned process, with some grand architect at the helm. I am not saying that there may not have been some mystical force, some guidance from beyond the physical plane, but it was not evident in the minds of those who led the process of industrialization.

Similarly, although Dennis and I had mystical experiences and received otherworldly guidance that is hard to believe (but it happened!), what happened in Seattle, with Dennis mounting the greatest run yet made at bringing alternative energy to the American marketplace, was also a very contingent process, with several factors falling together, perhaps with divine guidance, but they were unique dynamics that are almost impossible to reproduce, and some of the key ones were:

1. A superior piece of technology had been developed by trial and error, and even rather accidentally, but the inventors had no idea how to crack the market (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#new);

2. Dennis had his first business wiped out by the USA’s first energy crisis (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#builders), and his idealism led him to focus his efforts on benefitting the consumer and giving them a voice, and he invented the first shared savings program in the energy industry;

3. America’s first energy crisis spawned an effort led by Jimmy Carter to at least give lip service to alternative energy, and there was a tax subsidy for innovative energy technology that that heat pump qualified for because it took advantage of the sun and wind;

4. Dennis got involved with the heat pump through a series of improbable events, and he came up with arguably the most ingenious marketing program ever devised, although very few of his business associates could understand it (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs);

5. Washington State had the lowest energy bills in the USA, due to its hydroelectric projects, but it projected that it would run out of energy, so it tried to build nuclear power plants in a project that became one of the greatest economic disasters in U.S. history (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#whoops);

6. In the wake of the disaster, the electric industry desperately tried to protect itself with fraudulent programs designed to prevent its customers from converting from all-electric heating to natural gas;

7. That publicity attracted Dennis to Washington and eventually Seattle, and he unleashed his marketing plan and tried to carpet the region with his heat pump.

Dennis presented a dire threat to the electric industry, as their propaganda was just that, propaganda (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#bpa). They had no intention of allowing their customers to save 80% of their heating costs, and they moved with great intensity to wipe Dennis out, and it worked. Also, the tax credit that made his program so explosive expired at the end of 1985. Once they wiped Dennis out in Washington, the moment had passed. The confluence of circumstances would not happen again. Americans began to learn the virtues of insulation and other ways to heat a home with less energy, and the technical problems of mass producing that heat pump for a home were not completely solved, although Dennis was hot on the trail of solving them (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#develop).

So, as I learned about Dennis’s past in Boston, and came to understand the dynamics behind the situation in Seattle, it eventually became clear that the moment had passed, and Dennis was no longer really doing what he had done before our Boston days. For several years, Dennis’s goal was putting equipment on the market, placing it on homes and businesses. After Seattle, he did not do that anymore, but chased after FE. I was not happy about the direction we were taking. I wished that we were stacking up contracts and going after the heating market again, and doing FE on the side. As I write this, it sounds like such a foolish idea, but what excited me about Dennis in Seattle was putting equipment on the market. What I did not know at the time, when I joined him in Seattle, was that I was witnessing the dying throes of the greatest effort yet made to do that, and more than twenty-five years later, nobody has mounted another effort like it.

But I certainly could not blame Dennis for going the way that he did after Seattle, seeing how rigged the marketplace really is, but the beautiful genius of what Dennis did with his heat pump marketing plans was that the customer did not need to have any faith that the equipment would work. If the heat pump did not save them on their energy bills, they did not pay anything. That was the most unstoppable marketing program on Earth, at least honestly, and the electric companies in Washington understood that all too well, hence the snuff job:

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

But after Seattle, Dennis was selling people a dream, and telling them that it was close to reality. In fact, it was already a reality. We were ignorant of it at the time, but Godzilla sure wasn’t (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground). FE has been around for longer than I have been alive, and Sparky Sweet lived just down the road from us in Ventura, trying to get his device out there:

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

at the same time that we were hitting Ventura. That was like putting a lit match and a stick of dynamite in close proximity to each other, and that is likely what finally got Godzilla’s full attention, just as Dennis found another marketing program that was wildly successful. We had to be taken out with extreme prejudice in Ventura.

Synchronistically, I had brought the talent and money together in Ventura, and it was about to go off like a bomb. When the dust settled in Ventura, many lives were wrecked, including mine, and while Dennis incredibly kept trying to put the pieces back together, the time had passed. I had shot my wad for this lifetime, as had Mr. Professor and some other key players. That confluence of circumstances, as divinely orchestrated as they seem to have been, was ephemeral, and not something that can be reproduced. While Dennis went back at it harder than ever after getting out of jail, his efforts ended up bankrupting Mr. Professor, and those days shortened his life:

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

Sparky was driven to a grim end several years later, and he took his secrets with him to his grave:

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

My life was completely destroyed, with me still picking up the pieces more than twenty years later. Other lives were destroyed, with the participants in those events never recovering. In short, that moment in Ventura was lost.

As I will get to in future posts, I was just not happy with playing the faith game with the public with FE. I wished that we could have sold equipment where the customer did not even have to care if it worked or not. That is wishing for something that bounded through this world once but has not been seen again, but as I understood what Dennis was trying, and saw whom he was trying it with, I began to lose my enthusiasm, and eventually went my own way. I still ended up getting recruited back with Dennis in 1996, and Brian O repeatedly recruited me into his efforts, but I eventually had to do my own thing, and try out a different idea of how to get there. My choir idea eventually took shape, fitfully, after many years of trying this and that. I am far from sure if it will really help, but I think it might. I have basically spent my life since that Ventura disaster in trying out the direction that I am on today, in my “spare” time, and we will see how it goes.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

[Elly]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
If we turn the corner and manifest a world of abundance, the ego will no longer feel so threatened, and will begin to take a back seat to our souls and we will develop an expansive awareness that leaves the tunnel vision of the ego behind. The choir will be made of people who are consciously on that path. It is another way of saying that they will operate from the heart.

That is the real enlightenment, the Golden Age of the Ascended Masters. You need a child's heart, a softness of hearts, to enter that world.

"Imagine" by John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Cara:

Thanks. I have been a big Lennon fan since the early 1970s, when I was old enough to know who the Beatles were and what they did. I was too young to understand when they were together:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...les#post452991

The vision of somebody like Lennon was powerful indeed, and his murder was likely not the sole effort of a “lone nut.” He was a threat to the power structure, and he was coming out of a five-year seclusion, just when a neo-Nazi agenda was beginning to be enacted by the incoming presidential administration.

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

Watergate prevented Lennon from being deported in the early 1970s. A vision like Lennon’s is important, and it will only be the end of scarcity and the reign of abundance that will get us there, and that is entirely dependent on the energy situation. Only after Lennon became rich could he begin to think in those “Imagine” terms.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Before I complete the latest detour in my human journey posts, here is another technical/conceptual post, and it connects dynamics that I have noticed in my studies, and makes points that I have yet to see anybody else make. I would be surprised if nobody made these points or opened up these lines of inquiry in the past, but I have not seen them. If anybody knows about work done in these areas, I am all ears, so to speak.

In Homer-Dixon’s The Upside of Down, he connects the ecological work of Buzz Holling with the trajectory of civilizations:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post550920

and the resilience of ecosystems and civilizations was the focus. Ecosystem disruptions can become opportunities for novelty. However, if the system does not have enough resilience, a disruption can cause a collapse. All of the mass extinction events were ecosystem collapses. Because the sun keeps shining, the energy inputs fueled the recovery of the ecosystem, but only the most resilient life forms survived, and Peter Ward made the case that animals with more efficient respiration survived the mass extinction events:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post516792

which coincided with oxygen crashes. The ecosystems that evolved after the mass extinction events were different than what came before, sometimes radically.

Civilizations are really artificial ecosystems, and their rise and fall mirrors “natural” ecosystems in ways that Holling and Homer-Dixon made explicit. Rome eventually fell, but the urban systems of medieval Europe did not collapse with the famines, Black Death, and warfare of the 1300s. Why? I think that it was because medieval Europe was more resilient than Rome was, and that was largely an energy issue, most likely. As I wrote earlier, the watermills of Western Europe provided a huge energy boost to medieval Europe:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post591797

By the end of the 1500s, there were 300K watermills in Europe, generating 600K horsepower for about 75 million people. That 600K horsepower was the equivalent of 6 million people, but that also underestimates the energy boost. A man can produce a tenth of a horsepower, but that is tiring, and he can’t do that, really, for very much time in a day. A lot of energy is “wasted” in his time spent sleeping, eating, and other activities, like living a life. A waterwheel is always at work, so there is no downtime. So, the multiplier effect, or really, the “inefficiency of humans” effect, makes the equipment vastly more effective than a human, so 600K horsepower, put to work spinning grinding wheels and running hammers, saws, and cloth-making machines was the equivalent of many millions of people. While the numbers were smaller in 1300 than the 1500s, in the 1300s, there were millions of “energy slaves” at work for Europe, with all of those mills. A drought could still a mill, but famine, plague, or warfare passed them right by. That army of energy slaves that did not need to get fed or housed obviously contributed, in a big way, to the resilience of medieval Europe. Also, horses could not pull loads until the development of the horse collar in China, which spread to Europe by 1000 AD, and using a horse was a huge energy advantage over oxen:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_c..._of_the_collar

Those energy improvements made medieval Europe resilient enough so that their civilizations did not collapse with the plague and other calamities of the 1300s. Villages were abandoned due to the plague, but not cities:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consequ...k_Death#Europe

Europe’s medieval energy system proved resilient enough so that even with most of the population killed off, the system did not collapse. It was dramatically transformed in many ways, but it did not collapse. Contrast that to the collapse of Native American civilizations immediately after the violent contact inflicted by the Europeans, such as in the aftermath of Soto’s invasion:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post582580

While there was a large population in the American Southeast before the Europeans arrived, they did not have mills, domestic animals, metals, and the like. Their energy surplus was very thin. When the marauding Spaniards seized the entire harvest of a village, which was all the reserve that that civilization had in the “bank,” there was nothing left to sustain the civilization, and it collapsed.

This also directly relates to something I noticed when performing my initial site research back in the 1990s; the first two centuries of conquest of the New World by Europe resulted in hardly any real benefit to Europe, at the cost of the lives of a hemisphere:

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

Although, as Carl Sauer remarked, the Spanish adventure was really an exercise in stupidity:

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

the Native Americans paid with their lives for European avarice. But the Native American “mode of production” did not provide much surplus, so the enslavement of millions of people provided very little benefit to Europe. That dynamic played out all over the world as Europe conquered it. Vast numbers of people were systematically exploited by Europe, but the return to Europe, weighed against the suffering of the exploited, was perhaps history’s most evil undertaking. In 1910, the largest international monetary transfer on Earth was Britain’s bleeding of India, to the tune of 60 million pounds per year. But that was a small part of the British economy, at least in the monetary measure, which is unreliable because the British controlled it, so it was rigged in favor of the imperial nation, as it is with all empires. The fact is that a non-industrialized India (purposefully de-industrialized by Britain, as a way to keep them enslaved) could not provide very much surplus per capita for Britain to exploit, so the rising standard of living in Britain was helped out by the awesome suffering of its imperial subjects. It was not overlooked that where the British reigned the longest in India became its poorest parts, Bengal most notoriously:

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

As Britain bled India, the civilization lost its resilience, and famines were one of the primary outcomes of British rule:

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

We see this imperial dynamic today. For instance, Apple, that darling of Wall Street, has notoriously outsourced its manufacturing to China, where the workers are treated so badly that anti-suicide nets were installed at the facilities:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ing-iPads.html

What is Apple gaining by sponsoring such horrific working conditions? With an essentially enslaved workforce, there are cost savings and “flexibility” in changing production so that Apple can win the capitalistic horserace.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_827288.html

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/01...a-not-the-u-s/

An article just came out on the marginally-improving situation for Chinese workers:

http://www.imore.com/apple-improving...youd-want-work

The fact is that robots can do a lot of that human-wrecking work, and that Chinese contractor is starting to do just that:

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3-uk/the-frontl...-favour-robots

but in the world of capitalism, that increased efficiency will likely only result in increased profits, not higher wages for workers (it will put millions out of work), or lower costs for customers. So it is, in a world of scarcity.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just finished reading this little gem:

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/public...tions-at-fifty

Yes, indeed, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions turned fifty in 2012:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Str...ic_Revolutions

I used its concepts as the introduction to my medical racket essay:

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

and if I rewrote that that essay today, I think that Kuhn would still lead it off.

I just read this, too, on creeping scientism:

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/public...y-of-scientism

which is nice to see, coming from a scientist. Scientism is a religion, and is long overdue for being recognized as one.

Time to play husband.

Best,

Wade

[Ernie Nemeth]

So, I'm a Kuhnian at heart. Explains a lot when it's put in context. Even validates my stance.
Too bad only a man with papers from a failing scholarly institution can be taken seriously.
While I'm given short shrift and sent on my way.
Just saying...

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ernie:

I think that you are looking for something that I can’t provide, and I am looking for something that you can’t provide. Can we leave it at that?

Best wishes,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, on to Ventura. They were my days of radicalization. Everything that had happened in my life before that time was a prelude, and everything after it has been aftermath. Ventura is where I was put to the test of my life. Part of me rues that day that I ever set foot in Ventura, but fate and that voice in my head brought me there. Was that voice divine or malevolent? Some days, I am not sure, but I think that it meant well. I am not happy that my life was largely defined by less than two years, but probably many soldiers feel that way.

As I look back at my writings on this thread on my days with Dennis in Seattle and Boston, I realize that I am only skimming the surface of what I learned, but it will have to be good enough for now.

As I stated before, I was already in the frying pan with Dennis, feeling pretty battered by the Boston experience. When I rolled into Ventura, the first thing I did was put the company assets into a storage facility and wait for Dennis. His father was dying in Yakima. Dennis ordered the doctors to stop giving him treatment. His father had rheumatoid arthritis and took steroids for many years. They destroyed his immune system, and he died at age sixty. Dennis came to Ventura with his father dying in Yakima, and said his goodbyes. He did not return to Yakima after his father died, and the Ventura operation began to crank up. We were only a few volunteers at the time. Mr. Engineer, who was unemployable and with us largely for the money, came along, and we picked up that young man in Boston who became our machinist. In Boston, we also hired a refrigeration technician who installed the heat pump, and he kept working for us when we were in Ventura. There was still inventory from the Seattle days in circulation, and Dennis even ended up buying equipment from some of the people who tried to steal the Seattle company (many groups made their play there). Eventually, some other people from the Boston days got involved in the Ventura operation, but not until we began flying high.

When we hit Ventura, after the Boston experience was largely a failure, Mr. Professor had already been raising money, and he handed Dennis a bunch of it when we got there. Until that time, Mr. Professor and I were the only two investors that Dennis ever had who just handed over the money and said, “Go!” Neither one of us tried to interfere with Dennis, trying to control him, thinking that we knew better how to do it. Beginning with me in Boston, we gave Dennis the controlling interest in the venture, not wanting him to worry about the shareholders and partners stealing the operation, as he had experienced several times before. That is probably a big reason why Ventura took off like a rocket.

As I have alluded to plenty, many friendships and family relationships were damaged, often beyond repair, by my journey with Dennis, and I do not have the liberty to discuss my Ventura days in the detail that would make my role in the events clearer. Dennis’s books give a better idea of my role, but let’s just say that I was the reason why we ended up in Ventura, and people still live in fear there, all these years later, over what happened. Ventura County is run by gangsters, and they have not forgotten me. I made their gangster lives difficult, but it took me sacrificing my life. But I will tell what I can.

While Dennis was with his dying father, I lived with my father, who kicked me out of the house when Dennis hit town, and that was the last time that I lived with my family. I ended up living with Dennis and his family again, and I lived with Dennis for about a year, when I add the Boston and Ventura stints together. We worked out of Mr. Professor’s office for the first few weeks of our Ventura days, and as usual, when Dennis was in start-up mode, he looked for salesmen.

One night, as Dennis was working the salesman leads (obtained by running ads in the LA Times titled, “Free Electricity!”), he talked to a man who worked for a car company in LA, and I think I may have heard of the fate of that company that stole Mr. Mentor’s engine:

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

At the time, I did not think that they may have been that company who copied Mr. Mentor’s engine and drove it in the Rose Parade, but as I thought back on it over the years, I think it was likely. They did not go to prison because they stole an engine design, but because they presented a threat to Detroit (and perhaps Godzilla), so they were taken out with extreme prejudice, with the founders going to prison. As I saw with Dennis’s travails, and people such as Tucker, the establishment always invoked the “consumer protection” rationale for their snuff jobs, usually prosecuting their targets of fraud. A fabricated witness, however, was a new angle that I had not heard of before.

We started to build the operation from scratch, once again. We put on a show in LA, and tried the same salesman-hiring effort in Boston, and tried to sell materials to make the salesmen independent dealers. In late July or early August, Dennis began to run ads in USA Today, titled, “Free Electricity!” and offered tapes of our story, and informational kits about how to build, sell, and install the heat pump. The information would have been a huge advantage to somebody such as a small-time entrepreneur, but to the average American, it would not have been very helpful. Not many people can build companies from scratch, especially for introducing disruptive technology to market, and we had the Seattle experience to show us how difficult it was. The only way Dennis’s plan would work was to form the heart of a network, similar to a franchise operation.

We sold the informational kits for $2,000 per kit, or $5,000 for all three. To our surprise, people began mailing in checks from across the USA for our kits. Dennis’s wife and I were just the people who helped run things, and we did not know the marketing end very well. In late August, Dennis told us that the responses told him that he found the next rocket ship. We did not really believe him, but he said to trust his prospector’s experience to know when he found a vein of gold. He was right. Orders began to pour in from across the USA. We went from a few volunteers to forty employees in about two months. I missed the upward trajectory in Seattle, but I got to experience it from its beginnings in Ventura. I was still recovering from the Boston experience, and the Ventura experience in late 1987 was like holding onto a rope tied to a rocket ship. The local vendors who provided us kit materials were overwhelmed. One of my college roomies was the CFO for a Hollywood video company, and we had his company make the tapes, and we quickly became one of their largest customers. It took us a month to fill an order, we were so buried.

And things also got interesting on the technical end. Unbeknownst to me at the time, Mr. Mentor was the immediate reason why we moved to Ventura, but he did not get involved with us when we moved there. He had been screwed out of his inventions so many times that he was gun-shy. I was very busy holding onto the rope tied to the rocket ship, and was really not paying much attention to him. He overcame his reluctance, and in September, he came forward. He said that Dennis’s idea of hooking up a heat engine to his heat pump could not be immediately dismissed, but that he was not going about it in the right way. Then he came forward with his own design: marrying his engine to the heat pump panels:

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

Dennis immediately began to build a prototype. The effort then began to get compartmentalized, and I was no longer involved with anything on the technical end, busy with running the business end. Mr. Mentor was not the only world-class talent that we brought aboard. It began to get very interesting, and in late 1987, we began flying very high. People began to show up to our facilities from all over the world. I recall a representative from the Japanese government, and I interacted with many people in those days with interesting stories to tell. One thing that became clear was that being hounded by the authorities, on behalf of their private-interest patrons, was truly a global phenomenon, and there was no place to run and hide. We heard plenty of tales of technology suppression, from those who were suppressed:

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

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

and we heard of murdered energy inventors/activists. The stories began to stack up, but I did not suspect that that original offer in Boston was from Godzilla:

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

The Ventura days were really my first immersion in the FE culture, as it also was for Dennis. We only slowly began to see its contours as the data points began to add up. The tales of suppression could also be horrific. One of them was that the inventor’s family was murdered, with their house burned down with them in it, and then bulldozed. It was not the last time that I heard about a house being set on fire and then bulldozed. It was not necessarily all Godzilla’s doing (lots of dark pathers in today’s world), but I heard many years later that Godzilla’s minions often resorted to violence in those days. The suave manner of that CIA guy who gave Dennis the billion dollar offer (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#offer ) has increasingly become Godzilla’s MO over the years. He still kills people when he needs to, but the many ways to kill people and make it look like it was something else is part of his bag of tricks:

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

But violence is usually a last resort, not the first resort:

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

The last few months of 1987 are kind of a blur to me. We quickly outgrew our building, and rented out the adjacent building, and I moved my office to the new building, while Dennis stayed in the other one, and I was constantly walking back and forth between the buildings. I started working crazy long hours, like 12-14 hour days. In October, as the money began rolling in, I asked Dennis if I could finally get paid a salary so that I could rent a room in Ventura. It was my first steady pay in 18 months, and I received $1,000 per month, which was less than a third of what the market paid for somebody like me. I responded to a few ads, and had another one of those orchestrated moments where I met my future wife.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post414784

When she opened the door, I recognized her and said so (which I have never done before or since in this lifetime when meeting somebody), but said a few seconds later that I must have been mistaken. I believe it was past-life recognition.

In that autumn of 1987, Dennis worked late at the office on night, and I came and picked him up and took him home. He stood in our parking lot, looking at our buildings. He said that the Big Boys’ must be bugging out, seeing what we had going. It was starting to look like if they did not stop us soon, it would be too late. Unfortunately, we were right. We held Saturday morning shows at our facility, where Dennis showed off the heat pump and some other stuff that we were working on. One of those shows was attended by Mr. Deputy. About the same time, the Better Business Bureau began forwarding inquiries about us to Mr. Deputy. One of our salesmen was a former deputy himself, and called Mr. Deputy, asking if all was well. Were we doing something we shouldn’t? Mr. Deputy told the first of his innumerable lies that day, and said that all was well, and he was performing a routine investigation and would soon close our file:

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

It is hard to say how deeply it all went. Mr. Deputy is a highly accomplished dark pather, and we were about to become the most important case of his career. How much was Godzilla, and how much was just the endemic evil in Ventura County? I will probably never know. All I know is that Mr. Deputy eventually taught me the meaning of evil.

The last week of the year, at a Saturday show, Victor Fischer attended, and he left his business plan with Dennis. As Mr. Researcher reviewed the business plan, he realized that Fischer had invented a hydraulic heat engine that was similar to Mr. Mentor’s, and instead of us building a prototype of Mr. Mentor’s engine from scratch like we were doing, Fischer had already built some prototypes. We hired Fischer on New Year’s Day, 1988, and planned to build one of Fischer’s engines for the home size, and marrying his engine with Dennis’s panels. Both Fischer and Mr. Mentor believed that FE could be possible by marrying the panels from Dennis’s heat pump with their hydraulic heat engines.

Dennis began going into orbit, and we held a meeting for our kit buyers, and several hundred people attended from around the USA. But Mr. Deputy was also in the audience, and the next day he was readying the search warrant for the raid, that took place the next day:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post579023

I was already bedraggled from trying to ride the rocket, but the raid was when the nightmare began.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade