WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Elly]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
FE is the key step in manifesting that one, or sending today’s world in that direction. Anybody reading my work for very long should understand that the FE issue is not really about technology. It is about the human heart. It is about sentience. It is about reaching our potential.

And I believe the secret is that each individual has great potential within himself and that it is possible to reach it within the given effort and conditions. We do not have to rely on others for what our heart desires. We can become that leader, that guide, that healer, that teacher we aspire. What we perceive as the top of the mountain is actually accessible, not far from the prairie. It is an arduous process but doable with the right set of mind, heart and effort.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Cara:

Beautiful post. There are plenty of paradoxes regarding our lives here. There is the inner work, but we live in a world with gravity and we all need to eat. There is the power of the individual, yet we all share the same planet. Our consciousness is all that we take with us when we go, yet when we are here, that consciousness is at the mercy of having to feed its belly, at the mercy of the elements, at the mercy of “the system” that we all play our parts in. We can become so heavenly bound that we are no earthly good, and we can become so earthly bound that we no longer raise our eyes from the muck. All fears are rooted in not feeling in control of what happens to our bodies. That is the challenge of this existence.

As far as I have seen, claiming our sentience is the big challenge that we face, and it begins in the heart. We are descended from killer apes; that heritage is with us, and I see its manifestations daily.

Those layers of the FE Onion from 1 to 11 are rooted in fear:

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

and fear short-circuits sentience. I see arguments against FE and abundance all the time, and mean all the time. What are they afraid of? They choose the certainty of hell over the chance for heaven, because they are familiar with hell. Yes, each person can climb, yet nobody reaches the summit alone, unless they no longer need to eat. As Niels Bohr once said, finding a paradox was like finding a treasure, because wrestling with it is where progress is made.

In our lives bound by time, space, and feeding our bellies, we can never really figure it out while we are here, but the virtue is in the attempt. One person cannot make FE happen. I have seen one person try:

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

but he eventually realized that even with his “god” egging him on and sending him people like me, he could not do it alone. I helped carry his spears for a time, and that was tough duty, let me tell you.

I know of no greater leverage point than FE for righting humanity’s ship. Energy is all that there is in our universe, and mastering it is the key to not only our survival, but we can thrive in harmony in ways that people scarcely believe is possible:

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

But, yes, that challenge is in the hearts and minds of each of us. We have been given the “gifts” of these bodies, in this reality, with a brain that is capable of great things, and what do we do with them? I know that if enough of us do the work and unite our awareness on a common goal - healing humanity and the planet - that we can do it.

From what I have learned, it takes an awareness that combines the scientific with the mystical, the aspirations of the idealist with the practicality of having to feed our bellies, the love of others while not being drug under by them in their desperation, a desperation that comes out in full flower when the magnitude of something like FE comes close to their lives:

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

and then it becomes an Orc scramble for the One Ring.

I know of nothing like the pursuit of FE to show a person what they are made of.

“How about a billion dollars to go away? No? OK, how about we put you behind bars and throw away the key? No? How about we kill your family? No? How about we kill you while your family watches and applauds? Why are you trying to save the world? It is our world, not yours. How dare you try to awaken the herd that we exploit! If we don’t feast on the herd, what are we going to eat?”

These are planet-sized issues, and they hinge on the energy situation and always have.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, spirituality, religion, science, and scientism. The seed of religion must be in the glimpses of non-physical realities. Similar to how NDEs have differences, usually depending on the person’s belief system, the world’s religions have different flavors, which were all conditioned by economic scarcity. As discussed earlier, all the so-called nature-worship religions were really about getting power over nature. Make the kill, protect from the weather, get a good crop, have a healthy child – all of those religions sought real-world outcomes centered around survival. It likely was not always the case, and modern peoples who chalk up all ancient religion purely to superstition are missing something important. But the religion of the day took a back seat to the task of survival, which may surprise Western tourists who are treated to shows put on by indigenous peoples:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...kau#post566532

It can be argued that the evidence for those kinds of conclusions about early religions are amiss, and that there was genuine enlightenment and deep understanding of the cosmos underlying the Venus of Willendorf, those cave drawings, and other works of art. But when religions come closer to the historical period, and when pre-domestication peoples were encountered by historical peoples, it sure did not seem that way. They all had their creation myths, all had stories of catastrophe, whether by flood, fire, or quake, deified the elites, justified violence, etc.

I have been around a great deal of paranormal phenomena in my day, some produced by me, others I witnessed, but I am still subject to gravity and still need to eat. The sun’s energy still powers my world. The modern world made possible by the energy of fossil fuels has made my life far less dependent on the vagaries of the weather, although burning fossil fuels is influencing long-term climate change as I write this.

There is little serious doubt among scientists that humans drove all the easy meat that they could to extinction. The Quaternary extinction events were so universal:

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

that scientists now call them “first contact” events. Five hundred years ago, when Europeans began to sail the seas and conquer the world, they similarly drove many people to the brink of extinction or outright extinction, and those are also called “first contact” events:

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

Humans have long been the most disruptive force on the planet. Life was very harsh for early humans. Virtually nobody lived long enough to die of the degenerative diseases that kill most people in the industrialized world. One area where I have not snooped into, as far as seeing what has been said on the matter, is the issue of soul age and civilization stage, from a slightly different take than Michael. Michael says that younger souls have difficulty navigating in complex societies.

I suspect that the aspect of short lives and younger-souled societies, and longer lives and older-souled societies, is that life is so harsh on the physical plane that younger souls cannot afford to be here long, and their lives of high abrasion comprise a quick way to soul growth, but can only be handled in short stints. Hence, the nasty, brutish, and short existences that characterized the human journey until the modern era may have also been a soul-sought condition. It is just a notion of mine, and I have no idea if it is true, and I certainly cannot prove it to anybody.

The inertia of humanity’s mode of existence for millions of years has obviously carried into the current day, and we are carrying around that heavy baggage of our past in many ways. Astute observers have long stated that humanity’s technological prowess has far outstripped its ability to socially adapt, and has also exceeded the ability of humans to cognitively deal with the dramatic change that modernity has inflicted on those living in the industrialized world. I am not so sure of that, but I am sympathetic to the argument. But Luddites and their assorted allies have totally missed the boat. Technological advance has been happening in the human line for millions of years, and that technological advance has had dramatic effects on the evolution of the human line ( https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post640703 ). To argue against technological advance is to argue for being chimpanzees. And the only arguments against technological advance that I see are made on the Internet, which I am not sure the arguers appreciate the irony of, using a technology that is less than twenty years old. It is hard to trace many aspects of today’s computers and high tech equipment to even 150 years ago. Life is immensely better for industrialized peoples than 150 years ago.

All of today’s “traditional” societies, where religion still holds substantial sway, are non-industrialized nations. The freedom that the high use of energy made possible in modern civilizations:

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

effectively ended slavery and other highly coercive institutions and freed women from their subservient status:

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

Deeply-baked cultural mores, all based on extreme scarcity, quickly crumbled in light of the freedom that high energy consumption made possible.

On a slight sidelight, I have written about David Stannard a bit on this thread:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post616235

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ard#post502525

And for the first time, I just saw him speak:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Qra6pcn4AOE

Scholars of conscience like him are extremely rare. He is called a “high counter” in academic circles, because of his high estimates of the population of the Western Hemisphere in 1492. But his arguments have been taken seriously by professionals in a position to address his challenge. I obtained The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies, which is a reply to Stannard’s challenge. Some early data suggests that the Hawaiian Islands may have “only” had less than 200K people on them when Cook “discovered” them in 1778, but the issue is far from settled. But it is nice to see Stannard taken seriously. This has been area of study of mine for a long time:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post505970

and the past couple days has seen me take a dip once again

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/1...e-Facts-Ma-am#

http://www.manataka.org/page269.html

http://arf.berkeley.edu/projects/oal.../kahikinui.htm

http://www.science.org.au/events/fen...enborough.html

In that last article linked above, I again encountered the disdain that scientists have for economists, and it is worth quoting:

“Monetisation forces the great range of unique and distinct materials and processes that together sustain or even constitute life into an arbitrary and specious equivalence. Phenomena that relate to each other essentially in terms of their qualitative distinctiveness are represented and understood in terms of a logic that reduces all qualitative distinctions to mere quantitative differences, a logic that, as it were, attempts to 'bottom line' the world. This logic is especially destructive of ecological systems. The criticism here is not of all uses of monetary metrics or all forms of economic analysis but of their privileged status.”

IMO, economists have a very tenuous grasp on reality. That is partly because of their ideological commitments, being apologists for the capitalists, by and large, which is a tradition that goes back to the classical economists:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post626729

But beyond their ideological blinders, and this may be related, boiling everything down to money is downright stupid, and it effectively puts economists in a world of fantasy, which scientists regularly remark on:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/scarcity.htm#_edn4

But even so-called radical economists really miss the boat, and it has taken me a long time to realize why economics is called a social science. Even with a “radical” like Karl Marx, or his modern descendants such as Michael Albert, with his Parecon:

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

their economic theory is all about social organization. The energy that runs the show is not even addressed by their theories, sort of like a founding assumption, and there is where the fatal flaw in every economic theory that I have yet encountered is seen: the assumption of scarcity. Energy scarcity, and the resultant economic scarcity, is assumed, and all economic theory is about who gets the scarce resources. Fuller noted it:

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

so it is not an entirely new idea to me, but as I have been doing my studies since first encountering Fuller ten years ago, the ideological commitments and the outright delusions of the economists of all stripes have become more evident.

What does that have to do with science and religion? Well, plenty, in that the substrate of scarcity is the foundation for all of them, even the disciplines that supposedly deal with humanity’s material wellbeing. And this is coming at the layers of the FE Onion in a slightly different direction. The reason why FE is so unimaginable to all those scholars and pundits is that it makes the very foundation of their disciplines crumble. It is like Kuhn’s notion of normal science:

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

The paradigm of scarcity is not only the dominant one, it is the universal one, which forms the foundation of all ideological disciplines:

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

Scarcity, to those ideologies, is like the air we breathe, an invisible substance that we all take for granted.

When I look at posts like this, I am sympathetic to critics who say that my work “rambles.” The challenge of my upcoming essay is to cover some pretty vast territory, pretty deeply, and keep it from “rambling” too much. I’ll get back on topic with my next posts.

Time to go hiking with my wife.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Before I spend the rest of the day doing chores and working in the office, I need to make a post that has been on my mind for quite some time, and this is directed at all Level 12 aspirants. Make no mistake, my goal is to get as many people to Level 12 as possible, because they will comprise the choir that I have in mind. While I can appreciate people having to dabble in Level 10 and other levels, playing in those levels is only useful, as far as I have seen, in the learning experience that comes with it, and the primary lesson of playing in those levels is that they don’t work in today’s world for making FE happen, not even remotely.

Somewhere on this thread, I outlined my own progression through the levels. I began myself at Level 0:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level0

If the day I had met Dennis, he said “free energy,” I would have replied with, “What the heck is that?”

Before the year was out, Dennis was thinking in terms of FE:

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

and only a few months after that, we were offered $10 million for our bright idea:

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

and that was probably at least partly because I had already brought some Tesla-level talent to the situation, and it turned out that Dennis’s idea maybe was not so crazy after all:

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

And a year after that, Godzilla upped the ante to $1 billion:

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

but I doubt that it was because what we were working on was particularly dangerous in of itself, but we were building up a head of steam, and fast, and people like Sparky Sweet lived down the road, who had the goods:

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

and Godzilla’s greatest fear was likely people like Sparky coming to our party, so we were taken out with extreme prejudice. So, I went through the Levels pretty fast, from Level 0 to Level 10 (and maybe even a little Level 11 in there, as I wrestled with delusions of grandeur http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#grandeur ). I pretty much avoided all of the other lower levels, but I was involved with four Level 10 attempts with Dennis, two of them substantial, and one with Brian O:

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

Nobody in the FE field has ever brought disruptive energy technology to market like Dennis has:

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

It was not technically FE that he was bringing to market, but that is irrelevant for understanding the dynamics of what barriers disruptive energy technologies face. There is no such thing as a free market and there never has been, but the dynamics can reach surreal levels in the energy field, and I have yet to meet an FE scientist or tinkerer who even began to glimpse those dynamics, which are vastly more involved than just Godzilla throwing his weight around. That is why they are generally stuck in Levels 6 and 7:

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

Sparky was originally a highly naïve Level 6, mailing off working prototypes of his FE device to the big energy institutions, and his life ended with him still largely in Level 6, with maybe some leanings toward Level 7. That is life-threatening naïveté in this field.

But Sparky was one of the relatively few people that Godzilla ever needed to concern himself with. Virtually no garage tinkerer or scientist ever reaches the level where Godzilla needs to lift a claw. Either the tinkerer never gets anywhere or does himself in, or the lower-level energy industry predators do, or his “allies” do, out of their greed and lack of personal integrity, as they turn into Orcs trying to steal the One Ring. People usually have to see activities like that with their own eyes before they can begin to understand, but getting to the level where you can witness such events can be a life-threatening trajectory, and that is part of the problem that I face.

But virtually nobody is indifferent to the FE issue. Even Level 1 people, who blithely dismiss FE in an instant, have a bur implanted under their saddle, no matter how deep their denial may seem, and they usually just put FE denial in the same box with the rest of their denial of how the world really works, but that one can really fester. They are not going to be talked into waking up, and I let them sleep. As a master once told Yogananda, they sleep the fitful sleep of ignorance.

The truly dangerous people are those around me who can actually glimpse what I am trying to do, believe it or not. I am chasing after the biggest event in the human journey, and people do not have to be that bright to get a glimpse of it. I have had people close to me, living their lives of quiet desperation, get a whiff of what I am chasing, and they have all manner of reaction to it, and little of it was very supportive, as their egos became way too involved. Most reactions are along the lines that I am crazy, I had better get back in line with the herd, or perhaps worst of all, they want to help me, particularly with some keen insight that nobody has ever thought of before, and that they have the magic answer, solving the world’s biggest conundrum after spending five minutes aiming their astute insight at the problem. That instant analysis, criticism, and magic answer-ism is probably the most common one that I hear from people, if they get past Level 3 and are not doing the Level 5 shuffle.

None of those people have a prayer of getting to Level 12, and I no longer try to engage any of them on Wade’s World and my FE efforts. In fact, when I have tried to dissuade such people from discussing the subject any more with me, all too often then they attack me, and the most hurtful attacks come from friends and family. It is not only the pain that such attacks are coming from people you love, but they also know where to hit you so that it hurts the most. And when they do that, they are out of my life until the day I die. I have had to do that with more than one family member. Even what my mother did was small stuff compared to what others did:

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

I have had to do a great deal of forgiving those around me (I obviously own a piece of it; I am a human with my foibles, but everybody who has ever tried to walk the high road to FE reports similar experiences – what I have experienced just comes with the territory of what I am attempting), and many relationships were never the same. When people tried to take me out, then I was finished with them, but they sometimes still try to make my life miserable if they can, and some have engaged in criminal behavior as they attacked me. Many newbies probably have to have some such experiences before they begin to understand. Again, almost nobody has a “normal” reaction to the idea of the biggest event in human history, and I am looking for needles in haystacks, not trying to turn lumps of coal into diamonds.

And when I see newbies try to tell everybody they know about FE, and they heard about it the first time from me, I do what I can to dissuade them in their evangelism. They literally have no idea what they are getting themselves into, and I really don’t want to watch when they do stuff like that, or worse, tell me how they can make Levels 7, 9, 10, or 11 work. Not only do those levels not work, they are also life-wrecking levels of the game, and in many ways that will not become evident to newbies until they have sailed the waters a little, and they will be fortunate if they don’t wreck their lives on the first reef that they encounter.

Similarly, I have been playing the game of trying to interest some of the biggest names in their fields in FE, beginning when I first contacted Noam Chomsky more than twenty years ago. If I ever compiled the list of names that I have contacted, it would be long and impressive. I virtually never had a nibble. Brian O played the same game, and he had access that I never will:

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

After several years of playing the Paul Revere of FE, Brian openly wondered if humanity was a sentient species:

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

I have seen literally thousands and thousands of reactions to the idea of FE. Almost none of them have been productive in the slightest. Strangely, the most irrational reactions have often come from scientists and other “smart” people:

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

I have regularly encountered people who want to cross swords with me (and I have no intention of fighting, but they are almost invariably defending their scarcity-based worldviews from the threat of abundance – trolls would camp on my threads in other forums, before I found Avalon http://www.ahealedplanet.net/critics.htm#troll1 ), or they publish their criticisms of my work, with the intention of dismissing or demolishing it. Of those criticisms, I have yet to see one that was honest, informed, and intelligent.

The only critiques that I have received that were honest, informed, and intelligent were from people who were in my corner and were trying to make my work better. I have always listened avidly to what they have to say, and their feedback has always been vital in making my work better. But they are only a relative handful of people, and not many of them are Level 12s, either. I may still be the only Level 12 I know (which may point out my delusions more than anything else ), but there are some people working hard to get there, and those people get my time and energy, not the various trolls, naysayers, timewasters, and others who are dug in. Those genuine Level 12 aspirants are the gold nuggets that I seek, and what I have refused to do for many years is try to pry people out of their scarcity-based niches that they have dug into, as they dare me to pull them out. They can stay there, with my blessings, until the day comes when FE machines are delivered to their homes. Only then will they begin to wake up, and it took me many years to finally understand. If I can keep newbies from trying to pull those people out of their holes, and work instead on developing the comprehensive perspectives needed to truly become a Level 12, that will be a huge win for me. If I can’t help shorten the learning curve of those who hope to reach Level 12, then my idea is not going to work. Brian O had something to say about who was fit to really even think much about FE:

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

There are zillions of people in cyberspace who will waste my time and energy if I let them. Many of them are world-class timewasters, and their usual trick is making asinine comments that demonstrate that they have absolutely no grasp of what I am doing, and they dare me to do my best to enlighten them. None of them will ever get to Level 12, and I have zero interest in engaging them. Newbies probably have to go through a few episodes of that before they begin to understand, but the sooner they get it, the better. Again, 99.999% of the world's population is going to wake up to FE when they have it delivered to their homes, and that is my goal, but I am going about it in a way that has never been tried before.

For better or worse, I have a definite goal in mind and a way to go about it. The only problem with my approach, really, as far as achieving my goal, is finding enough people like Ilie in the world (his reaction is the gold standard of what I am looking for, even as young as he is). I will not find out until I try, but first, I have to raise my game and polish up my calling card, which my upcoming essay is intended to do, and we will see where it goes from there.

Time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I have mentioned before, I have been told that I helped melt down Atlantis. Was Atlantis really on this physical plane? Were the Egyptian pyramids really built using Atlantean technology? Were the Nazca lines really built for pilots? Was there alien intervention in human and proto-human DNA? Were the Dogon people in contact with ETs from Sirius? There are many mysteries like those. I grew up reading Ripley’s Believe it or Not. In my old age, I have serious doubts about the “paranormal” aspects of many of those kinds of events and circumstances.

FE and anti-gravity technology definitely exist:

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

and are probably at least partly designed from captured ET technology. A great deal is being covered up. I have witnessed pyramid energy in action, and have been involved with a great deal of psychic phenomena. The orthodox story is highly deficient in many ways, but that does not mean that all the fringe stuff is valid, and I have found that very little of it likely is. That is what I mean by all the chaff that the grains of wheat are buried within. While I respect the White Science ideal, White Science acts too much like a religion, with its Grand Inquisitors, popes, and the like. I have been personally slimed by one of the most prominent “skeptics,” so I have first-hand experience of how they play the game, and it can be sickening:

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

Even if we leave aside the blatant dishonesty of the “skeptics,” the framework of the paradigm can really blind White Scientists to a more comprehensive version of reality. The greatest physicists realized the woeful inadequacy of science in figuring it all out:

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

which is something that people like Carl Sagan never seemed to realize:

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

That White Science has largely ceded the exploration of the fringes to people like James Randi:

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

is nothing short of scandalous. It is like the fox watching the henhouse. But White Science is just like many other areas of endeavor. Most of what takes place in the USA’s government is fox-in-the-henhouse stuff. Industrial waste is called medicine and then literally jammed down the public’s throat:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post639659

and there are many similar situations where the public’s welfare was sold lock, stock, and barrel to greedy capitalists and statists who abuse it in ways that can seem surreal. So, the orthodox position is often fraudulent, but so are the fringe positions, all too often:

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

I think that those are just more examples of personal integrity being the world’s scarcest commodity, particularly in a world of scarcity. People buy the lies because they feed them. Discernment is the key, but few really practice it, in all walks of life.

All that said, the study of the past of life on Earth is relatively free from Godzilla’s interference, and I respect many of White Science’s findings in those areas. You can’t study much White Science in those realms without running into frank submissions by the best White Scientists that we barely know anything at all. Einstein reveled in our ignorance of how the universe worked. He still had respect for the process of science, but like his brethren, he was keenly aware of science’s limits.

While there must have been some awareness of non-physical realities in early religion, there is also universal evidence that when the first civilizations formed, the elites conspired with the priesthood to either corrupt or concoct the day’s religions to justify elite status. Monumental architecture, palaces, harems, and a religion that deified the elites (AKA “royalty”) is pretty much a universal finding by anthropologists who have studied early civilizations. Obviously, such religions could not have had much to do with reality, but were simply tools to justify elite status, and if the brainwashing was effective enough, slaves did not have to build the pyramids, but people would perform those labors somewhat willingly, as religious labors.

Marija Gimbutas:

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

is an important figure in anthropology, and her Kurgan Hypothesis:

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

is taken seriously in those circles, and is likely accurate to a great degree. She is also the founder of the idea of goddess religions and matriarchal societies in pre-Indo-European cultures. I have studied the subject a bit, and what I think is likely the case is that in village life, when agriculture was largely practiced by women with digging sticks, women achieved an equality with men that had probably never been seen before, going all the way back to the common ancestors that we share with the great apes. Sexually dimorphic primates go way, way back, and that superiority of physical strength is very likely what allowed for male ascendancy. I was just reading recently that the fear of every married woman is that her husband will kill her, and the secret fear of every husband is that his wife will laugh at him. The fact is that almost any man who wanted to kill his wife could accomplish it fairly easily. That killer ape heritage is still with us, and we ignore it at our peril.

As with the bonobos:

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

the economic conditions of village life allowed women to band together and counterbalance the male penchant for violence. The North American tribes of the Eastern Woodlands were matrilineal:

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

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

and it likely was largely due to the village level of existence. That theory of higher women’s status in village life far predates Gimbutas, with Engels writing about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ori..._and_the_State

and a great deal of the appeal of those “primitive” tribes to the conquering Europeans was the freedom that was intrinsic in those cultures, and the high status of women was something alien to European thought:

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

Running off and “going native” was an epidemic problem for the early European invaders.

When plow agriculture began to make its appearance in the Fertile Crescent, then men came to dominate agriculture because they had the physical strength required to manage the arrangement, and the status of women began to decline. With the rise of urbanized civilization, women’s status universally declined. It stayed in that declined state all the way to the Industrial Revolution. There are various theories for that varying status, but everybody agrees that it was always economically-based. Only with the advent of the Industrial Revolution did the “demographic transition” happen, where birth rates went down:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...onomic_paradox

and women were no longer baby machines. Today, in the so-called Third World, the greatest factor in lowering birth rates is educating women. That is why when I hear people say that with FE, we would quickly breed twenty billion people, I can tell that they are not familiar with modern demography. Given a choice, and FE would be the greatest freedom-maker of all time, few women would choose to be baby machines, pumping out farm hands. Most women want at least one, and two is the most common, but not eight.

Time for work. This will be long week at the office, but we will see what I can post up.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

The human line learned to control fire at least 700K years ago, and there are arguments for much longer ago:

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

Fire was the first social act that truly separated humans from all other animals, and it was an energy innovation above all else. And fire has been the key energy innovation clear to the present today. Burning fossil fuels powers the industrial world. All metals are smelted with it. The Australian megafauna extinctions are thought to be the result of humans burning the land:

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

Fire worship is very old, probably going way back:

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

The brains of the human line became increasingly larger. In fact, in the entire history of life on Earth, the rapid growth of the brains of the human line is the most dramatic evolutionary trend ever. It is increasingly thought that the increased calories that cooking provided allowed proto-human brains to grow:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...=1#post640703e

Somewhere along the line, humans may have become sentient, or ensouled. As scientists study human intelligence and other animals, human intelligence is increasingly seen as only different in degree, not in kind.

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ive#post528110

The biological equipment that made humans what they are today has largely been with us for over 100K years. A recent theory makes the case that interbreeding with Neanderthals is what led to brain changes that led to the Great Leap Forward 40K-50K years ago:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...hal#post539260

It looks like people who became Australian aborigines left Africa before the Great Leap forward, and became isolated from the rest of humanity:

http://www.nature.com/news/2011/1109....2011.551.html

There is Neanderthal DNA in the Australian aborigines, too. Although Australians left Africa before the Great Leap Forward, it was not that primitive. They had to use boats to get to Australia. Those isolated Australians had their own religious system, called Dreamtime:

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

which has creation stories like all other ancient cultures have. Again, to chalk up all of that spirituality and religion to superstition I think is missing something important. Some modern observers make the case that ancient myths are actually symbolic representations of sophisticated understandings of how the universe works, even foreshadowing modern physics. I am not so sure about that, but those theories are out there (see LaViolette’s Genesis of the Cosmos, for instance).

While ancient peoples had their spiritual experiences and what we would call religion, they all still needed to eat, and that took precedence over everything else. There are no hungry philosophers.

Humans observed the physical world and created their stories of how it came to be, and the religious themes of ancient peoples the world over were similar, which people like Joseph Campbell explored and synthesized, but he was by no means the first:

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

There are many different flavors of the idea of human progress:

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

and I suppose that what I am arguing for can be seen as another variant of it. I am far from the first person who has made the case that the energy issue has been the central one that life and humanity has been riding on:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#_edn3

but I am the only one that I know of who follows that line of reasoning and evidence and then argues for the potential of FE, particularly as an agent of social transformation, especially as an activist who chased after FE and learned a lot along the way. Studying the journey of life on Earth, and particularly the human-dominated phase of it, shows that physiology and behavior can develop new energy acquisition practices, and the feedback effect further influences that physiology and behavior. That is partly what is called co-evolution. Brian O and I were fairly unique in the FE community for making arguments for the social aspect of the FE situation, particularly its transformative effects. The human journey’s epochal phases were initiated by humans achieving the social organization and technological prowess to tap a new energy source:

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

and tapping that new energy source in turn transformed humans, both physiologically and socially. To argue even that being a killer ape is human nature is very debatable, as the bonobos have shown us:

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

I think that our ultimate nature may well be divine, and that love and bliss are humanity’s “normal” state if the chains of scarcity are removed. Others argue against it, but when it really came time to support their theories, they just seemed, to me, to be a projection of their own negative outlook, or one that pretty much ignores the realities of physical existence and the history of the human journey, or at least the one that has been put together so far. There is lots of alternative theory on that score, but as I have stated before, literalist interpretations of ancient texts I think are wanting.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am working insane hours right now, but that should end this week, and March should be relatively normal for me. I want to make a brief news post. The past few days has seen the imperial press in high gear, and even from the so-called fringes, on the death of Hugo Chavez.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...ae6_print.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/wo...anted=all&_r=0

http://abcnews.go.com/International/...ry?id=16198379

http://news.yahoo.com/even-death-cha...091127009.html

http://news.yahoo.com/hugo-chavez-fi...220210262.html

I expect that stuff, and what is ironic is that it can be far more balanced than what comes from the fringes. Long ago, I had some exchanges with Ed Herman on the depressing record of “human rights” organizations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, as they supported the kangaroo court at The Hague that ended up putting Milosevic and others behind bars, with Milosevic dying there. Ed said it was scandalous, and that he did not support any of the large “human rights” organizations, and Human Rights Watch was particularly egregious, adopting the American interventionist paradigm, which meant that any nation targeted by the USA would also get targeted by Human Rights Watch, and to a depressing extent, even Amnesty International.

When I saw that black eulogy coming from Mike Adams, liberally quoting Human Rights Watch, and even Investors.com, I should not have been surprised, but I was:

http://www.naturalnews.com/039362_Hu...socialism.html

I have seen this way, way too many times over the years, where the so-called fringes can’t escape the nationalist/capitalist paradigm. The real story in that part of the world for many years is the USA’s support for butcher regimes. In the 1980s, it was El Salvador and Guatemala, recipients of generous American military “aid” as they butchered their populations:

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

and the nation with the worst human rights record on Earth has long been Venezuela’s next door neighbor, Colombia:

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

Any American who ranks on Chavez and Castro, without ranking a thousand times worse on Columbia and the governments of other Latin American nations in the USA’s hip pocket, has fallen for the propaganda, and it really calls into question their integrity and awareness. Here is the stuff that few Americans are aware of:

http://www.chomsky.info/articles/200006--.htm

http://thirdworldtraveler.com/South_..._Colombia.html

http://www.zcommunications.org/colom...y-caleb-harris

http://www.zcommunications.org/hugo-...y-justin-podur

http://www.zcommunications.org/hugo-...ablo-navarrete

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Pa...Venezuela.html

As Chavez died and was treated to black eulogies and backhanded “compliments” – the kind that would never be made to recognize the death of a U.S. ally – I was treated to this article on how the Republican Party needs to acknowledge what a disaster the George Bush presidency was:

http://news.yahoo.com/why-gop-must-c...063000331.html

In a pattern that is as universal in the American media as it is centuries old, the lamentation is that several thousand American soldiers died in our recent imperial efforts in Asia. That is Bush’s crime. The several million victims of our imperial forays do not even come up to be mentioned:

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

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

That is part of the surreal experience of living in an empire.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Not much time this morning, but briefly:

Many years ago, the late Chris Hitchens wrote a little book about Mother Teresa, and how her image was basically a PR stunt. I wrote about it to show how even the popular “saints” in our world may not be:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/racket.htm#teresa

But I do not limit the perception versus reality to her, but also the Peace Corps:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/racket.htm#peace

Another fake saint that founded my home town:

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

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

and the general heroification of the scoundrels of American history:

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

While the greatest person I ever met:

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

gets imprisoned on trumped up charges:

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

smeared on national TV:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post412338

at the same time that the government attacks again:

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

and so on. The leading FE organizations have scoundrels in them:

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

and people in the field seem to compete against each other on who can tell the biggest lies about Dennis:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...red#post621892

and bystanders eagerly repeat the lies. Brian O was treated similarly at times. These are all just examples of the primary lesson of my journey:

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

So, when the world’s most lucrative profession says that it is all about helping people:

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

how the heck can that alleged motivation be trusted? I can’t. I write this because yesterday I saw that somebody is essentially reproducing Hitchens’s charges against Teresa:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiati...-vatican-study

Hitchens was a curious mixture of contradictions. An alleged progressive who became a warmonger and reactionary, but who also got waterboarded to see if the techniques of America’s War on Terror were something run by the “good guys.”

http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f...hitchens200808

In these times, making a saint out of Teresa I suppose is fitting, in a sad way.

There is nobody who is going to make FE happen for us. What little personal integrity exists in the human population needs to be amassed and focused to a point where it can overcome humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression. Again, Dennis is looking for soldiers, but I am only looking for singers. But they will still be needles in haystacks.

I have a few more minutes before I have to run off to work.

So, when plow agriculture began to take over from digging sticks, men became more prominent, and village life, which had led to relative equality between men and women, ebbed once again, to decline further with the advent of urban civilization. That transition is also when goddess-based religion became supplanted with male-based, sky-god religions:

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

There is debate over the invasion from the herding cultures, although that debate is far from over, it appears. As humans invented technological advances, which were virtually always centered around the energy issue, observation of nature became a more systematic discipline with the Classic Greeks. It has been asked why the Greeks did not initiate the Industrial Revolution, or the Chinese, centuries before Europe did.

I am finishing Paul Bairoch’s Cities and Economic Development, and just ordered two more books of his, and his argument is that Europe was an exceptional case, making a breakthrough when other “contenders” fell back into economic decay (which we know is related to environmental distress, or as I state so often, running out of energy).

As observation and reason began its rise as a discipline, religion was on the wane.

Time for work, which I hope is my last crazy day at the office for this month.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just finished with what is usually the hardest part of my year, but that is not always the case. I have been digesting a lot of economics, urbanity, the environment, and the like lately. This kind of evidence keeps stacking up:

http://news.yahoo.com/recent-heat-sp...191131579.html

There really are no significant arguments that burning up all of Earth’s hydrocarbon deposits, which are the “fruit” of the past several hundred million years and won’t be created again on this planet, is not going to have any environmental impact. The extent may be debated, but it is already happening. When I see so many areas where we are putting our toes over the edge of the abyss, and in every one of them, FE would solve the problem, within my lifetime, and permanently, it is astounding that it is as ignored as it is, or derided and attacked if the possibility is even acknowledged.

The bottom line is that virtually all reasons for having cities pretty much go away with FE and related suppressed technologies. When I have said that to people, the first thing that most people seem to think of is an entire planet turning into hillbillies. That is a projection of dynamics that vanish with FE. I think that is one reason why most people fear FE if they ever acknowledge it. The just can’t think past scarcity, and that is why comprehensive thinkers are needed:

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

because with a comprehensive outlook, the dynamics of scarcity can be easily recognized, and the dynamics of what abundance can be are discernible. When all people can see is the downside of FE, when they don’t even begin to acknowledge the upside, it means that fear dominates their perspectives. Again, grokking abundance and what FE can make feasible is no easy trick, even for “smart” people. I have almost never met anybody who could, but I found that their inability was rooted in their hearts more than their heads, but the head also needs to be engaged. An FE-based society will be highly sentient. FE and sentience go hand-in-hand:

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

This weekend, I will have some time, and will make some quality posts to finish up these science/spirituality/scientism/religion posts, and get back to the rise of Europe and the industrial age.

In the past few days, I have found myself thinking of Brian O. I sure miss him. What a great man he was. The mere fact that people like Brian, Dennis, Mr. Professor and others have been members of my species gives me hope that we can turn the corner, but it is not going to be easy. With FE, it could be easy, but that is the hard part. The hard part is not going to be implementing it wisely and safely; the hard part is overcoming humanity’s inertia and the organized suppression so that it even appears on the scene. The heavy lifting is now.

Once FE appears on the scene, the transformative effects will be so dramatic that the current world scene will soon be relegated to something like living in caves. That is really what people fear, not blowing up Earth; we are already well on the way to making Earth uninhabitable with our energy practices, and very few people really seem to care much. People can’t really be worked up about the danger of FE, but what it will do to their carefully carved niches of hell. To those dug into in their niches, the notion of Heaven on Earth means that their survival behaviors and ideologies will become obsolete. That is why they are so adamantly against FE, IMO, not the possible danger of an unenlightened implementation. But it took me many years to begin to figure that out.

I have a few more minutes before I run off to work. The Romans were an imperial culture that was fine with borrowing from the cultures it conquered, and when it conquered Greece, it imported plenty of its culture. It rebranded the Greek gods as Roman, it used some of its technology in the mines and elsewhere, the rise of observation, philosophy and nascent science could be discerned. But when the crumbling empire adopted Christianity as the state religion as a way to help hold it together:

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

the laissez-faire spirituality that characterized Rome (that is relative, of course http://www.ahealedplanet.net/war.htm#mani ) was gradually replaced with a highly intolerant religious establishment that burned all of the Classic Greek works as pagan. The Islamic culture, as well as the Eastern Roman Empire, kept the Greek teachings alive, and they were only reintroduced to Europe when the Christian armies began to “reconquer” the Iberian Peninsula:

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

which ended up initiating the rise of science and reason in the West.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

When the Islamic libraries were captured during The Reconquest:

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

Christian scholars flocked there, and were amazed to find the Classic Greek and Latin texts that their professional ancestors had eradicated in Western Europe. The study of those ancient texts began the second rise of humanism in Europe.

Church scholars first studied the texts and tried to divine their meaning, and it led to efforts by people such as Thomas Aquinas to marry the newly discovered works with Christian thought:

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

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

His influence is still felt today in the Catholic Church, and he is considered probably the Church’s greatest philosopher, but he was Inquisitorial in his mien:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_...2.80.931272.29

His works helped form the foundation for the witch-hunts of later centuries:

http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/project...chhistory.html

The Church was battling for temporal wealth and power, and the Crusades, particularly the one called in on Southern France:

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

was pure gangster activity, even genocidal. Then the Medieval Warm Period ended:

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

and in 1315, the first great famine of medieval Europe hit:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_F...5%E2%80%931317

and Europe soon became a hell on Earth. Within a generation, England and France began a series of wars that lasted more than a hundred years, and the idea of total war began to take root:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War

Several years after that war began came the Black Death, which wiped out at least a third of Europe. Warfare, famine, and plague became Europe’s facts of life, and by the early 1400s, the Danse Macabre made its appearance in European art:

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

In the “good times” of the High Middle Ages, Western Europe began to put restrictions on slavery:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery...pe#Slave_trade

As I wrote earlier, the water mills of Europe performed the work of millions of people, and that huge energy boost surely helped prevent the collapse of Western Europe’s cities in the 1300s:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post607647

The study of humanism that began with the seized Islamic libraries led to the Renaissance:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism#Renaissance

Some scholars have tried to make the case that the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions were not revolutions at all, but I do not find their arguments convincing. Only if they narrowed their frame of reference to a lifetime or even shorter can they make the case that it was not revolutionary. Those revolutions marked the most dramatic break with the past in all of human history, and they fed each other. The Renaissance began in the city-states of northern Italy in the late 1300s, and eventually spread to Northern Europe. The printing press developed by Gutenberg in 1450 led to an explosion of literacy:

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

While humanism was ascendant, the Church planned to use the printing press to make Bibles and further its hegemony. As the Crusades ultimately backfired, so did its strategy of literacy, and just as the Church had its greatest recruiting success with the conquest of Mesoamerica,

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

Martin Luther was nailing up his 95 theses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_...he_Reformation

which was the beginning of the end of the Church’s religious monopoly in Western Europe. In 1543, two works appeared on the scene that began the era of modern science. They were Copernicus’s treatise on a heliocentric solar system, and the first work of human anatomy by Vesalius:

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

There was a very real battle between the observations of science and Church dogma. Copernicus was a devout Catholic, and his work was performed to help the Church improve its calendar. He only saw his printed manuscript on his death bed, and surely never dreamed what his devoted efforts would spawn. It took a century for heliocentric theory to prevail over Church dogma. When Descartes saw what Galileo was going through, he decided to not publish his heliocentric theories:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helioce...t_developments

Galileo, although forced to recant his heresy that Earth was not the center of the universe, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest, did not go quietly. If the Church forbade observation, then Galileo couched his theories in math. It has been argued, and well, I think, that Galileo, and later Newton, couched their astronomical theories in math to make their work less susceptible to the Church’s attacks, and that served to march much of science off in the wrong direction, making it too dependent on math, making it more obscure than it needs to be:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post503139

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post595255

At the same time that Galileo was playing with his new contraption, the telescope, and eventually paying hell for it, a deforested England began to play with the idea of baking the impurities from coal, so that it could be used like wood for brewing and smelting:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Plat#Works

And that was the key event in the upcoming Industrial Revolution, as it tapped fossil fuels for the first time for industrial purposes. By the early 1700s, coke was being used instead of charcoal for smelting iron:

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

and the Industrial Revolution began to gallop along. In this area and others, empiricists were way ahead of the theorists. At the same time that coal began to be used in industry, the first steam engine was invented that performed useful work, and it was first used to pump water out of coal mines, as they dug into the water table:

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

It would take another sixty years before the improvement known as Watt’s Steam Engine:

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

made the Industrial Revolution feasible. Without harnessing the power of fossil fuels, the Industrial Revolution was not possible. It was not until Carnot’s theories generations later that scientific theory began to grapple with the issue of producing work from heat, and the science of thermodynamics was born:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas..._Power_of_Fire

I have heard physicists state the thermodynamics may owe more to the heat engine than the heat engine owes to thermodynamics. This is a subject near and dear to my heart. Victor Fischer made the case that Carnot led thermodynamics off in the wrong direction with his ideal gas assumptions. Both Fischer and Mr. Mentor invented hydraulic heat engines:

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

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

and both men thought that the so-called Carnot ideal could be exceeded by liquid heat engines. I will likely never know if they really can, courtesy of the gangsters who run Ventura County:

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

and whoever put them up to it. Science and technology has always taken a back seat to the prerogatives of wealth and power. There really is no such thing as “pure” science, although the ideal is a nice idea, where phenomena are pursued for their own sakes.

But even though the Church lost its monopoly, which culminated in the Thirty Years’ War:

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

and brought the concept of total war into its full flower, which enabled bloodthirsty Europeans to easily conquer the world, religion was not finally discarded until late in the 19th century, when the canon of evolution and other theories tried to explain everything and remove the need for a creator. The greatest physicists saw that goal as pure folly:

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

but that did not stop our current era’s high priests of materialism such as Sagan (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/dennis.htm#sagan ) and Hawking from making their grand pronouncements that have many trappings of religion about them, such as dogmatic assertions that fly in the face of the evidence, and so on. When Sagan was dying, people suggested that his consciousness might survive his body's demise, and Sagan violently reacted to those suggestions, fully believing that he was just a bag of chemicals:

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

Maybe Brian O has helped Carl awaken from his stupor, or maybe Carl is still in a catatonic state, trying to convince himself that he does not exist. I am sure that Brian has tried to help him, great soul that Brian is.

Much more to write on these subjects, but it is time for chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

A brief aside, or, as I think about the theme that I have been writing on, this may not be that much of an aside… I wrote that all of us in the FE field were initially blown away by the stark denial of environmentalists toward FE, and even worse, how they often treated FE like the enemy. When I wrote about that bizarre situation:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/purpose...ironmentalists

I actually wondered if I might have been seeing Calvinist Christianity at work. It turns out that I likely was. When I encountered the austerity “solutions” of environmentalists, which were the very opposite of abundance, it seemed that there was a self-flagellating punishment behind that environmentalist austerity, a kind of anti-human attitude born of all of that original sin stuff. It was only a suspicion, but in Radkau’s Nature and Power, he openly stated that Protestant Christianity, and particularly the Puritan strain of it, which was knee-deep in Calvinism, is in fact the founding ideology behind the modern environmentalist movement. The Eastern religions and Islam did not have that reverence for nature, and consequent awareness of inherent human sinfulness, that is found in Protestant teachings.

Radkau did not make that a bad thing, but noted that the Puritan states of New England are the most environmentally aware in the USA (along with California and Oregon, which I know is a faint sentiment, given my experiences). I still think that environmentalists are addicted to scarcity, but I did not realize that, indeed, that attitude also has Calvinist roots. Similar to how the American Indian influenced the American Constitution:

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

and likely even helped initiate The Enlightenment itself:

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

the environmental movement also likely owes a debt to the nature-worshipping aspect of the American Indian religions. It is arguable that it was “only” the pre-civilized behaviors evinced by all pre-civilized peoples, but as the democratic nature of American Indian society was alien to Western Europe in 1492, so was its reverence for nature. Both attitudes were long gone in Europe. Throughout history, as humans denuded the landscape with deforestation and the resultant erosion, particularly if plow agriculture was engaged in, a conservationist ethic could take root, as the impact of humans on the environment became increasingly obvious.

This weekend was some down time for me, so I did not post much this weekend, but the coming weeks should see me pretty busy on the posting front.

Time for bed.

Best

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, I was just about to shut down my computer and saw this article, and really have a hard time believing that researchers can be that blind about hardening of the arteries, calling it some normal aging process:

http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-mummie...021333966.html

It is “normal” for all humans that got away from their natural diet, which is mostly fruit. At least they acknowledge that wild chimpanzees don’t get hardening of the arteries. While books are banned that show how hardening of the arteries is about getting away from our natural diets:

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

“research” like that tries to make the case that hardening of the arteries is a normal aging process. When I see crap like that, I can see Godzilla's sardonic grin in the background, like the Cheshire Cat, happy to see how stupid we are.

One of the main upshots of FE is that everybody on Earth would quickly have access to live food, mainly fruit, and clean water, etc., and then all of our degenerative diseases could disappear almost overnight.

OK, time for bed this time.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I do not have much time this morning, but briefly, science and math became joined at the hip from Galileo onward. But as Einstein said, the more beautiful the math that described a theory, the more likely the theory was invalid. The scientific and industrial revolutions were indeed revolutions, happening in the blink of an eye on the geological timescale. The primary upshots have been several:

1. The hydrocarbon deposits formed during the past several hundred million years were on their way to being all burned up in a few hundred years, for a rate around a million times faster than they were created, and the coal beds will likely never be created again, and some of the oil deposits may get replenished a little in the next three hundred million years.

2. The energy derived from burning all of that hydrocarbon energy led to a standard of living increase that dwarfed everything that came before it, at least for the tiny fraction of humanity that benefited from that energy. That situation has led to a population decline among the industrialized peoples (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogra...onomic_paradox ), something unique in human history, in that it was not caused by an economic catastrophe that wiped out so many previous civilizations.

3. Industrial pollution became a serious problem, with several “solutions,” such as rebranding the pollution as medicine and inflicting the waste on the public, even compulsorily (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post639659 ), for that waste that could not be deemed “medicine,” it was dumped on the world’s poorest nations (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/america.htm#summers ).

4. In what may be the most harmful industrial pollutant over the long-term, the carbon dioxide resulting from burning those hydrocarbons is acidifying the oceans and warming Earth’s atmosphere to the extent that the ice sheets near the poles may melt, which would inundate the land that most of humanity lives on. We may get artificially-induced Canfield Oceans, which could cause a mass-extinction event even larger than the one that humanity has already inflicted on Earth’s ecosystems (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post553228 ).

5. If environmental catastrophe at the mass extinction level does not attend the fossil fuel age, the age’s waning may see the world’s powers fighting over the world’s dwindling hydrocarbon deposits, particularly the conventional oil, which is by far the most valuable hydrocarbon fuel. The USA has been inflicting or abetting oil-control genocides for the past generation (Iraq, Afghanistan, Columbia, East Timor, Nigeria, (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post644939 ), while rattling its saber at nations that refused to play along, such as Iran and Venezuela, and it may be about to escalate the carnage, as global oil production has probably already peaked (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post573798 ). The rest of the world is not going to sit back forever and let the USA rampage across the planet to seize control of all the oil, and World War III is certainly a possible outcome, which would destroy human civilization. As Einstein said, World War IV would be fought with stones and spears.

6. The hydrocarbon age, as brief as it will be, may give humanity the boost to get over the hump as a species, before it destroys Earth’s biosphere and takes itself with it. But the rise of science and industry was accompanied by a new form of social organization known as capitalism, which is greed-based (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#greed ), and the elites that have marked every era of civilization took their games of power and control to new levels. Scientific theory and practice has come increasingly under the aegis of “national security” and other rubrics, but the people calling the shots are supranational in organization and virtually nobody knows who they are, as they operate in the shadows. About the time of Tesla, scientific practice and theory became subject to that hyper-elite control, and it escalated after World War II, with the creation of the national security state. Sitting American presidents are nothing more than figureheads ( http://www.ahealedplanet.net/journey.htm#presidents ) and they know it. The “power behind the throne” game has reached global levels, and the technologies in that hyper-elite trove are indeed impressive (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/camelot.htm#underground ).

7. As Bucky Fuller said, we are on the brink of Utopia or oblivion (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/roots.htm#fuller ), and the race is between education and catastrophe.

As somebody who tried to bring disruptive energy technologies to market, including so-called free energy, I discovered how deeply humanity’s inertia and addiction to scarcity (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#dominant ) has played right into the hands of those hyper-elites (AKA “Godzilla”), and I came to realize that the only real power that those hyper-elites have is what humanity has given them, in their refusal to accept responsibility for the world they live in. Until enough people can learn to think like creators instead of victims, and embrace the idea of abundance and shed humanity’s addiction to scarcity, the near future appears dark indeed.

However, every attempt that I have seen to bring disruptive energy technology to the public has been foiled, quite easily. The vast majority of the time the aspirants and their allies are their own worst enemies, doing Godzilla’s work for him. That was the primary lesson of my journey (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#burn ), and was a sanity-threatening lesson to learn, but it is the reason why we are in such dire straits today, not the antics of the hyper-elite. If 0.0001% of humanity woke up and gently took its power back and just imagined what the world could be like if humanity lived in abundance, it could well catalyze the transition past this hurdle. Impressive mystical sources state that at this juncture of an ensouled species’ journey, it does not get over the hurdle a third of the time, but destroys itself, by either environmental destruction or warfare.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#age3

We are at the brink, and the industrial age has brought us here. Do we get over the hump, or fall all the way back to the bottom of the hill? That is what I am attempting to find out.

Time for work.


Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Reading this last post felt a bit like staring certain death in the face (although I admit I can only imagine how that feels, having not had any direct experience with this yet).

It's almost understandable why the vast majority of people "do not want to look".... it can get very scary really fast! It's no longer about our children's children world. By the looks of it, we may get the feel of "instant karma" in our lifetimes.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

Yes indeed, we are on the brink in many ways, and that is why even learning to sing is courageous activity. Anybody who expends the effort to see beyond the prevailing paradigms has a great deal of courage, even though there are some who think that it is not “doing anything.” Becoming truly sentient is no small shakes, especially in a world where it is anything but encouraged. Some events may “only” take a hundred years, and some can happen sooner, such as what may happen with Greenland. The fact is that nobody is quite sure what will happen, with a big surprise just last summer:

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/201...ore/?mobile=nc

http://blogs.agu.org/wildwildscience...g-publication/

http://phys.org/news/2012-04-greenla...face-lake.html

What is certain is that we are playing chicken with Earth, almost daring it to violently correct the evolutionary aberration of killer apes with large forebrains.

Michael once stated that if humanity succeeds in making Earth uninhabitable for complex life forms (the bacteria and archaea can probably survive whatever humanity dishes out), that those the most responsible will incarnate here on the dying planet, to reap what they have sown. While the Earthly personalities of the dark pathers may think that they can cleverly escape the consequences of their actions (such as a refuge on Mars if it goes down the toilet on Earth, which is one of their contingency plans), the very purpose of their souls and incarnating is to choose by acting and then live with the outcomes of those choices. There is not only no escaping the consequences of our actions, but living with the consequences of our actions is how our souls learn. At least, that is what I have heard.

Yes, those who think that the future generations will be sacked with the effects of their selfish actions may discover two things:

1. They will be that future generation;

2. They may not need to wait until a future lifetime to reap the whirlwind of their actions.

The paradox is that we are all in this together. FYI, a prominent theme in mystical material is that the big karmic blowout is just around the corner (and we are likely in the early stages of it today), and the “meek” (AKA “peaceful”) will inherit Earth, and those who could not raise their awareness sufficiently will not be allowed to incarnate on Earth for a thousand years, until the Age of Light is firmly anchored, and then those who want to and can handle living in the light will be allowed to incarnate here, but it is likely probable that most people won’t “make the grade,” and another planet is being prepared for them so that they can keep playing kill or be killed, inflict great harm on other life forms, turn vices into virtues, etc. That may seem at variance with the two worlds that Roads visited:

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

but it may not be so variant as it seems. That Heaven-on-Earth scenario may be the primary one that awaits Earth. She will no longer host the dark pathers and their allies. There are many different perspectives on that scenario, and the varieties of millennialism:

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

are part of that milieu. Scientists with their eyes even the slightest bit open are terrified of what humanity is doing to the planet. It could turn out very badly, on several fronts. Some cheer that we have our toes out over the abyss, as that means that the final test is coming. One of the ego’s vagaries is that it seems to refuse to wake up until its survival is at stake. That is one way to wake up, but I prefer something less dramatic. How about a delightful transition to Heaven on Earth, instead of the nightmares that will certainly get worse on the trajectory we are on? That is what I am trying to get going, but it can’t be pursued until it is first imagined. There will not be any blind stumbling into Heaven on Earth. We have to seek it, and in a world where it is anything but encouraged, it is anything but easy to begin the quest.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Whether it is science, spirituality, political-economic ideologies, or any human endeavor, they all have their ideals, and most are worthy. Then there is their execution in the real world. The enemy of enlightenment is dogma. A modern version of that understanding is Orwell’s observation that the enemy is the gramophone mind, no matter what record is being played:

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

That is just another variation of the sentience issue:

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

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

In a world of scarcity, noble ideas and activities get distorted into rackets, so that the racketeers can amass wealth and power to themselves. So it is, in a world of scarcity. Not all the people that religions were founded after lived saintly lives. Mohammed lived a violent life, and Islam, like most religions, particularly the Judeo-Christian ones, became a religion of conquest. As Michael said, when the master is gone the teaching is finished, and any writings left behind become the basis for philosophical literature. Jesus and Buddha were the most astounding religious figures, with observers wondering what they were. According to Michael, that puzzlement came from watching the Infinite Soul manifest:

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

and a human body cannot host the Infinite Soul for long, and Michael stated that the Infinite Soul only came through Jesus in the last thirty days of his life, and what has come to us as The Sermon on the Mount is the closest thing in the New Testament that we have to his teachings, when the Infinite Soul was manifesting through him. "Love the enemy" comes from that period. The Infinite Soul came to Buddha under the Bodhi Tree, but it did not stay long, and he was left with the echoes of its visitation for the rest of his life.

Any study of the New Testament, or what happened with Mohammed’s followers, shows how almost nobody really understood the master’s message. The Apostles largely did not get it, and Paul began to corrupt the message of Jesus, turning it from the message from Jesus (love), to the message about Jesus (somebody to worship, which was the last thing that Jesus wanted). Paul was a mass market guy, and thus is the wisdom of the masters lost in lesser hands. All organized religion is a form of social control, primarily existing to serve the priesthood.

While science has an ideal of investigation of the physical universe, its greatest theorists were not too impressed with science, as far as it figuring out the universe:

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

They respected the process, but were keenly aware of its limits. If the greats of physics got a show like my friend did:

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

I wonder what their reaction would be. I doubt that it would be denial. It would likely be a combination of a few things; wonder, consternation that those technologies were under wraps, and very likely a reaffirmation of what people like Einstein already believed, that the canon of science is like a series of cave drawings, compared to how the universe really works:

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

I am still working long days, but I should get a little break soon.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

That we are sent to the physical plane, without our memories, and have to “start over” each lifetime, on one hand seems quite cruel, and channels that I respect, such as Michael, make no bones about the idea that physical reality is the cruelest plane of existence. Physical reality is where s**t happens, and the best laid plans on the astral plane often go badly awry when harsh physical reality is encountered. Souls can get lost here and may not find their way home, or at least anytime soon. The most lost are the dark pathers (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/spirit.htm#love ), and for now, they rule on Earth, which says a lot about our species, and little of it auspicious. If they have their way, life on Earth is about to become a whole lot darker, and we threaten ourselves with self-extinction on several fronts:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post646907

Whatever the Creator had in mind when physical reality was cooked up is a mystery, and I have long stated that if the physical reality and incarnation game is way to help lost souls find their way again, that “cruel school” aspect of physical reality makes some kind of sense:

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

Otherwise, our Creator has not quite gotten the hang of playing the Creator Game.

But whatever the case may be, we are here, now, and what we do right now is important, not what happens after we leave this life. Physical reality focuses us on the task at hand. Every quality account of “the other side” that I ever encountered stresses that the love that we manifest while here is all important, and if there are any regrets when we get to the other side, it is the missed opportunities to express love. And that aligns with the idea that physical reality is Creator school, because Creators create with love. That makes sense to me, and making sense of our reality is ultimately the impetus behind religion and science. That need to know is the core motivation, but keeping that need to know alive is anything but easy, as in a world of scarcity, that need can become subservient to getting a full belly. There are no hungry philosophers, and after many years of playing the FE game and trying to help people understand what is at stake, I found that virtually everybody sold out their sentience for the promise of a full belly. Nearly everybody on Earth today has an unwavering allegiance to one or more scarcity-based ideologies:

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

From what I have seen, their allegiance is partly due to indoctrination while young (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/intro.htm#blinded ), but the hook that keeps them there is that allegiance to those ideologies gives them ego strokes and economic benefits. We are the apple of God’s eye, according to the Book of Genesis, or the crowning flower of evolution, or Americans are God’s gift to humanity.

Each of those ideologies exalts the adherent, sometimes subtly, sometimes crudely, and the primary upshot is justifying the horrific treatment of “lesser” beings in that contrived scale of Creation.

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/conun.htm#_edn6

The USA can exterminate people after people. Americans used to cheer the genocidal slaughters:

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

and today, millions of people are exterminated under our imperial boots, mostly children, in the name of “freedom,” of all things:

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

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

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

I can barely find an American who knows or cares how many millions of people have recently died under our imperial heels, as we steal the world’s remaining hydrocarbons. It is tempting to call Americans the most evil people on Earth, but I think it has to do with blind adherence to dogma, the kind that no amount of reality can dissuade. Psychologists call it cognitive dissonance:

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

where beliefs and reality conflict, so pathological reactions arise to keep reality at bay. Americans may be the best example in the world on that subject, but I am biased, being an American. No doubt, those living in other nations could assemble similar lists of nationalistic delusions, although none as fatal as the USA’s.

According to Michael, the USA is a typical Young Soul society, and it also has more warriors than servers:

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

which could help explain our national trajectory. Young Souls are great civilization-builders and planet-destroyers, and theirs is the most egocentric of all soul ages. When I look at my great nation and Michael’s framework, it is “check, check, check” on that score. We are arguably history’s most arrogant nation, and that is saying something, with the many comparisons to Rome particularly apt, I think. We even modeled much of our government after Rome’s, with our Senate, with Latin dominating the language in our legal system, and so on. As with Rome, we sent out our soldiers, and in rolled the plunder. It has always been an energy-based plunder. In Rome, it was mostly food and wood:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post568364

while in our industrial age, the most coveted energy-based resource is oil, which explains nearly all of the USA’s foreign policy, including everything that we do in the Middle East and vicinity. Even the national disdain evinced for Hugo Chavez’s death:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post644939

is all about the oil, and only the deeply deluded can think that it is about anything else.

So, all ideologies likely had an initial impetus of trying to make sense of things, but they all fell prey to the full-belly quest, in one way or another. From the earliest days of science, it tried to supplant religion. The jargon of science reflects that goal. If you get around scientists, especially when something like FE is discussed, you hear all about the “laws of physics” or “the laws of science,” as if they were the laws of the universe. Once in a while, I saw a scientist admit to the conceit of calling them “laws.” Brian O often stated that there are no “laws of physics,” but only theories, and calling science’s theories “laws” is the same kind of dogmatism that has dogged organized religion. But calling them “laws” allows them to become what Chomsky and others have called “framing assumptions” when dealing in the social sciences. As Howard Zinn stated, those self-serving assumptions, when they come from scholars, are deadlier than when merely parroted by the uninitiated:

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

When studying nineteenth century science, when science really came into its own and completely displaced religion in many circles, I was struck by how quickly scientists tried to call their fledgling hypotheses “laws.” For instance, I recall Pasteur trying to call some finding of his a law, when his finding was far from certain. It was like European “explorers” tagging every bit of “discovered” land with a European name, no matter how many thousands of years that land had been inhabited by other peoples. Physical reality became similar unconquered territory for those early scientists, all of them eager to attach their name to some “law” of the universe. Pasteur’s primary motivation was seeing his name in lights:

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

and science arguably became much poorer as a result:

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

Microbiology textbooks have been marching their students off in the wrong direction for more than a century regarding Pasteur’s triumph regarding the spontaneous generation issue:

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

Such deceptions are far from innocent or harmless, and they form a false foundation that deludes the students, a misdirection that they rarely escape from. Among the “educated,” their “education” into the “laws of physics” and other false assumptions are among the chief delusions that prevent understanding the energy issue on Earth today and, as a group, they may be the most lost in their ideological halls of mirrors, which I call Level 3:

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

Brian O discovered this in spades as he played the Paul Revere of FE for several years:

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

to only openly wonder after several years of that ride if humanity was really a sentient species:

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

I sadly understood.

The most insidious religions are those that seem to their adherents to not be some theory, but just the way the universe is, self-evident truths, not fancies of imagination. When the foundational assumptions become invisible to an ideology’s adherents, then the herd is well in hand, completely blinded by their paradigm, and it might be the worst with scientists:

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

When Brian got involved with the UFO issue, the USA’s military tried to kill him, after making him an offer that he could not refuse:

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

and their attack shortened his life. Try to engage a White Scientist on that issue, and the most irrational behavior comes to the fore. Calling it denial is too charitable. It is more like foaming-at-the-mouth denial. When White Scientists play their “laws of physics” card to deny the possibility of FE, bring up the fact that there are thousands of energy technology patents that have been classified in the name of national security:

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

and watch what happens. Again, many of the most irrational responses to the idea of FE that I have encountered have come from scientists and the technically-trained:

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

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

People usually have to see it to believe it. It took me many years, witnessing or hearing about thousands and thousands of reactions, for me to begin to realize that it was all likely the result of an addiction to scarcity:

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

So, whether it is the dogmatism of “Jesus is our personal savior!” or “That is impossible, as it violates the laws of physics!” it all comes down to the same thing: abdicating our sentience and refusing to accept responsibility for our actions and the world we live in. It may not always look like that on the surface, but when I began to dig down into the thinking behind statements like that, that is what I always came up with.

That does not deny that physical reality can be fruitfully studied, or that there is a lot more than meets the eye happening in physical reality, even far beyond what the instruments of science will ever detect, but the trick is to always keep one’s eyes and mind open, to test assertions against experience, which is where knowledge comes from.

As somebody who had a voice in his head lead him on one of the most spectacular odysseys that anybody could hope to embark on:

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

I can say that those voices only make suggestions; it is up to us to do the work. No matter how exalted a mystical experience may be, we all eventually have to come back to Earth and feed our bellies (except for all of you Level 19s out there http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level19 ), and staying grounded is one of the challenges of the mystic, and I have seen many mystical initiates fall off the rails, being so heavenly-bound that they were no earthly good. The challenge of scientists is becoming too grounded, buying the materialistic fables of their indoctrination. The greatest physicists did not buy that line of thinking:

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

but few in the Great Herd of orthodox science effectively escape the materialist orientation, and if they do, all-too-often they end up in the camp of organized religion. Both places are dead ends or, at best, training wheels for young minds and souls. More of us have to take the training wheels off if we are going to turn the corner as species. But the fringes in science and spirituality are also filled with charlatans and people, usually men, seeking wealth, power, and harems:

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

So it is, in a world of scarcity.

I think that this will finish my science, scientism, spirituality, and religion posts for now, and I will resume my rise of Europe posts.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Before I get back to the rise of Europe, I want to make a post or two on energy and how it runs things. I have already done this in different ways on this thread, but the primary point of my upcoming essay and future work is getting people to think about energy in very real ways; how it shapes and runs the world they live in. I do this for a few reasons. One is that I have been reading a bunch of economics lately, and as I have said so much about how money is just accounting and not real, even with economics that deals in real world measures (tons of ore, energy equivalents in coal, calories, gallons of water, how far something is transported and how fast, and so on), it can be easy to get “lost in the abstraction layer” and fail to really understand what is happening.

On this planet, the energy all begins with the sun. Protons from hydrogen atoms under the immense pressure in the sun’s core fuse together, and they shoot off photons, or what we call light, and those photons take a very long time to migrate to the sun’s surface and escape to space:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_core#Energy_transfer

Light is the sun’s primary output. There are also high-energy electrons given off, but photons are the primary output and nearly half of the solar energy that hits Earth’s surface is in the form of visible light:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunligh...tion_and_power

The most important photons, as far as our lives are concerned, is the tiny fraction of them that hits the antennae of chlorophyll molecules:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorop...ical_structure

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post519314

That photon’s energy is absorbed, and it literally shakes off an electron. That excited electron is the basis for all life on Earth. The energy from that photon is used or stored. It gets stored in bonds that are made between atoms, which the energy from the photon made possible. The energy from that captured photon is used by life in many ways, from bonding atoms together to make the structures of organisms, to making and transporting chemicals, to generating heat. When a piece of wood is burned, that captured solar energy, which was used to build the lignin molecules that comprised the wood that allowed a tree to get its leaves more sunlight (higher than competing plants), is released. The energy is released as heat and light.

Sunlight is also absorbed by the air, oceans, and land, and warms them up. That solar energy can cause a water molecule to get so excited that it overcomes its attraction to its neighboring water molecules, and that water molecule becomes water vapor in the atmosphere. It will eventually lose that energy boost and fall back to the surface as rain or snow. Because Earth rotates, that heating is intermittent, with Earth warming during the day and cooling at night, and currents in the air and oceans form, which drives Earth’s weather.

Earth circles the sun, on a titled axis of rotation, with an eccentric orbit, which creates a variance in how much solar energy Earth receives and what parts receive it. That leads to what we call seasons. On a longer timeframe, that variation, along with the configuration of the continents, has led to widely divergent conditions on Earth’s surface. The continents are on a 500-million-year cycle of breaking up and coming back together (driven by the other energy source on Earth, radioactive decay, which makes Earth’s interior hot and the resulting convection made the continents and makes them move like they do https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post561092 ), and when they come back together, the oceanic currents stop and the ocean becomes one large, placid lake, and it appears that mass extinction events then follow:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...eld#post528765

When the continents are spread out, and we have the situation today with continents near the poles, particularly with the landlocked Arctic Ocean, we get ice ages, and we are in the middle of one right now:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post635702

The combination of variation in solar energy (the sun’s output seems to be very stable, but even variations of far less than one percent can cause climate events such as The Little Ice Age ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age ) and the dynamics of Earth’s orbit and continental movements, along with changes in its atmospheric composition (carbon dioxide and water vapor trap heat, warming Earth’s surface dramatically), make for an ever-changing scene on Earth’s surface, which has also impacted the evolution of Earth’s life.

As I have written plenty, early photosynthetic life made the oxygen in the atmosphere, created the ozone layer (https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...one#post534214 ), and likely prevented Earth’s oceans from being lost to space (like they were on Mars and probably Venus), as Earth’s gravity is not strong enough to prevent hydrogen from escaping to space.

The history of life on Earth is a story of learning to capture, use, and store solar energy, and the resultant dynamics of a game that we can call, “Who gets the energy?” Those that learned to capture sunlight no longer needed to move around, and they became plants. Those that did not learn to capture sunlight developed muscles to move around to get to the energy, and some learned to eat those organisms that captured sunlight, and grazing was born. Some learned to eat those grazers, and predation was born. That basic dynamic is hundreds of millions of years old, and the entire era of complex life is little more than variations of that dynamic.

But very recently, in the last million years or two (http://www.ahealedplanet.net/upcoming.htm#cooking ), an ape learned how to maintain a fire, and soon came to dominate all Earth’s ecosystems. In very real ways, our tools made us,

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...tal#post538067

but those tools were always primarily concerned with the acquisition, preservation, and use of energy, which is the primary concern of all life.

So, when a photon of sunlight hit a chlorophyll molecule and shook off that electron, the energy that excited that electron could have gone into making heat, binding atoms together to make molecules necessary for life’s processes, or making life’s structures, such as a leaf, a bone, or an eyeball. Today, it is thought that the “invention” of the polymer lignin, which made trees possible, is what led to the coal deposits that humans burn with such abandon today:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...nin#post635702

Mass extinction events in the oceans, probably caused when the ocean’s currents died and the oceans became anoxic:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post624464

is what likely led to the oil deposits that humanity burns today with equal abandon. The entire human journey, to the present day, is predicated on the control of fire, which is the release of solar energy captured by chlorophyll. It is literally that simple. The only exceptions of note are geothermal and nuclear energy (and direct capture of solar photons and conversion into electricity via the photoelectric effect), which is farming the energy released from the decay of radioactive elements which were created when huge stars collapsed at the end of their lives:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar...#Massive_stars

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

At least, that is the orthodox theory today, and I have a hard time arguing against it. There are fringe theories that have different explanations for the formation of heavy elements, but I am not going to argue for them here. Just as stars collapse when they run out of energy, so do organisms and civilizations:

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

Just as evolution was driven by the quest for energy:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post635702

so has the human journey, and Europe was unique in its ability to tap into new energy sources. And just like humans drove all the easy meat to extinction when they learned to travel across Earth’s surface far from their homes in and near Africa:

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

Europeans drove many peoples to extinction or the brink of it when they learned to sail the oceans. The energy game, the energy game. With that preamble out of the way, I will recapitulate the European journey a little, and then get to how they conquered the world, with their superior energy technologies. But none of it has ever been truly sustainable, and we are at the crux of learning to use sustainable, clean, abundant energy, or possibly going the way of the dinosaurs, by our own hand. The test of our sentience is here.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Just thinking aloud...

It seems like the Earth is a huge capacitor storing Solar Energy in the form of photons, that are used by the plants. I suppose the Earth also radiates part of the energy into space.

That photon energy that got captured by the plants, it's actually never "used up". It just moves around into being "captured" into other objects or being put to "work" in chemical reactions and what not. Eventually that photon energy will be radiated out into space and then it will eventually reach another planet or star... or... ?

So we have the Sun, sending out photons, captured by the plants on Earth and then eventually radiated into space once it is "released" from the bonds it used to hold together.

But where did the Sun come from? This quickly gets into the "creation of the Universe stuff", but what I am actually thinking of is that Energy may be all there is, moving in and out of forms that we can "experience" as reality. In that regard we are actually playing a "scarcity game", because abundance is all around us. It is us that insist on using only a limited spectrum of that energy (mostly thermal). It is us that refuse to adapt and embrace other forms that energy exists in. As I've said earlier, we never actually "consume" anything, but simply transform one form of energy into another while playing our games on this planet. This sounds like the "zero sum" theory of nothing is gained, nothing is lost but everything is transformed. But if you bring "consciousness" in the equation, then something is gained. This journey of the photon from the Sun, to the plants, to coal, to our houses and into our bodies seems to have helped (or lead) to us becoming "conscious". And it looks to me that the more energy you have the more conscious you can become... Because if you are starving or you are cold, you revert back to survival mode where very little conscious thought is present.

So then, Free Energy becomes this threshold when this consciousness is evolved enough to become self-sustaining. Until then, there is always the risk of (self)annihilation or going back to more "primitive" (less conscious) states.

I wonder if energy is the same thing as consciousness or which causes which... or what is the relation between them?

(I've "burned" quite a few photons composing this post )

[sandy]

Wow Ilie,

That is really quite profound and what is more profound is that I understood it :-D........we are back to the chicken/egg scenario but for sure what you have posted may be what energy is all about>>>>>conscious and sentient being's.