WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Over the years, I have consistently fielded observations about my work, where people were trying to be helpful, but they did not understand. As I have stated before, my “peers” – white, educated, American men – can rarely read more than a few pages of my work before blowing a fuse, such as this section of my site:

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

An American college professor pal has read that section to his class, with the students looking poleaxed when he finishes (he has tenure ). Another teacher has his students read my Columbus essay:

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

with similar results. Even today, about 99% of all American students think that Columbus was some kind of hero. People trying to be helpful have suggested that I try to parlay my site into an advanced degree or other payoff. Not only is that a loser from the beginning (see how Ward Churchill got railroaded for writings similar to mine https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ill#post637484), but my work is something different, radically so.

I have already lived through what happens to commercial FE ventures. What they always nail you on are “consumer protection” laws (at least when they do it "legally"), and the only way they can do that is if you have paying customers or investors (but with Dennis, even when he was putting his equipment on people’s homes for free http://www.ahealedplanet.net/energy1.htm#sfs , or even when one of the “victims” actually never paid a dime and even stole from us – http://www.ahealedplanet.net/advent.htm#victims - they still got Dennis).

The “flavor of the day” New Age author is not risking jail, murder, a billion dollar bribe, and the like. I regularly get people suggesting that I publish a book or create a blog where people have to pay to read it. I intend for my work to always be free and publicly available. The only way that I see myself asking for money is if my site and upcoming forum gets so much traffic that the host fees become exorbitant and I ask readers to help defray those fees, but if that happens, I am doing something wrong. I am not aiming for the mass market, so that traffic should never get that high. I am aiming for quality, not quantity. I have passed up at least a million dollars on five different occasions now, and only by bypassing those “opportunities” did I get to where I am today with my work. In a sane world, I would be a billionaire, but our world is far from sane.

Also, seeking personal gain with my work would be missing the mark on several levels. It would compromise the integrity of the work, for starters. I would not be free to write what I do if I was trying to please a “master” of some sort, and there is something to gore everybody’s favorite ox in my work, as I take on the scarcity-based teddy bears of modern civilization, particularly the USA’s, largely because I know them best, being an American.

People who urge me to publish books, get an advanced degree, charge for site access, and the like are stuck in scarcity-based modes of thinking and do not begin to comprehend that nature of what I do: I am going after the fifth epochal event, which would be the biggest event in the human journey, by far:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post674575

Everything else happening on the planet today is noise, compared to helping the fifth epochal event manifest (and simultaneously avoid the sixth mass extinction). Godzilla is very real, but people won’t encounter him unless they are on the high road to FE or involved with similar pursuits. I treat him like I do the weather. When a thunderstorm comes through, I try to stay off the high ground, but I don’t lie awake at night, fearing the next storm. The general public denies that Godzilla exists, and conspiracists (almost always of the armchair variety) fixate on him. Godzilla is only a symptom of our collective malaise, not a cause.

Another big misperception comes from people fancying themselves as would-be heroes. If somebody really wants to be a hero, they have disqualified themselves. Wanting to be a hero is a Young Warrior delusion:

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

I have known and encountered some of the most heroic people of all time, but they were not trying to be heroes, but just doing the right thing when almost nobody around them would:

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

In a world of universal cowardice and turning vices into virtues:

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

just doing the decent and honorable thing becomes “heroic.” When Mr. Professor and I rescued Dennis from spending the rest of his life behind bars:

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

we were not doing it to be heroes, but because somebody needed to stand up for what was right, when everybody else became cowards and thieves. Doing so wrecked our lives. It shortened Mr. Professor’s life:

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

and I will always be recovering from the experience (actually, mortgaging my life after it was already wrecked was a minor aspect of events back then). We would have done it again, but it was not something that we were eager to do. We only did it when the rest of the world failed.

My upcoming essay, like my other writings, is partly intended to winnow out the dabblers. While I am doing my best to make it accessible to non-scientists, the material is going to be highly challenging, on several levels. It is not going to be something that can be skimmed, but only people who study it deeply are going to have what I am looking for. If they really understand and do the work, they should be able to at least sing a few notes of the abundance song when they are finished, and the choir will be intended to sing a song that has never been heard in chorus on Earth before. There will be needles in haystacks, scattered across the world, who have been pining for that song their entire lives, and they are my ultimate target audience. Only when I have about 100K people gathered around the cyber-campfire will we be able to think about “doing something.”

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Oh boy, some days I finish the day’s study and writing in a kind of daze, and today is one of those days. I have been writing about the Triassic period and the rise of dinosaurs. We will see what my readers think, but to me, it is all pretty fascinating stuff, and a comprehensive picture begins to emerge as the essay moves along.

For instance, I have been writing about the Triassic extinction, which is one of the Big Five:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinct...inction_events

There is current debate whether it was caused by global warming, and whether the Permian extinction was similar:

http://www.reportingclimatescience.c...tinctions.html

The end-Triassic event was accompanied by ocean anoxia, which is how oil deposits are made. The end-Triassic anoxic event was the first of many during the Mesozoic, which ended up making most of the Middle East’s oil. The end-Triassic event made the oil in Southern Iraq:

http://www.geoexpro.com/article/Why_.../58d94fc1.aspx

which the USA militarily seized and privatized.

Although I won’t expect my readers to become expert on papers such as this:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/1...ala.12034/full

it will be among my references, although I refer far more to books largely written for the lay audience than I do scientific papers, but plenty are in there, too.

Best,

Wade

[Robert J. Niewiadomski]

Another example of Nature's hint for humans: coconut crabs
Energy extraction taken to the extreme... They can eat almost anything and most of their brainpower is directed at seeking out energy sources aka food. Can live for 120 years (without a close encounter of the 4th kind with a human )
WiReD: Absurd Creature of the Week: Enormous Hermit Crab Tears Through Coconuts, Eats Kittens
Please forgive the title... It's the msm's absurd way of disguising the truth

Fun fact, the word "energy" appears not a single time through out the entire article... Instead it's disguised as "available resources"... I wonder if editorial software is tuned to weed out that "e-word" from msm If not it just gives an impression of how energy-blind we collectively are...

This must definitely change

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Robert:

Just about all brainpower for all animals is used for finding food, or avoiding becoming food. The primary preoccupation of all civilizations for all time before industrialization was getting enough food to eat. It is only with industrialization that people can devote their attention to reality shows, sports programs, and other lofty pursuits.

Food is almost all about energy. For a human, about 80% of food value is energy. So, calling it “resources” is not too far from the mark and arguably accurate, but yes, people are not really trained to think in terms of energy. Scientists are, however, and virtually all biological and evolutionary issues that scientists tackle are within an energy framework, such as how organisms acquire it, how they preserve it, and how they use it. Metabolism, AKA how fast an organism burns its energy, is a central concern for biologists.

Encephalization is about increasing brain size:

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

and predators generally have the largest brains, and this is thought to be because predators had to think the most in order to find and kill their prey.

I was already planning to write a scientist post today, so here goes. What is called pure science (AKA fundamental science) is devoted to understanding phenomena and how things work:

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

Applied science is concerned with practical applications. Engineers are applied scientists:

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

Since I was a child, I heard about the distinction between physicists and engineers. If an engineer builds a bridge, he will roughly calculate the load strength needed for a steel beam, and then require a beam twice that strong. The physicist would calculate the needed strength to five decimal places. That is an example of a practical distinction between pure and applied scientists. Engineers are the inventors, not the physicists. However, both are naïve as a rule, as Fuller mentioned:

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

and that is largely because scientists are involved with things, not people. Being a semi-nerd myself, I can relate to how scientists do not pick up on social cues or understand the dynamics of human interactions. When Mr. Texas made his move, for instance:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post585787

what horrified me the most was how effortlessly he duped our scientists and engineers. For him, duping those guys was like taking candy from a baby, and I initially could not believe how stupid those scientists and engineers were to be duped like that. But that kind of naïveté would express itself many times in the future. When Brian O banged on all of those doors:

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

it was the crazed reactions of scientists and inventors that caused Brian to wonder if humans are really sentient:

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

When people think of scientists, they usually think of pure scientists such as Einstein, Heisenberg, Carl Sagan, and the like, not Tesla, Edison, and the Wright brothers. As I resumed my science studies in the past fifteen years or so, I have come to better understand why scientists are useless on the FE front. It is why they are also useless on the UFO front, and it is not just because they have their heads in the sand, but because of the nature of what they do. Scientifically studying UFOs would be to perform repeatable experiments, or to dissect one on a test bench. Since UFOs are not like that (other than those that Godzilla has sequestered), then mainstream scientists can’t study them. That sure does not mean that they don’t exist, but that their study is beyond the purview of mainstream scientists. When Brian poked his nose into UFOs, it almost cost him his life, and it shortened his life:

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

and Brian eventually admitted his naïveté in his last book’s prologue, when he began navigating the fringes:

http://www.brianoleary.info/Synopsis.html

When I had a series of exchanges with a big name in high tech, it was the final straw for me writing this little ditty:

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

The great fallacy in that kind of logic is to totally deny that organized suppression exists. In fact, when my background with Dennis began to come clear to that figure, particularly the tactics used to wipe us and other FE pioneers out:

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

he stated something like, “that sounds like a conspiracy theory” to me.” He stated it like it meant “case closed,” in that I was some kind of nut. And it took me many years to finally understand that kind of irrational response. Consciousness is dismissed as some kind of epiphenomenon of brain activity by materialists, and it is a founding assumption of establishment science today, so the idea of conscious manipulation of the world’s political-economy conflicts with the assumptions of materialistic science (and it challenges many comforting fictions of how the world really works):

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

The greatest physicists were a bunch of mystics, and people such as Schroedinger, Einstein, and Heisenberg were keenly aware of science’s limits:

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

but hacks such as Carl Sagan and the “skeptics” have turned the methods of science into a religion called materialism:

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

It is just another egocentric, scarcity-based ideology:

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

but to the adherents of all such ideologies, they fail to see that they have concocted an artificial way of viewing the world that is not necessarily valid. When they discard their skepticism toward their worldview, particularly its assumptions, then they can become dogmatists and can form the priesthood of their ideology. If you read Sheldrake’s The Science Delusion, it is simply a challenge to materialism, coming from a scientist. An honest scientist would really have little to quibble with in addressing Sheldrake’s work, but that did not prevent the “skeptics” from bullying TED into banning Sheldrake’s talk:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ake#post740177

And if you hear Sheldrake’s talk or read his work, and see the “skeptical” complaints, it is hard to not conclude that the “skeptics” are idiots. But they are about the most dishonest bunch I have yet encountered:

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

and stupidity and dishonesty can look the same at first. It has consistently amazed me how naïve scientists have been regarding the “skeptics,” particularly people who should know better, such as prominent members of the FE field:

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

The naïveté and egocentrism of scientists keeps the entire FE field in a state of arrested development, as they think that tinkering, applying for patents, and raising money is the path to FE. I rarely seen a scientist not stuck in that rut, but for the few who advocate giving it away, open-sourcing it, and the like, my interactions with those scientists have exposed their naïveté and dishonesty, in spades. This criminal attacker of Dennis:

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

who gets promoted by people like Foster and other newbies because he is a scientist and writes cleverly, exhorts the public to manifest some integrity and advocates giving away FE. Those kinds of disconnects are rampant in the FE field (“Do as I say, not as I do,” AKA hypocrisy), which is why I won’t have anything to do with it anymore, and why Brian said that the people who will make FE happen are not the people in the field today:

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

If a scientist wants to say that he cannot profitably study UFOs or FE because nobody is laying the technology in his lap so he can study it, I am OK with that. But to turn around and say that they therefore don’t exist is stupid, but that kind of irrationality and naïve positivism dominates establishment science. And that is why seeking mainstream scientific interest or approval of FE is a waste of time. They can’t weigh in on something they can’t study, and far too often, they can’t be bothered to leave their labs and armchairs to go chasing after it, and they then irrationally deny the fact of organized suppression as a “conspiracy theory,” when reporting one’s experiences has nothing whatsoever to do with any theory. Data and theory are not the same thing, which every scientist should know. There are also many other irrationalities in these areas. I have seen scientists dismiss experience of organized suppression as "anecdotal," as if they can test organized suppression in a lab.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To take a little break, when people like Brian and I have received all the crazy FE denial, coming from all corners in many different flavors, some of the most common reactions are level five fear responses:

http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level5

which are all variations on people not being able to adapt to abundance. I admit that abundance has never been seen before, and it is currently unimaginable to the vast majority of humanity, and that is just how Godzilla likes it. But to think that when people actually get to experience abundance, that they will not begin to think and act abundantly, is a pretty shaky assumption, IMO. Just in my lifetime, I have watched people adapt to dire situations pretty easily, so to think that they can’t adapt to the good stuff, when they actually have it delivered to them, is a stretch, and IMO, is merely a projection of scarcity and fear onto a situation of love and abundance.

Just in my lifetime, Detroit has gone from one of Earth’s greatest industrial cities to ruins. When I lived in Ohio, I lived in Springfield for a year:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield,_Ohio

Springfield nearly became the motor capital instead of Detroit, a hundred years ago, but Detroit won. When I lived there, the locals told me that Springfield was actually doing OK until the oil crisis of 1973-1974, when all construction stopped and the city began going into decline. The rust belt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rust_Belt ) recession of 1980-1982 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_1..._United_States ), brought on by the second oil crisis, steepened its decline. In 2011, Springfield was named the USA’s unhappiest city.

Detroit becoming a sinkhole ( http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com...-thriving-city ) is nothing new, as this article from 1995 shows:

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/10/us...s-detroit.html

My recent post about the USA’s cities becoming hellholes is nothing new or radical:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post773202

but what has been somewhat amazing to me is how the public has normalized the USA’s swift decline. It has all tracked energy consumption, which was what it all rides on, but the many trappings of the USA’s decline have been accepted and hardly even questioned by people.

I got free college in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when California had the highest spending per capita on education in the USA. It has ranked near the bottom for many years now, and it all began with Ronald Reagan ( https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...gan#post599559 ), as he attacked the school system when he was governor and began defunding it, along with mental health and other social services. Earlier this year, California ranked 49th out of 50 states:

http://edsource.org/today/2013/calif...9#.UrTJ9-J0m1g

From first to worst in my lifetime. Part of the reason for that decline is paying heroes like Mr. Deputy about $250K per year in his well-earned retirement:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ion#post604711

I knew that Detroit was an evil place long ago:

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

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

and Dennis recently discovered that nothing has changed:

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

so it could be said that California, Detroit, and the USA are merely reaping their karma, like a fast version of Rome’s collapse, and I cannot argue much against it, but it has been amazing how Americans have adapted to nearly having body-cavity searches to get on airplanes:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ity#post508935

paying outrageous sums for college (the student loan bubble will be one of the next ones to burst in the USA http://www.cnbc.com/id/101012270 ), and other evidence of the dramatic decline in the USA’s standard of living. If they can get used to all of that, why would they not get used to abundance? I have had times of financial windfalls, and I got used to it easily. I recall when I saw it coming, and just imagined what it would feel like, and what would change, and I have to admit that a lot did change. Abundance will be a fun place to be, and I think that people will pretty easily adapt to it. Some may want to keep flagellating themselves and playing dark path games, but they will be the extreme minority and under the “siege” of abundance, not the people running the show.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One of the hardest things about trying to make a dent is staying away from panic mode, staying away from depression and hopelessness, staying away from trying the quick and easy answers, the hopelessly naïve “bright ideas” that abound (which are rife in Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6 ), and the like. As Dennis once said, to walk the FE path and stay sober is not easy. Brian, Dennis, and I all had drinking problems, and we all had to overcome them. Those who did not drink sometimes went insane, or stayed in some kind of obliviousness. Often enough, it was a kind of naïve infantilism, which often characterizes lambs to the slaughter. The lambs needed for my task are sentient and worldly.

I woke up to this story this morning:

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-1...rippled-cancer

I live in the fallout zone, and I know people who are terrified of it. While I understand the fear, it can be debilitating. Love is the answer, not fear.

I am an artisan soul:

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

and creativity is the best of what we have to offer, but it only comes when we are coming from a place of love, not fear, and only older souls can really make a dent. We are idea people, coming up with new ways of thinking and developing new paradigms. Artisans probably initiated all of the epochal events:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post674575

Einstein was an artisan, as were many on the leading edge of science and technology. I am also an artisan who was in the trenches, and I saw plenty of what does not work for bringing FE and abundance to the world. I have an idea of what might, but the idea has obviously not really taken seed very much, with only a few people humming the tune at Avalon after three years. Building the choir will be a long, slow process, primarily because almost nobody can even imagine the tune, much less sing it. The idea will need to take root, and I mean really take root, before priests, sages, kings, warriors, and scholars will come to the party (and only older souls will really be helpful; this is not a child's game, or one that adolescents can play). There is a lot of hard work ahead for the choir, but it may help humanity turn the corner, and just might be the critical missing piece.

Going hiking now…

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As an addendum to my previous post, today I was thinking about being an artisan. With creativity being the artisan’s positive pole, that may have been partly why it took so long to shed my final delusion on the FE front (or what I hope was my final delusion! ): that inventors, due to their creativity, got an extra helping of integrity:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ity#post512250

That was the delusion that it took me the longest to shed, and it may have been partly due to being captive to my own point of view, as an artisan. I never met an altruistic inventor, although I have heard the rumor of one or two, now dead. I never met or heard of the FE inventor with the goods willing to give it away. They all tried to cash in, and that was their downfall.

It really took me a long time for that to finally sink in. My first hints were my experiences with Mr. Inventor:

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

but I got to see it over and over in subsequent years, and when I watched Dennis get screwed over by inventors that he lionized in the 1990s (Brown, among others), it finally became clear. Years later, when I kind of got back in the game, even if rather peripherally with Brian O, the tales could become monotonous. Again, I have plenty of sympathy for the hapless FE inventor, but their approach is doomed to failure, which can also mean a wrecked and prematurely ended life, and Godzilla does not even need to be involved, as his “allies” do him in before Godzilla needs to lift a claw.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I write the essay, more and more comprehensive understandings become feasible to introduce, and one is what I just finished drafting this morning:


Calcium carbonate, the primary constituent of limestone, comes in two forms: calcite and aragonite. The magnesium content in the oceans, as well as the ocean temperature and level, determines which form of calcium carbonate will dominate. The Permian extinction also marked the end of a hundred million year ice age. During the eon of complex life, Earth has vacillated between icehouse and greenhouse conditions, with ice ages separated by hot periods. It also seems to be related to supercontinent dynamics. Hot seas are generally calcite seas, and cold seas are usually aragonite seas. Calcite seas create carbonate hardgrounds, which influence what kind of biome forms. The Ordovician and Silurian periods had vast carbonate hardgrounds, which disappeared during the Karoo ice age and returned in the hothouse age of dinosaurs, becoming common in the Jurassic. Today’s ice age has aragonite seas, so organisms that form calcium carbonate shells use aragonite, which is less stable than calcite and its formation is sensitive to temperature and acidity. Coral reefs, key phytoplankton (which help produce Earth’s oxygen), and shellfish use aragonite today to form their shells. There is already strong evidence that the acidification of the oceans, due to humanity’s burning of fossil hydrocarbon deposits to power the industrial age, is interfering with the ability of coral, carbonate-forming phytoplankton, and shellfish to form their shells. That is only one of the industrial age’s many deleterious ecosystem impacts. This aragonite situation is not a theoretical construct of fearful environmentalists, but an impact that is measurable today.


And that text above has about a dozen links, both within the essay and to outside sources, such as here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_a...#Acidification

That is an example of the interconnected nature of the essay. Of course, FE makes that problem disappear almost instantly.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am working hard on the essay, about to get to the extinction of dinosaurs, and the dinosaur chapter will be my biggest one yet. I’ll put up the chapter draft one day soon. There was a lot happening in those times, on land and sea, with plants and animals, with celestial, atmospheric, terrestrial, and oceanic events. Each chapter builds on the previous ones, and a comprehensive framework is beginning to take shape. In some ways, what I hope to help my readers understand is pretty simple, and in others it isn’t. I hope they come away from the essay understanding that energy has always been front and center, from the beginning of the galaxy to today. Again, there are only two basic ingredients to the universe: energy and consciousness. And energy is probably a manifestation of consciousness.

And while people like Sheldrake heroically try to get scientists to think outside the box of materialism:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post740177

for those who have done the work and performed undeniable remote viewings, mummified fruit with their minds:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post496281

gotten hot hands while performing psychic healings and the like, they know that materialism is a religion based on false assumptions. Materialism is one of the mind-trapping scarcity-based ideologies:

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

used to ensnare the minds of the “smart,” as are rationalism and scientism. And for those who have witnessed FE, antigravity, and other exotic technologies in action:

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

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

they know that the kinds of “smart” denial that Level 3 represents:

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

is pipe-smoking, armchair rubbish. For those on the fringes for long, it is also evident that there is a boxcar-load of chaff for every kernel of wheat, and most fringe enthusiasts eat chaff every day, which fringe hucksters serve up with gusto, which is really not much different than people believing what is on the news each day:

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

except maybe a little more tabloid at times.

As Chomsky once said, if people want to learn, they have to do the work. Nobody is going to open the top of somebody’s head and pour in knowledge. Knowledge comes from the hard work of gaining experience.

There are a million temptations and hazards off the beaten path, particularly where FE is concerned, and I am going to do my best so that everybody that I invite into the choir is past at least the elementary pitfalls. They have done what work they can, and have relinquished the need to come up with bright ideas and the like, on the FE front. Much of my work is to help disabuse people of those “bright idea” notions that are constantly bandied about (which I call Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6 ).

There is a long, long road of learning and unlearning that needs to happen before anybody can productively think in terms of FE and how to help make it happen. In a way, my ideal target audience has never even heard of FE, so they are not beholden to the many misconceptions that abound in the field.

If a person understands that energy is front and center, then they will achieve Godzilla’s understanding. He know that everything else is noise, but if he can keep everybody mesmerized by the million distractions, hacking at branches and the like, with only stray pioneers needing to be dealt with, then he has the game well in hand.

One of the key understandings that my essay will attempt to make clear is that human consciousness has always been dependent on the energy levels enjoyed. The increase in calories that fire and tools provided led to the human brain, and every major change since then has been entirely dependent on the energy situation. Without the energy provided by domesticating plants and animals, civilization would have never appeared, and if not for the energy provided by fossil fuels, slavery and barefoot and pregnant women would still be the norm, and the industrialized world would have never happened. Today, my fellow Americans kill off millions of people to steal their energy supplies:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post652292

and they don’t even acknowledge that they did it. They can’t afford to become sentient, or else their consciences could not handle it, so their ignorance and stupidity is intentional. Once again, consciousness is dependent on the energy situation. Every single epochal breakthrough, which was about energy every time:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post674575

was initiated by a small group of people who cracked the nut, and it was only after the new energy regime took hold that people rode the increased energy levels to new levels of awareness. With the rise of Europe and industrialization, chattel slaves and enslaved women became an abhorrent idea, but it was not abhorrent when the situation’s economics “needed” slaves and barefoot and pregnant women. Only as standards of living rose could people develop a conscience that made those hallowed institutions obsolete. It will be the same with FE. A relatively small group of truly sentient people are going to make the breakthrough, and once FE becomes a daily reality, people will develop consciences that abhor wars to plunder energy resources, and the scarcity-based ideologies that people worship today will become obsolete, just as they always have, when the economic situation allowed for a higher level of awareness. And when abundance-based awareness is reached, there may be no going back, and a world like this may beckon:

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

for those who can attain the requisite sentience, and it all begins in the heart.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[gripreaper]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
Hi:

Again, there are only two basic ingredients to the universe: energy and consciousness. And energy is probably a manifestation of consciousness.

Wade

So simple, so succinct.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Gripreaper:

I might be able to save myself a lot of time and money if I shortened the essay up a little, such as edit it down to something like this:

Energy: Think about it.

But will that get it done?

Ho, ho, ho,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Peace on Earth

Abundance for All

[Dennis Leahy]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
Peace on Earth

Abundance for All

Right back to you, bro.

Thank you for the compassion that drives you.

Dennis

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just received the latest book review from Edward Herman (AKA Uncle Ed):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_S._Herman

on the war in Rwanda and the West’s complicity, and how the governments and Western media turned the situation on its head. That Wikipedia article on Ed is far worse than what has been done to Brian O’s article. The imperial hacks abound on that article. To see Ed's work misrepresented that way is almost an honor, I am sorry to say. The email I got from Ed was reviewing this book:

http://www.barakabooks.com/catalogue...le-for-africa/

Ed has done the same thing with Yugoslavia, Israel and Palestine, the USA and Southeast Asia, and Central America in the 1980s:

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

Ed is nearly 90 years old and still at it. Awe-inspiring work like his is partly what keeps me at it. I am working on what will likely be considered my magnum opus at 55, so I have all my marbles left while I can still write it. How Uncles Noam and Ed can still do it in their eighties is incredible. If I can write anything of substance in my 80s, if I make it that far, it will be gravy.

Wade Frazier

[marlowe]

The Pacific Ocean and every living thing in it will be dead in 15 years.....

How is THAT going to be "healed "?

We are talking about the eventual extinction of all the whales, dolphins , seals, and salt water fish on Planet Earth.....It's time to get REALISTIC IMHO...

[Ilie Pandia]

Hi Marlowe,

It looks like you've read only the title on this thread .

The quick answer to your question would be: waking up to the reality of Free Energy and implementing its usage from a heart centered perspective.

The theme of this thread is to bring to the readers awareness that Energy is really the issue on this planet right now, or to be more specific the artificially enforced Energy scarcity.

The longs posts that Wade is making here describe in a "birds eye" view how energy runs the show (and always has) and how radical solutions and changes can be implemented once the Energy problem has been solved.

Unfortunately many people look at various problems going on around us, but they rarely go at the root cause of it. Solving the Pacific problem will not actually address the fact that we are on the edge of the abyss and we are not slowing down.

With Free Energy the cause of the pollution of the ocean (and the other systems as well) would disappear. We would enter in an abundant world where human would not have to live at the expense of other creatures here on the planet.

This is a very short summary, just to describe what this thread is about, and you can browse it or Wade's site to learn why this is called "A healed planet" and why Free Energy is the way to do it.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well put, Ilie. My site is about nothing but reality: the one we had, the one we have, and the one we can have, if a tiny fraction of us wakes up in time.

I suppose that the Pacific threat that marlowe refers to is the radiation from Fukushima. I live in its fallout, so I am keenly aware of the situation:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post775464

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...ima#post770701

and have been writing about Fukushima almost since it happened:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post220252

I have been trying to make nuclear power obsolete since 1987:

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

and was presenting a solution for nuclear waste to the DOE in 1997:

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

If a tiny fraction of humanity had woken up by now, these problems would already be solved, and many others, such as global warming and the acidification of the oceans (and other big threats to the world’s oceans). The oceans, like the land-based ecosystems, would no longer be plundered by humanity for food and other resources. Most people would become vegetarians, and the perfect diet would be developed and universally available (mostly live food, and mostly fruit), and Earth’s ecosystems would never be plundered again for human benefit. The human standard living would increase by a few orders of magnitude for starters:

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

Earth’s ecosystems would heal, and humans would assist the healing process, helping to balance the dark and heavy karma that our species has created for itself, especially Europeans and their descendants, such as Americans:

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

This kind of world would then become feasible:

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

But it won’t happen when 99.99% of humanity is asleep and easily manipulated by the social managers, while those who are “doing something” meaninglessly hack at branches. Energy runs the show on Earth and always has, and each epoch of the human journey was spurred and sustained by an energy event that radically transformed the human journey:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post674575

So-called “free energy” would initiate the fifth epochal event, and the human journey would quickly resemble Star Trek, less the Klingons, Cardassians, and other galactic miscreants. While miscreants still exist, they don’t have empires with rivalries and wars in this corner of the galaxy. Humans are under quarantine by something resembling the Federation, because of our warlike and primitive nature, and the Federation does not directly interfere, because something very similar to the Prime Directive guides them. Star Trek is not all that fictional, but I am not waiting for the “Space Brothers” to save us from ourselves. We have to do the work to wake up, and the global elites that I call Godzilla are simply a symptom of our slumber, not a cause. Love is the answer and has always been, but scarcity and fear are joined at the hip, as are love and abundance:

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

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As writing my essay winds down in the coming months and I form my own forum and try to get a choir assembled, the conversations will be at far higher levels than have been seen at Avalon so far, and everybody involved, including me, is going to have to raise their games if the choir is going to make a dent.

I am attempting to form a new paradigm, basically one based on abundance, before the means to it have been delivered to the public. That is a very tall task, but should be harmless enough to those involved (although relinquishing self-serving beliefs can be a very painful experience). Almost nobody has proven willing or able to relinquish their scarcity-based teddy bears:

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

and letting go of them is the first stage of the process, and probably the hardest. Also, one of the most common aspects of people learning new ways of being is proselytizing with their half-cocked new "understanding." FE newbies almost always want to rush out and proselytize. I always discourage it, and those activities can end up with destroyed family relationships, friendships, and even careers, but newbies seem to have to always try it out. The perceptive ones usually come back to me before long and tell me that they learned that lesson and will no longer proselytize. The choir is not going to be about proselytizing.

The people that I hope to attract are not the kind that respond to proselytizing, but are students of the truth and actively quest after it, not have somebody hit them over the head with it. And again, those people are exceedingly rare, but I am going to be using this new technology, the Internet, to try to find them. Virtually nobody in the choir will bring any of their family, friends, and colleagues with them. They will be freaks among those in their daily lives, as they do not march with the herd. And not because they are “rebellious,” but because they are sentient and have left herd thinking and herd behaviors behind.

Almost everybody who has ever been exposed to FE and gotten past denial that it exists or is possible (Levels 1 to 3 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level1 ) thinks that they have some bright idea that nobody ever thought of before, and after five minutes of FE aspirants trying out the newbie’s bright idea, then it is the race to the finish line of FE and a healed planet. That is the ego talking, and anybody that I invite into the choir will be past those juvenile ideas. The best of the best have spent their lives in this problem, and many have had their lives wrecked or prematurely ended, for those who did not end up wearing Golden Handcuffs:

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

There are no easy answers. Even so, I expect some brilliance by youngsters in the choir, even stuff that really will be a bright new idea that will turn out to be vital. The greatest breakthroughs in physics, math, and science were generally made by youngsters, such as Einstein, Newton, Heisenberg, and the like, and they were a bunch of mystics, to one degree or another:

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

But none of them made their breakthroughs after five minutes of studying the problem, but only after years and years of hard work. Einstein did not publish his seminal papers of 1905 until about a decade after the idea of relativity first came to him, and it was only a dream that removed his final hurdles to the theory.

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

So, while they will be young, they will not be newbies who first heard of FE five minutes before they proposed their “brilliant” solution.

Somebody like Ilie, after several years of hard work, may come up with some new angle on the FE conundrum, but it will be years downstream.

My greatest hope for the choir is to help them quickly get past all the newbie delusions that I call Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 http://www.ahealedplanet.net/paradigm.htm#level6 ), as I have watched countless aspirants disappear down those rabbit holes:

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

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

never to be seen again.

I already have an approach in mind for at least forming a fertile environment where FE can manifest. It can only help, and might be the critical missing ingredient, and I did not come up with it because I am so smart. It came to me only after many years of trying or witnessing many approaches, and seeing how each failed, and seeing how deadly the failures could be, that I came to the approach that I am about to try. And I won’t have people stumbling into the conversation who heard of FE five minutes before they sallied forth. The conversation that I will mount will only be engaged by initiates who have done their homework. A scientific background will be helpful but not required, and a little naïveté will be no great crime, as everybody I respect in these fields began their journeys naïvely:

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

especially me.

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

But choir members will generally have to have some kind of real-world experience that helped their awareness reach past the herd assumptions, and one term for that is called thinking comprehensively:

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

but it is also one that left naïveté behind, and that usually only happens via experience.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[sdv]

Thanks Wade. When I first came across your work, and this thread, I was gung ho about alternative energy that is kinder to the environment and enthusiastic about alternative energy inventors (my dream is wealth that will enable me to buy land, build my dream home and establish solar power, perhaps also wind power, rainwater capture, recycling, a fruit and nut orchard, grow vegetables, herbs and spices and get eggs from chickens, plus establish a reserve for indigenous vegetation) . Godzilla hijacks such initiatives (alternative energy devices) to increase power, wealth and control (see how the solar energy revolution in Germany has been hijacked by the profit motive). Most of humanity wait for energy to be delivered rather than become personally empowered to create and control energy in alignment with the natural rhythms of the universe.

I think I finally understand why you are trying to build a choir (awakening by informing and challenging), because we can only have free energy if we can believe it and dream it and choose it. You are trying to build a choir to sing that song.

I am so sorry if I have misunderstood you, and I am so sorry that I am so skeptical (I cannot even get my community to recycle or produce compost for the gardens ... the recycling depot is right next door to us, but no one wants to recycle ... they just keep throwing everything away to be taken to some exponentially growing waste dump that they do not have to see and can pretend does not exist, and the excuses for not producing compost from waste are so darn pathetic!).

But, I want to find a way to be a part of your choir and to sing the song that will transform the life of humans on this awesomely beautiful and wondrous planet.

Each and every human being has the capacity, the ability, to generate energy, and the 'device' (perhaps one of many) that is needed to store and control the use of this energy has already been discovered. But, Godzilla is well placed to control this for self interest (patents are supposed to protect the rights of the individual, as are copyright laws and treaties, but ... the benefit from copyright protection has been hijacked to serve elites). I have a fantasy, a dream, that such information (about free energy, real, practical, unrestricted free energy) will be shared among the forgotten, lost poor. Imagine empowering remote communities and spreading the revolution beyond the reaches of Godzilla ...!

Perhaps Gaia will do something unpredictable and create the very conditions needed for the choir you are creating to be heard!

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, taking a little break after drafting the dinosaur chapter. It is too big to put into one Avalon post, so I am breaking it in two. I am sympathetic to readers who feel overwhelmed by the information, but there is a method to my madness. I hope that several ideas will become “seated” with my readers (particularly those whom I plan to invite into the choir) after they finish the “pre-human” part of my essay, and some are:


1. Energy has always run the show ( );

2. Earth’s geophysical development has directly-impacted the evolution of life, and vice versa;

3. Sh*t happens, where the success of a new life form (such as trees), set dynamics in motion that spelled the end for many other creatures, or everybody may have been fat and happy, and along comes an asteroid and ends the party;

4. All creatures that dominated various ecosystems over the eons were originally marginal organisms, and while their eventual dominance could be due to their superior biological processes (always energy-related), quite often their dominance was because the field was cleared via a catastrophe, and the previously marginal players rose to dominance when the rock stars left the stage via extinction (Yes, mammals, I am looking at you. );

5. When the eon of complex life began, food chains appeared, and they are inherently more complex than simple ecosystems, and their organisms are also more complex. That complexity can confer great advantages, but also create great risks, the greatest of which is when the energy chain is disrupted, anywhere along the way, the entire ecosystem can collapse.


And as readers make their way through the age of humans, the above dynamics will become evident in the epochs of the human journey and the rise and fall of civilizations. While humanity is reliant on an energy source that is being depleted a million times as fast as it was created, we are on our way to a collapse of epic proportions, and may take most complex life with us. With FE, many radical changes will happen in the human journey. Not only will it be the first time that humanity has truly experienced abundance, but humans will no longer need to exploit and destroy ecosystems for short-term human benefit. Not only will the ecosphere begin to recover, and humans can greatly accelerate that process by helping, but humans will no longer be subject to the vagaries of climate, resource depletion, and the like.

I can see some readers thinking, “Hey Wade, you just said it in one page, so why do you need to use two hundred pages and a friggin’ 1300-page website? My head hurts.” I do it because unless people really do the work and develop comprehensive perspectives, what I wrote above will not really “seat” in their awareness, but will be seen as another flavor of the day, and the reader then trots off to listen to the next New Age talking head, watch the latest YouTube viral hit, or god forbid, they get the idea that they can help make FE happen by supporting the tinkering inventor of the hour who is getting patents and raising money, etc., thinking that Godzilla is a conspiracist myth, he died in his sleep, the White Hats put him in a cage, or we can somehow sneak past him.

The fifth epochal event is no small beer:

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post674575

and the people who can help it manifest will not be doing it as a lunch hour diversion, but will need to go deep, and they will need to keep their eye on the ball, and that requires discipline and a comprehensive perspective, not tunnel vision.

Time for chores as I recover from drafting that chapter. Again, as I steam along, prior chapters are being revised, and when the entire monster gets drafted, the editor’s hat will go on in a big way, and not just with me, but my professional editor, scientist pals, and others. We will see what the final product looks like.

So, here is my chapter draft on the Mesozoic Era, AKA, The Reign of Dinosaurs.

Best,

Wade

The Reign of Dinosaurs – Part 1

The period following the greatest extinction ever is called the Triassic, which ran from about 252 mya to 201 mya. The Triassic also was the Mesozoic era’s first period (the other two periods were the Jurassic and Cretaceous), with the Mesozoic also known as the Golden Age of Reptiles, but most people think of it as the reign of dinosaurs. However, dinosaurs did not yet exist when the Triassic began.

There was a “coal gap” in the early Triassic, and depending on the framework and which scientist is asked, it took Earth’s ecosystems ten million years (when the environment became normal enough to sustain normal ecosystems), thirty million (when terrestrial ecosystem diversity recovered), or a hundred million years (when marine ecosystem diversity recovered) to recover from the Permian extinction. On land, the forests slowly recovered, with the disaster-taxa lycophytes dominating the early Triassic. Seed ferns came to dominate the Southern Hemisphere, and palm-tree-resembling cycads and ginkgo trees (which first appeared in the late Permian, of which the living fossil Ginkgo biloba is the only surviving member) also thrived. In the Triassic’s Northern Hemisphere, on what became North America, Europe, and Siberia, conifer forests recovered and blanketed the land.

From the Permian extinction’s devastation arose a reptilian sheep called Lystrosaurus. Fossil hunters of early Triassic sediments have been frustrated for many years, as nearly 95% of preserved early Triassic land animal remains are Lystrosaurus fossils, because it was about the Permian extinction’s only land animal survivor. There has been debate for many years about why it survived when almost nothing else did. No single animal ever dominated Earth’s land masses as thoroughly as Lystrosaurus did during the early Triassic. Lystrosaurus was likely a burrower (many have likened Lystrosaurus to a pig because of that burrowing), which may have provided the shelter needed to survive the Permian holocaust. It may also have been a generalist herbivore and could eat most surviving plants. But some think that its survival, when almost every other species died, was due to luck. Luck is a surprisingly common scientific explanation for evolutionary events, with some creatures seeming to be in the right place at the right time, and others being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The spread of Lystrosaurus was also aided by two other dynamics; the land masses formed one continent, so Lystrosaurus could simply walk to dominance of Earth, and few predators capable of eating a Lystrosaurus survived. One swamp denizen ate Lystrosaurus (being semi-aquatic may have also helped species survive the Permian extinction), as did another carnivore, but not much else did. Lystrosaurus was a therapsid, as were the dominant land animals before the Permian extinction.

The Golden Age of Lystrosaurus lasted only about a million years before it was displaced by much larger herbivorous reptiles, and diapsids, particularly archosaurs, began displacing therapsids early in the Triassic. A cynodont descendant, Thrinaxodon, burrowed and was possibly a direct ancestor of mammals. If it was not our direct ancestor, it was a close cousin to it. Proto-mammals were displaced and largely driven underground during the Triassic, with many of them resembling rats and other rodents. About halfway through the Triassic, early mammals first appeared, although there is plenty of fierce controversy over exactly which animal could be called a mammal. But reptiles starred in the Mesozoic’s tale, dinosaurs in particular, with mammals being small, marginal creatures, and until the late Mesozoic, they only emerged from their burrows at night to feed.

In Triassic seas, ammonoids recovered from brink of extinction at the Permian’s end to live in their Golden Age, while still periodically booming and busting. It took ten million years after the Permian’s end for reefs to begin to recover, and when they did, they were formed by stony corals, which evolved from their tabulate and rugose ghost ancestors, and stony corals also built today’s reefs. Bivalves dominated biomes where brachiopods once flourished, and never relinquished their dominance. Before the Permian extinction, about two-thirds of marine animals were immobile. That number dropped to half during the Triassic, but ecosystems became far more diverse, and a marine “arms race” began in the late Triassic. New shell cracking and piercing strategies were invented by predators, and the prey had to adapt or go extinct. The few surviving brachiopods and crinoids were driven to ecosystem margins, and the Jurassic and Cretaceous would see the appearance of shell-cracking crabs and lobsters.

The Tethys Ocean grew during the Triassic, and in the Jurassic, there were no more island barriers on the Tethys’s east end. The Paleo-Tethys was finally squeezed out of existence by islands that became part of Eurasia. The shallow margins of the Tethys became the greatest oil source in Earth’s history. The Proto-Tethys and Paleo-Tethys oceans also formed oil deposits, but about 70% of the world’s oil supply initially formed during the Mesozoic’s numerous anoxic events, primarily along the Tethys’s margins. From the Middle East, Caspian Sea, and Western Russia to North Africa, the Gulf of Mexico, and Venezuela, virtually all of their oil deposits were laid down by dying and preserved organisms along Tethyan shores. In the early Triassic, along the west end of what became North America, oceanic plate subduction under continental plates initiated a series of volcanic and mountain-building events that continue to this day. The foundations of the Sierra Nevada mountain range were formed then, which I have spent my fair share of time hiking through.

Low-oxygen Mesozoic oceans saw the rise of unusual biomes. In methane seeps in the Mesozoic ocean floor, bivalves and brachiopods formed symbiotic relationships with chemosynthetic organisms that digested methane. All over the world, scientists have been amazed to find rock layers almost entirely comprised of shells of those innovative, low-oxygen surviving shelled animals.

Similar to cliché images of Carboniferous rainforests depicting a giant dragonfly, the cliché dinosaur image has volcanoes in the background (1, 2, 3). The Mesozoic began and ended with tremendous volcanic eruptions, and major eruptions dotted the Mesozoic. Those eruptions vented vast amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and were responsible for the high carbon dioxide levels that dominated the Mesozoic, according to GEOCARBSULF and its later corrections, which made it such a hot era. Hot seas also do not hold as much oxygen as cold seas, which contributed to the anoxic events that continually visited Mesozoic oceans, particularly the Tethys. Hot, low-oxygen air is hostile to animal life, and during the Triassic, many reptiles beat the heat by migrating back to the oceans where their ancestors hailed from. Those seagoing reptiles soon dominated Earth’s oceans, in Earth’s greatest migration from land to sea. Ichthyosaurs, which looked like reptilian dolphins, first appeared about 245 mya and survived for about 150 million years. The ancestors of plesiosaurs also appeared when ichthyosaurs did. By 215 mya, some ichthyosaurs became gigantic, with one species reaching more than twenty meters in length, and it had Earth’s largest eyes ever, at about the size of a dinner plate. Ichthyosaurs hunted the squid’s ancestors (which could get pretty large), Earth’s other big-eyed animals, but feasted on a wide variety of prey as the late Triassic oceans’ apex predators. Also a shellfish-eating cousin of plesiosaurs lived in the Triassic. Aquatic reptiles overcame Carrier’s Constraint, and many aquatic reptiles of the Mesozoic seem to have become warm-blooded, as well as give live birth.

So far, this essay has dealt lightly with regional differences, largely confining the discussion to polar, temperate, and tropical conditions in the seas, and rainforest versus dryer conditions on land. While Pangaea existed, barriers to species diffusion on land were relatively modest, hence Lystrosaurus dominance. But Pangaea began to break up at the Triassic’s end, and continental differences in plants and animals often became significant in later times. While the formation of Pangaea had profound impacts, because land life was relatively young, the differences and resultant changes due to oceanic barriers being removed were far less than would happen in the distant future, such as when South America connected to North America.

For an example of how geography impacted early animal evolution, therapsids are thought to have evolved in non-tropical Permian climates. That non-tropical beginning influenced therapsid evolution, particularly strategies for regulating body temperature. Therapsids were rather stocky, with short limbs and tails, which is a cold-weather adaptation seen in mammals today. There is plenty of speculation and research on the issue of therapsid thermoregulation, because mammals are the therapsid line’s last survivors. Diapsids, on the other hand, evolved in warmer climates and were relatively gracile, with particularly long tails. That long tail was critical for the appearance of bipedal reptiles, as it shifted their center of gravity over their hips.

Until my lifetime, scientists thought of dinosaurs as slow and stupid, but that view has changed. In the 1970s, scientists realized that prior depictions of bipedal dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus Rex erroneously presented them with upright postures. Their actual posture had the tail, spine, and head all on a line largely parallel with the ground. Not until the release of Jurassic Park did the public begin to see more realistic portrayals of bipedal dinosaur posture. That posture may have been critical for the success of dinosaurs, as becoming bipedal, with their legs in an upright position under their bodies, allowed them to overcome Carrier’s Constraint. Also, the notion of overcoming Carrier’s Constraint transformed the view of dinosaurs from lumbering, slow creatures to nimble runners. The dinosaur line is considered monophyletic, and the first dinosaurs were bipeds. All quadrupedal dinosaurs likely re-evolved their four-legged stances from the original bipedal posture, which is obvious in that nearly all quadrupedal dinosaurs had rear legs longer than their front ones.

The view on dinosaur intelligence has also changed radically in the past generation, as evidence has been adduced that some dinosaurs were significantly encephalized (particularly the line that led to birds), as well as evidence for parenting and herd behaviors, and pack hunting. Dinosaurs had the first hands, even with opposable thumbs. Recent work on encephalization suggests that animals were well on their way toward human-level encephalization hundreds of millions of years ago, and were prevented from attaining it far earlier, such as 70 mya, due to the Permian extinction. The world might be populated with sentient, civilized, and even space-traveling reptiles today if events had played out slightly differently, such as that asteroid missing Earth 66 mya (or technologically-advanced dinosaurs preventing its impact).

The direct ancestors of dinosaurs, archosauromorphs, first appeared in the late Permian, and some bedraggled specimens survived into the Triassic as ghost ancestors. But the first true dinosaurs did not appear until about twenty million years into the Triassic, with Eoraptor being about the first recognized dinosaur and best known early example. Eoraptor looks like a miniature Tyrannosaurus Rex, and in fact began a terrestrial dinosaur line that ended with the Lizard King, called theropods. Birds are also likely part of the theropod clade, as the only survivor of that line and the only surviving dinosaurs. Eoraptor was about a meter long and weighed ten kilograms. The time from the first diapsids to the first dinosaurs spanned nearly a hundred million years, but there was nothing spectacular about them then, as their early years were dominated by amphibians, then synapsids, then therapsids. Why dinosaurs rose to prominence has been a source of controversy and debate, but the contending answers are energy-based.

Carrier’s Constraint and the first dinosaurs’ bipedal posture is currently an issue of great interest, as it may explain why dinosaurs prevailed over therapsids. According to GEOCARBSULF and COPSE, the early Triassic was a period of low oxygen following the Permian crash, down to 15% or so from the early Permian’s 25-35%. Peter Ward’s hypothesis is that dinosaur ancestors evolved their bipedal posture to overcome Carrier’s Constraint in the Triassic’s low-oxygen environment. With running no longer interfering with breathing, quick dinosaurs displaced lethargic therapsids in the Triassic. Even quadrupedal dinosaurs had postures with their legs directly under them, which overcame Carrier’s Constraint. The standard hypothesis is that speed and stamina allowed dinosaurs to prevail, but they also first appeared and began their spread after another mass extinction event about 230 mya, which may have resulted from volcanism and/or mountain-building in Alaska and along the west coast of Canada, with their attendant climatic effects. Today, two competing hypotheses explain the rise of dinosaurs: their superior respiration and speed, or their opportunism when a mass extinction at 230 mya eliminated therapsid herbivores and left the biomes open for herbivore dinosaurs, called Sauropodomorpha, to appear and dominate by the Triassic’s end. Their probable descendants, the sauropods, are Earth’s largest land animals ever, and the question of why dinosaurs became so large is a central issue today, and may well be related to another hot topic: the development of endothermy in dinosaurs.

Birds are warm-blooded, and today’s reptiles are cold-blooded. Thermoregulation is a vast, complex issue, and being warm-blooded or cold-blooded appeared to be a result of evolutionary cost-benefit outcomes. The first vertebrates that left Earth’s waters often basked, the first dominant reptiles had energy-regulating sails, and therapsids may have at least dabbled in chemical means of internal temperature regulation, although the evidence is thin. But the evidence for dinosaurian internal temperature regulation is strong, and the surviving therapsid line, the mammals, also developed internal temperature regulation.

The Triassic began hot and ended hot, and the Jurassic and Cretaceous were also hot, so staying warm was not a significant issue for dinosaurs. Marine reptiles stayed cool by becoming aquatic, and for land-based dinosaurs, features such as Stegosaurus plates apparently replaced the sails of synapsids for both heating and cooling, and like the synapsid sail, those Stegosaurus plates may have also been used for display. And like the cliché, many large herbivorous dinosaurs lived near cooling swamps, although the issue has been controversial. Cooling swamps and protective water holes that we see in the tropics today were a major aspect of Mesozoic landscapes. But the thermoregulatory aspect that most work is directed toward today is how dinosaurs kept warm. There is compelling evidence that dinosaurs regulated their body temperature in myriads ways, including internal chemistry. All bipedal animals today are endotherms, and they all have four-chambered hearts, as dinosaurs did. Feathers, dinosaurs living near the poles (1, 2), and oxygen-isotope studies of dinosaur bones all support the idea that dinosaurs engaged in internal temperature regulation, but one of the more intriguing areas is that of dinosaur growth. Like tree rings, bones have seasonal growth rings, and they have been read for many dinosaur fossils. They have been used to determine dinosaur life expectancies. Tyrannosaurus Rex could live to be about thirty, while the giant sauropods could live to be fifty, and smaller dinosaurs, as with smaller mammals, lived shorter lives, with the tiny ones only living three-to-four years, and the mid-sized ones living seven-to-fifteen years. Growth rates also provide thermoregulation evidence. Tyrannosaurs had juvenile growth spurts and largely stopped growing as adults, and sauropods had growth rates equivalent to today’s whales, which are Earth’s fastest growing animals. But there is also evidence of ectothermic dynamics. The great size of dinosaurs would have led to relatively easy ways to stay warm, as large animals have a greater mass-to-surface area ratio, similar to how complex cells overcame the energy generation issue. Also, in the generally hot Mesozoic times, staying warm would have been fairly easy, particularly for huge dinosaurs.

As we know with mammals, while optimal performance can be attained with endothermy, it comes with a great energetic cost. As with plants, an animal can spend its energy budget on consumption (metabolism) or investment (growth). An intriguing hypothesis is that growing large was part of an energy strategy, as the benefits of size (reduced risk of predation, ease of conserving body heat and consequently less need for a high metabolism, ability to access new food sources, such as foliage high above the ground) outweighed their costs (energy devoted to growth instead of metabolism, the need to constantly feed). Their size and the warm climate meant that large dinosaurs did not need as intense internal energy generation as mammals do, for instance, and dinosaurs may have been mesotherms, with internal energy regulation greater than ectotherms, but not as great as endotherms (mammals and birds).

With GEOCARBSULF’s depiction of low Mesozoic oxygen levels, Peter Ward has addressed a controversial issue regarding how dinosaurs breathed. Birds have an air sac breathing system with an inflexible septate lung, which is highly superior to the mammalian alveolar bellows lung. At 1600 meters elevation, today’s birds are about twice as efficient at extracting atmospheric oxygen as mammals are. Flying is the most aerobically-demanding activity on Earth, and a bird’s air-sac breathing system is a primary reason why they can fly, and flying over the Himalayas is an energetic feat far beyond what any mammal can accomplish. The high-performance respiration that birds have is also why they live far longer than similarly-sized mammals, but is likely related to their efficient mitochondria. When a mammal breathes, it inhales oxygenated air and exhales carbon dioxide. But is not a very efficient system, as fresh and depleted air mix in the lungs. The air sac system, on the other hand, passes fresh oxygenated air along the lungs with each breath. One might say that birds constantly inhale. Animations of the air sac system can help understand it. Since birds evolved from dinosaurs, and indeed are dinosaurs, just when this innovation developed is of great interest to paleobiologists. If the Mesozoic was the low-oxygen era that GEOCARBSULF depicts, then the air sac system would have been a logical adaptation to oxygen-poor air.

The issue of avian and dinosaurian air sacs and when they evolved has been the focus of a rancorous dispute which was only recently resolved and hinged on the hollow parts of bones, which is a phenomenon called skeletal pneumaticity. The controversy involved dinosaur bone pneumaticity and how it may have been related to birds. In a landmark paper in 2005, it was shown that birds have their most important air sacs where nobody thought they were, near a bird’s tail, not its head. Not only that, pneumatic bones are all related to the air sac system, and birds have the same pneumatic bones as saurischian dinosaurs did. The obvious implication is that the air sac system evolved in theropods and sauropods when dinosaurs first appeared. If the air sac system appeared with the first dinosaurs, it is one more big reason why dinosaurs prevailed over the less respiratorily gifted therapsids. That such a highly effective respiration system would have evolved in a low-oxygen environment makes a great deal of sense.

Ornithischians, a great clade of herbivorous dinosaurs, appeared soon after theropods did, but were initially marginal dinosaurs and did not begin becoming abundant until the late Jurassic. If dinosaurs all have the same common ancestor, ornithischian dinosaurs quickly diverged, with their different hips, and so far, there is no good evidence that ornithischians breathed with the air sac system, and they became the dominant herbivores in the relatively high-oxygen Cretaceous. What ornithischians particularly had going for them was a superior eating system. Ornithischians were the only dinosaurs that chewed their food. Chewing squeezes more calories from plant matter, and may be why ornithischians surpassed sauropods in the Cretaceous. Sauropods did not chew their food, but had rock-filled gizzards, like birds and reptiles do today. Sauropods began becoming gigantic in the late Triassic. Only rare ornithischians without chewing teeth had gizzards. Sauropods also had the smallest proportional brains of any dinosaur. Ornithopods were in second place only to theropods in brain size, and were among the most successful Cretaceous herbivores. A fascinating aspect of some ornithopods was their seeming ability to communicate by bugling with a horn in their head’s crest. This kind of evidence strongly supports the idea of herd behavior in herbivorous dinosaurs. There is also evidence of a dinosaur stampede, which is keenly contested (1, 2) these days.

Long before birds learned to fly, non-dinosaurian reptiles did, with the first pterosaurs flying about 220 mya. They also had an air sac respiration system. While they obviously flew, just how they flew has been controversial. They were likely warm-blooded, and by the late Cretaceous, pterosaurs became Earth’s largest flying animals ever, with ten-meter wingspans. Pterosaurs may have been the dinosaurs’ closest relatives.

The mass extinction at 230 mya coincided with a volcanic event and the initial building of mountains in what became Central Asia. Ammonoids, bivalves, and other marine denizens were hit hard, and on land it was nearly the final exit for therapsids (cynodonts and dicynodonts), and what would have been the chief diapsid competitor to early sauropods, rhynchosaurs, suddenly went extinct, possibly by losing their food source. Extinction specialist Michael Benton argues that the mass extinction at 230 mya was greater in ways than the end-Triassic extinction, which is considered one of the Big Five extinctions. The first appearance of dinosaurs coincided with the mid-Triassic mass extinction, and mammals first appeared a few million years later. While the “slate being cleared” by a mass extinction may well have given dinosaurs their opportunity, they also left many contemporaries far behind. Mammals would be rat-like fringe dwellers for 160 million years after they first appeared, while dinosaurs ruled Earth. Stony corals also first appeared after the mid-Triassic extinction, and turtles first appeared about 220 mya.

Although the Triassic was a period of great evolutionary novelty, even called an “explosion” in some corners, where air sac lungs, dinosaurs, mammals, modern corals, and flying and marine reptiles appeared, it was not nearly the boom when mammals rose after the Cretaceous extinction. GEOCARBSULF shows that oxygen levels were low during the Triassic, rebounding a little from the Permian extinction, and then collapsing to perhaps their lowest level of the entire eon of complex life. Peter Ward posited that the low oxygen levels during the Triassic and Jurassic kept dinosaurs from “exploding” like mammals did after the Cretaceous extinction. GEOCARBSULF’s crash of oxygen levels coincides with the end-Triassic extinction, about 201 mya. The cause of the end-Triassic mass extinction, as with all other extinction events, is debated today, with climate change and volcanic eruptions among the primary suspects (with the volcanic eruptions spewing “only” hundreds of thousands of cubic kilometers of lava, compared to the Permian’s millions), along with rising and falling sea levels. GEOCARBSULF’s carbon dioxide values show a carbon dioxide spike, which would have caused global warming, as happened in the Permian extinction, and could have triggered the same dynamics of methane hydrate vaporization and hydrogen sulfide events. A recent study makes the similarity explicit between the end-Permian and end-Triassic extinction events, with ominous parallels to current events. Vented carbon dioxide from volcanic events also made the oceans near shore acidic. Extensive anoxic events visited the oceans in the late Triassic, particularly along the Tethys’s periphery, and Triassic anoxia formed Southern Iraq’s oldest oil deposits, which the USA militarily seized and privatized during the past generation.

The breakup of Pangaea at the Triassic’s end not only likely initiated volcanic events right in the heart of Pangaea, but the weather systems would have been altered. In general, the Triassic was a dry period on Pangaea (with some mid-Triassic extinctions possibly related to it becoming wetter on land), and the Jurassic was wetter, with the ubiquitous Mesozoic jungles depicted by Hollywood thriving.

The end-Triassic extinction once again nearly drove ammonoids to extinction, with perhaps only one genus surviving. The reefs that began to recover in the late Triassic were again eradicated, not reappearing until more than ten million years later. Bivalves, brachiopods, and gastropods lost about half of their genera. The marine reptile placodonts, which specialized in eating mollusks, went extinct, and plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs were the marine apex predators to begin the Jurassic. On land, it was nearly the end for therapsids; afterward, until their final extinction in the early Cretaceous, they would be marginal fringe dwellers. All large terrestrial non-dinosaur archosaurs went extinct, leaving dinosaurs unchallenged for terrestrial dominance during the Jurassic.

Similar to reptiles finding refuge in the oceans, the crocodile’s ancestors were originally terrestrial archosaurs and found their cooling niche in swampy margins and still do today, even though their cousins (1, 2) went extinct in the end-Triassic event. Crocodiles have four-chambered hearts like dinosaurs, which suggests that they may have been endotherms/mesotherms that re-evolved ectothermy to better adapt to swamp life. Only one superfamily of primitive amphibians survived the end-Triassic event for long, and its last surviving member lasted into the Cretaceous in survival enclaves. It was a giant, at five meters long and five hundred kilograms. Primitive amphibians could not abide the reign of crocodiles, and since the end-Triassic event, amphibians have been almost exclusively modern varieties. The first salamanders appeared in the late Jurassic, and frogs may have first appeared a hundred million years earlier, in the late Permian. Similar to dinosaurs and probably spurred by their size in an arms race, crocodiles became huge, with a Cretaceous species reaching twelve meters and eight metric tons (and this one). Ambushing drinking sauropods, and holding their heads under until they drowned, was a likely specialty of those huge crocodiles.

With all the mass death of the end-Triassic extinction, dinosaurs emerged virtually unscathed. Why? It may have been due to their superior air sac breathing system, which could survive the hot times and record-low oxygen levels of the end-Triassic. The mammalian lung is pretty good, too, but not nearly as efficient as the saurischian dinosaurs’ air sac system. Crocodiles have a piston-lung similar to mammals, so they also had a superior respiration system. Mammals were able to ride out the storm in their burrows, while crocodile ancestors cooled in the swamps, and marine reptiles cooled in the oceans. Living in burrows, swamps, and other refugia is probably how mammals, crocodiles, and birds survived the end-Cretaceous extinction when non-avian dinosaurs did not.

The end-Triassic event’s final tally was more than 20% of all families, nearly half of all genera, and between 70% and 75% of all species. Afterward, marine reptiles dominated the oceans, flying reptiles dominated the air, crocodile ancestors were the freshwater environment’s apex predators, and dinosaurs reigned in terrestrial environments.

The Jurassic (c. 201-145 mya) and Cretaceous (c. 145-66 mya) periods spanned the Golden Age of dinosaurs. The human fascination with dinosaurs is primarily due to their great size. They were Earth’s largest land animals ever, by far. Huge predators hunted even larger herbivores. Prosauropods, or plateosaurs, were largely bipedal and were the early Jurassic’s dominant herbivorous dinosaurs, but their four-legged descendants, the sauropods, supplanted them by the mid-Jurassic and sauropods became Earth’s largest land animals ever. Some species may have weighed up to 200 metric tons, which would have made them heavier than the blue whale, which is generally considered to be the largest animal that ever lived. While the blue whale may retain its weight primacy, the sauropods’ vast dimensions are awe-inspiring. Some were up to sixty meters in length and could reach seventeen meters tall. Some of the largest sauropods ever lived in the late Jurassic, when they were most numerous, but huge sauropods were plentiful until the Cretaceous extinction. Unlike the swamp denizens that brachiosaurs and their cousins were depicted as long ago, they primarily lived in semi-arid environments, similar to the savannas where giraffes and elephants live today. A prominent hypothesis is that their tremendous size was a strategy for digesting lower-quality food sources; they could digest food for a longer period as it wound its way through their digestive systems. Their size also discouraged predation and conserved heat. But their highly efficient air sac breathing system may have been the main reason why they could get so large, particularly in the record-low oxygen Jurassic period, at least according to GEOCARBSULF.

Jurassic sauropods likely subsisted on ferns and the foliage of cycads and conifers, which almost no vertebrates do today, and few animals. Sauropods likely had huge guts to ferment those plants. It would not have been an energy-rich diet. There has been controversy whether sauropods could rear up on their hind legs, and how they held their heads on their long necks, but the idea that they were primarily swamp-dwellers has gone the way of other early notions. Sauropods apparently lived in herds and tended their young. Until relatively recently, animals as agents of ecosystem change and maintenance was a marginal idea. But today, sediment burrowing is thought to be a seminal geophysical event in the Cambrian, and those huge sauropods likely had an ecosystem impact similar to what elephants do today in Africa. Elephants today break up woods as they feed, as they knock over trees and uproot them. That damage transforms the biome and provides opportunities for other kinds of herbivores and their predators. Elephants also create and enlarge water holes, and are considered keystone species, with an outsized impact on their environment. Today, there is a “loyal opposition” to the overkill hypothesis regarding megafauna extinctions soon after humans appeared, where such people minimize the impact of humans (their position has an inherent conflict of interest, as those scholars and scientists are all humans) and attribute the extinction of all elephants of the Western Hemisphere (north, south) to climate change and resulting changes in vegetation. If the current situation with African elephants is instructive, it is legitimate to wonder if those vegetation changes were a result of elephant extinction, not a cause. The elephant extinctions would have affected many other kinds of plants and animals, and could have precipitated trophic cascades. Similarly, those huge sauropods would likely not just have nibbled at vegetation and been relatively harmless browsers, but their vast bulk would have been ideal for pushing over trees to get at their foliage and other devastations of trees in particular, which would have dramatically impacted biomes. Giant dinosaurs likely had keystone species impacts on their environments, particularly the vegetation.