WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just re-edited my spirit essay. Again, just grammar and style changes. Maybe I will tackle my American Empire essay next, but I admit to feeling a little trepidation for that one. I recall editing it back in 2001, and thinking it would never end. These are just grammar, style, and typo changes, however, so it should not be too bad.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I decided to edit my Brian essay. They were mostly grammar and style changes, but I made a few revisions of note, to where I needed to dig around in my Brian library. Boy, do I miss Brian. My closest fellow travelers are either dead, run out of the country, or otherwise distant from my life. As Brian said, it is a lonely journey, and I feel it on days like today, as I deal with his legacy.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I was just reading recent "news" on the American government's love for Nazis (1, 2). Using death camp Nazis to host American children's TV shows and write children's books is as well documented as Columbus's "heroic" status. As I have stated plenty, the masses cannot distinguish the saints from the psychopaths, which I learned the hard way during my journey. The governments only reflect that, as they really do not care if people are psychopaths or saints. They only care if people are useful.

The propaganda system can make saints appear to be psychopaths, and vice versa, and "freedom fighters" become "terrorists" the next day, and vice versa. As I recently noted, in Syria, the "freedom fighters" and "terrorists" were literally neighbors, and we nearly bombed our ally of the moment (actually, we did kill a bunch of them with our bombs). The social managers can stampede the herd in any direction it wants, whenever it wants. It is Orwell's nightmare come true.

As long as people will believe anything that feeds them, this trajectory will continue. So it is, in a world of scarcity. That is why trying to get the masses to wake up with anything less than the means of abundance delivered into their lives will not work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I did not know about a movie about Gary Webb until this evening. Predictably, the mainstream media is hyperventilating over it. Even if it is posthumous, it is nice to see. For the truly great ones, posthumous recognition is usually all that they ever get, if they even get that.

Best,

Wade

[Melinda]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
...Boy, do I miss Brian...

I never met Brian, but just from seeing/hearing him in interview, and reading his writing, he has a special place in my heart.

A combination of perspective and personality.

I was making my way home through the dark streets of London tonight, and had to walk past the Freemason headquarters, a slightly ominous looking and feeling building.

At just that moment, my MP3 player shuffled Brian's Camelot interview on. His voice, and considerate nature, exploring the goodness and potential of free energy, was a breath of fresh air. Perfect company for the long walk and the bus journey.

I wish him goodness with thanks - wherever his light may be shining now.

Thank you Brian - for making the long walk more walkable.

Painting : www.dougauld.com/whistleblowers/

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Melinda:

Brian was a great one. I just finished watching this Star Trek episode with my wife (we particularly like the Q and Garak episodes, and I am very partial to Quark), and while viewing it I thought about the brash young men that Brian, Dennis, and I were, as we had our adventures. When watching that episode, I reflected on my youth's follies, and if you read much of Brian's autobiographic work, he is pretty candid about his youthful indiscretions (like saying something in an interview that pissed off his astronaut pals). I was the tamest of us three, but did my fair share of screwing up, too.

We were all humbled and sobered by our journeys, and I know that Brian went through quite a meat grinder to become the elder statesmen that he was. His early death was really a great loss to the FE field, and I miss his voice.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am going to perform an exercise that I first read about from Richard Heinberg, of all people. As Einstein noted, everything in our universe is made of energy. Truly, the only things that exist, at the bedrock of our reality, are energy and consciousness. The rest is emergent, and scientists generally regard consciousness as the most emergent and ephemeral of all, but not all. Some scientists thought that consciousness is required for our reality to manifest. That may be where the scientist and the mystic will one day become united.

The point of my big essay is bringing home the role of energy in our reality, as I show how the Sun's fusion makes Earth as we know it possible, but it can also be very helpful to just take a look around and see its role in our immediate lives.

Take these words you are reading. How were they formed and how did they get to you? I am sitting in my heated office at home, drinking my orange juice (the oranges were raised thousands of miles away, in the Florida sunshine), using the electricity piped into my home (here, hydroelectric power, as the energy of the hydrological cycle is farmed, is where some of that energy comes from) to run the lights and my computer. When I finish writing this post, I will upload it to a computer network which will take this file and allow me to post it to the server at Avalon, which I think sits in England or Europe. It will get there through a backbone of networked computers, all humming with locally generated electricity, across the several thousand mile route to those servers. You sit somewhere on Earth, with your own connection to the Internet, and my post rides a wave of electricity to bring these words from the Avalon server to you. You may be reading this on a mobile device, so that the information was pumped through the air via electromagnetic radiation, usually in the microwave frequency.

It got to your device, and there you are, reading what came out of my head not so long ago. You may live half a world away, but within moments of my posting this at Avalon, you can access it and read it. What a miracle.

But it is far more miraculous than that. You are reading it courtesy of your large brain that seems to be Earth's most capable. That big brain of yours is an energy hog. Millions of years ago, the human line's brain began growing, due to energy tricks that protohumans learned. Mammals had relatively large brains from the beginning, and primates had bigger brains yet, and runaway effects, due to increased energy usage, led to the human line's growing brain. Exactly how that extra energy was acquired is a controversy today, but there is no doubt that the human line was able to play a new energy game and grow its brain.

So, you see an energy-illuminated screen, coded with information from my brain, carried across the world on an intelligent wave of energy to where your brain decoded it and you understand my words. It can be easy to take all of that for granted, but what a miracle of energy, intelligence, and technology.

As I sit here at my desk, writing, I look around my office. It has filled bookcases. The process of creating those books may have been less sophisticated than bringing it to you across the Internet, but it was still quite a feat of intelligence, energy, and technology. There is hardly a book in my library that was written by anybody with anything less than high intelligence, whether it is Stephen King's fiction, Peter Ward's popularized science works, books on orthodox and alternative physics, or the many books on history that I own. Each book was often the culmination of a lifetime of learning and hard work, to be distilled into book form and printed on killed and processed trees (themselves marvelous energy innovations never seen before on Earth, and they are the world's largest life forms). That book was eventually transported, probably by truck, to a bookstore, where I bought it one day. Anymore, I buy my books online, and the book is trucked right to my home. What an incredible process that makes it all possible, and it all rides on the back of the greatest energy beast that life on Earth has ever seen. The Industrial Revolution is by far the greatest energy wave that humanity ever rode, which uses an order of magnitude more than humans did in their agricultural phase, and the agricultural phase wrested orders of magnitude more energy from the land than the hunter-gatherer phase did, and humanity's hunter-gatherer phase was the biggest energy event in the history of life on Earth to that point.

The entire journey of life on Earth rides a huge energy wave, and humans took the game to unprecedented levels. But human civilizations have never been sustainable, as they burned through their energy supplies and then collapsed. Humanity is burning through the fossil fuel energy that powers the industrialized world a million times as fast as those energy supplies were created. The USA reached Peak Oil in 1970, and its standard of living has been declining ever since its energy use per capita began declining with the oil crisis of 1973-1974. The world reached Peak Oil in 2005-2006, and global industrialized civilization is in the early stages of collapse. The mad money printing that we see happening around the world today is the easy way out that all civilizations have tried since Rome and even earlier, but it never forestalls the inevitable, which is running out of energy.

After all the easy meat was rendered extinct, some Stone Age peoples came into some kind of equilibrium with their environments and stayed at the hunter-gatherer phase of existence. But it certainly was not a harmonious equilibrium, as all humans began warring with each other when the easy meat was gone. Those hunter-gatherer and horticultural societies were far more violent, proportionally, than civilized peoples, although a fantasy for many years was that those people lived some kind of idyllic existence in harmony with nature.

There was always a peaceful interlude when people tapped a new energy source, whether it was megafauna or the first agricultural civilizations, but it never lasted long, as the energy practices were never abundant and only sustainable if people remained in their violent Stone Age phase, as they killed each other off to keep their numbers within the carry capacity of their energy practices. Cultures have been discovered in New Guinea, for instance, in which they have had a continual cycle of breeding to the land's carrying capacity, then warfare to thin out the ranks back to the land's carrying capacity, and then growth again to the carrying capacity, then warfare again. That cycle is likely thousands of years old, and is deeply baked into their religion.

Anthropologists today think that before the invention of agriculture, all hunter-gatherer peoples practiced that kind of population "management" to keep human numbers in line with the land's carrying capacity.

So, humanity is today on the brink of the collapse that will dwarf all previous collapses. If enough of us can reach a sufficient level of heart-centered sentience (it only needs to be 0.0001% of humanity), a new, Star-Trek-like phase of the human journey awaits us, in which humanity lives in sustainable abundance for the first time. So far, almost nobody on Earth has mustered that integrity and sentience, and the people running Earth from the shadows are planning to live on Mars if we make Earth uninhabitable. Are we really a sentient species? We are about to find out.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I can see myself making a few more "it is all about energy" posts that refer back to my big essay, so that it becomes clearer. While writing my essay, and for many years, I have heard from people who do not really see the connection between economic activity and energy consumption. As I have written, that kind of non-understanding has been abetted by an economics profession that does not have much relationship to reality. Classical economists were intellectual warriors for the rising capital class, and neoclassical economic theory was literally funded by John Rockefeller, who is history's richest human and its greatest energy mogul. Neoclassical economic theory demotes energy to near-invisibility while elevating social relations. How blind, and I have to wonder how intentional that was.

The bottom line is that economic activity, as measured in GNP, for instance, has a linear relationship to energy consumption because virtually all economic activity can be expressed as work, and human work derives from the physics definition of work. Roughly half of energy production in industrialized nations goes to heat, and the rest goes to work. Industrialized humanity uses nearly a trillion energy slaves to perform work. Those machines perform about 99.9% of all physical work performed in industrial societies. Without those energy slaves, it would all come screeching to a halt. So, humans do almost no work at all and ride those energy slaves to their high standard of living. Money has absolutely nothing to do with it. The reason why an American's financial income is so far beyond those of non-industrial nations is those energy slaves. Financial income is merely an accounting measure, and if people began to look at the world around them and think about where it all came from (material goods, food, water, and not least the energy that runs those machines), today's accounting concepts would quickly become meaningless.

Money is an egocentric concept, and as long as people focus on money and think that it is real, and that energy is some trivial "good" that can be easily substituted for by something else (study neoclassical economics, if this is not clear), Godzilla has the game well in hand, as people have literally no idea how their world really works and are easily manipulated in their delusional state. Scientists have no respect for economists, and I understand why. Economics, like a number of social sciences, pretends to be scientific as they ape the trappings of science but not its process.

Virtually everything that happens on Wall Street and in the halls of government is essentially theft from the masses by the elite. It is not a new phenomenon by any means, and is as old as civilization, and FE will make elites obsolete. Godzilla knows it, and that is why he has so avidly suppressed FE.

So, there is an active effort to keep people deluded and unable to understand how their world works (my big essay is intended as an antidote to it ), but people have always had very little idea how their world worked. It is only with the rise of science that humanity has begun to gain an understanding of how things work. Readers know that I am no materialist, and science's quest for the mechanism is misguided in ways, but scientists understand real economics, and know that it all rides on energy. Everything else is noise.

I will be writing more like this in the near future.

Best,

Wade

[Melinda]

"While writing my essay, and for many years, I have heard from people who do not really see the connection between economic activity and energy consumption."

How can we not see it when we look at the world around us? I still scratch my head when I see you relay the above. But that query being prevalent is a symptom of the mess that we're in.

I assume the people you're hearing from use a computer, a phone, or a letter to share their opinion. Or if it's face to face they used transport to get to wherever you met.

The computer, the phone, the paper and pen - the car, the bus, the bicycle - they all take energy... for materials-mining, then manufacture, and then transport to the retail outlet.

They got up that day and likely ate something before contacting you. The food had to be grown, transported, packaged, re-transported. The shops where they bought the food had to be lit / heated and the goods refrigerated.

There aren't thousands of little people handling levers inside their computer to keep it running. There are thousands of miles of oil pipeline, and the countless tons of metal in the infrastructure that had to be mined, moulded and transported to build it. Then there's the food that fed all the men and women who designed it and manage its upkeep. Then there's the energy that fuels the computers that help them do their jobs, faster and more efficiently. Even the functioning of Wall Street and banking is based around figures on computers.

If all the energy fuelling all that manufacture, transport, management and administrative infrastructure goes away - the economy they think they know ceases to exist. All that electronic money in an electronic purse.

It reminds me of something Joe Bageant wrote in one of his essays... that the younger generations in certain rural areas don't even know how to put peaches in cans anymore. (Not that I ever did...)

One of the first things I wanted to make for my little relatives once they arrived in the world was a poster that showed which foods came from the ground, and which from trees and bushes. I really dislike the idea that they'll get to their teens thinking things magically appear in a plastic box. They're not quite ready for your essay yet Wade. But someday they will be. As they learn about how the world they live in has been distorted by so much negligence.

Their generation may well be the one to embrace free energy for all its spiritual and technological cures. To heal the planet and travel in harmony beyond her.

It reminds me of something you wrote on page 17 of this thread...

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
...

1. Earth has been the hostess with the mostest, to take on humanity;

2. Earth has her own destiny, and it is of the light;

3. Hosting humanity has been rather painful for Earth, especially during the Industrial Age;

4. Earth will heal, with or without humanity helping; however;

5. Helping to heal Earth is really helping to heal ourselves; ...

[Nine]

Wade,

A quote from you if I might...

" The USA imports more finished goods in which the energy for mining and manufacturing them was used in other nations, like the imperial subsidy that the British received from their colonies, but far more pronounced when the USA is receiving finished industrial goods and not raw materials, as the British received from India. In generating energy, so-called technological societies have nearly the same energy efficiency as advanced industrial ones, largely due to the entropy created by power generation. "

That is one mind blowing statement dearest wade....

I did big time logistics and that is big time logistics....

The US of A is an energy thief or a energy predator and the trade deficit is simply tribute from a conquered people....the finished goods that is and not just raw materials....

A step above the Brits.....

thanx

Nine

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Melinda and Nine:

Yes Melinda, it is amazing that the relationship between energy and economy is largely unseen, and as I have written before, if you go through business and economic training in school, that relationship is made invisible. Just last night, I was rereading part of Energy and the Wealth of Nations, and the authors attributed that blindness to a few factors.

Physiocrats understood that land was the basis of wealth, but they did their work before the science of energy was developed. Classical economists saw wealth coming from labor, and also worked before the science of energy was developed. Neoclassical economists did not have that excuse, but the fact that history's richest man and greatest energy mogul funded the institution that is the home of neoclassical economics, which dominates the field today, is suspicious. Neoclassical economics focuses on "capital" as the means of wealth. All three schools of thought (Marx is considered a classical economist who was merely honest about how capitalists acquired their ownership of the means of production - violently) failed to realize that land, labor, and capital were only vessels to transform energy into useful work. Energy drove the process. The authors of Energy and the Wealth of Nations speculated that the primary reason why energy was ignored was that economics came of age in an era of plentiful fossil fuel energy, so it could be assumed away as some kind of constant. That was the fatal error that renders modern economics largely meaningless.

If you study neoclassical economists, they just assume that energy is an input to the all-powerful process of capital creating wealth, and human ingenuity can always substitute something for another, as it becomes scarce (see Julian Simon's work, for instance). As I have stated plenty, in the pre-scientific era, historians and other scholars groped for an understanding of why civilizations collapsed, and explaining Rome's fall was always the big one. As 20th-century science began to study vanished civilizations, it became evident that they all ran out of energy. Running out of energy could come in a few guises, and in early civilizations, it ultimately meant running out of food and wood, which was nature's primary production that humans could consume. Humans nearly always contributed to that collapse by the environment degradation wrought by deforestation and agriculture, especially plow agriculture, so that the civilization lost its resilience and droughts often did them in, but the environmental degradation helped lead to the droughts. Siltation and soil salination were results of deforestation and irrigation, which was particularly evident in Sumer. Noah's epic flood is a retread of the flood that Gilgamesh survived, and was almost certainly a deforestation-induced flood. So, environmental degradation goes back to the first civilization and continues to this day. What has temporarily saved the forests in the West is using fossil fuels. Of course, global warming has come with the fossil fuel era.

The controversy is diminishing as more scientific investigation is performed, but the evidence is very strong today that humanity caused a pre-civilized energy crisis as it drove all easy meat to extinction, which led to the Domestication Revolution. I consider the issue resolved, but there is a loyal opposition to the idea that humans drove those animals to extinction, as they concoct flimsy climate change explanations, and there is a "catastrophic" cottage industry that argues that bolide impacts did it. Those humans deflecting responsibility from humanity have an inherent conflict of interest, I find their work far from persuasive, and I wonder how much that conflict of interest, either consciously or unconsciously, drives their work.

In understanding those energy events, a few concepts in particular are helpful: the total available energy with the technology of the day, how efficiently it could be obtained ("EROI"), and the combination of them results in a society's surplus energy, which is its most important measure of wealth. The efficiency that energy could be turned into work is also important for understanding humanity's epochal phases, but the total energy and EROI concepts are common threads that run through all of humanity's epochal phases, even from the time before the human line left the trees.

Humanity began tapping fossil fuels in earnest when deforested England turned to coal several centuries ago. Today, about 85% of industrial energy comes from fossil fuels, and the rest comes from nukes and hydroelectric dams, and "alternative" energy provides less than 1%. The world's coal was nearly all made more than 300 million years ago, before fungi learned to digest lignin, and oil and gas were made in anoxic ocean events, primarily when dinosaurs ruled Earth. Earth is not making any more coal, oil, or gas, and humanity is burning them up a million times as fast as they were formed. That is a little short of "sustainable." The USA reached Peak Oil a generation ago, and our standard of living has been declining ever since. The world reached Peak Oil in 2005-2006, and a steep decline that humanity may not survive is dead ahead.

One ironic aspect of neoclassical economics and those who worship capitalism is that human ingenuity can solve the energy crisis. The technology is already here, but hyper-capitalists have prevented its dissemination. Godzilla is capitalism on steroids, and his existence renders capitalist ideology as meaningful as the idea that Columbus is a hero. All of those egocentric ideologies are based on scarcity as an assumption. Money is totally meaningless as a measure of humanity's wellbeing; it is only a scorekeeping mechanism between the classes and a means of control, nothing more, but it is worshipped as some kind of magical object. The worship of money is like the worship of the U.S. Constitution, as scholars extol their ingenious virtues, just like historians made Columbus and Washington into heroes. Humans can be counted on to defend their in-group and paymasters with the most irrational "logic" and selective presentation of the evidence. That is partly why Brian wondered if humanity is a sentient species. Some of the stupidest things that I ever heard came from the mouths of some of the smartest people I know, so I know that "intelligence" really has little to do with understanding how the world works. It begins in the heart.

Briefly, Nine, that is not an original observation of mine, at least regarding how the USA has been able to export its exploitation and destruction to subject nations and rake off the gravy. It has been happening and remarked on for many years, and the increase in the USA's nominal GNP and decline in energy use per capita has been explained with that quote of my work that you reproduced. I have seen that mentality taken to insane and evil extremes. In the USA, we have the "benign" situation in which coal-fired power plants have been moved from California to inland states such as Arizona, Utah, and Wyoming so that California's air is not polluted by producing its electricity. That is why the Grand Canyon's visibility has been wrecked in my lifetime (coal particles in the air). I have seen schemes that take it even further. I once read a proposal by one of the "bright idea" people at the World Bank or someplace similar that noted the hazards of nuclear energy, and the bright idea was to put the nuclear plants in Mexico so that it would bear the costs and risks of nuclear power, and a heavily armed corridor to the USA would be built, similar to an oil pipeline, to send all of that electricity to the USA. Similarly, Richard Perle openly proposed that the USA incite a Shiite "rebellion" in the Middle East and partition Saudi Arabia into three parts. The holy sites of Islam would get their own nation (along the Red Sea), to defuse the kinds of Western behaviors that riled up Islamic people, Western-controlled Shiites would get a new nation that sits on all of that oil (the region around the Persian Gulf), and Sunnis would get all the sand. Again, Perle wrote a book that presented that plan, believe it or not, so a lot of the evil is out in the open, and in the tradition of Orwell, they titled their book "An End to Evil."

Those kinds of evil plans are right in line with that memo that Larry Summers signed a generation ago. If you study the controversy around that leaked memo, apologists have tried to explain it away as an aberration or a joke. I have seen that happen many times in my studies, such as trying to say that this genocidal quote was intended to be ironic (or this little ditty), when that was almost certainly not the case, but was simply frank talk, similar to that "investigator" trying to disabuse Mr. Researcher about any fairy tale ideas about how the USA's "justice" system works. Summers's memo has pretty much been the playbook of neoliberals ever since. Evil stuff, and exporting mining, deforestation, pollution and hazardous waste, heavy industry, and labor exploitation to subject nations has been the primary trick of global capitalism, and any colonized nation that sought to keep its energy resources for its own development soon received the attention of the CIA and Wall Street. Their governments were then overthrown or they were subjected to genocidal sanctions, and the like. When all else failed, the USA invaded them as it made the world safe for capitalism. But do not try to tell the truth to a capitalist, just as you cannot tell the truth to a nationalist. They "bought in" to the system the feeds them, and no amount of contrary evidence could convince them and overcome their cognitive dissonance. It is like all the Southern defenders of slavery on the eve of the USA's Civil War. People can justify anything, especially "intellectuals," as Orwell noted. The most basic ethical principles are abandoned as people defend the systems that feed them.

Back to the post that I am writing.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Readers may notice how the links in my comprehensive posts are usually to my big essay. My big essay is the Big One, and people will have to read the entire essay, study it even, if they want to develop the perspectives that will be needed to help humanity turn the corner. Again, I am looking for needles in haystacks and I have long known it, but those needles will begin their journeys by reading that essay. My forum posts are intended to help package the comprehensive perspective in different guises so that people can finally recognize the pattern, and those recent energy posts are along those lines.

Ilie remarked on how the typical Internet surfer and tweet-reader would be intimidated by the sheer vastness of my work. Yes, that is the case, and my work in partly intended to drive such people away from my work, as it will challenge their cherished delusions. I have no intention of putting them into a place of fear, and am not trying to reach them. They will only be reached when FE is delivered into their lives, and the sooner that FE newcomers understand that, the better. My work is available to anybody, but I know that only a relative handful have what it takes to digest my work, and not because it is really all that intellectually challenging, but just exposes many lies told as truth to us. It takes a lot of courage to admit that our heads were filled with lies and dare to pursue truth. Such people are less than one-in-a-thousand in the general population, but I am using this new tool called the Internet to help find them.

The lies have to be laid aside before the truth can be glimpsed. I learned that the hard way during my journey.

Back to chores.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Briefly, between chores and working on the next energy post, I will reiterate some points that I make in my essay and at Avalon:

• Even though less than 1-in-1,000 are really in my target audience, every previous Epochal Event was initiated by a similar proportion of the population;

• Judging those who abdicated their sentience for security is not helpful, and neither is denial that your social circles will not wake up to the idea of FE and abundance with talk; both are paths of pain and failure; the masses have always been oblivious to the bigger picture, and the current egocentric perspectives of frightened people in a world of scarcity is not conducive to it;

• For all previous Epochal Events, even the initiators had almost no idea what they would lead to, much less the masses;

• All previous Epochal Events were due to inventing a new technology or technologies to tap an energy source previously unexploitable, and the social and cognitive changes came after the event, not before, although those initiating the Epochal Events were probably extraordinary beings for their time, in extraordinary circumstances, or both.

I do not expect that the Fifth Epochal Event will be much different than previous Epochal Events in those broad particulars, but there are significant differences, and some are:

• The technology to manifest the Fifth Epochal Event already exists;

• The "Old Guard," who are the elites that appeared with the first civilization, and whose professional descendants run the world from behind the scenes today, are actively preventing the Fifth Epochal Event from happening for reasons of power;

• For this Epochal Event, we have some ideas of what it could look like; I am not saying that visions like mine are what will happen, but they become feasible with FE, antigravity, and related technologies that exist on Earth today; for the previous Epochal Events, nobody had the foggiest idea what they would lead to;

• A sizable fraction of humanity enjoys a standard of living so that they are not mired in survival issues and can help manifest an Epochal Event in way never done before, by simply manifesting some integrity and sentience.

Those are some similarities and differences between the Fifth Epochal Event and previous ones, and there are obviously both advantages and disadvantages to manifesting that event. But I know that if only 0.0001% of humanity could muster the heart-centered sentience to build an abundance-base choir, FE and abundance would be a done deal. It sure does not have to be my choir, but a choir. However, as I am the "inventor," it is going to have a better chance with what I am doing. And being free, in both the material and participation, it sure will be hard to set up a competing "choir" to steal members, and those who get "stolen" will be where they belong. I am not looking for people who are vulnerable to being seduced in that way. I have no enticements to offer other than the pursuit of the truth and a healed humanity and planet, which is tremendous "psychic income" for those needles that I seek.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Limor Wolf]

Originally posted by Wade Frazier (post 4097): "everything that we call civilization, and the related human behaviors and accomplishments, were dependent on the energy provided by domesticating plants and animals. If those domestication events had not happened, all of humanity would have probably remained at the Australian Aborigine level of political economy until this day: hunter-gatherers in a state of constant intertribal warfare. Without the energy event, the rest would not have happened.

Hello Wade,

Greetings and congratulations for your new forum ~

I don't know if this is relevant at all, but this above quote has made me think. Could it be any different with the human story? what could have been done differently and at what stage it all went very wrong. Apparently, from the beginning - life processes required reactions, water and molecules somehow formed chemistry, after that there was no life that required no energy. but Bacteria and plants always took percisely what they needed, wildlife as well. Even though man has started this way, soon he turned out to be the biggest energy glutton (as soon as settlements formed followed by the construction of cities) and energy needs and consumption went out of hand (beginning of the industrial era up till today), the excessive consumption and the exploitative state of mind undoubtedly shortened and hastened (and caused a great deal of pain!) the diminishing of fossil fuel, and greed and power and thrive for control added some heavy toll and necessarily postponed the arrival of a more developed consciousness, (which seems to be a requirement for us to be acquainted with FE) , but could it been otherwise? has the human nature, whether it was more adaptable and user friendly to the environment and itself would find a different fate, or would you say it would have come to the same crossroad even if much later, I wonder what are your thoughts on this, if this at all worth exploring.. of course, the existence of free energy cancels all the deliberation on what could be.. but exploring the past, so very evident from your work, is as important as sowing in the present and harvesting in the future

Many Blessings ~

Limor


P.S

Attaching two photo from a year ago, autumn day in November, Prague

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Limor:

Thanks for the photos. That idea of mine is not new. Darwin noted that all organisms will breed as fast as they can (and take as much energy as they can), and that the "balance" of nature was a violent one of eat or be eaten. Humanity's continual outstripping of the energy supply is also Malthus's observation (that Darwin used), which led to economics being called the "dismal science."

Actually, scientists have not really found an exception to Darwin's observation. There have been many golden ages of life on Earth and the human journey, but they only lasted as long as there was no competition or until the energy resource was used up. So, even the "balance of nature" idea does not have any evidence that plants and animals judiciously use their energy, but they go for as much as they can. In that light, when Heinberg likened humans to just another organism that took all the resources that it could, for as long as it could, it was an understandable sentiment. Humans, in theory, are sentient, and can decide a different path, particularly one stops wiping out all other life that it can and saving the few useful (digestible) ones.

I guess the question is if humans can be different from other organisms, not that we are so different now. Are we a sentient species, and if so, what does that mean?

Peter Ward proposed his Medean Hypothesis as a challenge to the Gaia Hypothesis, and it deserves to be taken seriously.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

This is a post on challenges to the ego, the FE pursuit, and developing a comprehensive perspective. I was a bookworm from the time I could walk, and by the time I graduated from college, if you had met me, you might have called me a know-it-all, and that may have been a fair observation, because I really was trying to know it all. Then came my wild ride after college that really beat me down. I went from getting record test scores to being told I was stupid. My "Easter Bunny" question reflected my cognitive dissonance. Those post-graduate years probably made me a little arrogant, as arrogance is rooted in insecurity. My career was not going well and I really did not care much about it, not in LA, as burned out as I was, and then I met Dennis and my wild ride really began. Four years later, I staggered out of my home town, radicalized, and realized that I probably did not know much at all, especially anything that I was taught while growing up. Then I set about to find out and hit the books pretty hard. I would not recommend that anybody go through the awakening process that I did. I barely survived it with my sanity intact.

It would take another thousand posts to try to get across what I learned during my days with Dennis. Dennis got humbled, too, getting body cavity searches in prison and the rest of that fun. He was marked for death by those who kangarooed him into prison and he gave Godzilla some sleepless nights, but those around him just saw him as another criminal like them. Dennis said that nobody in prison would believe that he was a political prisoner. The inmates believe in the system more than anybody else does, so they "knew" that Dennis was in with them because he was a criminal like them. Dennis's life story is so ludicrous that if they ever made a movie out of it, nobody would believe it. In that light, my own adventures have been quite tame and boring, even though I have never heard of a voice in somebody's head (1, 2) leading them on an adventure remotely close to mine. And hardly anybody in my life knows or cares. That just comes with the territory. So, I doubt that my readers can tell anybody about my life's story and those listeners would "get it."

The picture that I drew in my big essay even I admit is overwhelming, if somebody really tries to understand it. But I see that as a good thing. I know that the social circle approach is not going to make a dent at all for FE, and I know that the bar needs to be raised very high for my choir idea to work, so the idea that I published a hymnal that will take years of study to understand is a pleasant and fitting one for me. A halfway effort will not work, and anybody that I am trying to connect with needs to comprehend the epochal significance of FE, and why it has epochal significance. Otherwise, the effort that I envision will not go anywhere. If it does not go anywhere because I cannot find those needles, I will be happier with that outcome than some half-cocked effort that drags around the usual scarcity-based baggage that ends in one more FE catastrophe. I am not going to lower my standards.

But when you begin to comprehend the monumental nature of FE, as quadrillions of dollars only begins to measure its potential, how can it not affect somebody's ego? It is not easy, and is why FE aspirants get Messiah Complexes and suffer from other delusions of grandeur.

I have made mistakes in my life, and have shared the greatest ones publicly, to be as human as possible to my readers so that they realize that we are all just people. I have even made some mistakes in my writings, and correct them when I find them (that keeps me awake at night more than anything else, that I have made a mistake in fact or interpretation in my work). A quarter-century of study and writing, after I was radicalized, has seen me hone my craft. I took a career break to write that essay while I was still able to, and I do not expect to write anything like it again. How important might it be? It really depends on my readers. Could it be a critical missing piece of the FE puzzle? If I did not think so, I would not have done it. I know that nobody out there is writing like I do, and that put a bit of pressure on me to do my best. We will see if it makes a dent.

But a big trap with my work is beginning to understand it and thinking that your social circle should also try to understand it. That is usually the path of disaster. Their seeming inability to read and understand my work will not be because I am so smart and learned and they are not, but because I am not writing about anything that interests them. And that is OK. I challenge many conventional beliefs, and I do not want to blow people's minds who do not want them blown. The vast majority of humanity, on the order of more than 99%, will begin to awaken to FE and abundance when it is delivered into their lives. I am looking for the freaks. Judging those with a more "tunnel vision" view of life is unproductive, as far as I have seen, and an ego trap. We have all had "tunnel vision" lifetimes, but this is when the big-picture orientation needs to be developed, before humanity stampedes off the cliff (but only 0.0001% of us need to). If enough of us can muster that heart-centered sentience, a Star Trek existence awaits humanity. How about the end of war, poverty, and fear? Anybody up for that?

For the record, however, I have never encountered a challenge to my work, as far as trying to invalidate it, that was honest, informed, and rational. My best critics have been my allies, who have critiqued my work to make it better, and I could not be more grateful for their input. One man can only do so much, and I rely on my pals. I wake up with my ego each morning and I have to wrestle it to the ground each day, and some days are better than others. Love conquers all, even our egos.

Best,

Wade

[Nine]

Dearest Wade,

Could it be that if contentiousness expands then events can change?

Your reference to the Medean Hypothesis vs the Gaia Hypothesis?

Is this not duality in nature? I mean good vs evil?

Or looked at in the terms of the Earth being a good loving mother vs a evil racist apartheid Mother who will kill any thing that is not in her image....like the earth must return to some past state.....

I apologize since just asking a question....

Nine

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Nine:

That is a big subject. A scientist would say that good or evil are moral judgments that humans invented. Nature knows nothing of good and evil, but survival, in a scientist's eyes. A mystic might see it differently. I know that materialism is a philosophy that rests on a false foundation, due to my mystical experiences.

When North and South America connected three million years ago, and North American mammals drove most of South America's to extinction, I doubt that "good" or "evil" had anything to do with it, but just who was better adapted to survival. When male gorillas and chimps kill infants that they did not father, are they being evil? When the bonobos' food supply doubled and they overcame that practice along with male dominance, were they being good?

When humans drove all the easy meat and all other human species to extinction, beginning about 60,000 years ago, I doubt that humans thought of it in terms of good or evil, but survival.

I have read mystical material that addresses karma at the species level, so that when one species drives another to extinction, the "souls" of the species will balance out, so that the aggressor ends up helping the vanquished species's "souls" in a future round. The karma always balances out, as predator and prey change places. Just what game is being played and what the lessons are is beyond me, but I know this: love is a lot more fun than fear. If people have the ability to turn Earth into one big Garden of Eden, why would we not do it? Today, we are turning places into Mordor, with our energy practices.

In that future world that Roads visited, where love reigns, humans partnered with nature in a way that can seem incomprehensible to today's humans. Roads's mentor did not judge the souls that chose to live in that hellish world, as all souls are on their divine journey. So, good and evil, what are they? I know that what we do to one another, we ultimately do to ourselves, so Jesus's Golden Rule seems like a good one to live by.

I am a mystic at heart, and believe that the only way that humans will turn the corner is for enough of us to manifest love. But personal integrity (AKA love for others) is the world's scarcest commodity, in a world of fear and scarcity, and I learned that the hard way. That is why I say that if a person's heart is not in the right place, the rest will not matter.

We could discuss FE in terms of love and reaching new octaves of awareness, or simply the survival of the species. If we take ourselves out with our egocentric games, and take most of the ecosphere with us, is that evil?

There is a great deal of mystical material that states that our physical reality is the result of a big mistake, a "Fall," if you will, and this entire dimension is for fallen beings to regain their lost awareness. I have seen channeled material that argued that most on Earth today do not want to live in a world of peace and plenty, as it will make their "kill-or-be-killed" game obsolete. I wonder what "channels" in this world would say. The world is currently run by psychopaths, and that says a lot about who we are. Finding out that I was one in millions is one of the loneliest feelings on Earth, and I am not sure that I can recommend it. Does everybody really enjoy living in a world where they dare each other to bend over to pick up the soap? If my quixotic efforts are successful, will people like Max no longer have a playground in physical reality?

The answers, such as they are, that I have been able to glean from mystical material, is that we are all on our divine journeys, and if I help make heaven on Earth manifest, Godzilla will have "lost" and he and his "sponsors" will try to find one more planet to set up shop to play their "evil" games. The "evil" game eventually reaches a dead end, and creators create with love. So, I choose love, while others choose fear. Each is a valid choice and leads to valid lessons, or so I am told.

What I learned from my journey is that fighting the "bad guys" is what young men are into, in their foolishness, and they are very dangerous to efforts like mine (I call them Level 9s). Any approach to FE that takes the victim's route is doomed, as far as I have seen. I am trying out a creator's route, and we will see how it goes.

These are big subjects, Nine, and I do not pretend to have all the answers, but I think that choosing "good" over "evil" is what we are here to learn as an allegedly sentient species. Today, most people cannot even distinguish the two, as I repeatedly saw them cheer the psychopaths while they crucified the saints, in "Give us Barabbas!" style. A great deal of my work is about learning discernment.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To continue my energy posts, not only do few people understand the relationship between energy and economy, it is surprising how few people really understand the relationship of economics (the real economy, not the fictional financial one) and social organization, culture, and even what passes for spirituality. This is where reading a little Marx can help. When Marx came along, "idealists" dominated, who saw everything in "spiritual" terms and denigrated material reality. Marx pointed out that people's social awareness was conditioned by their material reality, not the other way around. In that, Marx was right. His militant stance was little help, and his "class struggle" ideas were actually adopted by Hitler to formulate his plans.

I recently referred to this article on the current religious debates, and the author noted how religious debates were not really about religion, per se, but rode atop the material reality that those religions were rooted in. The theocracy that rules Iran today is a creation of the USA. We overthrew their elected government on behalf of the oil companies back in 1953. The entire militant "jihad" concept was also created by the USA, as it "baited" the Soviet Union into invading Afghanistan, and literally created and funded the "jihad." Similarly, the most secular Arabic nation was Iraq, and we wrecked that nation and created the fertile ground for Islamic fundamentalism and "terrorism" that we see there today. In the 1990s, we armed and trained the Kosovo Liberation Army, which was an adjunct to our activities in Afghanistan. Similarly, we recently engineered and supported the overthrow of a government of another oil-rich nation, Libya, which did not allow the oil companies to rape it, and led the resistance to another Western "Scramble for Africa." So, the religious debates are completely bogus and another convenient excuse to keep up the bombings and other evil deeds, as we play our imperial games in the oil-rich parts of Earth.

As I have written plenty, nobody on Earth challenged the institution of slavery until machines began making human labor obsolete. Machines do 99.9% of the real work performed in industrialized nations. Then people grew consciences, not the other way around. As has been noted about my work, I straddle the scientific and mystical realms, note the structural and conspiratorial facets, and use them in developing my comprehensive perspective. But the divide as I see it is really between love and fear. Love is expansive, and fear is contractive, and when people have "tunnel vision," it is because of fear.

The material reality conditioning the mental/spiritual one is very evident when studying the human journey's Epochal Events. The first one literally grew our brains to where we can even think like we do. The Domestication Revolution made civilization possible, with professions, metal smelting, literacy, and a radically different social organization than had ever existed before. The energy event made it all possible. That is a big reason why the social movement idea will not work for epochal change; our sociality is an effect of our level of energy usage, not a cause.

Thinking that societies in which everybody has their hearts and minds subsumed into the dominant ideologies will suddenly embrace a new way of being, because of talk, is just foolish and something that I learned the hard way (which I call Level 10). The energy event will wake people up to a new level of sentience, not the other way around. That nugget of heart-centered sentience may be the only thing that can manifest that energy event, and I am using a new tool with an unprecedented reach to try to amass that nugget.

An important idea that I encountered during my studies I had already learned the hard way during my adventures, and it was interesting to see scientists arrive at the same conclusions via their path. Humans are nearly unique, at least among land animals, in having a "theory of mind," in which humans guess what others are thinking. Great apes appear to have a theory of mind, to a degree, but humans have taken it to much greater lengths, and a leading hypothesis is that the growing human brain was used for social navigation, and only later became useful for the many uses that people put their minds to today.

However, humans are really piss-poor in understanding the motivations of others, and psychological projection predominates, as people judge others by their own standards. It is universal in all human societies today, which means that humans have probably been doing it for at least 60,000 years. I saw this over and over in my journey, as people around me would project their crap onto me, such as accuse me of being a thief (usually as they stole from me), and I even had my parents campaigning to my friends, family, and investors about what a benighted soul I was, and they raised me to be a Golden Boy, and when I was my most golden, those very acts led them to attack me. If my own parents turned on me like that, even as I literally was saving lives (even theirs at times, which they never even acknowledged), what chance does Joe Average have of really understanding my motivation?

I watched, over and over, how our "allies" would literally cheer the psychopaths, both those on the payroll and the free-lancers, as they slit our throats. When I saw them cheer as Dennis has his company stolen from him in Seattle, it was my first big awakening moment during my ride with Dennis, but it was a gentle preview of what I was about to learn. Basically, psychopaths can ape human mannerisms that people use for judging social cues. So, psychopaths can slit throats, but do it with aplomb, while announcing that they do it for the greater good, and people idiotically believed them, people who were supposedly a lot smarter and worldlier than I was. I saw so many of those "Give us Barabbas!" moments during my journey that it finally sank in and I learned my most important lesson: personal integrity is the world's scarcest commodity, and I realized that my mystical studies after my mystical awakening served me well during my journey. I understood what Jesus meant by "By their fruits you will know them." It basically says to throw away social cues and other ways that people try to figure others out, and watch what they do. As Seth said, the means become the ends, and anybody who thinks that killing the "bad guys" will lead to a better world is suffering from deep-seated human delusions.

So, when I see people thinking that they can figure people out by watching social cues and the like, I know that they have not yet been on the high road. I watched Dennis play the social cue game for many years, being the salesman that he was, but I saw him eventually realize its futility. Nearly everybody betrayed Dennis in the end, and he came to expect it, but he kept on sifting through the mine tailings of humanity, looking for gold nuggets. He found a few, but it was only a few. A few will not get the job done of getting humanity over the hump. There are probably not ten like Dennis walking Earth today, so I doubt that the hero's approach has a prayer. But maybe a stampede of sentient lambs can help out.

Back to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am on a brief chores break. I was just reflecting a little on what I have done with my life and what I am doing with my writing, both on my site and at Avalon. I have drawn a pretty clear picture that I came in with a bunch of abilities and probably my soul's agenda, and I was groomed to be what I became since my cradle. I am not complaining about what I was set up for: this 40-year journey energy journey; but what a way to learn. There has to be an easier way, and that is really the point of my writings. At Avalon, I have come at the energy issue from all sorts of directions, to help my readers understand, and in very real ways, what I am doing in my public writings is kind of a condensed version of my journey, as my orientation to the energy issue changed during my adventures. I ran at it this way and that, got annihilated, recovered, went back at it again with a slightly different orientation, somehow survived another catastrophe or three, and tried again.

My Level 12 approach came from about 30 years of trial and error, surviving my adventures, burying those who did not, mopping up blood, trading notes with my few fellow travelers, watching from afar as others made their run at it (and heard their blood-curdling screams), and just could not let go of the idea of helping the Fifth Epochal Event manifest, not only because humanity could then live in its Star Trek phase, but because it would also heal the planet, and it needs it. The epochal nature of FE only slowly dawned on me over the years. The pure economic potential was pretty evident early on, which is why greed quickly reared its head in every FE effort I ever saw or heard of, but it really took many years for the truly epochal potential of FE to become clear to me. Once I got there, I realized that Godzilla surely beat me there by a century, but he has a different agenda, let us say.

Anyway, my public writings are my attempt to help shorten the learning curve for Level 12 aspirants. It is still one hell of a learning curve that dabblers and tweet-readers will never embark on, but for those needles, I think that my "curriculum" can shorten the learning curve enough so that nobody needs to risk their lives to attain the level of awareness that can be part of a Level 12 effort. Level 12s need to develop an epochal perspective, because when they do, they will able to easily keep their eye on the ball. As we have discussed on this thread, today's Average Joe has the attention span approaching that of a gnat. Gnats cannot develop epochal perspectives. There are other ways to develop an epochal perspective other than my "curriculum," such as what Bucky did. I like to think that my work is likely similar to what a 21st–century Bucky would come up with, but he is not around to weigh in on it. But his approach has been in the back of my mind since 2003, when I discovered his work.

Back to chores.

Best,

Wade