WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Melinda:

On the warfare and the "support our troops!" issue, in the USA a brouhaha is brewing over American Sniper. Right now it is a battle of the celebrities, and of course, I see no honor in unilaterally invading a nation that was no threat, killing millions of people, and sniping to support the invaders by killing the invaded. Killing women and children is somehow heroic in the USA. The UK has had similar imperial ideology. I was taught that I would somehow not quite be a man unless I had been a soldier. How crazed. How evil.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Briefly, before I go to bed. This is pre-choir stuff. I don't really like showing when people really do not understand (or I hope they do not understand), but here is an article by a member of the financial press who understands that we are running out of the hydrocarbon energy that runs the industrialized world. That article kind of celebrates the coming end of industrialists as the oil runs out. He wrote a white paper on his "vision," here, on how to thrive when the energy runs out. This is the typical Peak Oiler "vision," but this one leaves out a healthy dose of reality. Richard Heinberg, the leading Peak Oil spokesman, has written several books on that theme, and the last one that I could stomach reading was Powerdown. For all of the dreariness of their "vision," there is a lot that they understand about the role of energy. For one thing, Earth has what is called a "carrying capacity." It can apply to species and organism assemblages. When the founder group left Africa 60,000 years ago or so, Earth's carrying capacity for humans under the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, with Earth's megafauna, may have been 20 million people (a pure guess on my part), but 50,000 years later, when all of Earth's easy meat had been rendered extinct, Earth's human carrying capacity under the hunter-gatherer lifestyle was around 10 million people, and the human population was around four of five million, or around half of the carrying capacity.

With humans at half of Earth's carrying capacity, there were no more open territories to migrate to, so warfare was endemic between most neighboring human groups, which were small bands. When the British invaded Australia, they got the most pristine view into our hunter-gatherer past. Of course, the British invasion quickly drove the Australian aborigines to extinction, so it was difficult for fledgling anthropologists to study them. Aboriginal Tasmanians were quickly driven to extinction. However, early observers noted that the Australian aborigines were in a state of constant warfare, with fiercely defended territories (about 600 of them), and straying into another tribe's territory meant instant death if caught (shoot on sight was the standard practice). There were neutral territories for trading, but there was almost no intermarrying between the tribes, which were all male-dominated.

In a few places on Earth, people learned to domesticate plants and animals, and farmers soon drove Earth's hunter-gatherers to extinction, for those who did not adopt farming (few did, and the hunter-gatherer women mated with the farmer men, in a typical dynamic, and hunter-gatherer men largely disappeared from the human gene pool). On the eve of the Industrial Revolution, farmers dominated Earth, and the world's population was nearly one billion people; again it was around half of Earth's carrying capacity, although some have estimated a carrying capacity closer to one billion. Today, with an industrializing world, there are more than seven billion people. Humanity has reduced Earth's plant biomass by a third since the beginning of the Domestication Revolution. Heinberg estimates that in the absence of fossil fuels, Earth's carrying capacity after ten millennia of environmental degradation is probably only 700 million people or so, and his Peak Oil "solution" is to somehow depopulate Earth by 90%, and the remaining people are going to be kind of modern-day peasants. The fact is that a huge proportion of the world's poor in the shanty towns of poor nations are fed by industrialized nations, even as those poor nations all export food to those industrialized nations, as different interests are at play (the rich landowners raise food on plantations on the good land for export, while the poor peasants farm the hillsides and other marginal lands).

So, that white paper and article that that author wrote mentions nothing about the nearly seven billion people who will have to find another planet to live on when the fossil fuels run out. Can anybody imagine that being a peaceful and orderly process? Does anybody want to sign up? I have reached out to many Peak Oilers and those kinds of financial writers, and other than Heinberg and Ruppert back in 2003-2004, I have never even heard back from them, as they beat their drums of doom or write clever articles about the end of the Industrial Revolution but fail to mention what the transition back to an agrarian carrying capacity for Earth might look like.

Again, I do not like pointing out such perspectives, but this is pre-choir work to show people where the world is coming from, even "smart" financial writers who kind of understand the Peak Oil concept and running out of the energy that powered the Industrial Revolution.

Going to bed now.

Best,

Wade

[Ilie Pandia]

Hi, I have a few distinctions I'd like to make.

About the Georgia stones. I was ambivalent to their purpose and meaning, but if they "preach" abundance that is not visible. They do not mention Free Energy, Nikola Tesla or even abundance. What they seem to be saying is: "get on with the austerity program or else...". With Free Energy there is no real need for population limitation, but I will give a nod to the idea that such balance may happen harmoniously as the reason for having children would dramatically change. If someone add energy to those stones, I'd be a happy camper.

About the "one world culture/government/etc". I like Wade's description of "in group" and "out group" better. Because it clearly shows the dynamics involved and gets the confusion out of the matter. One World Government ruled by the current Elite class will not result into one big "in group" (although is marketed as such, to gather support). It will still be a small "in group" at the "top", and then various layers and circles going down to the "people".

With Free Energy the "in-group" would finally include everyone. There would be no one "more equal" than others. Yes, even the (former) bankers or (so called) bad boys will be our brothers, if they chose to explore the new paradigm nicely. So that's how I see the difference between the two visions of the "one culture thing", by looking at the "in-group/out-group" dynamics.

Ultimately our "in-group" would include the entire Universe , but the entire Planet would be a good start!

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I have trainees for the choir doing the work, and the day is not far off when some notes will begin to be heard. Make no mistake, my work is ultimately about "doing something," but the people with the right stuff for what I am attempting will be few and far between, on the order of one-in-thousands. The social circle approach will not work, even in "enlightened" social circles. The people I seek will be freaks, needles in haystacks that their social circles will at best consider harmlessly eccentric. That is about the best that can be hoped for amongst the choir members. That is just how it is, as almost everybody on Earth is addicted to the scarcity-based in-group ideologies that they gave their allegiance (and abdicated their sentience) to. However, if they can experience what the means of abundance will be like, they will begin to awaken from their scarcity-based and egocentric awareness and will have a shot at achieving true sentience. Then the fun can begin.

Godzilla is watching, and the quickest way for me to wreck or prematurely end my life will be joining the talk circuit, speaking at New Age expos, conferences, and the like. I may do some radio shows, but I am mainly planning to take advantage of this new medium called the Internet to find my singers, and for them to find the choir. The vast majority of what is on the Internet today is rubbish, most forums are gossip and flame wars and most participants are anonymous, and the mainstream media and other interests are trying to take over the Internet and/or neuter it. When I approach people who seem likely to at least listen to my message, I almost never even hear back. This will be a long, slow process, and that is OK. It is about hitting the notes, not the numbers, especially in the beginning, and I have written the hymnal. The heavy lifting has already been done.

The conversation will be at a far higher level than YouTube mentalities and what we see in almost all forums. The conversation will be like nothing ever seen before. At least, that is my intent. The choir has to hit high notes if it is going to make a dent. I have never seen anybody who tried "to get the word out" to their social circles, even supposedly enlightened ones, receive much of anything back but yawns and derision. If they were lucky, they found one other fellow traveler. I have seen relationships and even careers end when people tried to do that. I really do not advise it, but I have designed my work so that people can do some "fishing" in their social circles. That PowerPoint presentation that I published is one such way, but I would just send them the link and then leave them alone. Far more often than not, their minds will be blown, and nearly all of those who are willing and able to begin to comprehend it always start down the naïve path of, "If this was possible, why has nobody done it?" That is the most common response, which is a Level 1 variation. If people receive any interest at all, and anything but the initial fear and denial or dejectedness (Level 8), then they get the "bright ideas" that comprise Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11. I have seen it all, for many years. Anybody that I seek is not very interested in alerting their social circles, but is going to be doing the work so that they can hit the notes, which will attract other needles. But this will never be a bandwagon. If it becomes a bandwagon, it will fail. The herd is only good for stampeding and slaughtering, and will never get anything important done. As Seth once remarked, people coming together as sentient individuals with a unity of purpose is the most powerful force on Earth. That is what I seek to amass. Combined positive intention is the key.

As I mount this effort, and I see many, even those sympathetic to my goals, wonder what the heck I think I am doing, and they do not see any way that it will ever bear any fruit, I am reminded of when I was with Dennis in Boston. We were licking our wounds from the Seattle snuff job, I was fasting because it was cheaper than eating, and Dennis's investor pulled the rug out from under us on Friday, and the check that Dennis wrote to move into the house that we moved into that week was going to bounce on Monday. On Saturday, I raised the money to become Dennis's partner, and little more than a year later, Godzilla was offering Dennis a billion dollars to go away. While Dennis was always the kingpin, I was nearly as important to what happened in those years as Dennis was. So, I have seen how fast this stuff can happen and have been a prime mover before. I am not Dennis or Brian, but I am not trying to be. I am doing something different. It may only help a little, and it may help a lot, but it won't hurt. It is going to be a non-heroic path to FE, and we will see how it goes.

Time for chores and a little hiking today.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Ilie:

Nobody has ever preached practical abundance for very long, because FE is probably the only way to get there, and Godzilla gets involved if the mobs do not burn the visionary at the stake first. This will be the biggest event in the human journey, and nothing about it will be easy. Many people from many different walks think that they have it figured out, but until they realize that all that exists in our universe is energy and consciousness, they will have not yet joined the big game. Virtually all "visionaries" on Earth today are only singing variations of the Song of Scarcity. The song of abundance has almost never been heard on Earth before ("love the enemy" is most definitely hitting the notes), and certainly never before in chorus. That is the windmill that this Don Quixote is tilting at.

Best,

Wade

[Nine]

Wade,

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

Now that my mind has been blown since science both black and white seem to link energy with conscientiousness one would think that as you point out in your grand essay the energy came to humanity and then came the expansion of conscientiousness. Are you saying that the inverse is also true?

If so I see the grand purpose to your choir.

Mind blowing stuff Wade....



A view of Kangaroo court:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROxvT8KKdFw


Humor is a good perspective while contemplating the ridiculous....


thanx


Nine

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Nine:

That is one of my favorite courtroom scenes ever!

I have written that Animal House came out when I was in college. Several of my pals were in fraternities, and the debauchery was legendary.

By "inverse," do you mean that as we lose energy, we will lose our sentience? I'll say this, and it is no surprise to readers of my essay, that the collective skills that humanity has is a result of the agricultural surplus and opportunities and leisure provided by energy-powered machines. If we lose those, we will lose our collective skills as civilization collapses. That is by no means something unique to me, but generally understood. The Classic Mayans, for instance, developed knowledge and skills that were lost when their civilization collapsed. Heck, the stone masonry of those ancient civilizations is still marveled at by modern scientists, and many have invoked Atlantean or ET technology to try to explain it (which I strongly doubt is necessary to explain it). So, if we lose our energy, we will lose our collective skills, and it is also clear that humans are so adapted to cooked food that we probably cannot survive without it. We are highly energy dependent, which I think should be obvious to most people in the West, but amazingly it often is not, as many people have a hard time understanding the relationship between energy and economics.

On a related note, here is kind of a short version of my essay. I was already planning to contact that author, and now I certainly will, and soon. You might think that she would see my essay and not come up for air for a long time. We will see.

As I have been writing plenty, economic storm clouds are on the horizon and we are feeling the first breezes of what will likely be another hurricane. Here is one of those stormy forecasts that deserves to be taken very seriously. The collapse is already beginning. Printing money is no solution, and the Fed's easy money policies are directly responsible for the shale oil and fracking boom which has crashed the world's oil prices. I wrote that post on the coming crises in April, only a couple of months before oil began its slide. As with Enron and the crisis of 2007-2009, I knew that something bad was coming, but the form and violence that it took often surprised even me.

I have written plenty on technology like replicators becoming possible with FE and some of the toys in Godzilla's Golden Hoard. Now, buildings are being 3-D printed. A lot of the technology to make my vision feasible is even in the White world.

Best,

Wade

[Robin]

I may be mistaken, but I interpreted Nine's question about the inter-relatedness of higher consciousness and FE as being such:

Does humanity as a whole first need FE to reach higher consciousness? (FE=>higher consciousness)

inversely...

Does humanity as a whole first need higher consciousness to reach FE? (higher consciousness=>FE)

In my opinion, I think that Wade's assertion that humanity as a whole simply will not go to lengths to understand the concept of FE, to advocate its development, and to do whatever it takes to create it, is quite accurate. Most of humanity is hooked on the words of whom they deem as their superiors, which surmounts to both religion and government. If the government does not talk about FE, then they do not believe that it exists. Until we get a choir going where we "sing the right notes," produce a FE energy device, and literally place it in the hands of the rest of humanity, then it will not work. I trust Wade's experience with many different methods of introducing FE into the public's eye, and therefore I trust his choir vision.

That being said, I think that humanity does need higher consciousness to produce FE, but only a small percentage. As long as that small percentage of people has a form of higher consciousness, guided by a balance of good emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual health, then doing the work for the 99.9% of oblivious humanity is very possible.

As soon as this small percentage, Wade's choir, sings the right notes and someday creates a FE device, then all possibilities are open for the rest of humanity to "catch up" in raising their own individual consciousness. FE will create an abundance that has never been seen before, and people will finally be able to fruitfully spend their time working on their spirituality. Most people are bogged down from work, but with FE, all that time can be channeled into creative ways of exploring our reality, which leads to higher consciousness.

From day one when FE is introduced to humanity, we will see an exponential increase in higher consciousness for all humans as the materialistic age crumbles and people finally remove their tunnel-vision goggles and go back to nature from which they sprang.

At the same time, the biggest thing that I will advocate in my life journey is that in order for humanity to live a life of abundance with FE, it is imperative that our perceptions of religion and government need to change. This is going to be a bumpy road, but even if we do manage to produce a FE device and give it to humanity, we still have to contend with Godzilla and the Global Controllers.

The GC only exist because we feed them our attention and energy. As soon as we stop giving them power, they won't be able to stop us. And this does require the vast majority of humanity. It doesn't mean the majority has to be on the level of higher consciousness as those in the choir, but they will need to at least shift who they place their trust in and change their belief systems.

As I've mentioned before, I feel it is impossible for humanity to be totally sovereign in a life of abundance with FE without recognizing that Anarchy (without rulers and masters) is imperative for us to be considered having higher consciousness. I will absolutely echo the words of Brian O'Leary concerning whether or not the human race is a sentient species. Until we accept that no form of external government is moral or legitimate, then we will remain a species that lacks dignity, and therefore, sentience.

If people continue to believe in government and religion as FE is introduced to humanity, I do not foresee any progress in our vision. It is true, more and more people are becoming aware of government corruption, but we still have a long way to go before people wake up en masse. And honestly, it's quite daunting. I don't quite know how it is possible for this FE vision to manifest if peoples' perceptions remain as screwed up as they are.

I'd really like to see what other people think about this. Is it possible to manifest FE while people believe in religion and government to the level that they do? If we successfully deliver a FE device to humanity, whether they like it or not or understand it or not, what will happen then when it comes to religion and government?

I know that there are more important things to sing about first before we get to that, but I honestly see no future with FE if the perceptions of people stay as they are collectively concerning religion and government.

Robin

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Robin:

I'll let Nine clarify if he needs to, but my essay is very clear that the energy event came first, and the subsequent cognitive and social changes were dependent on the energy event. Then those societies changed in ways that not even the inventors could imagine. The masses never initiated any of the Epochal Events, but a handful of inventors/innovators did.

I read that Edison/Tesla book. Kind of breezy, but OK. All of those electrocutions of animals and people were pretty sickening. I knew of them, but reading the detailed descriptions, with my vivid imagination, was haunting, and that imagination combined with horrific events are partly why studying wars and holocausts took so much out of me. Edison's involvement in those acts is a black stain on his legacy.

I am reading that anarchist book and will write more later, but the power issue - who has it and who doesn't - is common with social animals and is keenly evident in monkeys and apes. The closest to the anarchist ideal among social primates has to be bonobos, and the changes were economically dependent, as always. When males have run the show, societies were always violent and power imbalanced. There are not going to be any social or political solutions to our predicament as a species, or really any new ideas so that people see the light, at least within the scarcity framework. The masses will not begin to comprehend abundance until they can experience it. The energy issue trumps all, as always, and it is the private interests, not the governments, where the "power" and problem resides today. Governments are merely tools of the private interests. Every time we were wiped out, it was governments acting on behalf of their private interest patrons. The idea of property is a big part of the problem. I will always agree that giving away our power is the root of our problem, so the anarchists and I agree there. We will only turn the corner if enough of us begin thinking like creators instead of victims, and that can only be done with love.

A lot more to write, but maybe later.

Best,

Wade

[Nine]

Wade,

What I meant by my comment was along the lines of what Robin wrote about in his post above.

Thanx Robin!

However, Wade's answer to me was excellent as he pointed out things that I did not consider and of course I have even more questions which I believe probably do not have answers as science from your essay does not seem to have a firm definition of what energy actually is or is not and they can only measure it and try to theorize what it is or is not.

If conscientiousness is related to energy how so? That is the area of suppressed science or of black science that is withheld from humanity.

What is conscientiousness? Wade's essay does indeed delve into those areas and it is difficult work to attempt to understand at least for me....

And I was thinking along the lines of life always will find a way to succeed the question is will that life form be human or will it be the humble roach that survives humanities insanity....

Saw your response Wade and had to edit:

Your essay is absolutely clear on the energy issue which is that energy comes first and then the social changes follow.

Wade I am glad you liked my Animal house video!



More entertainment and a bit about choir formation:

Bluto's big speach:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7vtWB4owdE




Wade, you are providing leadership upon this issue and no one that I personally know is at home...


Some say that humor prevents insanity....

I have been used and abused by that American system and tossed away and so stepping up to sing at least for me is terrifying and only the young men leave the fox hole searching for glory and once one hits 40 ones courage is tempered by reality.

I am with Bluto however since what do we have to lose?


thanx

Nine

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Quickly, before I go to bed, Bluto's speech was the apex of Belushi's career.

IMO, Nine, love is the energy of creation, and creators create with love. I have written it many times: love and FE are joined at the hip in both mystical and practical ways. I believe that if we really knew what energy is, we would be well on our way to understanding what God is. Big questions, obviously.

According to that dude Jesus, we are all children of the Creator, and IMO, everything in Creation is. That is also why I have stated that the ZPF may well be divine, and any planetary society that did not have sufficient divine intention could not tap the field or not for long. This was just a sense that gradually dawned on me after many years of chasing FE. Some channels have stated similar ideas.

Again, the primary lesson of my journey was that FE is a really a matter of the heart, not the head. Because humanity lives in scarcity and fear, it is its own worst enemy, and Godzilla rarely needs to intervene, as we do most of his work for him. You could not have convinced me of that when I was 26, but five years later, I ruefully understood the truth of that saying, "The enemy is us."

As I have been stating, when we give our power way, we play the victim, and structuralists and conspiracists generally both see elites as the root of our problems, when they are really just a symptom. The path to our salvation lies within.

Robin, I'll reply more to your post tomorrow. I saw that Larken Rose is a tax protestor. Tax protestors and I go way back. When I mortgaged my life to bust Dennis from jail, the last of the money went to hiring the leading Constitutionalist attorney in the USA, who specialized in defending tax protestors, and the year before he took Dennis's case, he fried IRS personnel in the U.S. Supreme Court. When our attorney was threatened with disbarment when he sued Ventura County officials for some of the same crimes that he fried IRS personnel for (they were convicted of felonies), he realized that the IRS was nothing compared to whoever was persecuting Dennis. Dennis told me in 2013 that our attorney was treated by the Big Boys as something unpleasant that they stepped in and unceremoniously wiped from the bottom of their shoes. That attorney was never the same.

Being a CPA, and my wild ride with Dennis and interacting with tax protestors, Patriots, and the like, I am very familiar with the milieu. They do not have a prayer going that route, and their motivation is usually selfish. My sentiment is like what it is regarding FE and nuclear energy. The best way to defeat government is to make it obsolete, and FE would do that, at least in that the so-called governments would not be coercive territorial organizations erected and run for the benefit of the ruling class, while engaging in a charade that it really serves the common good. All dark pathers play that game, to one degree or another, and the darkest of the dark are at the top.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

[Nine]

Wade,

I know I did something right in life when a dear evangelical friend of mine "Christian Witnessed" to me as a "lost" person because I thought that he was perceptive and he is/was but I shared with him that I no longer believe in the "in group" ideology or that we have the "saved" and the "unsaved" and that it is all just us or humanity...he..he...

Of course I was given the "come to Jesus" message or die....in judgement and Armageddon and of course the Armageddon part they might have right if things don't change....

I would prefer to live in that positive vision from pan from Roads visions that you often post about.

I need to get a set of those books....real books...

A used book store maybe?

thanx Wade...

I must edit here after reading one of Wade's links on his last post:

The notion of the ZPF being divine in the very last part of your essay I did indeed forget about.

That is mind boggling stuff....

I had to edit here Wade after reading a number of your links...




Nine

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Nine:

All in-group ideologies use the same MO: you are blessed/saved/fed/safe, etc., if you are in the in-group, but if you are in the out-group, then you are damned, expendable, etc. The in-group ideologies always use carrots and sticks (and the promise or threat of them) to form that group "cohesion" that is always exploited by those at the top. They all have the same basic MO because we live in a world of scarcity, and being in the in-group means getting a little extra. It took me many years to finally figure out what I was seeing. Those human ideologies have roots that are far older than humanity, and we can see crude versions of human politics in monkeys and apes.

I am going to make this a paradigmatic post, partly so that the reasoning behind my approach is clear. People have a very difficult time understanding my approach, and I have always seen it being due to two primary reasons, and these are for the people who are trying to understand, which is very rare in the first place:

• They are mired in scarcity and really do not understand what abundance means;
• They are scientifically illiterate and have not developed the comprehensive perspectives that will allow them to distinguish the forest from the trees, so they are easily distracted.

I see this repeatedly, and when I see people propose their bright ideas, especially to make FE happen, they invariably operate under a scarcity assumption. I am not interested in those approaches, in their many guises. Been there, done that, for many years. I am doing something different.

My big essay was written with the intention to make my paradigm clear, but I know that very few will be able to really comprehend it, and that is OK. I seek the few who will, but even they will need plenty of coaching from me, and that is why I am here. This post will be a highly distilled version of my big essay, but it will make the connections that I need people to understand if they are going be helpful for what I am attempting. So here goes.

In the beginning, or rather, several hundred million years after Earth formed, life appeared on Earth. How it did or why it did is unknown to science, but they have some ideas, and the best of them know that the tale that scientists have drawn of the journey of life on Earth accounts for process and history, not intent. Science is silent on the issue of a creator or the role that consciousness might have played. Nevertheless, most scientists are functional materialists, and Stephen Hawking is a representative example and successor to Carl Sagan on that score. However, the greatest scientists were generally to one degree or another, mystical in their orientation. I had a dramatic mystical awakening when I was 16, and nearly all of my fellow travelers in the FE field were also trained to be scientists, and we usually had our mystical awakenings in our late teens or early twenties. Brian O'Leary was a comparative old man, receiving his awakening several years after I did, while performing the exact same remote viewing exercise, when he was in his late thirties.

While I am no materialist, I have a great deal of respect for what the corpus of scientific investigation has pieced together so far regarding the journey of life on Earth, especially as it has operated relatively free of the vested interests that my fellow travelers and I experienced when we began pursuing disruptive energy technologies. Most of what follows is a distillation of key facts and theories that scientists have produced in the past few centuries, and particularly what has been produced in my lifetime, as knowledge compounds, tools become more sophisticated, and new horizons are explored.

It took several hundred million years after Earth formed for it to collect the planetesimals that created the ocean and atmosphere, and cool down enough so that the stable molecules required for life processes could form, and the asteroids and comets were cleared out enough so that the celestial bombardment largely subsided.

From the very beginning, life was all about energy. All life on Earth today is considered to have descended from a single bacterium that lived nearly four billion years ago. That bacterium was likely the product of hundreds of millions of years of evolution, and scientists will likely never be able to extend their investigative horizon to when life began on Earth. Scientists have never found an exception to Darwin's theory of descent with modification. It is about the most battle-tested theory in science. A key evolutionary concept is important to my big essay and, and it is the competing ideas of whether biological features in seemingly unrelated organisms are a result of common ancestry or they developed through convergent evolution, which is when different branches on the tree of life develop similar solutions to the challenges that living on Earth presents. The same principle can be applied to many aspects of the human journey, and there is lively dispute whether traits of human societies and biology were due to descent or convergence. DNA testing has been resolving many of those disputes, and descent is usually the winner. Scientists believe that many key evolutionary events in the journey of life on Earth happened only once, (see the asterisked events in this timeline, for instance) in one organism, and every organism on Earth with that feature can claim descent from that innovative ancestor.

The earliest life took advantage of the potential energy in chemicals, and enzymes were one of the earliest inventions, which sped up chemical reactions by millions of times and made life as we know it possible. After "only" a few hundred million years, some biological machinery was redirected to capture sunlight, which was another essential innovation, and all life on Earth today relies on the energy of sunlight, even if the organisms are chemosynthetic.

Predation appeared very early in the journey of life on Earth, as some organisms robbed others of their lives and ate them. Then life's arms race began. Some key events in the journey of life on Earth were due to symbiosis, not predation or grazing, such as development of the complex cell around two billion years ago. Sexual reproduction appeared around a billion years ago, probably as way to accelerate evolution and prevail in the arms race.

When the conditions finally arrived about 600 million years ago, which was likely dependent on the oxygenation of the oceans, as a result of billions of years of oxygenic photosynthesis, complex life visible to the naked eye finally appeared. The eon of complex life thus began, and it has been particularly marked by mass extinctions and "Golden Ages" of adaptive radiations, which often immediately succeeded the mass extinctions, as marginal organisms that survived mass extinctions thrived in the "slate wiped clean" environments after the extinction. Also, marginal organisms were pushed to the fringes and some found a way to survive in hostile environments, and those pioneers also thrived in adaptive radiations, and some of the most important events in the history of life on Earth happened that way, from plants and animals colonizing land to plants and animals colonizing dry environments, to the chimpanzees who left the shrinking rainforest, learned to walk upright, and became humans.

Social animals go way back. We know that dinosaurs were social, and it may go all the way back to the Cambrian Explosion. Social animals are social because it enhances their chances of survival, and social animals have many evolutionary adaptations to sociality, from biological features to behavior. Hive insects have a division of labor, with workers, soldiers, drones, queens and others fulfilling their roles, and scientists have even found freeloaders in hive life, who "look busy" but are really loafing. Enough of such behavior, and the hive dies. Simians are almost all highly social animals, and it is even thought by some scientists that navigating the social environment was the main stimulus that led to the large human brain.

Also, early on, sexually reproducing animals developed traits to attract mates, and the phenomenon of display may go way back, too. An early example of what is suspected to have a display function is the thermoregulatory sails of Dimetrodon, as a biological feature was used for more than one purpose, which is also a key evolutionary concept. Display is a way to advertise one's biological wealth. Biological wealth (which comes from surplus energy) means that the creature is well equipped to produce viable offspring, so flaunting wealth is an ancient practice.

I am going to cut to the chase and the human journey here, but what I want to make clear that just like the journey of life on Earth, the human journey has been about energy, first and foremost, and humans are social animals and the most successful predators ever. Humans are dimorphic and use display not only on a personal level, but entire civilizations have devoted all of their energy surplus to display, directed by their elites, who played roles similar to those queens and drones, and humanity has become their cannon fodder, and quite willingly, as a way to get more crumbs from the table. Many human traits can be seen in other species, which descended from common ancestors.

As I stated, I had my mystical awakening as a teenager and became quite the mystical student. I do not believe the materialist story of a meaningless universe that magically came into existence, to die out one day, either through entropy death or another Big Bang. There is a purpose of existence other than curious outcomes of chance and chemistry. My opinion, in brief, is that the purpose of the physical universe is the evolution of consciousness, and while everything in creation is an offspring of the creator, by virtue of our heritage, we are all learning to be creators in our own right, and physical reality is the hard school that we came to in order to learn what it means to be a creator. I believe that love is the energy of creation, and it is not just some belief that I picked up, but I have had many larger-than-life experiences in my journey that demonstrated the truth of that idea, although I would not wish my adventures on anybody else. There has to be an easier way than that.

While I was blessed in many ways, I can see that those gifts were meant to prepare me for my wild ride. I left home an idealist, and in the next decade my disillusionment was completed. However, I did my best to stay true to my ideals, and I think that that is why I survived my adventures and am writing this post today. My primary lesson was that humanity is its own worst enemy, and I have seen nothing the quarter-century since then to revise my opinion. In fact, when I traded notes with fellow travelers, they were often more disillusioned than I was. They were often disgusted with humanity and openly wondered if we were a sentient species. I sadly understood. When I first completed my website as it stands today in 2002, one of Bucky Fuller's pupils called me a comprehensivist, and I did know what he meant. Reading some of Fuller's work made it clear to me, and my writings have been more consciously comprehensive ever since, and that trend led to writing my big essay. Comprehensivists and generalists are close cousins and are considered identical in some corners (comprehensivists try to marry the specialist and the generalist, which takes a lot of work), and after my paradigm crystallized after reading some of Fuller, I more consciously generalized what I had encountered, and one of the key realizations was that the problems of making FE happen were largely due to a conflict in paradigms.

I wrote a 400-page essay to get these points across, and will abridge this post a bit, but the human line was male-dominated for at least ten-million years, which is unusual for simians. It is still male-dominated today, but when humanity killed off all of Earth's east meat, women began to domesticate plants, and those early sedentary societies were uniquely peaceful. With the domestication of plants, Earth's carrying capacity for humans rose by about two hundred times, and as energy surpluses grew, in a few places on Earth, civilization appeared. When civilization appeared, the physical strength of men again became economically important and women's status universally declined. It did not rise again until the rise of machines, which once again de-emphasized men's physical strength.

Elites appeared with the first civilizations, which seems to be a case of convergent "evolution." They rose to prominence by controlling and skimming the first urban markets. To this day, that is primarily how they maintain their position, although rising classes through innovation have displaced the "Old Guard" over the millennia. Before there was an agricultural surplus, economic exchange was not important. People killed, gathered, or raised their own food, and humanity's toolset was relatively simple and devoted to eating, fighting, shelter, clothing, and even some art was made. That all changed with the agricultural surplus and the development of professions. Soon, metallurgy, writing, ideologies that professions concocted (such as the urban organized religions that invariably deified the elite), and the stuff of civilization appeared.

As some people began living urban lives and no longer procured the food they ate, in ways people began to lose touch with some of the elementary ways that their world worked. It is obviously far advanced today, as few who live in cities have much idea where their food comes from, and it has become far more pronounced than that, in that the world has become far more complex than most people are able or willing to comprehend, and their understand often extends no further than the point of exchange, where the money they earn from their work is exchanged for the goods that they use in their lives.

When Spain invaded the Western Hemisphere, they kicked off a century-long gold rush, as in their ignorance they confused the symbol of wealth with wealth itself. Their greedy efforts killed off about 90% of a hemisphere's population during history's greatest demographic catastrophe, and when it was over, Spain was poorer than before the gold rush began. Spain's European rivals had a better sense of what real wealth was, and they ruthlessly plundered humanity while engaging in activities that led to tapping a new energy source, and the Industrial Revolution began. As Europe conquered Earth, elites could begin thinking in global terms for the first time, and the ancestors of today's Global Controllers likely began dreaming big back then.

No matter how enlightened the message that a master's teachings may have been, the professional priesthoods of Earth could always be counted to twist them into methods of social control on behalf of elites. All dominant ideologies were concocted for the benefit of the elites or were soon co-opted to elite benefit. Basically, it was to the benefit of the elite that the populace was manageable, and over the centuries, elites lost the ability to rule through overt violence, and controlling what people think has become a science in the West. And people have readily obliged the elite and dutifully acquiesced to the mind-control. For the few who realize that something is awry, they almost never look any further than their immediate sphere of interaction with the world. All they see is the exchange function of economics and the retail political establishment (which is another false façade). People nearly always focus on those easily "understood" retail interactions, and they think that the solution to the world's problems lies in fixing the exchange aspect of economics or the retail political establishment. That is a misguided and ineffectual approach, but it is what people are familiar with. Consequently, almost all "activism" that you see is either trying to "fix" the exchange function of economics or "fixing" the retail political establishment. The meaningless ritual of voting is what most Westerners think will somehow right the ship, or challenging the exchange function of government, such as taxes, money creation, and the like, or challenging corporate power (that is getting closer to the heart of the matter, but is not quite there). All such activities are completely useless, if righting humanity's ship is the goal. Humanity is burning up the hydrocarbon fuels that powered the Industrial Revolution a million times faster than they were created. Next to that problem, everything else is inconsequential. Just today, Europe joined the insane money-printing party that has gripped the world's industrial nations. All that is doing is stealing from one class to benefit another, like fighting over who gets the best berths on the Titanic.

As Bucky Fuller noted, there are no political solutions to humanity's predicament. Only a new energy source is going to stave off the collapse of global civilization. That source has been getting tapped for longer than I have been alive, but the global elites have prevented public awareness and use of that energy source, for reasons of power. More than just staving off a collapse that humanity might not survive, using the new energy source could usher in an entirely unprecedented Epoch of the human journey, in which Earth could look like heaven's cousin. If that new energy source is tapped by humanity, nearly all of the seemingly insoluble problems will quickly disappear. It will make elites obsolete, which is why they have sequestered the technology and engaged in one of history's greatest cover-ups relating to it. Virtually none of the current political-economic order will survive in that new epochal phase of humanity, when abundance reigns instead of scarcity.

So, when people look to government as the problem (or an ally), or elites, or taxes, or money, or corporations, or the other exchange aspects of economics, they are not seeing the big picture, but are stuck at the "retail" level of how the world works. We have to get to the "wholesale" level if we want to understand how the world works and how to fix it.

That deeper awareness also has to be wedded to a whole heart, because love is the answer. We have to don our creator's lenses if we are going to see the way out, instead of the victim's, which has been the dominant perspective for most of the human journey, with the only partial exceptions being the brief "Golden Ages" that humans enjoyed when they tapped new energy sources.

Again, I wrote a 400-page essay to draw this picture, and this is the short version. Thinking and acting like victims will not get us there, but acting like creators will. If I can amass that that choir and get it hitting the notes, and harmonically attracting the needles that I seek, then bringing FE to the world will be easily accomplished.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Choir Q&A.

Q: Wade, can evolution be falsified?

A: Yes. Famous biologist J.B.S Haldane was once asked that, and his immediate response was yes, if Precambrian rabbit fossils were discovered.

I recently saw an analysis that showed how out of step the USA was on the evolution issue. Basically, as nations industrialize, religion loses its grip on the masses, and those who believe the various creation stories of organized religion doubt evolution. IMO, that less than half of Americans accept evolution, particularly that humans are a product of it, reflects our scientific illiteracy, as well as the grip that fundamentalist Christianity has. That is one more reason why Americans are not my target audience. We are history's richest and most powerful nation, but we are an amazingly ignorant one, preferring the fairy tales of our indoctrination over reality, and it is certainly not confined to evolution, as our nationalistic ideology is also based on fairy tales. All imperial ideologies are childish, so I am not picking on the USA too much, although Japan and Germany were disabused of their childish ideologies, while the USA and the UK have not quite relinquished them (Do we need to lose a war to learn, as in have our nation destroyed? I hope not). Even though the British still have their royalty, they have joined the rest of the world on the subject of evolution, while the USA remains an outlier.

Understanding evolution and Darwin's idea of descent with modification does not mean being a materialist, although they are often lumped together (quite irrationally, I might add, and by scientists all too often). Again, science has nothing to say about any intent behind the universe. If people have mystical awakenings, they can never buy materialism, but that should not deny evolution. Everything changes. The story that scientists have pieced together of the journey of life on Earth fits all the known evidence. Physical reality matters, no matter what may exist on the other side of the veil.

Q: Wade, you often call humans a semi-sentient species. Can you pick another term that might be more accurate and better depicts the difference between humans and other animals?

A: There are other terms that could be used, such as the scientific term for humans, Homo sapiens, with "sapient" meaning, "showing great wisdom or sound judgment." Anybody who argues that our species universally possesses those traits has a strenuous task ahead of them.

Einstein and O'Leary used the term "sentience" generally in the way that I mean it, and if they used it that way, it works for me. Humans are animals, and many of our traits can easily be seen in other animals with common ancestry. Human in-group/out-group treatment is common with all social animals, so when humans have blind allegiance to their in-group and treat out-groups horribly, they are acting no differently than ants. That so-called "intellectuals" have constructed those in-group ideologies brings up the question of whether humans are really sentient, or are just have more sophisticated programs to express impulses that drive ants. There have been some truly sentient people on Earth, and Jesus's "there is no out-group" statement reflects a truly sentient being, although some might call it enlightened or sapient. That his teachings were turned into another in-group ideology means, to me, that his message sailed right over the heads of Christians, who are history's most murderous people, as far as out-groups go (and their wars against each other were prodigious).

The requirements of life on Earth are about consuming energy, avoiding being consumed, and procreation, and humans, like all animals, are hardwired to meet those biological imperatives. The eating instinct is even more powerful than the sex instinct, and the fight-or-flight response is the most pronounced physiological response of all. So, when people are hungry, horny, or terrified, their responses are really little different from what any other animal does.

I call us semi-sentient, in that we have the potential for sentience, but while we live in a world of scarcity and fear, we do not manifest it. When we can see all life on Earth as our in-group, then we will be a truly sentient species. The human ego is perhaps the primary culprit that prevents our sentience, as it is all about survival in a world of scarcity, and the ego seems to operate from fear. As I state repeatedly, love is always the answer, and love and FE are joined at the hip, in practical and mystical ways. The choir is going to be about love, first and foremost, and will take a loving approach to making FE happen, and it will aspire to true sentience. When love and abundance reign, people are going to have more access to the soul-level of their awareness, which is how they are going to become fully sentient. We are not going to get there when scarcity and fear are the dominant states. Moving from scarcity to abundance will be the biggest transition that our species will ever undergo, which will be a radical paradigm shift.

Best,

Wade

[eaglespirit]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
As I stated, I had my mystical awakening as a teenager and became quite the mystical student. I do not believe the materialist story of a meaningless universe that magically came into existence, to die out one day, either through entropy death or another Big Bang. There is a purpose of existence other than curious outcomes of chance and chemistry. My opinion, in brief, is that the purpose of the physical universe is the evolution of consciousness, and while everything in creation is an offspring of the creator, by virtue of our heritage, we are all learning to be creators in our own right, and physical reality is the hard school that we came to in order to learn what it means to be a creator. I believe that love is the energy of creation, and it is not just some belief that I picked up, but I have had many larger-than-life experiences in my journey that demonstrated the truth of that idea, although I would not wish my adventures on anybody else. There has to be an easier way than that.

That deeper awareness also has to be wedded to a whole heart, because love is the answer. We have to don our creator's lenses if we are going to see the way out, instead of the victim's, which has been the dominant perspective for most of the human journey, with the only partial exceptions being the brief "Golden Ages" that humans enjoyed when they tapped new energy sources.

Again, I wrote a 400-page essay to draw this picture, and this is the short version. Thinking and acting like victims will not get us there, but acting like creators will. If I can amass that that choir and get it hitting the notes, and harmonically attracting the needles that I seek, then bringing FE to the world will be easily accomplished.

Best,

Wade

...an so it is, in a 'spiritual' nutshell we are about to crack wide open !!!

Thanks, as always, Wade : )

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Robin:

To your recent post, I long posed the question of what needed to come first, FE or enlightenment, and in the course of studying for my essay, I answered it: none of humanity's Epochal Events were initiated by the masses, but always by a relative handful of people, and maybe even a literal handful. On a little side note, I write about various human traits, and the controversies of whether they are the result of common ancestry or convergence, and the first Epochal Events, stone tools and the control of fire, are two great examples of them. The way that stone tools spread strongly supports the idea that it was invented once and spread. As species of the human line (and their cousins) spread across Eurasia, the stone tool cultures sometimes migrated to the farthest reaches of Eurasia, and at other times they did not. Those "hobbits" had stone tool technology and controlled fire, and they may well have been australopiths. To me, this is more evidence of controlled fire being invented once, around two million years ago, and spreading to all species of the human line after chimps that still existed at time, and may well have led to the appearance of Homo erectus. Any species that gained it would not lose it, as its importance was unprecedented. It was the most radical innovation in the entire human journey, and controlled fire drives our industrial civilization even today. I look forward to seeing what future scientific investigation reveals on that subject, but it sure seems like a descent relationship and not convergence.

The appearance of elites wherever civilizations appeared seems like convergent "evolution," and FE will make them obsolete (which is why they are suppressing it like they are), which brings me to your anarchist friends. I have been familiar with anarchists for many years. There is a spectrum of that political stripe, which includes libertarians, Constitutionalists, and even Marxists. Chomsky is a kind of anarchist, which your pal Rose does not consider a real anarchist. My first "alternative" media was the Christian Science Monitor, which is not alternative at all, but I had yet to really wake up. When I was with Dennis, his literalist Christian approach attracted many Constitutionalists, "Patriots," and various flavor of anarchist. When I mortgaged my life to spring Dennis from jail, the last of that money hired the leading Constitutionalist attorney in the USA, who specialized in taking on the IRS, and got in over his head defending Dennis and was nearly disbarred for daring to bring a suit in federal court.

One of the most common reactions to FE in that environment with Dennis was people wanting an FE machine so that they could live way out in the boonies so that nobody could tell them what to do, which is the anarchist's ideal. After the Ventura nightmare I began to study a wide array of alternative information, and the Left media was the first and still greatest influence, and how I met Ralph McGehee, Uncles Ed, Noam, and Howard, and I have subscribed to Z Magazine for more than 20 years. I also subscribed to The Spotlight, which was described as a neo-Nazi publication, and I can see why. So, I have long studied the entire spectrum, and what I found was that, to one degree or another, they all thought and acted like victims. For some, the government was the problem, for others, the corporations, for others, the communists, for others the elite. But what they all had in common was targeting some "bad guys" whom they devoted their efforts toward, and they were a combination of militancy and aversion, so that some tried the "sneak past them" approach, and others the "in your face" approach. Like Larkin, Noam and friends were tax protestors during the Vietnam era, as they directly took on the feds, and Noam made Nixon's enemies list. Brian was on the front lines, too, but took the Capitol Hill route, which proved very disillusioning. I follow Jesus's dictum of letting Caesar have what is his, and the last thing that I advocate is militancy. What I also noticed is that the more enlightened fringe people directed their perceptions within, not toward the "bad guys," and Larkin's advocacy of giving up our superstitious belief in authority is along the lines of the more enlightened perspectives. But it would be a better argument if it was rooted in a more scientific approach, such as humans being social animals and social animals playing "follow the leader," and human reactions to scarcity, etc. I strongly doubt that people can just "flip the switch" and decide to reject all idea of authority, as all in-group ideologies are dependent on a belief in authority, which has been used to herd the masses from the beginnings of civilization.

To your point, yes, when FE and abundance makes its appearance, humanity will be able to get on a train that leads to true sentience. It has always been that way, and I have written many times that slavery did not become a repugnant institution until the Industrial Revolution made it economically obsolete. Likewise, until abundance can become a daily reality for humanity, the scarcity-based frameworks will prevail. The masses are not going to think their way out of scarcity, but I am trying to form a choir that can. Again, it was only after many years of trying to interest those various groups in FE, and trading notes with people such as Brian O, that I was able to generalize the denial and derision that we received: people were addicted to scarcity, or to be more precise, people had unwavering allegiance to the scarcity-based frameworks that fed them, and their entire world would come to an end if abundance reigned, so they all rejected FE, for their various reasons. The "smart" and "thoughtful" were nearly invariably Level 2s and 3s, usually with a dose of Level 5 thrown in for good measure, so not only was FE "impossible," it was undesirable. Again, you probably have to see those reactions to believe them, and if you take the mike at that anarchist conference, hope for the best but do not be surprised if you encounter those Level 2, 3, and 5 reactions. For those who get past the initial denial and fear reactions, Level 8 is perhaps the most common, up there with a lazy skepticism/acceptance (Level 4).

That you have tried to chat up your farmer friends with FE and been treated like you are crazy is normal, and that is actually good work in disabusing people of the idea that the social circle approach will work, even for seemingly idealistic audiences. Ilie and Darren had similar experiences after encountering my work, and it really is the universal experience of FE newbies. When they go out and try to "wake up" their social circles to FE, and can see how the reactions readily fit into my framework, their doubts that I do not quite know what I am writing about begin to fade. But for those whom I seek, they will soon overcome that discouragement (it will not be as easy as they had hoped) and be more ready to learn, and realize that they just got the initiation that all FE newbies get, and they have taken their baby steps into a milieu that I have spent most of my lifetime in. You will find the FE journey to be a lonely one, as Brian O said, but that is one reason why I have built a cyber-home for the choir (with Ilie's help! ).

I thank you for your trust in my experience, but I have also tried my best to make my work so that people were not taking my word for much at all. I do not want to have my work be some kind of "The Oracle Speaks" spectacle. I have done my best to heavily document what I had the liberty to document, and if people do the work, they will find that when they kick my work, it rarely seems to wobble. I have done my best to be pretty conservative in dealing with a wide array of "alternative" material that in some cases is hard to verify unless you have experience with it. For instance, go develop and bring disruptive technology to market, and your experience will be very close to what Dennis and I experienced, if you survive the experience. While nobody on Earth has come close to what Dennis tried or has survived, it is not hard to find testimonies like Mark's, Adam's, what Brian learned on his adventures, and so on, so my adventures should not seem so bizarre. They are actually tame compared to Dennis's and Adam's experiences. It was several years after my pal told me about his little underground technology show that I saw Greer's Disclosure Project witnesses describing some of the same technologies (which was all years after I heard about Sparky Sweet's gizmo). The stuff is real, and when Greer's team all came down with strange cancers immediately after those Congressional hearings, I was sadly not surprised. When Brian fled to South America soon after Mallove's murder, I did not blame him. Those kinds of events just come with the territory, I am sorry to say. Long ago, I became tired of hearing dead FE inventor tales, and when the inventor-of-the-hour announces that he "has it!", is the Messiah, etc., I really do not want to watch, but I am continually bombarded by it, as you can even see on this thread.

As far as trusting what I say does not work for bringing FE to the world, again, anybody who does their homework will discover that I largely only assembled the various tactics that others have reportedly tried, along with what Dennis and I tried, and it is all pretty well documented. Again, nobody should have to take my word for much.

Time for chores,

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Choir Q&A.

Q: Wade, could we discuss mass extinctions, how many and how big they have been, why they happened, and compare them to what scientists are calling the Sixth Mass Extinction?

A: Sure. That is a great and important topic. More than 99.9% of all species that ever lived have gone extinct, as humanity will go some day. More than 95% of all species went out with a whimper, not a bang, unnoticed, and their disappearance had no significant effects on the ecosystems, as their descendants usually filled the niches that their ancestors left behind. Those extinctions were likely gradual affairs, with a species perhaps becoming bottlenecked before the final slide to extinction, and one bad winter or other minor calamity saw them exit Earth's stage.

Arguably Darwin's greatest error in his evolutionary theory was denying that species can die out en masse in catastrophes, because he was influenced by uniformitarian geological theory. That Darwinian dogma delayed the study of mass extinctions for a century. Mass extinctions have happened, many times, and geologists and paleobiologists use the dramatic change of fossils in sedimentary layers to distinguish one geological timeframe from another. The mass extinctions might only affect marine species, sometimes only land, but the mass extinctions on land were usually repeated in the ocean, as the same causes affected land and sea.

Animals visible to the naked eye only began appearing 600 million years ago, and the previous three-billion-year history of life on Earth does not have much preserved evidence of mass extinctions before the eon of complex life, but there is some. But mass extinctions of microorganisms were likely far rarer than mass extinctions of complex life, because microorganisms are hard to kill. They can survive in environments that complex life could never live in, but some "decisions" that complex life made, to make them more viable, also made them more vulnerable to the kinds of shocks that make complex ecosystems collapse. One such decision contributed to all of the early mass extinctions of complex life in the oceans, and that was the "decision" to go all in with aerobic respiration. Microorganisms, particularly prokaryotes, are biochemical wizards that can wring energy out of a wide diversity of chemicals, but when two billion years of oxygenic photosynthesis (splitting water to get the hydrogen atoms) finally ventilated the oceans, the stage was set to use oxygen as the primary respiration process, and nearly all animals are oxygen-dependent. It was a huge energy boon to use oxygen in respiration, but it made animals vulnerable to anoxia, which is when the waters lose their oxygen content. Anoxia has been implicated in the first nine mass extinctions of complex life. Perhaps ironically, those anoxic events created the oil deposits that humanity burns with such abandon today. It was not until more than 200 million years into the eon of complex life that the first mass extinction that may not have included anoxia as a cause occurred. One of the reasons for mass extinctions and anoxia is that the high efficiency of aerobic respiration made food chains possible. Food chains are often visualized as a pyramid, with the base being the primary food that supplies the ecosystem, and the apex predators are at the top. Instead of a pyramid, it might be better visualized as a rickety tower, and if a calamity befalls any link in the food chain, the entire ecosystem can collapse. One hypothesis is that such multi-level food chains are inherently unstable, and every so many million years, the ecosystem becomes rickety and vulnerable to collapse if a relatively minor event impacts any level of the food chain.

When plants and animals colonized land, the challenges of adapting to non-marine environments were great, and few animal phyla made it to land. It took vertebrates three attempts before they permanently colonized land. Once land was colonized, mass extinctions could affect land, sea, or both, depending on the cause. Some mass extinctions were larger than others, and scientists have identified five mass extinctions in the eon of complex life when 70% or more of all species on Earth went extinct. They are the Big Five mass extinctions, and you can see them on this table in the "Major Extinction Event" column. The first one happened before land was colonized, but the other four impacted both land and sea. Other than the bolide impact that did in the dinosaurs (and scientists still dispute whether it was really the primary or only cause), the others had multiple causes. Most poisons work by wrecking the enzyme systems that produce energy at the cellular level, and mass extinctions can be seen similarly, as the energy system that fed the ecosystems was somehow impaired, and when any part of the chain stopped working, the entire ecosystem collapsed. Civilizations have collapsed via similar energy-deficiency dynamics.

Plants are less susceptible to mass extinctions than land animals, but in the greatest mass extinction of all, the Permian Extinction, plants and even insects (low on the food chain) experienced a mass extinction. Plants, animals, and microbes could contribute to the events that led to the mass extinction, which led one mass-extinction specialist to propose his Medea hypothesis, which posits that life is self-destructive. But in the seas, mass extinctions were usually due to seal level changes, anoxia, and climate change, which life usually did not directly impact, but the sequestering of carbon by the first forests likely brought on a 100-milloin year ice age, which profoundly affected the journey of life on Earth. Volcanism has also been implicated in some mass extinction events.

While those catastrophes drove most species to extinction, there were "winners," which were usually marginal species that thrived in the "Golden Age" after the extinction, with all the competition gone, and they often rose to dominate the next geological period, in what is called an adaptive radiation. Without those mass extinctions, the journey of life on Earth would have been a radically different affair, and humanity almost certainly would have never appeared on the evolutionary scene.

In the Age of Mammals, migrating animals invading continents drove native species to extinction. Two migrations from Asia, one to Europe and one to Africa, may have driven many native species to extinction, but the most spectacular extinction event like that was probably when the Americas joined, and ended 60 million years of isolation for South America.

When behaviorally modern humans arrived on the scene less than 100 thousand years ago, they were something new and unusual, and a few hundred of them migrated past Africa around 60 thousand years ago, and over the next 50,000 years they conquered Earth. They not only drove most of Earth's large land animals to extinction (the easy meat that fueled the migration), they also drove all other human species to extinction. That was the beginning of what scientists today are calling the Sixth Mass Extinction.

Just as the mass extinctions usually had more than one cause, even though humans are the sole cause of the Sixth Mass Extinction, they are inflicting it in several ways. Hunting and fishing species to extinction was one vector of extinction, and another has been habitat destruction, usually to make way for agriculture and civilization. Pollution has also driven some species to at least local extinction. For instance, the USA has lost most of its broad-leafed trees, caused by acid rain and other pollutants of the industrial age. Humans are today inducing dramatic climate change by burning hydrocarbon fuels. We are in danger of turning Earth from an Icehouse Earth condition to a Greenhouse Earth condition in the next century or so, at the current trajectory. The last time that Earth went from icehouse to greenhouse conditions, Earth had its greatest mass extinction episode, which is terrifying biologists and climate scientists. We live in ominous times, and humanity may end up inflicting a mass extinction that makes the Big Five, and it might take humanity with it.

Of course, if I can form that choir, it can help catalyze the biggest event in the human journey that can not only halt the Sixth Mass Extinction in its tracks, but humanity could actively heal Earth's ecosystems while living in an Epoch of Abundance, which has never been close to being experienced before. What lies ahead for humanity will likely either be a dream or a nightmare. It is up to us which future we experience, and we will determine once and for all if humanity is really a sentient species.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Some odds and ends for a Friday night…

I have known my fair share of whistleblowers over the years, and helped take the FBI's heat off of Ralph McGehee right before 9/11. The USA has goose-stepped way to the right since 9/11, and crucifying whistleblowers is now a presidential sport.

It was even reported in the USA's media when an American drone killer finally quit when the number of innocent people that he helped murder climbed to more than a thousand. Similarly, it is nice to see some dissent and fact-checking regarding the new hit movie American Sniper. Far from being a soldier who was troubled by his kills, the movie's protagonist gloried in his murders and was a pathological liar who lost a defamation suit after claiming that he punched out Jesse Ventura. It looks like he made up other hero tales, including killing dozens of people during Hurricane Katrina. If they ever made a movie out of Dennis's life, nobody would believe it, but a pathological liar killed by "friendly" fire has been made into a national hero. Even Hollywood is becoming uneasy that such a propaganda film is coming out in time for award season. The movie even misleadingly tried to connect Iraq with 9/11. This is Bush's kind of movie. Will the debate stop our next imperial intervention? I somehow doubt it. But it is nice to see some dissent.

Best,

Wade

[Nine]

Wade,

There is a somewhat mythical charectar on the internet called Gordon Duff.

He is the editor of a website called Veterans Today and they have many government and military tilted articles and since I am one of them I tend to identyfy with them somewhat but only somewhat.

Mr. Duff served in Viet Nam in the 60's and he just wrote a very hard hitting piece about the Kyle movie.


http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/01...les-of-horror/


Whoever Mr. Duff is he writes very well...

Rest assured there is plenty of dissent within the "system"....

thanx


Nine

[Nine]

Wade,

After my last post I wanted to tell a story.

Its a story of free energy and how everything we know will change.

Its about the kind of government that we "thought" was supposed to be, not the one we have....


It is a story about a mythical government system where at the height of the command structure they have mystics and empath's and wise women to guide them in there decisions and a kind of government that understands and respects human feelings and a kind of government that has rules of law and follows them but at the same time makes exceptions when needed when "law" itself is simply not enough in order to provide justice to her people....

I wanted to talk about the Star Trek franchise and the Next Generation series in particular which has a government system aboard the Enterprise just as I described above with a woman on the bridge who reads feelings and advises the captain just like the first officer does and other members of the bridge are allowed to speak and contribute and the captain respects all view points and comes to a decision and even challenge to his power is tolerated and many times expected to finish their mission.

On season one episode 25 called the Neutral Zone the Enterprise finds an old earth ship with three people on board from the early 21st century who were frozen in some cryogenic endeavor that actually worked and they rescue them.

As the story goes the crew is at first annoyed with their new members as in how did humanity survive the period to being accepted and loved as human beings.

To address some fears about free energy and the changes to come I offer the dialogue between the Captain and a former frozen oligarch used to his power from the early 21st century.

Captain Picard: Here is what I propose, you can not stay upon the Enterprise but you will be transferred to the USS Charleston bound for earth.

Mr. Offenhouse: Then what will happen to us? My money and my corporations are gone! What would I do and how shall I live?

Captain Picard: This is the 21st century and material needs no longer exist!

Mr. Offenhouse: What then would be the challenge?

Captain Picard: The challenge is to improve oneself and to enrich oneself...

Enjoy it!!!

I am sure you have all seen this episode but I never did you see, as an evangelical Christian such shows were indeed frowned upon....

thanx


Nine