WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Melinda]

With various posts made recently, and for various reasons, I was reminded of Brian O'Leary's Miracle in the Void.

Reading it, it's easy to see why, before he passed on, he was taking more interest in your idea Wade, of doing something new. Of gathering together a group of comprehensive thinkers whose hearts and minds could support an FE effort that would approach the field differently.

I made some notes as I read, so I thought I'd share a little overview here, in case it might be of interest to anyone. For the time being I lack another FE home to go to, so I offer you my thanks for indulging me.

One of the things that really shone through for me in the book, much like reading this thread, is the sense that Brian came to his conclusions about the relationship between FE and the raising of our consciousness, having survived the pitfalls of his own ambition, frustration and grief.

In the first half of the book he explores this idea of grief in relation to FE – and how in order to enter into its new realm of physics, and thought, and way of living, many of us will need to grieve the passing of the old paradigm, even as we are living through its dying moments. Once we are past the denial stage and can fully accept our role in what we are doing to the planet, and each other, we need to be mindful of the traps of projecting our anger.

He suggested, for example, not prosecuting those who have been caught up in past efforts to suppress information surrounding NASA, UFOs or free energy research – remarking that 'legal vindictiveness' has no place during such a radical paradigm shift. We must take responsibility for ushering in this new way of living ourselves, and peacefully. Unless and until he could see evidence of Gaia's systems healing, he trusted neither intelligence agencies nor aliens with helping us make the necessary change.

Frustrated by widespread suppression, and its effects not only on our environment but on the truth-seeker's psyche, he commented (with a candidness that permeates the book) : “When I'm depressed I sometimes have the feeling the CIA is after me and about to assassinate me. Or I sometimes feel the converse: that I am not worthy of that kind of attention.”

I figure many on this forum, on this path, can identify with that strain and feeling of vulnerability. It's the kind of poignant commentary on our capacity for extremes where I don't know whether to laugh or shed a tear. I can remember one occasion where I did both (not that I ever thought the CIA was after me. I know I'm not that interesting.)

O'Leary's frustration wasn't only with outright suppression and denial, but also those who surmised our economies couldn't cope with the introduction of FE without decades of reconfiguring. Echoing the feeling of many FE advocates (whilst we wonder what 'authority' may or may not even begin such a lengthy process), O'Leary asked “Must I be nice and bargain with this kind of consciousness in order to be “realistic”?” Personally speaking (and I am far from even being a campaigner, let alone an FE veteran) it's one of the reasons I appreciate this thread. It is easier to grow acceptance for the blocks in other people if we remove our gaze from their limits and pour our energy, instead, into building a broader vision.

He commented on the problems faced by current efforts to support FE in this new, transition period – with some organisations hampered by 'mixed-paradigm' thinking, “like old wine in new bottles.” He couldn't, for example, support an FE organisation if its dominant agenda was to support existing industrialists in commercialising FE. Instead he felt the drive should be to gather like-minded scientists and lay people to develop FE and to restore sustainability to our way of life. On that he wrote : “The new agenda cannot be forced, it must be sourced from a higher place.” An advocate of the scientific exploration of consciousness, he offered examples of research and experimentation which suggested that the surrender to the higher will is a more potent force than the wills of our egos.

In exploring the role of raising consciousness, he was forced to contemplate his own blocks. He engaged in meditating and in the idea of letting go in order to attract something, rather than chasing after it with egoic resistance. But on one occasion, after a group meditation, he felt ashamed for having felt 'nothingness' whilst others described extraordinary experiences. In that wake, and absence of stimulating upliftment, he wondered if his fear of entering the void meant he was still somehow “hooked on growth, devouring the planet right along with the economy, tainted with the philosophy that more is better?” I'd wager many of us have wrestled with the question of to what extent we are 'enlightened' enough, or to what degree we are part of the problem culture rather than being its cure. Perhaps one of Brian's ways of shifting within himself was to write.

One way to look outside of ourselves and our problematic culture is through channelled material. Whether it comes from our higher selves or separate entities in this or other dimensions, it can provoke or inspire original thought and possibly deep healing. O'Leary stated that he was open to it as a valid form of enquiry, where predictions could be verified, but commented that whether we choose to believe in its accuracy or not (whatever source we ascribe to it – angels, aliens etc) many channelled messages “seem to ring true.” He cited an observation channelled from the Pleiadians, that “creativity involves a blending of love and information,” and offered that this could be a clue to practicing what he called 'sacred science.'

He defined sacred science as a new science that transcends the methodological assumptions of the old science, factoring in the role of our consciousness in observing the world. He noted how it invites us to “be our own experiment, testing our ideas about reality in our interactions with the physical and non-physical universe” – which reminded me of Wade's repeated comment about there being no substitute for personal endeavour and experience when it comes to the psychic, mystical realms.

O'Leary wrote : “The keys to this new paradigm seem to include an opening of the heart, a surrender to a higher will to allow the universe to unfold as it does, and to be aligned to that higher purpose... […] ...our humble acceptance can lead to a divine creative force so powerful that we can resonate with the most important universal messages about our reality.”

Reading elsewhere just the other day I was reminded that the heart is in fact the first human organ to form in utero. It is central, and a key to our centring. When we feel and experience our place in the universe through the higher nature of our hearts, we no longer feel like cogs in a system that resists our growth, but can experience being creators as creation flowing through us. A breath of freedom and harmony. Nothing is owned. Nothing needed is denied. Everything is energy, and can flow deeper and more freely, in accordance with the levels of our consciousness.

O'Leary described a fantasy he had often as a child, that he was watched by those who put him here (whoever 'they' were) and his sense of having a mission in his life. He now (at the time of writing) saw this childhood consciousness as a wisdom - a connection to a divine spark that over the decades following childhood was brainwashed out of him. He noted how that same spark was emasculated by a competitive and materialist economy.

“That divine spark within each of us allows our authentic power to emerge in the same magical ways as the experience of a child. It is a subtle, creative energy that brings our transcendent truth and provides the right metaphor for free energy. Free energy then becomes an action of consciousness from within. It can eventually heal, transform, transmute and enlighten all of us. Sacred science can guide us to bring on a free energy that loves the earth and all creation.”

He saw the way in which our exploration of FE science went hand in hand with our expansion of consciousness, and how empowering ourselves to extract energy from the void could bring us into 'a transcendent dimension', moving beyond old notions of a finite existence. Observing the difficulty with repeatability in FE inventors' experiments, he wondered (much like yourself Wade) if the intention or consciousness of the inventors involved could be a factor in the success and efficiency of their own devices. He also noted the 'mysterious effects' that can accompany FE research, offering the example of inventor John Hutchison and his ability to “communicate” with metal. On one occasion Hutchison focused his energy onto the fire of a wood-burning stove in O'Leary's home, causing the metal of an ornamental angel (that had sat there unaffected by hundreds of previous stove fires) to melt.

O'Leary wondered if we could combine the studies of consciousness and free energy - using statistical methods to assess the human-machine interaction to seek ways of producing electrical power, and to create psychokinetic results through the actions of our own consciousness - exploring what these fields might have in common.

In the second half of the book he commented (I'll mention this for fun) that one of the most dramatic developments in contemporary physics may be the recognition that mass may not exist at all. That it may be the interaction of the massless electrical charges (which make up our physical universe) with an all-pervasive electromagnetic field, that creates an 'appearance of mass.' Referring to the work of Haisch, Rueda and Puthoff, he cites their comment that the amount of energy in the Zero Point Field is vast, and notes their description of a theory in which classical physics combined with the ZPF may enable theory that is simpler than and preferable to the complexities of quantum theory or the 'cumbersome formulations' of string theory.

On the theme of being connected in a vast and active universe, O'Leary also commented on how for him the process of accepting, creating and becoming enlightened wasn't cause enough to celebrate. We need to come together in resonance. Not by giving our power away to a persuasive political leader or a gleaming guru. But by utilising our own power, and amplifying it in resonance with others of like mind and sovereign disposition, for a common good. As Barbara Marciniak described it when channelling : “a return to the power of group mind and simultaneous empowerment of the individual.”

O'Leary wrote : “Only by resonating with a mutually supporting network of co-creators, backed by the principals of a sacred science, can we truly come into the empowerment we will need to form a new society.”

There are two pages where he lays out concisely, in bullet-point form, suggestions for action to be taken by a transitional government to safely usher in a free energy culture over a number of years. He lists numerous points including the disclosure of information relating to aliens and free energy, the redefining of what is meant by having a “job” and the replacement of redundant roles with new ones, the conversion of weapons projects to ecological clean-up programs, etc (I won't list them all.) What moved me most in reading them was the fact that they were written at all, committed to print and published, regardless of how wide or receptive the audience may or may not be. Truth is there to be spoken, written, shared and appreciated. And when enough of us are speaking it, writing it, sharing it with one another, it can be acted on in large enough numbers that can celebrate it openly, in person - rather than only through the silent bliss of psychic resonance. Both can be effective and both can be beautiful. But both together is something to look forward to in an intensely physical realm, and likely what is needed to make the necessary difference.

Sometimes, it's by stating the obvious that we can work our way to the next level, to a deeper and beautiful layer of mystery. Brian stated a lot of things in Miracle in the Void that may seem obvious to many, but by doing so he spoke and committed to his truth, and it rippled through the air. I know you are, for good reason, looking for more than that in your choir Wade. But the simple truths are good company on the journey, so I thought I'd share those extracts from Brian's book, in case they were meaningful to anyone. It uplifted me to read them.

Celebrating the art of sweeping broad landscapes into a single sentence, I enjoyed this one, from page 120 :

“...when our true cosmic identity becomes revealed through our inevitable alien contacts, and when we restore respect for our beautiful home planet and start treating it wisely through the appropriate use of free energy, I believe we will be on our way to having heaven on earth.”

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I've included below a little vision picture I made. A gathering of FE research ships in the mountains of Chile, where occupants have permits to land for their bi-annual gathering, to soak up the energies and hike respectfully through the ranges. In the foreground is a Project Avalon Centre for Science and Spirituality. In the distance - the Wade Frazier Forum for Comprehensive Thought, and the O'Leary College of Physics for Poets



The lotus ship was modified from a still from the video below. It is actually from a design for a skyscraper. But I wonder, when designers as talented as this have access to free energy, what spectacular ships they might choose to envisage that can, instead, link us closely to the earth or journey around the world and out beyond the solar system. I enjoyed watching the beautiful geometry as it grew into the completed vision. I find it soothing the way the structures are immersed in and reflect the water gardens. At under 2.5 minutes - thought some of you might enjoy.

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=IZOedbGd64E

[Limor Wolf]

Dear Melinda, tear sheds and gratitude felt when reading your above post. It is brilliant..Thank you. Interestingly I was 'visited' by the thought of Brian O'Leary in the dawn of this morning (my time) took the 'Energy, solution,Revolution' book and opened it randomly to read a couple of sentences, and something in my feeling improved immediatly. I feel truly honored to be able to continue and read Wade's thread and sense the love for all living being embedded into the words and Free Energy intentions for this planet. With the lack of better words, I say thank you, Melinda, for your compassionate heart and visionary spirit ~

All the best,

Limor

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, Melinda, you are taking me down Memory Lane a little. Although we hit it off when we met in 1991, it was not until reading Miracle in the Void nearly 20 years ago that I became Brian's fan. His "Suppression Syndrome" in Miracle was the best and most succinct summary of the organized suppression of FE that I had yet seen, and he was the first person I saw in the FE milieu who did not lie about Dennis when mentioning him, and sadly, to this day he is still nearly the only person in the field who did not lie about Dennis when mentioning him. I bought 35 copies of Miracle and handed them out to friends. I still have a few extra copies. Brian told me that I was the biggest fan of Miracle, and that was really when our relationship began.

Brian was keenly insightful, but it was his Boy Scout nature that really attracted me to him, as Dennis's also did. Brian's mystical awakening, combined with his scientist's background and Boy Scout nature, made him a unique and valuable voice in the milieu, and I miss it. His heart attacks, the first being courtesy of the USA's military, took him from us too soon. From his Exploring Inner and Outer Space onward, Brian's books were not works of scholarship, but chronicles of his adventures and a lot of big thinking, the kind that you note in your post.

A few comments on your post….

One of the hard things about being on the FE stage is that Godzilla and friends are definitely watching, but they are like great white sharks in the depths, circling, and you rarely get to see a fin before one strikes, and they often bump you, first. That circling in the depths is a very effective strategy. Those who have felt the nibbles and bumps can quickly lose their sanity and drown each other, while newbies often blithely deny that there is anything in those dark depths. Even though many quickly sink beneath the waves in a brief flurry of flailing limbs, most of the others on the water rationalize it as just another foolish and unprepared swimmer who drowned, not somebody who was taken under. Brian was definitely on the radar, although it rarely felt like it.

When I was with Dennis, he often said that he was not asking anybody's permission to pursue FE. Who put Godzilla and friends in charge? When he published Miracle, Brian was about to find out how resistant the Establishment was to the idea of FE. For all that Brian had been through until 1995, when he finished Miracle, he had a great deal to learn. The next five years, as he played the Paul Revere of FE, were sobering ones for Brian. When we hung out in California in 2001, I got to hear all about it, as Brian openly wondered if humanity was a sentient species.

Brian's heart-based ideas were definitely in the right direction, and he was definitely a "New Science" guy. While many talked a good game on the upcoming marriage of consciousness and science, Brian devoted the last few decades of his life to it. Not an easy road to walk, by any means.

Because of Brian's politically active days and his self-admitted co-dependence with his nation's capital, he was a believer in some governmental bodies assisting the manifestation of FE, and when I helped him write that DOE proposal, I really wondered what he thought that we would accomplish. I had already done that. Where I eventually parted ways with Brian and Dennis was thinking that any existing organization would really help FE along. After the NEM fiasco, I resolved to never join anybody else's FE effort again, and realized that I would have to roll my own. To this day, I have yet to see an FE effort or organization that had the right stuff, whether it was governmental, corporate, or NGO. I doubt that Brian would have replied publicly at all to that recent "Messiah" announcement. Brian did not like to publicly criticize FE aspirants, but he would have privately shaken his head in sadness. Keshe's megalomania is not helping the cause, but he is far from alone.

Brian also realized that we could not count on ETs or any other outside agency to save us from ourselves. It is up to us to learn to paddle our own canoe, and Brian's was about the wisest voice in the field.

Yes indeed, one of the things that I most look forward to is handing FE devices to engineers and architects while telling them to start designing stuff where energy (and gravity) are no longer constraints, and see what they come up with.

To your artwork, those mountains at the end of South America have long been on my list of places to visit. That entire Strait of Magellan region is fascinating to me, and is the only thing like it in the Southern Hemisphere outside of Antarctica (parts of New Zealand can also come close, on the Southern Island). Maybe one day.

On a different note, I read my first Rolling Stone issue in many years this past weekend, because Rush was on the cover (Limelight was one of the anthems of my college days). This article on fracking was also in it. I can't recall if I discussed it on this thread or not, but when I took my 2013 road trip, four different times on that trip, friends told me about fracking in their states and how ominous it all was. I was not seeking comments like that, but it was definitely on the minds of my pals. The fracking and tar sands activities are environmental catastrophes in the making. The surreal part is that nobody sounding those alarms has the slightest interest in FE, but instead reacts with denial and fear when they hear the idea. They are not going to begin to wake up from the nightmare until FE is delivered into their lives, and it has been like that for all Epochal Events.

Time for chores. I have several weeks of 60-70 hour weeks coming, beginning tomorrow, so I am going to be relatively quiet until the middle of August. I am going to take my vignettes and "what I learned and how" posts and consolidate them into their own threads in my forum, and that will take a little doing.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

FredKC asked me to weigh in on the Greece situation, and I have made some posts on this thread at Spectrum, including the post below.

Best,

Wade

In the wake of the vote in Greece, all manner of pundit has been weighing in. One of the more colorful is Kunstler, and he is a good representative of the Peak Oil faction of financial analysts (of which there are many – 1, 2, 3). Here is his take. Peak Oilers are systems thinkers and students of collapsed civilizations. They have it right, as far as the energy of fossil fuels being the source of humanity's industrial party for the past few centuries, and the end is nigh. The punchbowl is going dry.

Greece is an example of how the more marginal economic actors suffer first and most. Other marginal nations will be lining up behind them. The decline and collapse of industrial civilization will take time. The USA has been in decline since the first oil crisis, a few years after it hit Peak Oil. When a civilization uses up its primary resource a million times as fast as it was created, it is the economic equivalent of a mayfly. Of course, with free energy and other suppressed technologies, it can be an entirely different ballgame, but while humanity relentlessly plunders fossil fuels (and we are mining the dregs today, with fracking, tar sands, and the like) the future looks increasingly grim. National bankruptcies, which is essentially what Greece is experiencing (but virtually all industrial nations are effectively bankrupt today, and they are all madly printing money to forestall the inevitable), are going to proliferate, and the usual outcome of the kind of economic mayhem that is about to engulf humanity is warfare, but humanity cannot afford a war between industrialized nations. World War II was the last time that happened, and there is far more than one nuclear power today. World War III (which arguably began on September 11, 2001), will be a short one, if industrialized nations begin trading blows.

The trajectory of Greece may be seen as a prelude what the West, and all nations, will be undergoing in the near future, unless we make free energy happen ( ).

Recently, I was made aware that, just as China built a city for Yull Brown, they are considering building a city for FE R&D. I'll watch that development with interest, if we really get to see what happens.

[Wade Frazier]

Whoops! I intended to make the post here:

http://universalspectrum.org/forum/s...ll=1#post18480

[Nine]

Hi Wade,

I do understand you as far as hiking goes...

except for cycling I used that adventure as a means to just simply get to work...

except that it was a 64 mile commute and so I planned the logistics ...cept the problem was once that guy got to work how could he work....hmm...

lets put a scarcity motor on the back of that bicycle...and I thought I had conqured the world with that inovation....

trouble is that that scarcity motor is no joke...

yet the joke was upon me and so the system we have produces scarcity and all parents educate their kids to that notion...

and so it continues...

A very personal experience wade...


"Lets look at america for a second, in july of '15

who is being openly persicuted? Gays and leisbeins and trans folks and folks who don't know yet..and time is needed... and as who cares what they do

no interest for the state...to intervene with that issue yet...

The next day after gays were set free many upon the internet say that the next group looking for favored status would be pediophiles....

I see no connection between being gay or stright by or trans..or any of those groups since all of the former say that they are opposed to sex with children....

can't name a few that do....or any who advocate sex with children in any way....and so choice in all of these maters should continue without the state and that I support this is valid...

the state simply has no juristiction in these matters... in matters of sexuality except for children and so what is the age of consent?

What is consent?

Hey, was down at the milwaukee lake front whaching the war mobilization....ah.. the fire works...

we were on our way home when out of the blue a guy yells ...faggot! Cept it was my dear wife holding my lovely daughters hand...

and so the crowd reacted...

then heard ...sorry ...nothing at all against gay folks...

as it were.."

that took me a lot of time to process...and so sorry for that..

thanx wade

Nine

[Nine]

Wade,

I am posting in the big picture..

who cares what is going on in Greece...

the cabal or what ever ;you wish to call them are in huge faction...

I personally believe that the human side will win ..

genetics or evolution...

linear time or quantim time..

Me thinks that there is more to the story...

Nine

[ulli]

Great post there, Melinda.
And I noted with some astonishment and even amusement that in your picture you had the New Delhi Baha'i Lotus Temple as the Wade Frazier forum for comprehensive thought. Or would it be the Brian O'Leary College for Physics for Poets?
Whatever.
Very personal to me either way. I was a hyper-active Baha'i from March 1983 until March 2002, when I withdrew, believing the movement to have been hijacked. I nearly went to the opening of the Delhi Temple, I was so involved.
So here I am today, with my eyes fixed on Wade's Work, and connecting dots with my past.
Still can't believe that I met Brian O'Leary in person. I knew he was a giant then, but Wade has shown me a lot more about him than I could intuit at the time (2005)

[Violet]

White sharks analogy. Court.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi all:

Thanks for the posts on sex, sharks, pretty buildings, and Brian O.

Sex goes back a billion years or so, and the most hardwired behaviors in human biology are eating, feats of physical survival (fight or flight, etc.), and sex. Bonobos use sex for forming social bonds, and humans took it another step further. Other than perhaps cetaceans, humans and bonobos are the only animals that use sex for recreation as well as procreation.

Humans are only a recently sentient species, by one definition of it (when we became behaviorally modern 60,000 years ago or so). Humans are using sex as no species ever has, and there are many creative and confused ideas around it. I particularly like Michael's idea of karmic ribbons that are created and burned in a soul cycle, and his concept of creating the ribbon is simple and without any New Age mumbo jumbo: On Earth, when one human/cetacean denies another's free will in a way that harms him/her, a karmic ribbon is created. Men and women are wired very differently on the sex issue, almost like different species, and an age of consent is very wise, IMO, and 18 is a good age, although I think that there should be another several years of halfway status, where they are given guidance, protection, and leeway. The last thing that we should do with teenage boys is turn them into killers, and that is one of many evil human behaviors that will go away in the Super-Epoch of Abundance. Women will not be hounded into sexual behavior, from menarche to menopause, by men trying to plant their seed wherever they can, and the dance between the sexes today will become something very different. Next to murder and debilitating violence, rape is the supreme crime against a woman. Men leading antiabortion crusades (and even denying birth control) and bashing gays (often quite literally) are relics of our primitive days, trying to rigidly put people in their place who fail to honor the male-dominated "ideal."

Women obviously have far greater consequences of sexual activity than men do, and humanity is still emerging from a long period (humanity's third epochal phase) when women were little more than chattel. Heck, other than bonobos and a brief period of village life in horticultural societies, females have largely been chattel, going back for at least ten million years. So, humans being newly sentient, females having new freedoms (a lot of it has only happened in my lifetime), creating and burning karmic ribbons as how souls grow (yeah, seems pretty stupid to me, too, but it seems to be how "God" toilet trains souls, or maybe how fallen souls are rehabilitated) – these are recipes for the kinds of dynamics that we see today.

If you think about it, those hardwired behaviors – eating, sex, fighting – have all been turned by humans into entertainment, indulgences, and great ways to rack up karma. All sports and games are about winners and losers, and many societies have put life and death consequences to the "games," such as with gladiators. In the Super-Epoch of Abundance, the idea of competition will go the way of many obsolete ideas and behaviors, like how almost nobody today thinks that slavery is such a good idea, when the end of slavery was unimaginable just three centuries ago.

Today, I start working 60-70 hour weeks again, so I am going to go relatively quiet. If I am lucky, this stint will see me resume my career, so my time is going to be limited on the public front, and recruiting for and training the choir will be the primary focus of my "spare" time.

Best,

Wade

[Melinda]

“Dear Melinda, tear sheds and gratitude felt when reading your above post.”

Thank you Limor. From the heart. You actually made me smile and shed a tear of my own with your reply. I feel grateful that you're here. This subject is so wonderful, and so inspiring, and yet its history can be so harrowing - much like the story of this planet's humanity overall. Sometimes it feels lonely not being able to go very deep on the FE subject with people I meet. So I value the forum immensely, along with this visionary haven for FE that Wade is honing.

“Great post there, Melinda.
And I noted with some astonishment and even amusement that in your picture you had the New Delhi Baha'i Lotus Temple as the Wade Frazier forum for comprehensive thought. Or would it be the Brian O'Leary College for Physics for Poets?”

Thanks Ulli. It occurred to me after I posted that it wasn't clear which was which I made the Delhi temple smaller for the sake of the composition – but maybe the poetic physicists can have the bigger one to house their mechanical wonderments. I opted for the Lotus Temple partly because its philosophy resonated - being open to all for their meditations, regardless of religion, or any other distinction (as apparently emphasized in the Bahá'í texts.)

The other day I was watching Water, quite a unique and beautiful feature film (by Deepa Mehta) about the lives of rural Indian widows in the 1940s. In one scene, a more progressive character points out to another that the reasons for families sending widows to live in ashrams was really more about relieving themselves of an economic burden than about holy devotion. I spent some hours afterwards reading up on India, and when I reopened Brian's book that night it was, coincidentally, just reaching the part where he travelled to meet FE luminary Paramahamsa Tewari in Karwar. Brian commented on how the roads there had allowed him to view the region's poverty, and had also been blocked by local violence between religious/political factions. Quite a contrast in paradigms to be immersed in, in one day.

The issue of architecture, and man's connection to his home, is a deep one. For example, on our planet we have everything from the sweeping visions of Zaha Hadid to the hand-carved 'contemporary cathedral' of Damanhur, where people reportedly worked together to excavate the rock of a mountain entirely by hand. Different ideas of what can be beautiful, and what makes a 'work' worthwhile.

Watching videos of people building homes out of natural materials (wood they've cut themselves, mud they've moulded with their bare hands) I do feel an admiration - for how it brings them close to the earth, both physically, and soulfully (in terms of being aware of and responsible for every process and every source they utilise.) But technically, we are still drawing from the mother. And there comes a time when life, in the microcosm of our individual lives, invites us to move on and draw energy and sustenance from a new, more abundant source, so that we and our mother are free to create and relate to new things. Our relationship with earth may be no different. The transition to FE can happen in our lifetimes. But the transition as a race to being a civilisation of billions that is no longer dependent on earth for health, inner wealth, and longevity could take many hundreds of years.

To be in that timeless place in the present, where we can draw from the past (without feeling ashamed, addicted or overwhelmed) and understand the differences in our future in a way that inspires us (without feeling that enjoying those differences will disconnect us from what is grounding in the present), feels easier when it is looked at with love, and not through fears of survival. We know we are intrinsically connected to the systems of the earth, in survival, and through the beauty of our spirit. But with new ways of creating, can come new ways of relating - of seeing, of feeling, of building – as architects and explorers of our inner and outer worlds. With our feet in the earth, our head in the stars, and our unbound hearts to guide us.

On another thread recently, Delight commented that some of her "Krshna Consciousness friends" preferred to chant and dance because quiet still meditation didn't work "in the kali Yuga." Apparently because we are "already really desensitized to consciousness because we are deeply in the mire of matter's mud."

Perhaps that's all Brian needed to do that day, when he failed to feel the void in a way that was blissful during that group mediation I mentioned in Post #5361. Wherever he is now, I like to think his energy, his spirit, can dance freely with the cosmos.

P.S. To Wade – I thought this fracking article you posted

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/...-utah-20150622

was an excellent piece on the utterly horrendous subject. Thank you.

Here in the UK, It's good to see the people's voice taking effect :

http://www.theguardian.com/environme...county-council

If we can move as a collective past knowing what's unacceptable, into exploring the truly worthwhile and enlightened options, that will be progress worth celebrating.


~ P o s t U p d a t e ~


Just read this 2013/14 report by Dr Glen Barry (of ecointernet.org) titled 'Terrestrial Ecosystem Loss and Biosphere Collapse.' With its 7 pages of references, its only a 15 page read.

http://www.ecointernet.org/wp-conten...e-Collapse.pdf

Prompted by research by Barry, I remember contacting one foreign government some years ago to question why they were clearing vital forest systems to create biofuel plantations. They predictably replied that efforts to educate them were often rooted in foreign agency agendas that wished to suppress their economic growth and self-sufficiency. So it goes, in the world of government logic and short-sighted 'growth' strategizing. I didn't take the conversation into the realm of suppressed FE – I doubt they'd have been open to it.

Barry may / may not be the kind of scientist who is interested in the exploration of free energy solutions. I don't know his level of awareness. It's the report's content that I found relevant. Thought it might be of interest to some here.

Referring in part to the Gaia hypothesis, he notes how the coordinated activity between species and environment is similar to the interplay of cells and organs in multicellular organisms, and writes :

“Some have proposed that human dominance signals a new geological epoch that could supplant the Holocene; it has been dubbed the Anthropocene (Crutzen, 2002; Steffen et al., 2011). As we move further into the Anthropocene, humanity risks driving the Earth into “hostile states from which we cannot easily return” (Steffen et al., 2011).”

He lays out sobering statistics on our ecological impact re: deforestation, and notes the death of coral reefs, large floods, weakening of the ocean carbon sink and more frequent extreme weather. He outlines how it can be unclear whether critical thresholds have been crossed in the altering of our ecosystems, until it is tragically too late to remedy and drastic shifts occur abruptly and undeniably.

Recommending the reduction of fossil fuel use, he cites the suggestion “that slowing population growth could account for 19-29 percent of the emissions reductions necessary by 2050 to avoid the most dangerous impacts of climate change.”

Clean energy solutions, that can create both abundance and advance our recycling, can obviously help balance population without slowing growth and development.

Under the Percolation Theory heading (addressing flows of energy, water, nutrients, etc), he notes how landscape connectivity needs to be maintained in ecosystems so that species can migrate and otherwise adapt to climate changes. Obviously, the more self-sufficient we become in fuelling our material needs and recycling our resources, the less we will devastate that existing connectivity. We can instead repair it - safeguarding species, rather than using short-sighted means to merely attempt protecting our own.

Further on he addresses the “arbitrary” targets of ecosystem preservation (set under 20%) that have been publicly suggested in the past – highlighting the mistake of some conservation models that fail to assess ecosystem interconnectivity broadly enough.

I agree with his inclusion of the theory that “agro-ecological systems that better mimic natural processes” can help improve the situation, and enjoy how “agroforestry is now being augmented by innovations in permaculture, organic gardening, restoration ecology, and rewilding.” Yet it's still worth noting that with clean, abundant energy solutions we can wean ourselves off interfering with and adapting ecosystems 'sustainably,' and instead allow more of them to flourish and regenerate.

On page 15 he writes : “Ecologically mediated periods of societal collapse have stemmed from human damage to ecosystems in the past (Kuecker and Hall, 2011). What is different now is that the human species may have the scale and prowess to pull down the biosphere also.”

But he goes on to say that “One possible revolutionary solution to the critical issues of terrestrial ecosystem loss and abrupt climate change is a massive and global program to protect and restore natural ecosystems – funded by a carbon tax, furthering the essential reduction of fossil fuel emissions.”

I'm not sure how effective carbon taxes can be at reducing fossil fuel emissions, especially given the entrenched political behaviours of those administrating their collection. It seems like a band-aid solution, and one that is easily corrupted. A responsible FE model can not only facilitate faster-acting remedies and broader abundance, but puts the power in the hands of individuals rather than bureaucrats with a track record of timidity and/or wilful failing.

Barry has been a supporter of indigenous people's rights and wisdom, respectful of when they view earth systems in a spiritual rather than purely material light. I'd like to see a world where we can bring the themes of conservation inherent in that wisdom, together with the clean, safe, sources of abundance and liberation that revolutionary invention can provide.

On the theme of contrasting cultures - I watched a Spanish film earlier, titled Even the Rain (También la lluvia). It's about a crew who travel to Bolivia to shoot a film depicting Christopher Columbus’ conquest, and find themselves in the midst of local uprisings against international interests intent on water privatisation. The opening credits contain a dedication to Howard Zinn.

It's a powerful film, the kind you wish there were more of, which highlights the way history can repeat itself, and the difficulties people face in identifying with struggles unless they are faced with their immediacy on a more direct and emotional level.

For those in the UK, it's currently available on the BBC iplayer. Thought it might be worth sharing.

Wishing peace and abundance to all


~ Post Edit response to Wade's reply ~

I'm not suggesting anyone contact the author. As I said (or tried to say) it wasn't his level of openness to FE I thought relevant - simply the content of his work. Much like a lot of the authors/journalists linked to on this thread, their points feel relevant to the environmental context, even if they are not open to or aware of FE. If we're limited to referencing those who are, it could obviously be slim pickings. Just thought I'd give a little overview of the paper in my post, both to process it and save others time if the paper wasn't for them.

Thanks Wade

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
Melinda, on that author's paper, he is one of many who show how close to the edge of the abyss that humanity is these days. You are asking me to contact that guy who wrote that paper, right? I might (but might not), but I have yet to see anybody like that fail to be either dismissive or hostile to FE. If Avalonians and others want to seek out people like that, they can reach out and see what happens... It can be very educational. One pal recently told me of reaching out to a prominent permaculturist, and the permaculturist actually tried to wreck that pal's relationships, warning others about my pal's "crazy" FE talk. Alden Bryant (the father of the Rio summit) is the only environmentalist I ever saw who was hip to FE and the organized suppression, and he was on a first name basis with all the big names in environmentalism, and he got nowhere with them when he was on the NEM board. If people like Alden and Brian could not make a dent…. Even if somebody like that author was open to FE, he would be drummed out of the profession if he embraced it, and especially if he tried to interest his colleagues...

[Nine]

Wade,

I watched a wonderful film called the King's speech. It was disturbing also along with an open window into the lives of the Elite and how there system works and it struck me that it is a terrible form of slavery that should be made obsolete.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King%27s_Speech

The story takes place upon the eve of WW 2 and about the son of a dieing King with a stuttering problem in the age of radio communication and the infancy of film communications. Its also about real human friendships and overcoming adversity and of course a fair bit of war propaganda to be expected.

What was fascinating to me about this film was the nature of propaganda and how it was used to captivate the British subjects to do the will and bidding of the Elites and how the propaganda appears so simply and almost infantile to our view of the world today with the internet and so on.

And the disturbing part was in fact the King's only use was as a means to communicate the ruling classes demands to the people and he himself had little control over said policies and so a figurehead so to speak. In the film it was shown how cruelties of the royal system itself caused his condition of stuttering.

The uplifting part of the film as the story was told was how the voice specialist that the king saw had tremendous integrity and insisted upon an equality whilst in the treating chamber and so this dear man helped this King with his affliction.
The King would not have been cured without the integrety of that doctor to insist that the King of England would be treated the same as any of his ordinary patients!

It is time to put an end to this sorry system of how our world is now run and to change that game will take a new energy which will make the current scarce energy systems obsolete.

thanx Wade

Nine

ps...I hate cell phones and my last post was upon one...

[Nine]

Wade,

A really funny vid of Monty Python on "philosophers football"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6nI1v7mwwA

I got this vid from the site where a young African American posts....

it is five minutes and is so very funny and a much watch...

thanx

Nine

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Melinda, on that author's paper, he is one of many who show how close to the edge of the abyss that humanity is these days. You are asking me to contact that guy who wrote that paper, right? I might (but might not), but I have yet to see anybody like that fail to be either dismissive or hostile to FE. If Avalonians and others want to seek out people like that, they can reach out and see what happens. It can be very educational. One pal recently told me of reaching out to a prominent permaculturist, and the permaculturist actually tried to wreck that pal's relationships, warning others about my pal's "crazy" FE talk. Alden Bryant (the father of the Rio summit) is the only environmentalist I ever saw who was hip to FE and the organized suppression, and he was on a first name basis with all the big names in environmentalism, and he got nowhere with them when he was on the NEM board. If people like Alden and Brian could not make a dent…. Even if somebody like that author was open to FE, he would be drummed out of the profession if he embraced it, and especially if he tried to interest his colleagues.

For instance, I doubt that I will publicly mention the leading paleobiologist who praised the first half of my essay, and I certainly would never ask him to endorse FE or even comment on it. That would be career-wrecking behavior. It was enough that I had a world authority weigh in on my work.

Nine, it won Best Picture, so it is well known. Ah yes, the lives of the great. Yes, exhorting the masses to engage in the greatest war in human history is a dubious achievement. The Brits have always cast themselves as the good guys, as all nations do. The reign of Europe has been an unprecedented catastrophe for humanity and Earth, and the British "contribution" to North America, Australia, India, and elsewhere is curious. Python is always good.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Melinda:

Sorry if I read too much into your post, but I am besieged by people who want me to contact this or that talking head, who want me to tailor my approach to this or that group, when what is really needed is a high-level conversation. My essay is going to be the basis for it, at least for what I am doing, and if there is a better resource for that conversation, I don't know what it is, which is why I wrote it. Time is short for humanity to turn the corner, and that author that you cite is one of many who are great at pointing out the problems, but they embrace "solutions" that are going to be way too little and too late, and always rooted in austerity, as far as I have seen.

Some months ago, I contacted a bunch of financial bloggers who subscribe to Peak Oil theory, and make it central to their analyses. I have been reading their work for years. There is even one talking head in the finance field who actually mentions FE as a possible solution (as in The Big One), and I recently saw another financial blogger mention FE, but then he linked to a disinformation site that libels Dennis (by promoting this essay, when the site's author knows full well how libelous it is – it is just one more example of my journey's primary lesson). The only author/talking head who gave me the courtesy of a reply was the only woman that I contacted, but her response was to put me in contact with one of Heinberg's colleagues at the Post-Carbon Institute! Organizations such as that, and Lovins's haunt, Rocky Mountain Institute, literally treat FE as the enemy, just as all environmental groups do.

I was just reading this, as the global system begins unraveling, in events that I mentioned last year. The long, dark night is coming fast, and almost nobody wants to even think about the only viable solution on Earth, and the only one that makes heaven on Earth feasible. It is surreal, but I came to terms with it long ago, and I know that I seek the stray needles in the haystacks, and am trying to plan for the long haul, if global civilization lasts that long.

Anybody want to discuss my essay?

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

[Krist]

Hi Wade,
Did any one mate one of the LamCo heat pumps to a hydronic system ? I'm sure the info is out there somewhere,attempting a higher level conversation here.

I had made a similar attempt over the weekend to have a high level conversation with some of my wife's old friends.Well...both according to them consider themselves to have advanced intelligence,or highly educated.One of them worked with a former presidential candidate,which is worn like a badge of honor,means nothing to me by the way.

Some how the conversation fell on me to open up on the next epochal event.I was prepared for this as Ive been studying the big essay.Now they are good friends but view me and my life like that of maybe a sasquatch of neanderthal .I'm not going to deep into the conversation but it ended in me saying "I don't have all the answers,but out of 7 billion peoples on earth we could find a group of people out there to look at this opportunity and approach it with out fear ,greed , or competition.Look at this task with our love and compassion lenses on.AAAhhh, I went from redneck to tree hugger in dead silence.The general even educated populace doesn't want to talk about abundance with out fear.

In the end we did agree FE is a monumental task and from my living room we came to the conclusion that, with just the four of us lets say .All of our combined experience with out some current tech we wouldn't be able to make much happen with out help.....I know how to build things ,A getter done kind of guy,left alone even on our prepped little ranch it would take us a life time just to figure out how to make a sliding glass door with clear glass.WE could agree ,we are up against it.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

What I am most looking for is a discussion of my work, and my big essay in particular. Discussing Dennis's heat pump, Mr. Mentor's engine, how the real world of the energy markets works, how the media works, how history is written, how science is performed, how life on Earth works and has worked, and the role that energy has played, how complex ecosystems and economic systems function, why there have been extinction events and why we are in one now, what FE's potential is, what paths to it have not worked and why, are some of the many topics that the choir is going to need to understand if it is going to make a dent. Make no mistake; my life's work has been about making a dent. I barely survived my Indiana Jones days and am trying something far gentler, which poses little risk to the participants as long as they heed my cautions. I am looking for very rare people, with unusual qualities, and it is easy for FE newbies to get swept up into "I am the Messiah" talk and other distractions, and get onto the paths of disaster that I have lived through or witnessed all too often. Also, the YouTube and gossip mentality is far too shallow for what I have in mind. Lots of FE gossip out there, for instance. Lots of disinformation, on FE and many topics. Very few people have the right stuff and are doing anything that will make a dent, as they hack at branches if they hack at all. It is just how the world is.

What we see happening in China today, where market transactions have been outlawed, is only a more blatant version of how the West works. The West serves up the same results, but more subtly. What we see happening to Greece today is just a gentle preview for what industrialized nations will go through as its primary resource gets depleted. Next to that, everything else happening in the world today is noise.

People do not need to look to public officials, the talking head "experts" or the rich and powerful for the answers: they have none to offer, as they are all trapped in their scarcity-based paradigms. In fact, looking to them for answers is the path of delusion. A relative handful of people, of relatively high integrity and sentience can make it happen. Of this, I have no doubt. The hard part will be finding and training them. All Epochal Events (here is the user-friendly version, suitable for framing ) were initiated by a relative or literal handful of people, and I do not expect it to be different this time. The masses are no help at all, which I learned the hard way.

Time for work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krist:

I just saw your post as I was getting ready to leave, and will write more soon, but yes, the heat pump was regularly retrofitted to hydronic systems, and in fact, that was the ideal application. Liquids are the most effective medium to transfer heat, and the ideal LamCo installation had a several hundred gallon storage tank, to store the energy from daytime operation, when the COPs would be highest, to use at night, when the use was greatest.

Good luck with your social circle. If you do it cautiously, you may not become a pariah.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

A little more on hydronic systems and Dennis's heat pump. Again, a liquid is the ideal heat transfer medium, not really different much from why oil is superior to gas or coal for fuel. That huge evaporator was the only exotic component for that heat pump, and not only did it increase the COPs, but it also increased the amount of heat that could be taken from the environment. But you can only take in as much as you can send on. Standard heat pumps are air-to-air, but that arrangement would not work well for Dennis's heat pump, so air-to-water was a better way to process the captured heat, so it became a natural for hydronic systems.

As I mentioned in the previous post, having a storage tank allowed the heat pump to run during the day, when it got the highest COPs, and heat the home, etc., at night. Decoupling the supply from demand was also one of the ingenious aspects of Mr. Mentor's engine. A hot water tank did it for Dennis's heat pump, and a hydraulic accumulator did it for Mr. Mentor's engine.

In the morning, I'll write about the industrial problems that Dennis faced with that heat pump. Similar problems face FE today.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Similar to how the energy that the panels of Dennis's heat pump drew in had to be matched by the ability of the system to absorb and pass on the heat, when Dennis got involved in foam insulation and the heat pump, he stumbled into fledgling industries that were stuck in the craftsman stage, with one-man installation, and for the heat pump, when Dennis got involved, half of the buyers installed it themselves. That was the province of the tinkerer and garage mechanic, and there is no way to control the quality in such situations.

Dennis is the greatest salesman and marketer that I ever saw, and that was his initial approach. When he got into the heat pump business, he just wanted somebody to build and install them as fast as he could sell them, and he developed the best marketing program that I ever saw or heard about. But if they could not deliver as fast as Dennis sold them (like that energy pathway), it was not going to work. When Dennis got involved in the foam business, the installation crew was one or two men, with a bucket and foam mix chemicals, and the quality was so variable that poorly installed foam could off-gas and make a home uninhabitable. Dennis devised a way to computer mix the ingredients and house it in a "battlewagon" that could do a neighborhood in a day. That way, there was high quality and they could install it as fast as Dennis could sell it. For an untrained businessman, Dennis was ingenious in industrializing fledgling industries stuck in arrested development.

While there were definitely health and safety issues with homes insulated with urea-formaldehyde, what partly led to the campaign against it in Dennis's region (New Jersey, Delaware) were the competing insulations (such as fiberglass), as Dennis was about to corner the market of homes insulating in the wake of the USA's first energy crisis. Dennis's high-quality installations did not off-gas, and while the organized suppression of competing interests was a problem, a bigger one was how Dennis's partners and associates kept trying to steal the business from him. The Mob kept trying to muscle in (during those days, Dennis discovered how famous he became in Mob circles). Dennis had his companies repeatedly stolen, and was "saved" from some mobsters planning to break his legs when he became paralyzed. After miraculously surviving the negligence of the VA hospital where he was treated, he was introduced to the LamCo heat pump when he still used a wheelchair.

Dennis stumbled into another fledgling industry in energy conservation, and it had similar problems that the foam industry had, but even more pronounced, because while foam went into the walls and was invisible, and its performance was easily noticed as heating bills declined, the LamCo heat pump was highly visible (the panels were usually placed on a building's roof), and because it was the province of tinkerers, the quality was highly variable and usually poor for LamCo installations, so most of the units did not work very well. Imagine trying to build a car in your garage from a pile of parts. That was similar to what the LamCo heat pump faced before Dennis became involved.

Dennis quickly realized that there was no way that anybody could build and install them as fast as he could sell them, not in the tinkerer and garage mechanic world. There were also unavoidable economies of scale, such as you could only buy panels (the only exotic component with the heat pump, but it was what made it work so well) in lots of 1,000, so you had to buy panels for more than 100 units or you could not buy any at all.

Dennis tried all that he could to interest the traditional heat pump industry in the LamCo heat pump, but they were not interested. They correctly noted the installation problems, but more importantly, they were involved in a scam with the electric industry. Dennis's heat pump provided too much conservation, and electric companies, like all capitalistic enterprises, are trying to sell as much of their product as possible. Dennis discovered that the hard way in Seattle. Dennis initially thought that he would get the tickertape parade for bringing the conservation that the full-page ads by the electric companies said that they so desperately needed.

Before Dennis's company was destroyed in Seattle, he invented the Heat Injector concept, whereby the heat pump could be made self-contained in the factory and installation issues would become a thing of the past. You need factory-level quality to play at the mass-market level. Tinkerers and garage mechanics don’t cut it. Dennis spent millions of dollars on R&D to develop the LamCo heat pump.

Today's FE field suffers from the same kind of arrested development that the foam and LamCo industries did, as tinkerers and scientists dominate it, all trying to get rich and famous, claim that they are the Messiah, etc. Worse than that, instead of Dennis's efforts being the case study that all FE newbies should be required to study, nearly everybody in the field lies about Dennis or ignores him, and other newbies spout the disinformation from the rooftops, as Foster Gamble does and other newbies have that I have seen lionized at Avalon and elsewhere.

When Dennis invited me to the White House in 2006, he was building and selling retrofit kits so that cars could get 100 MPG, but it was kind of a tinkerer science project. I declined to get involved, for several reasons, and one of which was that it was a tinkerer project. Dennis realized that, too, and a Detroit automobile company was testing dozens of his kits on their cars. The only way to really do it was to have it engineered and built into the cars at the factory, when they were first built. While Dennis had success with his retrofit kit, so much the that robber barons got involved and Dennis was finally run out of the USA, it would only be in conjunction with the automobile companies that it would really work on a large scale, but Detroit has been in bed with the oil companies for a century or more. Only Dennis is brash and foolhardy enough to try to work with Detroit, and he got shown the door once more. I thank my lucky stars that I did not get involve with him again.

In summary, the issue of making technology feasible for mass production and easily used is a key to industrial production. People with no experience in technology development think that FE is going to come from some kind of guerilla revolution in garages. That is highly delusional, and Brian tried to disabuse people of those naive notions for many years. Name any publicly used technology that comes out of garages. FE will be the most transformative technology in the human journey, and if humanity turns the corner, the devices will be made in facilities similar to an Intel chip factory, not garages. That is part of the conundrum.

My goal of writing on these issues is to help people understand how the world really works, not the ideas about it that they get from TV, movies, YouTube, and gossip. The problems of industrializing the processes related to disruptive energy technologies are many and worthy of deep study, and people have to raise the bar of their awareness to understand. The difference between using FE and making it happen is like the difference between riding in a truck and building one. Until somebody like me can raise the awareness of a group far past those beginner's levels, people like Sparky and friends do not have a prayer.

Again, there are many technical and business issues relating to Dennis's heat pump and Mr. Mentor's engine, and I would love to have a high-level conversation around them.

Best,

Wade