WADE FRAZIER : A Healed Planet

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I have written, the day after the USA nuked Hiroshima, journalists began writing about the potential of nuclear energy, and it was a key topic of discussion among various political groups for several years, and the USA kept up with its nuclear evangelism until the 1970s. When FE is delivered into people's lives, and not before, people will quickly begin to wake up. But getting there is the hard part, and people without any technology development experience think that we can get there via garage tinkerers. We can't, and the sooner that FE newbies shed that delusion, the better.

Best,

Wade

[Meggings]

Well now, a thought just occurred to me to see what Wade Frazier says, to check out for myself Mr. Frazier and his thread, and here in the post above I see the word "Roads". Immediately I wondered if you are referring to Michael Roads, the fellow who beguiled me decades ago with his becoming part of "blackberry consciousness" and later, stretching as a cloud to grow bigger, and how he made an agreement with the kangaroos that they could have space around his fields for themselves while he had the crop (because he was sickened by how the farmers would gather at night in trucks with big lights to startle the roos and kill them as they ate in their cultivated fields...)

Thank you, Mr. Frazier, for I went to find the book you referred to ("Into a Timeless Realm") and in the descriptive blurb for it is this: His physical self remained in bed recording the amazing events experienced by his metaphysical self which – in his Light-body – crossed into a timeless realm.

I sigh in relief to read this, for it is what I've done for many, many years. I try to explain this to family and it falls flat; mostly family just drifts away if I try to share some experiences. I always knew it was something human beings can do, and that more and more people will be having these multi-dimensional experiences.

My post does little but share a smile of recognition, and a thank you for persisting in communicating about non-standard-paradigm stuff.

(edited to add that it is post 5540 I am referring to here)

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Freeknowledge:

As Chomsky has stated, Western states grew due to what we call piracy today, especially the USA. Heck, our greatest founding fathers were mass-murdering thieves, and the greatest achievement of our first president was developing the plan to steal a continent, and my ancestors eagerly profited from it, and you and I are beneficiaries of that immense crime, as we live on that stolen land, in history's richest and most powerful nation. All piracy is theft (Chomsky's Pirates and Emperors has a cute title and premise), but some is more harmful to the victim than others, and theft of the fruits of intellectual and artistic effort is common. But it still is theft. If the artist/intellectual wants to give it away, as I have, then fine, but I don't condone theft. Every thief comes up with a rationale for his/her crime.

In an FE-based world, the idea of copyrights, trademarks, patents, etc., will become obsolete, taking their place with slavery and other historic obstructions to abundance and freedom. But I do not advocate coercion, which is the opposite of freedom. I get the poor stealing from the rich, as a way to "balance" the scales in humanity's rigged game, but my aim is far higher, to where everybody on Earth has a lifestyle that makes Bill Gates appear a pauper, and the idea of "mine" will not extend much further than our bodies. As we see in the abysmal poverty in places such as India, Africa, and Latin America, they often do not even control their bodies, as their organs are robbed, various forms of coerced servitude still exist, etc. When everybody is richer than a king, thievery and coercion will go the way of slavery. Black markets like these will cease to exist.

With FE, my vision becomes eminently feasible, almost inevitable, but without FE, it is not possible. It all hinges on energy, and the nugget of integrity and sentience that I hope to amass, or somebody else doing it. I am not the only game in town, but nobody else is trying what I am, so far.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Meggings:

I had the privilege of meeting Mr. Roads in the mid-1990s, and I know people who can do what he does, scientists and inventors, even. I have done enough of my own "weird stuff" to have a pretty good idea of what human consciousness can do, or at least get an inkling of it. Your abilities are "normal," if rarely developed in the West, in our materialistic age, and I understand your loneliness, as nobody is home around you. Mainstream science has yet to wake up on that score. But when FE busts the paradigm of the Fourth Epoch, people like you will not be so strange.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Your wish is my command, Freeknowledge.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Before I head out the door to work, I need to make myself crystal clear. I have seen many alternative physics models over the years, and mention one of them in my work, but that does not mean I endorse it, but I just used it as one example of many. There are many Captain Ahabs of FE out there, with their harpoons in hand, on the hunt. People can really get stuck in the FE physics rabbit hole. Theory is theory, and theory of the Velikovskian kind, for instance, I strongly doubt is valid, but plenty of fringe authors have devoted their lives to it, and I wish them the best. I am far more interested in technology and evidence than theory, and much of the "fringe" technology that I have been involved with defies orthodox theory, and nobody can really say why it works, and that includes those microscopes with their "impossible" resolutions (coming soon in my vaccination posts) and Brown's Gas. Dennis's heat pump did not defy the "laws of physics," but the inventors still had to cut their performance data in half so that they would stop getting laughed out of engineering offices for their heat pump's "impossible" performance. Whether heat pumps and heat engines can produce FE is an open question to me, and keener minds than mine not only thought it was possible, but we went after it, before we were wiped out.

Those deriders are the professional descendants of those who ignored and ridiculed the Wright brothers for five years after they first flew, and soon before Brian O died, he told me that the blindness and denial of the scientific establishment today is worse than a century ago.

Sparky Sweet wrote a paper to describe the physics of how his gizmo operated (he actually wrote a book with a mathematician, which Mr. Advisor read and was extremely impressed with, but it is not publicly available, as far as I know), but all that Sparky really knew was that it worked. How and why it worked was still a mystery to him. Practice being way ahead of theory is typical in the history of science and technology. Steam engines were around for more than a century before anybody tried to establish the theoretical framework to describe why they worked.

All that I know is that FE exists and that the organized suppression of it is a very real phenomenon, and that some of the leading lights of physics thought that empty space was not empty and that the ZPF was harvestable. That should be enough for FE newbies to realize that there is nothing theoretically "impossible" about FE, and I happen to know it exists and is likely older than I am, but you are not going to find out by surfing the Internet and listening to fringe authors spin their theories. Most of them are invalid, anyway, which is an endemic issue on the fringes. There are more important things for FE newbies to spend their time on (such as studying my big essay ).

I am not interested in the FE physics debates that are in cyberspace, or the many alternative physics models. I understand the gist of them, and who knows which one is right, if any of them are? Anybody with any awareness of the scientific process and today's state-of-the-art knows that mainstream physics rests on some pretty questionable foundations, and mainstream physics and cosmology in a century will only vaguely resemble today's, especially if any of those exotic technologies leave Godzillas' Golden Hoard anytime soon.

FE newbies often get all spun up in the theories out there, FE inventors who claim that they are the Messiah, and so on, and mistakenly think that I have any interest in any of that. I don't. Lots of chatter and Sturm und Drang out there, and vast majority of it adds up to nothing. Been there, done that. I have already stated about all I am willing to about the FE milieu and its inventors/theorists. I am doing something different, and those who need FE delivered to their homes in order to "believe" are not in my target audience. I seek worldlier people than that.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
Hi Freeknowledge:
theft of the fruits of intellectual and artistic effort is common. But it still is theft. If the artist/intellectual wants to give it away, as I have, then fine, but I don't condone theft. Every thief comes up with a rationale for his/her crime.

In an FE-based world, the idea of copyrights, trademarks, patents, etc., will become obsolete, taking their place with slavery and other historic obstructions to abundance and freedom. But I do not advocate coercion, which is the opposite of freedom. I get the poor stealing from the rich, as a way to "balance" the scales in humanity's rigged game, but my aim is far higher, to where everybody on Earth has a lifestyle that makes Bill Gates appear a pauper, and the idea of "mine" will not extend much further than our bodies.

Wade,
Coming from you, this is the most painful post to read, almost like a dagger through the heart. Do you have any more disagreements with what I wrote regarding/about FS/FC/FK.

Once you are done putting them down in this thread, I will respond. (No hurry could be next month, or next year, just let me know when you have fully processed my previous writing on this subject).

Looks like I will be stuck explaining Free Software/Free Culture/Free Knowledge for a while.

[Ilie Pandia]

Posted by freeknowledge (here)
Looks like I will be stuck explaining Free Software/Free Culture/Free Knowledge for a while.

Freeknowledge, if I may... the quote you just wrote I think is a key aspect of what is going on.

So many people on the planet are stuck into explanations and debates and rationales that ultimately do not matter. And I do not say that to patronize you, to antagonize you, or to invalidate your view point. As a software developer (and yes, even a contributor to open source software and even some free software) you have some of my attention.

I think that what Wade is trying to say, but for some reason says it in a somewhat convoluted way, is that there are a lot of debates on the planet today. Many very "fierce", very promoted and in your face, very charged! The purpose of these debates is two fold: to give the illusion of freedom and to keep people distracted.

Example: having a very legal and rational debate about how to best improve the living conditions of slaves made a lot of sense some time ago. Maybe studies were made, things were tried out and so on. But such debate was hiding a deeper truth: nobody was debating if slavery itself is required, or how to get the energy surplus to make it obsolete? Do you see what I mean? Are you willing to have a discussion about Free Software not being required at all?

What would you say to someone in a house that is burning and they are being stuck on explaining to the fireman whether they should use the windows or the doors for extraction? Is that a debate you would be interested in?

The thing is, with Abundant and Unlimited Energy the word "Free" will make absolutely no sense and all the debate that Stallman is currently engaging in (and I don't doubt his character or passion) will become irrelevant. I think that is the key really. How relevant or important "Free <place holder>" is, when you have Unlimited energy? And my understanding is that not relevant at all as the concept of "Free stuff" will not even make sense.

With that mind, it seems to me that Wade's current interest is one debate, and one debate only: energy and it's fundamental role in how this world works. Everything else is noise. Including the FOSS stuff. And again, I do not say that to offend, just to present my point of view, as I understand it.

My one remaining "issue" at this time, and the reason I am currently not as active on this thread is that I think that a debate or study of "consciousness" (and not conscience that rides on energy surplus) may be a prerequisite to Energy Surplus. Wade kind of hints in that direction when he says his target audience has to have awakened enough to see through the materialism and at least some of their conditioning.

Some ascended masters also make a good point from: your state of consciousness is the discssion and everything else is noise (including energy). And at this point in my life, I am looking at the two. I think I am seeing what Wade is getting at, but at the same time I get some fleeting glimpses of what the ascended masters are hinting at as well.

I hope you will see that what Wade suggests has the potential to be the ultimate healing tool/process and not a dagger to the heart, but in doing so, yes, some old conditioning and ideologies need to go away. And that may include FOSS.

[Krishna]

Ilie,
I do understand what Wade is trying to do..... on thinking again maybe not. Wade can you clarify.

What I understand
1) I read all of Wade's website years ago, and checked out a lot of the references including read Fuller's Utopia, Grunch of Giants, Chomsky and other references.
2) Recently I read his big essay and read a bunch of references (incomplete for sure).
3) I do understand the role of energy, if Wade gives me a test on the big essay I am sure to pass in flying colors (I know ego talking, but I really do get it).
4) I am lacking in mystical experience, and my materialism, rationalism, scientism is a handicap

After reading Wade today I can say with confidence he does not fully understand what I am talking about when I write about FS/FC/FK.
And that saddens me, given his enormous reading, breadth of understanding and intelligence. Wade always understood me without much explanation.

The choir needs to be worldly and have a comprehensive understanding. Which means understanding the socio-political-economic climate of today. If you don't understand that then you don't understand why Wade got shut down or why we don't have FE. My effort in talking about FS/FC/FK was about losing our blinders, forgetting the illusions we have been fed in order to explain and understand the socio-political-economic reality using energy lenses.

The question I have for Wade is: Should the choir try to understand and talk about socio-political-economic reality in order to up their understanding of the world? Should I talk/write about it or not?

If you read the story of Ekalavya I don't think that he should have given his thumb to Dronacharya.

[Krishna]

Posted by Wade Frazier (here)
Hi Freeknowledge:

I see what you are driving at, to try to couch the Epochal Events in language that your FS comrades understand, and using concepts familiar to them. I can try something along those lines, but that can be a delicate dance, as energy can be at risk of being seen as ancillary to freedom, when energy is the means to freedom.
Wade

Wade,

I am not really targeting FS people. The target as I envision it is broader. The essay is not open letter 2.0 but something entirely different. I am thinking of an essay like
"Cultural transmission of intelligence in Epochs, and its role in Epochal transitions (once the energy required for the next transition is achieved)"


The spread of education or in other words the cultural transmission of innovations/intelligence is the lever on which the transitions between epochs happen. Slow down the cultural transmission and you slow down the transition from one epoch to another. This is true of every epoch, they are invented only once (or a few times) and cultural transmission of the inventions eventually transitions the world to the next era. While it is true that energy availability determines whether the transition actually happens and whether it stays in an epoch or collapses back to the previous epoch. It is the levels of intelligence embedded in a society and the change in those levels that determines whether the transition takes and at what rate it transitions over to the next epoch. I read your essay but I did not find too many data points on how much time it took to transition between epochs and why it took the time it took. India, Africa could be said to be still transitioning from agricultural epoch to industrial epoch they question of why is not fully answered. Colonialism is part of it no doubt, inertia of societies is part of it, my belief is that it is education in the broader sense of cultural transmission of innovations that really explains the differing rate of transition (apart from colonialism, and even there Japanese colonialism is different, they educated their subject peoples better than Britain for e.g. this partly explains why Korea is a developed country, likewise Kerala had a head start because the queen of Tranvancore took an interest in education before India's independence). I would say that FS/FC/FK are merely the new flavor/word for the very old behavior of cultural transmission. In other words, its the same thing.

As you wrote Energy, cultural transmissions and manipulative ability explain the human journey. Your big essay explains Energy very well, and it does explain cultural transmissions also but not at great depth. I am thinking that you could write an ancillary essay about the cultural transmission of intelligence from an epochal/energy context and in the context of transitions between epochs. I find the new FS/FC/FK cultural transmission notoriously difficult to explain so you will not be watering down for the masses, it will blow enough fuses that only the truly interested will be able to deal with it.

Manipulative ability as I understand it, is about having thumbs and hands so that we can build tools, and living on land which allows us to modify our environment unlike dolphins and whales, I don't see an essay on that topic.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Guys, if I did not think that you may be important to my choir idea, we would not be having these exchanges. Let me have the floor here for a few days, and I think I can clear this up, make my stance clear (I think it is, but I am continually surprised at how people don’t understand, and I see my work misrepresented all the time), and we can continue with these delightful exchanges. Sorry for my part in any misunderstandings. Give me a few days.

A little confession: this last weekend was my first "time off" in a month, and almost all I did was catch up on bills, household and yard chores, etc. I literally did not have a day off for a month, and I am getting too old to do it. My typical state at night is exhaustion, and I look forward to going to bed almost more than anything. I have people pulling at me from all directions, wanting my time and energy, and they can get pissed when they don’t think they get what they "deserve" from me. All the while, I am trying to save the world, and almost nobody is rowing with me, but dragging me their baggage and asking me to sort through it, or grinding their axes. Busy times.

As far as Freeknowledge goes, I have asked for what he is doing, as part of honing his chops and providing his background for how he got here, as I had Darren and Ilie do. We will get this cleared up soon, but it will take several long posts from yours truly.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, I have a little time this morning. I am going to tackle Ilie's post first, as it will help tackle Freeknowledge's. This is going to take a few days of my "spare" time. Not long ago, Gripreaper wrote a brilliant little post on his interpretation of the meaning of life, and how life here is about learning to manage our energy as a way to develop our consciousness. I'll buy that. As I wrote, consciousness and energy are the only two things that we know exist in this universe (and mainstream science does not know what either of them is ). I'll buy the polarity and duality, and how beings learn via living at the extremes, and eventually decide to live in balance, as they become sentient.

It is hard to distill a lifetime of this stuff into a few pithy posts, but here goes. Another way to see that polarity, especially in what I am doing, is the tendency to be a hard-core materialist on one end or to float off into all sorts of airy-fairy "mystical" stuff, which is not in the least part practical, on the other. The saying, of being so heavenly bound that one is no earthly good, is an appropriate way to illustrate this. That is also why I say that some scientific literacy is going to be a choir requirement. My work is about making a real world impact, not purveying sweet-sounding New Age nostrums. But we cannot go there if we are not grounded in physical reality. This reality is here for a reason, as is our presence here.

I say that a mystical awakening may well be required to understand these issues, but I also counsel people such as SL to get grounded. A mystical awakening is not just becoming open to the idea that there is more to consciousness than the materialistic musings of scientists, but a mystical awakening awakens something in people that goes far past the intellect. If you want to call it intuition, I can get with that. If you want to call it the heart, or love, I can get with that, too. If you want to call it gaining access to the Creative Moment, I am down with that, too. If you want to call it enlightenment, I am there, too. If you want to call it an awareness of non-physical dimensions, that also works for me. If you want to say that all of them are aspects of the same ineffable state, I can get with that most of all. It is not easy to describe, and words are a poor way to go about this business, but it is what we have to work with these days, in this medium. For people such as Ilie and Freeknowledge, English is not even their mother tongue, so there are all sorts of ways for misunderstandings to creep into our exchanges, even though Freeknowledge lives in the USA. I have lived in the American culture for my entire life, only speak one language, and that is bound to color my perceptions in ways that Freeknowledge's and Ilie's have not.

For all of the heights of awareness that a person can achieve on Earth, we still need to eat, and this is where that mystical/physical duality comes into play. Magical New Age thinking is not going to help humanity turn the corner, and have no doubt, we are at the corner today, with our toes over the edge of the abyss, ready to wipe out the ecosphere and take ourselves with it. People who do not understand that have their heads in the sand. Godzilla knows it well, and that is likely why members of his disenchanted faction gave my friend a little show. As Michael says, a third of ensouled species that can manipulate their environments wipe themselves out right at the juncture that humanity is at today, at the biggest transition that an ensouled species ever makes, from Young to Mature soul awareness, where we turn the corner from outward focus to inward focus. Here we are, on the cusp of the inner and outer awareness. FE can make all of those species-and-planet-threatening dynamics go away, almost overnight. But we won't get there, or at least the choir won’t, using the same semi-sentient means that abound among "activists" who act like victims instead of creators, and creators create with love, as love is the energy of Creation, the source of All That Is. Michael says, with eerie detachment, that if humanity destroys the surface of the planet in its energy quest and fearful lack of sentience, our souls will likely "only" incarnate into another life form in another star system, and we will choose a life form that cannot manipulate its environment (such as cetaceans cannot), and finish up our incarnation cycle. But that is anything but "only," and is a huge detour on the soul's journey, to start over like that. As Michael would say, that is a valid "choice," too, and great learning attends even the "worst" decisions, but I would prefer something different, such as this. A primary purpose of my work is to let people know that we do have a choice, and not the self-extermination one that doomsayers offer, in their various addictions to scarcity, or the "choice" of being a blindly stampeding member of the Great Global Herd, mindlessly responding to the carrots and sticks of the social managers who work on behalf of the elite.

If people have not been mystically awakened, they tend to play intellectual games of mental masturbation with this stuff, and really don’t get it. This can be very subtle and slippery terrain to navigate, and I found that if a person's heart is not in the right place, he/she can't understand. When people are ego-focused and in fear, the soul-based lessons of the heart are lost to them. Today's dominant ideologies are all in-group ideologies rooted in fear and survival in a world of scarcity. Dennis played to the Big Three in the USA: capitalism, nationalism, and organized religion, and I saw how they did not work. People adhere to those ideologies out of fear and self-interest, and are fed them from the cradle. People in that state were not only easily defeated by organized suppression, but they usually destroy the effort from within before Godzilla even rolls out of bed, as they all turn into orcs lusting after the One Ring. I learned those lessons the hard way. One day soon, I am going to put all of those vignettes that I wrote over the summer on one thread in my forum, to distill it into a more potent presentation.

For twenty years, I was really into channeled material, and for the past twenty, not so much. Channeling is a very real and valid phenomenon, let there be no doubt about it, as I discovered firsthand long ago, and has produced the most enlightened bodies of material that I ever encountered, but there is chaff amongst that wheat, too. I have written about what I considered to be the best bodies of material that I encountered in that milieu, which include Seth, Michael, and Ra. People who try to find contradictions between them, to invalidate them all, do not yet understand. As one pal said, take the best, and leave the rest. Only after I was mystically awakened would that material have made much sense to me, and I cannot overemphasize that, which is why I say that people need mystical awakenings, first, before they dive in. For older souls, gaining mystical awakenings is not that difficult, and younger souls will not have much talent or interest. People who study that stuff and come away with new rationales for violence and coercion (even of that ultimate "bad guy" Godzilla) are in thrall to fear and younger soul delusions, such as those Young Warriors. They are more harm than good for efforts such as mine.

Of the many gold nuggets that I mined from channeled material, one of Seth's dictums became one of the stars that I steered by before I ever met Dennis, and I witnessed the truth of that nugget many times, and it was one of the reasons why I survived my adventures with my sanity more or less intact: the means become the ends. That is not just a nice, New Agey idea, but comes from an awareness of how Creation functions. I read it in my early 20s, and it is still about the best statement I have seen on how to make something like FE happen. Most so-called activists do not understand, usually because they are mired in materialism, think like victims, and want to take out the "bad guys." When they think that way, they are defeated before they even begin. That mentality epitomizes the rad left, I am sorry to say, and the best of them often openly admit their position.

In summary, an awareness has formed the bedrock of my energy activism since before I became an activist, and it does not get more "active" than what Dennis, Mr. Professor, and I wrought during our life-risking and life-shortening adventures, and this is another area where experience may be the only teacher. I learned lessons that probably cannot be learned in any other way, but hardly anybody can survive that "curriculum," and I don’t advocate that anybody even try those paths unless they consider their life forfeit before they begin. I also generally exclude young men from much choir consideration, as they tend to stupidly throw their lives away, not yet being acquainted with their mortality, their brains are not yet fully developed, and they are brimming with the power of their young bodies, and generally want to mate with anything that moves. They are most susceptible to Young Warrior delusions, which is why they make ideal cannon fodder.

On the path of sentience and energy manipulation, some will learn how to get their energy directly from The Source and not need to eat. Indeed, there may be people like that on Earth today, and I call them Level 19s. But almost nobody, in any incarnation on the physical plane, ever achieves that in their incarnation cycles. Heck, there may not even be any in that heavenly Roads World, which I have no doubt is a valid reality, however enlightened and loving those people are. People who think that we are all going to "ascend," give up eating, and the like are in thrall to those New Age, airy-fairy notions. The fact of the matter is that 99.999% of us will likely never reach that state in any of our incarnations, and what is wrong with that?

I have experienced Level 19 energy, in highly charged situations that you can't duplicate, so I know it is real, but I won’t give up eating in this lifetime. Some have honed those innate abilities to world-class levels, and more power to them, but if it is not rooted in love, it can go awry in ways that can see souls spends dozens of lifetimes in penance, and I may be speaking from experience on that subject. These are areas that probably only Old Souls can safely navigate, as I have been told I am, and I'll buy it, and younger soul aversion to that stuff may well be the wisdom of their souls speaking.

I reached many realizations during my early training, adventures, and subsequent study, and they are evident all over my work. Even as I was a teenager, after my mystical awakening, I watched the battles between Creationists and Evolutionists with consternation, as two fundamentalist camps went after each other. Each has a grasp on an aspect of The Truth, they chew on each end of it, but cannot see the bigger picture of what they are chewing on. That is the polarity issue, once again. Those who think that we all have to become enlightened before we get the benefit of FE are ignorant of how all the previous Epochal Events happened, and they are mired in social consciousness. The social approach will not work for this, as people are social for pre-sentient reasons. I learned that the hard way, as I carried Dennis's and Brian's spears for several social approach efforts. I had my life completely wrecked playing those games, with my own parents even campaigning against me. They trained me to be a Golden Boy, and when I was at my most golden, they attacked me. I cannot overemphasize the perils of that approach, and people who proselytize to their social circles about FE are risking their relationships and even their careers. But FE newbies invariably contact their social circles, proselytizing about FE and abundance, and are invariably dismayed by the reactions that they receive. Every one of my best pupils has done that, it is a normal reaction (I did it, too! ), and they all got a snootful of what I write about, and it not only began to wise them up, but they began to realize that maybe I know a little about what I am writing about.

Every Epochal Phase of the human journey was catalyzed by tapping a new energy source, and the economic, social, cognitive, and even anatomical changes happened as a result. They were effects, not causes, although feedback effects amplified or diminished them. Slavery did not end until it became economically obsolete (and did not begin until it became economically practical), not because of some global bout of conscience out of nowhere. This is where practical aspects of the real world can complement mystical understandings, and arrive at something that might be called wisdom. Although some found enlightenment at Auschwitz, for 99.999% of them, it was an indescribable horror. If humanity makes Earth uninhabitable by anything other than microbes and some arthropods, Michael said that those most responsible for the situation would incarnate onto their dying planet as a way to experience the result that they worked so hard to achieve, whether they were blindly pursing self-interest or not, as a learning experience for their souls. That is one hell of a way to learn, like Einstein saying that nuclear energy was one hell of a way to boil water.

This is all prelude to specifically addressing Ilie's and Freeknowledge's recent posts, but I think that a prelude is necessary, and I might not be done with my prelude. For now, it is off to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

A little time before I hit the sack. OK, enough of prelude, and I will address Ilie's post. Well, maybe a little more prelude. One channeled statement that sticks with me, many years later, is that all of the lessons that we came here to learn are related to taking care of our bodies. There are no hungry philosophers, and even the masters had to eat. Long ago, when I mentioned the no hungry philosophers statement, one pretty hip pal gainsaid it, stating that gurus had their followers feed them. I did not reply, but wanted to say, "Then the gurus weren’t hungry, were they?"

Yes indeed, consciousness is likely the root of all, but raising our awareness here has always been dependent on the energy issue. Without energy, it is game over, on all fronts. Energy and consciousness issue are joined at the hip, and love is the energy of creation. That is the best "mystical" statement that I know of, and the intellect cannot really grasp it, not by itself. The heart leads the way to all worthy understandings.

Yessiree, the central issue of my work is the energy issue, but I also show how intertwined it is with the consciousness issue, throughout my big essay. The first brains were likely in worms, and eyes quickly came on the scene, and complex life's arms race was off and running. It is thought that predators usually grew the largest brains, in order to outsmart their prey, and encephalization of reptiles was puttering along before the Permian extinction cleared the field, and land vertebrates had to largely start over, and dinosaurs soon came to dominate, and in my lifetime, the view of science of them changed from lumbering and dumb to quick and smart. Some dinosaurs even had hands, and if not for that bolide event of 66 million years ago, Earth might host space-faring reptiles, and mammals would still be furtive, small, rat-like fringe-dwellers. Mammals were relatively brainy from the beginning, but dinosaurs won the energy game and dominated.

When mammals emerged from their holes after that bolide event and rose to dominance, they took over ecological niches that the dinosaurs had, and even looked eerily similar at times. As the Greenhouse Earth period that existed for 200 million years came to an end, and paradise was lost, cold-adapted mammals thrived, but two highly encephalized and adaptable animals from Africa did quite well when they got the chance: elephants and apes. Some of those apes eventually did very well, and I am one of them. The growth of the human-line brain has plenty of controversy over exactly when and how, but what everybody agrees on is that it was primarily an energy event. Our huge brains are great energy hogs, and without the surplus energy of our tool-using practices, we simply would not have evolved, and there would not be any "masters" waxing eloquently about the nature of consciousness.

In very real terms, energy has made us, and the human journey has been all about tool-using to gain greater energy surplus. Everything else is noise. If we don't have the energy surplus, it is game over, as many collapsed and vanished civilizations discovered the hard way. None of them ascended, unless you want to say that their souls ascended after they starved to death.

We can get philosophical about consciousness, and even do explorations of it (I highly recommend it), but only surplus energy allows us the luxury of time and creature comforts to do so. If I had not been a member of history's most privileged demographic group, growing up in the most prosperous, energy consumptive era in world history, I sure would not have been able to work for free for a decade, to have my adventures, survive them, and perform the study and writing that resulted in my site. I rode an energy wave the whole way, just as humanity has, but people take it for granted. Heck, most Westerners have absolutely no idea how their world works and how it rides that wave. Incredible, and there is where consciousness comes into play, or the lack of it. As Brian O said, are we a sentient species? We may be about to find out, for good or ill, and yes indeed, I am asking a small nugget of humanity to reach an unprecedented level of integrity and sentience, and learn to sing the song of abundance, to help catalyze its appearance, once and for all. The average kid in world makes Einstein seem braindead. They did it through the loving application of energy.

We live in a universe of matter and energy, and gravity keeps us on the ground, and the so-called masters have to deal with it, too. As Michael stated, when the Infinite Spirit manifests, and we may see several manifestations of it in our lifetimes, as humanity tries to turn the corner, it has but one message: We are one. That is the message from the Godhead, if you will. Others have said it in different ways ("No divisions of the self" – Seth, "Love the enemy" – Jesus), but Michael's statement is pithy, too.

Time for bed.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Before I directly deal with Ilie's and Freeknowledge's posts, a little of my background, some of which I have not publicly revealed. There are several patents in my family, and I was mentored by a world-class inventive and scientific genius, whose inventions were sometimes world-shaking. Every single one of his inventions was stolen or suppressed, by either corporations, the federal government, or free-lance thieves. He even had literary work stolen, as the thieves made a national TV show out of it. He never received a dime or any recognition from the thieves (one of his inventions generated billions of dollars in revenues, and you use his technology today). That is how the real world of inventing works. The inventor is almost invariably screwed as the thieves get rich. That is for normal inventing, much less FE inventing.

I was raised in Southern California, worked in LA for five years, was a movie junkie as a young adult, have many author pals, know many in film and TV (from acting to directing to producing to writing), have pals in the music industry (musicians, producers, etc.), have a 2,000-volume library at home, a huge music library (1600 CDs worth), etc. I am an Artisan soul, and it is reflected in my possessions.

For some examples of what I was aware of long ago, one moviemaker pal (who helped edit my big essay and will be "haunted" by it for the rest of his life) was developing a script in the mid-1980s for a movie that was going to star Willie Nelson, who was in his camp. Somebody stole an early version of the script and made a crappy movie from it, which ruined my pal's effort, and he had to scrap the project. Another instance is when Yull Brown had a facility in Southern California, trying to get something going, and he was visited for a few days by some Hollywood types who picked his brain on Brown's Gas and his life's story, promising to somehow get him the big money that he needed for his Brown's Gas dreams. Yull never heard back from them, and a few years later, in the middle of Dennis's biggest barnstorming tour, when Dennis was promoting Yull like nobody had before or since, those Hollywood types premiered the movie Chain Reaction, in which a scientist who looked just like Yull, with an Asian assistant (some inside humor on the city that China built for Yull), blew up a city with his invention. Those moviemakers never gave Yull a dime or any recognition, other than portraying him as a mad scientist whose invention could blow up a city.

My Hollywood pals told me story after story of the "slime" factor in Hollywood. Those casting couch stories were all-too-real, but that just scratches the surface of how evil and corrupt it all was. I had a pal in porn, too, and the star of one of his movies was an 18-year-old an "angelic-looking" woman who was a Quaalude addict. Many who flock to LA to become "stars" end up in porn to make ends meet, and my porn industry pal wanted to be a Hollywood screenwriter, but made porn movies to make ends meet before he got his "big break," which naturally never came.

My cop pal Gary also got a snootful of it during his LA days. The movie LA Confidential is nearly a biography of Gary's career, but the real life stories almost never have Hollywood endings.

One of the many ironies of my journey is that I left Southern California twice, vowing never to return, but I ended up back there both times, and had my life wrecked the last time. Wild horses could not drag me back there, but I am invited all the time to go to Southern California, make movies and TV shows, and I am constantly badgered to publish a book from my essay. No way, no how, and those who constantly advocate those avenues are naïve to the realities that I face. Authors like me, trying for the book deal, get death threats from the military and others, and other fun, even putting aside how corrupt the industry is, being part of the USA's evil media system. It has happened to those around me. My essay and site is a next-generation resource, and will never be published by me in paper form. For one thing, that would mean that my work would no longer be free, which people around me still do not understand, thinking that I should parlay my work into advanced degrees and fame and fortune. Helping make the biggest event in the human journey happen with my writings is plenty for this man.

In many ways, publishing a book is counterproductive to what I am trying to do, and even suicidal. I am not going to risk my life anymore, especially to satisfy the naïve. I am risking it already, and am trying to play the game at the level where I do not get on Godzilla's hit list. He is definitely watching me, but does not regard me as an imminent threat. If the choir gets going, that could change, but I have designed my effort so that it is not vulnerable to the many ways that I have seen efforts self-destruct, be easily defeated by a little organized suppression, etc.

During my high tech days, we vended "products" from the music industry, they eventually teamed up with big high-tech players, squeezed us out (nearly putting us out of business) and then sued us over the royalties they thought they were entitled to (over and above what we already paid them – they did very well), and we were in litigation for years with them. A big profit center for the music labels is suing people over copyright infringement, especially those that they do business with. It is a very slimy industry.

I have worked at software companies for 15 years. Not many people on Earth today are more intimately familiar with the fruits of creativity and making a living from them.

But all of that was ancillary to what I learned in my energy days. Dennis was on the brink of a billion dollar deal to carpet the USA with his heat pump when his business partners (and the Mob was involved) stole his business, but almost more importantly, stole the patent, which blew the deal apart. Years later in Seattle, Dennis found himself talking to the man who stole the patent, as he bragged to Dennis about how clever he was in stealing the patent. Dennis just laughed as he heard it, how comically evil it all was, as he realized that it was just not meant to be.

When we began pursuing FE in Boston, one of the first things that Dennis did was publicly give away his heat injector idea. In Ventura, we sold the plans to build, market, and install that heat pump. No patent protection for any of it, just go out and build them. The "con" of what Dennis did then was that he could provide all the plans and blueprints in the world, but building a business, even an industry, around that heat pump was only something that Dennis was qualified to do. A hundred companies came and went from that industry before Dennis came along, but only Dennis had the talent and gumption to make it work.

Back in Boston, we wanted the Big Boys to steal what we were doing, rushing to the FE finish line ahead of us, and we would sit back and say, "Hey, you won!" Wink, nudge. Even then, we had a pretty good idea what the potential of FE was, and we knew that the reign of the elites would end with FE. The problem was that they knew it, too, and that is the biggest reason why Godzilla has suppressed FE and related technologies like he has. But we tried.

The federal government funded the development of Mr. Mentor's second patent for his engine, promoted it, and a huge federal study concluded that it was the best engine in the world, by far, for powering an automobile. Still, it never went anywhere, although some people stole it and built a company to make it, and I think I heard of their fate a decade later.

But even back then, I had heard of inventors having their patents seized under the national security laws. In the USA, patents for overunity devices and high-efficiency photovoltaics have effectively been outlawed by the national security laws. Even back in the 1980s, I heard from people who had their stuff seized that way, and all knew, like Ralph McGehee eventually learned with the CIA, that "national security" is almost never the motivation for seizing those technologies, but is just one tactic of many that Godzilla has for keeping the lid on FE and related technologies, to keep his global racket intact. I believe that Adam Trombly had three of his FE technologies seized that way, and in one raid, they seized tens of millions of dollars of lab equipment, to "protect the public," in The Land of the Free. If the inventor does not get the hint, then come death threats and murder attempts, the kind that the naïve are in complete denial about, or "skeptical" of. If those naïve people ever do something productive, they are going to find out the hard way. I am actually in the middle of a process of trying to caution some FE inventors who think they "Have it!", on the realities of FE inventing and development.

Only slightly less naïve and foolish than those inventors in denial of those realities are those who think that they can sneak past the organized suppression or keep their technology proprietary, making some "secret sauce" invention. Sparky Sweet naively did that, and took his secrets to the grave. When Godzilla sees FE inventors do that, he chuckles, as the inventor is helping Godzilla keep the technology suppressed.

Long before the year 2000, I knew that the patenting, proprietary, and similar avenues were doomed, if not suicidal. By the end of my second stint with Dennis in 1997, I knew that the business approach would not work for FE. It had to be some kind of non-profit charity to have a prayer, and when we founded NEM in 2003, it was a non-profit charity, but that had problems, too, as the leaders wanted to make a living running the charity. I already knew that that approach would not work, which was one reason why I wanted out of NEM long before we staged our conference. The conference mentality, among others, is suicidal in the FE milieu, and that was the last conference that I will ever be involved with.

When Dennis got going in 1994, after getting out of prison, he used volunteers, but that was also a mixed bag, as he kind of got what he paid for.

I have seen the best of the best twist the Rubik's Cube every way imaginable, and when I began to hear about open-sourcing in 1998, when Netscape open-sourced their code, I lived here in Seattle at the time and had my first stint in high-tech in 1999, so I was well aware of those controversies back in the 1990s and earlier, such as when Bill Gates made the case back in the 1980s that code should be proprietary, and he rode the wave he helped build into becoming the world's richest man.

This was all a subject near-and-dear to my heart when Freeknowledge began informing me that the Free Software Movement would be natural allies for making FE happen, and I eventually had my series of fateful exchanges with the father of Free Software, Richard Stallman, and found that he was a heavily entrenched Level 3. Oh, is he ever stuck. I keep all of my emails, and I see that I first heard from Freeknowledge in January 2003, which was during what may have been my life's greatest nightmare, as the USA beat the drums to invade Iraq. He kept badgering me to contact the Free Software Movement, and I had my exchanges with Stallman over a couple of weeks in July 2006, when I also wrote my open letter to the Free Software Movement. I gave up on Richard after more than a dozen exchanges. Our exchanges were polite, if highly frustrating for me. I never publicly revealed my exchanges with Richard until I heard from another member of the Free Software Movement who tried to interest Richard in his FE gizmo, patterned after Bedini's stuff. He approached Richard at a Free Software conference (that that guy actually hosted, I believe), and Richard was not polite about his brush off to that Free Software guy. I won’t repeat what Richard said, but it was kind of salty, and that Free Software/Free Energy guy's impression was that Richard was afraid that FE would eclipse Free Software and steal Richard's thunder. That was only that man's impression, who is actually a big name in the Free Software Movement, and I could only be sad when I heard that, as that song of scarcity can even be heard in the halls of the Free Software Movement. Stallman is a great man, but FE is not only outside of his realm of the possible, he seems to even regard it as a threat to his efforts. I have seen this way too many times on my journey, believe me.

That time in July 2006 was near the absolute peak of my midlife crisis, and reached its breaking point the next month, when Dennis invited me to the White House.

This is all a prelude to dealing with Freeknowledge's recent posts. I doubt that he will see it as a "dagger in his heart," but we will see if we can stand on the same ethical ground. I think so, and dearly hope so, but we will see.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Lessons from the Radical Left

Having grown up in India, I always knew that the British Empire was a disaster for the people of India and elsewhere. I saw the World War’s as merely European wars fighting over who would dominate the world and extract spoils. India is a big country and is a big country and I was somewhat insular in my thinking, and did not really know about the America’s and only very little about USA. I was only vaguely aware of the fate of Native Americans and aborigines in Australia.
After getting a college degree I came to the US, and went about my ordinary life. I did notice that nobody really talked about slavery or the genocide of native americans or that the stealing etc.. It was not until after 911 and watching the media clearly being untruthful and running into an interview by Chomsky that I really woke up. I read Chomsky, Zinn, and the whole radical left milieu, in addition I read Amartya Sen, and really understood Free Software (6 years after I first used it), around this time I contacted Wade. While my understanding has continued to deepen it has not fundamentally changed since then.

I learnt that US was an empire just like the British Empire. The specifics of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Iran, Iraq etc.. are different from India but the motivations/effects are the same. The most important lesson I learnt was about Manufacturing Consent. Chomsky in an interview said that Manufacturing Consent was a free market analysis of the media. The proper way to analyze media is that they are selling attention of people to advertisers. This was my first real economics lesson, simply put follow the money and ignore the smokescreen, platitudes and ideologies. Wade would say follow the Energy.

This was the time of the War on Iraq, I marched against the war but saw no real change, this lead to questions about the effectiveness of dissent and political organizing. I had no answers at that time.

Eventually after reading the big essay I understood that politics runs on top of economics (energy), and while some change in the margins is possible it is not a fight I find worth fighting anymore.

Let me give a shoutout to Gideon Polya his estimates of nearly 2 billion deaths in India is the very first estimate of the human toll of the British on India that I have seen. I believe that number is accurate (from what I learnt about human development). And this is India alone, we have to add deaths from other peoples that the British conquered. The human toll is one of the greatest in World History surpassed in proportional terms only by genocides. WWII total casualties average 10 million a year, during the 200 year British rule India alone suffered 10 million deaths a year.

This completes my homework. This part is the shortest because it takes a lot out of me, I respect Uncle Noam but I have not read even one book of his in the last 8 years and I an unlikely pick up his books again. Nor do I see myself reading Wade's essays on War and Empire again.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

With that series of prelude posts out of the way, here goes. On Ilie's post, yes, there are many highly charged battles on the Internet that do not amount to anything important and serve to distract people, especially as the Epoch of Abundance looms, and those discussions are like debating the best brand of buggy whip, 150 years ago, how to best treat slaves, 300 years ago, and yes, free anything. When everything is abundant and free, the idea of free goes away. But that won't happen until there is energy abundance, as it always has and always will run the show in physical reality.

I began studying the lives and words of the masters as a teenager, after my mystical awakening. Without that awakening, however, my studies would not have meant much. And without the free time to do it, as a member of history's most privileged demographic group, I would have not been able to do it. In Ilie's community, his peers did not even see the point of advanced education, as it had no value on a farm. Without the opportunity to use it, education is meaningless. Imagine putting a Cro-Magnon into a time machine, bringing him into the present and putting him through university training, and then putting him back into his life of 30,000 years ago. What do you think that he could have accomplished? Anything? Do you think that he could have begun farming, smelt metal, or make his tribe literate? Would they have even seen the point, even though they had bigger brains than we do? He might have quickly gone insane or been killed by his peers, as he "went off the deep end," with crazy talk of metal, cities, books, and other bizarre ideas. He would have likely been received like FE talk is today, when FE newbies chat up their social circles. If they are lucky, they are not ostracized too badly, and industrialized nations are thankfully past the time when "heretics" were burned alive, to teach the society a "lesson." But as we bombed Iraq back into the Stone Age, look at how barbaric ideologies ascended, with ISIS. The theocracy that is Iran today was a functioning republic before the USA overthrew its government on behalf of energy interests.

Our consciousness is all that we take with us when we go, and my understanding is that the point of physical reality is to develop consciousness, but physical reality provides unique challenges and opportunities to grow our consciousness, and nowhere else are the opportunities for growth as fast as being here. So, yes, consciousness is the big game, but physical reality is made of energy, which is rooted in the consciousness of All That Is. Even atoms have a consciousness. But a rock sure does not do much, from our point of view. Scientists have found rocks more than four billion years old on Earth, which have done nothing at all (weathered, transformed by geological processes) in the intervening eons, which provided scientists with a window into the past, if they know how the read the signs and have the tools to do so.

Plants have consciousness, and I have experienced it, but they have no brains and do not move like animals do. They don't need brains. Humans arrived on the evolutionary scene just like all life on Earth did, by descent from the ancestor of all life on Earth, and microscopic machinery developed and developed and developed, and multicellular creatures appeared. Some became plants, some became fungus, and some became animals, and each has a different mode of living. Maybe because we are animals, animals are the most interesting to us. The requirements for survival on the physical plane are rooted in energy. If the basics are not met, there is no life, plain and simple. All the consciousness in the world does matter if there is no energy, again, in this universe.

The mystical sources that I respect the most fully acknowledge the challenges and opportunities of being physical, and the best of them realize that to get all "mystical" and lose sight of life's basics is delusional, and for humans, there is nothing like hunger and fear to bring them back to the basics of this reality. If the basics are not honored, the rest literally does not matter. But forgetting the basics is a human penchant, as we struggle with becoming a truly sentient species.

The most important events for life's journey on Earth were energy events above all else. Nobody on Earth is going to make a more pertinent framework of events than this one. Some may expand or edit it, but no alternative framework stands a chance. Those who downplay energy in favor for consciousness are invited to make a similar list for events in consciousness, and for the human journey, the big events in consciousness and cognition were dependent on energy events, which I make very clear in my work. Without the energy to fuel it, human consciousness was not going to arrive on the evolutionary scene, and great inventions, such as making people in the first place, peopling Earth, civilization, and industrialization happened because of tapping a previously unexploitable energy source. There are no exceptions to that dynamic. The great changes in the human journey, materially, socially, and cognitively, were all a result of those events, not a cause. Also, each Epoch reached a successively higher level of energy surplus than the former, which allowed for higher cognition, more complexity, and human societies became generally more humane.

Chimp and gorilla societies are grim affairs, violently run by males who murder infants they did not father, and chimps are actually genocidal, murdering the males of neighboring bands, taking the fertile females and territory as booty, and killing all of the infants of the conquered band. There is an exception to that dynamic, however. When the food supply of some isolated chimps doubled, the females led the way to ending male dominance, and bonobo societies are more peaceful than any human society has ever been.

After the easy meat was gone, when the Golden Age of the Hunter-Gatherer ended, as humans burned through the energy supply that they used to conquer Earth, humans became mutually hostile as they battled over their dwindling energy supplies, and Stone Age hunter-gatherers are the most violent peoples in the human journey, in which about a third of all men die violently, and strange males out of their home territory are killed on sight, with the assumption being that they are there to steal women. The myth of the peaceful savage is just that: a myth.

When people learned to domesticate plants and animals, there was also a brief golden age of village life, when women brought in more calories than men and their enhanced status meant that women stayed in their natal society and men left (which had not happened in the human line for at least ten million years, stretching back to gorillas and perhaps earlier), which broke up male gangs in much the same way as bonobos did, and those were the most peaceful pre-civilized societies.

The first civilizations began peacefully, in their early golden ages, but men violently rose to dominance, humans quickly depleted their energy supplies (primarily forests and fertile soils), early civilizations became very violent, and they all collapsed as they ran out of energy. Human brains were 10% larger 30,000 years ago than today, and they likely had greater raw intelligence, but they did not have the opportunities to develop their abilities as professionals did, as their daily tasks were strictly concerned with survival. Only in rare instances, when they had a local and relatively stable energy supply, could they form "villages," such as when they drove mammoths to extinction in Eurasia. Only then did sophisticated grave goods appear, as people had "free" time to make ornamental "elite" clothing and the like. When the energy ran out, it was a reversion to more primitive life. That dynamic also characterized the collapse of civilizations. Consciousness was there for all of it, but how developed is the consciousness of the illiterate compared to the literate, the isolated mountain dweller versus those who live in complex societies? How philosophical are people on the ragged edge of survival? How enlightened? Not very, in my experience. Nature, or nurture? These are very old questions, obviously, but I have come to see those dynamics through the lens of energy, as have scientists, as they began investigating the journey of life on Earth and the human journey and its epochal phases.

As Ilie states, my game is making the next Epochal Event happen, which will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far. That is enough to have on one man's plate. I know that the technology for it exists, but the mass of humanity does not have the collective integrity and sentience to get us over the hump of humanity's inertia and the organized suppression of the elite (who clearly see that their role vanishes in that new Epoch), as the masses devote themselves to narrow self-interest and survival. But as with the other Epochal Events, a relative handful of people can reach the social organization and technical prowess to tap the new energy source. I seek to amass and train that relative handful, and I know that they are very rare in humanity today, on the order of one-in-thousands, which is partly why the social approach will not work for this, but this new technology called the Internet can help me find them, and them find me.

My former partner brought history's best heating technology to the public, and used ingenious methods that herald the Fifth Epoch, in my mind. His methods were so revolutionary that almost nobody around him could even comprehend it. But I realized that the vehicle of business would not work, no matter how enlightened and courageous. My partner appealed to all of the population management ideologies to round up the people for the Epochal task, and such people were usually more harm than good. We learned those lessons the hard way. Only when humanity gets away from the ragged edge of survival, where the fear of survival haunts everybody, even in history's richest and most powerful nation, will be see humanity approach something that might be called sentience. Only a large energy surplus can do that, and one that is not continually being depleted to exhaustion by those windfall energy opportunists, humanity. The human journey has been defined by exploiting a new energy source to exhaustion, and then moving on to the next one, usually accompanied by societal collapses as the energy ran out. That holds from mammoth villages to early agricultural settlements to early civilizations to modern industrial civilization, which has been declining as it runs out of energy. A collapse that dwarfs all others looms largely, and humanity might wipe out the ecosphere and take itself with it, in its semi-sentient energy quest.

It was in the middle of my activism, study, and learning curve that I heard about a movement that in some ways mirrors what my partner was trying to do: reproduce intelligence and give it away. I knew about open-sourcing software for years, but the Free Software idea was an enlightened progression of that idea. That initially drew me to the idea of the Free Software Movement, and made them seem like potential allies to help make FE happen. I have not given up yet, but I do not seek the movement as a whole. I had the privilege of interacting with the movement's leading mind, but he was firmly stuck in scarcity, somewhat surprisingly, and trapped by the seductive ideologies that the "smart" believe in. That is not unusual at all, but I thought that maybe there was a ray of daylight there.

I hope that I have addressed Ilie's post by now ( ), and now it will be on to Freeknowledge's, who introduced me to the Free Software Movement, and that is big stuff in of itself. He and Ilie have earned my time, and I hope to be finished responding before the weekend is finished. For now, however, it is off to work.

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

OK, on to Freeknowledge's recent posts. The bottom line is that if the Free Software Movement does not advocate stealing from somebody's income stream by stealing (including illegally copying) work that they put up for sale, I am fine, and I believe that is their stance. If so, then there is nothing that Freeknowledge should be concerned about from me regarding the Free Software Movement.

If the Free Software Movement makes free, open-source software that "competes" with software that companies sell (such as Linux versus Microsoft's operating system software), more power to them. I have read a bit of Moglen's and Stallman's writings over the years, and it is lefty stuff, and that is OK. As long as they don't advocate the coercion that the Left is famous for (read the end of Marx's Communist Manifesto, read Michael Albert's open advocacy of elite coercion, or Chomsky's, Zinn's, and Churchill's advocacy of violence, or Albert's advocacy of peaceful means only because activists cannot compete in violence with the state, and you will see where I part company with the Left), I am fine with what they are doing.

All too often, I have seen the logic of lefties, righties, and others that made the case that their noble ends justified coercion, theft, and violence, and again, I will quote Seth, who said that there is never any justification for violence, and that when people see violence and coercion as "solutions," they are deluded and digging a deeper hole for themselves. It is related to his statement of the means becoming the ends. But people mired in scarcity and victim-orientation cannot see that, and they always come to the part where they have to go kill or coerce the "bad guys" (AKA out-group). My experience is that materialists often think that way, because they think like victims, not creators. They come from a place of fear, not love. That victim-orientation plagues all political stripes, not just the Left. Their arguments can be very clever and logical, but operate from the victim's premise. Few have been provoked like I have been, but when I overcame the urge to do violence to some very evil-minded people doing Godzilla's dirty work, and instead sacrificed my life, the greatest miracle I ever witnessed soon happened. So, I know that it works.

Brian's "combined positive intention" approach is the one I advocate, and almost nobody on Earth understands Godzilla's organized suppression like I do. It could be called saintly to advocate an approach to FE without coercion (even of Godzilla), and make the most lucrative technology in the human journey and give it away, but it may also be the only approach that will work. It is not only a path of high ethics, it may also be the only approach that will work. Also, it is aligned with the kind of world that it can help usher into being, and is aligned with Seth's statement of the means becoming the ends: only a loving and abundant approach is going to help manifest a loving and abundant world. It will not come about by killing and coercing the "bad guys," and Martin Luther King, Jr. also said as much, as did Jesus. Yes, they died violent deaths, and the best of my fellow travelers got ruined and prematurely ended lives for their trouble, and that is the way of our benighted species today, but it can change.

With that out of the way, on to Freeknowledge's posts.

Again, he made his posts here because I asked him to, not so much to get into the details of what the Free Software Movement is and does, but to show how it led him on the path to my work and what he learned from it, similar to how I had Ilie and Darren write about their past. But because they seem to be doing something like what I advocate, I am OK with some explanation of what they do and advocate.

I just read the piracy article that Freeknowledge advocated, and I am sorry, but piracy is piracy, if the rich and powerful do it, or the poor and powerless. I doubt that the Free Software Movement advocates that, and I don't either. Yes, the system is rigged to favor the rich, as it has been since the dawn of civilization, but the ends do not justify the means. I am aiming far higher with my FE work. I gave ten years of my life, for free, and that was the easy part, and I expect to spend the rest of my life's "spare" time on this mission, for free. And I know that the poor cannot do that. Only relatively comfortable people in industrialized nations will be able to do that. But they also have greater barriers of brainwashing to overcome, and the incentive to stay brainwashed.

If we want to call the piracy of poor Filipinos a venial sin and what the West does a mortal sin, I am fine with that, but my efforts aim far higher. They have to, to have a chance to succeed. I have periodically copied and given away some copyrighted work to a small circle of friends (only a handful of times in my life), but other than a time or two in the 1990s, I won't use pirated anything. I am not even happy with getting my food from the most enlightened grocery store that I know of, as I know that poor peasants do the work. FE will end all of that. If the USA really valued humanity, it would have automated farming long ago, but there is an endless supply of cheap labor from poor nations, so they stoop in the fields and pick the orchards with their nimble hands. White people no longer do that in the USA, and in an FE culture, nobody will.

I give my work away, but if people want to sell the fruit of their labors, including software, that is their right, just like people like being anonymous on the Internet. I don't agree with that (I have never played the anonymity game), I found it to be fear-based and counterproductive, and to join what I am doing, people can no longer masquerade behind their anonymity, but I will never publicly disclose somebody's identity who wants to remain anonymous. That comes with the territory of my work, and you can see many pseudonyms in my writings, as I protect both the innocent and the guilty, some of whom are long dead, but their families still wish them to remain anonymous, out of fear. I think that their fears are largely groundless, but respect their wishes. It has not been an easy tightrope to walk, let me tell you.

People have the free will to try to remain anonymous on the Internet, but my forum will not allow it, and the main reason why Avalon is not a troll haven, like places such as ATS are, is that Bill has not allowed the anonymous to join (and anybody who interacts with me, in any way, should realize that Godzilla easily can find out who they are, if he does not already know), even though they present themselves to the public as "George, somewhere on Earth"). When I interact with anybody privately, other than the stray Avalon PM, I demand their identities. I have to, doing what I do. Anonymity is not only antithetical to what I am doing, it actually puts me in danger, in ways that may not be obvious to everybody.

As long as Freeknowledge does not advocate FE piracy, I am fine. I advocate open-sourced FE technology that is given to the world to reproduce as they see fit. It won’t be easy, but the biggest event in the human journey is not going to fall in our laps.

A little aside, before I get to Freeknowledge's posts, I have read Moglen's arguments for why software should be open-sourced, and one was that math and science are not proprietary. Actually, much of the science around FE technology is. Much of what sits in Godzilla's Golden Hoard today turns today's physics texts into doorstops. But the scientifically minded often have a naïve conceit that science sits above the fray of self-interest, secrecy, and the like. Anybody who knows much about how patents have been classified should know how naïve the idea of open-source science and technology is. Black science and technology is where the good stuff is, not the peer-reviewed "white" stuff. In areas such as the history of life on Earth, it is a relatively open inquiry, with no classified fossil digs or scientific papers that I know of (but would I know if they were? ).

Freeknowledge has been here for a while, and I will begin here, with a comprehensive response to his recent posts. I have addressed some of it in previous posts, but he deserves a comprehensive response. This will take more than one post.

I got two of the Drèze/Sen books that Freeknowledge recommended, and they are in my stack. When I picked up Brian at the conference and went to that historic meeting at California's capitol, I was in the middle of reading/studying Late Victorian Holocausts, which Sen was somewhat critical of. My European imperial studies go back to the beginning of Europe's imperial era, when Portugal began sailing down the African coast and returning with slaves. All empires enslaved those they conquered, from the very beginning, and it was always an economic motivation above all else. The USA is an empire, and although it executes its imperial enterprise differently from how Portugal, Spain, England, other imperial also-rans did, it is still violent and coercive, and the conquered did not get the benefits of self-rule and self-determination. Indeed, the USA has officially rejected the notion that nations have that right. How evil, and I live in the heart of the Empire as a member of history's most privileged demographic group. The ironies are not lost on me, believe me. What has always been refreshing about people such as Uncle Noam is that he counts himself among the guilty, as contributing to the USA's imperial behavior and being a beneficiary of it, simply by living here. The slightest bit of personal integrity demands such an acknowledgement, but almost no Americans ever do so. Brian always felt guilty when he put gasoline in his car, and that is the kind of keen conscience that characterized my fellow travelers with my greatest respect. If any Americans can claim to have no responsibility for the USA's international behavior, Uncles Noam, Ed, Howard, Brian, Dennis, and I must vie for the honor, but we all accept our role as beneficiaries of our nation's immense crimes. Hitler and Stalin would be impressed with our tally, as we spread "freedom."

Much more to write on Freeknowledge's posts, and I plan to finish them this weekend, but for now, I have chores to do.

Best,

Wade

[Krishna]

Wade,
I will wait for you to finish. Briefly I want you to consider the following questions while you continue to respond to my posts.
1) I borrowed books from the library be it Chomsky, Sen, Late Victorian Holocausts or recently Richard Wrangham, Peter Ward. What right did I have to do so? Was it moral? (I rarely buy books, I read from the library systems)
2) Is it moral for me to use the English language? Given that it is *not* the intellectual commons of my ancestors?
3) My technical knowledge comes from reading of books and understanding them. I use the ideas that I learnt from those books in my professional life, the law is clear on this because of the idea-expression divide I am on the right side of law. But is it moral?

[Krishna]

My stances are very close to Stallman's stances Misinterpreting Copyright—A Series of Errors and Why Software Should Not Have Owners

I see Roberto Verzola's article on 'piracy' as merely pointing out that the emperor has no clothes.

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am taking a little break from responding to Freeknowledge's posts, to introduce the first scientist who is publicly coming forward to be part of what I am doing.

It gives me great pleasure to introduce Michael Hyson. Meeting Michael was one of the many benefits of doing the Camelot interview. Michael contacted me because of that interview. He was Brian's colleague, when Brian was in his space colony and asteroid mining days. Brian remembered Michael fondly, and before long, Michael invited me to Hawaii's Big Island to swim with what Michael calls "free" dolphins, and I did, in 2010.

I recently had a talk with Michael, and he is eager to join my forum, after he finishes reading my essay. He was the first scientist whom I heard from as I wrote my essay. He read an early draft that had not gotten much past its midway point, and his response was "Wow!" He was not this scientist, but his early feedback let me know that I was on the right track and was not messing up my presentation.

Michael has done everything from studying the human brain to designing rockets. He spoke of his healing experience with a dolphin in an interview done for a debunker show produced by the Penn and Teller magicians, but they never ran the footage on the show. Debunking somebody's experience with Michael's credentials was not going to be easy, but it was in the bonus materials.

I was reluctant to ask Michael to join up with my effort, as he is a busy man and being on the global stage with me could be career-risking and bring a little Godzilla attention. However, Michael is at the stage of his life and career where he knows that he has only so many good years left and plans to make them count. That has been my attitude since about 2011, too, which was partly why I took the career break to write my big essay. It is a great honor to have Michael join my effort.

Michael is doing a live interview this month, and before long, he will be interacting in my forum, and I look forward to it.

Best,

Wade