Energy and the Human Journey: Where We Have Been; Where We Can Go

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As I began this series of posts with, sociality is an evolutionary adaptation that enhances species survival.  The Hidden Life of Trees shows how trees are social and form communities, and they feed and protect their offspring.  Social animals have all manner of behavior to form and regulate their societies, and all manner of biological changes have happened as part of social adaptation.  Hive insects have very specialized roles for the members of their societies, such as a queen and drones being the only ones who engage in reproduction, with specialists who care for the offspring.  The rise of hive insects was dependent on the new energy source provided by flowering plants, which may have evolved from the browsing pressure of dinosaurs.

Societies of the same species can fight each other, vying for dominance and survival, and territoriality is common.  Simians are highly social, and monkeys engage in crude forms of politics that have been called Machiavellian, which can be lethal.  Apes engage in more sophisticated forms of politics, which reached its peak in chimps.  Ape dimorphism is thought to result from sexual selection, which favored bigger, stronger males in their fight for survival and mating privileges.  That evolutionary legacy is still reflected in humanity.  

While chimps have murderous and even genocidal politics, when gorillas left the range and isolated some chimps, their food supply doubled, females came to dominate, and they became the most peaceful apes of all, more peaceful than any human society has ever been, with no record of a violent death.  Without that economic windfall, the bonobos’ reengineering of their societies would not have happened.  After a career spent studying chimps, Frans de Waal put their social intelligence on par with humanity’s.  The limbic system and related brain matter is the same size for both humans and chimps.  Human emotional development is no more advanced than a chimp’s.  Humans excel in the areas of logic and toolmaking, and one hypothesis relating to human brain size is that it evolved to better navigate the human social environment, and the other uses were a “bonus,” which is a standard evolutionary situation.

The path between the human/chimp split and humanity is rich in controversy, and there is speculation that such intermediate species might have had social organization like macaques and even bonobos, but it appears that australopiths and Neanderthals were patrilocal, which continued all the way back to gorillas.  Were there any bonobo-like societies on the path to humanity from chimps?  Maybe, but when Homo erectus appeared on the evolutionary scene, the path saw an increase in reliance on hunting and strength, which was the male province.  If there were any bonobo-like times on that journey to humanity, they likely did not last long.

There is evidence of professional butchery 400,000 years ago, which likely means that the social organization of human hunter-gatherer bands in the Second Epoch were either established or well on their way to it by then.  In those bands, men were kept in line, with no man allowed to dominate, as there was not the energy surplus to afford it.  The late Second Epoch is also the most violent period of the human journey, with a third of all men dying violently, which is less than the half of male chimps dying violently, so we might say that there was some “progress.”

Humans have never attained the zero-violent-death ideal that bonobos achieved, but where the easy meat had been hunted to extinction and the climate was conducive to it, women domesticated plants, their status rose enough so that those cultures became matrilocal, broke up the male gangs, and those are humanity’s most peaceful preindustrial cultures.  There was a brief Golden Age of the Hunter Gatherer, until the easy meat was rendered extinct, but it was short-lived, and as that easy meat went extinct, fierce territoriality reappeared and it got violent again.  

Where agriculture led to civilization, women’s status universally declined, as they became the broodmares of agrarian societies, and it did not rise again until the Industrial Revolution.  The differences between societies in each Epoch were far smaller than the similarities.  The differences between the Epochs were the important ones, and they were all dependent on each Epoch’s surplus energy.  Without the great increase in surplus energy over the previous Epoch, the succeeding Epoch would not have happened.  I doubt that I can overemphasize that, especially when that reality is rarely discussed on Earth today, and people think that reshuffling the deck of scarcity is meaningful.  It is only meaningful on an egocentric level, or how one in-group prospers at the expense of another.  There is nothing new about that, and it goes all the way back to the beginnings of sociality.  

I also cannot overemphasize that the social changes of each Epoch were a result of them, not a cause.  A Karl Marx would not have written his work in the Third Epoch.  He couldn’t have.  Nobody even challenged slavery as an institution until the Industrial Revolution began.  That burgeoning proletariat of peasants severed from the land, forming the workforce of the Industrial Revolution, did not exist until the Industrial Revolution.  In 1500 England, enslaving strangers found in the countryside was standard practice.  

Each Epoch had social regulation that was germane to the Epoch, which made no economic sense in another.  A new Epoch never happened by some change in social organization.  The social organization changed as a result of the Epoch, which is partly why Marxism never really succeeded.  The Fourth Epoch is still based on scarcity, for all of its seeming advances.  Marxism and capitalism are merely different ways of slicing up the scarce economic pie, and in a world of scarcity, greed rules.  Greed is a big reason why all free energy efforts to date have failed, on both the side of the organized suppression and the aspirants.  

The Fourth Epoch’s social changes were more radical in ways than the Third’s, which were more radical than the Second’s.  While slaves and women were liberated, the nature of elites changed.  No longer did elites claim divine status, abetted by the priesthood, particularly as the agrarian religions of the Third Epoch lost their sway.  The Fourth Epoch’s elites were those who amassed huge fortunes by controlling Fourth Epoch economies.  Uncle Noam’s work has been very illuminating in this regard.  The English Civil Wars in the 1600s, as usual, came relatively late in Europe, beginning in the 1640s, as a century in warfare in Continental Europe was coming to an end, culminating in the devastating Thirty Years’ War, in which the Catholic Church permanently lost its dominance in Northern Europe.  When the English Civil Wars ended, the power of English royalty was permanently reduced, and as naked violence became obsolete as a means of elite control over the masses, controlling what people thought became an English specialty, which its eventual offspring, the USA, took to unprecedented levels.  It is no coincidence that dystopian novels such as 1984 and Brave New World were written by English authors who saw where English and American brainwashing techniques were headed.  

By the early 20^th century, great fortunes had been amassed by the Robber Barons, led by John D. Rockefeller, history’s first billionaire, who made it by monopolizing the great new energy source, oil.  His unethical and criminal business tactics were legendary, and he soon engaged in the charade of “philanthropy.”  After his strikebreakers machine-gunned striking coal miners, and killed women and children in the process, Rockefeller’s public image was at about Genghis Khan’s level, so he hired a rival Robber Baron’s publicist and the era of public relations began.  One of that publicist’s stratagems was that Rockefeller carry around a bag of dimes and give one to everybody that he met, in those grotesque early days of public relations.  It soon gave way to scientific methods of managing the public mind, as exemplified by Edward Bernays, who wrote a book titled Propaganda, but with a positive technical meaning, of getting the unwashed masses to believe what was good for them.  Among Bernays’s triumphs were helping addict American women to tobacco and helping perform the makeover of a brain-damaging toxic industrial waste into “medicine,” which is added to America’s water supply to this day.

Those are not bygone days.  My former partner heard from David Rockefeller just before another government/media attack came, and that time, my partner was run out of the USA.  The American media is little more than an industry devoted to brainwashing, but as history’s most sophisticated incarnation of the practice, its victims think that they are getting the “news,” education, and the like.  The American people are a huge, socialized herd, worshipping a flag and engaging in other inanities that make Mao’s social control practices seem tame.

But that all pales next to history’s greatest cover-up, whose primary upshot is that the technologies to usher humanity into the Fifth Epoch are already here.  That is where the work of Steven Greer and the few others like him is salutary.  One of the other upshots of those sequestered technologies is that even the West’s vaunted science and technology is as primitive as a caveman’s club compared to what those technologies reveal.  Today’s physics textbooks might make good doorstops, if and when those technologies come into the light of public awareness.  

As with the other Epochs, sociality in the Fifth Epoch will look unrecognizable to people in the Fourth.  Many aspects of the Fifth Epoch will be unrecognizable to people of the Fourth.  For one thing, elites will cease to exist, which is why they have been so actively suppressing those Epochal technologies.  It will be Game Over for elites in the Fifth Epoch, and they know it, and the worst of them would rather destroy Earth than lose their power over humanity.  

The vast majority of humanity has easily been brainwashed by the population control practices of the Fourth Epoch, with exceedingly few awakening beyond their conditioning, not far removed from how Neo awoke in The Matrix after taking the red pill.  Almost nobody on Earth today has what it takes to take the red pill, which is why the social approach to initiating the Fifth Epoch is highly unlikely to work, which is why I doubt that approaches such as Greer’s have a prayer of success.  But not all is lost.  A path of love and sentience might have a chance, which is what I am trying to find out.  

Best,

Wade

Edited June 4, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I might make one more sociality post, to finish it off for now (and perhaps discuss what sociality could look like in the Fifth Epoch), but I want to do something that I have not quite done before, and sketch out what science, technology, and spirituality might look like in the Fifth Epoch.  That heavenly Roads world has long been one of the stars that I steer by.  In that world, somebody like me has lower-than-average intelligence, and what I spent a lifetime learning, the average child learns in a week or two.  That world’s technologies are supremely harmonious with all life, and either humans developed the ability to interact with the consciousness of plants and animals, or the humans in that world raised up plant and animal consciousness to levels far above today’s.  Either possibility, or both, is astounding.  

That reality obviously enjoyed free energy technology, and it had leapt far beyond the solid-state technology that Sparky Sweet developed or what my friend saw.  As Roads’s mentor stated, love made it all possible.  That hellish world was also technologically advanced, but it made Blade Runner’s LA appear heavenly in contrast, and the people there obviously did not live in abundance, but in carefully contrived scarcity and misery.

Those children who greeted Roads in that heavenly world had spiritual perceptions far beyond those of people today, and telepathy was likely a normal part of life.  Even calling it “spiritual” is limiting, as is calling their practices “science,” as neither one resembles today’s versions of them very closely.  What is today called New Age spirituality is but a hint of what kinds of spiritual practices abound there.  

One aspect of what is happening on Earth today, which is not the case in that heavenly Roads world, is that what we call lower astral beings actively encourage Godzilla and friends, and they do what they can to thwart people such as Dennis, Greer, Brian, me, etc.  They can petition to make our karma due and payable immediately, and other tricks, which can help knock us off the rails.  In that heavenly Roads world, they could not have any influence, even if they wanted to.

Here is an example of today’s science that will become like cave drawings in the Fifth Epoch.  The wave/particle duality of photons and subatomic particles is likely related to the zero-point field, as interdimensional energy is what sustains the field, and that wave/particle duality reflects that interdimensional nature.  In Greer’s latest book, he described captured ET energy technology that looked like a plate of glass that you could hold in your hand, and it could power a flashlight or a city.  It is obviously tapping that invisible energy source.  Those paradoxes will be resolved in the Fifth Epoch.  

Science in the Fifth Epoch will have some resemblance to today’s, and hypotheses and testing will still likely have its place, but the big revolution will hinge on ending the denial of the abilities of consciousness that is a matter of faith in today’s materialistic science.  Materialism is a religion, and it will go the way of all of today’s religions.  They will all be discarded as primitive.  What only today’s spiritual masters achieve will be normal in the Fifth Epoch, such as Andra’s abilities.  

Is all of that going to happen overnight, or even in my lifetime?  No.  But the Fifth Epochal Event is going to open the door to it.  When scarcity and fear are no longer the constant background hum of our reality, the human potential is going to flower in ways that are scarcely imaginable today.  

Best,

Wade

Edited June 6, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I’ll try to wrap up these sociality posts for now, and as I did yesterday on what the science and spirituality changes might be in the Fifth Epoch, here is one on the possible changes in sociality.  Some I consider very likely, and some are a bit more speculative, aspirational, and long-term, as the arc of the Epoch progresses, as it did for the prior Epochs.  As the sociality in each Epoch was radically different from what came before, for this most epochal of Epochal Events, the social changes should be comparably Epochal.  

Again, as I learned the hard way over many years, more than 99% of humanity currently reacts to the idea of free energy with denial and fear, and won’t begin to understand until free energy is a daily reality.  That is how it was for all Epochs, and there is no use to judging humanity for where it resides today on this issue.  This post is about what happens on the other side of that hump, when and if humanity gets over it.  

With free energy comes true economic abundance for the first time in the human journey.  No brief Golden Age until the new energy source gets exhausted, no relative abundance for a fortunate few, while the rest toil on the brink of survival.  When humanity enjoys abundant and clean energy for the first time, what is going come with it, socially?  Scarcity and fear as organizing principles, with in-groups and out-groups battling over scarce resources, should vanish.  We are all behaviorally modern, and the seeming differences in humanity today are merely their adaptations to their economic situations.  

The nuclear family will likely become obsolete in the Fifth Epoch.  Women are not going to be economically dependent on providing/protecting men, and sex is going to rarely mean procreation.  Humanity will likely become more bonobo-like.  A mother and her offspring may still be the primary unit of social organization, but that may also change.  I am also not referring to bereft mothers and fathers, but something vastly more enlightened, loving, and fun will replace the nuclear family.  Some who still want to interact that way will, but it will become just one more option, and it is likely that few will avail themselves of it.  The nuclear family may be seen as quaint.  Sex, procreation, and child-rearing will become far more flexible in the Fifth Epoch.  All children will be raised in loving and safe environments, and will have opportunities that today’s children do not remotely enjoy.  In that heavenly Roads world, the average six-year-old is smarter and more informed than anybody on Earth today, and their so-called psychic abilities are far and away more accomplished than virtually anybody’s on Earth today.  It will take centuries to get to that level, but in the near-term, I see education as becoming fun for children, not dreary rote exercises and regimentation, and the learning will never end for anybody.  

Nations will quickly become obsolete in the Fifth Epoch, as will elites, who were always economic elites above all else.  In a world of abundance, economic elites will no longer make any sense, and anybody who tried to play that role would quickly discover how nonsensical it would be, as would everybody around them.  The ideas of rich and poor will stop having any meaning.  Along with the disappearance of nations will be races, as geographical isolation will vanish.  Also, cities as we know them will become obsolete.  Nobody will want to live cheek-by-jowl with their neighbors.  Social gatherings will be by choice, not necessity or survival.  Celebrity culture will disappear with elites.  

One thing that I constantly see is people reacting to the idea of the Fifth Epoch with imagining interstellar wars, universal megalomania, greed reaching surreal levels, and the like, but I see those ideas as only projections of scarcity and fear onto a situation of abundance.  Those are nothing more than fearful fantasies, although I advocate those peacekeeping grandmothers while they are needed, which should only be a generation or so, until the utter and suicidal stupidity of playing those games becomes obvious to all (like playing Russian Roulette), and people will wonder at how our species could have been so primitive, but they will also realize what scarcity and fear can do to people.  

Professions as we know them will likely disappear, especially all of those involved with economic exchange.  Nobody will do anything because they have to, but because they want to.  I strongly doubt that humanity will become a bunch of hedonistic, obese couch potatoes, like we see in much of the USA today.  Most of that seeming hedonism is a brief escape from the misery of their lives, even in history’s richest and most powerful nation, which became so rich and powerful through monstrous crimes, which continue to this day.  

Even though we can see glimpses of what I am describing on Earth today, such as Bill Gates’s relatively modest lifestyle and the erosion of the institution of marriage in the USA, nearly all of what I am describing in this post won’t happen until free energy does.  I constantly see scientifically illiterate New Agers and others advocate abundance ideas, but their “solutions” are bereft of realistic ideas for making it happen, like thinking that humanity could go to the Moon with hay-powered rockets.  Sociality has always been an adaptive response to energy availability, and it won’t be any different this time.  

I know that more than 30 years of imagining what free energy can mean is only scratching the surface.  I can no more predict all of the changes in the Fifth Epoch than an English peasant in 1500 could predict my life today.  But the exercise can be a fun and productive one.  

Best,

Wade

 

Edited June 7, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I was driven out of my sleep to write this one.  I was dreaming/thinking about my mother, in a state where the barrier between dreaming and wakefulness was blurred.  I suppose that it came from a few directions.  One is that I am reading one of Uncle Ed’s first political books, on the American atrocities in Vietnam and how the American media treated them, written long before his partnership with Uncle Noam, and another was a post that has been in the back of my mind for some time.

The bottom line is this: if you are choir material, almost nobody in your life is even capable of understanding what makes you tick, and it usually leads to heartache if you even try to help them understand.  My parents raised me to be a Golden Boy, and when it came down to it, neither one had the foggiest idea what my motivation was.  They were only capable of projecting their self-serving motivation at me, which has nothing to do with intelligence; my father’s IQ was about twice my mother’s.  It is a matter of the heart.  

Those who are going to be choir material are our world’s givers, not takers, and those around them generally do not so much see them as givers, but as suckers.  If you are one of those over overgrown Boy or Girl Scouts, you have had a lifetime of people trying to parasitize you, and they would happily take all that you had until they sucked you dry and moved on to seek their next meal ticket, and if your well ran dry, they would have an indignant sense of entitlement and not the slightest sense of gratitude for what they previously sucked out of you.  You eventually had to learn some kind of defense mechanism so that you were not constantly being leeched, and could give at a rate that you could afford.  But those that you gave to almost never understood your motivation, and you came to accept it.  It did not make you “better” or “worthier” than them.  You are just at a different place in your soul’s journey.  In our world, such perceptions are not encouraged, and it is not easy to get there and stay, as sliding back into egocentric awareness is easy to do, in a world where vices are turned into virtues.  

All of my fellow travelers that I respect have experienced what I am writing about, to one degree or another.  This is just the terrain that awaits such people, in a world of scarcity and fear, which is partly why I say that making the Fifth Epochal Event happen will take an unprecedented level of integrity and sentience.  Relinquishing judgment of humanity’s egocentric tunnel vision is part of the path of being productive in this Epochal task.  Being in that state of judgment is not fun, either.  You can only let it go with love, which will lead to a larger framework of awareness.  Again, that is not an easy trick on Earth today, but in the Fifth Epoch, such states will be far easier to attain.  

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am going to go quiet for a few days, and just some odds and ends today.  I have written that what the USA did in Southeast Asia rivalled anything that the Nazis did.  I may be been too conservative.  In one of Uncle Ed’s earliest political books that I am reading, on Vietnam and atrocities, he cited a journalist who saw Vietnam as well as Europe during World War II, who said that what the Americans had done was, “much worse than what the Nazis did to Europe.”  I heard enough stories from American soldiers that I don’t doubt it.  History’s greatest killing machine was used on a nation of peasants.  Nixon even threatened to nuke them, taking a page from his mentor, John Foster Dulles, but somehow the USA is the force of light on Earth.  There has been about zero introspection in the American media over what the USA did to Southeast Asia.  When Uncles Noam and Ed wrote a book on how the USA was reconstructing its imperial ideology after Vietnam, the publishing company that first printed their book was destroyed by its owner, to prevent the book’s publication.  The Nazi book burners probably never went that far.  Hitler’s genocidal programs for Eastern Europe were literally inspired by the USA.  

I regularly get approached by people who really don’t understand what I am doing, and that is OK.  Hardly anybody on Earth will begin to understand until free energy is delivered into their lives.  Dennis may well die before he sees any real-world fruit to his efforts, and I may also die before free energy begins to manifest, but that does not mean that I consider my work an exercise in futility.  The biggest event in the human journey is not going to come easily.  I have been at this for more than 40 years, and will be at it for another 30 or more if I am lucky.  I am taking an approach never tried before, beginning a conversation that I intend will reach levels never seen before on Earth.  It has already been a success.  I have begun the idea of a choir.  Maybe that is all that I will ever accomplish, and if so, that is fine by me.  Others may come along and do a much better job of this than I ever could.  The pioneers never have it easy.

I have stated before that if I contributed just 0.001% to making free energy happen, that would be fine by me.  Humanity may still go over the cliff, but I sleep at night knowing that I did everything that I could, and I am not nearly finished.  It is all gravy from here.  

I also am regularly approached by people who try to read my big essay, but it is too difficult for them, largely because they do not have scientific backgrounds.  I wrote that essay with the scientifically illiterate in mind.  I doubt that people need to be geniuses or scientists to digest that essay, but I don’t kid myself that it is going to be easy.  But only people who have digested or are digesting that essay are going to be choir material.  If Bucky Fuller was alive today, he would understand what I am doing, and would likely be doing something like what I am.  This is going to start slowly, as anything like this ever has.  The first singers will be the hardest to train.  There is a lot of work to do.  

Best,

Wade

Edited June 9, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

One of the joys of developing a comprehensive perspective is that so many subjects become highly interesting, and following their development can be edifying, and not just to satisfy one’s curiosity, but it can help with what I am doing.  For all of its limitations, today’s science progresses on many fronts, and the various disciplines can interrelate in important ways.  

I have been reading Scientific American every month for years, and the sites I regularly hit also help keep me abreast of the latest findings, in many disciplines.  Also, I get bombarded by my circles on various topics.  One pal is sure to email me on the latest findings in astronomy, another on various fringe topics, especially medicine, another on free energy developments, and so on.  I get on distribution lists for which I have no idea how they got my email address.  Even though I have tried to pull in my horns and be fairly quiet on the correspondence front, as I concentrate on many important tasks in my life, and I am not getting any younger, I can’t help but hear about the latest findings in many fields, and lately, I have been repeatedly hearing about new fossil finds in Morocco (and here, for instance).

New human-line findings often show that events happened earlier than previously thought, and it is no different with these latest findings.  Rather unfortunately, such findings are often delivered with hyperbole, usually directed toward the laity.  East Africa, around the horn, has been a hotspot of primate evolution for many millions of years, but anybody who has done much study of the subject knows that South Africa has also been a focus of the human past, and there have been great primate and human migrations in and around Africa for many millions of years, going back to the Miocene apes.  During the Middle Stone Age, the human line was all over Africa, Europe, and Asia.  It is no surprise that today’s Morocco is someplace where human-line remains would be found, and it is far from the first time.  Morocco has been a focus for many years.  The Mediterranean’s periphery is rich with human-line fossils.  South Africa, East Africa, and North Africa all had similar environments, and were all quite amenable to hosting early humans.  The African rainforest and Sahara Desert don’t seem to have been auspicious places for human-line evolution, but everyplace else in Africa hosted the human line, at one time or another.  The big evolutionary jump in the human line was the appearance of Homo erectus (and the line from chimps to Homo erectus is also highly important), and everything since then has been relatively minor.  As the announcement of that latest finding noted, the evolution of the human brain is the notable aspect of recent human evolution, but it has been that way for the past two million years.

This latest find might indeed push back the appearance of Homo sapiens by a hundred thousand years.  It is way too early to make sensational announcements, but those are also common in this field.  Africa is full of fossil diggers, dreaming of the ultimate find.  Will this recent find end up pushing back the accepted appearance of Homo sapiens by a hundred thousand years?  It could, but new findings such as these are always put to the test, and we will see how it weathers the challenges that are sure to come.  I may update my big essay with this finding, which is an example of how I will be updating my big essay until I am too old to do it anymore, as science is always on the move.  Interesting times.  

Best,

Wade

Edited June 17, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I was traveling last week, picked up some airport reading material, read an article about the migration of vertebrates to land, and the current focus on Romer’s Gap. What a way to waste time!  I ended up diving back into it, which is one of the more fascinating times of Earth’s history for me.  Not only is Romer’s Gap under siege, but so is Peter Ward’s oxygen hypothesis for it (1, 2).  That is supposed to be how science works.  My essay update will include the recent findings.  There is quite an opposition among various paleobiologists to the idea that oxygen levels had much to do with many key evolutionary events.  How much of Ward’s Out of Thin Air will become a dated relic?  Maybe a lot of it will, but I think that oxygen levels will eventually find an important place in paleobiology and evolutionary theory.  

Watching the debate and crossfire of scientific papers can be very educational, and is really one of the most important aspects of what I am trying to do, choir-wise.  Science is arguably more about the questions than the answers.  It can be enthralling to watch how scientific questions are raised and pursued, and how the answers lead to evermore questions.  Science is ideally a process of discovery.  Understanding the process is important, maybe more so than the findings.

Best,

Wade

Edited June 19, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Because Krishna brought up the early control of fire, I spent a lot of time yesterday reading on the issue.  Wrangham recently weighed-in on how his hypothesis has been faring.  One paper in particular took it on, and it ended with an admonishment for taking the hypothesis seriously in the first place (that kind of ax-grinding is common in science, unfortunately).  Wrangham was part of an effort to look for the genetic evidence, and they concluded that Neanderthals and Denisovans were adapted to cooked food, so the human-line dependence on cooked food is at least a few hundred thousand years old.  I doubt that they will be able to use genetic evidence for an earlier date, because they won’t be able to find the DNA (it would have to be for the Homo erectus/Homo heidelbergensis split, and DNA likely does not last that long).  

There is a related new hypothesis, called the pyrophilic primate hypothesis, which argues for human-line use of fire on the drying savannas of Africa, as much as three million years ago, as a result of the incipient ice age.  This hypothesis is getting a bit of play these days.

Wrangham has sparked a great deal of debate (2) and investigation, which is what good science should do.  Chimps prefer cooked food, and the so-called paleo diet is argued to be based on a fantasy. Wrangham wrote that a recent paper put the honeyguide/fire hypothesis in doubt, as early humans might have used other means than smoke to subdue bees long ago.  I think that the role of fire in the early human journey is here to stay.  That is not new, as Darwin called the control of fire humanity’s greatest achievement, along with the mastery of language.  But its evolutionary implications comprise a new area of study, largely thanks to Wrangham.  All scientists expect their theories to eventually fall by the wayside, even Einstein did, but they hope that their work stimulates scientific investigation, and that the best parts of their theories survive in subsequent theories.  I think that Wrangham is assured of that legacy.

This entire area is a fascinating one, and my essay update will include the state of the debate and evidence.  

Best,

Wade

Edited July 5, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

To briefly revisit yesterday’s post, a big point of my work is getting people to think like scientists, at least well enough to understand the process.  The process is important.  It is certainly not the be-all, end-all, just like psychic abilities are not the be-all, end-all.  In that recent paper that takes on the cooking hypothesis, another paper is cited that takes on the expensive tissue hypothesis.  The paper documents an investigation of the correlation between digestive tracts among mammals, and did not find the negative correlations that they argued would support the expensive tissue hypothesis to explain the human brain’s explosive growth.  But would it?  I doubt that such an exercise would be very meaningful in the first place.  

The issue at hand is how a chimp became a human, with its huge brain.  I strongly doubt that the relationship of other mammals’ digestive systems and their brains is going to be very relevant to human-line encephalization, which is the most dramatic in the history of life on Earth.  The question is what happened in the human line to grow such huge brains, and since no other animals in Earth’s history grew their brains as dramatically as humans did, studying other mammals for digestive system and brain size correlation is going to have limited relevance, in my opinion.  That challenging paper attributed the energy gains used to fuel large brains as reductions of energy from locomotion, growth, and reproduction.  It completely dismissed the dramatic reduction in the human digestive system, which happened at the same time that the human-line’s brain grew dramatically.  That was quite a feat, to completely dismiss the connection.  I don’t buy it.  

I am not saying that I am right, but that I am thinking critically about the battle of the scientific papers.  It is the thinking process that is important, and even laypeople like me can think critically think about the issues and weigh the evidence, the approaches, and the like.  Several aspects of Wrangham’s Cooking Hypothesis are not easy to explain away, and what I am seeing from those challengers is a kind of denial that fire played any role at all in the human evolutionary journey.  

Again, this is a controversy that I will follow with great interest, and it is nowhere near resolved.  And, of course, this issue is entirely an energy game.   

Best,

Wade

Edited July 6, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I am going to make some posts on anecdotes about the levels of free energy awareness.  I have made them here and there, but never in a series of posts before.  I am going to begin it on a positive note.  Yesterday, I was asked if I had seen any progress on the free energy issue in my lifetime, as far as getting any closer to the finish line.  That was an interesting question, and was fun to answer.

On the elite, masses, and activist levels, there has been progress.  On the elite end, my view is similar to Ed Mitchell’s, as far as the ET/technology connection.  The cover-up of ETs and their exotic technologies was very effective back in those days after World War II, and Doug Caddy’s reporting of E. Howard Hunt’s statement that JFK was killed over the ET issue rings true.  I would not be surprised if that was at least part of the killers’ rationale.  Bill Clinton thought that he would be killed if he seriously raised the ET issue, and it might be the same with Trump, if he even knows much.  However, while there was almost no dissent in Godzilla’s ranks back in the 1950s, the situation is very different today.  Nearly a decade ago, Steven Greer said that about 70% of the Global Controllers favored bringing out at least some of those sequestered technologies, and free energy is the Big One.  That show that my friend received in the 1990s was almost certainly given by members of that disenchanted faction.  My sense is that the saner factions do not want to live in survival enclaves on Mars.  

On the masses front, probably most people in the West have at least heard of free energy in one way or another.  Even a cartoon movie such as The Incredibles mentioned it.  What was seen as crazy talk a generation or two ago is more acceptable today.  The Internet has been vitally important for helping spread the idea of free energy.  Dennis and I were voices in the wilderness back in 1987, and soon wiped out, but today, it is not as lonely.  However, as Brian O noted, that is relative.

On the activist front, there has also been progress.  Free energy aspirants are no longer so eager to suicidally apply for patents, and those paths of failure are no longer so blithely trod.  In the past generation I have watched Greer, for instance, go from “I demand absolute control” to advocating open-sourcing any free energy technology that might be developed.  So, activists these days seem a little wiser than they used to be, and a little more informed about what has not worked and is unlikely to.  The younger generation in particular is quite willing to cast aside those failed approaches and try something different, and those youngsters are my target audience, by and large.  

So, that is all good news.  Is it enough?  Is it a trajectory that will see us get there before we wipe ourselves out?  It could be.  As Uncle Bucky said (like H.G. Wells did), we are in a race between education and catastrophe.  

Best,

Wade

Edited July 8, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I just saw this this morning.  That is not exactly an accurate summary.  I have been plagiarized and impersonated on the Internet, and on my home page, I ask that if people reproduce my work, that they do not charge for it.  I am not quite sure how I feel about that DVD of Dennis and me.  Kind of funny, kind of not.  I probably will just let it go.

Best,

Wade

Edited July 9, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

What I call Level 0 is no awareness of free energy.  It is a rather flexible definition.  It can include people who have never heard of it, but it can also include people who heard of it but it never “took,” being just part of the noise of their lives.  Some have heard of free energy, to quickly forget it, and the next time they hear of it, it is a new subject.  Others are so self-centered that even if they heard of it, they would not care.  They are only going to be aware of what is directly in front of them in their daily lives, and nothing else matters.  People fighting for survival can be like that, as will people who are simply self-centered to the exclusion of all else.  With that expanded definition, most of humanity is at Level 0.  

If people know me very well, they can’t really be Level 0s, but I have heard plenty of Level 0 tales, and especially during my first stint with Dennis, I got to see how thousands of people reacted to the idea of free energy, as they were Level 0s before they encountered us.  Putting on Greatest Energy Shows on Earth and other activities provided constant opportunities, for years, to see Level 0s go beyond that.  I watched people become entranced by the idea of free energy, others dismissed it instantly, others got angry, frightened, greedy, and the like.  As I look back, what an amazing opportunity to watch people react to the idea of the next Epoch.  And they nearly invariably had never heard of the idea before.  We were new to the idea, also, not even knowing who Nikola Tesla was, in our ignorance.  

You can’t really tell if somebody is a Level 0 without discussing free energy with them, so, the moment of telling them about it ends their Level 0 status, at least temporarily.  However, Level 0 is the most common state of humanity, and people’s lives of quiet desperation, of being mired in scarcity, with no way out, is the standard perspective of Level 0s.

When Dennis or I talked to people about free energy, we would see them move beyond Level 0, and that was where my education really began, on people’s awareness.  When we were being wiped out in Seattle, even the people at the company had a hard time really understanding the organized suppression.  But they had at least heard of the idea, as they lived through its reality.  One of the first Level 1 reactions to the idea of free energy that I witnessed came from that girlfriend that I left behind in Seattle, as I called her from Boston one day.  She asked me the standard question that I eventually became weary of hearing, which was that if free energy was possible, why wouldn’t it have already been developed by some company and be on the market?  That is probably the most naïve reaction to the idea of free energy, but it is the most common.  

There are variations of the Level 1 reaction of naïve denial, but what I found that they all had in common was that our experiences flew in the face of their adoptive ideologies, which were basically the population management ideologies most used in the USA, of nationalism, capitalism, and organized religion.  Surely, so the logic goes, the magic of capitalism will always see the best mousetrap get to market, or the American defenders of freedom would always see that the best, brightest, and noblest prevailed, or with God in charge, goodness always prevails, just like in Hollywood movies.  

When our experiences contradicted the ideals of those population management ideologies, people were faced with cognitive dissonance, and their almost immediate reaction was to dismiss the reality of our experiences in favor of their adoptive ideologies.  The idea of free energy left their minds almost as fast as it entered it, going down Orwell’s Memory Hole, and if their defense mechanisms were effective enough, they could even revert all the way back to Level 0 and would not even remember that challenge to their ideologies.  

Quite often, such reactions entailed attacking us, because the system only attacked the “bad guys.”  If Dennis was run out of his home state, it had to be for a good reason, such as his criminal behavior.  I even had to eventually hear that from my investors, even in recent years, and as I have written plenty, when it eventually got back to me that my mother was mounting a “my son the criminal” scrapbook tour, using the libelous articles by her employer to bolster her case, it no longer even hurt anymore.  

The fact that Dennis put the world’s best heating system on people’s homes for free does not even register with them.  Their minds cannot cross the line of even entertaining the notion that our experiences were genuine.  Eventually, I saw Dennis criminally libeled by leading voices in the free energy milieu, but I had long since learned my journey’s primary lesson by then, so such antics were no great surprise.  However, it was initially surprising to see people in the free energy field parrot the lies, as if they were Level 1s.  That is just one of several reasons why I don’t want to have anything to do with the free energy field today, in its arrested development, and why Brian O said that if free energy was brought to the public, it wouldn’t be by people in the field today.  

Level 1s are characterized by a naïve allegiance to their adoptive ideologies, and they will engage in all manner of mind game to dismiss any evidence that flies in the face of their cherished beliefs.  

Level 0s and Level 1s collectively comprise at least 99% of today’s humanity.  

Best,

Wade

Edited July 9, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

While Level 1 is a reflexive action of denial, Level 2 is more thoughtful.  They are often “progressives” who listen to NPR, watch PBS, and donate to worthy causes, including environmental organizations.  Understandably, the issue of free energy is new to them, beyond their ability to assess, and they seek out the experts.  They are usually going to know a scientist or two, they contact their friendly environmental organization, to see what they think, and the like.  In ways, this is one of the more frustrating levels for free energy activists to deal with, because those people are potential allies, but they have given their responsibility to others.  They rarely consciously do it.  They actually think that they are free thinkers, care, and want to make a dent, and to a degree, that is true.  I was on my way to being one of those in my LA days, before I met Dennis, subscribing to the Christian Science Monitor, thinking that I was getting alternative news.  My learning experiences had yet to begin.  

So, those progressives seek out those expert opinions, and often earnestly.  If they seek out scientists, they nearly invariably get back that free energy is “impossible,” because it violates the “laws of physics.”  When they mention to their expert friends that it seems that free energy technology already exists but is subjected to organized suppression, the experts can look at their supplicants with a wry grin and reply that surely those “progressives” don’t believe in wacky conspiracy theories.  If they talk to their friendly environmental organization, they not only get back the “laws of physics” and “conspiracy theory” denials, but the environmentalists will shriek that even if free energy technology was viable, it would be humanity’s worst nightmare, because our benighted species would only strip-mine Earth and have even bigger wars than before, and quickly turn Earth into a cinder.  They seem oblivious to the idea that mining Earth would no longer make sense under a free energy regime, and war would not make sense either, as it is rooted in scarcity, and free energy would mean material abundance for all peoples, not just a fortunate few.  The environmentalist “solution” is riding bikes and eliminating about 90% of humanity, to roll back our numbers to the carrying capacity of Earth when the fossil fuels run out.  The idea of a Type 1 civilization is their worst nightmare.  

Those inquiring “progressives” are quickly chastened.  They can even be ridiculed and ostracized if they continue to press the issue, and asked when they began wearing tin-foil hats.  It is a very effective way to get them back in line with the herd.  If they learn their lessons well, they won’t want to hear about free energy anymore and will consider free energy talk to be like calling 9-11 an inside job, doubting the Warren Commission’s august findings, or holding to the insane idea that there might be cancer cures that are not being promoted by mainstream medicine, and they will embrace certain death rather than question their conditioning.  If I had not repeatedly witnessed it, I might not have believed it myself.

Those “progressives” are really not that progressive at all, but like to think that they are.  For those at more sophisticated levels of denial, their egos become more suave and subtle, their fears are cloaked in more “reasonable” clothes, and those people can become far more entrenched in their denial than those mindless Level 1s.  The most entrenched of all are what I call Level 3s, and they deserve their own post, which is next.  

Best,

Wade

Edited July 13, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna:

Thanks for making me aware of that paper.  I will mine it for my essay update.  I have a tabular view of her swirl diagram, with more data points.  It was new for me to see how oxygen made prokaryotes more robust, but with the energy boost that aerobic respiration gave them, it makes sense.  The idea that fire and the spread of flowering plants might be related is a new one to me, too.  I just ordered Singularities.  

Of course, free energy is entirely off the table, even to speculate about.  Those mainstream scientific blinders again…

Best,

Wade

Edited July 10, 2017 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Before I get to Level 3, here is a little more on Level 2.  What I want to make clear is that I am not judging any of the levels, but just describing them.  To understand the levels is to understand why we don’t live in the Fifth Epoch today.  When I chased Dennis out to Boston, I did not even know how his heat pump worked.  I was sold on Dennis.  With my scientific background, I learned pretty quickly.  I had not yet become Dennis’s partner when I began hearing about entropy, Carnot, and why Dennis’s idea would not work.  Early on, I played the Level 2 game and consulted an expert: Mr. Mentor.  He was not so quick to call it impossible and soon proposed his own solution: marrying his heat engine to Dennis’s heat pump.  Then came Fischer, and we heard from many scientists who did not consider the Second Law of Thermodynamics sacrosanct.  I eventually heard from Eugene Mallove on that score, too, soon before he was murdered.

Free energy Level 2s and “progressives” are very similar to what Uncle Ed would call the liberal left, or Cruise Missile Left (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).  They act like they really care, as they cheer on the missiles of freedom.  They are every bit as imperialistic as right-wingers, but have kinder rhetoric.  Obama and the Clintons are perfect examples of icons of the Cruise Missile Left.  Today, we might call them the Drone Left.  The current imperial rubric is humanitarian intervention.  It is all phony, but those so-called progressives generally believe it.  In Orwell’s 1984, he described the most brainwashed class as the “middles,” or the politically active.  The “highs” did not believe the propaganda (they concocted it, after all), and it did not matter what the “lows” believed, as long as they showed up for work each day without being too hung over.  They get their “news” from the tabloids.  More than any other class, those middles labored under the illusion of freedom.  The brainwashing that they were subjected to was the most subtle and sophisticated of all.  They got middle-class perks for their allegiance to the system, and dreams of becoming the elite one day.  

When those Level 2s asked the experts what they thought about free energy, it was as if they questioned the NPR and PBS stories on how our missiles were spreading freedom.  They are quickly put back to sleep, as the experts assure them what is possible and what is not, and what is noble and what is not.  There are “radicals” such as Uncles Noam, Ed, and me out there, but we are nuts, so far off the reservation that nobody should take us seriously.  I rarely link to YouTube, but here is Uncle Noam telling a story about how a five-minute clip of him on NPR was killed by management when they got wind of it, on a segment called, of all things, All Things Considered.  When Uncle Howard died, NPR actually ran a right-wing attack on him.  That is how the so-called “liberal” media works.

Another telling story is that Noam taught at MIT for generations, which is dominated by right-wing Pentagon types.  At MIT, he was always heartily greeted in the faculty lounge.  Noam’s fellow professors were all right-wingers who found his political ideas bizarre and non-threatening, but they loved him.  But a few miles away at Harvard, at the seat of the liberal establishment, when Chomsky talked there and entered the faculty lounge, the reaction was as if Satan had entered the room.  The mere fact of Chomsky’s existence exposes the fraudulence of the “liberal” perspective, so he is treated like the devil in liberal circles.  I literally know people who work for the MIC, who eat their imperial cornflakes every day, pick out the Fox News raisins, think that they are informed and enlightened, and that we are bringing the missiles of freedom to humanity.  I try to only talk about the weather and sports with them.  

Level 2s and the “liberal” left are very close cousins.  The next post will be on those “experts” that the Level 2s consult about free energy’s possibility and desirability.  

Best,

Wade

Edited July 11, 2017 by Wade Frazier