Wade Frazier

Hi Ortiz: I read your initial post, and waited for the morning to reply. My work cannot be understood by skimming it. My conspiracy and cover-up essay has been my site’s most popular at times. I don’t think that it should be. As I look at my site stats for September, my big essay is by far the most popular, as it should be, but the conspiracy essay is a distant second. It was more popular than my big essay last month, but my American Empire essay was the most popular (at 12,000 views) in August. There is a world of difference between acknowledging conspiratorial activities and making them the dominant framework to understand how the world works. People who deny them or obsessively focus on them are missing the boat. I am the first man in my family, going up my family tree, in a century who did not serve in the military. Uncles were in Vietnam, Korea, and the like, my father was in Korea, one grandfather was in World War I, the other was in World War II, and both brothers were in the army. My father was a Marine boot camp drill sergeant. I was raised in a military household in a military community. If I was a few years older, I might have been drafted for Vietnam, and as it was, many of my pals and acquaintances were in Vietnam. I have seen what the evils of war do to people. They spend the rest of their lives trying to recover. I already linked to Dennis’s wartime experience in a previous reply to you. He killed plenty of people, and was in hand-to-hand combat, as a medic, of all things. I have lived with professional killers and have heard what that life was like. Dark, dark stuff, and drinking themselves to death was one way of coping. I deal with plenty of fringe science and exotic technology in my work, but most so-called fringe science is rubbish. People need to know what mainstream science has to say before they go off into the fringes, or else they get lost in the weeds and disappear down rabbit holes. I have dealt with the “skeptics” at length, and they are criminals, as far as I can tell. As far as Dennis goes, his being forced out of his home at age 13 was probably the primary crucible that prepared him for what was coming. His wartime experiences were part of his background, but only a part. His odyssey is not going to be summarized in a sentence or two. His life’s journey has been preposterous, and he should be dead dozens of times over. And at age 71, he is still optimistic that he can make a dent. I have never met or heard of another like him. As far as my life goes, it was tame compared to Dennis’s, but was also an unbelievable odyssey, and my life was shattered by what happened in Ventura. I suffered from PTSD afterward, and a therapist who specialized in treating soldiers eventually treated me, and it helped. I have no contact with my immediate family, as one of the many prices of my journey. What Dennis and I lived through I would not recommend to anybody, but we are on some kind of special assignment, oh the joy. Dennis and I are naturally happy people. Otherwise, we would not have survived our dark adventures. Back to my biography project. Best, Wade

Hi: The previous post finishes my summary of the Epochs. Helping manifest the Fifth Epoch is my life’s work, while I also juggle my life, work long hours to make a living, play the dutiful husband, care for my aging body, etc. Impatience is my Achilles heel, and my life’s work lets me work on it every day, oh the joy. It is wearying to be constantly approached by people stuck in scarcity, hearing their “bright ideas” for making free energy happen, when they have yet to leave their easy chairs, and their suggestions are always along the lines of what has never come close to working. It gets tiring to have my efforts continually compared to Greer’s, Dennis’s ongoing efforts (although he has been banned from doing it in the USA, and he is likely finished on the free energy front), or even what Brian continually attempted. While those men are in my pantheon, I am doing something different, which Dennis and Brian immediately recognized. I am not trying to form some social movement, persuade another one to join up with me, play the hero or Messiah, etc. I am doing something so different that almost nobody can even conceive of what I am attempting. So, I am constantly approached by people who have yet to understand, and they likely won’t, not until free energy is delivered into their lives, which is normal. I do not seek to change people’s minds that are in denial and fear. I do not seek to engage people who can’t or won’t understand, who need to be cajoled to read my work, and the like. The people whom I seek will instantly recognize my work’s worth, and won’t come up for air for months or years. So far, those have been the only people in cyberspace who have come close to understanding what I am attempting, and most of my little circle has been reading my work for at least five years and as many as 20. I have been doing this on the Internet for more than 20 years, after I semi-retired from the free energy field, and I have fielded thousands of reactions from the public. I know what has not worked and is unlikely to, what might make a dent, and am through wasting any more time on the paths of failure. In this field, calling it “failure” is too tame, as such failures leave smoking craters, with the devastation of wrecked and shortened lives scattered far and wide. This field is not the place for enthusiastic newcomers to run out and “do something,” proselytize to their social circles, etc. If they follow my prescribed curriculum, all will be well, but almost all newcomers look for the shortcut, the easy way to the Fifth Epoch, so that they can make it happen in hours, days, or weeks (maybe even months! ) of their spare time. Nothing worthwhile is ever that easy, and this task least of all. Manifesting the Fifth Epoch will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far. What I am doing is going well. If you had shown me my site today, in 1996, when I just began my public writing career, I would have scarcely believed it. I regularly hear from people who think that I am not going anywhere, that what I am doing should have made more progress by now, and the like. It is going just fine. Efforts like this never start out with a bang, and trying to “make it big” and the like are prescriptions for failure, the smoking crater kind of failure. I am done with risking people’s lives, including mine. This is going to be a gentle approach, and we will see how it has progressed, 30 years from now. Maybe it will only help a little, but it might also be the critical missing piece, and it won’t harm anybody, although it might dash some megalomaniacal dreams. I will be going fairly quiet while I work on my latest biography project, and then it will be off to finally working on that essay update, in my “spare” time. Best, Wade

Hi: Here is my hypothetical Fifth Epochal Event summary: The Fifth Epochal Event – Free Energy and an Abundance-based Political Economy: When: First half of the 21st century Where: Likely in an industrialized nation Who: Global activists How: By tapping the zero-point field Why: Humanity’s survival, healing Earth, and realizing the human potential Manifesting that event is what my work is all about, but I am trying a new approach that seeks to avoid the pitfalls that swallowed up every other effort that I have seen or heard of, and organized suppression is only a minor aspect of the hazards. If an effort makes it over the hump, the Fifth Epoch will likely have these features: An end to pollution and environmental devastation; An end to poverty and war; An end to races, nations, cities, money, and all in-group ideologies, including all of today’s religions; An end to scarcity, and a super-Epoch of abundance will begin; love will reign, not fear. And that is just for starters. Humanity will become a space-faring species, the extraterrestrial presence will be officially acknowledged, we will domesticate our solar system, and Earth will be healed. Social constructs such as the nuclear family will vanish, and what replaces it will be infinitely more enlightened. Elites will disappear, as will the poor, as humanity becomes a Type 1 civilization. Quite simply, the world as we know it will cease to exist, in ways that futuristic shows such as Star Trek only hint at, and the technology for manifesting that world is older than I am. Sign me up! Best, Wade

Hi: Here is my Epochal Event 4.5 summary: Epochal Event 4.5 – The Rise of Oil and Electricity: When: Late-1800s Where: United States and Western Europe Who: American and Western European inventors, scientists, and entrepreneurs How: By drilling into Earth and manipulating electrons. Why: Necessity and opportunity All of the Epochs built on each other. The energy-hogging human brain that the First Epoch produced, along with fire and a sophisticated toolset, was only built upon in subsequent Epochs. Behaviorally modern humans have not changed in their basic cultural traits in 50,000 years. Once humans domesticated plants, they never undomesticated them, and their agricultural practices only became more sophisticated over time. The West is still riding the energy wave that began a thousand years ago, and humanity has yet to move beyond fossil fuels in its industrial phase. Epochal Event 4.5, when humans began mining oil and using electricity, built on the earlier practices of the industrial epoch. As whales were hunted to the brink of extinction, there was a “whale oil crisis,” and the first commercial oil was used to replace whale oil for lamps. John D. Rockefeller became the world’s richest man long before oil became such an important industrial fuel. Oil could not have been mined until the development of machines and related technology in the first phase of the Industrial Revolution. The first phase was a necessary precondition of the second. The rise of science interacted with the rise of industry, and from Ben Franklin onward, Western scientists and inventors experimented with electricity, and Thomas Edison’s team perfected electric lighting, with prominent scientists in initial denial of his achievement, which replaced those lamps. Edison’s direct current, however, lost the battle against Tesla’s alternating current, and humanity has been increasingly electrified ever since. I am writing this post with electron power and even its manipulation by semiconductors to mimic brains. Try to imagine airplanes and rocket ships running on coal. The rise of oil and electricity has been called The Industrial Revolution, Phase 2, for good reason. Oil is Earth’s chief geopolitical prize, with wars and genocides resulting from its pursuit. Humanity might fight World War III over oil. Electricity is the preferred way to deliver energy to homes and cities. Without oil and electricity, industrial societies would still be fairly primitive. As technology galloped along, the global elite grew in stature, if largely a covert one, and the Global Controllers were born. Tesla was the first to pursue free energy, the oligarchy pulled the rug on him, and the suppression of technological advances has become a science in ultra-elite circles. The toys in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard today are mind-boggling, and the technological means to the Fifth Epoch are older than I am. But we don’t get any while we collectively sleep and are our own worst enemies. Elites will become obsolete in the Fifth Epoch and they know it, which is why they have been so avid in suppressing free energy and related technologies. It will take an unprecedented act of integrity and sentience to overcome humanity’s egocentric inertia and the organized suppression. Earth and humanity are in the balance. For the level of the stakes, it is incredible how few people have any productive awareness of the situation, much less doing anything about it. Hardly anybody on Earth sees past their immediate self-interest, nor do they want to. If enough can, and unite their efforts, then the Fifth Epoch will easily arrive. Best, Wade

Hi ortizrealstonegroundcorn: Dennis is on a different journey than I am. I never met a greater human, but he was raised as a migrant farmworker (Third Epoch), and was raised with that Old Tyme Religion. I was fortunate that I wasn’t. I wasn’t really raised with all that much Kool-Aid, to my parents’ credit. That helped me. Dennis’s mystical awakening was far more dramatic than mine was, and whatever amalgam of experience and belief that he has, he will take it to his grave with him. However, when I last saw him, and told him what I was planning, he immediately realized that it was something different, as did Brian. They thought that I might have a chance of making a dent. Like I have written about Greer, Dennis has gone so far down his path that taking another would be a huge lift for him, like changing his DNA. Not easy. Also, he has been legally forbidden from being involved in the energy industry in the USA ever again, courtesy of David Rockefeller and friends. He legally could not do what I am today, and Brian is dead, so I am carrying the ball, to a degree, as the last man standing. My mystical awakening was just the beginning of my adventures. A voice in my head changed my career path from science to business, and led me straight to Dennis. Two years later, we were being offered $1 billion to go away, before they lowered the boom on us. I have never even heard of another story like that. I lived it, and at times it is even hard for me to believe it. Let’s just say that when you go on odysseys like that, you don’t come home the same. You bring up a very good point in what “makes sense,” is “plausible,” and the like. Dennis should be dead dozens of times over, and I would not recommend his journey to anybody. If they made a movie of his life, nobody would believe it (such as this vignette). I have long written that my work cannot wake anybody up, and that they have to come to me already awakened somehow, and that can only come through experience. It does not have to be mystical, or political, etc., but it has to be some kind of awakening experience, in which you realize that you have been drinking somebody’s Kool-Aid. Once you get the taste out of your mouth on one issue, the others are easier to do that for. While I didn’t drink much religious Kool-Aid, I was force-fed American nationalism from kindergarten onward, and drank the capitalist Kool-Aid in college. It was my awakening during my years with Dennis that really showed me how my nationalist and capitalist indoctrination was something akin to reading fairy tales every day and thinking that they depicted reality. I admit that I am likely psychically “gifted,” as most of my fellow travelers were (and we were all naïve, overgrown Boy Scouts, too), I think that we had those gifts for a reason, and we were all a bunch of geniuses, too. But then we went into the world and barely survived our adventures. I long ago accepted that I was on some kind of special assignment, and when you draw that straw, nothing about the assignment is easy. However, I think that if people are diligent, having a mystical awakening is very feasible, no matter their soul age, and I doubt that my work needs a genius-level IQ to understand. I wrote it so that an IQ of 110 or so should be enough. The vast majority of my work is not about mystical stuff, or fringe science, etc. It is simple science and history, for the most part (the non-Kool-Aid version ). And a general awakening can be done by anybody. They just have to want to know the truth, not settle for the bromides of their conditioning, and get out of their easy chairs. Thanks again for writing. Best, Wade

Hi ortizrealstonegroundcorn: Thanks for writing. This is timely, as it was about time for one of my “purpose” posts that I periodically make. First off, I go into quite a bit of detail regarding the remote viewing experiences that initiated my mystical awakening, including the class and exactly what I experienced during those remote viewings. That woman’s description of Isaac Brown was far more dramatic to me than my getting my “case” accurate a few minutes later. Brian O had the same experience performing the same exercise five years later, and it ruined him as a mainstream scientist, as he could no longer drink the Kool-Aid of materialism, which is a religion. My site comprises 2,000 pages of material, and when you see that blue text, it means links that you can follow to read more, and usually to my site, but also to forum posts, both at Avalon and elsewhere. I have written that my jury is still out on whether people need to have a mystical awakening before being useful for my little plan, but I have received all sorts of crazy reactions to that idea. What that mystical awakening is really good for, as far as what I am doing, is to help people see beyond their indoctrination and conditioning. Materialism is just another false faith, and people who buy that rubbish also often utter the “laws of physics” denials of free energy’s possibility. They could not be more wrong, but is not easy to escape that straightjacket of the mind. A mystical awakening can help, but it is far from the only kind of important awakening experience. The “means becoming the ends” statement is from Seth, my first important mystical influence, and that statement was one of the stars that I steered by during my adventures, and one reason why I survived them with my sanity intact. That statement was just about how reality functions. You point out a dichotomy, and a false one, as far as I am concerned, in that our options are to do nothing but meditate, or be violent. Making a free energy device and giving it to the world is neither. I have had the urge to do violence at a level that few are provoked at, it was the most soiled I ever felt, and my overcoming it led to the greatest miracle that I ever saw. I don’t need a lab experiment to know. Love is the greatest power in the universe, and those who practice it may one day live in this world, while those who don’t may live here. Each one of us determines our future by our actions most of all, followed by our words, and then our thoughts. Physical reality is a place of action. As far as the Global Controllers (GCs) go, the Left denies their existence while the Right obsesses about them. Both reactions are rooted in fear. A loving perspective just acknowledges their existence and lets them go. The GCs are far from all-powerful, and they are divided today. I believe that it was a disenchanted faction of the GCs that gave my friend his exotic technology show. Many people misunderstand my approach, which is why I keep having to restate it. I don’t regard the GCs as the main obstacle to manifesting free energy. The enemy is us, not them. I regard the GCs as a symptom of our malaise, not a cause, just like those grey beings that Roads encountered. The reason why all of those paths to free energy have failed is more about the internal weakness of the efforts, not the organized suppression (which occurs at several levels), but people just have to act like victims and focus on the “bad guys.” Those failures are mainly about failures of integrity, which was the main lesson of my journey. Combined positive intention is the way out of this conundrum, not focusing on the GCs and other obstacles. If that choir forms, whether it is through my efforts or somebody else’s, it won’t matter what the GCs do; they will be powerless to stop it. You can find the entire spectrum of opinion in “mystical” sources about the point of this reality, from how God did not intend it to be this way, to that he specially designed it as a testing ground for souls. I have not been let in on the joke, so I keep doing what I can to make this world a better place, and nothing would do it like free energy could. So, I keep doing what I can, with the years I have left. I have written at length on how my effort might turn out, and we’ll see. Thanks again for writing. Best, Wade

Hi: Here is my Fourth Epochal Event summary: The Fourth Epochal Event: When: 1700s Where: England Who: English inventors and entrepreneurs How: By harnessing coal energy in new ways Why: Necessity and opportunity Of course, the Industrial Revolution has far more ink spilled on it than the rise of Europe. Until now, it is the biggest event in the human journey. Today’s world would be beyond the wildest imaginings of English peasants in 1500. It was an energy revolution above all else, as with the previous Epochs. Without tapping the energy of coal, the Industrial Revolution could not have happened. As I studied the Industrial Revolution, I got some surprises. Although the first commercial steam engine was invented only the year after coal was first used in a successful commercial smelting operation (and once again, the Chinese were ahead, but never really took advantage of it), coal was originally more important for smelting than producing power. Wind and water power were competitive with coal until about 1850. Using coal for smelting, however, was an immediate improvement. Darby’s operation made iron into a household consumer good for the first time. Before Darby, iron was an elite good, but with coke-fueled smelting, iron became the primary metal of the Industrial Revolution. Without coke, there would not have been iron in appreciable amounts. No people could have ever industrialized by using wood. But even coke took some time to become dominant. In 1750, only 5% of English pig iron was made with coke, but by 1800, almost all of it was, and iron production skyrocketed. In the 1740s, spinning machines were invented, which began replacing people’s hands and backs. Soon thereafter, the abolition movement began. As machines replaced people, manual labor became economically obsolete, and slavery as a hallowed institution ended. It was a Third Epoch institution. England’s turning to coal made the Industrial Revolution possible. The science of energy did not yet exist, but the next Epoch was made possible, as the previous ones were, by tapping a new energy source. Industrialization allowed tiny England to become the world’s greatest imperial power, as it had a century’s head-start on its rivals. Its descendant, the USA, became history’s richest and most powerful nation, by far, as it stole Earth’s most plunderable continent from its residents. This is only intended to be a brief summary, and a key question is: “Why England?” I don’t want to call it an accident, and it certainly was not the result of some master plan, but it was a confluence of circumstances, and taking advantage of them led to the Industrial Revolution. England had the coal, its forests were gone, its dispossessed peasantry comprised a ready-made workforce for the mines and mills, and it was on a proto-industrial trajectory, as it played catch-up with its imperial rivals, primarily the Dutch in this instance. Industrialization allowed for global imperial goals. My view is that the global elite began to form as Europe conquered the world. Until the world was conquerable, there was no point in thinking that way. Capitalism was the dominant ideology that arose with industrialization, and it sanctifies greed but somehow ignores energy. Today’s dominant economic school, which ignores energy in favor of social theories, was sponsored by history’s greatest energy mogul. What a coincidence. Best, Wade

Hi: When I wrote my big essay, I invented Epochal Events 3.5 and 4.5 partly because the Third and Fourth Epochal Event chapters would have been too long. Also, however, the 3.5 split on the rise of Europe and 4.5 split on the rise of oil and electricity were very logical places to divide those Epochs. Epochal Event 3.5 – The Rise of Europe: When: One thousand years ago Where: Western Europe Who: Western Europeans How: By harnessing water and wind power at unprecedented levels, and by the reintroduction of Ancient Greek teachings. Why: Necessity and opportunity This is the first Epochal Event that is not the sole province of scientists for study, as we have vast contemporary writings to refer to. Millions of pages of ink have been spilled on the rise of Europe and its conquest of humanity. Europe conquered the world because it could. Europe has been a rump of Asia for more than 30 million years, and the initial Asian invasion resulted in a mass extinction. Europe eventually returned the favor. Why Europe rose to global dominance instead of someplace else has been a question long asked. One question is why Greece and Rome did not industrialize. I think that the answer is that both civilizations collapsed as they ran out of energy before they could tap the next energy source. China actively dismantled the technologies that led to England’s industrialization. England was one of the more backward parts of Europe before its rise to industrialization. So, Europe’s rise and England’s rise to industrialization have been enduring subjects of study, but it is not difficult to put them in energy terms. The watermills that proliferated in Europe during the Medieval Warm Period have no precedent in the human journey. Non-muscle power was exploited on a vast scale for the first time, and its advantages were obvious. Western, Central, and Northern Europe also had relatively intact forests, and Western Europe’s forests had largely recovered from Rome’s depredations. At the same time that watermill use exploded, long-suppressed Greek teachings made it back into Europe from captured Islamic libraries, which led to Europe’s humanism and the rise of science. Europeans benefitted greatly from imported technologies and ideas, they engaged in war after war with each other, and refined violence to a science. When they achieved the technical prowess to turn the global ocean into a low-energy transportation lane, the rest of humanity never had a chance. The indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere were nearly eradicated in the greatest demographic catastrophe in the human journey. The transatlantic slave trade was another demographic catastrophe that Europe inflicted on humanity, and there would be others. For the next month, my Columbus essay will be among my site’s most popular, as it has been for many years. That essay is nearly twenty years old. England’s rise and embrace of coal energy is evident in hindsight. England played catch-up with Dutch proto-industrial practices and began playing the conquest game as Europe learned to sail the oceans. England had already dispossessed its peasantry through Game and Enclosure laws, and those hapless peasants ended up in the mines and mills of industrializing England, as its first workforce. Before English civilization could collapse, as many other agrarian civilizations previously had, it turned to coal after it eradicated its forests (and Ireland’s). That is the initial and quintessential example of the transition from Third Epoch to Fourth Epoch energy sources, which is the subject of the next installment of this series of posts. Best, Wade

Hi: Here is my Third Epochal Event summary: The Third Epochal Event: When: 11-10k years ago Where: At least two places independently, the Fertile Crescent and Mesoamerica, and as many as nine. Who: Women gatherers How: By selectively breeding plants with edible energy stores, often by breeding them to be more edible and to increase their energy stores. Why: In areas where large animals were hunted to extinction or nearly so, domestic plants became a novel and necessary source of calories. For me, all Epochs have their fascinating aspects, but the first two don’t have much familiar about them to modern peoples. However, the Third Epoch gave birth to many aspects of today’s world. One aspect of the Epochs is that as energy use rose, so did the human population. It went from perhaps five thousand when the Second Epoch began to five million when the Third Epoch began, to 600 million when the Fourth Epoch began, and it is over seven billion today. The domestication of plants made civilization possible. Each Epoch began with a relative Golden Age of exploiting a new energy source, and the Neolithic Expansion was one of those times. Those peaceful horticultural villages that feminists have long written about were real, but it was a relatively short-lived phase in the human journey. Those peaceful matrilocal settlements eventually gave way to male dominance and violence again. All pristine civilizations began peacefully, but women’s status universally declined with the advent of civilization. The dog was the only domesticated animal before the Third Epoch began, and all other domesticated animals of note were domesticated in the Third Epoch. About the only exception was the silver fox, which was domesticated as an experiment. Sedentary living made possible numerous aspects of our lives today. Cities, metallurgy, literacy, mass warfare, states, empires, professions, and many other attributes of civilized humanity were a result of domesticating plants. However, the process of domestication and civilization-building further wrecked the natural world. Environmental devastation came with all early civilizations, and they all collapsed as they ran out of energy. Ancient Rome was the quintessential example of that phenomenon. No civilization has ever been sustainable, as they never had sustainable energy supplies, and that includes all Fourth Epoch civilizations, as we rapidly head for oblivion. The test of humanity’s collective integrity and sentience is happening now. How are we doing? Best, Wade

Hi: Here is my Second Epochal Event summary: The Second Epochal Event: When: Around 50-60k years ago Where: East Africa Who: Behaviorally modern humans How: Behaviorally modern humans developed the toolset and social organization to leave Africa and conquer Earth, and Earth’s large animals fueled the conquest. Why: Probably from a subsistence crisis in East Africa, which spurred a society of a few hundred people to leave Africa via the Red Sea’s mouth. The Second Epochal Event is another fascinating area of study and a source of lively controversy. My upcoming essay update will have a lot of new material in it for the Second Epochal Event. The human achievement of behavioral modernity, like so many other prehistoric events, likely happened earlier and less suddenly than previously supposed. I get an unsolicited monthly periodical that extols the virtues of Neanderthals in nearly every issue. Professional kill butchering appears to go back to perhaps 250k years ago, which at this time is considered to be before Homo sapiens appeared on the evolutionary scene, but not by much. Throwing spears were discovered from 400k years ago, and the control of fire is likely at least one million years old, and maybe twice that long ago. Today, other than in some obstinate and scientifically illiterate corners, nobody is strenuously denying that the rise of humanity meant the demise of many other species, and that Neanderthals were just one of the innumerable losers to the success of behaviorally modern humans. Homo sapiens quickly drove all of the large animals on three continents to extinction. It began in Australia, and to a lesser extent in Eurasia, where those animals had familiarity with those two-legged killers and avoided them, but still the Eurasian mammoths were quickly driven to extinction at around the same time that Neanderthals were driven to extinction. Unlike mammoths, however, Neanderthals did not have any refugia to huddle in safety from the depredations of Homo sapiens. Before the rise of humans, the elephant family was the most successful land mammal, they lived in the Americas for more than 16 million years, lived the length and breadth of the Western Hemisphere, but the arrival of humans meant the complete extinction of the elephant family in the Americas, with the sole exception of an island that humans could not get to for several thousand years, and then the last of the mammoths quickly went extinct. Vast numbers of other large species quickly went extinct in the Americas when the elephant family did. With all of the debate and research, I think that it is obvious that the Founder Group had an “it” factor that made them an irresistible force. I have seen their mastery of language invoked, their sophisticated toolset, and their group-hunting practices, which all likely reflected a higher cognitive operation than anything else on Earth’s continents, including all other human species. None of them survived the arrival of Homo sapiens, and I think that it is an in-group-defending fantasy to think that the extinction of those other species was a gentle process. Homo sapiens is the most successful predator in Earth’s history, and it is only honest to put our capacity for violence at the top of the list of traits that made us so successful. Those Earth-conquering humans also put fire to new uses, devastating entire biomes to make them human-useful. The incipient Sixth Mass Extinction began when humans began conquering Earth. Killing off all of the easy meat, setting huge fires, driving all other human species to extinction – these are all about energy. By about 11k years ago, all of Earth’s easy meat, at least which could be killed with the technology of the day (the whale holocaust happened later, when the technology to kill them arrived) was extinct, and in a few places conducive to it, women built on their gathering duties and plants began their domestication, which is when the Third Epoch began, and that is the subject of my next post. Best, Wade

Hi: This month, I plan to work on my biography project. We will see if it slips into October. After that, I plan to work on my big essay revision. I already have a table of humanity’s epochs, but I plan to put something in the beginning of each chapter on humanity’s epochs, and summarize when, where, who, how, and why. For the earliest, those aspects are more speculative, but even for the most recent, there is controversy. But I’ll summarize the current thinking on those aspects. Some is not in my big essay yet, but will be. So, here goes the summary, at one post for each chapter, with some discussion. The First Epochal Event: When: 3.3 million years ago for stone tools, and 1-2 million years ago for the control of fire. Where: East and South Africa Who: Australopiths for stone tools, anywhere from australopiths to Homo erectus for fire. How: By striking rocks together for stone tools, and by various possible methods for sustaining or creating fire Why: Enhanced energy security, from food processing for stone tools (eventually to weapons), and fire was the human line’s most important energy technology to this day. Karl Marx’s pal Friedrich Engels arguably made the best 19th-century case of how the human brain’s evolution is a product of biology and culture. Engels wrote that bipedalism freed the hands to make tools, and that is the orthodox position today. East Africa had been a crucible of ape evolution for millions of years, and those earliest tools found so far have been in East Africa. They were likely made by australopiths. Tools are many millions of years old, but the crafting of stone tools was something new on the evolutionary scene, and few doubt that they were critical to the rise of humans. The stone tool evidence is pretty unequivocal, as stone tools readily last intact to today. The progress of stone tool complexity mirrors human evolution, which is directly tied to the growing human brain. Brains are energy hogs, and just where the energy came from to grow and power the growing human brain is a source of lively controversy today. A prominent hypothesis, but by no means the only one (another is bipedal locomotion, although that predates the explosive brain growth by millions of years), is that the energy-denser food made available by the human line’s burgeoning toolset allowed the human digestive system to become smaller, and the energy savings were used to grow and power the human-line’s expanding brain. Stone tools and fire were likely used for food processing and defense, and only later did they become offensive tools. I believe that the increase in tool sophistication, the control of fire, and the growing brain of the human line are all related, but just how they are is still a big controversy. But there is no doubt that the growing human brain is the key aspect of the rise of humans, and it also rode an energy wave provided by First Epoch technologies. Best, Wade

Hi: A few odds and ends… I am finishing The Ends of the World, and there were a few takeaways for me. One was how often the mass extinctions had climate change as part of them. The ominous parallels of those extinctions and what humanity is doing to Earth were vividly in evidence. The author said that you get a few beers in today’s working scientists, and many will say, “We’re f**ked.” Some of the numbers are mind-boggling. Humanity has killed off 90% of large ocean predators in my lifetime. 30% of the world’s coral reefs have died off since the 1980s. Wildlife today comprises only 3% of today’s land animal biomass, with the rest being us, our domestic animals, and pets. Spaceship Earth is indeed in bad shape. Humanity has been radically transforming Earth’s surface ever since that Founder Group left Africa and began driving all of the megafauna to extinction. Other than obstinate scientists and scholars who are determined to deflect responsibility from humanity and heap it onto climate change (and they really don’t have much of a leg to stand on), sometimes to defend the ancestors of indigenous Australians and Americans, there is almost no doubt left that humans did it, in a trend that lasts to this day and is accelerating. But mass extinction specialists are divided on whether what is happening today is a mass extinction yet, although all readily admit that we are rapidly getting there. 30% of Earth’s coral reefs dying in 30 years is an eye-blink on the timescale of life on Earth. Mass extinctions could last over many millions of years, but humanity is doing it in the relative a blink of an eye. Humanity is doing it through climate change and ocean acidification from burning fossil fuels, and also habitat destruction, as ocean floors are plowed by trawling nets and the land masses are being deforested, strip-mined, paved, and turned into one big farm. A quote from the book is pertinent (page 233): “That the human project since its birth, and human flourishing in general, seems to have played out at the expense of the rest of the natural world is one of the stark and unsettling discoveries of science.” It is surreal to know that the solution to all of that is on the planet today, and is studiously ignored by nearly all factions. Are we really a sentient species? Today, I live in one of Earth’s most affluent communities, and can run into the world’s richest man at the movie theater, as we watch a movie that features humanity destroying a planet in another star system in its greedy quest for mineral wealth. But as I drive around my community, at the progressive grocery store where I shop, a woman begs, as she has done continually for the several years that I have patronized that store. At most highway off-ramps in Seattle and intersections near my home, people beg from the passing cars. In the parking lot of the home improvement store that I patronized this morning near my home were dozens of poor Mexican-American men, standing around, hoping to be hired today by local homeowners. This is all in one of the most affluent communities on Earth, which is currently the hottest city in the USA, as neighborhoods are being mowed down to make way for high-density condo projects and the like, as Seattle turns into Gotham City. When I see all of that, I often say to myself, “And they call it civilization.” One interesting tidbit in The Ends of the World was a new angle on the Cretaceous Extinction. The asteroid impact (likely an asteroid, not a comet) has been the primary culprit since the 1980s, but it also coincided with the huge volcanic event in India. The Deccan Traps hypothesis has long been the main competing hypothesis to the bolide hypothesis, as volcanism was associated with most previous mass extinctions. And now, a co-author of the bolide hypothesis, and son of Nobel Prize winner Luis Walter Alvarez, is endorsing the idea that the bolide impact may have triggered the most spectacular lava flows in the Deccan Traps, kind of like a slow leak from a pipe turning into a spout when the pressure is turned up. Best, Wade

Hi: Uncle Ed sent me the link to this last night, on The New York Times’s anti-Russian hysteria during the past century. Ed is 92 years old. I have rarely, if ever, heard of anybody at that age doing what Ed still is. Maybe George Seldes came close. Ed is far from alone on that subject. Some related odds and ends… The USA is considered the greatest threat to world peace today. Here is an article on the war on Wikileaks. Ed cites Consortium News a lot. Here is a nice article on American imperialism under the “war on terror” rubric. I was not aware of this article when I updated my atom bomb chapter of my war essay, but might update that chapter one day with that author’s thesis, that the Japanese surrendered after the atom bombs as a convenient face-saving device. I did not know that Michael Collins Piper died a couple of years ago until recently, when I heard some of this clip of him. He talked some about Gary Wean in it. I’ll weigh in a little on the controversy of him and Gary. Piper said that Gary was miffed that Piper’s book did so well when Gary’s didn’t. I am not so sure about that. What Gary told me was that Piper’s initial effort did not credit Gary’s book much, when Gary gave Piper the idea for his book, when he stopped by The Spotlight’s office one day and talked with Piper. Piper’s final edition of his book gives Gary plenty of coverage. I am not so sure about the Jewish angle on the JFK hit. Jack Ruby was a Jewish mobster, so there was certainly a Jewish connection, and it deserves to be taken seriously. But they were far from alone, and I doubt that they were the masterminds who interposed Hunt’s grand plan or ran the cover-up, even though Arlen Specter authored the ridiculous Magic Bullet theory. I stumbled upon this “funny” series of ads from the postwar years. In one way, it is nice to see how far we have come, but the ads could be pretty horrifying. Also, in ways, we have not graduated very far beyond it at all. I’ll weigh in a little on the tempest at Google over that paper that that former employee wrote. I did not think that The Blank Slate was all that good, but Pinker definitely showed how skewed the arguments can get. Nature and nurture play their part, and the former Google employee definitely had some of the nature arguments right, but he was short on the nurture aspect. There are innate gender differences, plenty of them, and they can be important, but corporate America, even supposedly “enlightened” places such as Google, is highly conditioned by our political-economies. Heck, how would Uncle Ed’s latest article play in corporate America? That Google guy could have been fired over promoting that article in most of corporate America. Corporations are not democracies; they are profit-seeking dictatorships. In the Fifth Epoch, they will go the way of dinosaurs, and deserve to. Best, Wade

Hi: It will be a short one this morning. The Ends of the World is almost a mass extinction travelogue, as the author travels the globe, meeting with mass extinction specialists, looking at rock formations at extinction intervals, etc. It is a very good survey of mass extinctions for lay audiences, and what the implications are for today. One thing that stood out was how influential today’s climate change disinformation is among the laity. Sea level changes are implicated in most mass extinctions, and global glaciations’ beginnings and endings are usually the prime culprits. The first of today’s Big Five, the Ordovician Extinction, was definitely caused by sea level changes related to an ice age. As the author discussed the Ordovician with scientists, he and the scientists were acutely aware of the abysmal state of the Global Warming “debate” today, in which the connection between carbon dioxide and the atmospheric temperature has been muddied by scientists who sold their souls to the Hydrocarbon Lobby and who have been enabled by a compliant media. More than once, the author had to note that there has been no significant controversy about the relationship of carbon dioxide and atmospheric temperature among geoscientists for more than 150 years. That the author had to keep bringing it up is a “tribute” to the disinformation efforts of people such as Fred Singer. I am regularly approached by scientifically illiterate people who challenge me on Global Warming, who have been swayed by the disinformation effort. It is a very sad commentary on the state of affairs today. Lately, I have been reading a lot of Uncle Ed’s work, or more properly, rereading it, and I recently read a chapter of The Myth of the Liberal Media that was devoted to “junk science” and the media. Corporate giants such as Monsanto churn out study after study that shows that their products are safe, and the media gullibly swallows such interest-conflicted studies, time after time. Interestingly, the term “junk science” was coined by Steven Milloy, who literally worked for the tobacco companies as they assailed the secondhand smoke findings. Junk science, indeed. Best, Wade

Hi: Where I live, I can encounter bears on hikes in the nearby mountains, and there was a bear in my community a couple of years ago, which had wandered down from the mountains. In the Alps, bears were extinct in nations such as Switzerland and Germany, but are making a slight comeback, partly due to reintroduction efforts. That bears live in the mountains near my home does not mean that it is their ideal habitat; they can better survive humanity there. Mountains have been refugia for relict populations for probably hundreds of millions of years. Islands can also be refugia. The last mammoths lived on them, for one example of many that could be provided. Negritos are a relict human population, living on isolated islands or mountains. They certainly did not start out that way, but when agriculture began, the hunter-gatherer economy became increasingly unviable and could only be practiced in ever-shrinking refugia, basically marginal lands where agriculture could not be practiced. There are no humans alive today who purely practice the Paleolithic hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Even a pure agrarian lifestyle, without any benefits of industrialization, might not exist on Earth today. Intentional agrarians such as the Amish enjoy many benefits of the industrial civilization that they live in the midst of. Aboriginal Australians lived in Earth’s greatest refugia, and the end of their isolation resulted in nearly their complete genocide, as it was for the Andamans, Tasmanians, and other isolated groups who pursued the means of production of an earlier Epoch. But those isolated peoples gave the early intruders a glimpse into the human past. Those hunter-gatherers, living in their refugia, still practiced the first behaviorally modern human religion, with their singing and dancing rituals. The San of Africa still use the click-consonants that the first human language likely used. Just as stromatolites, nautiloids and horsetails give us glimpses into the evolutionary past, so those relict human populations have given us a window into the human past. Best, Wade

Hi: We’ll see if I can do this in one post. Current events have precipitated this. It is not easy for people to understand what I am doing, even when they want to. It is the very rare person who approaches me and almost instantly gets a pretty good understanding of what I am doing. Few others do, and more than 40 years of doing this showed me what those who don’t understand have in common, for the few who even want to: they are dragging along their baggage. That baggage can be ideological, but that is really more of a symptom than a cause. When I roll back the layers of people’s orientation, which comes out in my exchanges with them, what their lack of understanding really stems from is fear. In a world of scarcity, that fear wears many guises. One of the most encompassing pitfalls is trying the social route, when sociality is based on survival and fear, not love. People want to be paid to study my work, to make a living pursuing free energy, and the like. I hear no end of beginners’ bright ideas for making free energy happen, and without exception, they hail from the kindergarten level of this issue. They are all variations on the paths of failure that I have written about at length. And they are not just paths of failure, they are the kinds of failures that wreck and end lives, leaving a smoking crater behind. The arrival of free energy will be the biggest event in the human journey, by far, as humanity will become a Type 1 civilization. The technology to make it happen is older than I am. Technology is not the issue: integrity and sentience is, and both are in very short supply on Earth today, but there really does not have to be all much of it concentrated on the issue to make it happen. That was one of the key lessons of my journey. I know that I am looking for needles in haystacks, it is just the nature of what I am doing, and I let go of any judgment of it long ago. Judgment is a huge pitfall for this effort that I am trying to mount. For people who approach me with their “bright ideas,” they confuse my reactions to seeing the looming doom of their bright idea approaches with judgment. I have presented a very straightforward class, for those with the right stuff to take. My big essay forms its centerpiece, but my entire site is the class, and I have now made nearly a thousand posts in my own forum, in a more organized fashion than I have anywhere else. I am just getting the venue populated with enough meat so that the high-level conversation that is needed for my approach to work has a place to happen. I have devoted the rest of my life’s “spare” time this effort, in an approach that came to me over more than 30 years of this pursuit. The biggest event in the human journey is worth one man’s life to try an approach that might have a chance. If my effort does not bear fruit, the idea of it will at least be established. If that is all that I end up accomplishing, that is fine by me, but I am also aiming pretty high. Enough said for now, and time to begin my busy weekend. Best, Wade

Hi: I keep working 12-14 hour days, but the end of that is near, at least for this quarter. One fascinating part of my studies is the idea of refugia and relict populations that can provide a window into the past. This goes way back. Cyanobacterial colonies along ancient shores are called stromatolites, and they go back to three billion years or so. When other organisms learned to eat them, they faded from the fossil record (they formed the first fossils that we know of), but they still exist today, in a few places where no animals can live. So, a way of life has survived for three billion years, and gives scientists a window into the past. With the rise of animals and plants, there have been numerous instances of relict populations that survived in refugia. They were able to hang on in niches that the dominant forms could not thrive in. Horsetails and ferns comprise some of the earliest plants. The first forests were made from them. They are spore-reproducers, and seed-bearing plants overtook them and became dominant, as seed reproducers do not need the wet environments that horsetails and ferns do. But in the ice age rainforests near my home town, horsetails and ferns thrive, giving us a window several hundred million years into the past. Seed-bearing plants gave way to flowering plants, and that rainforest where I live is also dominated by seed-bearing plants, as flowering plants don’t do as well. But where it is warmer, flowering plants dominate. That temperate rainforest of my home looks similar to what dinosaurs tromped around in a couple hundred million years ago, for another window into the past. With animals, there are similar situations. Nautiloids were Earth’s apex predators more than 400 million years ago. But fish came to dominate. Some nautiloids were able to survive in deep-water refugia, where they live today, but are threatened with extinction by human activities. Similarly, the lobe-fined coelacanth has survived in deep-water refugia for hundreds of millions of years, while their ray-finned brethren dominated the seas, and their discovery in the last century was one of the mindbenders of science. Of course, we are descendants of lobe-finned fish. The pattern of those “living fossils” is that they did well, were even dominant, but evolution passed them by, as more adaptable organisms came to dominate. But in marginal environments that were too salty, oxygen-poor, cold, and the like, remnant populations of those ancient organisms were able to eke out an existence. Those survivors give scientists amazing glimpses into the past, and studying them provides invaluable information. There has been a similar dynamic with humanity. Because we are such a young species, the relict populations are not so much biological relicts (as we can all interbreed), but are more around their means of subsistence and related cultural adaptations. Gorillas and chimps are arguably relict populations. What can happen with relicts is that they were once dominant, the more adaptable left to eke out an existence someplace else, and the original “place to be” became a refugia niche, as those original refugees adapted to the hostile environments and became dominant in them. Chimps were marginal gorillas, and the human line is descended from marginal chimps. Gorillas got the heart of the rainforest, living the good life, while chimps are descended from gorillas pushed to the margins, and the human line is chimps pushed to the margins as the rainforest continued to shrink. Today, humans threaten their relict ancestor population with extinction. There is much more to come. Best, Wade

Hi: Not only am I crazily busy, but I moved hosts this past week. I was with my old host for several years, but it is owned by a company making the capitalist play, which bought up hosting companies like mad and then instituted cost reductions that made the service pretty crappy. I have not been able to back up my site for more than a year. Back in the early 2000s, my host had a similar fate, as it got swept up in Dot-Com Hysteria Version 1, tried to make the big capitalist play, and went out of business with the crash. Finding a stable and competent host is not easy, but I hope that the one that I moved to will be around for a while. I think that this is the sixth host that I have had since my first site went up in 1996. I have purposely made my site a low-tech one that is easily portable, low bandwidth, non-commercial, and other traits that I can build a low-cost choir with. In the move, however, my tool that turns my Word docs into forum posts, with the links in the words, is currently broken (the code needs to be updated for the new host), and until it gets fixed, I am going to be doing it the old way, with links spelled out separately from the text. The next few posts will be odds and ends. As stated, I have been crazily busy lately, working 14-hour days, working on my latest biography project, etc. I recently wrote about reading yet another mass extinction book ( http://ahealedplanet.net/forum/threads/16-Chapter-9-Speciation-Extinction-and-Mass-Extinctions?p=1002&viewfull=1#post1002 ), I am concurrently reading another one ( https://www.amazon.com/Great-Extinctions-What-Causes-Shape/dp/1770853278/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 ), and this post will be about that issue and the human journey. In The Great Extinctions, the author separated ultimate versus proximate causes for the greatest extinctions, and he placed geological causes as the ultimate every time, related to tectonic plate movements and especially the volcanism that came with them. Fair enough. Others have tried to make bolide events as ultimate causes each time, or the inherent instabilities of multi-tiered energy systems (AKA “food chains”), or climate change. There are plenty of proximate causes to go around, and the controversies are heated these days. The Ends of the World was written by a science writer, and they tend to write the best popular science, although some of history’s greatest scientists also wrote good popular science. Einstein was one. Peter Ward has written more than a dozen popular science books. In The Great Extinctions, when the author got to the Holocene extinctions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction he showed himself to be badly out of his realm of expertise, as he preferred the climate-change cause over human activities. There is a great human tendency to absolve humanity of responsibility for the Holocene extinctions, but I don’t buy the explanations of those denying human agency. They are pretty weak, IMO. The human impact was overwhelming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction#Competition_by_humans One of the best examples of the human impact was the fate of the elephant family in the Americas: complete extinction. Before the rise of humans, the elephant family was the most successful land mammal ever: http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#elephantsuccess They lived in the Americas for more than 16 million years, and lived in the length and breadth of the Americas, in all major biomes. Their size, intelligence, prehensile trunks, and opportunistic feeding patterns made them invincible, at least until humans arrived, and then elephants quickly went completely extinct throughout the Americas. Those who argue for climate change doing it all have about zero credibility with me, and I consider the scientific infatuation with the mammoth extinctions to be a red herring. Mammoths were merely one of several elephant-family species to go extinct when humans arrived in the Americas. South America has nearly the identical climate to Africa’s, and while Africa retained its elephants, South America lost 100% of its elephants, right after humans arrived. What a coincidence! I don’t regard any climate change hypotheses for the global demise of the megafauna, coincident with the arrival of humans, to be credible. Even if they want to say that the ranges went bad during the ice age, the huge problem with their hypotheses is that the American extinctions happened just as it became warmer and wetter, not the colder and dryer conditions that were responsible for the last large extinction (that took 15 million years to play out http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#icehouse ). There has never been a predator on Earth like behaviorally modern humans, and nothing stood in their way, as they conquered Earth after leaving Africa: http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#founderexit Not even their fellow human species: http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#climateneanderthal It did not matter what the climate was doing: all the easy meat was consigned to extinction when humans arrived. I consider arguments that deflect responsibility from humanity to arise from a conflict of interest, as they defend their species. To be sure, those scientific arguments have all sorts of data in them, but it is what they leave out that is most telling, similar to what Uncle Howard had to say about the kind of “history” that is vended by historians: http://ahealedplanet.net/columbus.htm#zinn Scientists are not pinnacles of virtue. No profession is, not in a world of scarcity and fear. The author of The Ends of the Earth readily discerned the human impact on the Holocene extinctions that the specialist who wrote The Great Extinctions just could not seem to see. I see it as who is grinding an ax and who isn’t, or who gained a generalist vision and who was blinkered by their specialist lenses: http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#specialists This morning, I read this article, on the coming end of the nation-state: http://www.internationalman.com//articles/doug-casey-on-the-end-of-the-nation-state Without scientific training or a comprehensive perspective, people will confuse ultimate with proximate causes, etc. That author at least got the phases kind of right, when mentioning the agrarian and industrial revolutions and citing Marx’s arguments that the “means of production” largely determine what kind of society can exist. The change in social relations is a consequence, not a cause, of the Epochs, and each was based on its energy practices. Everything else was dependent on that. I want to be fairer to that author than my initial post, and am revising it a little a day later. I almost never do that, but he deserves it. The author missed the first two epochs, and the agrarian and industrial revolutions were entirely dependent on exploiting a new energy source, and he has it right about tribes, kingdoms, and nation-states, but he does not propose anything about what will wither the state other than the Internet. The nation-state is primarily a Fourth Epoch construct, and I don’t see it withering away until the Fifth Epoch makes all territorial constructs obsolete, as land and the “resources” that can be wrested from it will no longer be relevant to the human standard of living, or not like it does now. I have yet to see one of those financial writers break out of their exchange framework and see the bigger picture. The ones a little savvier become Peak Oilers and beat the drums of doom, and I can’t blame them: http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#peakoil But they are only describing problems, not solutions. Free energy is the solution that trumps all others. http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#epochal5 Next to the energy issue, everything else is noise. But while everybody grinds the ax of their self-interest and fails to see the forest from trees, people like me are voices in the wilderness. It is just what it is, and there is no use in judging it: http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#judge1 I don’t need many to make it happen: http://ahealedplanet.net/humanity.htm#choir Best, Wade

Thanks Krishna: That was timely. Great paper. Nice to see it freely published so early. I recently bought a few more mass extinction books, and am currently reading The Ends of the World, in which the author specifically credited Peter Ward as his inspiration for writing it. Ward’s place in posterity is assured, but he would say, as Uncle Ed does, that he is not done yet! After more than a century of Darwinian denial, mass extinction research has been galloping along, and yes, current man-made trends are very ominous. I will have significant revisions of my big essay in light of current findings, and that paper will have a place in it. I am onboard with the idea that volcanism was a major driver of mass extinctions, as well as the adaptability of the ecosystems. Global temperature swings, and primarily global warming, are deeply implicated, and humanity is merrily replacing a big part of the volcano effect by burning up all of the hydrocarbon deposits. Of course, virtually nobody is even considering the solution that trumps all others. But that just inspires me to keep doing my work, and we’ll see how many good years I have ahead of me. I am not done yet! Best, Wade

Hi: As I wrote previously, I am going to finish these Level posts by noting what levels the failed approaches to free energy are operating from. Applying for a patent is classic Level 6 behavior, as the inventor naively thinks that he/she can bring that pig to market. Keeping the invention proprietary can operate from Level 6, but such aspirants can also have some Level 7 delusions, as inventors try to avoid having their patents seized under the national security laws. The feds are just one of many tools at Godzilla’s disposal. Raising money from investors, selling to customers, and the like can come from Level 6 or 10. Level 10s can operate from an unawareness of organized suppression, or they can operate from a strategic effort to overcome it, with the idea that Godzilla will see the coming stampede and flee or join it. The problem is that stampeding people are easily manipulated, and can be readily steered right over the cliff. My days with Dennis taught me that lesson. Seeking those rich “philanthropists” can operate from Levels 6, 7, 10, and even 11, as the aspirant plays the hero/messiah who seeks patrons. Of course, trying to sneak past the organized suppression is classic Level 7 behavior. A guerilla revolution generally operates from Level 9, but elements of Levels 7, 10, and 11 can be found in them. All mass movement attempts operate from Level 10. The primary difference between Level 10 and Level 12 is that Level 10s are operating from self-interest and are rallying around a scarcity-based framework. Level 12s are something very different. They operate from combined positive intention, their efforts are selflessly motivated, and they have developed a comprehensive awareness so that they can keep their eyes on the ball. They think in terms of abundance. Trying the open assault on Godzilla is classic Level 9 behavior. Media campaigns and mounting conferences are standard Level 10 activities. Approaching the world’s governments, corporations, and other institutions can arise from Levels 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11. In short, all of those failed approaches have fear and scarcity at their roots, and all fail to understand, at one level or another, how our world really works. An approach based on love and sentience has not really been tried before. It won’t be easy or start quickly, and it gives me a great opportunity to work on my patience issues. Best, Wade

Hi: A Level 12 is going to realize what won’t work: Inventor-centric efforts (patents, proprietary, the hero/inventor); Ideologically based efforts (nationalism, capitalism, organized religion, communism, socialism, materialism, etc.); Approaching governments, corporations, NGOs, universities, “progressives,” “philanthropists,” environmentalists, etc.; Mounting conferences; Chatting up their social circles; Forming a guerilla movement; Sneaking past the organized suppression; Conquering the organized suppression; Mounting a media campaign. They are generally not going to need somebody like me to help them realize why those approaches won’t work. They will understand on their own. In one way or another, all of those approaches are based on scarcity, fear, and giving one’s power and responsibility away to others, looking for a shortcut; in general, acting like victims. They will understand that combined positive intention is the key, and they will learn to sing the abundance song. They also know that their intended audience is not their social circles, but they will be broadcasting on a global stage, to attract the few like them. They will know how unusual they are, and not from a place of ego or judgment, but just understanding the situation and what the numbers are. They will understand the stakes and what the potential is. There is nothing easy about getting there, but it begins in the heart. Best, Wade

Hi: I am likely going to be pretty quiet over the next few weeks, as another work-related hurricane blows through my life. Here are some odds and ends for a Sunday evening. Yesterday, I saw for the first time, somebody other than me writing about Brian O’s Martian credentials. In all of this talk of manned Mars missions in recent years, it is nice to see Brian’s Martian credentials get some mention. I have a feeling that if we did not get his NASA bio published, it would have gone right down the Memory Hole, and it nearly has, anyway. I was just looking at those astronauts in Brian’s group, and it was more than 15 years before any of them went into space. That was quite a wait for the XS-11, and it is very understandable that Brian was one of several who quit. In this month’s Scientific American, there was an article on volcanic hot springs’ being the cradle of life on Earth. In Nick Lane’s latest, he makes the case for volcanic rifts in the ocean, and Peter Ward’s and Joe Kirschvink’s latest makes the case for a Martian origin of life on Earth, carried here by meteorites. Following the issues and evidence is what I hope that my work spurs among the choir. It is all part of developing a comprehensive perspective. Best, Wade

Hi: Why do I think that the Level 12 approach has a chance of success? It is not the only path to success that I know of. Ten Dennises, or a hundred Brians, combining their efforts, and we would have had free energy long ago. But I have not heard of anybody else like Dennis, and I also have not met anybody quite like Brian, which is one reason why Greer repeatedly used a plug from Brian. There are just not enough people like them on Earth today. So, I am stepping it back a notch or three. I don’t need heroes for my plan to work. In fact, the hero’s approach can be a trap, in several ways, and the hazard of megalomania is one of them. When I mentioned my Level 12 approach to Dennis and Brian, both instantly realized that I was doing something different, and Brian was planning to promote my approach before he died. If you think about Levels 1 to 11 deeply enough, what becomes evident is that they all have scarcity and fear in common, in both obvious and subtle ways. Those levels of awareness also underlie all of those failed paths to free energy. The only quality of those lower levels that I can see could arguably not arise from scarcity and fear is the naïveté behind Level 6. Everybody that I respected the most in the free energy field began their journeys naively, and were generally overgrown Boy and Girl Scouts. Those in Level 6 bought many of the Big Lies of their indoctrination and conditioning, believed what they read in the newspapers and saw on TV, were taught in the classroom, and the like (all except for free energy’s possibility, so they did not buy the “laws of physics” canard). Unless somebody is a child, being fed those lies and not knowing any better, in this day and age, maintaining that level of naiveté takes hard work. They can maintain that tunnel vision because they are afraid to expand their awareness. Somebody in Level 6 lives in a cocoon of ignorance, and it is hard to argue that fear and scarcity are not largely responsible for that tunnel vision. They had opportunities to broaden their perspective, especially in this Internet Age, but chose not to. Why? What have Level 12s accomplished that makes them useful for making free energy happen? In short: They are motivated by love, not fear; They are not self-seeking; They have awoken past their conditioning; They seek the truth; They are discerning; They have developed a comprehensive awareness; They are ready to act. I have discussed the qualities that I seek before (1, 2), and will try to not repeat myself too much, but I will show how their qualities enabled them to avoid the pitfalls that have ensnared so many. I do not kid myself; such people are exceedingly rare, at one-in-thousands amongst the general population, and if I did not have a global medium such as the Internet, I would not even be thinking in the direction that I have for the past 20 years or more. The first five qualities listed above they have to come to this issue with. Nobody can give them those qualities; they earned them themselves. What I can help with is developing that comprehensive awareness. Very few on Earth have had my particular journey, and I am trying to prevent what I learned from going to waste. I am the last man standing among my inner circle, and Earth and humanity are on the brink today. I long ago accepted that I am on special assignment, and like Dennis and Brian, I will do it until I can’t anymore. I tell people from the very beginning to not expect to make a living from this work. In fact, trying to make a living from it is a path to failure, as it is self-seeking. It is “reasonable” to want to make a living, but this task, manifesting the biggest event in the human journey, is anything but “normal.” All of the usual motivations, rooted in fear, scarcity, and survival, won’t work for this task. People have advised me to parlay my work into an advanced degree, sell books, and the like for more than 20 years, but that is the devil’s flypaper. If I had gone that way, I would have failed long ago. I doubt that anybody is born a Level 12. It is a long, winding road to get there, and only lovers of the truth, who are unwilling to settle for the bromides of our conditioning, are candidates. To use some current jargon, they are self-selected. One early lesson that my pupils learn, if they haven’t before they encountered me, is that sociality is based on fear and scarcity. It is not exactly a novel realization; it is a standard understanding among biologists and anthropologists. Social animals are social because it enhances their survival prospects. In fact, internal societal “cohesion” has largely been developed through outside threats. Sociality is based on self-seeking, and is worthless for the free energy pursuit. Most of my best students learn this early on, as they just have to spread the “good news” of free energy amongst their social circles, even as I caution them against it. They quickly find out what a thin reed their social circles are, as they are attacked, ostracized, and the like. If they are lucky, they don’t wreck too many relationships, their careers, etc. The social approach is worse than worthless for this task. As Brian O sagely stated, combined positive intention will work. Each person, working towards the goal, each with the goal in sight, and knowing that they can’t do it alone, is the key for a Level 12 effort. Each member is self-motivated toward the goal, and their self-interest is not in the calculus of their thinking. They have raised their awareness far past that level. They are doing it because it needs to be done, not because they seek some earthly or even heavenly reward for doing it. That requires a spiritual and ethical maturity that is exceedingly rare on the planet today, and that rareness is why we don’t live in the Fifth Epoch today. Why would a Level 12 effort have a chance? For one thing, it would not take many people, proportionally. It can work if only one-in-a-million people have the right stuff and do the work. I have seen the power of a few committed people. I lived with Dennis and Alison in Boston, and we were high and dry, about to be homeless on the streets, when I came through. Three months later, we were offered $10 million to go away, and a year later, they raised it to $1 billion before they lowered the boom on us. Less than a year later, Mr. Professor, Alison, and I were all that was left, standing up to the full might of our evil system. When I sacrificed my life, the greatest miracle that I ever witnessed happened. Those days wrecked and shortened Mr. Professor’s life, and I don’t want to bury anybody else whom I got involved in my journey. But a handful of us gave Godzilla some interesting days at the office and sleepless nights, and a chapter or two of his manual for maintaining his global dominance is likely devoted to us, a mere handful of people, who had the proper motivation. If I can find and train 5,000-to-7,000 people, to just attain a comprehensive vision and form that choir, free energy is going to be laughably easy to make happen. The hard part will be building that choir. I may have 30 more good years in me, and we will see how it goes. This is not something that can be rushed, to “do something,” or it will be just one more path of disaster. This is something different. I may not be the person who will build that choir. My role might be to merely found the idea of one. If that is all it is, I am OK with that, but I pray that I live to see humanity begin to turn the corner, and I as wrote recently, things are looking up in ways. Manifesting the biggest event in the human journey is not going to be easy, but I know of nothing more worthwhile to do on Earth today. Best, Wade

Hi: Few people on Earth are Level 15s. They have had free energy technology demonstrated to them, almost always in intimate settings, as far as I know. Many genuine free energy prototypes have been demonstrated, sometimes in public venues, but the best demonstrations were done privately. Mr. Advisor was invited to meet with Sparky Sweet, and witnessing his describing watching Sparky’s device operate was unforgettable. He was awestruck by the experience. Free energy is far from the only exotic technology in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard, and Steven Greer spoke of watching electrogravity craft fly around in an underground setting. You have to play in highly rarified air to be invited to something like that. The few people that I know of who received such shows played at levels at which they risked their lives for many years. Surviving murder attempts seemed to be one prerequisite for eligibility for shows such as those. But all such demonstrations paled next to what my close friend was shown a generation ago. He received a generous demonstration of technologies in Godzilla’s Golden Hoard, which was likely snuck out the back door for that demonstration, and the demonstrators almost certainly risked their lives to do so. My friend does not know who gave the demonstration or where it was, as he was transported there blindfolded and under bizarre conditions. It was not a typical invitation. I have purposely not wanted to know very much about that demonstration, to protect people. My friend’s eyes were bugging out of his head, and he told the demonstrators that they did not play in his galaxy. When I told Brian O of that demonstration, his reaction was along the lines of, “So, what else is new?” Brian was well aware of demonstrations like that, but my friend’s is the only one like that that I have directly heard of, by watching as the witness describes it to me. Free energy, antigravity (or electrogravity) technology, advanced materials that show that Flubber is not so fictional, and other exotic technologies are on the planet today. You can take that to the bank. The means to a Star Trek civilization (Type 1) on Earth already exist. But we don’t get any while we collectively slumber, are ruled by scarcity and fear, and are our own worst enemies. But free energy is the Big One, with Epochal significance. Then there is the other side of the table, the Level 14s. They also know that free energy technology exists, because they get to use and play with it every day, as part of their jobs. Level 15s have far more credibility with me than Level 14s. When so-called “insiders” leak information or go on the talk circuits, I always take their “revelations” with a grain of salt, as there is also a great deal of disinformation coming from within those ranks, for various reasons. The whistleblowers that I respect the most are people such as Ralph McGehee and John Perkins, who have indisputable bona fides with well-documented tales. When so-called insiders come forward with their stories, without any documentary or other hard evidence, it pays to keep a skeptical eye. Greer’s most credible Disclosure Project witnesses were those on the “outside” of such operations, who saw something that they weren’t supposed to. What Gordon Cooper reported, for instance, is at the height of credibility. I have heard several astronaut tales of close encounters in space, and some have remained private affairs. Astronauts who speak out about close encounters in space, after they have been read-in following the encounters, risk their lives to do so, which is why you never hear them telling about such encounters publicly. You don’t even get death-bed confessions from them, because the goons threaten their families with retribution if they speak out. One of Ed Mitchell’s moments of awakening was when he witnessed the Director of Intelligence of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Tom Wilson, being denied access to a Special Access Program that Greer identified to him. Barry Goldwater’s reporting of what happened when he asked to see Hangar 18 and the Blue Room at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, which I lived near when I met Brian, is also highly credible. An amusing anecdote about Wright-Patterson (which was built where the Wright brothers flew their first planes) is that there is a museum of flight at Wright-Patterson. It is impressive, beginning with the Wright brothers (that denial and ridicule by mainstream science is minimized in the Wright brothers’ exhibit) and some NASA gear was also presented. On the second floor, next to the restrooms, was a small glass case, about two feet on a side and a few feet tall, on UFOs. It was the only mention in the entire museum. As I recall, there was a meteorite fragment in that case, and maybe a picture of “swamp gas,” as the text in that exhibit stated that the UFO issue was a minor curiosity, of people’s mistaking meteorites and the like for ET craft. On Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, of all places. It was the funniest part of the museum. I have interacted with leading space “skeptics” and I have been on the receiving end of their “debunking,” and they were either idiots, criminals, or both. Brian O’s life was shortened when he snooped into the UFO issue. Even if Level 14s were telling the straight truth when they played “whistleblower,” they were being allowed to speak publicly, and the reasons for that comprise a highly controversial subject. All Level 14s who go public have been tainted by their employment history and the reasons for their being allowed to speak out. I am sure that some are telling the truth as they know it, but others are playing the disinformation game (some are not even genuine insiders, but pretend that they are), with some truth and plenty of fiction in their testimony, whether they are doing it wittingly or not. Winnowing the truth from the disinformation is a nearly impossible task for examining “whistleblower” testimony such as that, and I advise truth-seekers to spend more of their time looking elsewhere, and take what they glean from that milieu with a huge grain of salt. Next up is what my work is really all about, Level 12s. There are also not many of them on Earth today, but they are my target audience, and only they can truly help with my effort. Best, Wade

Hi: Before I get to Level 12, which is what interests me, I want to cover Levels 13 to 15. Level 13 is where some free energy inventors ended up. They generally were successful with developing technology that could tap the zero-point field. While my Levels were developed to deal with free energy, the fate of Level 13s can also apply to a wide array of potentially disruptive technologies, such as new mining techniques. I have heard many harrowing tales over the years, and not just with free energy inventors, but free energy is the Big One. Brian O knew about 25 dead inventor stories. Greer was told of the $100 billion in quiet money. We got the friendly buyout offer a couple of months after I became Dennis’s partner, and they added a couple of zeroes a year later, before they began playing rough. The adding some zeroes trick is not unusual. At the level that Godzilla plays at – controlling a planet – a trillion dollars to keep the lid on disruptive technologies is a pittance. He has developed his game into a science. No independent free energy effort has ever been allowed to get to the finish line of bringing commercially viable technology to market. They don’t let anybody get close, but strangle all efforts in their cradles. There is a $200 million chasm to cross in the first place. What makes Dennis’s journey so unique and informative for those with the right stuff is that unlike any free energy effort ever attempted, he actually brought disruptive technology to market, when he put the world’s best heating system on people’s homes for free. Discerning readers can learn what bag of tricks is brought to bear when something disruptive is brought to market. Free energy inventors in their garages have not even stepped on the playing field yet. I do not try to collect tales of organized suppression. I am a tale myself, and soldiers who have seen battle don’t regale their families with war stories, but do their best to forget them. During my first stint with Dennis, I heard more stories than I care to recall, as they could become monotonous. In Ventura, a couple of elderly brothers from Europe told me how they attended one of those conferences when Max Gerson was poisoned. In those Ventura days, a member of the clergy told me that the skullduggery that we were experiencing was global in scope. He told of witnessing such activity in New Zealand, to swindle some Maori out of their land. That is a familiar tale. What I get a lot of from free energy newcomers is a kind of titillating interest in suppression tales, in a kind of denial/fascination, and some seem to want to go tweak the lion’s tail, to see if the stories were true. What a potentially deadly delusion. It is a cousin to 18-year-old boys pining to prove their manhood on the battlefield. In some ways, I am happy when my pupils rush out to proselytize to their social circles, even after I try to dissuade them from doing it. It is relatively low-risk behavior, as they “only” risk their careers and relationships, not their lives. They can get a little taste of the reality that I write about without risking their lives, and they can get chastened before they go out and foolishly play suicidal games. I’ll tell a few new ones here, or, at least, I think they are new. I have heard a lot of Adam Trombly’s story over the years, almost straight from the horse’s mouth. He has survived something like 40 murder attempts. Adam’s story is the only one that I have heard of that matches Dennis’s on the preposterous scale. I have been invited to hang out with Adam, but he is just too hot. With my luck, the bullet would miss him and hit me. I don’t want to betray Adam’s confidence, so will tell an innocuous anecdote. What happened to my efforts with Dennis, with provocateurs infiltrated into the inside, such as Bill and Ken, is not unusual. In fact, in my circles, they are standard features, and I have heard them called “inside people,” whose jobs are to help tear down the effort from the inside. As I saw with Bill and Ken, they could coordinate their efforts with outside attacks, in what I have called an “inside-outside job.” Because the level of integrity of Joe Average is so low, inside-outside jobs are very effective, as Joe becomes a willing member of the mutiny, happily slitting his own throat as he chases the bait of self-interest. As Brian learned at NEM and another organization that he helped found, even organizations of initiates, with no provocateurs on the inside, readily tear themselves apart from the inside as everybody jockeys for position. It happened to Joe Firmage’s effort in the 1990s, as I heard from somebody who helped tear NEM apart. The first dozen times or so that I saw our business associates try to steal our company, I was shocked. Dennis told me to join the club, and said that I would eventually lose my shock. In ways, it was like how I became used to working in the hell of Skid Row. Eventually, a dead body on the sidewalk just became part of the scenery. Another attempt to steal our company was just another day at the office. Early in Adam’s journey, one man came into his effort, as Adam was trying to make things happen. Adam played the game, of political action, “philanthropists,” and the like, and that man was Adam’s most enthusiastic supporter, who was 100% on the same page with Adam. It did not get any better than that supporter, at least until the moment came when that supporter was supposed to interact with some big players who were going to provide assistance to Adam. Then, that “supporter” instantly went from 100% with Adam to 100% against Adam, as he actively scuttled the deal and disappeared. That is one way that “inside people” ply their trade. I have purposely designed my effort to not be very vulnerable to “inside people,” which is one reason why my effort is starting slowly. I constantly hear from free energy newbies with their bright ideas, blithely suggesting tactics and strategies that invariably lead to disaster, but they are too naïve to realize it. Organized suppression of disruptive technologies is all too real, what we encountered was capitalism on steroids, and thousands of free energy aspirants discovered that the hard way. The “lucky” free energy aspirants got the Golden Handcuffs, while the less fortunate had their lives wrecked or prematurely terminated. Level 13s know that free energy technology is real, because they developed some themselves. Sparky Sweet’s story is all-too-typical. Best, Wade