Wade Frazier

Hi: One aspect of my political education worth noting is that is the nation I most studied: mine. There were a few reasons for that, which included: I am an American, and it was not only the easiest for me to study, but it was the most ethical nation to study. While studying the problems in other nations could be worthwhile, as Noam and Ed stressed, it is most ethical to work on resolving the flaws in our behavior, not somebody else’s. The USA is history’s richest and most powerful nation, and it is an empire that is has been slaughtering millions since World War II; as an American, writing about my great nation’s crimes is something that ethics compels me to do. The greatest instances of organized suppression of free energy technology have happened in the USA, by far. Best, Wade

Hi: Just as my political awakening came through radicalizing experience, without which my subsequent studies would have been of dubious worth, my subsequent media and political studies were always leavened with experience, both for me and my fellow travelers. Here is an example… One of my friends is a horticulturalist, and he ran the conservatory in Columbus when the city began planning its big bash to celebrate 1992. He was intimately aware of how difficult it was to run a conservatory, being always strapped for funds. When the city began planning for the 1992 bash, they chose his conservatory for the site of the celebration. The first thing that they did was fire him. To prepare the grounds for the event, they wiped out the plants that were already there. There were venerable old trees on the grounds, but to make the setting “prettier,” they did things such as bury the roots of the trees, which kills them, but the process takes years. It was a plant holocaust, to make way for the Columbus bash. My friend sadly walked through the grounds as a customer of the event, noting the trees that would soon die, where his plants used to live, torn out to make way for the extravaganza, and the like. It was somehow fitting that the celebration of Columbus’s feat would be mounted in that way. Best, Wade

Hi: Before I get to the criticisms of Noam and Ed, I’ll give a relatively benign example of my work that I have seen, to show the fallacy of logic, at best, that has been aimed at Noam and Ed over the years. My Columbus essay is all about the USA’s naming a national holiday after a greedy, mass-murdering, raping, genocidist. Columbus initiated the greatest demographic catastrophe in the human journey, and we celebrate his amazing feat of “discovery.” When I first drafted that essay in 1998, the complete extermination of the Taino was accepted among scientists and scholars. That is one of history’s greatest crimes, and that is the point of my essay. I saw criticisms of my essay by people who claim descent from the Taino. So, if they are right, then Columbus and crew killed off only 99.9% of the Taino, and not 100%? Does that mitigate the crime? While I am sympathetic to claims of “we survived!”, the point of my essay is not the 0.1% of the Taino who might have survived to produce descendants, but the 99.9% who died, and how such a crime is swept under the carpet so that Columbus’s mighty feat can be celebrated. So, criticisms of my essay, which takes my culture to task, which focus on the victims and how some might have survived, entirely avoids the point to my essay, to argue about issues that really have no bearing on my arguments. The claims of Taino survival are also contentious, and while important to the claimants, really have little bearing on my essay. From the very beginnings of Noam’s and Ed’s political writings to this day, their focus has always been on the USA and its propaganda and indoctrination systems, not its imperial victims, other than noting how they have suffered and doing what they can to prevent more of them. When they wrote a monograph that highlighted the USA’s imperial ideology and how the media plays its part, it was subjected to one of the most outrageous instances of Western censorship in my lifetime. It was amazing. When they finally published a pair of books to replace the suppressed monograph, they devoted one volume to the reconstruction of the USA’s imperial ideology in the wake of its genocide in Southeast Asia, and the book’s largest section was on the treatment of Cambodia. The book was published in 1979, before the West generally knew about the “killing fields” in Cambodia. But, as usual, the focus of that section was not on who the good guys and bad guys were in Cambodia, but on the American media’s treatment of the facts, which Noam and Ed were explicit on. This has been a consistent position that both men have taken for more than 50 years. Their work is about illuminating our system, not anybody else’s, which again puts them on the high ethical ground. Virtually without exception, every critique that I have seen of Noam and Ed’s work turns their work on its head, making the case that Noam and Ed have it wrong on who the good guys and bad guys are in the nations that the USA intervenes in, which Noam and Ed have always said is not the point of their work at all. In fact, from Ed’s earliest writings on Vietnam, going back at least to 1965, the entire point of his work is challenging the imperial conceit that the USA uses to intervene in other nations, portraying themselves as the good guys fighting bad guys, as the self-appointed policemen of Earth, spreading and defending freedom. It is the standard imperial conceit. We have no right to be anywhere outside of the USA’s national borders. Chomsky did it regarding Iraq nearly a decade ago, noting that the USA’s rhetoric about “foreign fighters” in Iraq only make sense if the USA assumes that it owns the world. In writing about Cambodia, they could not have been more explicit: “It is a common error, as we have pointed out several times, to interpret opposition to U.S. intervention and aggression as support for the programs of its victims, a useful device for state propagandists but one that often has no basis in fact.” But Noam’s and Ed’s critics do their best to turn their work on its head, and dishonestly or irrationally (or both) turn Noam and Ed into apologists for the “bad guys” in the nations that we bludgeon. What is true about Noam and Ed’s work is that they point out the USA has consistently supported the most reactionary and violent factions on Earth. In The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism, Noam and Ed noted that torture had been a historical curiosity for centuries, which largely vanished with Stalin’s death, but had resurged in the “free world,” and that three-quarters of the nations that used torture as standard government practice were client states of the USA. So, the high ethical stance that Noam and Herman take, of criticizing the nation that they are citizens of, is always turned on its head by their critics, and Sophal Ear, for instance, has made a career out of making the case that Cambodia is not in as bad a shape and Noam and Ed asserted, and that Noam and Ed were really closet supporters of the Khmer Rouge, and Ear does it while being an academic in the USA. Here is the best analysis that I have seen of Ear and friend’s distortions of Noam and Ed’s work, as they explicitly ignore the thrust of their work while seeking hidden assumptions, and those alleged assumptions have always been false ones, for anybody with the slightest familiarity with Noam and Ed’s work. I have seen this logical sleight of hand many times, as Noam and Ed’s work is misrepresented by their critics. Ed’s Wikipedia bio is execrable on that score. In Noam’s Wikipedia bio, a side-box was produced, which stated: “[Chomsky's] become the guru of the new anti-capitalist and Third World movements. They take his views very uncritically; it's part of the Seattle mood – whatever America does is wrong. He confronts orthodoxy but he's becoming a big simplifier. What he can't see is Third World and other regimes that are oppressive and not controlled by America.” That once again begs the question. Chomsky’s concern as a writer is not oppressive regimes that the USA does not control, but the oppressive regimes that it does. Very basic logic, but his critics can’t seem the wrap their minds around it, no matter how explicit Noam and Ed are. In fact, those critics have always made the imperial assumption that Noam and Ed constantly assail, which is that the USA has the right to intervene anywhere on Earth. Our hands are the dirtiest on Earth, by far. Nobody else comes close. Best, Wade

Hi: I want to focus a little on Uncles Noam and Ed regarding my media studies. They are the two most influential writers of my media and political studies, and over the years, Ed has been even more influential than Noam. Ed is a better writer than Noam is, and I love Ed’s dry wit. Noam and Ed got their starts in political writing during the Vietnam War. I recently read two of Ed’s earliest Vietnam books (1, 2), and his themes can be seen in the first work that he and Noam wrote, which became a famous case of censorship, which I have written about before. Noam and Ed developed a number of easy-to-understand frameworks for their work, and in their initial writing partnership, they created a framework of “bloodbaths”: Benign (ones that we don’t care about) Constructive (ones committed by us or our allies) Nefarious (ones committed by our enemies) Mythical (ones attributed to our enemies, but they did not even happen) Their landmark Manufacturing Consent contained Ed’s propaganda model, of how the media is structured to deliver the results that it does, and one aspect of their model is worthy and unworthy victims. A worthy victim is from one of those nefarious or mythical bloodbaths, and an unworthy victim is from one of those benign or constructive ones. The emphasis that Noam and Ed have always taken is not to debate the reality of those situations, or who the good and bad guys are, but how the American media deals with those situations. For benign bloodbaths, the media can sometimes even get the facts right, because none of their dogs are in the fight. A constructive bloodbath is one where the American media heartily approves of the bloodbath, such as Suharto’s, and his victims were so unworthy as to be unmentionable, such as the people of East Timor, who were subjected to one of the greatest proportional genocides in the past century, and as the slaughter reached genocidal proportions (using American weapons), the American media was completely silent. In Manufacturing Consent, Noam and Ed found a tripled example, even better than a paired example, to show their model in action, of the USA in Central America in the 1980s. The USA supported some of the most evil regimes in the past century, and when one nation overthrew its American puppet in a revolution, we waged a proxy war against them, which led to a big scandal in the USA, as the CIA used drug-running into the USA to finance the support of their mercenaries. Since Manufacturing Consent, Ed has taken on the same distortions regarding Yugoslavia and Rwanda, in which the imperial dynamics are alive and well. It was very educational to read the critiques of Ed’s and Noam’s work. Like anybody sane, when I encountered their radical work, even though I was ready to hear it, I sought out critiques of their work, and that will be a subject for a coming post. I never encountered an honest, rational, and informed critique of their work, at least that tried to invalidate their theses. Similarly, I have yet to receive an honest, rational, and informed critique of my work, which tried to invalidate it. My best critiques came from my allies, as they tried to make my work better. Without their help, my work would have been a lot weaker. Best, Wade

Hi: There is almost nothing in my work that I write about from a purely scholarly/scientific perspective, but all subjects are related to my experiences, in one way or another, and my political and media studies were always richly informed by my experiences, from the very beginning. My first issue of Lies of our Times featured the beginning of the drumbeat to war. During those days, that same TV-parroting friend called me in a rage over the Iraqi incubator atrocity story, which was later exposed as a fabrication by a public relations firm. Bernays could not have done it any better. All wars begin with Big Lies, especially those waged by the West. It is the nature of the business, and people such as my friend are easily duped into cheering any imperial violence, as long as they are not on the receiving end of it. Just as my media and political studies began, I had a real-world example rubbed in my face, which led to my first published words. I suffered from trauma after my Ventura days, and saw a therapist in the spring/summer of 1991. Our sessions happened in the shadow of the world’s largest Air Force base, and my therapist was also nauseated by what was happening. He specialized in treating soldiers, I was definitely a candidate for his treatment, and it worked. Just before I finally found a career job in Ohio, after nearly a year of searching, I volunteered at the national conference of a new science organization that I belonged to, and had my fateful introduction to Brian O. As I thought about this post, the symmetry of my relationship with Brian hit me for the first time. We met right after the first Gulf War, and he invited me to help found NEM right after the second Gulf War. The haunting revelations of Ralph McGehee’s book were also very influential to me in those early days of study, and led to our relationship. I was diving deeply into many subjects in those days, and becoming a comprehensivist without knowing that that was what I was doing. When I began my next career job, it was 60+-hour weeks for the next two years, so I performed my studies in my “spare” time. They were some of the most fulfilling days of my career, and my years in Ohio were generally happy ones, in those early years of my marriage. When 1992 arrived, I was working in Columbus, just in time for the celebration of Christopher Columbus’s feat. It was right around then that I read for the first time something that questioned just how heroic his feat was, as an early chapter of Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States was devoted to it. My deep studies were just beginning. The year 1992 was not only the 500th anniversary of the “discovery” of the New World, but that year saw revisionist works released, and none were more influential to me than David Stannard’s devastating American Holocaust. That was my big wake-up call on the subject of what Europe’s conquest of Earth was like for those on the receiving end of Europe’s greed and violence. The first century of European intrusion into the Western Hemisphere was the greatest demographic catastrophe in the human journey, when perhaps 90% of a hemisphere’s population was killed off as a side effect of history’s greatest gold rush. How on Earth could American historians present those days as some kind of glory story? American ideologists incredibly turned the blackest darkness into a tale of light. Personal integrity being the world’s scarcest commodity is not something new, but it was one hell of a shock to begin realizing the depth of the lies that I had been raised with. The English/American conquest of North America inspired Hitler’s genocidal programs for Europe, but that bald truth will never play in the USA. In American Holocaust, I first read that the pious padre that my grammar school was named after might not have been so saintly after all. Very ironically, my wife is a direct descendant of Christopher Columbus (and Coronado), and ever since the early 1990s, when I visit with in-laws, I often have to sit and listen to talk about the greatness of Spain. Can you imagine me sitting there with a smile and listening to such stuff? While my years with Dennis were radicalizing, those years of study led to the writings that became my site today. For me, the most amazing part, initially, was how virtually nobody wanted to hear any of it. We have been told Big Lies for our entire lives, and I could hardly find anybody who seemed to care. I learned lessons on how people don’t want their self-serving delusions challenged, even when believing in them means certain death, back when I was twelve, but coming to understand the universal belief in easily disproved lies was one hell of an experience. After moments of disgust with my benighted species, which is typical, I eventually learned to relinquish my judgment and simply accept humanity for what it is. People with the right stuff are very few and far between on Earth today. It is just what it is, and railing against it, or believing that it is different, is unproductive at best and disastrous at worst. This is a big reason why I caution free energy newcomers from going out and proselytizing to their social circles, but they almost always just have to do it. Nearly invariably, my best pupils come back to me after that experience, sobered, chastened, and willing to begin learning what it is going to take to manifest the biggest event in the human journey. Best, Wade

Hi Evan: Ah yes, images. That is a tough one. Lots of images out there, but what are they, how were they acquired, are they genuine, etc. I doubt that any image is ever going to be “credible” by itself. The better the image (or footage), the more likely that the fabrication suspicion will come into play. What Cooper and Sheehan testified to is highly impressive, but they were unable to produce the images they saw, for obvious reasons. Credible testimony and evidence is the most dangerous combination to keeping up the cover-up, so when those twain meet, the suppression activity goes into overdrive. Evidence has disappeared, as have people, when that deadly duo threatens to come forward. It is very similar to what we have in the free energy field. The good stuff is almost immediately removed from circulation, and what the public generally sees is the chaff that is left over. These are the toughest nuts to crack on Earth. Thanks for writing, Wade

Hi: One of the greatest lessons that I learned early in my media and political studies was merely an extension of my journey’s greatest lesson, which I learned only a few years previously: personal integrity is the world’s scarcest commodity. As I was learning from Lies of our Times, Uncles Noam and Ed, and the like, I mailed one of my early media studies books, Unreliable Sources, to that childhood friend who was my staunchest supporter during the Ventura nightmare. It only takes a few chapters of a work such as Unreliable Sources to produce great doubt about the media’s “product” that is served to Americans each day. After I sent him the book, our conversation on the media’s lies and distortions lasted all of ten seconds or so, when he acknowledged it and quickly moved on to another topic. The next time we talked, he was parroting the TV news again. Not only that, from that point onward, he constantly challenged my evolving worldview with his TV version of how the world works. His punchlines for conversations were often fantasies of justified violence against the “bad guys,” as if the world was a Hollywood Western. He did that at least 50 times over the next several years. That went on for several years, until he wrecked our friendship and continued to attack me for years afterward. The last time I saw him, he admonished me for not being an obedient member of the herd, and extolled his virtues of seeking safety in the herd. He grew up across the street from the grammar school that we both attended, named after California’s first genocidist, who was literally sainted a couple of years ago. My friend is Jewish, of all things, growing up across the street from the California equivalent of Adolf Hitler Grammar School, and never having an inkling of the real story, nor did he want to. Not long after I sent that friend Unreliable Sources, he called to tell me of that scrapbook that my mother was taking on tour, of her employer’s libelous articles about us, telling the story of her son the criminal. I was seeing that our society was more like Huxley’s Brave New World than it was Orwell’s 1984, as the truth was out there and not hard to find, but almost nobody really wanted to know it, as they preferred the comforting fictions provided by the social managers. One day, I was reading Unreliable Sources in the lunchroom at the bank where I was working (where they openly cheered the first Gulf War), and mentioned what I was reading to my boss, who quickly fled, with a disturbed look on his face. I was discovering that nobody really wanted to know the truth, not if it challenged the delusions of their in-group. I began learning those lessons in 1991, and by the 2002 publication of my website, I had pretty much learned my lessons. By the end of the 2004 disaster with NEM, Americans were no longer my target audience. Americans are Earth’s most brainwashed people, and they are willing dupes. They will believe any lie, as long as it guarantees a full belly. Are they really any different from any other people on Earth? Not at the biological level, as we are all behaviorally modern humans. It was kind of strange, to immerse myself in the world of “radical” scholarship, to realize that nobody else in my life really wanted to. I have slowly learned that I can only talk about sports and the weather with most people. The rest is off-limits, unless I want to be ostracized. Best, Wade

Hi: I am going to write a series of posts on my media and political studies. They began in earnest after I had already been radicalized by my days with Dennis. It is not going to be so much about what I learned, but what the experience was like. I suppose that my questioning the conventional wisdom began when I was 12 and my father “impossibly” reversed his artery disease by going “health nut.” My mystical awakening at age 16, along with my cultural awakening and energy dreams, set my future path in ways that I could not have imagined at the time. That voice in my head knew what it was doing, I am almost sad to say. When it led me to Dennis, my wild ride began. I have never heard of a story like mine, and even I sometimes have a hard time believing that it happened. I can’t even discuss my journey with my family, as it is so far outside of their sense of reality that they cannot begin to grok it, even for some who saw me live through those events, some who even witnessed some of the most dramatic ones. When I left my home town in 1990, with my life shattered, I was ready to learn in ways that I previously had not. Earlier that year, I heard who might have been Uncle Ed, promoting the new magazine that he was the editor of, Lies of our Times (LOOT), and almost immediately after moving to Ohio, I subscribed to it. It was the beginning of my media and political studies, and the first page of my first issue of LOOT is the one that I remember the best, partly because of the “shock” that the world’s most influential publication could lie that baldly. If The New York Times could make it up as it went along, which American publication couldn’t? Uncle Noam wrote an article in every issue of LOOT, which has been collected into a book. If you dropped a rock into Noam’s head, I am not sure if it would hit bottom. Even though I was so ready for his message, it took about two years before I really understood what he was writing about. It was such a radical departure from anything else that I ever read that it took years to digest the gist of it. The bottom line with Noam and friends was the high ethical ground that they stood on, which is simply this: “We are all the most responsible for the predictable consequences of our own actions.” It aligned nicely with my mystical experiences and studies, the gist of which is that our motivation is everything. What immediately struck me about Uncles Noam, Ed, and Howard was the high integrity evident in their work, which was confirmed when I contacted them. They were all among my most gracious correspondents. Just like Jesus’s admonition to remove the logs from their eyes before they look for their neighbors’ splinters, Noam, Ed, and Howard always focused their work on the polity that they were citizens of, the good ol’ USA, as that was where their work could make an impact, not on Soviet, Chinese, or Latin American societies. Howard in particular was refreshingly confessional as he wrote about his World War II experiences, as he later learned that he slaughtered the people he was supposedly saving. It takes a keen conscience to admit something like that. Soon after subscribing to LOOT, I saw an ad for Ralph McGehee’s book in it, and bought it. Ralph also took the high ethical ground, finally realizing that he was not one of the good guys, and he devoted the rest of his life to rectifying the situation. It is not possible for me to overstate the impact of reading that collected body of work. I learned more at their collective knee than I did for any other body of work, and their work was just the beginning. I subscribed to other periodicals, such as Z Magazine (which I have continuously subscribed to since the early 1990s) and Covert Action Information Bulletin, which featured articles by Noam and Ralph, and Ed has written an article a month in Z for many years, only slowing down in the past year or so, in his 90s. He is entitled to slow down a little, although he would be the last to admit it. What hit home for me during those studies was how thoroughly I had been lied to for my entire life, so that I could become an unthinking cog in the imperial machine. I read the newspaper every day for 20 years, thinking that I was getting the “news,” and I came to realize that about all that I had digested were Big Lies. I had already learned much of that during my days with Dennis, from the day I met him to when I read that disinformation article in the LA Times, but the education that those great men provided me deepened and broadened those lessons in ways that I doubt that I could have attained in any other way. This is only the beginning of what will be a long series of posts. Best, Wade

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

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

Hi: Those soul-sold scientists who deny Global Warming generally work for the hydrocarbon lobby, in naked conflict of interest. But their message resonates with those who want to deny human responsibility for what is happening, so they can engage in business as usual with a clean conscience. There are also those who just don’t trust scientists at all, and attribute the entire Global Warming issue to some kind of elite conspiracy to tax us or some such plan. Such people are almost invariably scientifically illiterate. The bizarre part of that is that the hydrocarbon companies themselves have sponsored Global Warming “skepticism” in the first place, so it is a twisted conspiracism to have other elites making an issue where none exists, when one of the leading elite cadres has been doing the opposite. Again, the science behind how carbon dioxide warms the atmosphere is basic stuff. Conflict of interest has always been the primary reason for a lying media, governmental corruption, and the like. My introduction to the megafauna extinctions was Velikovskian literature. I stumbled into the issue while following Carl Sagan’s debunking career. I never bought Velikovsky’s hypotheses, but took it seriously enough to immerse myself in the milieu. I believe that the first book by a scientist that I read on the megafauna extinctions was Peter Ward’s. I read it back in 2005, as I was studying for what became my big essay. I began studying for my big essay in earnest in 2007, and mass extinctions were one subject of many that I studied. I also encountered many studies of paleoclimate, and the many faces that Earth has worn over the eons. I did not engage in those years of study to assess Velikovsky’s hypotheses, among which was a bolide (or near-miss) explanation for the megafauna extinctions, but after those long years of study, I thought about Velikovsky’s work again, and there was almost nothing about it that made any sense, when compared to the scientific evidence, and the megafauna extinctions least of all. The idea that Venus is only a few thousand years old, and that it and Mars had near-misses with Earth and caused events that the Old Testament presents, is ludicrous. So, the bolide (or near-miss) explanation for the megafauna extinctions made no sense. But I slowly became aware of another camp on the megafauna extinctions, which argues that climate change did it. For me, what sealed the deal was reading the results of DNA studies, which not only showed where humans dispersed from Africa, but which also had a pretty good idea of when. That map had a nearly perfect fit with the megafauna extinctions. Wherever behaviorally modern humans arrived, the easy meat quickly went extinct, especially in Australia and the Americas, in which the megafauna had never seen anything like humans before, so had no fear of them. They developed that wariness in Africa and Eurasia over more than a million years of human-line hunting. Those animals that never saw humans before did not have a chance. The most successful land mammal before the rise of humans was the elephant family, and they made it to North America from Africa more than 16 million years ago. When humans finally arrived, the elephant family lived the length and breadth of the Americas, and they all quickly went extinct. The same thing happened with Eurasian mammoths, which were also isolated from the human line, which had not yet developed the skills and tools to live near the ice sheets. But mammoths lived on isolated islands for thousands of years after their continental cousins were driven to extinction. There was a major climate-change extinction in the age of mammals, but it happened over 15 million years and ended 35 million years ago, as a 200-million-year greenhouse Earth phase ended. Earth has been in an ice age for the past 2.6 million years, and there were no major extinctions related to the climate changes as the continental ice sheets waxed and waned. But just as humans arrived on the scene, all of Earth’s easy meat went extinct. The elephant-family extinctions in the Americas were only the most spectacular. Horses and camels evolved in North America and lived there for more than 40 million years, to suddenly go extinct when humans arrived. The litany is a long one, of entire assemblages of large animals that suddenly went extinct when humans arrived. I slowly became aware of a clique of scientists who argue that the megafauna extinctions were all climate-related, most of whom seem to hail from Australia. The Australian megafauna extinctions are the least likely to be climate-related, with no ice sheets and plenty of refugia during the climate changes, especially when Sahul was dry during the glacial intervals. The more I studied the issue, the more untenable a climate change explanation became. It is not as silly as invoking Venus and Mars, but the climate-change explanation is a very thin reed for explaining the megafauna extinctions, especially the Australian megafauna, which had lived in splendid isolation for tens of millions of years and survived the ice age just fine, to all suddenly go extinction when humans arrived, as some kind of coincidence. The only credible part of the climate-change hypothesis is that when the lands went dryer during the glacial phases, the populations of some species likely did decline, at least somewhat, as their habitats became less hospitable. But the major adaptations to an icehouse Earth happened more than 35 million years ago, and the past million years saw a dozen or so glacial intervals, and at least one greater than the most recent, and the megafauna the world over did just fine, with no extinctions of note. It did not matter what the climate was doing when humans arrived. Earth had never before seen the juggernaut of super-predator humans, and all of Earth’s easy meat was doomed when behaviorally modern humans arrived. The pattern is so clear, so richly supported, that to argue that anything other than human hunting did it is to risk ridicule, but those Australian scientists churn out their climate-change scientific papers like it comes out of a factory. It kind of gives science a bad name, but no more so than those hydrocarbon lobby shills, and really far less, as those human-agency deniers are arguing for events in the distant past, while climate-change “skepticism” is denying current events that we can do something about. And as with those climate-change “skeptics,” human-agency skeptics are in the fortunate position of defending their species, their in-group. Those denying human agency in Australia and the Americas may also be defending the ancestors of the indigenous peoples of those continents, but denying the highly likely truth is a weak way to go about it. The same debate surrounds the extinction of our closest cousins, the Neanderthals, but once again, the pattern is so clear that arguing that climate change did in the Neanderthals, or some kind of peaceful disappearance of Neanderthals into Homo sapiens’s gene pool, have to be considered at the outer range of credible hypotheses. Every time that I saw scientists without a vested interest look into the issue, they came away thinking that humans caused all of the megafauna extinctions, including Neanderthals. Of course, humanity’s collective ego does not like owning up to that bloody past of our species, but the truth will set us free. Scraping around for some other cause, to deflect responsibility from humans, our ultimate in-group, does not seem helpful, and are acts of questionable integrity. I am all for scientific debate, but when conflicts of interest dominate one side of them, it can become a tawdry display. Best, Wade

Hi: Well, not as quiet as I had planned. One of the more fascinating aspects of studying Earth’s past is pondering the many faces that Earth has worn over the eons. In the Hadean Eon, a naked human could not have survived a minute, and it is likely that one awesome collision created the Moon. Earth began in an eon of fire, and will likely end in one, billions of years from now. But just before the rise of complex life, Earth was a big ball of ice. Many mysteries have yet to be investigated from those times. During the eon of complex life, climate-change events were responsible for numerous mass extinctions, but they usually lasted for millions of years, and some of the more abrupt perhaps happened over “only” 50,000 years or so, and one of the biggest was primarily due to a bolide event, which set the stage for the rise of mammals. Some events were created by life, such as those that led to the highest oxygen levels in billions of years. The biggest extinction in the age of mammals, so far, was due to the transition from a greenhouse Earth to an icehouse Earth, but it took 15 million years to complete. It was anything but abrupt, and when it finished, Earth’s species were adapted to icehouse Earth conditions. There have been no major climate-related extinctions since then, but humanity is on the brink of creating one, by extracting and burning Earth’s hydrocarbon deposits to fuel industrial societies. Humans might turn Earth from icehouse to greenhouse conditions in a few centuries. Compared to the previous climate-change extinctions, this one would happen in the geological blink of an eye. Something that violent may well trigger a mass extinction greater than all the rest, and that is even leaving aside how humanity has hunted species to extinction and wiped out their habitats. We live in awesomely perilous times, but Establishment mouthpieces can be counted on to see the bright side. Yes, if Global Warming continues to gallop along, Canada and Siberia will become arable, if there are any humans left to farm them. You can read those kinds of commentaries today, in many places, even so-called “progressive,” even free energy, venues. It can become surreal to read such blithe prognostications. Surviving the transition to an arable Siberia will be the hard part. Of course, I advocate stopping that all in its tracks, even reversing it, and it would be fun. Best, Wade

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

Hi: Here is the first post of a few on Global Warming, climate change, and the megafauna extinctions. It scandalous how many soul-sold scientists have joined the fray, as well as the enabling media. It helps to understand the difference between ultimate and proximate causes. The ultimate cause for all geopolitical events in the Middle East is oil, and especially those with Western involvement. Everything else is a sideshow, but on the tenth anniversary of invading Iraq, I could hardly find a Western pundit “analysis” that even mentioned oil. That is called ignoring the elephant in the room, and hoping that their audience was stupid or gullible or dishonest enough to go along with the charade, or the analysts being that deluded themselves, as they heavily imbibed the propaganda. One of the most powerful aspects of Uncle Noam and Ed’s work is called “taking them on on their own turf,” which really is the only credible challenge that a scholar or scientist can make. Noam and Ed took on the media’s myth of its “liberal” role in leading the critique of the USA’s invasion of Southeast Asia, when it was the furthest thing from the truth. This is how credible challenges to the consensus are done. None of the Global Warming denier or “skeptics” that I ever saw did that kind of work. It is incontrovertible that carbon dioxide traps infrared radiation, which will warm any atmosphere. It is also incontrovertible that volcanoes have been the primary contributor to atmospheric carbon dioxide in the carbon cycle during Earth’s history. It is also incontrovertible that humanity has impacted the carbon cycle by digging up and burning Earth’s hydrocarbon deposits, which have fueled industrial societies. Those are facts that nobody can rationally dispute, but watch the Global Warming deniers and “skeptics” go at it, and they don’t even pretend to take on those incontrovertible facts, but they try to lead their audiences around them and instead focus on seasonal and regional variation, along with short-term climate fluctuations, as if those are the important variables and measures. Ice the world over has been melting like crazy, beginning in about 1850. That is the incontrovertible measure of Earth’s warming, which coincides with the vast burning of Earth’s hydrocarbon deposits. People who seriously doubt a causal relationship have their heads in the sand. Any hypothesis that poses different dynamics of Earth’s temperature fluctuations has to take into consideration those incontrovertible dynamics. The Global Warming deniers and “skeptics” almost never do. In order to credibly deny that humanity’s vast venting of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere is not responsible for today’s Global Warming, a scientist would have to begin the analysis with the incontrovertible dynamics, and then come up with countervailing dynamics, such as the Sun’s fluctuating output could countervail the incontrovertible dynamics. I have yet to see any Global Warming denial or “skepticism” efforts do that. Instead, they come up with fringe hypotheses that cosmic rays or solar variation or some other minor variable is the key one, while never mentioning the elephant in the room of the incontrovertible dynamics. I never bought Global Warming denial and “skepticism” for a second, but as I studied for my big essay and examined the evidence for the icehouse and greenhouse phases of Earth, the paleoscientists found carbon dioxide to be the key variable, with methane being an intermittent variable. In icehouse phases, the poles were covered in ice, and in greenhouse phases, forests extended nearly to the poles. In our current ice age, the ultimate cause is the declining carbon dioxide levels, with proximate causes of continental and orbital variations. There really is almost no dispute of these dynamics among climate scientists, but the media has often given those fringe voices equal weight in their coverage, and the leading “skeptical” voices all worked for the hydrocarbon interests. The primary upshot of that kind of “theorizing” is deflecting responsibility from humanity, and in the case of those leading disputing scientists, deflecting responsibility from their employers. Best, Wade

Hi Evan: By “credible,” I think that you mean “scientifically reproducible.” Unless you live in the Black Projects world, you don’t get to have ET technology on a test bench or an ET craft in an underground facility to study. But, if you do foolish things such as bring disruptive energy technology to the market, be an astronaut who hosts a UFO conference, or mount secret Congressional hearings on the UFO/ET issue, then a radically different view comes into focus, if you survive the process, and one that you could have scarcely imagined before you began your surreal journey. Until the global shroud of secrecy lifts, all that we are going to have are the testimonies of people such as Daniel Sheehan, Gordon Cooper, and the like, of the good stuff that is sequestered. Of course, you can also go see UFOs fly over, which can be paradigm-shattering. One of my Boeing pals was never the same after that first sighting. Best, Wade

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

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

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

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 20th 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

Hi: The Third Epoch lasted about ten thousand years before the Fourth Epoch began, it was made possible by the domestication of plants and animals, and humans were domesticated, too. Humans took an active hand in evolution by selective breeding of plants and animals. The first part of Darwin’s Origin of Species focused on the changes that humans created with domestication. The Epochs all went through their arcs of “development,” but the new energy sources made those arcs possible. Because aboriginal Australians could never hunt kangaroos to extinction, although there were many candidates for plant domestication, Australians never domesticated them and stayed in the Second Epoch until the invasion of the initial Fourth Epoch people. The Third Epoch had its phases, and different parts of the world went through them at different times, and as with Australian aborigines, places such as the New Guinea highlands stayed “stuck” at the village level. But whenever agrarian cultures were amenable to it, civilization appeared after a few thousand years of domestication. Many features of Third Epoch societies simply were not possible in Second Epoch societies, such as metallurgy, literacy, professions, elites, cities, and the like. A Second Epoch human could not imagine what a Third Epoch society would look like. The rise of Europe has been a matter of scholarly debate for centuries, but first and foremost, Europe rode an energy wave. The Medieval Warm Period, after centuries of recovery from the Roman devastation, began the trajectory to the High Middle Ages, and waterpower became widespread for the first time in the human journey. Harnessed waterpower performed the work of millions of people in Europe. The reintroduction of the ancient Greek teachings also spurred intellectual growth in Europe. Far too often, the technological advances of the time were used for warfare, and in the calamitous 1300s, when the Medieval Warm Period gave way to the Little Ice Age, Europe became a hell on Earth. However, in the late 1300s, in Italy’s city-states, the Renaissance began and the humanism that those Greek teachings began flowered, and the rise of science was not far behind. The grip of the religious monopoly was challenged, partly though the printing press and expansion of literacy, and as Northern Europe began battling against the religious hegemony of the Catholic Church, it also began to conquer the world, as it accomplished the feat of turning the world’s ocean into a low-energy transportation lane. Technological advances to capture more energy were the keys to European dominance. One isolated and relatively backwards island people came a little late to the commerce and conquest game. Their rise was constrained by deforestation, just as with other Third Epoch civilizations, but a confluence of circumstances led them to embrace coal energy. In the early 1700s, English inventors not only found a way to smelt metal with coal, but they began to build coal-powered machines, and the Fourth Epoch thus began. We still live in that Epoch. As with the previous Epochs, an English peasant in 1500 could not have imagined what the Fourth Epoch looked like. And as with the Third Epoch, the Fourth Epoch has had its phases, but they were all dependent on the level of energy use. While the Third Epoch was powered by wood and food, the Fourth Epoch was powered by fossil fuel energy, and with unprecedented use of wind and water power in the transition. After a century and a half of the rise of coal, the technical ability to exploit a new fossil fuel, oil, arrived, and soon afterward, the technical prowess to transmit that energy generated by fossil fuels via electricity arrived. While literacy and mathematics were Third Epoch achievements, as well as the beginnings of what could be called a scientific approach, it flowered in the Fourth Epoch. The energy surplus of industrialization allowed, for the first time in the human journey, the majority of the population to be relieved of subsistence duties. More than anything else, that led to the advances of the Fourth Epoch, and the social transformations were radical. Slavery had been a hallowed institution for all of recorded history, and as machines began replacing people, slave labor no longer made economic sense, and only then was it seen as a barbaric institution. Similarly, with the rise of civilization, women’s status universally declined from that brief period of horticultural bliss, and only when machines began replacing people, and the strong backs of peasants were no longer needed, were women relieved of their broodmare status. The Fourth Epoch is very young, only three centuries old, so we still see many transition effects, particularly since more than 80% of humanity still lives in the Third Epoch, with Fourth Epoch technologies, ideologies, and practices trickling in. There simply is not enough fossil fuel for all of humanity to industrialize, and we are quickly running out of the Fourth Epoch’s fuel sources. The Third Epoch saw all early civilizations collapse as they ran out of energy. The collapse of Fourth Epoch civilizations would be horrific to behold, even species-threatening, but we are dancing on the edge of that today. Just in my lifetime, I have witnessed women enjoy professional opportunities denied them only a couple of generations ago. Racism is under siege. Because of the agrarian roots of the USA, and North America’s low population compared to the Old World, we still have the Bible Belt and other holdovers from the Third Epoch, but as with racism, those practices are under siege, and we see cultural battles between the Epochs happening today. The practices of the former Epochs always lost, in the end, based on those lower energy levels as they were. The practices of one Epoch often made no sense anymore in the succeeding Epoch. Even though the Fourth Epoch is only three centuries old and still having its transition pains, the energy source to power the Fifth Epoch is already here. As with the other Epochs, the Fifth Epoch is currently unimaginable to Fourth Epoch peoples, with very few exceptions. For the first time in the human journey, some of us can see what the new Epoch’s arrival will mean, and the economic, political, social, and cognitive changes will be so dramatic that they will end the world as we know it. Best, Wade

Hi all: There are far better-read people than me on this subject in this forum. Most of what I can contribute is state that I 100% believe that Gary reported his conversation with John Tower to the best of his recollection. As far as Gary’s other information about the JFK hit, I also have no doubt that Gary met Jack Ruby in 1947, when Ruby was working with Mick Cohen. Gary had some funny stories about Cohen. Ruby was no two-bit nightclub owner. As far as the scenarios that Gary’s testimony fits into, there are many, and I have seen that Tower conversation called the nexus of a metatheory about the JFK hit. I have my own views on the JFK hit and where Gary’s evidence might fit, but for me, the big lesson of the JFK hit is that there was no way that Oswald was the Lone Nut. The head of state of history’s richest and most powerful nation is murdered in broad daylight in front of hundreds of people, and it all gets covered up. All American presidents since then are puppets and know it, and are completely out of the loop on the important issues. Best, Wade

Hi: Melinda, that was as about as keenly insightful as you have written, and that is saying something. Where to begin on that? Yes indeed, the free energy playing field is beyond insane. It is surreal, from the actual technology that exists, to aspirants declaring themselves the Messiah and Second Coming, to the crazed reactions that people have to the idea of free energy, to swarming billionaires and media and government attacks, to the betrayals of aspirants by their friends, families, and allies, to the many forms of organized suppression, including Godzilla’s evil bag of tricks. There is nothing else like it on Earth, especially since much of the existing technology was developed from reverse-engineering captured ET craft. How can anybody last on that playing field for long? When Dennis went into Bible-banging mode, or Brian brought out Lapis Pig, or Greer began flexing his biceps, they were showing their human sides and how they have coped. Everybody’s ego is challenged who steps on that stage. Brian’s life was shortened, Dennis should be dead dozens of times over, and Greer was never the same after those untimely deaths around him that he barely survived. Little about that milieu is “normal.” I have read plenty of mystical material that stated that humanity has become ego-bound, and that was not the original intent. The ego was “invented” as a way to help incarnating souls focus on the physical plane, to stay rooted in their bodies, but in a world of scarcity, fear, and survival, the ego comes on too strong and dominates, and “soul perceptions” are few and far between. In the Fifth Epoch, humanity’s collective ego will have an unprecedented opportunity to let the soul help steer. Yes, for those who have been through the meat grinder or glimpsed the divine (such as NDE experiencers often do), it is nearly impossible to relate their experiences to the cubicle-dwellers, TV watchers, and Internet surfers, so they often go hermit. I am of the hermit archetype. I want deep, meaningful interaction or none at all. Social chatter and the like is not my forte, and the standard social environment is not the place to engage in Wade’s World discussions. Yes, raising our awareness above the usual survival/addiction/gossip memes, and keeping it there, is not easy. Only a hardy few are willing and capable of doing it today, and they are going very much against the flow to do that. Yes, a level 19 today is not going to be able to be a very public figure, but in this world, or the Fifth Epoch (that Roads world is in the Fifth Epoch, by the way), they would be cherished by all. I hope this train of thought also makes clear the Epochal changes that will come with free energy, and why a social approach is not going to work. Great social changes will be the result, not a cause, of the Fifth Epoch. I am getting feedback that these Greer posts, particularly that last one, are an attack on him. That is not what I am doing. Earth and humanity hang in the balance, I know of nobody else on Earth with my particular qualifications, of carrying the spears five different times, and I am into what might have a chance of working. Everything that Greer is doing and advocating I have seen before, and plenty of times. Somewhere in his writings I recently read, maybe in Unacknowledged, that the key is the masses rising up and “demanding” that the governments and others come forward with the truth, with free energy technology, and the like. I just don’t see it happening that way (the beseeching route), and to the degree that Greer is trying to get that demanding stampede going, I have to shake my head. That is so Fourth Epoch. That is where he and I are on almost opposite ends of the spectrum. He plays the elite/masses game, and I am doing something very different. And that is why, as David wondered, Greer is not singing my tune and likely won’t. He needs to make a paradigm shift to embrace what I am doing, and is likely too far down his path to change. He has invested too much of his life in going in the direction that he has. Believe me, he has my respect, sympathy, and even awe, but I don’t see him whipping up that stampede that will storm the ramparts. Dennis tried and tried and tried. But that Greer has even tried puts him in the Pantheon. He has been at it nearly as long as I have, and I know what that long slog is like. I am always, always, always writing for my target audience, who are not the masses and not the elite, and not really anybody in the free energy field today. I feel a responsibility to make my views clear on what I think has a chance to manifest the biggest event in the human journey, and why. Showing what has not worked, and why, is one way to lead to the idea of what might work. That is how I got there, through a painful process of elimination. When I see the trappings of Greer’s latest effort, with t-shirts and tote bags, it takes me back. I have memorabilia from Dennis’s attempts, including hats and t-shirts with free energy slogans on them. There is nothing that Greer is doing that I have not seen before or advocated myself. His open-sourcing and transparency ideas are steps in the right direction, and when I saw Greer finally do that, I knew that he was learning. Will he learn enough fast enough? He has my best wishes to, but he has a deep rut to escape before he can. Best, Wade

Hi: Let me finish up these Greer posts, and then those sociality posts. They are related, because Greer is going for the social approach. He sells Unacknowledged t-shirts and tote bags. I’ll wait for the coffee mugs. He is crowdfunding, and like Brian sadly did in his last years, Greer rents himself out as a celebrity. I get about three emails a week from Greer’s organization, and one a couple of weeks ago was titled, “Win a workshop AND dinner with Dr. Greer!” Greer is playing the mass movement game, and the unscholarly nature of his books (no indexes, for instance) makes his target audience clear. People are supposed to tell their friends and neighbors about Greer’s efforts, build a buzz, and the like. His latest movie had a red carpet premiere. Well, the biggest event in the human journey is quite the Holy Grail, so Greer’s style is understandable. Dennis put 5,000 people into a sports stadium, and I was his assistant for his first Greatest Energy Shows on Earth. I know the drill. But I saw whom our efforts attracted, they often caused more harm than good, and they were almost effortlessly manipulated by Godzilla’s minions. Maybe one or two in the crowd had the right stuff. As David noted, how Greer’s CE-5 initiative is going to make a dent is somewhat of a mystery. I doubt that the ETs are going to intervene and save us, and they likely shouldn’t. We need to learn to paddle our own canoe. Godzilla is our problem to solve, not the ETs’. Godzilla is not another out-group to be reviled, but they are part of us. But they also cannot be negotiated with. They can only be made obsolete, which will take an unprecedented act of integrity and sentience, and Greer does not appear to be aiming that high, although his approach is generally an enlightened one. Near the end of his book Unacknowledged, Greer discussed his journey, which readers of his earlier books will be familiar with. He started out low-key, going for a grass-roots effort, but was soon approached by the military and the like. Brian nearly lost his life in those early events that Greer described. Greer was soon briefing all manner of official, and he soon discovered that the sitting president was completely out of the loop on the issue. Greer described it as a silent coup d’état, in which the formal government had been rendered irrelevant on the most important issues. And so his adventures began. In Unacknowledged, Greer briefly referred to people in his circle being taken out, and the most spectacular was when several of them came down with advanced forms of strange cancer soon after those 1997 Congressional hearings. I was an observer when that happened, and sent Greer’s assistant, Shari Adamiak, information on Naessens’s and other alternative treatments, but Greer was the only survivor, and those familiar with the milieu had no doubt that they were subjected to Godzilla’s evil bag of tricks. While Colby was the consummate xxxx, Greer reported that a bout of conscience spurred Colby to help Greer’s effort with money and some of that sequestered technology, and Colby was found floating in a river a few days later. Again, I have little doubt about why Colby died. Greer is playing an insanely dangerous game. Near his book’s end, Greer had a short chapter on the cosmic false flag event, in which “disclosure” of the alien presence will be a manufactured event that depicts ETs as the ultimate existential threat to humanity. It is a dark pather’s wet dream, to force humanity to huddle under Godzilla’s “protection” in history greatest protection racket. I have no doubt that such plans exist. It is merely the logical conclusion of that mentality. Next in Unacknowledged, Greer had a chapter titled, “A Call to Action,” which was about telling one’s friends and neighbors about Unacknowledged, including screening the movie at their homes, donating to Greer’s cause, encouraging “insiders” to come forward, contacting their Senators, Congressmen and women, and other politicians, contacting ETs using Greer’s CE-5 protocol, and lastly, donating to a free energy development effort, which Greer called The New Earth Incubator Fund. As I have stated before, I have seen Greer change his tune over the years, and there is a lot of what he is doing that I agree is on the right path, including open-sourcing and complete transparency of the development effort. That is certainly a step in the right direction. There is a lot that Greer gets right in his approach today that he was still groping toward 15 years ago. Will he make a dent with his effort? Maybe, but I had my fill of mass movement efforts long ago. Also, although Greer tries, he is not a man of the people like Dennis and Brian are/were. We all have our human foibles, and it is no exception among free energy aspirants, including me. After those untimely deaths soon after those Congressional hearings, Greer was never the same and went über-warrior, and is quite the body-builder, almost like a caricature. Those in my inner circle think that Greer’s personality was altered during those days. I don’t know about that, but it would not surprise me. I have probably been zapped by some of Godzilla’s toys, and it was not fun, let me tell you. Whether it was just his reaction to the trauma, or he was messed with by Godzilla’s exotic toys, that über-warrior orientation is not the one to lead the charge with, in my opinion. I am going for a sentient lamb stampede. The NEM conference was held in Mallove’s memory, and Greer said that people such as Mallove had to have “countermeasures” in place to play that game, or suffer an untimely end, as Mallove did, and Greer has a “dead man’s switch” in place to name names of the global cabal, and other information. Threatening Godzilla like that has no place in my effort. If they want to take me out, away I will go. While Greer is playing a game that I don’t want to get within a million miles of, does his approach have a prayer? Maybe, but I have never found the masses suitable for an effort like this, and I have seen how one warrior leading the charge ends. I am doing something very different from what Greer is, and when I see my effort compared to his, it brings up mixed feelings. I don’t want to bury anybody else whom I got involved in my journey, and maybe Greer thinks that he can avoid it, but what an incredibly perilous game to play. In Boston, Dennis and I had a very good idea of what was coming, but it was still a shock when it happened. But my big surprise was not that Godzilla existed, was vigilant, and had many eagerly doing his bidding, but all of the betrayals and attacks by my friends, family, and allies were the eye-openers, and how I learned my journey’s most important lesson. I have heard Greer allude to the many betrayals by his allies, so he has been learning the lessons, and what he is doing today seems to try to avoid the more obvious pitfalls, but I have seen what the crowds that he hopes to attract are good for, and many will cheer if he is burned at the stake. When the price of admission is buying a t-shirt, the bar has been set pretty low. While I ask for no money, the bar for my effort is far higher than Greer’s is. That means that I am not going to draw a crowd, but that is also not my intention. I seek needles in haystacks and know it. As I stated yesterday, what I need are people stepping up and singing with me, now, not getting on Oprah. But it also takes years to do the work to get to that stage, for the few with the right stuff. That is the biggest difference between what Greer and I are doing. Maybe he will make a dent, and maybe I will, and maybe we will both make dents that prove sufficient. Again, I wish Greer the best. I will be among the first to hoist a toast to him if he succeeds, but I am doing Plan B, or maybe Plan Z. Best, Wade

Hi David: The paths that lead to free energy are varied, and yours is common enough. Pretty much nobody in my free energy circles began their journeys thinking about free energy. We all got there via different paths. I can sum up the gist of my message in a few words: Free energy’s Epochal significance and how we can make it happen If a person can understand that, the rest will be easy. Getting there is the hard part. The medical issues that you mention will all be solved with free energy. Our diets of dead, preserved, and processed food are abysmal, but humanity has been doing it for so long that it seems “normal.” We are adapted to cooked food, but the less cooking and preserving, the better. With free energy, all people will have access to as much healthy (read: fresh fruits and vegetables, mainly) food as they want. No more violent and lucrative interventions, warfare against the body, even, and called “medicine.” No more pollution. No more overwork. No more of our insanely unhealthy practices. I live in the richest and most powerful nation in history, as a member of history’s most privileged demographic group, and it is battle to find enough time to take care of myself. Trying to save the world doesn’t help. So many practices that are today considered “normal” will no longer make sense in a free energy economy. Nations, races, wars, cities, and many features of human societies that we take for granted and even call human “nature,” such as greed, will simply fade away, and quickly. Disagreement is fine. You will see that Ilie and I have disagreed on this thread, and it is all good. But people had better be able to back up their arguments with evidence, logic, experience, and the like (something that my assailants have never done). In our world of scarcity and fear, being “wrong” is somehow unclean. In the end, we are all wrong, as we see through the glass so dimly in physical reality, groping our way forward. You can take this to the bank: Free energy technology, at a commercial level, exists on Earth today. So does so-called antigravity and other technologies that look like something out of Star Trek. But wrapping your mind around the whole enchilada is anything but easy, and people fly off in all sorts of crazy directions, and yes, Icke will bang the conspiracist drum until he dies. That conspiracist stuff is but one small facet of the situation, but many get stuck there. Getting stuck in those areas of “symptoms,” not causes, leads to stunted perspectives. A comprehensive perspective is what is needed. My big essay is largely a prelude to understanding this chapter of it. Everything before it is preparatory, and this chapter is about how to help make it happen. That is my big essay in a nutshell. Hi Chris: Yes, once the important work is done, we will have plenty of leisure to explore those other subjects. Under a free energy economy, the average “workday” will be an hour or two, and everybody will live at a level of real wealth that makes Bill Gates seem a pauper. Time to begin my busy day. Best, Wade

Hi David: That was a wonderful, timely post. That is a big, important subject, to put it mildly. I like to think of my approach as a kind of Bucky Fuller for the 21st century. Boy, do I have my limits. I could not do what Dennis, Brian, and Greer did. God bless them for trying, and for me, the most important aspects of Dennis’s and Brian’s efforts were what they learned. Dennis learned lessons that Brian and Greer couldn’t, and even though I was there for the darkest chapters of Dennis’s journey (as well as the most auspicious ones), even I have a hard time imagining what Dennis lived through. Turn down a billion dollar offer to go away, get kangarooed into prison after you refuse, replete with body cavity searches, and they doctor your file to throw you into the shark tank and release a serial killer from “the hole” to be your bunkmate. And when that didn’t work, they frame you for being a snitch and repeatedly put you back in the shark tank with the people who threatened to murder you if you they saw you again. Dennis got “lucky,” and only had some fingers broken and teeth knocked out, and soon after his release from prison, he was wearing dentures, as one of the many prices of his incredible journey. Dennis received far more White Hat and Black Hat attention than I have been able to publicly disclose, and he and Greer are the only two people that I know of who were tagged as potential white knights on steeds by the White Hats. There may have been some others, but it was a handful at most. Of course, Dennis’s and Greer’s “allies” in the field can be counted on to attack them, lie about them, and the like. With Dennis, his assailants took the position of the bigger the lie, the better, and what was most dismaying was watching the talking heads in the free energy field parrot the lies. That is one of many reasons why I don’t want to have anything do with the field today. As Brian said, the people who make free energy happen will not be the people in the field today. It is in a state of arrested development, focused on inventors, scientists, Godzilla, and yes, the mass movement idea is alive and well, and Greer is still trying it out, as both Brian and Dennis did. I was planning to write a post or two on Greer’s approach and why I doubt it will work, and I’ll put some of it here. I have written most of it before, repeatedly. As Chris recently noted, and I have written at length on and will do far more so in the future, humans are social animals, and sociality is about survival, first and foremost. I am not nearly finished with this series of posts. In our world of scarcity and fear, sociality never really leaves the survival orbit, but free energy newcomers labor under the understandable delusion that their social circles will welcome the end of the world as we know it. I was there when I began, as was almost everybody that I respected in the free energy field. It is one of the early lessons that we all learned. When I caution free energy newcomers against proselytizing to their social circles, it almost never sinks in, at least immediately. My best students rush out to do it, get a knot snapped in their tails by their social circles, and come back to me, chastened, and may be ready to begin learning about what it is going to take to make this happen. There will be nothing easy about this, and the hardest part, by far, will be building the choir. Dennis and Brian are/were men of the people. Greer isn’t, as anybody who has been around him for long knows. Oh, the stories I have heard. I could draw a graphic of what I am referring to. I watched Dennis vacillate between the “fat cat” and Joe Average approaches many times, and Greer did the same thing, as did Brian. They either looked for elite help or the man on the street. With Dennis, only the man on the street helped much, but it was never enough. Dennis was always looking for some kind of lowest common denominator tent pole, and his “Patriot,” Christian, and business opportunity approaches appealed to the three primary population management ideologies in the USA. The social managers use those ideologies to manage the herd, and Dennis tried to use those very tools to wrest control of the herd from them. I strongly doubt that it will work. You can’t outmaneuver the master shepherd with his own tools. Brian was steeped in that 1960s radicalism, getting his doctorate at Berkeley, protesting the Asian wars, etc. Brian eventually realized that combined positive intention, not complaint-based protest, was the only path with a prayer. Yes, soon before he died, he was planning on promoting my approach, and when I mentioned to Dennis what I was attempting - the love and enlightenment approach - his eyes immediately lit up, as he realized that I was doing something different. Not many people are really qualified to weigh in on my approach, but for the few that are, they have said that I am the man for this job. I can imagine better candidates for this task, and if I met one, I would likely get into spear-carrier mode once again, but for now, it is just me. I expect that Ilie will one day hit notes that I can’t. My perception of Greer’s efforts is that he is still stuck in the elite/Joe Average dichotomy. That “middle ground” he has not yet explored. If you think about it, for both the elite and Joe Average approaches, the aspirants are not really asking much of their target audiences. Bill Gates could fund the development of free energy with his spare change. Dennis was always “baiting” in Joe Average with business opportunities and the like, the chance to get rich quick. Otherwise, Joe resumed watching his favorite TV show. My approach asks for far more of my target audience. But unlike Dennis or Greer, or even Brian, I am not asking for money. I don’t need it for what I am doing. But I am asking for something infinitely more important: integrity and sentience. But I don’t ask for the heroic levels that Dennis lived his journey at, and I am not looking for more mental horsepower than it takes to digest my big essay. My work is not all that mentally challenging. What it does do, however, is challenge people to relinquish their in-group conceits, and almost nobody on Earth is willing or able to do that. I seek needles in haystacks and know it. I’ll get into it more in coming posts, but I see Greer as somebody still taking his baby steps in this milieu, chasing after inventors and the like. But he has slowly learned. About 15 years ago, he was still into intellectual property rights, patents, absolute control, etc. He has now embraced open-sourcing any free energy technology that comes along, and is trying to convince free energy inventors to do so. I have never seen the inventor with the goods willing to give it away, and I do not know of a group worthy to give it to, to take it the rest of the way. My efforts can be seen as trying to build that worthy group. Giving away history’s most lucrative technology; what an Epochal idea, but almost nobody is willing to go there, with capitalism dominant, in a world where greed is a virtue. Yes, with our Brian and Dennis connections at minimum, Greer has to know about me, but I am not sure how much he knows about my approach. I regularly see us being compared. Even if he bought my approach, his entire effort would have to be radically overhauled, and it is possible that he could not make the shift if he tried, as he would have to change the DNA of his effort. This is a huge subject. Those who have been watching me in action for the past several years know how unwaveringly I am pursuing my approach, and I am not influenced by newcomer bright ideas, which have all been variations of the same failed approaches. It took many years for me to realize what has not worked and why. In short, Greer does not have my experience, so he has to keep chasing down his trails that lead to nowhere. Will he figure it out before he is too old to change gears? I am not sure. There is much more coming on this. Best, Wade