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

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I was away for a couple of days.  

Well, Krishna, chimps invented “institutional” killing.  When you state this: “All of them in practice had male domination of human institutions and violence as the core”, you could have well been describing chimp societies.  What is an institution, other than people who were more specialized, as they lived off of the energy surplus of the Third Epoch?  I just see it as scaled-up “chimpism.”  Institutions could as easily follow “bonoboism”, if there was abundance and power-seeking males no longer had anything to grope after.  I think that we are describing similar things.  

I think that the human male has a deep-seated evolutionary predilection to commit violence.  This goes back to social animals and simian dimorphism.  I’ll buy Boehm’s hypothesis, that male psychopaths have been gradually eliminated from the human genome.  We obviously have a ways to go, but in the Fifth Epoch, as you know, psychopaths will not be able to play their games as they do today, and Godzilla is the master of ceremonies.  The chimps will no longer have their day in the sun, alas!   

Well, it seems that the “freeknowledge” moniker is an Internet cliché today.   

Serg, you could do just one of those a year and contribute significantly to my effort.  Welcome to the workaday world.  Happy New Year, too.  Yes, juggling a job with what I am doing is not easy, but I am not asking anybody to give up their day jobs.  Just give me a little surfing time.  Not easy to live any Fifth Epoch ideas in the Fourth Epoch.  It is the nature of the beast, just like with the other Epochs.  You are a young man, and have plenty of time to work on this stuff.  You are far better read on the “left” and “radicals” that I am, and have your own notes to contribute.  Believe me, you are speaking for many who watch from the shadows.  Your big posts in the past were valuable.  I’ll take quality over quantity, anytime.  

Seeing the Left’s limits is good work.  Reshuffling the deck of scarcity is not the answer.  Yes, indeed, the most sophisticated Third Epoch people could not begin to imagine the Fourth.  That is why the Fifth is incomprehensible to almost everybody today.  Going to back to my interview with Bill and Kerry, helping make the Fifth Epoch comprehensible is enough for me.  The rest is gravy.  I don’t need to carry the ball into the end zone.  Just getting it a few more inches down the field is plenty.  The biggest event in the human journey won’t come easily.  Building the choir is going to be the hard part.  The rest will be easy.  

Ah, Star Wars and Star Trek.  Plenty has been written before on this.  Not sure when I’ll see the newest Star Wars.  My wife and I are in season 5 of Voyager.  Been at it a few months, with a few more to go.  We watched some of it when it was prime time, I watched the whole series about ten years ago via Netflix, and my wife wanted to watch a woman captain for this go-around.  Star Trek is definitely the greatest sci-fi franchise ever, IMO, and that it kept reaching high, Fifth Epoch-high, is what made it special.  I’m sure I’ll see the new series one day.  Yes, that Roads world hit all the notes.  Well, Serg, you inspired me to put up my own end-of-year post, coming before 2018 hits Seattle.  

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

My list of free energy approaches that have not worked and are not likely to was amassed by life-risking, life-wrecking, life-shortening, and life-ending trial-and-error.  If free energy (FE) newcomers get past fear and denial responses to the idea of FE, they nearly invariably make all of the newcomers’ mistakes, and rushing to tell their social circles the “good news” is by far the most common, and the best of my students nearly always do that, to come back to me, chastened by the experience.  If they are lucky, they did not damage too many relationships, often beyond repair, and careers have ended because of FE proselytizing.  The social approach is not going to work for this.  I learned this the hard way myself, and then some, getting my family and friends involved with my efforts, particularly my days with Dennis.  

What I found over the years was that if people reacted in denial and fear, it was often a “better” reaction than if they expressed interest.  Those who expressed interest almost always presented their “bright ideas,” which were all variations of the failed approaches, and with my patience issues, it really gets tiring to receive those replies.  When I tried to dissuade them from trying to “help” like they wanted to, that was when I received most of the active attacks, as their egos could not handle it.  They needed to lash out at somebody, and I represented a challenge to their delusions that came up with their “bright ideas” in the first place.  And those closest to me knew where to hit me where it hurt, and weathering the attacks of friends and family were among the worst parts of my journey.  Usually, the people who attacked me the hardest were those whom I went out of my way to help, when they asked for it, and their attacks were how they “repaid” me.  

Today, except for a very small circle around me, the conversation topics are sports and the weather.  The vast majority of my social circle, including professional colleagues, has no idea of my “revolutionary” background.   It is easier for me that way.  

Best,

Wade

Edited January 7, 2018 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna:

Interesting paper!  That paper’s hypothesis conforms to a leading hypothesis for why flowering plants appeared: dinosaur grazing pressure.  So, there may have also been butterfly and moth grazing pressure.  Plants found a way to create a symbiosis with those grazing animals.  

Let’s call feudalism a late-Third Epoch institution, although you can see its vestiges today.  Yes, violent defense of the so-called in-group is as old as social animals.  The USA reveres its military, even though it is the greatest force of evil on Earth today.  As a non-American, it has to be dismaying to hear about how our soldiers fight for our freedom.  They have never done that.  They fight for the freedom of capital and profits, I’ll grant them that.  The only possible exception was the War of 1812, when the British burned Washington D.C.  America’s “patriotic” culture did not appear in the USA until after the drubbing of that war, and it has been mainly offensive imperial wars since then, although the USA excels in creating false pretenses for its wars, such as goading the other side into “starting it,” as with Mexico and Japan, and now we invade countries and slaughter millions as “humanitarians.”  I am waiting for the day when an American pundit, in all seriousness, calls one of our invasions a “humanitarian genocide.”  We already had to destroy a town to save it.  Today, we “get the tumor” but lose the patient.  

We will see when your “chimpism” makes it into the lexicon.   

As the energy surplus of each Epoch rose, societies became more humane, because they could afford to.  In that way, it parallels bonobo societies, who could reengineer their societies only when their food supply doubled when gorillas left the area.  There is still no record of a violent death in bonobo societies, to my knowledge.  Find a human society with that record.  

I believe pretty strongly that the unprecedented energy surplus of the Fifth Epoch will quickly make violence and warfare obsolete.  It will be the golden age of golden ages.  

Best,

Wade

Edited January 11, 2018 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna:

That was a brilliant little post.  Interesting paper.  Yes indeed, a defensible food source is a key variable, perhaps the key variable, in simian social organization.  I completely agree that the economic conditions are highly important evolutionary constraints (food source, defensible “nest”).  My message all along is that key changes in human sociality over the Epochs were largely defined by their economic (energy) conditions.  

You are pointing out very important dynamics for why human societies are like they are today, and how readily the indoctrination and conditioning process works.  Godzilla and friends know these things very well, and their mastery of that “material” is what keeps them on top, if out of the limelight.  Bernays and friends only took the game to new, sophisticated levels.  They understand the human animal very well, and the GCs and their professional ancestors have played the power behind the throne game as long as there have been thrones.  They have honed their game into a science, and that is another reason why I know that I seek needles in haystacks.  It is the very rare person who is able to break free of the insidious social conditioning and dare to achieve true sentience.  In a world of scarcity and fear, that pressure to conform can be very high.

One very interesting aspect of my journey was learning many of these lessons the hard way, to see key understandings confirmed by scientific evidence as I performed my studies.  For instance my choir “requirements” were developed over many years of adventures and thousands of interactions with people.  Only later, particularly during my anthropology studies, could I see the scientific reasons for why my approach might have a prayer, or maybe even more importantly, why those other approaches never stood a chance, and why free energy newcomers invariably advocate those paths of disaster, rush out to tell their social circles the “good news,” etc.

My approach draws on the experiences of many fellow travelers, such as Dennis, Brian, Greer, and so on.  I am determined to try out my approach, even if I am a choir of one, but I know that unless I can get those 5,000 or so onto the same page and hitting the notes, my approach will not work.  A few people cannot get it done, but efforts like this usually start with one person.  It has taken me many years to understand why newcomers almost invariably fly off into the quicksand, dive down the rabbit holes, and so on.  It is not easy to keep one’s eye on the ball, even when one wants to.  That you are doing the work and coming to these understandings bodes well for what I am attempting.  People don’t have to go through the meat grinder to understand.  

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Another death, another name revealed.  Today, John Tunney died.  I had no idea that he was the inspiration for the Robert Redford movie The Candidate.  Why I mention Tunney today is that he was the U.S Senator who repeatedly called Mr. Mentor at home, to hold Congressional hearings about getting his engine developed.  Time marches on.  If I live long enough, I will reveal most of the names in my journey.

Best,

Wade

Edited January 13, 2018 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

In the references to my big essay are many scientific papers, and in the past week (1, 2, 3), Krishna has been citing scientific papers that he has been reading, and that I read in turn.  He only cites papers that are germane to my work, and I always pay attention when Krishna tells me what he is reading.  He does his homework.  Scientific papers, articles, and books formed the foundation of my big essay.  I know that its scientific nature scared a lot of readers off, but I tried to make it as easy a ride as I could, and still get to my destination, which was a comprehensive view of the human journey and life on Earth, in which the energy issue was central.  In my coming essay update, energy is going to become even more central.  While I have tried to make it as easy as I could, there is also no substitute for doing the work.  We can’t get there without it.  IMO, if you care and have been awakened, you have already cleared the hardest hurdles.  Developing a comprehensive perspective will be relatively easy, but it won’t happen overnight.  It took many years of stumbling around for me to develop it.  The entire purpose of my work is to help the people I seek to get there easier.

This post will be on how I read scientific papers.  From the beginning, I have tried to cite scientific papers that were both relevant to my work and relatively easy to read.  There is a great deal of specialist literature that is almost impossible to read by laypeople or even scientists outside of their field of specialty, as those papers are filled with terms that only specialists know.  While such papers have their importance and their audiences, for what I do, popularized science and papers written for a wide scientific readership are the most valuable.  The publications Science and Nature are specifically intended for a general scientific audience and are liberally cited in my big essay.  

Brian O had many papers published in Science and Nature, as has Peter Ward, and both wrote popularized science.  Brian taught “Physics for Poets” at Princeton, and his “man of the people” path was evident from a young age.  Writing for both scientists and the lay public is not easy, and I could seek no higher authority than Ward’s on the scientific parts of my big essay, as I intended to reach that broad audience.  When I heard from Ward, that told me that I was on the right track.

In chapter 11 of his The Science Delusion, Rupert Sheldrake discussed the delusion of objectivity that scientific papers perpetuated, such as writing everything in the third person and passive voice, rather than the first person and active.  Sheldrake had a point.  That the “skeptics” succeeded in having Sheldrake banned from TED is a telling indictment of the scientific establishment’s foot soldiers, and I certainly don’t shrink from describing the limits of today’s science.  Objectivity is a seemingly nice ideal, but is elusive if not impossible to attain.  That said, scientific papers have their place, and here is how I read them.

That paper in Science that Krishna cited on the coevolution of flowering plants and moths and butterflies is a typical paper.  Scientific papers usually have abstracts, a kind of executive summary, at the beginning, which gives the paper’s gist.  I would say that most papers are rarely read past their abstracts, especially when written for the specialist.  I have an executive summary of my big essay.  After the abstract, there is usually an introduction, results, discussion, and materials and methods.  Some are organized a little differently, with a conclusion and no abstract, for instance.  Some papers make strong conclusions, while others are more tentative.  The paper that Krishna most recently mentioned was openly speculative, but was still a fascinating and important read.

I rarely read too deeply into the materials and methods sections (also call “sources” in papers), but for scientists in the field, that section is usually the most important, because that is where scientists describe their evidence and methods of procuring it, so that other scientists can reproduce the evidence.  Unless scientific findings can be reproduced by other scientists, they are not going to make it into the corpus of established science.  

It is important, IMO, to become familiar with the process of science and become knowledgeable about how scientists go about their work of making their findings reproducible, but I see little need for my readers to get into the nitty-gritty of the materials and methods of each paper.  The abstract, introduction, and conclusion can be the most relevant parts of the papers, but the discussion can also be very important, as you can see the logic that the scientists used in arriving at their conclusions.  That is also a key section for their fellow scientists, where they look for the soundness of the logical process and often seek flaws in the logic.  

The key to a successful hypothesis is to account for all of the known aspects of the phenomenon in question, which requires a mind that can hold many different pieces of evidence at once and formulate an explanation that can account for all of them, which can be tested by amassing evidence.  I presented several competing hypotheses for explaining the Shuram Excursion, as well as the “Snowball Earth” that preceded the rise of complex life, as examples of how the process works.  

It generally takes a high IQ to formulate those hypotheses, as part of the measure of an IQ is the ability to hold complex information and process it.  It does not have to be fast to get the job done, but higher IQs usually mean faster “processing.”  I have been around people a lot smarter than me, and you can almost see the wheels spinning in their heads.  That high “CPU speed” also means that they can also make connections that the rest of us can’t see (at least, without help).  It can be amazing to interact with minds like that, but people do not need genius IQs to be choir material.  It may take some more time to digest it, but I doubt that there is anything in my work that can’t be digested by people with an IQ of 110 or so, if they put their minds to it.  It took a lifetime of training, adventures, and study for me to produce my work.  In that heavenly Roads world, what took me a lifetime to learn, the average child learns by age five or so.  In the Fifth Epoch, scientific literacy will be like what literacy is in Fourth Epoch societies: something that all children learn.  In the Third Epoch only about 5% of the population was literate, as most people were illiterate peasants.  In the Fourth Epoch, only about 5% of the population is scientifically literate, but that literacy is needed for my approach to have a chance of working.  It is just a prerequisite, just like literacy is a prerequisite for school, just like arithmetic is a prerequisite for algebra, which is a prerequisite for calculus.  

Best,

Wade

Edited January 18, 2018 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna:

Not surprising.  I may have to dig into that a little more.  There is evidence of extinctions in isolated places a million years ago.  I think that human hunters could have easily hunted those grazers to extinction, especially where they could not easily move to another area.  The ability to flee is one key to survive intrusive elements like that.  The human line likely transitioned from hunted to hunter more than a million years ago.  I still like Wrangham’s ground-sleeping hypothesis for Homo erectus, which puts the control of fire at around two million years.  The second stone tool culture (or third, depending on if the first qualifies) is when craftsmanship began, I would think that the cognitive ability to hunt, as well as a running ability probably previously unachieved, made Homo erectus into a formidable hunter.  It would not have been Homo erectus that may have driven those savanna animals to extinction, but a descendant.  Those 400,000 year-old spears are some of the best evidence of the human hunting prowess back around the time of that African extinction.  

Good stuff, and thanks for finding it.  

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Thanks Krishna:

Well, I can only get to the abstract of Wrangham’s paper, but will watch the talk.  I get it, on proactive and reactive violence: one is calculated and based on gain, while the other is reactive and based on survival.  

On bonobos, my understanding is that there is maybe two million years of evolution in the absence of competition from gorillas, which allowed for a radically different social organization, and I see population and resource pressure as the same thing, in that both arise from the available energy.  That has had a long time to bake into bonobo biology, and scientists have noticed the differences immediately in infant bonobos and chimps raised by humans.  It very likely relates to those neurological issues that Wrangham brings up.  

You remove scarcity and fear from human societies, and they are going to go bonobo.  Maybe that can be my slogan of the Fifth Epoch: Go Bonobo.  I can almost see the T-shirt.  On the back, it can say: End Chimpism!  

But seriously, when there is virtually nothing to gain by violence, it is going to vanish, like it did in bonobo societies.  So, the proactive violence disappears (wars, crime, etc.), and that interpersonal reactive violence will also vanish, as it is driven by scarcity and fear.  

Good stuff, and you might think that the means to eliminate intra- and inter-society violence would be about the most important conversation of the day, on everybody’s tongue, but, as you know, I am a voice in the wilderness today.  That is one of the more mind-boggling parts of my journey.  

Best,

Wade

Edited January 22, 2018 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Hym:

Thanks for writing.  Yes indeed, I have quite a few constraints that I write under, which comes with this territory, I am sorry to report.  The most narrative form of my adventures is on various essays on my site, such as one on my adventures and one on Dennis’s and my adventures, and those are important yet minor parts of my work.  My big essay is my lifetime’s magnum opus, and the textbook to support what I am trying to get going.  Serious readers of my forum work probably rarely read my Avalon thread anymore, but my own forum, which is far better organized than this monster of a thread.  This thread is probably mainly for the public to contact me, and it happens fairly frequently.  Free energy inventors and the like drop by and contact me.  I spent nearly a year writing posts on the lessons that I learned from my journey, especially my days with Dennis, and it is on one thread, here.  Some come to Avalon to try out their singing voice, and clear notes have been heard here and on related threads, especially this one and this one.  What Krishna has been doing on this thread lately is a big part of what I intended it for.  

As far as free energy inventors go, I tend to not focus on them, as it plays into the arrested development that the field is in.  I probably won’t weigh in on Bearden much more than I have already, or the others in the field.  That Tom was involved with Sparky Sweet earns him points, but too bad that he kind of made footage of Sparky’s gizmo proprietary, so it was not on YouTube, the last I knew.  Free energy inventors are only a tiny piece of the answer.  The problem is vastly larger than that, as you know.  

On the technical stuff, I had to look up H3O3.  Never heard of it.  I think that there are a fair number of those variations, such as super-ionized water, Brown’s Gas, etc.  I doubt that any of them are going to be an energy source, and I doubt that any can help tap the zero-point field to any significant degree, but I am happy to be wrong.  

I really do not keep up on the free energy field, and really don’t want to have much to do with it.  For those who can see the dead-ends and break out, I am here for them, but more often during my journey, people try to drag me into their stuff.  I am the only guy on Earth trying my particular approach, and I have devoted the rest of my life to trying it out, and we will see how it goes.  It beats watching TV. 

There are a million ways to fail, and I prefer pursuing what might succeed.  In Brian O’s last years, he sought a research assistant to crunch the numbers on the traditional alternatives (wind, direct solar, etc.), to show they were too little and too late.  Well, I agree that to avert the fast-approaching catastrophe, solar panels and windmills won’t cut it, much less be the basis for the Fifth Epoch.  

My big essay is intended to help my readers achieve the scientific literacy and comprehensive perspective that I think will be necessary for my idea to work.  You won’t find much about free energy physics in it, and I don’t go too far into the technology, other than maybe mention Sparky Sweet a little.  I get into the physics of Dennis’s heat pump and Mr. Mentor’s engine, but it is not a heavy lift, scientifically.  I try to stay away from the many unorthodox physics theories out there.  There are more than you can shake a stick at.  For me, it is enough for my readers to know that the world-changing technologies are real or at least possible, and the orthodox theories are woefully inadequate for dealing with them.  Going much further than that tends to get sucked down the innumerable rabbit holes that await.  The big technological breakthroughs were never theoretically respectable, as they defied the theories.  I did my time on the Velikovsky fringes, etc.  Lots of time-wasters out there.  The people I seek will immediately sense my work’s worth, dive in, and not come up for air for months and years.  There is plenty of meat there.  People have bugged me for 20 years to write a book, but I refuse to.  My work is designed for the Internet.  I have made many executive summaries, introductory essays, and the like, and even a PowerPoint and did some interviews, but that can only help my readers ease into it.  There is no substitute for doing the work. I seek a pretty small audience, but they will be enough for my plan to work.  

Thanks again for writing.  

Best,

Wade

Edited January 27, 2018 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi Krishna:

Yes indeed, the Fourth Epoch’s Golden Age is gone, and it is a fight for the remaining dregs of our Epoch.  In scientific parlance, energy is considered a necessary although not sufficient condition.  In that book I am reading on the Industrial Revolution, it noted that China had been burning coal on a large scale a millennium before England arose and built its coal-fueled empire.  The Chinese never used coal in the transformative way that the English did.  It wasn’t that one was smart and the other wasn’t, and Englishmen in the late 1700s would have had no idea what an Industrial Revolution was, even though they lived in it.  But coal fit into the rising industrialization of England.  

Without fossil fuels, there would have been no Fourth Epoch.  Those poor that you mention are getting cheap benefits that come from Fourth Epoch societies (which is why it would only cost $100 billion a year, when the world economy is $75 trillion per year, so we are talking about far less than 1% of global GDP to eradicate desperate poverty – a pittance, or several percent of the world’s military expenditures – what the heck is wrong with that picture?).  Without Fourth Epoch benefits (sanitation, nutrition, widespread literacy, etc.), the world’s poor were never going to escape their lot.  Agrarian societies always had strict energetic limits.  Yes, you could not free illiterate slaves and have them immediately become highly contributing members of industrial society.  If and when the Fifth Epoch arrives, there is going to be quite a learning curve for the world’s peoples, especially those in non-industrial nations.  I estimate that it will take them a couple of generations to get the hang of the Fifth Epoch, but what a fun thing to get the hang of.   

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Some odds and ends from recent reading…

The Everything Bubble hit manic proportions, as the world’s central banks printed money like there was no tomorrow.  It spilled over into the cryptocurrency mania, which spilled over into the stock markets like it was 1929 or 2000 all over again.  That mini-bubble has already collapsed.  The cryptocurrency mania was history’s most extreme bubble, which is still deflating.  The dot-com bubble was a hyper-reaction to the introduction of a disruptive technology, and turned into a mania, courtesy of the Fed’s easy money.  I worked at a dot.com company in 1999, and told everybody who would listen that the shakeout would be spectacular, and it was even more spectacular than I thought.  I told everybody who would listen in 2005 that a real estate collapse was coming.  Some listened and avoided the catastrophe, which was even more extreme than I thought.  This blow-off top, as the stock markets went parabolic, will be followed by a collapse, as usual.  The American stock markets reached uncharted territory in January 2018.  In a world of scarcity and fear, people are easily manipulated with manias and panics.  

What blows me away this time is that the world’s central banks subsequently colluded to rig the markets again by printing up trillions in cash, inflating the very same bubbles again.  The very same bubbles.  To my knowledge, this is unprecedented in world history, and when this collapse comes, it will be global in scale.  Entire nations will go bust.  This is truly insane.  The aftermath of this one could present dire circumstances globally.  There are many conspiracy theories out there that this is planned, and a one-world government and one-world currency will be foisted on the world’s peoples in the aftermath, courtesy of the GCs.  I am skeptical, but nothing would surprise me in this milieu.  I tend to avoid the intentional malice explanation when human greed and stupidity suffices.  

Like I saw in previous collapses, going back to the savings and loan scandal, the early warning signs are all over, and the big public accounting firms are going to be prominent players in the collapse once again, as their conflicts of interest will once again be highlighted as part of why they did not do their jobs, as is becoming evident in the recent collapse of a huge British firm.  

So, how about the Fifth Epoch, instead?  It will take an unprecedented act of integrity and sentience to get there.  If not my effort, then another (or some combination of them), but I strongly doubt that one will work by taking the usual paths of disaster.  

There are very interesting findings from over four billion years ago on early life.  There is a recent paper on the dinosaurs’ decline before the bolide event that wiped them out.  That impact crater is the focus of fascinating research.  The decline was not in numbers, but in the number of species, but I doubt that more evolutionary resilience would have spared the dinosaurs what happened, as entire ecosystems went bust and they were on center stage.  

Consciousness continues to make a comeback in science, as the idea that everything is conscious gains respectability.  

There is an interesting article on the humble stick and human evolution.  

I’ll finish this post with an interesting article on one of my “favorite” subjects: psychopaths.  The GCs have refined psychopathy to an art form, and Bill the BPA Hit Man, Ken Hodgell, and Mr. Deputy are some of the psychopaths that were sicced on us over the years.  Mr. Skeptic was a psychopathic xxxx, in whom I never saw even a hint of remorse over his criminal behavior.  This kind of behavior extends to talking heads in the free energy field as well.  In all my years of receiving attacks from friends and family, not long ago, for the first time ever, did I receive an apology from one of my assailants, so there is some hope.  However, it may well be a way to try to find a way into my pockets once again.  I literally saved the people who later attacked me, which is an “interesting” psychological phenomenon.  

Time to start my busy day.  

Best,

Wade

Edited February 1, 2018 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

I added an update to my savings and loan scandal essay on the cryptocurrency mania and the coming collapse of the latest central bank-created bubble.   

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

As far as the Fifth Epoch goes, I have my ideas of what it could look like.  I know of and have known people who have made mystical visits to such Epochs, such as what Michael Roads experienced.  It does not have to work out that way (1, 2), and it is up to us.  While I have been told by people who should know that I am the only person on Earth with something like my particular vision, it is “only” going to be Fifth Epoch Vision 1.0, and nobody will be able to do justice to the Fifth Epoch’s reality before it arrives.  It won’t be like anything that humanity ever experienced before, just like the other Epochs.  No matter how much we might study and prepare for our afterlives, there is no way that we can really understand realities that don’t have time and space as dimensions.  

Remove scarcity and fear as the background hum of human societies (such as Frank’s life), and we can scarcely imagine what that will be like.  It will be like taking a fish out of water.  Humanity’s brief golden ages give us some hints, but only vague hints.  

While my adventures gave me a unique perspective and allowed me to hatch my vision for the Fifth Epoch, going through the meat grinder also damaged me.  All of my fellow travelers were damaged by the process; it comes with the territory.  I would not wish that it had happened differently, as we all have our experiences for reasons, but I expect that people will come along and hit notes that I never did.  I look forward to it.  

Wade

Edited February 4, 2018 by Wade Frazier

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Before I begin my busy week, the recent Mayan discoveries are another piece of evidence of what happened in the New World long before Europe invaded.  Those Mayans did not have draft animals or metallurgy of significance, yet created a prodigious civilization before it collapsed.  The Third Epoch is full of collapsed civilizations, as they were never sustainable.  

I will write soon on New World societies, about the Calusa, Amazonian societies, and the like.  There is a vast amount to still discover and study, and those recent Mayan discoveries are the tip of the iceberg.  

In general, New World civilizations were thousands of years “behind” the Old World’s, for a few reasons.  However, they were behaviorally modern humans, like the rest of humanity, and they had feats of engineering, mathematics, writing, and the like, independently developed as they reached their Third Epoch.  

Best,

Wade

[Wade Frazier]

Hi:

Well, that was a timely update to my S&L Scandal essay, which I posted about a few days previously.  I had been planning to write it since the cryptocurrency mania hit the stock markets in December 2017.  The past week might or might not be the beginning of the end of this latest bubble, but I think that it jolted people out of the mania.  It went from mania to panic in less than a month.  Entire funds that were pure speculation, and relied on central bank money printing, probably became extinct yesterday, with its “investors” completely wiped out, like hitting double zero in roulette.  We’ll find out more today.  

And it is definitely the end of the cryptocurrency mania that we just saw.  While there were a few “shoeshine boy” moments, the one I will take with me to my grave is when Richard Sherman said that his grandmother called him to buy Bitcoin.

One thing that blows me away is that when the 1929 crash happened, it took 70 years before a similar episode played out again.  Those kinds of lessons used to last a lifetime, but in these Tweeting days of collapsing attention spans, and the Federal Reserve and friends resolutely printing money like madmen, we are getting speculative bubbles once a decade now.  It is insane (AKA – doing the same thing over and over, and expecting a different outcome each time), and likely means that the end is near for the financial system as we know it.  On one hand, cryptocurrencies have a certain logic and appeal, as a distributed ledger that could be an alternative to our incredibly corrupt banking system (one of the global cartels), but it spiraled into another mania, which complemented the biggest stock bubble of all time.  There is debate whether the central banks, led by the Fed, will be allowed to do it again.  I am astounded that they were allowed to do it this time, when their easy money policies caused the last two bubbles.  

On many fronts, humanity stares into the abyss today, and I regard these serial manias as merely a symptom.

Best,

Wade