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

[Magda Hassan]

Humanity's Fifth Epochal Event: Free Energy and an Abundance-Based Political Economy
Chapter summary:

• Ideal free energy device
  
• Immediate material changes with appearance of free energy
  
• Cognitive and social changes
  
• Longer-term changes
  
• Obsolescence of elites
  
• End of capitalist distortion of science and medicine
  
• Changes in family structure
  
• Human changes to evolution
  
• Fear is the enemy, and can only be defeated by love
  
• Golden ages of the past
  
• Relationship of ET presence and free energy and antigravity suppression
  
• Necessity of energy abundance for any abundance ideas to work
  
• Visions of the future
  

Many different technologies have been developed that attempted to harness the zero-point field, and devices made from rotating magnets seem to be the most common prototypes (the effect begins to appear at about 2,000 RPMs in properly constructed devices), but a solid-state device similar to what Sparky Sweet developed would be the likely "winner" in any FE device contest. Sparky's explanation of how his device operated included concepts such as manipulating the space-time continuum, inter-dimensional energy transfer, and other fantastic ideas that nobody has an easy time comprehending. Sparky's paper could be seen as merely pretty and fanciful theorizing, but his device worked. I will never forget the awe in my close associate's voice as he described ice forming on Sparky's device as it began churning out electricity, and the wiring configuration defied conventional notions of electricity. Ice forming on it, as it begins outputting great amounts of energy (Sparky's device produced one million times more energy than went into it), is not confined to Sparky's device; in the FE field, that effect is one of the most impressive pieces of evidence that a device is accessing the zero-point field. A radically different physics than is taught to mainstream scientists in the early 21[SUP]st[/SUP] century explains why Sparky's device worked. Sparky's device also produced antigravity effects, and the electrogravity technologies for which the research went black in the 1950s needed vast amounts of energy to operate. Those technologies have been developed far past what Sparky created in his home. FE and antigravity are interrelated in more ways than one, and the vision presented in this chapter will assume that those technologies are universally used by humanity.
There is some evidence that people can become ill if they remain near the energy field generated by those devices, but it also seems that either a way has been developed to shield the field within the device, or the devices have to operate a little ways from biological organisms, so they might have to be in a separate room in a home or compartment in a vehicle. That problem may also have been solved, and I will assume that it has been. The device I have in mind is solid-state, cheaply made, and produces, for all intents and purposes, as much energy as a person wants.
Also, I am aware, directly from event participants, that many exotic materials have also been developed and systematically suppressed. Flubber is not all that fictional. Also, innumerable technologies that would make almost all of today's industries and professions immediately obsolete have been suppressed. For the following vision, I will assume that those technologies also made it into the public's hands. What kind of world could appear if those technologies were in regular use by humanity?
The appearance of FE would be humanity's Fifth Epochal Event, and by far the greatest of them all. Here is what a global political-economy based on FE could look like, as well as its impact on Earth and the solar system.
Immediate Material Changes
The immediate material changes would push both humanity and Earth's ecosystems back from the brink of destruction that they currently sit on, and this section explores some of those changes.

1. The immediate effect of FE technology would be the almost immediate cessation of combustion to generate energy, from wood to hydrocarbons. Burning organic material to generate energy would quickly become archaic and rarely done. Some applications may need a flame, and for such situations, burning hydrogen would seem ideal, as water is split to make it, and burning it results in water again. Burning hydrogen created by FE would have no environmental impact. That can also be taken further into exotic substances such as Brown's Gas, which also create Low Energy Nuclear Reactions and can remediate nuclear waste into harmless substances. Combustion, especially the kind that alters the atmosphere's composition, would immediately end.
   
2. Burning fossil fuels causes most air pollution, including acid rain. Virtually all air pollution would immediately disappear. Global respiratory problems would largely vanish, as would stress on trees and other plant life, which makes them susceptible to disease and is killing forests today and acidifying the oceans.
   
3. The 400 PPM of carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere today could be reduced using FE-powered technologies to regain preindustrial levels. That could easily be accomplished within a generation, and perhaps far more quickly. There are even mainstream organizations devoted today to that issue, but they usually need to burn fossil fuels to get the energy to extract carbon dioxide, which defeats the purpose. With FE, it would be technically easy to attain whatever atmospheric composition humanity desired, but since Earth's ecosystems were adapted to less than 300 PPM before humans began their era of combustion, lowering it to preindustrial levels is probably best for today's ecosphere. The same reduction could easily be accomplished for methane, artificial chemicals, and the like.
   
4. Humanity's water-use practices are currently unsustainable, and water tables are plunging worldwide, largely due to over-pumping for irrigation. It is creating widespread environmental devastation, including soil salination. With FE, intelligently and wisely implemented, environmentally harmless desalination plants could exist in the oceans, desalinating ocean water and pumping it to land. The most enlightened first use is filling back up the depleted water tables. The two biggest killers of children worldwide today are polluted water and air. Although the World Bank and IMF are behind privatizing the world's water supplies, even in the USA, which has led to disease outbreaks already among the poor, desalinated ocean water would also make universally free and pure water available to all humans.
   
5. Mining on Earth would largely disappear, and whatever continued would have no environmental impact. One large asteroid would provide enough metal to supply all of humanity's needs for the near future. By using FE and antigravity technologies, those asteroids would be easily mined and their results brought to Earth or used for colonies around the solar system.
   
6. Every use of wood today can be replaced with FE, and even the land used for forests would not be needed, and the forests can all grow back, even replanted and nurtured by enlightened humans. The practice of using wood for energy, or any other use, would immediately cease. All of humanity could be easily housed in steel and glass homes, or even more advanced materials, at no cost to Earth's ecosystems.
   
7. In 2007, it was calculated that humanity was harvesting Earth's ecosystems at a rate of 150% of their productivity. In financial terms, that is called eating into the capital, not living on the interest. The most dramatic change that FE will have on Earth is that humans will no longer exploit ecosystems to survive, and humanity can even live abundantly with no harm to Earth's ecosystems. At Japanese rice farmer levels of productivity, an American suburban yard could provide the food for the family that lives in the house. Imagine an indoor environment that can be as hot, cold, light, dark, wet, or dry as desired, and however much water and other nutrients were needed were freely available. Growing racks could be stacked three high or more, for example, with continual lighting, and food productivity under those conditions could reduce that food footprint to the "basement" of the spacious home sitting atop it. Would the family want to raise tropical fruits? Root crops? Seed crops? Fruit and nut trees? The septic system could be made to recycle the sewage into clean nutrients for crops. Water could be continually recycled, to begin each cycle with distilled-level purity. A completely self-contained family living system could be readily developed, and it would contain "luxuries" scarcely imaginable today. It could also be self-contained regarding its gases, constantly recycled, and could be placed on Mars or in the Kuiper belt. It is not much of a leap to quickly approach something like the replicators on Star Trek, in which mass is continually recycled, with energy added and the elements recombined in useful ways. The food-to-waste-to-food cycle is how our ecosystems operate, with the Sun's energy adding the needed boost.
   
8. Oil spills, the environmental devastation of oil drilling and nuclear accidents, coal mining, deforestation, and other effects of humanity's energy-acquisition practices would immediately cease.
   

Cognitive and Social Changes
For humanity's previous Epochal Events, the energy event was the Epochal Event, and initiated great cognitive, social, and even anatomical changes. As the level of energy production with FE would dwarf all previous levels, the cognitive and social changes would also be unprecedented and radical, and there will even be anatomical changes, and this section explores some of them.

1. FE would mean the end of economic desperation for all peoples for all time. The entire human journey has been about the acquisition, preservation, and consumption of energy, and the supply has always been scarce or finite. A paradigm has accompanied the human journey for the past 10,000 years or more, which I have called the Zero-Sum Game. It is the idea that the only way to improve one's station in life is by exploiting others. No other event could help shatter the illusion of scarcity and the Zero-Sum-Game paradigm better than FE. If people begin seeing beyond the Zero-Sum-Game blinders, vistas scarcely imagined today can be glimpsed.
   
2. Many concepts used today to describe economic and environmental reality will be superseded. One is called the carbon footprint, which is a result of burning hydrocarbons to get our energy. That will become immediately anachronistic and meaningless. There are similar "footprint" concepts that would become obsolete, such as the footprint that humanity has on Earth's ecosystems.
   
3. Economic motives have always been at the root of all wars, and Fuller noted the same motivation behind all soldiers. Even one of Hitler's henchmen observed how any society can be motivated to war by fear, so why would wars break out when everybody lived in abundance? There are some legitimate transition fears, and I advocate a global peacekeeping force, ideally staffed with grandmothers, who would ensure that the transition to a world based on abundance was not marred by warfare. Today, the GCs can detect when anybody accesses the zero-point field, and weaponization of FE technology could probably be detected and just as easily disabled. I would happily deputize grandmothers to take the toys away from the boys who cannot seem to play nicely, until the utter stupidity of such behavior becomes universally obvious and nobody needs to be reminded anymore. I envision a solar-system-wide government forming, but its only charges would be safety, ensuring that everybody had life's necessities, and promoting a dynamic unity among all peoples. It would be a government based on love and abundance, not fear and scarcity. That government will not be about amassing power, catering to economic elites, defending borders, and playing the primitive games that we see on today's world stage.
   
4. Today's organized religions will all become obsolete, as the roots of religion were based in winning wars, and today's religions are all priesthood-serving distortions of valid perceptions of spiritual masters. They have all waned in influence with industrialization, and when abundance reigns instead of scarcity, no enlightened ideas will be distorted into methods of social control and supporting economic rackets. There will be spiritual practices, but they will not rest on the violence-, fear-, and scarcity-based foundations of today's religions. There will not be punitive legal systems and prisons, but justice and healing would always be the goal. What today are called "criminals" would be recognized as sick people in need of help, not punishment. The most recalcitrant might be sequestered from society, but placed in environments of healing and education, not punishment. Criminal mentalities would not last long, either, nor could they be successfully hidden as they are today. The innumerable secret games being played today will largely vanish, and almost nobody would see the point of playing them. Abundance would make many behaviors called "human nature" today simply disappear.
   
5. The invader mentality will disappear from human consciousness as economic abundance was universally enjoyed. When the economic motivation for wars and exploitation becomes obsolete, humanity will achieve new levels of collective conscience, and invading environments of other life forms will quickly be seen as a great offense that only those with the most primitive mentalities engage in. If humans begin to explore Mars or Venus, for instance, and somebody else already lives there and may not welcome us, my hope is that the "settler" mentality of those earlier European migrants would be extinct, and that we would not intrude where we were not wanted. The short-term effect of making and distributing FE machines would be a global economic boom and redistribution of wealth of unprecedented proportion. Although there might be short-term "losers," the same awakening that would manifest the possibilities of FE can also bring to awareness the need to lessen the short-term discomfort of those relying on fossil fuel revenues. No human would need to suffer in the transition to a world economy based on FE.
   
6. As further discussed below, elites will become obsolete, as will ideas of rich, poor, and middle class. Elites appeared with civilization and they will disappear with the arrival of FE, which is largely why they have been preventing FE's public dissemination.
   
7. What is called "education" today is usually indoctrination into scarcity-based ideologies and practices in which social control is the primary goal. Often the result is negative learning and beating creativity and insight out of people. Those kinds of mind-and-soul-numbing practices will vanish, and learning will become fun.
   
8. The primary reasons for cities to appear were ease of communication and social interaction, and the surplus energy delivered from the hinterland to urban environments allowed for the specialization that led to professions. The energetic exploitation of a hinterland and low-energy transportation lanes to deliver the goods made cities possible. With the ability to travel and communicate anywhere on Earth nearly instantly, and with the myriad problems of urban civilization, who would want to live cheek-by-jowl in cities? With the kinds of lifestyles made possible by those technologies, nobody I know would choose to live in a city. Urban environments would probably become obsolete, or the function of what remained would radically change. There will be social gatherings, perhaps large ones, and there might be something resembling factories, farms, offices, and the like, but there would not be any reason to cram them together, as energy scarcity underlies most urban features (low-energy transportation lanes, high-density dwellings at the end of those lanes). A modern city is essentially a huge, energy-concentrating device, in which the energy efficiencies of centralized production, distribution, and consumption are critical features, but would become meaningless in an FE-based world. Places such as Manhattan could be remediated back into forest. Even the "wonders" of the world, such as the necropolis at Giza, would be remediated back to nature; they were self-aggrandizing elite monuments, not exactly something with an inspiring purpose, but meant to flaunt wealth and power, and nobody will miss their disappearance. However, holographic tours of such "wonders" will always be available for people to explore, just like holographic explorations of what the life of dinosaurs was probably like (or what war was like, or the daily lives of slum and penthouse dwellers) would also be available to anybody who wanted those experiences.
   
9. With the appearance of FE and related technologies, all human needs would be easily met with almost no human effort. Think of the "workday" of an average adult being about an hour, to provide all of humanity's necessities at a standard of living that makes Bill Gates appear a pauper. Just as the world's richest man in 1700 lived a primitive life compared to the average American, in an FE-based economy, future generations will marvel that the world's richest man in the year 2000 never even left his home planet, like some galactic bumpkin. Instead of riding hundreds of energy slaves, each human would ride thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even more. In our scarcity-based world, the idea of all humans having their basic needs met is decried as "socialism" and worse, but if all of humanity could almost effortlessly be fed, housed, and clothed, and transportation and communication were also easily accomplished, why would anybody be denied them on the basis of somebody else's greed? That is the case today, with the games that the elites play, but this chapter is about imagining that that initial hurdle was cleared. All of the world's nations, other than the USA, have long advocated that food, clothing, shelter, medical care, and education should be universal human rights. The only nation that officially vetoed that idea is history's richest and most powerful. What is wrong with that picture?
   
10. The concept of nations will be among the first ideas to become obsolete, as will all such territorial ideologies. Other dramatic changes in humanity, that may not be obvious at first, will happen. Humanity's races are the result of evolution; geographic isolation and environmental adaption have led to incipient speciation, and hair, skin, and eye color are superficial changes. All human races can interbreed, and when geographic isolation ends with a humanity that can easily travel throughout the solar system, not only will racism end, but so will race. There will be only one race, probably within a few hundred years after FE appears, and racism is already under siege in nations such as the USA. Racism, along with all such "isms," always had an economic rationale that elevated the in-group at the expense of the out-group. All of those scarcity-based systems, judgments, and ideologies will quickly become senseless, just as so many others have during the course of human civilization. Just as the races are a product of geographic and genetic isolation that will disappear as the isolation does, humanity will probably use only one language. As with disappearing races, the process of languages disappearing will likely take centuries. Perhaps something like Esperanto will rise again, or a lingua franca such as English will persist for a time (and computer-based language translation is increasingly common and sophisticated in 2014), but eventually one language will unify humanity. Science and math have been called universal languages, but the universal conversational language will probably resemble an English/Chinese blend or something similar. All human languages are UP's languages, so that universal language will be easily learned by all. Maybe some "mother tongues" will survive, or a few languages will survive, as they are used for various purposes (such as one being more scientific, while another is more social/mystical in nature, and so on), but they may not survive for long.
    
11. Professions involved in exchange will all become pointless in a world of economic abundance, which include accountants, cashiers, lawyers, police, and soldiers. Entire industries, such as banking and insurance, will disappear. Politicians will largely cease to exist, especially those on today's world stage, who are puppets of economic interests. Even seemingly worthwhile professions are largely rackets today, such as Western medicine. With most people performing intrinsically worthless activities today, what will happen when such professions and industries disappear? Will everybody just lie around, watch TV, get fat, and egocentric hedonism becomes the dominant lifestyle? I doubt it. I do not have enough years in my lifetime to get my life list done. Many activities that are designed to relieve stress, cope with fear, and the like will vanish, and many less-obvious activities will also fade to oblivion. In the USA, most people work at useless jobs that they hate, and they go home, eat fattening "comfort food," imbibe alcohol and other drugs, and watch TV and engage in other mind-numbing behaviors so that they can wake up in the morning and do it again, usually getting jolted out of their stupor by caffeine. They take stimulants in the morning and after lunch, and depressants in the evening. All of that will probably disappear in a world based on FE and abundance, in which nobody performs worthless tasks that they hate, etc. Sources that I respect have described life in other star systems by more evolved beings, where time spent "working" is called "joy time," as beings are fulfilled as they contribute to their civilizations in a meaningful way. They do it by using their particular talents, and there is no such thing as drudgery. They are soul-centric in their pursuits, not egocentric, which is again like Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Humans will leap an octave with the Fifth Epochal Event, just as they did for all previous Epochal Events, and in ways that are presently difficult to comprehend. Also, the idea of competition will probably vanish, as will the "entertainments" that enthrall so many today, such as competitive sports and games, beauty competitions, and the like. "Entertainment" with winners and losers will no longer be attractive, rooted as it is in ideas of scarcity; celebrity culture and gossip will also be discarded. All such primitive behaviors and ideals will fade away, and they will not be missed.
    
12. Violent male gangs, from the GCs to American presidents, war industry executives, organized crime, and inner city gangs, will no longer dominate humanity. Women will have to step up to help make that happen. If bonobos could do it, I have confidence that humans can.
    
13. Numbers and measurement will still exist, but egocentric economics that focuses on money and self-interest to the exclusion of all else will disappear, as will anthropocentric economics, in which ecosystem health is only seen in terms of how it can support human welfare. The economic view that will supersede those frameworks is what I call life-centric or soul-centric, and it measures and values the wellbeing of all life on Earth, not just human welfare. If humanity can see its in-group as being all of life on Earth, then humanity will have truly become a sentient species.
    
14. Humanity seems to be an intelligent, sentient species. Ending the Zero-Sum Game can also end the lives of quiet desperation that most people lead and help open their hearts, which will also unleash the potential of their minds. Today, there is a system designed to purposely dumb people down, but if they begin waking up, those games will end. Human intelligence in the service of an awakened heart is a force that most people today cannot imagine; with the awakening that FE can catalyze, intelligence and imagination can be used as never before.
    
15. With the end of the Zero-Sum Game, people can also began thinking about how they can reduce the harm their existence causes others, which leads to the longer-term possibilities.
    

Longer-Term Changes
The rise of the human species was dependent on exploiting new energy sources by using intelligence and manipulative ability. The new paradigm can be catalyzed by FE (there is nothing else more likely to do it, or so close to becoming a daily reality), and then intelligence and manipulative ability in the service of a healed heart can create a future that is presently difficult to imagine. Pondering the possibilities of FE since 1986 has led me to many realizations, and this section is devoted to exploring some of the possibilities that could come to pass in my lifetime, if FE became publicly available.

1. Humans have been able to artificially reproduce manipulative ability and intelligence. Reproducing manipulative ability began with the era of machines, and the reproduction of intelligence began with the computer age. Both ages are still in their infancies. Most mainstream environmentalists have austere solutions to humanity's energy issues, such as riding bicycles. FE can blast those austere blinders to shreds, and should. With love, intelligence and manipulative ability can rise to currently undreamed-of levels, and can begin approaching that heavenly future that can await most of us, if we want it. The potential of computers, especially when wedded with machines, is nearly limitless. Popping the Zero-Sum-Game paradigm also will unleash amazing levels of genius that exist today, but are suppressed in the name of greed. Robotics is in its infancy, but developed to a much higher level in the above-top-secret world. FE, machines, and intelligence can create marvels that today's science-fiction authors can barely imagine. Modern scientists are able to manipulate material at the atomic level as they make computer chips ever smaller and faster, while our energy production methods are not far removed from the cave days. That contrast is one of many mind-bogglers in today's world and could spur people to begin thinking about what is wrong with that picture; with the increase in robotics sophistication, no humans need toil on behalf of others, unless that is what they want to do.
   
2. Another of humanity's tasks would be cleaning up our mess beyond Earth's atmosphere. A junkyard orbits Earth today, and we have even sent material beyond our solar system. In the equivalent of a month or year of effort by one well-equipped crew (I would eagerly volunteer for that duty), all junk in Earth's orbit and scattered across our solar system would be cleaned up. The Apollo moon landing sites and other notable exploration sites might be preserved as museums, but nearly everything else would be cleaned up, and we would never make the mess again.
   
3. Cleaning up human space junk would only be the beginning, however. All asteroids in Earth-crossing orbits would be cleaned up (moved or mined), and if the technology does not already exist, it could readily be developed so that nothing larger than a pebble would be in Earth's vicinity. Also, any comets arriving from the Kuiper belt would be immediately noticed and tracked, and anything on an Earth-crossing trajectory (and probably crossing any planet or moon), would be either redirected or mined. The idea of randomly appearing comets, or potentially threatening asteroids, could quickly become as obsolete as stone tools, as the solar system became "domesticated." The asteroid belt and Kuiper belt have enough raw material to build space colonies that could easily host all of today's humanity, and that is before we even think of settling or mining any other planets. It may be decided that the entire asteroid belt should be consolidated into one "planet" that can be mined for raw materials when needed. It would be less than a twentieth of our Moon's mass.
   
4. With FE and antigravity technologies, those salubrious space colony ideas that Brian O'Leary and others advocated can be taken much further. For starters, there would be little practical limit on the size and speed of spaceships. The entire solar system would quickly become human civilization's hinterland, and even the primary abode of space-living peoples.
   
5. For those who fear skies filled with colliding craft: that will not happen. The days of human-piloted craft are quickly coming to an end. By 2012, automobiles without drivers had logged a half million kilometers of driving the USA's highways without incident, and self-driving cars marketed by the early 2020s are predicted. By the time that antigravity craft are made for public use, I would expect that they are all computer-piloted.
   
6. Just as humanity can clean up its space junk, all of the insults that humans, particularly industrialized humans, have inflicted on Earth can also be remediated as among FE's first applications. There are floating garbage patches in the world's oceans, primarily comprised of plastic. That could be easily cleaned up, mostly with automated equipment, and is another temporary assignment that I would happily volunteer for. The entire concept of disposable plastics that enter the environment would be rethought and redesigned. All landfills, waste dumps, mine tailings, and the like would be recycled into their constituent elements or made harmless, and all of Earth's environments would be restored. With FE and related technologies, those goals would be easily accomplished.
   
7. With FE, a new paradigm of chemistry can appear. Most substances used to clean things, such as chlorine in the water supply, laundry detergent and other soaps, bleach and other household cleaners, can be replaced with hydrogen peroxide, oxygen, and ozone. Those three chemicals "deteriorate" into water and oxygen. They are infinitely recyclable and of zero environmental impact, and they are creatable in virtually infinite amounts with FE; a primary reason that today's toxic agents are used is because they are chemically persistent. Chlorine in the water will stay there, killing microorganisms; with FE, ozone could be continually created and put into water. The USA's government demanded that ozone purification replace chlorine purification, creating the same effect without the persistent poison in it. Even that is an intermediary vision (desalination distillation can leapfrog the whole issue). The basics of using hydrogen peroxide, oxygen and ozone is simply using FE to increase the electrons' energy, and using it for cleaning purposes. Such a practice would introduce zero pollution and keep human environments spotlessly clean and non-toxic. There are new horizons of chemistry that await the awakening that FE can help catalyze, and go far beyond cleaning agents.
   
8. Industrialized peoples need to reconnect with nature, and a great beginning is to start having a hand in raising the food they eat, and raising it in their homes is one way. My ultimate eating experience has always been eating fruit off the tree and berries off the bush. Not only is it how our distant ancestors lived in the tropical forests, no food has ever tasted better or been better for us. The American food supply is degenerate on several levels, and locally grown fruit, harvested by those who eat it (or getting it the same day or week it was picked) can go a long way toward not only improving humanity's health, but also reconnecting minds and spirits with nature, to begin seeing the world with healthy eyes and hearts. If land-farming becomes viewed as primitive, and we can get all of our raw materials from around the solar system and easily manipulate them for our use, why would we ever again harm the fragile ecosystem that was our original home? Those kinds of practices would quickly be seen as born of desperation and will be universally abandoned. Under an FE-based economy, eating animal flesh will probably be seen as unnecessary and barbaric, and would soon end. Similarly, mind-altering substances are all brief escapes from misery (some arguments can be made for so-called "mind-expanding" drugs, but I have seen the toll they inflict and I never saw truly happy people regularly take them, and in my experience were virtually always taken by people who liberally imbibed alcohol, marijuana, etc.), and when everybody's standard of living leaps upward by a few orders of magnitude, the desire for those substance-induced states will decline and may vanish.
   
9. Forests are largely responsible for the existence of today's land-based life. With FE and the materials revolution, using wood for fuel and materials would disappear. Already, the USA is on the brink of eliminating paper for printing information. I rarely use my computer's printer anymore, and read everything on my computer. Words can be on computer screens, LCD tablets that look like books; projected onto sunglasses, walls, and even the retina. They can even be spoken aloud by voice generation; with just a little ingenuity, we could eliminate paper for information transmission. All plant fiber is simply water and air that photosynthesis turned into cellulose and lignin; all animal fibers such as wool are other transformations of sunlight. Already, synthetic fibers have eliminated much of the need for using cellulose and animal fiber. With the exotic materials that I am aware of in the GCs' Golden Hoard, I doubt that materials made from living organisms will ever be needed again, and would soon be considered as barbaric as slavery. Even toilet paper can be replaced by laser-guided warm water, perhaps with a little hydrogen peroxide or other sterilizing agent present (and a blow dryer!). That would not be much of a technical feat, in light of these other dynamics. In short, every use of wood, paper, and organic fibers could become largely obsolete, and humans would not even need the land that forests stood on for their energy needs. Then forests could become what they used to be; homes for forest denizens. Humans would only see forests as places to visit and marvel at. The Sixth Mass Extinction would be halted in it tracks, and all of Earth's ecosystems could be regenerated. We could even see the return of the megafauna as humanity reverses the damage that it has inflicted ever since humans learned to control fire.
   

In summary, a world without pollution, environmental destruction, hunger, poverty, and warfare would quickly come to pass with the most basic of technologies that I know exist. But what may challenge most of today's minds are the many features of today's civilization that will quickly become archaic and viewed as slavery and gladiator "games" are today.
A key aspect of civilization that will disappear with the release of those technologies is the same aspect that is suppressing them; with economic abundance, elites will become obsolete. Elites have always been economic elites above all else, and all elites for all time have engaged in conspicuous economic consumption as the mark of their status. Slavery appeared with civilization and disappeared with industrialization. Elites appeared with civilization and will disappear with the Fifth Epochal Event, which is why ultra-elites have worked so hard to prevent it. They see that their very existence is threatened. For most "normal" people, that can seem a bizarre view, but ultra-elites are addicted to political power and their ability to rule an entire planet, and imposing fear and scarcity are their primary methods of maintaining their position. Each industrialized human rides hundreds of energy slaves, but ultra-elites see themselves as riding billions of human slaves. Many of them will not willingly relinquish their position, even if Earth is made uninhabitable as a consequence. Fortunately, even most ultra-elites realize the insanity of that position, and cooler heads may prevail. Instead of ruling in hell, elites will become regular inhabitants of something that resembles heaven on Earth.
Today, capitalist interests have turned industrial waste into "medicine" and concocted other Big Lies that the public has swallowed whole. Greed and other deadly sins have been turned into virtues in our scarcity-addicted world. If abundance comes to pass, if a practice is discovered to be harmful, then it will be abandoned and a harmless method will be developed and implemented. What will not happen is that those "invested" in the harmful practice will brainwash the public, with compliant "scientists" who have sold their souls, to turn poison into "medicine," call addictive junk food (that capitalizes on the evolutionary energetic adaptation to prefer sweet and fatty foods) nutritious, and the many other evil practices that parade today as beneficial or benign. Without huge capitalistic interest involved (the GCs are capitalism on steroids), which are only concerned with profit, those kinds of practices will end.
The human nuclear family was a change from ape social organization, which gave more males an opportunity to procreate, but it is also an economic institution, as have been extended families and the like. Family and clan organization began to disappear with the first cities in Sumer. What will happen to family structures with FE and abundance? Bearing children is hard on a woman, and it is difficult to imagine a population explosion with FE and abundance, as women will have better things to do than become baby factories. Maybe the human population will significantly decline in a continuance of today's demographic transition, but even if it rose, since humanity will not place a burden on Earth's ecosystems, it would not matter as it does today.
Humans can radically alter the course of life on Earth, even more so than we already have. Artificial selection has proven to be far more powerful than natural selection, and with the human ability to alter its environment, natural selection itself could become largely irrelevant where humanity is concerned. I will return to this subject soon, but while those ideas can seem to encourage megalomania, it could also point the way to horizons that we can scarcely imagine, that do not have to become Blade Runner-ish nightmares.
As my fellow travelers and I have pursued FE, the nearly universal reactions to our efforts were denial and fear, which often led to our being attacked. Denial is a fear reaction, so we always found the barrier to be fear. If people got past denial and fear of "unexpected outcomes," then greed and megalomania usually destroyed the efforts. Greed is the fear of never having enough, and megalomania is due to fear of inadequacy, so once again, fear defeated the effort. Those reactions usually happened long before organized suppression was applied. When the agents of organized suppression arrived, they almost effortlessly defeated the efforts by using people's fear and greed against them. When I saw it happen the first few times, I initially refused to believe it. We made the GCs' task easy. They easily turned my own mother against me. The opposite of fear is love, which has always been the crux of this conundrum and will be addressed later. This chapter is about what life looks like after we get over the hump; I honor some fears and concerns, but they can be addressed.
Darwin began his Origin of the Species with a description of the evolutionary effects of domestication. Humans have already created unprecedented evolutionary trends, and a prominent speculation among scientists is that humans have domesticated themselves. Genes for the bellicosity of warfare, for instance, may be getting culled from the human gene pool. With industrialization, violence has been proportionally diminished and may be on its way to dying out. The entire dominance model of human relations will probably become a discarded relic of our primitive heritage.
During the history of life on Earth and the human journey, there were many golden ages, when energy was relatively abundant, whether it was new ecological niches with few competitors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14), "virgin" continents awaiting the "settlers," (1, 2, 3), or the early days of exploiting a new energy source (1, 2, 3, 4), but the good times ended as others arrived to take their share of the energy or the energy source was depleted. If there is more potential energy in one cubic centimeter of "empty" space than scientists think exists in the entire visible universe, when do you think that energy will run out? For all practical human purposes, the energy would be inexhaustible. Michio Kaku has popularized the idea of galactic civilizations ranked on levels of energy's usage, and under that scale, humanity has not yet reached the first level. An FE-based civilization would probably rank as a Type 1. I am not too interested in humanity becoming a Type 2 or Type 3 civilization, and maybe none exists in our universe. Those can seem like rather grandiose ideas to today's humans. Taking care of each other, our own planet, our fellow creatures, and domesticating out solar system is enough challenge for our species for the foreseeable future. I would happily settle for humans' just learning those lessons for the next million years or so, before embarking on anything more ambitious. Humanity is not yet toilet-trained as a species, and reaching that galactically modest level is what the work of FE activists that I respect has aimed for. Anything beyond that will be a bonus and far into the future, when humanity will be far better equipped to deal with those possibilities.
There is a great deal of evidence, nearly all of it suppressed, that we are not alone in the universe. It is being suppressed for the same reason that FE, antigravity, and myriad other technologies are being suppressed: so that the ultra-elites can continue sitting on their perch atop the global economic and political systems. The issues are deeply related, and either situation's overcoming the organized suppression will probably resolve the other almost instantaneously, and they might happen at the same moment. Although the Brookings Institute advised NASA for caution regarding any ET disclosures, the days of a War of the Worlds reaction are long gone. Knowing that we are not alone in the universe, and that our journey may have been significantly influenced by ET visitors (such as the velocity of today's technological revolution, and perhaps genetically), will change humanity's self-image and probably the way that we end up interacting with galactic civilizations, but that will all pale beside the economic and social changes that FE, antigravity, and related technologies will initiate. That is all unexplored territory that I, for one, look forward to venturing into.
With FE, all of the changes listed in this chapter become feasible; without FE, virtually none of them will be, in any meaningful way. All of today's dominant ideologies will become obsolete in a world where abundance reigns, and all abundance notions have to be based on energy abundance above all else. If energy is not abundant, none of the abundance ideas put forth by various visionaries has much hope, if any, of coming to fruition.
The ideas presented in this chapter can be seen as vague ideas, if the Fifth Epochal Event happens. I can no more predict the specific outcomes of the Fifth Epochal Event than that English peasant of 1500 could predict the end of slavery, the invention of the Internet, the demographic transition, the liberation of women, Hollywood, nuclear weapons, or rockets to the moon.
However, for this Epochal Event, unlike the others, we actually have hints of what might lie ahead, and Star Trek provides one such vision of a potential future. One set of noteworthy visions comes from Michael Roads's Into a Timeless Realm, which is particularly inspiring and enlightening. Roads visited two future human realities, about 300 years into our future. They were on opposite ends of the fear/love spectrum. Both were technologically advanced compared to today and both had genetic engineering, but the fear-dominated reality made Blade Runner's Los Angeles seem like Disneyland, while a Disney movie could not begin to depict the love-based one. Visions like that make it clear to me that our future will be what we make it. What we choose to do, today, determines what our tomorrow looks like. The fear-based world was filled with victims, from top to bottom. Those in that heavenly world all acted like true creators, and creators create with love. Love has always been the answer, and learning that lesson may be the reason why we are here, playing this life-on-Earth game.

The Sixth Mass Extinction or the Fifth Epochal Event?
Chapter summary:

• What is nature?
  
• What is human nature, can we change it, and does it matter?
  
• Sixth mass extinction is underway
  
• Environmental devastation of humanity's energy production methods
  
• Will we have World War III?
  
• Without free energy, few, if any, of previous chapter's visions are feasible
  
• The Global Controllers' greatest triumph
  
• Our choice according to Bucky Fuller
  
• Will we choose the Sixth Mass Extinction of the Fifth Epochal Event?
  

Vast issues can arise when pondering this essay's subject matter. What is nature? What is called "nature" on Earth is the result of celestial, geophysical, geochemical, and life processes that have interacted and created the delicate ecosphere that lies on Earth's thin skin. Gaian dynamics have been evident in Earth's history, but so have Medean ones, and humans are creating dramatic changes never wrought by any other species. Human have greatly altered Earth's ecosystems, and are impacting numerous geophysical and geochemical dynamics. Much of that impact has been for immediate human benefit, but is also causing long-term changes that could be as catastrophic for the ecosphere as the formation of Pangaea ultimately was, and humanity might make Earth uninhabitable by complex life forms, although what may be likelier would be "only" wiping out nearly all birds, mammals, and large marine life, perhaps taking humanity with it, and arthropods will rule again.
A related question is, "What is human nature?" A biologist or anthropologist might say that humanity is the result of geophysical, geochemical, and celestial processes that have interacted with evolutionary processes. With the appearance of humanity, new cognitive and manipulative traits emerged on Earth, which have been reflected in human DNA and developmental processes. They might call those biological features human "nature," which includes brain and related mental development. Humanity's heritage is reflected in many of our traits, going back to the emergence of complex life and arguably earlier, although the development of animal organs, particularly the brain, may be a good place to begin understanding human nature. As humanity's evolutionary journey drew closer to the appearance of the genus Homo, more traits of today's human "nature" could be discerned.
Humans are the large-brained, allegedly sentient species that dominates Earth, and humans have greatly altered evolutionary processes, down to "engineering" the DNA of organisms. We have a "nature" and multi-billion year heritage, as any organism does. How much have we changed ours, and how much do our natures really matter? Can we consciously change our natures or overcome them? The nature/nurture debate is quite old, and as the domestication of plants and animals has demonstrated, or the high IQs of Ashkenazy Jews may indicate, nurture can become nature by selective breeding at the least. The silver fox was domesticated in my lifetime, as an experiment, and the changes were dramatic. There is plenty about humanity that is nature at work, such as a child's acquisition of language or the urge to procreate (and probably the related incest taboo).[849] There is also a great deal that is socially learned. At least half of the variance in human traits such as intelligence and personality has been attributed to genetics, and nearly all the rest is socialization by the peer group (I believe that the soul plays a major role, and the guiding role, but that is not scientifically demonstrable, at least today).[850] But few of those scientific findings regarding human nature, if any of them, are relevant to why imperial "entertainment" is no longer watching people being forced to murder each other. The improvement in standard of living due to increased energy consumption has precipitated many changes in what was once considered human "nature," such as slavery. In a world based on abundance, would the dominant ideologies exalt greed and violence?
A mystic might say that the ultimate human nature, as well as the nature of everything in the known universe, is divine, and humans, as well as all life, are here to discover that divinity, which is deep within all of us. Human "nature" and our "sentience" are probably keys for determining our immediate and long-term future. Dynamics of our past can draw inferences that we are heading toward the Sixth Mass Extinction that may take us with it. Other trends provide reason to believe that humanity will finally become a truly sentient species that experiences its Fifth Epochal Event and will not only heal as much of its damage inflicted on Earth and itself as it can, but a future that a Disney movie could not begin to portray may await humanity. But unflinchingly facing our past and present, and laying aside the myths and self-serving lies, will greatly increase the probability that such a future can be attained.
A mass extinction began when humans left Africa and may have even begun with ancestors of Homo sapiens, but it accelerated when that founder group of behaviorally modern humans left Africa 60-50 kya. They quickly drove the largest megafauna on three continents to extinction, as well as the arctic mammoths of Eurasia and all other human species. Once the inhabitable continents were filled with that founder group's descendants, in at least two places and as many as nine, humans independently domesticated plants and animals. The mass extinction continued with the Domestication Revolution, but in less spectacular fashion, usually via habitat destruction. The increasing density of human populations became the primary factor in driving other species to extinction, which were often local extinctions. Ancient Egypt and particularly Rome drove north-African megafauna to extinction, but there were few other notable mass extinctions until Europeans learned to sail the world's oceans. When they did, the greatest proportional demographic catastrophes since the extinction of all other human species began. Those same three continents earlier robbed of their megafauna were quickly shorn of their human populations, who were replaced with Europeans in Australia and with Europeans and enslaved Africans in the Americas. In the midst of that unprecedented disaster for Homo sapiens, England began to industrialize. Although industrialization raised the human standard of living as never before, as the energy of fossil fuels was exploited on a large scale for the first time, it also enabled greater environmental devastation. Humanity has been turning forests into deserts since the first civilizations (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10), and the only reason it has not gotten worse during the industrial era, at least in industrialized, nations, is because hydrocarbons instead of wood were burned. The extinction of the passenger pigeon and the near-extinction of the bison, in the midst of history's most spectacular deforestation, were indicative of the vast damage that industrialized peoples could inflict on Earth's ecosystems. Industrialization also accelerated Europe's conquest of the world. It conquered and subjugated African and Asian peoples, reducing them to effective slavery and further devastating the ecosystems.
Today, environmental devastation is primarily inflicted by industrial nations as their mines scar the lands and they pour industrial pollutants into land, sea, and air. This includes the result of energy disasters such as the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill of 2010 and the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011, following the Chernobyl meltdown of 1986, all of which were subjected to cover-up activities by those responsible and abetted by international interests trying to protect their public images. Like the "fluoride is good for you" canard concocted by industrial interests, there has been a great deal of "radiation is benign or even good for you" propaganda flowing, particularly in the Fukus