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Opinion
Crackpots and Genius -- Together to Market
New energy pioneers are often also involved in pushing the envelop in
other areas of life. Such involvement should not be shunned but should
serve as a sign that someone is cut out to launch a revolutionary technology --
practiced at withstanding the heat.
by Sterling
D. Allan
Pure Energy Systems News
Copyright © 2007
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Author's Note: (March 8, 2007)
I awoke at around 3:00 am this morning with my head abuzz with
thoughts. Finally, after about an hour of stewing, realizing
that sleep would not come until I committed these thoughts to
writing, so I got up and composed this piece.
This piece comes primarily because of an article I sent out recently
to some individually-picked recipients who I thought would
appreciate the information. It had nothing to do with energy,
but I included several of my energy associates in the Bcc list to
receive the document.
The article addressed the Trolley Square murder scene of a couple of
weeks ago in Salt Lake City. I was conjecturing that there was
a strong likelihood that mind control was at play, causing an
otherwise peaceful teen to unleash a hail of bullets, killing
numerous people. Along with that premise was a corollary
conjecture regarding who ordered the slaying, and why certain people
might have been targeted in what otherwise is being considered by
the mainstream press to be a random act of violence.
One of the people who received that email, with whom I am in close
association at present, then sent me an email yesterday suggesting
that "internal due diligence" is an important part of the
due diligence process involved when one party is contemplating doing
business with another party.
I couldn't help but wonder, as I stewed this morning in the wee
hours, if my email and his subsequent analysis of some of my
"extracurricular" (non-energy-related) writings, might
have put him substantially on edge.
Much of my past writings were a function of a very different person
than the person I am today, yet I keep those writings on websites
for what role they might play in awakening others, as well as in
providing a bit of history of my own development through time.
The problem is that they are filled with "strange" stuff
by most people's assessment.
"Should I remove those websites, or at least apply a password
so that access to them is limited?" I wondered.
Yet it would be easy enough for a diligent digger to pull up the
prior content at Archive.org, which is a permanent archive of the
site at various dates.
Do I even want to disavow those earlier writings and their
continuation today in some of my extracurricular writings.
Though I'm taking a Sabbatical from religion, and am focused on
clean energy advancement at present, surely I still have more to do
in this life in regard to this other aspect of my interest and
talents.
In the spirit of "you create your own reality," the
reality I'm focused on at present is very constructive in nature,
and is moving out of a poverty mentality that beset me for so many
years while I promoted unpopular ideas in the religiopolitical
realm.
"Do I have to give up that old persona entirely in order to
embrace this new persona?" was the burdening question.
That is when I got up and began composing this account. |
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Nikola Tesla is increasingly coming into vogue -- a hundred years after he was
alive and thoroughly scorned and rejected by his peers. His recent genius
portrayal in The
Prestige,
the box-office hit of last Fall, is but one example of many that illustrate a
new interest in the man who transformed the 20th Century, and who may yet be
considered the Father of the 21st Century.
Where would we be without alternating current (AC power), radio, and other
wireless methods of communications which Tesla pioneered as the foundational
basis for the 20th Century's growth? Certainly there were other giants
among men who helped bring about modern civilization. Yet Tesla's work
forms the very bedrock of the modern infrastructure upon which present
technological advancements and are made, and upon which the widespread high
standard of living has been achieved.
Yet some of the later innovations he introduced, or which he sought to
introduce, have yet to be fully implemented. Wireless power, freely
distributed to all mankind was his prime objective. (Ref.)
But society was not ready for such a large leap forward. That later
objective is left for our generation to implement.
Some argue that Tesla's other outside-the-box endeavors were largely to blame
for his peers rejecting his entire work in his later years. When during
his scientific lectures he started talking about a technology he was developing
for communicating with personages on Mars, or another technology for
intercepting all incoming missiles, or sending robotic craft to war in the place
of soldiers, the consensus of the day was that he had lost his mind. (Ref.,
ref.)
The vision of the day, while able to embrace some things, could only progress so
much before reaching saturation.
Nevertheless, while his later work has not yet been implemented, his earlier
work was so monumental as to thoroughly transform society to a level never
before seen in recorded history.
Michael J. Daley points out that at the height of the Roman civilization,
society on average enjoyed a lifestyle that amounted to the equivalent of seven
slaves continuously working for each individual (at a calculated output of 40
Watts per slave). But nowadays, with the advent of modern electricity --
thanks largely to Nikola Tesla who made electricity available to the masses
-- each person in the United States has the equivalent of 150 slaves
working for them, every day, all day. Daley points out that this abundance
emerged beginning from the middle of the 20th century, and that in the century
prior roughly matched the height of Roman civilization, in which each person
enjoying roughly the equivalent of seven slaves working for them in the form of
modern conveniences of the period from 1860 to 1947. (Ref,
Berrett, p.10)
A New World
Imagine another leap forward in the next century that matches the leap forward
in the past century. Even for the most enlightened, such a transformation
is hard to fathom.
Yet sitting before us today are a myriad of energy and related technologies,
each of which hold promise for making such a shift yet again. We are on
the verge of seeing the complete obliteration of poverty worldwide, and the
empowerment of the human soul, each person to be able to more fully rise to his
or her full potential, no longer just eking out a survival existence. We
are looking at the end of war, the end of conflict, the dawn of a new utopian
civilization dreamed of by sages down through the millennia.
That is our destiny, if we embrace it.
We will see an end to the control paradigm that has ruled mankind since recorded
history, and the melting away of a greed-based economy rooted in a scarcity
mentality. We are looking at the birthing of a responsible abundance that
will transform the earth and all of its inhabitants.
Such a transformation is not going to be the result of energy advancements
alone, but will be the result of a convergence of a wide range of disciplines,
each shifting the mind-set of mankind to be able to embrace this new world.
Birthing Pangs
During the birthing pangs of this new civilization, there will be plenty of
temporary rejection of forward thinking in a wide array of fields, necessary to
bring about the transformation.
Five years ago, when I first immersed myself in the field of "free
energy," the term "free energy" was almost universally scorned as
representing an impossible proposition of creating energy out of nothing.
Yet by presenting accepted technologies such as solar, wind, and geothermal
energy as a variation of "free energy", that mentality is gradually
changing, and the phrase "free energy" is no longer an automatic
turn-off for people who are venturing outside the box of status quo
thinking. (Ref.)
We might not understand how the magnet
motor works yet, but the number of claims and the amount of evidence that
has been presented that magnets can be arranged to serve as a prime mover, is no
longer such a stretch, especially when we remember that the Wright brother's
were considered heretics in their day.
Open mindedness is expanding to allow for the support of these emerging
technologies.
For several years, at the bottom of three of my energy websites, I have featured
a quote that says: ""When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a
genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot." -- Rabbi Shlomo
Riskin, (Feb. 1998)
Next to that quote is another like it: "All truth passes through three
stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it
is accepted as self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Such is an inseparable part of the birthing of major advancements in society.
Free energy is in process of breaking through -- from being violently opposed to
becoming self-evident by many. Certainly the opposition has not ceased,
but the level of acceptance has been growing profoundly.
Other Cracked Pots
That principle of people resisting change holds true for all outside-the-box
thinking that pioneers fresh frontiers of advancement.
I have found that people who push the envelope when it comes to energy very
often also push the envelope in other areas of endeavor, whether it be medicine,
extraterrestrial studies, new religious thought, new political solutions, or new
relationship paradigms, along with an expose of the shortcomings of the status
quo approaches. They find themselves at odds with mainstream thinkers in a
number of areas, and they have gotten used to just holding true to what they
believe, and being prudent about when and how to share their advanced
understandings.
Furthermore, in the process of pursuing new understandings, it is inevitable
that a person will go through phases of entertaining unfounded concepts or even
in engaging in behaviors that are viewed as repugnant by most. It's all
part of the growing process -- part of the manure of fertilizing a free thinking
mind.
Additionally, everyone comes with a mixed package of strengths and
weaknesses. The chances that a person who you are considering doing
business with has idiosyncratic attributes is as likely as the chance that
someone on the planet had a birthday today. We all have chapters in our
lives in which we go through weird or low stages and behave in a less than ideal
manner.
If you were to round up a room full of new energy researchers, and have any one
of them stand up and talk about one of their "other" interests, where
they are pushing the envelope; chances are, there would be a good number of
people in that room who would be pushed outside their comfort zone, would roll
their eyes, shift awkwardly in their seats, and wonder if the person isn't an
all-out crack pot.
One person can only bite off so much in a lifetime, and if confronted with an
area where they have not pushed the envelope, they are likely to be put in that
uncomfortable spot of rejecting the new proposal just because they are not ready
to receive it yet.
Hence the importance that energy discussion groups stay on topic, so as to not
veer into areas that are almost sure to raise the ire of some.
Early in the launch of the New Energy Congress, one member resigned over a
discussion being had about the Twin Towers and Building Seven in New York being
felled by pre-positioned demolition charges. Even though there is a
preponderance of evidence to this effect, and a near majority of mainstream U.S.
citizens question the official story being told to them by the government, that
information was too much for that member, and he departed, and has not yet
returned.
That is why we keep PESWiki.com on the topic of clean energy, and don't veer
into other areas of tangential interest by some of the users.
Compassion for Pioneers
This is all highly relevant because it is inevitable that in the process of
bringing support for new energy technologies that some of these
"extracurricular", non-energy pioneering endeavors are going to come
up. If the people considering involvement are not open minded enough and
understanding of this phenomenon in general, they are likely to reject a key
player and all his or her work merely because of what appears to be a
"skeleton" or two, which in reality may just be a learning experience
at worst, and may actually be a profound truth in process of emerging.
Traditional money is therefore not at all likely to be able to stand up in the
heat of the fiery kiln of refinement that accompanies someone who brings forth
new frontiers. Traditional businessmen, are likewise prone to shrink
before such heat and turn away.
In picking the support team for bringing forth the new, revolutionary,
society-changing technology, the attribute of open-mindedness about all things
considered "crack pot" (per the above "two steps ahead"
definition) is an essential personality trait that should be sought.
The unsavory alternative would be for the perceived "crackpot" to try
and whitewash his "other" existence, so that the due diligence process
doesn't uncover these "other", "unsavory" endeavors.
However, even if a person completely takes on a new identity, and forsakes the
other identity, chances are the "unsavory" "other" endeavors
are likely to come up, backfiring profoundly. "Why didn't you tell us
about this?"
If a support team is not amenable to outside-the-box thinking in a wide array of
areas at the beginning, then they are not the right team for bringing forth the
revolutionary technology, which will require them to have the fortitude to
withstand all manner of opposition that they are sure to face, including getting
grief about some of the "other crackpot notions" being pursued by some
of the team -- something that is bound to come up.
The giants in the field of energy are very often also giants in other fields of
pursuit, and are sorely needed to pioneer all of the areas they feel driven to
pursue. They shouldn't be made to feel embarrassed about their other
endeavors, but should be valued for what they offer society.
Prudence Still Relevant
At the same time, being a pioneer does not give one license to throw away an
attempt to meet people on a level they are ready to receive. There is such
a thing as a person who is too out of order in their life at a given time to be
of much use in a team setting. And many people in the field of free energy
tend to fall into that category, due to their not properly processing the
rejection, intimidation, name-calling, and other barbs that society is so apt to
dish out. They become their own worst enemies, making it nearly impossible
to work with them on any sane or productive level.
That is why one of the ten criteria
by which we at the New Energy Congress rate technologies in our Top
100 listing is "politics of science." How easy are the key
people involved with the technology to work with? That is a relevant
question.
However, if a person is a team player to a sufficient extent, then the question
of "Do you know about this other craziness he is involved with" should
not weigh heavily. Indeed, if a person is not pushing the envelope in a
number of areas, being viewed as a "crackpot" by the mainstream in
each area, chances are they are not very interesting, and they themselves have
not developed the stamina that such experiences bring, to be able to see the
technology through to wide scale adoption.
Indeed, it might be presented as a maxim that all key team players in bringing
forth the revolutionary technology, should be demonstrated mavericks, or they
are likely to buckle under pressure. That includes the inventor, the
business partners, the CEO, the financiers, and the marketing heads.
New energy will bring a new society, along with the many other pioneering fields
that will come forward concurrently. Those tied to the old society are
incompatible, and should not be sought for involvement, even though they might
be expert with status quo technologies.
Indeed, surrounding oneself with mavericks is a very rewarding process. It
makes life much more interesting, and fulfilling, and helps make you feel less
of an outcast. Surrounding yourself with other outcasts is what is
required for bringing forth the new thing whose time has come.
Mavericks 'R Us, and we're proud of it. Welcome all mavericks. Let's
do it.
It is time for new energy to emerge, for free energy to be harnessed in a myriad
of ways, bringing energy abundance and its associated abundance of life to all
mankind. It's time for abundance to replace scarcity, for cooperation to
replace conflict, for new things to be considered, refined, and implemented.
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