A thrilling narrative history of two men – President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee Chief John Ross – who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history
Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States faced a constitutional crisis. At its center stood two men, former military comrades locked in a struggle that tested the boundaries of our fledgling democracy. Jacksonland is their story.
One man we recognize: Andrew Jackson—war hero, populist, and exemplar of the expanding South—whose first major initiative as president instigated the massive expulsion of Native Americans known as the Trail of Tears. The other is a half-forgotten figure: John Ross—a mixed-race Cherokee politician and diplomat—who used the United States’ own legal system and democratic ideals to oppose Jackson.
Representing one of the Five Civilized Tribes, which had adopted the ways of white settlers—cultivating farms, publishing a newspaper in their own language, and sending children to school—Ross championed the tribes’ cause all the way to the Supreme Court. He gained allies like Senator Henry Clay, Chief Justice John Marshall, and even Davy Crockett. In a fight that seems at once distant and familiar, Ross and his allies made their case in the media, committed civil disobedience, and benefited from the first mass political action by American women. Their struggle contained ominous overtures of later events, such as the Civil War, and set the pattern for modern-day politics.
At stake in this struggle was the land of the Five Civilized Tribes. In shocking detail, Jacksonland reveals how Jackson, as a general, extracted immense wealth from his own armies’ conquest of Native lands. Later, as president, Jackson set in motion the seizure of tens of millions of acres in today’s Deep South, the “Jacksonland” of our story.
Jacksonland is the work of renowned journalist Steve Inskeep, cohost of NPR’s Morning Edition and author of the critically acclaimed Instant City. Inskeep offers in Jacksonland a heart-stopping narrative masterpiece, a tragedy of American history that feels ripped from the headlines in its immediacy, drama, and relevance to our lives. Harrowing, inspiring, and deeply moving, Inskeep’s Jacksonland is the story of America at a moment of transition, when the fate of states and nations was decided by the actions of two heroic yet tragically opposed men.
This post dovetails with the upcoming Peace Walk at Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, scheduled for December 15th through 29th, 2015, whereas an Immersion Program participantand a Member of Sirius Community will be joining this walk in solidarity with the Big Foot Memorial/Future Generations Riderswho will
ride 300+ miles from Standing Rock Reservation to Wounded Knee on the Pine
Ridge Reservation. ~ JDHWB-R
I traveled into Northampton, Massachusetts to revisit my first recollection of being there back in the Autumn of 1978 by walking up Main Street far enough to see the front of Smith College and its entrance gate. I turned around and saw 'Raven," the sign for a used bookseller just beyond a nearby intersection to a cross-street. I immediately walked over to this basement shop and saw a hardcover book looking almost new titled "Alchemy & Mysticism" and purchased it. This volume, compiled by The Hermetic Museum, connects the Autumnal Equinox ceremony at Sirius Stone Circle to the Alchemical Fire Ritual behind the original Farmhouse at Sirius on the 4th Blood Moon of the recent Tetrad. It was time for me to descend into the proverbial Rabbit Hole again, only this time I journey completely alone...
The Alchemical Riddle that the Archetypal Hermit needed to solve involved the Source Key, which would reveal the particulars of itself during a live performance of "Dracula" that was adapted to the stage from Bram Stoker's novel of the same name. I emerged from this journey to travel once again to New Bedford where I, my wife Susan, daughter Mary, and her significant other Aly, had reservations for a matinee performance of this play at Your Theatre on Rivet Street. While watching the action unfold, I witnessed an age reversal and hair color reversal in two of the characters when offset by my remembered Dream Vision of the Four Pillars upholding Lantern Shire Commons. Knowing of a Lemurian Origin for these four incarnated souls who have returned in this time period to complete their mission on Earth, it was patently clear to me that cross-pollination of Purpose had infected one or more of these individuals in the distant past and eventually contributed to circumstances culminating in the Antediluvian Deluge recorded in Sanskrit and Hebrew texts of sacred scriptures. I know the prescription for this deep-seated Imbalance causing distortion of images and emotions emanating from ancient Lemuria and also ghosting into the Present.
Such is enacted through grounding this energy in Gaia. My Covenant of Friendship on October 30th, 2015 stabilized the Heart Key. Stabilization of the Source Key goes far deeper and will take time to manifest in Third Density. ~ JDHWB-R
I first watched the play version of this novel by Bram Stoker in 1971 from the light booth at the Orleans Arena Theatre on Cape Cod. The next time I saw this play was on July 13, 1973 at the Nantucket Stage Company with black & white scenery designed by Edward Gorey, the well-known childrens' book illustrator. Today, Susan & I will be viewing this show at Your Theatre, Inc. during a Matinee performance at 2:30 pm in New Bedford with Mark Fuller's black & white scenic interpretation as backdrop for the actors. ~ JDHWB-R
DRACULA BY BRAM STOKER
Famous for introducing the character of the vampire Count Dracula, the novel tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he may find new blood and spread the undead curse, and the battle between Dracula and a small group of men and women led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing.
Dracula has been assigned to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature. Although Stoker did not invent the vampire, he defined its modern form, and the novel has spawned numerous theatrical, film and television interpretations.
The story is told in epistolary format, as a series of letters, diary entries, and ships' log entries, whose narrators are the novel's protagonists, and occasionally supplemented with newspaper clippings relating events not directly witnessed. The events portrayed in the novel take place chronologically and largely in England and Transylvania during the 1890s and all transpire within the same year between the 3rd of May and the 6th of November. A short note is located at the end of the final chapter written 7 years after the events outlined in the novel.
The tale begins with Jonathan Harker, a newly qualified English solicitor, visiting Count Dracula in the Carpathian Mountains on the border of Transylvania, Bukovina, and Moldavia, to provide legal support for a real estate transaction overseen by Harker's employer. At first enticed by Dracula's gracious manners, Harker soon realizes that he is Dracula's prisoner. Wandering the Count's castle against Dracula's admonition, Harker encounters three female vampires, called "the sisters", from whom he is rescued by Dracula. After the preparations are made, Dracula leaves Transylvania and abandons Harker to the sisters. Harker barely escapes from the castle with his life.
Not long afterward, a Russian ship, the Demeter, having weighed anchor at Varna, runs aground on the shores of Whitby. The captain's log narrates the gradual disappearance of the entire crew, until the captain alone remained, himself bound to the helm to maintain course. An animal resembling "a large dog" is seen leaping ashore. The ship's cargo is described as silver sand and boxes of "mould", or earth, from Transylvania.
Soon Dracula is tracking Harker's fiancée, Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray, and her friend, Lucy Westenra, who begins to sleepwalk nightly. Lucy receives three marriage proposals from Dr. John Seward, Quincey Morris, and the Hon. Arthur Holmwood (later Lord Godalming). Lucy accepts Holmwood's proposal while turning down Seward and Morris, but all remain friends. Dracula communicates with Seward's patient Renfield, an insane man who wishes to consume insects, spiders, birds, and rats to absorb their "life force", and therefore assimilate to Dracula himself. Renfield is able to detect Dracula's presence and supplies clues accordingly.
When Lucy begins to waste away suspiciously, Seward invites his old teacher, Abraham Van Helsing, who immediately determines the cause of Lucy's condition but refuses to disclose it. She has obviously lost an enormous quantity of blood, and though she receives blood transfusions from all of her three quondam lovers, and Van Helsing to boot, which quantity Morris notes "her body could not hold", she continues to waste away - appearing to lose blood every night. While both doctors are absent, Lucy and her mother are attacked by a wolf; Mrs. Westenra, who has a heart condition, dies of fright. Van Helsing attempts to protect her with garlic but fate thwarts him each night, whether Lucy's mother removes the garlic from her room, or Lucy herself does so in her restless sleep. The doctors have found two small puncture marks about her neck, which Dr Seward is at a loss to understand. Following Lucy's death soon after, the newspapers report children being stalked in the night by, in their words, a "bloofer lady" (i.e., "beautiful lady"). Van Helsing, knowing Lucy has become a vampire, confides in Seward, Lord Godalming, and Morris. The suitors and Van Helsing track her down and, after a confrontation with her, stake her heart, behead her, and fill her mouth with garlic. Around the same time, Jonathan Harker arrives from Budapest, where Mina marries him after his escape, and he and Mina join the coalition against Dracula.
After Dracula learns of Van Helsing's plot against him, he attacks Mina on three occasions, and feeds Mina his own blood to control her. Under his influence, Mina oscillates from consciousness to a semi-trance during which she perceives Dracula's surroundings and actions. After the protagonists sterilize all of his lairs in London by putting pieces of consecrated host in each box of Transylvanian earth, Dracula flees to Transylvania, pursued by Van Helsing and the others under the guidance of Mina. In Transylvania, Van Helsing repulses and later destroys the vampire "sisters". Upon discovering Dracula being transported by Gypsies, Harker shears Dracula through the throat with a kukri while the mortally wounded Quincey stabs the Count in the heart with a Bowie knife. Dracula crumbles to dust, and Mina is restored to health.
The book closes with a note on Mina's and Jonathan's married life and the birth of their son, whom they name after all four members of the party, but address as "Quincey".
1st Rendering of Lantern Shire Commons Cottage in Leverett
On October 31st, 2015, I received a waking vision of the remote Householder Cottage located in Leverett, Massachusetts which is integrated with Sirius Community in the adjacent town of Shutesbury. Four Pillars were shown to me by my Oversoul, an Angel from the Dog Star, Sirius. These four Pillars correspond with the four original members of the intentional community established in 1979 who came together in purpose at Findhorn in Scotland and built upon their collective intention in the Pioneer Valley of Massachusetts. ~ JDHWB-R
THE FOUR PILLARS OF SIRIUS COMMUNITY
Founded by Gordon Davidson & Corrinne Mc Laughlin in 1978 Established with Bruce Davidson & Linda Reimer in 1979
Sirius community was founded in September 1978 byformer members of Findhorn Community in Scotland wishing to establish a similar community in their American homeland. Its foundation is spiritual, but in a non-sectarian manner that allows for each person to find their own way to the heart of all beingness and reality. The shared expression reflects reverence for all Life and willingness to live in accord with this intention as much as possible. We thus employ ecologically sustainable methods of living and a consensus-style governance process, striving to honor all that is.
Below you can find a category for each of the four pillars of our four-fold purpose here at Sirius: spiritual, ecological, communitarian, and educational.
Spiritual Cultivation
Our spiritual basis reflects awareness of a Divine Presence underlying all things. We regard this Presence of many names as the essence of who we truly are, and as supreme provider of the insight, inspiration and guidance that calls on us to awaken from purely material dreams.
In non-sectarian fashion, we access this guidance through individually chosen spiritual practices, an through group meditation processes addressing conflict, decision-making, and governance.
Meditation is the essence of our shared practice – the core component of all our major shared processes – often, but not always, also the core component of our individually chosen spiritual practices. We thus learn to sit in silence, attending to the universe’s Supreme Intelligence, directly experience its presence as both underlying all things and residing within each of us as unique soul expressions. This experience requires no belief in the religious sense, but only the patience and intent necessary to learn any skill. The non-material aspect of reality thereby becomes experientially accessible, and therefore within the realm of that which is directly known. This is possible because, as we discover, our own hidden essential nature is precisely of this non-material realm and not of anything material.
We have several distinct facilities established to support spiritual growth. In addition to our Meditation Sanctuary and the Octagon Meeting Room, where we hold daily morning meditation, we have constructed a rustic refuge for personal retreats into the side of a hill only a few minutes walk away through the woods, not far from our other buildings. The Retreat House lacks plumbing and electricity, but the woodstove and candles provide plenty of warmth and light for solo retreatants, who may sleep in separate quarters nearby. Because it is built into a hillside, it stays cool even in the summer, and remains quiet except for the sounds of forest wildlife.
The Phoenix House Labrynth was built over a period of years as a meditative walking tool. The arcs and turns were first marked with twigs, ribbons and switches. Standing before the entrance before walking into the center, each walker would lift a rock from a pile provided and carry it into the labyrinth for placement. it has now been further decorated with statues and crystals. Feelings of profound peace have been reported by many walking its path.
We strive to honor the highest in every spiritual path. Our members and guests practice a wide variety of differing faiths and rituals. During any season, we therefore may host retreats of Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Celtic, Wiccan, Druidic, Jewish, Muslim, or Goddess worship orientation. Some of these retreat group have been annual visitors for years. We understand that the Unifying Presence of many names speaks to us all in different ways, and we welcome all who share in this mutual respect.
Sirius offers a wealth of opportunity for spiritually-oriented education. In some cases, this may take the form of classes or seminars in metaphysics or meditation. Other forms derive from our conviction that “Everyday Life is Our Greatest Teacher.” Our Sirius Community Immersion Program offers the most extensive focus here, in that we demonstrate how to mindfully and sustainably build our homes, grow our food, and prepare our meals, consciously integrating these mundane activities with the more esoteric methods of cultivating awareness.
Eco-Village Sustainability
Our Ecological focus at Sirius stresses “Sustainability.” We are an established ecovillage, modeling permaculture principles in our design of gardens, homes, guest facilities, and outbuildings. Living in harmony with Nature is pointedly emphasized, as our physical lives are seen as direct reflections of our relationship with spirituality, which is our primary concern. We thus use non-toxic building materials, organic gardening methods, composting toilet facilities, and vegetable oil for fuel, along with solar and wind generated power.
In order to reduce harmful vehicle emissions, a number of members and other villagers have formed a co-op to buy bui-diesel gel for their diesel powered cars and trucks. Bio-diesel fuel is made from renewable plant sources instead of petroleum, and its use as an alternative significantly reduces the production of gases causing acid rain. Questions remain about its viability as a long-term solution, but for now, co-op members are satisfied that it is at least a better environmental choice than regular diesel.
Off-grid energy production at Sirius comprises several banks of solar collection cells placed at different points around the community and a windmill generator sitting atop a hundred and five foot tower. None of our buildings are truly off the grid, in that each is connected to and served by the local power company when necessary. If our power production falls short, the grid makes up for it. If we produce an excess, in some cases it is stored in deep-cell battery arrays, and in others it is pumped directly back into the grid, potentially spinning the electric meter the other way.
Sirius has three large raised-bed organic gardens along with an orchard, berry patch, and four-season greenhouse that provides significant solar gain for the community center during cold months in addition to food. Apprentices and interns work along with staff members nearly through the year, not only tending the produce, but also learning to can and preserve. Freezers and root cellars provide ample storage for the preserved food, so that we have garden output available all year. This includes such things as dried cultivated herbs, shitake mushrooms, chestnuts, and fermented products like sauerkraut and kimchi.
All Sirius buildings (except for the original farmhouse and garages) were built with an eye toward Sustainability by community members and apprentices. This means locally harvested wood, milled and stored here on the land. It means using non-toxic materials whenever possible, like citrus-based paint thinners and shredded newspaper insulation that has been specially treated to be non-flammable. We use post and beam passive solar construction, taking advantage of southern exposure to maximize heat efficiency.
The Community Center houses three staff apartments, the laundry and root cellar, herb drying room, and the community’s main kitchen and dining room, which includes seating area inside the wraparound greenhouse. The CC also headquarters the Sirius Conference Center, featuring a 2000 square foot meeting room and guest accommodations for overnighters. It utilizes solar power both passively and actively, with two banks of solar (PVC) collectors on the roof, and a solar water pre-heater on the roof of the East Wing.
The Cob Oven was built by former member Will Stark and provides an outdoor facility for baking at very high temperatures. Pizzas cook in less than two minutes. When the oven itself was finished, Will began work on the shelter, along with community apprentices and occasional friends dropping in. Cob is a mixture of clay, sand, and straw mixed from water to form mud. It is sometimes referred to as ‘adobe of the north’ and was used to construct a house-like shed on the property as well.
Intentional Community
Life at Sirius is modeled around the concept of Intentional Community. We seek a workable balance between work and play in all activities, between individual and collective needs, spiritual and worldly pursuit, and between hierarchy and egalitarianism. The hear of our governance process is meditative consensus. This is used in each of our department committees, our weekly community meeting on Thursday nights, and the monthly meetings of the Core Group, which is how we refer to corporation’s Board of Directors.
Most members live on the land in family housing or shared apartments. These spaces have their own kitchens, but many members choose to participate in our shared meal system called “Rota” at the Community Center, taking turns cooking there along with some members of the neighboring village. The community center kitchen also hosts the village bulk foods buying co-op and the organic garden share program, providing ready access to most ingredients needed for large meals.
Social events at Sirius include regular open houses. Occasional social events are hosted in our Octagon Hall such as open-mics and movie nights, especially during the colder months. During warmer periods, we host a number of outdoor events, like our Cob Oven Pizza parties, bonfires, sauna evenings, and traditional rituals marking the passage of seasons. Our facilities also provide space for member birthday bashes, family reunions, and even an occasional member wedding!
Exploring membership at Sirius can mean as little as attending our neighborhood parties and coffeehouses, or participating in our community meal program and bulk foods buying co-op. It can also mean becoming a fully active participant, living on the land and working side by side with other members in governance and day-to-day operations. One may actually apply for the designations of Exploring Member to pursue this latter option, spending up to a year trying the status out. This includes sixteen house classroom-type instruction along with participating in all other aspects of normal membership.
Many members have outside main jobs and work only part-time on the land. Saturday is Work Day, when most pitch in together on various projects and chores. The shared task might be processing a bulk mailing, preserving a store of food, or working in the garden. It could be felling trees, milling lumber, installing photovoltaic banks, or chopping/storing firewood for the winter. Sometimes the community will travel offsite on Work Day, donating the collective labor to some other organization. We have, for instance, built a deck for the town around the recycling dumpsters.
Sirius offers opportunity for a rich family life, whether referring to parents with young children or theextendedfamily: an intergenerational village of all ages. Children are brought into many group activities, as well as having those needed that are set aside for them alone. Some members honeschool; others send their kids to either private or public schools. There are designated playing areas for children, and cooperatives spring up both within the community and immediate neighborhood as needed to provide childcare for working parents.
Non-Profit Education Sirius offers several in-house educational programs. These range from one-day seminars to the more comprehensive Immersion Program, introducing all aspects of living harmoniously with nature and spirit. We also facilitate internships in specific areas of development, like organic gardening and green building.
Sirius also hosts the Permaculture Design Certification & Training Course with Sowing Solutions twice a year. This course is offered each spring as a weekend series, once a month from January-April, OR each summer as a two week intensive course. Sirius offers a unique opportunity for permaculture students to learn from the well-established systems on site: naturally built homes, organic vegetable CSA, edible forest gardens, orchards, four season greenhouses, compost systems and soil improvement strategies, renewable energy systems, community decision making process, rainwater catchment systems, and much more!
Spiritual education is not a separate subject at Sirius, even if classes and instruction emphasizing this focus are provided. Group meditation is held daily each morning, and members gather regularly to investigate the underlying purpose within each life, and collectively within the context of community as a whole. Instruction is also given by practitioners of many traditional spiritual practices that are designed to still the mind and help bring clarity to bear upon exploration of these questions.
During our annual community retreat one year, members used Transformational Kinesiology to determine the wording of our collective vision. A banner was then constructed with these words inscribed: Being one with Spirit, we lovingly embrace ourselves and each other as we are. We express our unconditional gratitude for all that is. Members including children then created a border using artwork and palm prints. The banner hung for years in the west wall of the Octagon Hall, before moving on.
Attunement to Nature means more than recognizing seasonal patterns and the mechanics of physics. It means also becoming aware of the Consciousness extending itself into the physical world in its various myriad forms. It means, as much as one can, communicating with these expression of consciousness, these entities that in earlier times were known as devas and elementals. At the very least, it means attempting to understand their nature and to form bonds with them related to cooperative alliance. Through these efforts, one can directly observe the miraculous.
I first read this book in 1971 after working on a production of an anti-war play titled "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail" at The Fisherman's Players of Cape Cod in North Eastham, Massachusetts. I met a young woman during the run of this show and was inspired to build a house for us in the woods of central Maine. However, my intention was not in sync with the flow of time and I lost her. Years later, after the House at Pinewoods Hollow in Stetson, Maine was partially built and my funds exhausted. I looked backand contacted her;eventually watchingmy Dream of building The Commonwealth of Lanternshire in that town turn into a Pillar of Salt the way Lot's wife did when she looked back in Genesis. ~ JDHWB-R
Walden (first published as Walden; or, Life in the Woods), by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau, is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and manual for self-reliance. First published in 1854, it details Thoreau's experiences over the course of two years, two months, and two days in a cabin he built near Walden Pond, amidst woodland owned by his friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, near Concord, Massachusetts. The book compresses the time into a single calendar year and uses passages of four seasons to symbolize human development.
By immersing himself in nature, Thoreau hoped to gain a more objective understanding of society through personal introspection. Simple living and self-sufficiency were Thoreau's other goals, and the whole project was inspired by transcendentalist philosophy, a central theme of the American Romantic Period. As Thoreau made clear in his book, his cabin was not in wilderness but at the edge of town, about two miles (3 km) from his family home.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."— Henry David Thoreau
Part memoir and part spiritual quest, Walden opens with the announcement that Thoreau spent two years at Walden Pond living a simple life without support of any kind. Readers are reminded that at the time of publication, Thoreau is back to living among the civilized again. The book is separated into specific chapters that each focus on specific themes:
Economy: In this first and longest chapter, Thoreau outlines his project: a two-year, two-month, and two-day stay at a cozy, "tightly shingled and plastered", English-style 10' × 15' cottage in the woods near Walden Pond. He does this, he says, to illustrate the spiritual benefits of a simplified lifestyle. He easily supplies the four necessities of life (food, shelter, clothing, and fuel) with the help of family and friends, particularly his mother, his best friend, and Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The latter provided Thoreau with a work exchange – he could build a small house and plant a garden if he cleared some land on the woodlot and did other chores while there. Thoreau meticulously records his expenditures and earnings, demonstrating his understanding of "economy", as he builds his house and buys and grows food. For a home and freedom, he spent a mere $28.12½, in 1845 (about $863 in today's money). At the end of this chapter, Thoreau inserts a poem, "The Pretensions of Poverty", by seventeenth-century English poet Thomas Carew. The poem criticizes those who think that their poverty gives them unearned moral and intellectual superiority. The chapter is filled with figures of practical advice, facts, big ideas about individualism versus social existence...manifesto of social thought and meditations on domestic management. Much attention is devoted to the skepticism and wonderment with which townspeople greeted both him and his project as he tries to protect his views from those of the townspeople who seem to view society as the only place to live. He recounts the reasons for his move to Walden Pond along with detailed steps back to the construction of his new home (methods, support, etc.).
Where I Lived, and What I Lived For: Thoreau recollects thoughts of places he stayed at before selecting Walden Pond. Quotes Roman Philosopher Cato's advice "consider buying a farm very carefully before signing the papers."His possibilities included a nearby Hollowell farm (where the "wife" unexpectedly decided she wanted to keep the farm). Thoreau takes to the woods dreaming of an existence free of obligations and full of leisure. He announces that he resides far from social relationships that mail represents (post office) and the majority of the chapter focuses on his thoughts while constructing and living in his new home at Walden.
Reading: Thoreau discusses the benefits of classical literature, preferably in the original Greek or Latin, and bemoans the lack of sophistication in Concord evident in the popularity of unsophisticated literature. He also loved to read books by world travelers. He yearns for a time when each New England village supports "wise men" to educate and thereby ennoble the population.
Sounds: Thoreau encourages the reader to be “forever on the alert” and “looking always at what is to be seen.” Although truth can be found in literature, it can equally be found in nature. In addition to self-development, an advantage of developing one’s perceptiveness is its tendency to alleviate boredom. Rather than “look abroad for amusement, to society and the theatre,” Thoreau’s own life, including supposedly dull pastimes like housework, becomes a source of amusement that “never ceases to be novel.” Likewise, he obtains pleasure in the sounds that ring around his cabin: church bells ringing, carriages rattling and rumbling, cows lowing, whip-poor-wills singing, owls hooting, frogs croaking, and cockerels crowing. “All sound heard at the greatest possible distance,” he contends “produces one and the same effect. Likening the train’s cloud of steam to a comet tail and its commotion to “the scream of a hawk,” the train becomes homologous with nature and Thoreau praises its associated commerce for its enterprise, bravery, and cosmopolitanism, proclaiming: “I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling that I do the rising of the sun.”
Solitude: Thoreau reflects on the feeling of solitude. He explains how loneliness can occur even amid companions if one's heart is not open to them. Thoreau meditates on the pleasures of escaping society and the petty things that society entails (gossip, fights, etc.). He also reflects on his new companion, an old settler who arrives nearby and an old woman with great memory ("memory runs back farther than mythology"). Thoreau repeatedly reflects on the benefits of nature and of his deep communion with it and states that the only "medicine he needs is a draught of morning air."
Visitors: Thoreau talks about how he enjoys companionship (despite his love for solitude) and always leaves three chairs ready for visitors. The entire chapter focuses on the coming and going of visitors, and how he has more comers in Walden than he did in the city. He receives visits from those living or working nearby and gives special attention to a French Canadian born woodsman named Alec Thérien. Unlike Thoreau, Thérien cannot read or write and is described as leading an "animal life". He compares Thérien to Walden Pond itself. Thoreau then reflects on the women and children who seem to enjoy the pond more than men...and how men are limited because their lives are taken up.
The Bean-Field: Reflection on Thoreau's planting and his enjoyment of this new job/hobby. He touches upon the joys of his environment, the sights and sounds of nature, but also on the military sounds nearby. The rest of the chapter focuses on his earnings and his cultivation of crops (including how he spends just under fifteen dollars on this).
The Village: The chapter focuses on Thoreau's second bath and on his reflections on the journeys he takes several times a week to Concord, where he gathers the latest gossip and meets with townsmen. On one of his journeys into Concord, Thoreau is detained and jailed for his refusal to pay a poll tax to the "state that buys and sells men, women, and children, like cattle at the door of its senate-house."
The Ponds: In autumn, Thoreau discusses the countryside and writes down his observations about the geography of Walden Pond and its neighbors: Flint's Pond (or Sandy Pond), White Pond, and Goose Pond. Although Flint's is the largest, Thoreau's favorites are Walden and White ponds, which he describes as lovelier than diamonds.
Baker Farm: While on an afternoon ramble in the woods, Thoreau gets caught in a rainstorm and takes shelter in the dirty, dismal hut of John Field, a penniless but hard-working Irish farmhand, and his wife and children. Thoreau urges Field to live a simple but independent and fulfilling life in the woods, thereby freeing himself of employers and creditors. But the Irishman won't give up his aspirations of luxury and the quest for the American dream.
Higher Laws: Thoreau discusses whether hunting wild animals and eating meat is necessary. He concludes that the primitive, carnal sensuality of humans drives them to kill and eat animals, and that a person who transcends this propensity is superior to those who cannot. (Thoreau eats fish and occasionally salt pork and woodchuck.) In addition to vegetarianism, he lauds chastity, work, and teetotalism. He also recognizes that Native Americans need to hunt and kill moose for survival in "The Maine Woods", and ate moose on a trip to Maine while he was living at Walden. Here is a list of the laws that he mentions:
One must love that of the wild just as much as one loves that of the good.
What men already know instinctively is true humanity.
The hunter is the greatest friend of the animal which is hunted.
No human older than an adolescent would wantonly murder any creature which reveres its own life as much as the killer.
If the day and the night make one joyful, one is successful.
The highest form of self-restraint is when one can subsist not on other animals, but of plants and crops cultivated from the earth.
Brute Neighbors: is a simplified version of one of Thoreau's conversations with William Ellery Channing, who sometimes accompanied Thoreau on fishing trips when Channing had come up from Concord. The conversation is about a hermit (himself) and a poet (Channing) and how the poet is absorbed in the clouds while the hermit is occupied with the more practical task of getting fish for dinner and how in the end, the poet regrets his failure to catch fish. The chapter also mentions Thoreau's interaction with a mouse that he lives with, the scene in which an ant battles a smaller ant, and his frequent encounters with cats.
House-Warming: After picking November berries in the woods, Thoreau adds a chimney, and finally plasters the walls of his sturdy house to stave off the cold of the oncoming winter. He also lays in a good supply of firewood, and expresses affection for wood and fire.
Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors: Thoreau relates the stories of people who formerly lived in the vicinity of Walden Pond. Then he talks about a few of the visitors he receives during the winter: a farmer, a woodchopper, and his best friend, the poet Ellery Channing.
Winter Animals: Thoreau amuses himself by watching wildlife during the winter. He relates his observations of owls, hares, red squirrels, mice, and various birds as they hunt, sing, and eat the scraps and corn he put out for them. He also describes a fox hunt that passes by.
The Pond in Winter: Thoreau describes Walden Pond as it appears during the winter. He claims to have sounded its depths and located an underground outlet. Then he recounts how 100 laborers came to cut great blocks of ice from the pond, the ice to be shipped to the Carolinas.
Spring: As spring arrives, Walden and the other ponds melt with powerful thundering and rumbling. Thoreau enjoys watching the thaw, and grows ecstatic as he witnesses the green rebirth of nature. He watches the geese winging their way north, and a hawk playing by itself in the sky. As nature is reborn, the narrator implies, so is he. He departs Walden on September 6, 1847.
Conclusion: This final chapter is more passionate and urgent than its predecessors. In it, he criticizes conformity: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away", By doing so, men may find happiness and self-fulfillment.
"I do not say that John or Jonathan will realize all this; but such is the character of that morrow which mere lapse of time can never make to dawn. The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star."
Walden is a difficult book to read for three reasons: First, it was written in an older prose, which uses surgically precise language, extended, allegorical metaphors, long and complex paragraphs and sentences, and vivid, detailed, and insightful descriptions. Thoreau does not hesitate to use metaphors, allusions, understatement, hyperbole, personification, irony, satire, metonymy, synecdoche, and oxymorons, and he can shift from a scientific to a transcendental point of view in mid-sentence. Second, its logic is based on a different understanding of life, quite contrary to what most people would call common sense. Ironically, this logic is based on what most people say they believe. Thoreau, recognizing this, fills Walden with sarcasm, paradoxes, and double entendres. He likes to tease, challenge, and even fool his readers. And third, quite often any words would be inadequate at expressing many of Thoreau's non-verbal insights into truth. Thoreau must use non-literal language to express these notions, and the reader must reach out to understand.— Ken Kifer
Walden emphasizes the importance of solitude, contemplation, and closeness to nature in transcending the "desperate" existence that, he argues, is the lot of most people. The book is not a traditional autobiography, but combines autobiography with a social critique of contemporary Western culture's consumerist and materialist attitudes and its distance from and destruction of nature. That the book is not simply a criticism of society, but also an attempt to engage creatively with the better aspects of contemporary culture, is suggested both by Thoreau's proximity to Concord society and by his admiration for classical literature. There are signs of ambiguity, or an attempt to see an alternative side of something common. Some of the major themes that are present within the text are:
Self-reliance: Thoreau constantly refuses to be in "need" of the companionship of others. Though he realizes its significance and importance, he thinks it unnecessary to always be in search for it. Self-reliance, to him, is economic and social and is a principle that in terms of financial and interpersonal relations is more valuable than anything. To Thoreau, self-reliance can be both spiritual as well as economic. Connection to transcendentalism and to Emerson's essay.
Simplicity: Simplicity seems to be Thoreau's model for life. Throughout the book, Thoreau constantly seeks to simplify his lifestyle: he patches his clothes rather than buy new ones, he minimizes his consumer activity, and relies on leisure time and on himself for everything.
Progress: In a world where everyone and everything is eager to advance in terms of progress, Thoreau finds it stubborn and skeptical to think that any outward improvement of life can bring inner peace and contentment.
The need for spiritual awakening Man as part of nature Nature and its reflection of human emotions The state as unjust and corrupt
Origins and publishing history:
There has been much guessing as to why Thoreau went to the pond, E.B White stated on this note, “Henry went forth to battle when he took to the woods, and Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives—the desire to enjoy the world and the urge to set the world straight.” While Leo Marx noted that Thoreau’s stay at Walden Pond was an experiment based on his teacher, Emerson's "method of nature" and that it was a “report of an experiment in transcendental pastorialism." Likewise others have assumed Thoreau's intentions during his time at Walden Pond was "to conduct an experiment: Could he survive, possibly even thrive, by stripping away all superfluous luxuries, living a plain, simple life in radically reduced conditions?" He thought of it as an experiment in "home economics". Although Thoreau went to Walden to escape what he considered, "over-civilization", and in search of the "raw" and "savage delight" of the wilderness, he also spent considerable amounts of his time reading and writing.
Thoreau spent nearly four times as long on the Walden manuscript as he actually spent at the cabin. Upon leaving Walden Pond and at Emerson’s request, Thoreau returned to Emerson’s house and spent the majority of his time paying debts. During those years Thoreau slowly edited and drafted what were originally 18 essays describing his “experiment” in basic living. After eight drafts over the course of ten years, Walden was published in 1854.
After Walden's publication, Thoreau saw his time at Walden as nothing more than an experiment. He never took seriously "the idea that he could truly isolate himself from others". Without resolution, Thoreau used "his retreat to the woods as a way of framing a reflection on both what ails men and women in their contemporary condition and what might provide relief". Reception
Walden enjoyed some success upon its release, but still took five years to sell 2,000 copies.[ Despite its slow beginnings, later critics have praised it as an American classic that explores natural simplicity, harmony, and beauty. The American poet Robert Frost wrote of Thoreau, "In one book ... he surpasses everything we have had in America".
Critics were generally split over Thoreau's Walden. Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson judged Thoreau’s endorsement of living alone in natural simplicity, apart from modern society, to be a mark of effeminacy, calling it "womanish solicitude; for there is something unmanly, something almost dastardly" about the lifestyle. Poet John Greenleaf Whittier criticized what he perceived as the message in Walden that man should lower himself to the level of a woodchuck and walk on four legs. He said: "Thoreau's Walden is a capital reading, but very wicked and heathenish... After all, for me, I prefer walking on two legs". Author Edward Abbey criticized Thoreau's ideas and experiences at Walden in detail throughout his response to "Walden" called "Down the River with Thoreau," written in 1980.
Today, Walden stands as one of America's most celebrated works of literature. John Updike wrote of Walden, "A century and a half after its publication, Walden has become such a totem of the back-to-nature, preservationist, anti-business, civil-disobedience mindset, and Thoreau so vivid a protester, so perfect a crank and hermit saint, that the book risks being as revered and unread as the Bible" The American psychologist B. F. Skinner wrote that he carried a copy of Walden with him in his youth, and eventually wrote Walden Two in 1945, a fictional utopia about 1,000 members who live together in a Thoreau-inspired community.
A recent critic has accused Thoreau of hypocrisy, misanthropy and being sanctimonious based on his writings in Walden although this criticism has been perceived as highly selective.
Stetson Union Church, also known as the Stetson Meetinghouse, is a historic church building on Maine State Route 222 in Stetson, Maine. Built in 1843 to a design by Bangor architect Benjamin S. Deane, it is an excellent and well-preserved example of ecclesiastical Greek Revival architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. It is owned by the town.
Description and history
The Stetson Union Church is located at the northeast corner of Village Road (Maine State Route 222) and Wolfboro Road, east of the village center. The single story rectangular wood frame structure is set facing roughly west, toward the junction. The square tower that rises from the western end of the gable roof has two stages, ending in a conical fluted spire. The upper stage has arched windows flanked by Doric pilasters. The main facade has a recessed entrance pavilion, with Doric columns at the front and Ionic pilasters at the rear. The sides of the building have four stained-glass windows, and a chimney rises at the rear.
The town of Stetson began as a proprietorship established in 1801 by Amasa Stetson on land he purchased from Leicester Academy of Leicester, Massachusetts. In 1831 he bequeathed the funds to build a church, which resulted in the 1843 construction of this building, to a design by the noted Bangor architect Benjamin S. Deane. The building is now owned by the town. On November 10, 1978 construction of The House at Pinewoods Hollow ceased as funds had run dry, and I left my friend David as caretaker with a stumpage contract negotiated by me with a neighbor to keep both my friend and neighbor warm for the upcoming Winter with enough firewood.However this plan failed when an altercation between David and the neighbor was instigated by one of the neighbor's sons and my friend left his post. I took his place in late December and lived alone in the woods until March 21, 1979 when I required income and there were no open jobs at the woolen mill 10 miles away. Work on the 18' x 24' segment of this initial structure in The Commonwealth of Lanternshire resumed in the Summer with barn-board siding put on my wood frame camp and windows salvaged from the old Stetson schoolhouse (converted to apartments) installed. The House at Pinewoods Hollow was also known as "The Schoolhouse" as its timbers were originally part of the old school structure in Bradley, Maine. By 1984, with no time or extra money to continue this project the house fell into disrepair, eventually to be dismantled and burned in a wood stove for heat by another neighbor, so whenthe land was sold as a woodlot in 2003, it was just as I found it back in 1974: A woodlot! ~ JDHWB-R
"But Lot's wife looked back as she was following behind him, and she turned into a pillar of salt." - Genesis 19:26
I open this re-post from Hopegirl Blog with a public apology to Valerie Robitaille for my questioning of the practical application for a Quantum Energy Generator in the light of my brother Howard's unbelief in this device by relaying his doubt in an email to her. I do believe in the viability of this device, even though I have no background in electrical engineering. Howard is like the character Fox Mulder in the X-Files: "I want to believe." He wants to see video proof that the QEG is self-looping and may be harnessed for use in practical applications; something that James Robitaille has chosen not to do because the centralized corporate energy industry does not want free energy available to the people. ~ JDHWB-R
FREE ENERGY FULL DISCLOSURE: THE QEG CHRONICLES
PART 1: RBC BANK AND $1200K
It’s time to share our story. While we have indeed reported many things throughout the years on our blog, there is a lot more in-depth and more personal information that has occurred around the creation of our Free Energy device. Some of these stories are so diabolical that there are times I think they only happened to us because they were meant to become a book one day. Well that day has arrived.
I would like to introduce you to a dear friend of ours, Wilhelmina, a 75 year old widow from Canada who wanted to play a role in helping bring Free Energy to the world. She came across the story of our family and our QEG through watching our Youtube videos. She then made a sizeable donation to our project and the conversation moved into a place we could only have dreamed about.
This beautiful soul had $120,000 USD she wanted to give our organization to fund free energy. This is the moment that every inventor / project manager dreams of; real funding that can finally make this happen!
What happened next was mind-blowing to say the least: the bank froze her funds and refused to let her give her money to fund a free energy project. Crazy things like bank freezes happen a lot in this field, however, our friend Wilhelmina is quite the firecracker! She went up head first against the bank, visiting the character she calls “The Rough,” several times, and was told in no uncertain terms that the bank will not let her spend her money on any free energy project, and that they will be watching her transactions very carefully from here on.
She decided to publish all of our letters, telling the story in a book. She herself states: “…and to the RBC, you may have won this battle but I know how to write!” One has to wonder if the bank knew she would be documenting and publishing what they put her through.
The friendship between Wilhelmina and our family has been blossoming, and more letters are being composed on a regular basis. This is how we will tell our story for the entire world to see. Thank you Wilhelmina! We love you!
Over the next few weeks, we will be publishing all the juicy details about what has occurred over the last 2 years of our journey to bring free energy to the people. We’re going to talk about ALL OF IT. The supporters, the scandals, the agents, trolls, all of our build trips and the different groups, individuals and cultures we were involved with.
While we are going to do our best to ‘keep it clean,’ THIS IS IT: No-holds-barred full disclosure of all the events and experiences that happened during the last couple of years. You, our reader and supporter, need to know some of the experiences we’ve been through have been pretty rough (and we have also seen miracles that we’ll continue to share). Since we don’t want to gossip, we’ll be switching names around to respect privacy, but the shocking story line will remain in-tact.
Our aim is to tell the story from the most level-headed point of view. You will hear about the events as they unfolded, and about how we handled them. Since there is so much to tell and we cannot possibly do this all at once, the stories will be released in a series of posts over the next few weeks. The format will take place in the style of a novel through our letters to Wilhelmina so that you can follow along as Hope does her best to transport you all there in your minds through her writing style.
The letters through September have been published in a book by Wilhelmina that you can buy on Amazon for $2.99. The book is being continuously updated with new installments as the letters roll out, and all of the proceeds will go to help us fund our fight for free energy released to humanity. We think Wilhelmina is very clever :)
We want to thank our creator, our family, and all of those that have supported us and helped us get this far on this incredible journey. But especially, we want to thank our dear friend Wilhelmina who we believe has a large breakthrough role in our quest for the end of free energy suppression. Although we do not have access to the funds she wanted to contribute, we are working every day toward touching others who want to help in the fight for free energy. We believe that Wilhelmina’s efforts will be a callout for others who may wish to help. We are especially concerned about the loss of a fundamental freedom, to spend our own money, but if we all start speaking up in ways that are appropriate for the cause, and support each other, we will win the war.
We will start the story here, with the first installment of letters between our families originally found on Wilhelmina’s blog found here: https://freeenergyandtheqeg.wordpress.com/ which are all re-blogged below.
September 2015
My adventure started when I sent a donation to James Robitaille for his free QEG (Quantum Energy Generator) Build Manual. The suggested donation was $15. I sent a thousand bucks. The following emails, word for word, no more and no less, tell the story of what happened to me after that. – Wilhelmina –
09.06.15
Dear Wilhelmina. We were amazed and thrilled to see your incredibly generous donation to Fix the World and the QEG. Thank you so very much for your help! I just wanted to write you personally to let you know that this particular donation from you seems to have come in ‘divine’ timing. We have just recently acquired a community center here in a poor neighbourhood in Morocco which will allow us to operate our humanitarian efforts and help lots of people improve their living conditions and graduate out of poverty. The center will be helping homeless mothers and children in tutoring and vocational training, and allow for a place for people to go during the day for some peace in an otherwise stressful living situation. It will also serve as a main distribution center for the donations of food and clothing that come into the area from other countries.
Your donation has enabled us to keep the community center open for half a year. Thank you so much from the bottom of our hearts and those of the people we can help! Stay tuned to the HopeGirl blog as we will be putting out some great stories to show pictures of the community center and the beautiful people who will use it every day. Blessings. – Hope –
09.06.15
Hello, Hope. I appreciate what your family has been doing and I’d like to help in some way in promoting Free Energy. Do keep Youtubing. This is where I’ve recently found you and where I will keep in touch. And do keep us all informed as to how your translation program is coming along for your free and open-source QEG Build Manual. A thousand dollars per language seems like such a good deal. Your family has been doing all the grunt work up to now. Perhaps I can do my part by contributing a little. I wish you well. – Wilhelmina –
09.06.15
Dear Wilhelmina. My husband, James, and I are so very grateful for your donation 24 hours ago. James has been needing capacitors for the next generation QEG and we were really scrimping to save for some. Your incredibly generous donation came at just the right time for us and we thank you so very much from our hearts. We continue the work! Many blessings. – Valerie and James –
09/07/15
Hello, Valerie. I’m so glad to hear from you personally. Thank you, thank you, for what your family has done. I am just now finding you, through Youtube and HopeGirl.
I have two questions: My first question is: Are you aware that Dr. Steven Greer (founder of CSETI, the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and a man to be trusted), and who can be found at siriusdisclosure.org 1) has been looking for an open-source Free Energy device that a) works, and comes with plans for it that are open-sourced b) can be independently tested by a team of his choosing, and c) can be replicated entirely from the written plans? And 2) he has powerful connections in place to immediately announce such a device to the entire world? And 3) that he has collected $100,000 that he’s offering as an incentive to the person who will come to his home in Virginia and present him with such a device for testing, along with the plans for it?
I think it’s possible that yours is the device he’s been waiting for. My second question is: Are you interested in pursuing this? If you are, I will immediately send you (as soon as I can figure out how to do it, and shuffle some funds around) ten thousand dollars to cover your personal expenses.
I only ask to remain invisible. I cherish my privacy and have no wish to be ‘trolled’. I wish you well. – Wilhelmina, on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
09/08/15
Wilhelmina. I am honored to write you personally. We (Fix The World / QEG / HopeGirl) are astounded at your generosity and want to catch you up on all we’ve been doing. I know my daughter (HopeGirl – her real name is Naima) has told you about our community center in Morocco, but since you just recently found us you will need some history which I hope to provide here and in future emails, if you like.
First, FTW (Fix The World) – Hope came on the public scene as a whistleblower, and we all started really waking up back in 2011 – 2012. We are very familiar with Dr. Greer and really respect his work in waking so many people up. I have his ET app on my phone. I wouldn’t know how to make contact with Dr. Greer, but also, I don’t know if that offer is still valid. I recently heard that he’s had a lot of problems with his Free Energy endeavors. And the offer is over a year old.
We’ve been developing the QEG for exactly two years now. While it was crowd-funded all the way we, as a family, lost a lot. The material losses don’t matter much as we know many others are in the same boat due to their work. What matters is that we have succeeded in spreading the technology to so many countries around the world. But the losses still have taken their toll and we’ve come up with a plan to heal. We have a book and other materials for sale, a 10 week video course, and an ongoing ‘webinar’ series, all of which we created after our awful public ‘troll’ experiences, and because we didn’t want to have to worry about money to live on while we spread the word. Our systems are so far working to keep the ‘trolls’ and their threats at bay, put food on our table and a roof over our heads while the work continues.
All the information for building a QEG is free on the web (in addition to the purchasable items), and people like Dr. Greer, Foster Gamble, and Nassim Haramein all know about the QEG and are probably even building one. (At least I heard Foster was.) We have had a few offers like Dr. Greer’s but none of them have come through in terms of allowing the time, funding, and equipment needed. Some of these offers were from obviously greedy, controlling individuals looking for the next big thing to make them a ton of money and give them some kind of power.
We live in Africa. We’re interested in people getting what they need to survive, not the money. Now that the QEG has reached ‘overunity’, we need to optimize it for the people – the next step in development. The really good news is that our winding supplier has agreed to make kits which will make it very easy to build one, and they ships cores and parts to everywhere in the world! Accessible to people.
Please let me know if you have any ideas for the next steps to see if Dr. Greer is still interested. We can assist him in building one, and perhaps his passion and public presence will break through some of the dark agendas of the big energy industry controlling the planet today. And thank you for your amazing offer to help make this happen. Much Love and Appreciation. Valerie.
p.s. I love Vancouver Island! When I lived in Washington State, I spent a great deal of time docked with our sailboat in Finlayson Bay and would enter Butchart Gardens from the back (bay) way!
09/08/15
Dear Valerie. Naima. Hmmm. Interesting name. Where did that come from? I live in a small seaside city one hour’s drive up-island from Victoria, in a cozy ‘hobbit hole’ in the basement of my sister’s snug house. She’s a gardener and her yard is dancing with birds and flowers and the nature spirits she welcomes in.
I’m aware of the seriousness of ‘trolling’. Dr. Greer once spoke of himself as a ‘Spirit Warrior’ and I put your family in the same category. You’re on the front line of fire. You’re the ‘Davids’ facing up to the Goliaths. I don’t know if a Dr. Greer connection would be either feasible or useful to you and I’m going to leave that up to you to explore or not, according to your inclinations, leaving in place my offer of $10,000. for personal expenses.
But here’s what I have on my mind this morning. Somewhere in one of Hope’s videos, she spoke of people who don’t have so much as a light in their dwellings and have to live in darkness from dusk till dawn.
Do you think a Free Energy device could be designed that would be so small and so cheap and so easy for a common man or woman to build that it could escape suppression and get into the hands of the individuals who need it? Is this a project your family in interested in pursuing? I am interested. I have no technical knowledge and no connections, but I do have more money than I can spend on my personal comforts.
From your QEG project, I know of your family’s conviction and determination, and I know you can squeeze a nickel so hard it flattens into two dimes. What could you do, I wonder, in the matter of getting Free Energy to the people who most need it, if you had a hundred thousand dollars to spend as you please? Say the word and it’s yours with no strings attached – no business plan, no progress reports, no accounting to me.
In exchange for my money, I ask that you continue to do what you’ve proven yourselves good at doing, and that you be as public as possible, letting the world know that, as far as the ocean of Free Energy we are swimming in is concerned, there has been a sea change. The tide has turned and it’s now unstoppable. Regards, from – Wilhelmina –
Gerry and Me (see source post)
p.s. I’m attaching a photo of me and my husband, Gerry, who earned all the money I have, but died before he got a chance to spend it. p.s.s. Please allow me to remain invisible to all but yourselves.
09/09/15
Hi Wilhelmina! It will take us a little time to respond properly to your letter as we are truly astounded at your proposals. But I wanted to respond right away to let you know we are processing. Actually, we’ve been crying. Is it possible this is divine timing and we are meant to perform an assignment together? Are you and your late husband, Gerry, the angels we have been hoping to meet for more than two years? As you probably know from what you’ve read about us, we have had a hard way to go but we keep going because we are on assignment! Thank you so much for attaching the photo. I can see Gerry’s light.
I’m attaching a video link. This is what we were doing yesterday. (Please let me know if you can’t open it and I will send it another way. This will be public soon but is still raw footage.)
This person lives in Martil, Morocco, and has a light in her room as you will see. The people in the Rif and Atlas mountains do not have electricity and the people in West Africa are at the hands of the big western energy companies – they are the ones Hope spoke about in her video that you saw. We had just gotten a letter from the president of a big electric corporation that rules like tyrants over West African communities, whose conscience was burning in him, so Hope chose to share that story. As we all know, so many people are suffering.
So, a quick fix is a $250 solar array. Tivon (Hope’s beloved and the designer of the mini QEG, he’s in the video) has all the information for that. And, of course, he’s about ready to come out with his mini QEG, which will really be a tremendous breakthrough. It will cost under $1,000 to build! It won’t power a whole house but will power a refrigerator, or an air conditioner, or another important appliance in the dwelling. We gave the information about this kit to the corporate guy but I think he had a different agenda. What a story that is, and we’ll have to write a blog post about it one day!
About my daughter’s name – I was a big John Coltraine fan back in the seventies. He wrote a beautiful song for his wife, who was Naima. It felt right and now we know she was meant to have a name that many languages can relate to (Hindi, Arabic, African). Across these languages it pretty consistently means ‘pleasant’, or ‘peaceful’, or ‘the breeze’.
I love how you described where you live! I’m also attaching a community flower essence project I had two years ago in my Sacred Garden. You should be able to recognize the nature spirits there, too.
Thank you for saying we are ‘Spirit Warriors’ and ‘Davids’. We are so very touched that you read our story and got it. You have displayed exactly the frequency we’ve been holding out for.
Thank you so very much again, Wihelmina. We will be in touch with more in the next few days as we continue to process your offer. We know you said no business plan and all that but we want to show you and tell you a few things more. Please do keep asking questions and I will write back as I can. We are very serious about getting the QEG technology into the hands of the people that need it and we see that you are on the same page. Such a refreshing change from what we’ve experienced – a beautiful breath of fresh air! Love, Val, Jamie, Naima and Tivon
Hello, Valerie. You don’t need to be writing me. Honestly. You’re a busy woman, and I’m in the habit of looking into my emails about once a month! I know – I’m not quite in sync with the times. And I will be looking for you now and then on Youtube and on your websites, so I can keep up to date on your news there. I’ve been shuffling money around, and I think I’ll have $120,000 arriving in my local bank today. I’m planning to send you the whole wad at once, and I THINK I now have got Paypal hooked up to my local account so I can get this all done in a single go.
If the Dr. Greer thing doesn’t work out, I know you’ll put the money to good use somewhere, using it in any way you can think of to get Free Energy into the hands of the people. Or . . . at least having a good try at it anyway.
I have one question: I sent you some money by pressing a button on your ‘Free QEG Build Manual’ page and that was easy. I could type in any amount I wanted to. Would it work for you if I did that again?
Once that’s taken care of – in the next few days if all goes well – I’d appreciate a confirmation that you’ve received the money. After that, what I intend to do is crawl back into the woodwork and carry on with my quiet, easy life. You can think of me pulling morning glory weeds on a dewy morning from the rich black soil of my sister’s flowerbeds, and walking down to the harbour to see if the shorebirds have begun their fall migration, and perching for a while on the black rocks of the seawall – near the water’s edge where the soft swell of the tide is lifting the bubbly, golden bladderwrack. You can imagine me breathing in the cool, salty air and feeling nothing but gladness to be alive in a beautiful part of a beautiful world.
I certainly don’t care to be thought of as an angel! But I do fancy the image of Galadrial, doing her magic from the shelter of her lovely forest home while the brave little hobbits are out there storming the gates of Mordor. Whooo! Aren’t we all caught up in an similar adventure, though? It’s full of drama and suspense, and kind of interesting, too, in a life-or-death sort of way. And who knows? After the dust has settled and the smoke has cleared, we might live to see a happy ending yet!
I leave you to your noble quest and I wish you well. – Wilhelmina –
09/10/15
Dear Wilhelmina. Thank you for putting your trust and faith in us. We will find a way to contact Dr. Greer and see if he is still interested in our machine and spreading the technology to ‘the Good People of the Earth’, as he puts it. The more we are connected to like minds in the field, the sooner we will be able to give the whole world access to the technology. We are constantly thinking of ways to stay under the troll radar so that we can be effective.
The QEG in Morocco, when completed, is to be donated to the Aouchtam community as promised last year. This will make life so much better for the women of the community who are the ones that have to pull up the water from the well. They will be able to run the pump for that!
Within the next two weeks we will go with Achmed into the Rif mountains to meet the people. We have already made appointments to assess the situation there and will let you know when all of that comes to fruition. In about six months when the mini QEG is in full swing, we’ll really be able to fulfill your wishes as we’ll be manufacturing them and teaching the Morocco community some skills. They are wonderful people but they don’t have much industry. Our long-term goal is to see viable, healthy communities where there is now unbelievable poverty.
I’ve called Paypal to alert them to a large transaction coming through shortly. The best way to send it is to go to your Paypal account and click ‘send to friends and family’. Our Paypal address is (dadada) . Otherwise, Paypal will take 5%. There are really no words that I can find to express how much we feel blessed by you – it is hard not to think of you as an angel. This action, and your humility and quiet beauty has us also believing we might live to see a happy ending yet! I hope you don’t mind if I do continue to write and keep you updated – you don’t have to respond although I feel you are such a kindred spirit that I would love nothing more than to stay in touch. We will certainly keep posting all updates for FTW, QEG, and our humanitarian efforts.
Thank you so very much, dear one. I will hold those images of you that you so eloquently expressed. There is not much that is more beautiful and satisfying than nature, would you agree? I’ll write again as soon as the deposit comes through.
Valerie and James (see source post)
So much love and appreciation. Val, Jamie, Naima and Tivon.
09/11/15
Greetings to you, Val, Jamie, Naima and Tivon. Just now, I’m making my way through a maze of cross-border banking complications. I’m going to make it through, but it’ll take a little time.
My sister, Theresa, drove me this morning to a favourite spot of hers, out past the Indian reservation on the Nanaimo River estuary. It was a wild place, not a bit popular, and well away from the hum of humanity. She shucked her clothes and slogged out through the black river-bottom muck to have a swim in the brackish water – warm, she told me, from the tide washing in over the shallow reaches of the bay
Then we lay in the tall, brown, weedy grasses in the dappled shade of a low Hawthorne tree loaded with hard little red berries, and we put our straw hats over our faces and listened to the slow, late-summer song of the crickets and to a family of ravens calling back and forth in the dark, shaggy Douglas fir trees on the far side of the river.
She sang me a song. “We are the ones,” she sang. “We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for.” Regards, from – Wilhelmina –
09/13/15
Hi Wilhelmina! I must come to Nanaimo one day with my big hat and swim in Theresa’s estuary and pick Hawthorne to dry later for tea and a healthy heart! I am so thrilled with your descriptions and, of course, intuit that you are a famous writer. Or just so good at it. Certainly you engender a palpable experience, and I have a clear vision of you and your sister just having a grand time in Nature.
We had a lovely baby shower for my daughter Cheyenne yesterday who is 8 months pregnant with my second grandchild. The best part was the baby playdoh contest. It’s just too cute not to share, so I’m attaching a picture.
Also, if you have any interest, here is my health website/blog:
p.s. Oh, the photo on the front page of my blog is of my beloved Packwood Lake in Washington where I was living and sailed the Puget Sound for 5 years. I love that part of the world more than any other. Val
09/15/15
Hi, Val. No, I’m not famous! Nobody knows me, and I prefer to be invisible! But I do love words and I write a lot for my own remembering and enjoyment -my family stories and rememberings. Ooh, Hawthorne tea! Theresa would go for that.
Yes, I would like to correspond with you. I’d like it a lot. I’ve been outside these past couple of days, painting the front steps up to Theresa’s place, as well as the front gate and trellis our dad once build for her at his hobby workshop . . . and all the while, I’ve been trying to picture a dark-skinned lady in your part of the world, drawing water from a well. I wonder if you could make a word picture for me? I like word pictures even better than photographs. They leave more scope for the imagination.
What name might I give to this lady at the well? And might the name have a meaning? How does she wear her hair? Is she dressed in jeans and a t-shirt or what? Does she have children, and what does she do with them while she’s working? Or do they go to school, or are they grown?
And about that well – how does she get the water out of it, or is it a well at all? Gerry and I, in our hippie days, lived for 12 years here on the island, in a tiny non-electric home he built for us with a hammer and a saw, and we pumped the water from our well with a long-handled pump and carried it up the hill in two galvanized buckets. We were just playing at being primitive. Gerry was a pharmacist and we always had more money than we needed.
Nowadays, I take my pleasures close to home and I’m thinking that, if you’d care to, you might be a window for me, Val, onto a new world. I’d like that. – Wilhelmina –
p.s. Son of a gun. Looks like we are ‘kindred spirits’, Val. I’ve just had a look at your Blessed Health website. Good site. Good topic. Good luck! One of the mottos I live by is ‘Good Body – Good Life.”
09/17/15
Hi Val. About your money. The gears are grinding, but slowly. First, I sold some stocks from my American investment company. When that was done, I phoned them to wire the money to my RBC account here in Nanaimo. Because of the large sum, this got held up by the RBC Wire Transfer Team, who got in touch with me by phone. I was advised, when I told somebody where the money was going, not to convert it to Canadian dollars and then back into US dollars, as I’d wind up with less money than I started with.
So I got an appointment with my bank here and went down and opened something called a US Dollar account here in my local branch. The money is sitting in there now, minus a little that got lost along the way.
The next thing I did was to try and connect Paypal to this new account, and I ran into a line of small print that told me that, in Canadian banks, Paypal only deals in Canadian dollars. Shucks.
So I got another appointment down the hill and the next RBC fellow I spoke to advised me to open a separate account in an American bank in the States, and he told me that RBC has an affiliate RBC bank in Philadelphia that does this. This is now in the works. Since I have American citizenship, everything seems to be moving smoothly. My next step is to move the money into this new account, and then see what Paypal has to say about it all. I expect this will work, and – thank you for the heads-up – I have found the ‘send to friends and family’ button on Paypal and will use it.
However, this morning I’m thinking maybe I could forget about Paypal and do a wire transfer directly from my US Dollar account here in Nanaimo into your bank. I’ve just called the RBC and it sounds like this is ok with them. I’d walk down to the bank and someone there will get the job done properly for me.
Do you think this would work for you? And is it a good idea? If so, the bank information I’d need from you is: Transit #, Financial Institution #, Bank Account #, Swift Code # (usually needed for overseas accounts, the lady told me), and Routing # (usually for US accounts). We soldier on! – Wilhelmina –
p.s. I don’t think my old US bank accounts used anything called a transit number. That’s a Canadian thing. Last year, when I moved back here from North Carolina, getting my Social Security pension switched across the border was a long, drawn-out puzzle. It took me many months to find the right questions to ask and the right people to ask them to. Whew! Fortunately, I thrive on a challenge. It keeps me on my toes. This current puzzle will get solved, all in due time. – Wilhelmina –
09/17/15
Wilhelmina. I was just writing you when your letter came in. OMIGOSH! What a lot of hassle. We always have trouble due to our dual residencies, here in the US and in Morocco (which I explain in my next letter). Here’s the info you need:(dadada)
I’m glad you enjoy a challenge! Up against the banks trying to use your money certainly tops all!
I’m uploading our latest Youtube now: the ‘webinar’ Jamie did on July 20: How to Get Your QEG to Overunity. So you should be able to see that in about an hour. See you later. Val. p.s. Please delete this email after you’ve written the info down. Thanks!! Hugs!!
09/17/15
Val. Your bank info is deleted and has gone into ‘Trash’. Do you know how get rid of my ‘Trash’? I tried to highlight and cut with ctrl-x, but that wouldn’t work for me. I appreciate the hugs. Hugs are always good. Tomorrow morning I’ll walk down to the bank again and see how that goes. Fingers crossed! – Wilhelmina –
p.s. In my ‘Trash’, I just found a button that said, ‘Delete Forever’, and I hit it. So I think your banking information is gone forever. Scary, isn’t it? Putting all that sensitive info into an email? Catch you later. I’m going to stretch out pretty soon and watch Tootsie with Dustin Hoffman – an oldie but a goodie. – Wilhelmina –
09/18/15
Hello Val, We’re almost there. I’ve just come up from the bank and what I found out this time is that, on the Wire Transfer form, the computer, just below your name, requires ‘address line 1 and line 2’. That should do it. I will definitely vaporize your information as soon as I get it on paper. And probably try the bank again tomorrow. – Wilhelmina –
09/18/15
Hi, Wilhelmina. You’re amazing to keep at it and we are very grateful for your persistence.
Full address (you’re the only one in the whole world with this info): (dadada)
I’ve not had a moment to write a proper letter (which I’m really chomping on the bit to write!). My daughter is needing help with everything now and my 6 year old grandson is here much of the time. He’s a good boy but a handful! We went camping a couple of weeks ago and found a lost baby bird. Well, the baby died and my boy is grieving terribly – so sensitive. I’m attaching a pic.
Enjoy! And I’ll be back on line tomorrow evening. Much love and appreciation. Val
09/19/15
Hi Val. Now we wait. My RBC teller has filled in all the required slots on the Wire Transfer form. Today is Saturday. She says the wire will go out on Monday. Then there may be some processing time at the bank on your end. Then we celebrate! – Wilhelmina –
p.s. It all takes time! When Gerry and I moved from here to Fairfield, Iowa, in 1986, it took four years for us to get our ‘green cards’ – our permanent resident status. But we did it! We knew how to persevere. p.s.s. I do like you sending me links, and I’ll get to them all – someday!
09/19/15
Hi Wilhelmina! Do I need to call my bank? Hmmm. I’ll call them early Monday morning to alert them. We just got off a very long call with an inventor who is doing similar work as us in Africa and other countries. His is an energy device that turns just about any liquid into gas for your car and he’s very famous in the field (because his machine works!) Due to this device, he was raided by big corporate energy goons in the 1990’s, who threatened to kill him if he didn’t sell them his patent. Through a corrupt judge, they managed to have him committed to an insane asylum for many years. While there, they broke both his legs and pulled all his teeth out while continuing to try to get him to sign his patent over.
His son, who has been teaching the father’s technology in France for many years, appealed incessantly and finally got him out. He’s eccentric, yes, but insane, no. He’s a genius and is to be commended for his integrity and courage. We’re very excited to be associating with him and think we’re going to be great friends! Just like you and me. Please see my attached word-pictures, and picture-pictures!
09/19/15
Morocco Words and Pictures for Wilhelmina
A Berber Woman (see source post)
Above is my very first sight of a Berber, or Mountain Woman. I was very cautiously warned they didn’t like their pictures taken, but they were irresistible! I’ve not shared this with anyone yet, but I’m happy to share it with you. (I took it in April, 2014.) Since then, we have known the Berbers to be talented artisans and to live close to the Earth (the way I desire to live, and the way you and Gerry possibly lived.)
In the deserts, these tribes know no illness, nor do they know that there is such turmoil in the world that there is. The men dress in big, blue ‘djellabahs’, with big, blue, turban-like head dressings. You can sort of see it below. If you’ve not read Edith Wharton’s ‘In Morocco’, I highly recommend it. It’s free on Amazon Kindle!
The Rug Merchants (see source post)
These lovely rugs are one of the major Berber traditions. They tell a story – maybe it’s a love story, or unrequited love story. Fascinating.
The Moroccans have a certain way of doing business: they try to get as much money out of you as they can and will only haggle! Normally it’s annoying and offensive to westerners, but with this merchant it was very interesting.
We tried to tell them we absolutely did not have 3,800 ‘dirham’ (about $350 USD), and that people in the west are suffering, and that most of us are poor, not rich, and that we were in Morocco on a humanitarian mission. At first, they didn’t hear us and seemed convinced we were going to buy.
They serve Moroccan tea at the rug merchants, which is nice, but overly sugared, while they weave a historical tale of their wares. Most of the rug sellers are older and corrupt to the core. But not these guys. They finally started to understand we didn’t have money for rugs, and that we didn’t have it so easy.
They were dumbfounded with our stories, especially when we started talking about homelessness (due to having our homes stolen by the banks), government/corporate tyranny, the US military-industrial complex, and other things. They don’t have internet in the desert towns so they never hear this stuff.
Hassan (in blue) spoke perfect English and looked as if he would cry. He did have a cell phone and gave me his number. He said we are welcome to come live with his tribe in the desert (4 hours east of Marrakech). He said it was an oasis and we would be very happy. I’m sure he’s right. (Wish the pic didn’t come out blurry.)
Donkey on the Road (see source post)
This is a typical sight on the roads except most of the donkeys don’t look as good. And usually the woman is walking with a heavy load on her back like the woman below carrying hay.
Woman Carrying Hay (see source post)
I don’t have a picture of the well we’ve had in mind since 2014, (my external drive with most of my pictures in it broke!) but the picture below is one like it. You’ll also see women carrying buckets of water on the donkeys and their shoulders, and delivering these to people along the way, as they usually walk 4, 5, 6, or more miles from the fresh water source. The woman in this picture is in a full Muslim burka with just slits for the eyes – something you see, but not as much as the ‘djellabahs’ and a head-hair covering. These religious women will also swim in their full burka.
Woman at Well (see source post)
The farmers markets, called ‘souks’ (below), are intense. One must be ready for this intensity, ha ha. Smoky, crowded, hot and dusty, with merchants screaming in Arabic – what a trip! And so many beautiful and interesting things to see.
Farmer’s Market (see source post)
The language barrier is a tough one for me but I am getting by. I can greet people properly and count to 10 in Arabic, get by with a little Spanish, but am totally lost when it comes to French. Also, not having a car is stressful as the only alternatives are very crowded buses and ‘squishy cabs’ – very uncomfortable.
One of the ways we are going to put your money to use is to buy a Fix the World van for the community center! Thank you so much for this! We’ve been advised to buy and register it in Spain (just over the border) and were told the price will be about $5,000.
Three Ladies in Cone Hats (see source post)
Another thing we’ll be able to do – FINALLY – is open a Moroccan business entity, a SARL. This will make it much easier and cheaper to get QEG cores and other equipment delivered.
The photo below, of course, is Jamie and me ‘rockin’ the kashbah!
Jamie and Val, Rockin! (see source post)
So, my dear Wilhelmina, we are now in Pennsylvania waiting for the baby to arrive. We’ll stay through the baby’s first Christmas and then back to our beloved Morocco end of December.
Their View (see source post)
Here are views from our Tetouan apartment.
A Typical Mosque (see source post)
Below is a typical mosque. In the city, many of the calls-to-prayer go off at the same time and it’s truly awesome. Often, all four of us will run up to the roof and open our arms to the sky and thank Allah for the blessing that we may live in this great land.
And, of course, the QEG. It’s in a beautiful sun room. (see source post)
Below is the King of Morocco – Mohammed VI. He has only one wife. He’s holding the young boy in the center.
Discussion with Sterling Allen and Mark Dansie implicates one of our most difficult paid trolls (Dansie) in misrepresentation of funds. The FBI is now investigating his books! He and one of his co-workers have given us nothing but heartache and headache for the past one and a half years and made our way very difficult. Of course, we say ‘Good!’ because we’ve known all along he gets paid to travel around the world and discredit energy devices.
Time for bed for me. Got up early and made a big breakfast for five people, then built a playdoh city with 25 buildings and a Stargate! Great day with my grandson, Adley.
Thank you so much for all the trouble you went through with the banking, I promise we will keep you anonymous but in our hearts and minds you are a supreme star! Hugs. Val
09/21/15
Good morning, Val. Never a dull moment. I’ll read your email later, but I’ve just had a call from my local bank manager regarding my order for a wire transfer. Apparently, when the bank went to send it, the “recipient was flagged as potentially fraudulent”. So my bank is holding the money and is about to do some sort of a ‘fraudulence review’ for my protection, and will get back to me.
But don’t get in a sweat. This is just another snag, and it’ll get straightened out. I am not surprised at it, considering how the spread of Free Energy technology is about to change . . . well . . . is about to change just about everything in our world that needs changing! We’re on the right track. – Wilhelmina –
09/21/15
Wilhelmina. That’s pretty silly. Jamie’s had the account for about 27 years. Had his pay-check from Shopvac deposited directly for 27 years. Then his retirement payments were deposited, and nothing’s changed. We did call them this morning. What could that fraudulent flag be? Gosh I hope you’re right but don’t you find that suspicious? Should I worry about MIB? What should I do? Very disconcerting. Val
09/21/15
Wilhelmina. Waiting for my bank to call me back but Hope just reminded me of the time we tried doing a transaction with the QEG core. They said they had to check for fraudulent activity for our protection so it must be standard procedure. It just gave me a little shock. Gun shy I guess after all our trouble from TPTB. Did you see that article about Mark Dansie from Revolution Green? I’ll talk to you later after the bank calls me back. Hugs, Val
p.s. Ok my bank just assured me that there’s nothing on our end that would prevent it from posting. I’ll let you know if/when something changes. In the meantime enjoy my Moroccan word picture!
09/22/15
Wilhelmina. I’m writing you from my phone – please forgive the auto correct.
My bank just called to say that because we don’t use a SW I FT code when we get wire transfers they have to go through an intermediary bank which is Wells Fargo. (Did they tell you this?) Funny, because I remember just a year ago having to scramble for those SWI FT codes because you couldn’t get a transfer without it. And figures it would be Wells Fargo – those are the ones that took our house – just stole it as they’ve done to millions of others.
The bank also said it can take 3 to 4 days for a wire transfer. We used to get them from Taiwan in the beginning and it only took about 10 hours so something’s changed.
Just keeping you updated as I get info. I’m really not worried about it at all as we are blessed and highly favoured! We have an assignment from the divine to help people that are suffering. And we’ve always been provided for, so what could stop us now?
Hope is making a Morocco community center video and I feel as if a big chunk of my lifelong dream is coming true. But that’s not all – this is what needs to be done there. The poverty in that particular area of Morocco is unnecessary. Hah – I guess all poverty is unnecessary. Of course I’ll send you the link when it’s ready which will probably be in the next day or so.
So we’ll speak soon – and I’m sure it will be about deep evergreen forests, scattered snow-capped volcanoes, primrose heavens and Northern lights. Cheers to you and Sis, who keep the lights going in that beautiful land. Val
09/22/15
Hi, Val. Yup, I’ve done the Wells Fargo thing. It’s just another hurdle to jump. I’ll write you a decent note later but, for now, I hope you haven’t got your knickers in a twist over the ‘potentially fraudulent recipient’ flag. I could have my own flag by now as a ‘potential promoter of Free Energy who dares to put her money where her mouth is’. No sweat. It makes me feel important to have a flag to carry, and we’re getting down to the last squares on this game-board.
But I’m having another thought this morning regarding a possible link-up between you folks and Dr. Greer. Dr. Greer is mainly known for his focus on the ET presence, while your focus is Free Energy. If you hook up to him, you’ll be like a tugboat trying to pull a double load. Hmmm! Heavy load! Plenty of pros and cons to weigh here. I’m glad it’s not my move to make. – Wilhelmina –
09/23/15
Hi, Val. I’ve just figured out how to open your Morocco attachment. Heh, heh. Shows you how much I use my email! Thank you so much for your Morocco words and pictures. They’re precious! I’d also like to hear little bits, now and then, of the troubles other Free Energy inventors have been having with the trolls. I won’t be disheartened. I have a core of solid steel.
Your wire transfer is still in the works, but it’s coming along. These things take time. I’m going to go have a chat with my branch manager, the one who froze my account on Monday into a ‘deposit only’ position, pending results from the ‘Potentially Fraudulent Recipient’ team. I didn’t quite get what he was telling me on the phone and was wondering why I couldn’t pay for my cheese sandwich lunch with my debit card for the next couple of days!
I do appreciate the bank trying to protect my interests. It’s a dangerous world out there, and people are getting scammed out of their fortunes every day. So I don’t mind going through the motions. But it would be interesting if I could get a print-out of the report that comes back about you. I’ll pass it along if I do. – Wilhelmina –
09/23/15
Dear Wilhelmina, I am so excited for your pyjama party with your daughter up at Theresa’s! Have a blast! I’ll keep this short because I know Hope is writing to you to offer some help (she’s aware of changing global banking and business procedures). I just wanted to say that I think because of the fact that the amount is over 10K (Hope will explain) it was flagged and they did a Google search and decided for themselves that the QEG is a bad thing. When you put James Robitaille in a Google search some of our videos come up and one of them is called Quantum Free Energy Generator. Probably someone at RBC thought that was good enough info (a judgment call) to have to protect you. Otherwise, we really don’t have a bad reputation – we are deeply loved by those who are with us and they are plenty!
We have much love and gratitude for all you’re doing to make this happen. And I certainly don’t need any other reason to prolong our conversation than I want to! I envision you in Morocco for a vacation, sitting on the veranda overlooking the Mediterranean…I have just perfected making Moroccan tea and you and I are commenting on the fresh sea air while practicing our Arabic numbers in between giggles. Val
09/23/15
Wilhemina, here is the link to the new post (interview with Morocco community center partners) with video (it’s over an hour long so get yer popcorn!):
If/when you get to watch FTW TV, please look for the interview with Patty Greer Hugs! ~Val
09/25/15
Wilhelmina. Very interesting that I JUST NOW GOT THIS – not 15 hours ago when you sent it. My mail comes up on my phone so I couldn’t have missed it – just popped up. Whatever happened to the banks that used to say, “Yes ma’am, whatever you need! And thank you for keeping your money in my bank and paying my salary? And is there anything else I can do for you today???”
We are honest and doing exactly what we said we would do. In fact we’re the only ones that I know of that have publicly posted detailed budgets and progress and expenditure reports on our website. We have a huge FAQs page and advanced educational materials for sale. I am 6 months away from my PhD and Jamie is a seasoned engineer and a better man than most. How dare they! What kind of a system have we sold out to, that does this to each other?
If it’s any comfort please look at the attached photos. The capacitors came (thank you!) and Jamie’s building a beautiful capacitor bank. Note the grid he made and is in the process of drilling those small holes. Radiant energy rolls on! (see source post)
I’m listening to beautiful chants by Hildegard von Bingen. Might have to watch Heidi, too, like you are. Sending good thoughts your way. Val
09/25/15
Hi Val. I’ll get to your messages later. I’m afraid I’m going to set you crying again, but this time it won’t be for joy. I was just down to see my bank manager again this afternoon to clarify my position with them, and what I’ve learned is that I have been effectively hobbled. I cannot send money, by any means or in any quantity, to either the Robitaille family or the QEG project.
I cannot send a wire transfer, I cannot send a bank draft. I cannot send a personal check, no matter how small. I cannot send a Paypal payment. I cannot send a money order through the Post Office using my debit card. And any unusual cash withdrawals I make from my checking account will henceforward be investigated.
The policies of the bank are set in steel and there is no way I am able to bend them. Their job, as they see it, is to protect me from squandering my money, and you folks have a flag on you, and I am no longer invisible, but have my own flag on me, and that is the end of that.
All of my future banking activities with the RBC will be monitored. I am permitted to spend and give my money freely, provided it is on projects and people who are flag-free and meet with the approval my watchdog, who is the nice branch manager of my bank. Perhaps I will buy myself a Lamborghini. I’m sure they would allow this.
It makes no difference to the bank that I have just opened my American investment portfolio to them and proved that I do have this money to spare. It makes no difference that I am aware that what you’re working on is emerging technology that may or may not emerge, and that it could be a flash in the pan and fizzle, and that, in spite of this, I would like to send some money your way and see what you can do with it.
It makes no difference that I am satisfied as to your integrity and your good intentions. Nothing makes a bit of difference.
I asked the branch manager, at the end of our chat, “How do you think I can get this money, or any amount of money, to these people in a way that would satisfy both the bank’s interests and my own?”
He could only lean back in his chair and shrug his shoulders. I feel no rancour towards him. He’s just doing his job. It’s not his fault that you have a flag on you. And I feel no rancour towards the bank. If I were to move my money to any other respectable bank, they would find the same flags.
“You might try a Payday Loans place,” he said to me, “and see if they have a Western Union that can do something for you with cash.” I’m going to check this out tomorrow. – Wihelmina –
p.s. Theresa’s garden is an oasis. I’ve put on a sweater and am sitting outside on my patio to eat the sliced chicken breast and coleslaw I brought home from Thrifty’s. The thick Virginia creeper in the trellis above me is turning red and the late-afternoon sun filters through and makes shifting patterns of light and leaf-shadow on the flagstones. A hidden crow is yacking from the old walnut tree at the back corner of the house, and the homebound city traffic rushes by beyond the high front hedge.
It is still a beautiful world and I am still glad to be alive in it.
10/03/15
Dear Reader, I wrote a note to Val somewhere in the middle of this mess that I didn’t send to her because I didn’t want to get her down, but it’s been eating away at me, and I’m now going to tell you what I remember of it.
I had a phone call from someone on the ‘potentially-fraudulent-recipient review board’. I think of her as the RBC ‘tough’. She was a tough bird. We hadn’t been talking long before she backed me up against the wall and brought out the rubber hose and laid it on me. Were the Robitaille’s personal friends of mine? How well do I know them? How long have I known them? Where did I meet them? It was not a conversation we were having, it was an interrogation, and I was the one sitting in the hot-seat. I bumbled around for a bit and then I caught on to her game.
I asked her, “What is it that the bank knows about the Robitaille’s that I don’t?”
She wouldn’t tell me, not a word of it, but she did say, and her voice was rising both in volume and in pitch as she warmed to her subject, “I know their types! They sink their teeth into you and they don’t let go until they’ve milked you dry.”
This is exactly what she said. I am not making this up, folks, I’m remembering it.
To no avail did I tell her, with my own voice getting an edge to it, that I’m a person not easily milked. To no avail did I remind her that the money in question is mine, and if I choose to buy a yacht with it or if I choose to throw it on a bonfire, the choice is mine. To no avail did I tell her that the bank is supposed to be the servant and I am supposed to be the boss.
Her only reply was to tell me, point blank, that she could order a bank draft to be made out to me immediately for the entirety of my holdings with the RBC, and I was free to take my banking business elsewhere.
I surrendered then. I cowered. I grovelled. I said, “Thank you, but no thanks.”
I didn’t say it to her, but I was thinking it, and I’m saying it to you now: “I won’t be booted out in the middle of a cold and rainy night with no place to go. I will go, but I’ll go at a time of my own choosing. And I bloody well, damn well, will never – ever – be back.” – Wilhelmina –
p.s. One more time! To sum this up, what I learned from my RBC ‘tough’ is that the bank will let me use my money to buy a condo, and it will let me use it to take an extended trip around the world, but there is no way in hell it will let me use it to further the development of Free Energy technology. This burns me. Grrr!
09/25/15
Amen and yes! Wilhelmina, it is still a beautiful world and we are the lights of the world! I’ll not cry for me but for the collective like-minders who feel hindered at every turn. These are trying times unlike any other, I’m afraid, and new solutions are called for. We’ll figure them out as we go I guess. I’m so sorry for what you are experiencing but we’re used to it (if that’s possible).
TPTB have prevented us at every turn. We’ve had to start over 8 times in these last two years and this has left us with very little. Somehow we manage. We’ll start over 100 times if we must – we simply won’t give up. How could we and feel good about our life’s work? No, we’ll continue, knowing it will all be right in the end.
We have seen some unbelievable evil and the most marvelous good in humans during this QEG journey. We know we are under divine protection every step of the way and have been completely transparent, making our lives open to the public so THE PEOPLE could get the technology.
We are now more private, working with QEG builders and developers only – due to the troll attacks and the most awful threats – but have made quite a global impact since then by open-sourcing instructions unlike anything out there. And now we’ve begun the center in Morocco…well that’s just worth every hardship we may have endured.
FTW/QEG is in the trenches. We are the Warriors you said we are. I’m in the US to deliver a baby but when I go back to Africa I will work twice as hard to make sure those people get what they need to survive. Starvation and homelessness are my two biggest missions – take care of basic needs first, then educate.
So my dear friend, don’t let them bully you at the bank (we are stunned at their treatment of you) but please take care to not go to so much trouble. If they would have done an honest search they would have seen how many people around the world are building QEGs successfully and how much we are loved for what we’ve already done and continue to do.
But they didn’t do an honest search and the trolls are paid to get and keep their crap up there. (The worst of them is now under investigation for the very thing he falsely and viciously accused us of.) This has hurt us but there’s not much we can do about it. We remain in faith that we’ll be provided for and the technology, which is already unstoppable, will see great growth in the next 10 years for the info that’s already available.
My real concern is that our freedoms are more externally controlled than we thought when we cannot use our own money as we see fit.
Our lovely friends, Jim and Susan, are coming for a visit this weekend to test their new healing product on us. It’s called BEMER technology. Germany has been using it in their hospitals with great success for 17 years but of course no one has heard of it in the cabal US. So I’m excited to try it. It helps the body’s capillaries to detox and re-oxygenate. I’ll have a webinar about it on October 20th. Be at Peace ~ Val
09/26/15
12:15 am. Dear Val. I’ve become a player in the Free Energy game. Me – Little Mrs. Nobody! My bank has me in a choker-hold. Not only does it refuse to let me send you money, even so much as a plugged nickel, but it also refuses to tell me why, and to tell me what flags you have on you or how dark they are. And what I’m going to do about it is lie here like a whipped dog and lick my wounds, because I’m smart enough to know that I’m beating my head against a brick wall and this will get me nothing but a headache.
I’m sorry, Val. I’m very sorry. I’m sorry for you, and I’m sorry for me, and I’m sorry for the sorry state of my lovely world. I wish you well. – Wilhelmina –
09/26/15
5:45 am. Val, I am going to try to publish a little ebook! The title is going to be FREE ENERGY and the QEG. I’m curious to find out if the trolls have you muzzled as well as locked into a money-proof box. By golly, I am fired up! I might not succeed, but I am most certainly going to try!
I have been saving our emails because I enjoy hearing the story of the people behind the emergence of Free Energy (the ‘attempted’ emergence, that is), and I’d still like to hear more of the story. I’m on to this now. I like to be learning new things, and I’m a person who likes to fiddle with words. I’m going to have a great time with this book project, you betcha. And it’s something I can do from my safe and cozy (I think it’s safe) little wormhole here in the woodwork.
I realize that I may not be the only one reading your mail, Val, and that this book may never see the light of day, but yours is the story I’ve started listening to, and I’m wanting to hear the whole of it. How about you, Val? Are you wanting to tell it to me? – Wilhelmina –
09/26/15
(Dear Reader. I’ve just got around to opening this email. It’s from Hope. -Wilhelmina-)
Dear Wilhelmina. First of all I just wanted to let you know that when my mom first read us your initial letter about funding our work, I was in tears. After 3 years of hard work, and all the trials and tribulations we’ve experienced as a family I finally felt like God had sent an angel to help us get this mission of ours off the ground and help loads of people who really need it.
I have been incredibly busy the last couple of weeks out in the field and working with some of the poorest people living in horrible conditions. While doing this, my mom has kept me updated on the progress so far on your end, and I want to say that I absolutely love your spirit about whole thing. In many ways it seems that you and I share a lot of the same traits as I too enjoy a challenge and have fought my way through plenty of bureaucratic messes too.
Prior to doing humanitarian and Free Energy work I worked for the state government and also in the corporate world in high-end financial positions. If anyone understands the shenanigans that a bank will put you through, it’s me. In my government job I used to help manage 810 million USD annual for the state of New York food stamp and WIC program. One time it took us 9 months to transfer money to fund the program. After something like that, I can certainly understand something like the trouble you’re having with RBC.
I follow the financial news and know that in the last couple of years, banks… and ESPECIALLY banks in countries like: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and England, have made lots of changes to their banking regulations that most common customers don’t know about until they try to spend their own money. I won’t get into the audacious details and bore you to bits, but just know that these changes are real, and what you are going through with your bank, while it’s wrong on every level, is unfortunately what a lot of people in a situation like yours are most probably going through at this time.
I think I might be able to help and I wanted to offer a couple of options to you.First Option: I could send invoices on a regular schedule through Paypal for you to pay. We have paypal business accounts, over 12 years old and in good standing and able to receive large transactions with no flags. We called and checked and they noted it. We know that you were able to send us money through Paypal without any problems. So this gives us a good indication that we can probably continue to do it this way.
It’s important that its under 10k because anything over 10K for any single transaction anywhere, especially by a private person, is instantly flagged in the cabal banking system as fraudulent and under investigation. Guaranteed. This is probably the reason why you had so much trouble at the bank. You will have your own record automatically kept for you through your Paypal account.
I think this is the best option to begin with, since it’s manual and controlled by you, and us…AKA THE PEOPLE… not the banks.
Option 2: Wait a few months and wire it in smaller chunks to our new Morocco LLC bank account.
We are in the process of creating a legal SARL for the Fix the World Organization in Morocco. This is a limited liability company (LLC) equivalent that is based in Morocco with its own bank account. The process takes a few weeks to get all the papers and the stamps, and all the filings and to open the bank account for it here. We started this process with our new amazing Moroccan accountant last week and have already received the first “level” of certification for the paperwork from the Moroccan government. This whole process should be done by the end of the year, and within one month from now at the earliest.
I still strongly suggest the Paypal option you won’t have to deal with bank headaches. Morocco banks can be a different kind of headache as we aren’t yet fluent in the language and usually have to bring a translator with us for big discussions. However, I wanted to let you know that this is in the process, so that for your own records you will know that there is a legal business entity for humanitarian technology projects to which you can give your money.
Thanks for reading through all of that. I know money and banks can be a real frustration. But I’m just so amazed at how far we’ve all come as a species.
You’ll be interested to hear that we’ve got an action plan in place to launch a project called “Light in the Darkness” to make sure people living in dark rooms get small free energy lights with the funding you are providing. Just waiting for the first installment to purchase the light equipment to demonstrate, then we go into the mountains and (anywhere else our new humanitarian association partners can take us) to find the people that need it most and change their lives. All of it will be filmed and posted publicly. Tivon has a million ideas for technology that can help, and we are talking to other inventors as well.
I want to thank you for your words Wilhelmina. They touched my heart in a way that I felt came right from the creator. I consider them my “charge” to keep doing the work that I am doing. To keep making Youtube videos, and to keep reporting back to the public that energy is a right for every human being and that it should never be metered, controlled, or kept from the people.
Bless you and your family. -Hope-
p.s. Mom asked me to gift you a subscription to FTW TV. You can view all of our shows by going to this site: http://fixtheworld.podbean.com/ and when the box pops up on a premium video use this login: (dadada):
09/26/15
Hello, Hope. I love the pic of you and Tivon. I’ve got to think about this new donation plan for a bit. My bank has me in a straightjacket, and what I’m going to do for this winter is just lie low and nurture myself back to normal. I’m sorry, Naima. I’m so sorry. – Wilhelmina –
09/26/15
Wilhelmina. No dear, it’s only your bank. There is no money-proof box around us – that is part of the illusion your bank set up. And I know they told you any bank would do the same thing they’re doing but that’s simply not true. We are not blacklisted so probably not so exciting a story to tell but it’s all on the HopeGirl blog and our website. We’ve been at this 3 years.
I have more work to do and fighting off the trolls and naysayers is just too draining. I’m already drained and trying to heal so I can be of use. I’m not really up to another big challenge without resources. The QEG and all its many facets has me quite tied up in this regard.
We have a good system now selling educational materials that we worked very hard on creating, and people continue to donate because they want this. It seems like a good idea to keep pressing your bank for an explanation though. We know from the documents Snowden released what ‘they’ are doing to make sure THE PEOPLE stay enslaved. Your bank cannot give you a proper explanation for their actions, that is why they won’t.
We’re clean. But you know that. I wonder if you’re even getting my emails. I don’t have anything to go on that you are. I’ve written a few and Hope has written to you too. Hugs, Val
09/28/10
Hello Val. My RBC Branch Manager phoned me again, after yet another meeting to apprise him of my secure financial position and my intention to spread my surplus money around into projects that are green and promote the healing of the planet.
He tells me he has conferred once again with the RBC ‘tough’ and that the bank’s position regarding my spending restrictions remains the same.
I do not harbour ill will against these RBC people. They’re trying to do their jobs well and they’re following policy guidelines. So is the RBC. What I think is that this business, if I were able to dig into it, would lead me beyond the banks and deep into troll territory. – Wilhelmina –
p.s. I am in the process of setting up a blog on WordPress. I have also scissored your banking information and your address and phone number into tiny bits and spread them through three separate garbage bags in my kitchen.
p.s.s. Theresa calls my place her Earth Suite. The side where my tiny living room opens through the French doors to my patio is at ground level, but my bedroom, on the opposite side of the house, is buried as deep as my chest. When I get out of bed these days, since our fall rains have begun, and I put my nose to the screen before I slide the window closed, I get a whiff of the cool, woodsy smells rising from the damp earth, and of the thick mat of brown bits of cedar branches that have been shed by the neighbour’s tree where it leans in close over Theresa’s high, solid fence of weathered board. Mmmm! Smells even better than breakfast bacon on the fry!
09/29/15
Hello, Val. Will you please tell Naima that I’m in hibernation for the remainder of this year, but that, sometime next year, I will try once again to slip past the never-sleeping watchdog that now has its eye on me, and I will see if I can send you some money.
One day in Asheville NC, when I was at the cancer clinic with Gerry, I saw a sketch of a great blue heron that was in the process of swallowing a frog. The frog’s head was in the heron’s mouth, but the frog’s skinny little arms were stretched forward, and his hands were wringing the heron’s neck. The words below the sketch were ‘Never Give Up!” I’m not giving up!
In the meantime, I am putting my $120,000 USD into my Mommycare fund, an investment program I set up in Lori’s name last year, that she can draw on for my end-of-life expenses. The money is now sitting idle in the RBC and I can’t send it back where it came from. In the Mommycare fund it will make Lori a handsome return, largely on fossil fuels, energy and financials. Hmmm. How’s that for irony? – Wilhelmina –
09/29/15
Dearest Wilhelmina, I choose to trust the whole process, as that is the only way I’ve gotten as far as I have at this kind of work. I trust you to do whatever you feel in your heart, to lie low or try something different… either way is fine with us as this work is a divine calling.
Something interesting happened today I thought you’d love to know about. Through a colleague, I was introduced to a group in Tanzania Africa. One thing led to another and I suddenly realized that we found the perfect group of children who live in darkness and need a simple energy solution. After 7pm it gets dark and they don’t have any light at all inside.
They literally fell right into my lap, complete with a person who runs their orphanage. We talked for hours. So this to me, is a sign from God that our mission still remains… that we will get power to people like this. And nothing will stop us. No banks, no false accusations. This is bigger than all of that. I still believe in the good in this world and our ability to make a difference in ways that matter.
Bless you dear friend. I wish you the best in your situation, and look forward to hearing more from you in the future. All our love, -Hope
09/30/15
Dear Val, CAN YOU HELP ME? COULD YOU? WOULD YOU? You, Val, or you, HopeGirl, or maybe you, Dear Reader, whoever or wherever you are, who happens to be reading this right now. I could use a hand.
I haven’t a clue how to connect with the people who might be wanting to hear about Free Energy. I don’t do Facebook. I don’t Twitter or Tweet or Text. I do no social networking of any kind and I don’t have a circle of acquaintances with Free Energy interests.
What I’m trying to say is that I feel my little story could become a Free Energy flag. I can sew the flag, but I have no idea how to get it up and flying. Could you tell your friends about my flag?
I can imagine what it looks like. In my mind, it’s more of a banner than a flag. The background is white – white for purity of intention and white for peace. A wide, sparkling border is gold for love. And the bold QEG symbol in the center is as blue as the sky that sheaths and shelters our beautiful world.
For me, my imaginary flag stands for hope – the hope of Free Energy for every person in the world, and the hope of abundance for all of us, and the hope of the healing of the planet, and the hope of universal peace.
My personal hope is that you’ll raise this flag for me, and you will all hold it up together, so high that the winds of change that are now blowing will set it snapping and popping like crazy. I wish you well. I wish you all well. – Wilhelmina –
p.s. There’s more to this Free Energy story, but I haven’t heard it yet. I’m hoping to hear more of your story, Val, and then to publish our emails into a little book that a person can get through Amazon or wherever. When I say get, I mean buy. Probably for less than the price of my Grande decaff at Starbucks. That’s enough to start lighting up the world with Free Energy, don’t you think? One light-bulb at a time?
p.s.s. If my tiny book makes it past the trolls, the name of it will be FREE ENERGY and the QEG
Stay tuned to part 2 of the QEG Chronicles, where I go back to the very beginning where this all started….
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